-02:37:22 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, we're at T minus 1 hour 22 minutes and counting. Cabin purge has now been completed and the boost protective cover has been closed. The 65 percent nitrogen 35 percent oxygen mixture will now be enriched to a 60/40 mixture at liftoff. Just completed were some preflight command tests with the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. These tests are to insure that Houston can send commands, and that they are being received on or by the launch vehicle. Also just completed was a first motion signal. This is the first motion of the vehicle as it lifts off the pad. A test signal is sent to the eastern test range and to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston to assure that they will get this signal at liftoff. Also, we just received a final go for a Jimsphere release. The Jimsphere is a weather balloon which is the final weather balloon to go up before launch indicating the wind direction. C-band beacons are in check at this time. The C-band beacons aboard the launch vehicle are used in tracking. They give indications of range velocity during the power phase of flight. Q-ball sim command was just sent. The Q-ball is an angle-of-attack meter which is perched above the launch escape system, and it's read by the spacecraft commander in the spacecraft. It would indicate any deviation from the planned flight through. It reads zero as it sits on the pad and during the test a simulated command is sent to it, and Gene Cernan in the spacecraft reads off what he is reading in the spacecraft during that sim command. The checks in the spacecraft continue to run somewhat ahead of schedule. The spacecraft test conductor Skip Chauvin indicated their running ahead and looking good, to which Cernan replied, "we're looking good up here too." The countdown continuing to move along well at this time T minus 1 hour 21 minutes and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:27:41 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, 13 minus 1 hour 12 minutes and counting. At this time Spacecraft Commander Gene Cernan and the Spacecraft test conductor Skip Chauvin are going over some command checks. During these checks the Spacecraft Commander actually gimbles or moves, swings the main engine in the Service Module. He does this using his flight hand controller and this is a system which is done so that if there is a problem with the computer which normally flies these, he can take over and manually fly it. Normally, however, all burns of this engine are done by the computer. Out at the pad, the space vehicle is surrounded by searchlights producing some 225 foot candles of light, a total of 7220 kilowatt xenon lights and 260 kilowatt xenon searchlight banks provide this illumination. At liftoff, approximately 7500 foot candles will be produced from the flame of the Saturn V first stage engines. This is almost equivalent to daylight. Searchlight will also illuminate the Apollo 17 for the first 60 feet of it's flight. Our countdown continuing to go smoothly now as we approach the 1 hour mark. T minus 1 hour 11 minutes and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:15:33 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T minus 1 hour and counting. T minus 1 hour and counting. Just completed were the C-band beacon checks. These are checks of the beacons, two of them aboard the instrument unit of the space vehicle. These are used in conjunction with C-band radar here at Kennedy Space Center to check the space vehicle during powered phase of flight. A check was just made with the superintendent of range operations who ran through the camera coverage looking at the weather around the various areas to see what camera coverage, and that appears to be satisfactory. Meanwhile, at the pad, the closeout crew has completed securing the white room area, and they are clearing the pad area themselves at this time. Just before they left, they indicated to Cernan that they were completed their jobs going back away from the pad area. Cernan said "We'll see you when we get back." The pad leader responded that "The next face you see had better be a frogman or you're in trouble." The weather appears to be satisfactory. We've been tracking some local buildups, but at this time they're just - they do not seem to be posing any problem for an on-time launch at 9:53 p.m. EST. Now, T minus 59 minutes, 32 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:10:31 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We are at T-55 minutes 54 seconds and counting. Stoney, astronaut Bob Parker, the capsule communicator here in the firing room who has a variety of of functions during this mission; one of which is to set the elevators at the 320 foot level. He actually commands the elevators which are part of the egress system, emergency egress system, for the astronauts. He has just reported that the elevators have now been set at the 320 foot level. In an emergency the crew could come out of their spacecraft into these elevators where they would be lowered at a high speed, 600 feet per minute, to the ground floor or A level floor where they can exit from there into a variety of escape modes; one of which would be down a chute into a blast danger area or a safety area, or they could continue on out and be picked up by armored carriers. Underway at this time with the launch vehicle are some checks of the secure range safety systems aboard the vehicle. These are actually checks of the receivers in that system. A range Safety Officer could terminate the flight of Apollo 17 if it became erratic by initiating emergency cut off, or if necessary a propellant dispersion command. These systems are located on each of the flight stages. There are three stages of the Saturn V. Two receivers in each stage, and they would receive a signal from the range safety officers and then sending through them, through these receivers, they could perform the propellant dispersion. These actions, of course, will be taken only if the vehicle were so erratic that it were endangering some land areas, and of course, only after the crew had used one of the escape options open to them. The test going well at this time. Our countdown continuing T-54 minutes 6 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-02:06:30 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control at T minus 50 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Preparations are underway in the launch control center at this time for a critical power transfer test. The space vehicle at this time is being fed from an external power source, but shortly before liftoff it will be transfered to the internal flight batteries. This test is to ensure that all electrical systems aboard the vehicle function properly on the internal flight batteries. The test takes about five minutes during which time the various elements of the launch team monitor their systems and report in then to the test supervisor, Bill Schick here in the control room that everything looks good during the test. Depending on local weather conditions the various areas around the United States, the flight of Apollo 17 will be monitored or be able to be seen by people as far as 500 miles away. This is the flight as seen of the first stage of powered flight. This would include a large portion the southeastern United States, northern tip of Cuba and the Bahama islands. The power transfer test is now underway; first stage, second stage, third stage, instrument unit now all going to internal power. Countdown continuing to go well T-minus 49 minutes 35 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Test Control.
-02:01:30 PAO This Apollo Saturn Launch Control, we're now T minus 45 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Various elements of the launch team reporting in to test supervisor Bill Schick, that they experienced no problems during the power transfer. We now transferred back again to an external power source, which will feed the vehicle systems until approximately 50 seconds before liftoff, at which time the final power transfer to Internal takes place. At the T minus 45 minute mark, we'll be watching for swing arm number 9. That's the swing arm which gives access to the Spacecraft to swing back to a retract position, 12 degrees back from the Spacecraft. This is a park position, a standby position, where it remain down until the final moments of the countdown. T minus 5 minutes, it swings back to the full retract position. Once it swing backs, the launch escape system aboard the - atop of the Spacecraft can be armed and this system could be used to pull the Astronaut crew to safety in any disaster. Now T minus 44 minutes 52 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:56:35 PAO This is Apollo Saturn - This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T minus 40 minutes, 51 seconds and counting. Swing arm number 9 just retracted a few minutes ago, and, as it retracted, the astronaut crew aboard the space field could feel it moving away from the spacecraft. Eugene Cernan the spacecraft commander commented, "We're really hanging out here in the breeze now." Spacecraft test conductor, referring to the weather indicated that that was just a small breeze. The launch escape system has been armed. The system now could be used to carry the astronauts to safety if necessary. It's also used during the initial phases of powered flight to carry the astronauts away in an emergency. It would fly away in a high arc pulling them to a height, enough so that their parachute systems could deploy, and they could make a normal landing. The system is about 33 feet long. The motor develops 147 thousand pounds of thrust. This is almost twice the amount of thrust of the Redstone rocket, which powered astronaut Alan Shepard, America's first man into space. The countdown continuing to move along smoothly now. T minus 39 minutes, 36 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:50:47 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 35 minutes 11 seconds and counting. Spacecraft commander Gene Cernan just reported back to the spacecraft test conductor Skip Chauvin. He said, "You've delivered us the best now it's our turn. Thank the guys we want to see them as soon as we can when we get back and I guarantee you we'll do that." Meanwhile C-band beacon checks are going on with the space vehicle. The liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen fully aboard and being replenished at this time to ensure a full load at liftoff. Countdown continuing to go smoothly as we approach the half hour mark T-minus 34 minutes 34 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:46:30 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T minus 30 minutes 54 seconds and counting. Manned Spacecraft just indicated to the test supervisor Bill Schick that we are go for the terminal countdown sequences. Final propulsion checks have been completed and the C-band readouts, once again repeated have been completed. Beach boss reports the launch sight recovery force helicopters are on station and ready. Digital range safety command checks are now underway as the countdown continues smoothly aiming for the T minus 30 minute mark. Now at T minus 30 minutes 24 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:41:29 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-25 minutes 54 seconds and counting. Command Module Pilot Ron Evans at this time has armed the reaction control system aboard the service module. He does this by allowing the hypergolic fuels to move down the lines to the engines. At this time he is reading out the temperatures, pressures and fuel quantities in that system. Our weather continues to look good. The major frontal area which had been of some concern earlier, has remained well west of the launch area also some smaller buildups which we have been monitoring do not appear to be coming close enough to cause any concern for our 9:53 PM launch time. That launch will be aiming Apollo 17 for the Taurus-Littrow area of the Moon. This area is named after the Taurus Mountains. These in southern Turkey and the Austrian astronomer, Littrow. The site is expected to yield some of the oldest and some of the youngest lunar samples returned during the Apollo flights to the Moon. Now T-24 minutes 50 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:36:30 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus 20 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Short time from now we we'll begin chilling the propulsion systems aboard the second and third stage of the Saturn V vehicle. This is necessary to condition them for the flow of the super cool liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Just a few moments ago the crew aboard spacecraft America was given an updated weather forecast. Cernan reported, "I hope it's as beautiful out there as it is in here." Countdown continuing to move smoothly at T-minus 20 minutes 24 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:31:33 PAO This is Apollo - This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T minus 15 minutes 52 seconds and counting. The Vice-President of the United States, Spiro Agnew has entered the launch control center now. He'll observe the final portions of the countdown from here and also the launch. Arming and checking of the Service Module reaction control system has now been completed and in progress is the chilldown of the S-II, or second stage start tank. Checkouts continuing to go well, some running a little bit ahead of schedule, all on time. T minus 15 minutes 20 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Test Control.
-01:26:32 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control at T-minus 10 minutes 55 seconds and counting. At this time some computer checks being run with the launch vehicle. The spacecraft has now gone to full internal power. Up to this point the spacecraft fuel cells have been sharing the power load with an external source. Also going on at this time are some checks of the astro comm circuit. This is the circuit which is used by the launch operations manager, spacecraft test conductor, Stony, and the three astronauts at launch time. This is to ensure that they are not getting any extraneous voices or are having to listen to any of the other network which might be carrying on a conversation which they don't need at that time. Countdown proceeding smoothly T-minus 10 minutes 15 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:23:35 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus 8 minutes and counting. T-minus 8 minutes and counting. The Vice-President in the firing room at the launch control center, observing the final minutes of the countdown and he'll watch the launch from here. The countdown has proceeded smoothly since picking up at 11:53 A.M. this morning. Weather continues to look good as we aim toward a 9:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time launch. Now T-minus 7 minutes 37 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:21:31 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus 5 minutes 54 seconds and counting. At this time entering the final phases of the countdown various elements of the team reporting into Test Supervisor Bill Shick with the GO NO-GO for launch. At launch time a water deluge system at the pad will spray water over the entire area of the pad, some 400,000 gallons of water. More than the average family would use in three years will be spread over the pad and the swing arms protecting them from the searing flames of the Saturn V first stage. Various elements reporting in now. First stage reporting they are GO. Range Safety, Superintendent Range Operations they are GO. Launch Operations Manager reports he is GO for launch. Launch Director Walter Kapryan has given a GO for launch. We've passed the 5 minute mark, T-minus 4 minutes 55 seconds and counting and swing arm No. 9 now coming back to the fully retracted position. The launch escape system setting atop the spacecraft, spacecraft named America by the crew, now could pull the crew to safety if there were any problem while the vehicle remains on the pad or during the early portions of the flight. At the T-4 minute mark we'll be standing by for word from the Launch Vehicle Test Conductor Norm Carlson, giving a clear for launch for the launch vehicle ignition. At T-minus 3 minutes 7 seconds we'll go on an automatic sequencer. It's called the terminal countdown sequencer. The astronauts on the Astro com circuit now reporting and thanking the launch team for all their prayers and all their help. T-minus 3 minutes 55 seconds and counting. Apollo 17, the launch team wishes you good luck and God speed, reports the launch operations manager over the Astro com circuit. T-minus 3 minutes 40 seconds, the countdown continuing to go along smoothly. Once we go on the terminal countdown sequencer, the countdown will be automatic from there on out. The countdown sequencer will initiate the various functions from that time on; however, the men here in the firing room will be monitoring their consoles, watching temperatures, pressures, various readouts. They could override that terminal sequencer if necessary. Moving up now to the time when we'll go on that terminal sequencer.
-01:18:42 PAO T-3 minutes 10 seconds and counting. Spacecraft ready light has come on indicating that the spacecraft is ready. We are now on the terminal sequencer. Launch sequence has started. The flowing of that water on the pad will begin at the 1 minute mark flowing on the flame deflector below the launch vehicle on the launch pedestal itself and along the swing arms which will be coming back at liftoff. Instrument unit ready light has come on. Emergency detection system ready light is on. All indications are we are GO for launch as we approach the 2 minute 30 second mark. Pressurization of the various propellant tanks now aboard the space vehicle is starting. At two, our second stage liquid oxygen tanks now pressurized. These propellant tanks are pressurized with helium to insure that during the flight the fuel flows properly down through the engine. It's quiet here in the firing room now as the men are monitoring their consoles, looking at the temperatures, checking pressures and a variety of parameters to ensure everything is in a GO condition. Pressurization continuing on the fuel tanks at this time we'll go to the critical power transfer at the T-minus 50 second mark in the count down. At that time we'll transfer external power source to the flight battery aboard the space vehicle. The final action by the crew aboard the spacecraft America will be a final guidance alignment conducted by the Spacecraft Commander Gene Cernan. The flight of Apollo 17 will be able to be seen depending on weather conditions, some 500 miles away as it goes into Earth orbit. Pressurization continuing, liquid hydrogen tanks now aboard the second stage have been pressurized, all propellants aboard the second stage now pressurized. A cover aboard the Q-ball, this is the Q-ball system on top of the launch escape system will be pulled off just shortly before launch.
-01:16:23 PAO First stage propellant tanks have been pressurized. Now past the 1 minute mark and we are going on internal power. Now all systems to internal power. We'll be looking for the engine start sequence at the 8.9 second mark in the countdown. Engines will build up to a thrust of 7.6 million pounds.
-01:16:02 PAO T-minus 30 seconds, we have a cutoff, we have a cutoff at T-minus 30 seconds. We are standing by at T-minus 30 second mark. We'll bring word to you just as soon as we get it. We have a cutoff at T-minus 30 seconds. T-minus 30 seconds and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:15:01 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're holding at the 30 second mark. This was an automatic cutoff. Cutoff by the terminal sequencer as mentioned this sequencer initiates various actions. Each action must take place and must be completed before the next one can be initiated. If anything does not get completed in time there will be an automatic cutoff. This cutoff was automatic, done by the sequencer. We're standing by now to check just what the problem was. Now at T-minus 30 seconds and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:13:56 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. The astronaut crew aboard the spacecraft going through their various safeing now. Safeing of all systems and the launch team here continuing through their emergency procedures. We'll be standing by to check out the problem just as soon as we can get word. T-minus 30 seconds and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:11:56 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. The safeing procedures continuing at this time. Up to the T-minus 30 second mark the countdown had been proceeding smoothly. Weather conditions at launch were predicted to be and appears to be good at that time. However, we had an automatic cutoff from the terminal countdown sequencer and we're standing by to see just what caused that automatic cutoff. All systems being safed at this time. T-minus 30 seconds and we are in a hold. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:08:45 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the 30 second mark, while the launch team assesses our problem. The swing arm, swing arm number 9 will be brought back to it's park position, which is 12 degrees back from the space vehicle. Continuing the safeing procedures this time and assessing the problem, holding at T-minus 30 seconds, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:03:22 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the T-minus 30 second mark as the launch team assesses our problem. At this point swing arm number 9 is going back to the 12 degree park position. This is a position about 15 to 20 feet from the spacecraft. All safeing procedures have proceeded normally. We're continuing our hold while we assess our problem. at T-minus 30 seconds, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-01:01:33 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. The swing arm number 9 is now back to that retract position at the 12 degree position. Point out that the window we have tonight extends to 1:31am. So we have some time here to assess the problem and then continue - recycle and continue our countdown. We're continuing to hold at the 30 second mark at this time. 30 seconds and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:54:27 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 30 seconds and continuing our hold. The problem was with the terminal countdown sequencer, which failed to give the command to pressure, pressurize the third stage lox tank. The crew in the firing room, realizing this were seeing this happen pressurized the tank manually, but this did not happen fast enough to satisfy the automatic sequencer. As was mentioned earlier, during this sequence everything must happen at a certain time, before the next step in the sequence can take place. The next step that was to take place was the retraction of swing arm 9, and at the time that was to take place the terminal sequencer had not had an indication that the third stage lox tank had been pressurized. The plan now is to recycle to the T minus 22 minute mark in the countdown. Now this recycling procedure will take an additional 35 to 40 minutes. This still puts us well within our launch window. While we're recycling, we'll continue to review the data to determine just what the problem is and whether or not we can proceed from the T minus 22 minute mark for a launch later in the window. The crew aboard the spacecraft has been alerted to the problem and understand what is happening. They're standing by there at this time. Now at T minus 30 seconds and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:49:26 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, We're remaining still in the T-minus 30 second mark. We'll remain here for some period. It will take approximately 35 to 40 minutes to recycle back to T minus 22 minutes, where we'll resume the count. To explain again what has happened was we were in what was called the terminal countdown sequencer. At 3 minutes 7 seconds in the countdown we go on to an automatic system called the terminal countdown sequencer. This countdown sequencer initiates various actions, the final actions in the count. Each of these must occur on schedule and in sequence. Now what happened at this particular time was, the third stage liquid oxygen tank was not automatically pressurized as it should have been. The launch crew here in the firing room, when they saw this, manually pressurized that system, but it was too late to satisfy the sequencer. The next event in the sequence was the retraction of swing arm number 1, swing arm going over to the first stage and at that time, the sequencer did not see that the tank had been pressurized and sent an automatic cut-off. So we had an automatic cut-off at the 30 second mark. We're standing by at the 30 second mark to go back to T-minus 22 minutes and we are reevaluating the problem, looking at the, what caused the sequencer not to automatically pressurize that tank, seeing what that problem is and seeing if there is a possibility if we go ahead and do this manually early in the sequence, if that will satisfy the sequencer and we can proceed. Now holding at the T-minus 30 second mark in our countdown, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:47:01 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing to stand by here at the T-minus 30 second mark in the countdown. The crew remaining perfectly calm in their spacecraft. They have gone through their safeing checks. The various safeing checks of the launch vehicle have been completed. We are now going through preparations for recycling to the T-minus 22 minute mark. Standing by at this time at T-minus 30 seconds. T-minus 30 seconds and holding in the countdown for Apollo 17. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:45:43 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing our hold at the 30 second mark. We'll recycle to the T-minus 22 minute mark. The T-minus 22 minute mark is chosen as the recycling point because this is the point where we start the chill down as was mentioned during that point in the countdown. We start the chill down of the second and third stages to prepare them for the influx of the liquid hydrogen, the cold liquid hydrogen and the cold liquid oxygen. This chill down has some very specific parameters and must be started at a certain time and cannot go beyond a certain time. So it's best to go back to that point in the countdown under these circumstances and to resume our count at the T-minus 22 minute mark. When a determination is made that we can resume. Continuing to look at the data here is see exactly what happened. There is no indication of ignition. Ignition was scheduled to come at the 8.9 second mark. Here in the control room a number of the people were looking through the remote cameras which have the capability out at the pad of zooming in on specific areas and a number of people here were looking right at those first stage engines and there was no indication whatsoever of engine ignition. We're continuing to evaluate all the data at this time as we hold at the T-minus 30 second mark. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:43:51 PAO This Apollo Saturn Launch Control still in our hold at the 30 second mark. While the launch team here is busy recycling to the T-22 minute mark, the mission team out at the Manned Spacecraft Center also preplanning some of the new time for the mission. They are also at this time busily preplanning the new launch azimuth. The azimuth now if we go at the next opportunity would be the 81.06 degrees. This will be automatically fed into the instrument unit of the Saturn V vehicle from the Manned Spacecraft Center. All elements of the launch team now putting everything together, checking over data and doing their best to put us back into a recycle position ready to pick up the count at the T-minus 22 minute mark. Still evaluating data, however, and we have not at this time been given a GO for that resuming of the countdown. T-minus 30 seconds and holding at this time. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:42:27 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing our hold at the 30 second mark. Back at the mission control center in Houston the flight controllers returning to their seats now after some consultation. They're back now giving status check and getting ready in case we are - it is determined that we can pick up the count. In the firing room here, the Apollo Program Director Rocco Petrone has moved into the viewing area where the President - Vice President Spiro Agnew and NASA administrator James Fletcher are and he is giving them a briefing and a run down on our problem. We are standing by at this time. The clock has now been recycled to the T-minus 22 minute mark; however, we have not picked up the count at that mark. We are now at T-minus 22 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:41:15 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing to stand by at the T minus 22 minute mark in the countdown. Recycling operations have gone well. We're back to the T-minus 22 minute mark and at this mark which we will pick up the count if we are given a go to resume. Check has been made of the Mission Control Center team at the Mission Control Center in Houston. All elements of that team reporting that they are ready to resume as soon as they get the word. Now standing by here at Kennedy Space Center, while data is reviewed and determination will be made if and when we can resume our countdown for Apollo 17. Now at T-minus 22 minutes and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:40:16 PAO This Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We are continuing to standby at the T-minus 22 minute mark. We are hoping to resume the count shortly. The problem has not been resolved. We're continuing to look into it; however, it has been determined that a resolution one way or the other should be able to be made shortly. So right now we are continuing our recycle procedures hoping to pick up the count perhaps just minutes from now. If the problem is not resolved by the time we reach the T-minus 8 minute mark after we continue to countdown, the clock will be held again. Right now we are continuing the recycling procedures hoping to pick up shortly at T-minus 22 minutes. We are now T-minus 22 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:39:08 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing to stand by at the T-minus 22 minute mark. We've been given the word here in the firing room now that the count will be resumed at 11 p.m. at T-minus 22 minutes. At this time there still has not been a resolution to the problem, but we'll continue looking at that. We could continue on counting down while this problem is looked at. To reiterate what the problem was; the terminal countdown sequencer failed to give the command to pressurize the third stage liquid oxygen tanks. The crews monitoring this function saw that that happened and immediately manually pressurized the tanks, but this did not occur in time in the sequence and when swing arm one was to retract it had not received this signal. As a consequence an automatic cutoff was sent. There are several possible workarounds to this they are being looked into at this time, and we plan to resume our countdown at the T-minus 22 minute mark at 11 p.m. Now holding at T-minus 22 minutes. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:37:54 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 21 minutes 10 seconds and counting. The countdown picked up, the launch team here made a quick check of the various elements, all reporting in to the test supervisor Bill Schick, indicating that they were ready to resume the count. Now counting at T-minus 20 minutes 53 seconds, and we'll continue to countdown here as we look at the problem which caused the hold at the T-minus 30 second mark. Now at T-minus 20 minutes 42 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:31:19 PAO This Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-14 minutes 35 seconds and counting in our countdown for Apollo 17. Back at the Mission Control Center the men there are updating the launch azimuth. Launch azimuth standing now at 82.54 degrees. This will automatically be feed into the instrument unit. The swing arm, swing arm number 9, the access arm to the spacecraft, remains at the 12 degree position it will remain there until the T-minus 5 minute mark in the countdown. Going on at this time are the recycling of some of the vents for the liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen. These are the vents which allow the venting of these gases as there is some boil-off occurring. It is necessary to continue venting these to ensure they do not freeze in either an open or closed position. The countdown proceeding smoothly now. T-minus 13 minutes 43 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:26:38 Evans Alpha. Okay, EDS AUTO is on up now.
-00:26:26 Evans ... verify AUTO. Launch vehicle rates, verify AUTO.
-00:26:20 Evans RCS command is OFF. Release.
-00:26:17 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at T-minus 9 minutes 36 seconds and we are counting. However, we do plan to continue the hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. We can hold at that point for 20 minutes and plan a 20 minute hold while the launch crew here satisfies themselves that they have worked out a good solution and a work around to the problem. The crew has been alerted aboard the spacecraft. Cernan indicated that perhaps they could start a nice conservation about a good book, Thomas Hardy or something like that. Countdown continuing now aiming toward the 8 minute mark at which time we'll hold. T-minus 9 minutes now T-minus 9 minutes and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:26:20 Cernan One at AC1, MAIN A. Two AC2, MAIN B.
-00:25:59 Schmitt Okay, that's going to latch.
-00:25:37 Cernan Roger, ATC. Understand Challenger is GO for launch.
-00:25:12 Schmitt Okay, secondary PUMP switch is OFF.
-00:25:09 Schmitt MARK it.
-00:24:38 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're now holding at the 8 minute mark as planned. The hold at this time is planned for approximately 20 minutes. The crew feels that they have, that they have a work around to the problem, working around the indication going to the terminal sequencer that the tank has not been pressurized, when actually it had been done manually. They are checking all of their data, however, to insure that this is the proper method to work around the problem and that this will result in a smooth countdown from here on. Now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:24:13 Cernan Okay, we'll be looking for them.
-00:23:41 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing our hold at the 8 minute mark. The launch operations manager has gone over with the launch team their proposed solution a work around. The team appears to be satisfied that it is the proper one. They are now briefing management personnel on the problem and the work around. Out at the pad the liquid oxygen continues to vent from the vehicle and is replenished. Liquid hydrogen is also vented from the vehicle as there is some boil off. However, because it is quite a volatile fuel it is vented through a burnpond at the side of the pad. That burnpond is at the north side of the pad and there it can be seen burning in a controlled condition at this time. This is a normal condition, actually during the day this burns in such a pure manner that it cannot be seen. However, at night it is clearly visible. Our countdown continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark at this time. T-minus 8 minutes and holding this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:22:25 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing to hold at the T-8 minute mark. Me an time the crew is getting a variety of updates in the spacecraft, updating them on various aspects and the changes to their mission due to this hold period. Also, at the Manned Spacecraft Center they are continuing to update the flight azimuth as they get new times for the launch. Launch Operations Manager Paul Donnelly just went through quite an extensive briefing with the spacecraft test conductor to pass on to the crew what they feel the problems were and how they plan to work around it. The crew aboard the spacecraft indicated that if the launch team was satisfied with these solutions, that they certainly were confident themselves. Now continuing our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark this is Kennedy Test Control.
-00:21:58 Cernan Okay, understand; full retract.
-00:21:47 Cernan Skipper, thank you. We - we plan to, babe.
-00:21:40 Cernan We're going to do our best, and we're also going to have a ball.
-00:21:21 Cernan Thank you for the hardware, and the help, and the prayers, and everything else that goes into making a good mission.
-00:21:17 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the T minus 8 minute mark. At this time, it's been determined to take an additional 20 minutes, add an additional 20 minutes to that planned hold period. The reason for this is, the crews would like to take the work around that they have devised and at Marshall Spaceflight Center, where the Saturn V launch vehicle was developed, they have what is called a bread board or a system, which is similar to this one and run through the sequence and insure that it does operate properly. The crew aboard the spacecraft was informed of this additional 20 minute hold. They indicated that they expected to use all three stages of this Saturn V and they were happy to have the 20 minute hold if that was going to assure that all three were going to work properly. Now continuing our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:21:14 Cernan I sure do, I've got 5 good bright ones.
-00:21:04 Cernan ... you're loud and clear.
-00:20:57 Cernan We thank you, very much. Loud and clear.
-00:20:49 Evans Air 5, program 02. Okay, we've got a VERB 75 do not enter. Please.
-00:20:06 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Test Control. We are continuing our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. The reason the T-minus 8 minute mark is chosen for this hold as mentioned earlier has to do with the chilldown of the thrust chambers in the S-2 or second stage and the third stage. Both of these stages use liquid hydrogen, an extremely cold cryogenic fuel and the thrust chamber must be conditioned prior to flight so that it's ready at the time of ignition in-flight to receive these fuels coming in. To achieve the proper temperature the thrust chamber chilldown should not exceed 20 minutes, but it must be on for at least 7 minutes and 40 seconds. So rounding that off the hold was called at the 8 minute mark. We can continuously hold it at this point whereas if we continued on down we would have to watch these parameters very closely so that we did not exceed that 20 minute accumulated cooling time. At this point we can continue our hold and that continuation can be determined by the problem and we can pick up then at any time or continue as long as necessary. We're continuing that hold now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:20:06 Cernan Roger. 3 minutes, Bob. Forward ...
-00:19:14 Cernan It's pull the bypass, skip.
-00:19:04 Cernan Roger. 2 Minutes.
-00:18:28 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. Back at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the crews there are at work on a bread board, or a mock-up of the system in question, where they're putting it through it s paces, checking out the work around solution, that is, jumping around this erroneous signal, and insuring that everything works properly. The crew still standing by in the spacecraft, updating various systems there, updating their flight plan, all continuing to go well there. The crew at the Manned Spacecraft Center also doing considerable amount of updating. They'll be continuing to update the azimuth, and the Launch Control Center here at Kennedy Space Center, the launch team manning their consoles, standing by to pick up the count, when we're given the word to go. However, we're standing by still. At this time, we have no word from the Marshall Spaceflight Center. We're expecting that to come within 10 to 15 minutes from this time. Now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:18:24 Schmitt Roger. Bus ties going on. The AC's on. DC's on.
-00:18:06 Cernan Roger. 1 Minute.
-00:17:59 Cernan CDR PAD COMM is OFF. LMP?
-00:17:49 Cernan Roger. GDC align, and ball number 2 is coming in.
-00:17:25 Cernan Roger. Understand, cut-off.
-00:16:55 Cernan That's affirm, understand. We're just holding fast here.
-00:16:53 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're continuing in our hold period at this time. Test Supervisor Bill Shick just announced here in the Firing Room that the hold is expected to last approximately 20 more minutes. Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen continuing to be replenished aboard the 3 stages of the launch vehicle at this time. That replenishing will continue during the hold period and during the final minutes of the countdown. The countdown continuing in the hold. T-minus 8 minutes and holding this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:16:33 Cernan Okay, we'll just standby, hold fast.
-00:16:00 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control at one minute to midnight, one minute to midnight. We are continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. Work is still going on at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Updating of the tracking continuing at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. And the launch team here at Kennedy Space Center preparing to pick up the count. Hopefully, we will be given a go-ahead to pick up the count in approximately 10 to 12 minutes from this time. We are continuing to standby waiting to hear from the testing going on at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. To recap the activities earlier today the countdown picked up at 11:53 a.m. after a planned hold period picked up at T-minus 9 hours mark shortly after that time the pad was cleared and we began loading the cryogenic fuels, that's the liquid hydrogen and the liquid oxygen aboard the space vehicle. Those operations actually went a little bit ahead of schedule. The astronaut crew went out to the pad, entered their spacecraft, began checking it out and those operations also running a little bit ahead of schedule. We went on to our terminal countdown sequencer at the 3 minute 6 second mark as scheduled. Everything seemed to be proceeding fine. At the T-minus 30 second mark we got an automatic cut-off. It was determined that this cut-off came because pressurization of the liquid oxygen tank aboard the third stage was not initiated automatically as it should have been when it was done manually the terminal sequencer did not sense that this had been done, and therefore gave the automatic cut-off. We're working the problem right now continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. T-minus 8 minutes, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:15:45 Cernan Okay, push to normal.
-00:14:08 Cernan Roger. TVC servo 1 is OFF, and 2 is OFF. Roger, REAC valve to NORMAL.
-00:13:42 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. The hold continues to be planned for approximately 5 to 7 more minutes. However, the launch window should be pointed out tonight extends to 1:31 AM. Now if for any reason we could not make it in that launch window, we could recycle under our present configuration and resume our count aiming for a 9:53PM EST launch tonight. The window for tonight is the same as it was for last night and this morning - 9:53PM to 1:31AM, however the launch team appears to be optimistic with the solution they've found to the problem. They are just waiting for verification and confirmation from the testing that's going on at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The time now is 7 minutes after midnight We're continuing to hold at T-minus 8 minutes. T-minus 8 minutes and holding , this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:13:27 Evans Okay, I've got a VERB 34. ENTER. Uh. ... That's affirm.
-00:13:10 Cernan STC, CDR. The 5 engine lights all went on about a minute ago.
-00:12:58 Schmitt Roger, going OFF and then AUTO. AC. DC.
-00:12:28 Cernan Okay, CDR's PAD COMM. And LMP's ...
-00:12:14 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, continuing to hold at the 8 minute mark in the countdown. Still awaiting word from the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the result of the test being run at this time up there. Meanwhile, here in the firing room, all elements of the launch team are assessing their position. They are assessing the effect of the hold and this amount of hold time on each of their systems. Everyone, at this time, busily at work here in the firing room, also at the Mission Control Center in Houston, busy there with their flight update. Now continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:11:37 Cernan TC, CDR. You're busy Skip, I just wondered if think it's going to be a GO for a recycle here. Okay.
-00:11:13 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We're at 15 minutes past the hour continuing to hold at the T-minus 8 minute mark. The supervisor just indicated that we finally pick up the clock at the T-minus 8 minute mark in 10 minutes. Planning to pick up the clock at 25 minutes past the hour. The tests being run or have been run now at the Marshall Space Flight Center and indicate that our system is good the way it has been reconfigured. All elements now during this 10 minutes will be preparing their various systems to pick up the clock at the T-minus 8 minute mark. Meanwhile, out at the Manned Spacecraft Center the flight controllers there also planning to pick up the clock. We just received a GO from the superintendent of range operations indicating that the range has been cleared around the new flight azimuth. The Manned Spacecraft Center Houston flight indicates that they are go to pick up the clock at 25 minutes past the hour. Now at T-minus 8 minutes and holding this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:09:48 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch control. We're continuing our hold at the T minus 8 minute mark. We have approximately 5 more minutes remaining in that hold. It's been determined that the workaround is a correct and satisfactory one, A bread board or a sample system at the Marshall Spaceflight Center was used to run through the entire sequence as it now configured and that operated satisfactorily. What happened was the - during the terminal sequencer, the liquid oxygen tank was not pressurized automatically. When this was done manually, the indication did not get to the sensors in time so that we had an automatic cutoff. The liquid oxygen tanks aboard the third stage, it has been determined, will be pressurized manually early in the terminal sequence and jumpers have been installed so that we can then feed the information to the sequencer so that it will not have an indication that the LOX tanks have not been pressurized. This - a bread board situation of this has been constructed at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville and this has operated satisfactorily. So, it's been determined to go ahead with our countdown on this basis. We'll be planning to pick up the count at the T-minus 8 minute mark some 4 minutes from now. Now T-minus 8 minutes and holding. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:09:20 Cernan Okay. Skip, we're just sitting tight. Okay. Yes, I'll get my pencil out, I guess.
-00:08:14 Cernan Roger. Coming back to PARK.
-00:07:59 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We are now resuming the count. T minus 7 minutes 54 seconds and counting. At this time in the Spacecraft update is being given to the Spacecraft Commander, Eugene Cernan. The swing arm still at the 12 degree position, that is the park position, standing by at the Spacecraft. That will be brought to the full retract position at approximately T-minus 5 minutes in the countdown. The flight director just ran through the - his team - a status report from his team at the Mission Control Center. That team all reported they are in a GO condition. Now, at T-minus 7 minutes 20 seconds and counting this is Kennedy Launch Control.
-00:05:43 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T minus 5 minutes 40 seconds and counting. At this time the various elements of the launch team have been reporting in to Bill Shigby, test supervisor, indicating that we are GO to continue. Mission director Chet Lee just verified that we are GO for launch. Safety indicates that we have a GO, First stage test conductor, this is the man who has charge of those five first stage engines which will give us the lift-off, has indicated a GO for launch. Launch Operations Manager, Paul Donnley, also giving us a GO for launch, and finally the Launch Director, Walter Kapryan says we are GO for launch. We've passed the five minute mark now and swing arm number 9, this is the access arm to the spacecraft, is coming back to the full retract position. It moves back along side the mobile launch tower and it will remain there now through the final portion of the countdown and the launch. At the T-minus 60 second mark 20 nozzles will start flame deflector deluge of 13,000 gallons per minute of water pouring down on that flame deflector, so a great deal of what is seen at launch time, which looks like smoke, is actually steam as this water is burned off. This water's to cool the pad area and to cool the equipment along side the launch tower as the water also pours across the swing arms in the launch tower. We are approaching the 4 minute mark in the countdown now, T-minus 4 minutes 5 seconds and continuing to count. At the 4 minute mark we'll stand by for a final GO from Norm Carlson, Launch Vehicle Test Conductor. He has given a GO. The Launch Operations Manager now switching over to the astro COMM circuit, this is the circuit that the astronauts, the launch operations manager and the spacecraft communicator will remain on. They have this private circuit to keep extraneous talk off of their circuit. They are checking in, they are checking in now on the astro COMM circuit Indicating that they are GO. Spacecraft has indicated they are ready. Instrument unit ready light has come on. S-IC, that's the first stage, preparations are now complete as we approach the 3 minute mark. There is quiet in the firing room now as the engineers and technicians are monitoring their consoles. They are monitoring the various rates, pressures, temperatures, they can override the terminal sequencer if they sight a problem that it has not picked up. We are on that terminal sequencer now, we have passed the 3 minute mark T-minus 2 minutes 47 seconds and counting as we are on the terminal sequencer. At the T-minus 50 second mark we will be looking for that critical power transfer. This is where we transfer from the external power source, which has been feeding the 3 stages of the launch vehicle to internal power to the flight batteries aboard the space vehicle. It's expected that given proper weather conditions people will be observing this flight from as much as 500 miles away. This includes a large portion of the southeastern United States, the northern tip of Cuba and the Bahama islands. Now approaching the 2 minutes, 2 minute mark, MARK, T-minus 2 minutes and counting and the countdown continues to move along smoothly now in the terminal countdown portion. The automatic sequencer has stopped the replenishing of the liquid oxygen and the liquid hydrogen. We're standing by now to begin pressurization of the fuel tanks, the second stage fuel tank pressurized, third stage fuel tank pressurized. The countdown continuing to move along smoothly. T-minus 90 seconds, T-minus 90 seconds. Countdown continuing smoothly. S-IVB propellant pressurized, the indication now using the work around showing the S-IVB propellant has been pressurized. Now looking at the liquid hydrogen tank, as they become pressurized LH2 aboard the second stage pressurized. All propellants now aboard the second stage pressurized as we approach the 1 minute mark in the countdown.
-00:04:08 Cernan Okay. We'll be ready when you are.
-00:01:00 PAO MARK. T-minus 1 minute and counting. Now in the final minute of the countdown. At T-minus 45 seconds Gene Cernan will make the final guidance alignment - this is the -
-00:00:44 PAO MARK. T-minus 45 and Gene Cernan made that final guidance alignment. That's the last action taken by the crew aboard the space vehicle. Now approaching the half minute mark. T-minus 33, T-minus 30 seconds and continuing on now - continuing on at T-minus 26 seconds ...
-00:00:30 CC 30 to go.
-00:00:29 Cernan Okay, Robert. We're ready and we're GO up here.
-00:00:25 PAO MARK. T-minus 25. We'll get a final guidance release at the T-minus 17 second mark. T-minus 17, final guidance release. We'll expect engine ignition at 8.9 seconds ...
-00:00:21 CC Minus 20.
-00:00:10 PAO 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... ignition sequence started - all engines are started - we have ignition 2, 1, zero - we have a liftoff.
-00:00:10 CC 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... ignition ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1
-00:00:01 Cernan Get the light.
000:00:00 CC Liftoff.
000:00:00 PAO We have a liftoff and it's lighting up the area, it's just like daylight here at Kennedy Space Center as the Saturn V is moving off the pad. It has now cleared the tower.
000:00:01 Cernan Roger. The clock has started. We have yaw. Woo-hoo!
000:00:08 CC Clear of the tower.
000:00:10 Cernan Roger; tower. Yaw's complete. We're into roll, Bob.
000:00:13 CC Roger, Geno. Looking great. Thrust good on all five engines.
000:00:17 Cernan Okay, babe. It's looking good here. Roll is complete. We are pitching.
000:00:25 PAO This is Mission Control. Gene Cernan reporting the launch vehicle maneuvering to the proper attitude, everything looking good at this point.
000:00:26 Evans Wow woozle!
000:00:27 Cernan Okay, babe. Let's check the angles.
000:00:29 Evans Thirty seconds. We're going up. Man, oh, man!
000:00:32 Cernan Thirty seconds, and 17 is GO.
000:00:35 CC Roger, 17. You're GO.
000:00:38 PAO First stage looks good. Altitude 1.1 miles.
000:00:43 Evans Okay, 1 minute and 68 degrees.
000:00:45 Cernan Okay.
000:00:46 Schmitt Everything looks great over here, Gene.
000:00:48 Cernan Okay. Okay, stand-by for MAX - coming up on MAX Q. We'll be at 68 degrees.
000:00:55 SC ... Okay.
000:00:56 PAO Booster says we look good. We are now at 2.5 miles.
000:00:57 CC 17, stand by for Mode I Bravo -
000:00:59 CC MARK. Mode I Bravo.
000:01:01 Cernan Roger. I Bravo; we're GO at 1 minute.
000:01:04 CC Roger, Gene. You're looking great. Right on the line.
000:01:06 PAO Everybody says "Looking great - Right on the line." We're now 1 mile down range. Launch vehicle 4,2 miles high.
000:01:07 Cernan Okay, we got the RCS command.
000:01:09 CC 17, you are feet wet - feet wet.
000:01:11 Cernan Roger. Feet wet.
000:01:13 Evans Man, this thing shakes like a son-of-a-gun.
000:01:15 Cernan Yes, that's MAX Q. Wait until we get out of MAX Q. Stay down there Q-meter.
000:01:23 PAO Coming up on maximum dynamic pressure at this point. 4 miles down range, 8 miles high and the velocity approaching 3000 feet per second.
000:01:25 Cernan Okay. 1:30 and about 50 degrees.
000:01:30 Evans 50 Degrees. Okay, right on.
000:01:32 Cernan 01:30, and we are GO, Bob.
000:01:34 CC Roger, Gene. You're looking great.
000:01:36 Cernan 2 gs. 2 1/2 gs. See it quiets out after MAX Q.
000:01:40 Evans Yes. Quiets out.
000:01:42 Cernan Pushing 3 gs.
000:01:44 Evans I can't - can't hold my hand up there anymore. (laughter)
000:01:47 Cernan Okay, we're out of MAXQ.
000:01:49 Evans Okay. Cabin seal looking good.
000:01:50 Cernan Alpha's PC.
000:01:52 Evans Okay, standby for -
000:01:54 CC Stand by for Mode I Charlie, 17.
000:01:56 Cernan - I Charlie.
000:01:56 CC MARK. Mode I Charlie.
000:01:58 PAO And the flight dynamics officer says we look good on all sources, right on the trajectory.
000:01:58 Cernan Roger, I Charlie. 2 minutes EDS.
000:02:00 Evans EDS.
000:02:00 Cernan EDS is OFF and we are GO. ...
000:02:03 CC Roger, 17; you're GO.
000:02:06 Cernan ... 3 gs. 3 1/2. Standby for inboard.
000:02:07 PAO Flight Director, Gene Kranz, taking a status for staging, we say we look good for staging.
000:02:10 CC 17, you are GO for staging.
000:02:11 Cernan Roger. We're GO here.
000:02:12 Cernan Did you get your VERB 82?
000:02:14 Evans No.
000:02:15 Cernan Standby for inboard.
000:02:16 Evans Okay. That's VERB 82.
000:02:19 Cernan Inboard cut-off.
000:02:20 CC Roger. Inboard.
000:02:22 PAO Inboard engines shutting down on-time as planned. Crew will experience maximum G forces of about 4 Gs at shutdown. Coming up on first stage shutdown. And we've had shutdown on time on the first stage.
000:02:23 Cernan Okay, not hold on after staging.
000:02:24 Schmitt Standby gang.
000:02:25 Evans Okay. Here's 20. Where's the ...? Okay, it's 19.
000:02:29 Cernan Now at 41. It's 41. ... seconds
000:02:30 Cernan 3 1/2 gs.
000:02:34 Cernan Hold on!
000:02:35 Cernan Okay. 5 seconds. ... gs. 4 gs.
000:02:41 Evans Jesus Christ!
000:02:41 Cernan I told you to hold on. Look at that son-of-a-bitch. Man!
000:02:44 Evans Jesus crimany! (laughter)
000:02:48 Cernan Okay, Bob. I guess we got all five.
000:02:49 CC Roger. They're looking here - looking good.
000:02:50 Evans Okay, standby to ...
000:02:53 Schmitt Sure felt like it. I think we saw them all from here.
000:02:57 CC Roger, Jack. And the thrust is GO on all five of them. They're running good.
000:03:01 Cernan Okay; 3 minutes and we're GO.
000:03:04 CC Roger, 17.
000:03:05 Evans Geez, this is smooth. Okay, got some tower switches ...
000:03:07 Cernan Come on, baby! Go!
000:03:10 Evans Okay, 13.
000:03:12 SC Okay, we just had skirt sep.
000:03:14 Evans 19, 15, 17.
000:03:16 CC Roger. We confirm skirt sep.
000:03:17 Cernan Watch it, Jack!
000:03:18 Evans 16, there it goes -
000:03:19 Cernan There goes the tower.
000:03:20 Evans Man, there she goes!
000:03:21 CC Roger. The tower; you're Mode II.
000:03:23 Cernan Roger, We're mode II.
000:03:28 Cernan Okay, ... command.
000:03:32 Evans Okay, alpha ...
000:03:32 CC The steering has converged. The CMC is GO. You're going right down the pike, 17.
000:03:36 Cernan Okay, Bob. I just confirmed guidance.
000:03:38 Evans And, ELS SEP circuit breakers when you get a chance there, Gene.
000:03:41 PAO That's the automatic guidance system, the inertial guidance system, performing properly.
000:03:43 Cernan Okay, Bob, I got the ELS SEP circuit breakers. And we've seen it all: ignition, staging, and tower.
000:03:50 CC Roger. Got you.
000:03:53 Schmitt By the way, the cabin's sealed (laughter).
000:03:56 PAO Apollo 17 now 65 miles high.
000:03:56 Cernan Okay guys, we've got a long way to go.
000:03:58 Evans Okay, ...
000:04:01 Cernan Okay; 4 minutes and we're GO here, Bob.
000:04:04 CC Roger, Gene. We're going round the room. Looks GO here.
000:04:09 Cernan 21 degrees. REMOTE 2, Ron.
000:04:09 Evans Okay -
000:04:09 CC You're looking real good, Gene. Right down the line.
000:04:13 Evans Okay, H and H-DOT looks pretty good.
000:04:16 Schmitt We got a 30 and a 430. I can't really see that, let's see.
000:04:27 Cernan Okay; 04:30 and we're still GO onboard.
000:04:30 CC Roger, 17. You're GO.
000:04:33 Cernan Let me tell you, this night launch is something to behold.
000:04:38 Evans Okay, H and H-DOT are good.
000:04:46 Cernan Okay, I don't know if you'll be able to pick up any horizon. No, it's too dark - too light in here.
000:04:49 PAO Coming up on 5 minutes. Everything still looks very good in the launch of Apollo 17. The launch vehicle spacecraft now 80 miles high, 230 miles down range.
000:04:55 Cernan Okay, let's keep - on. One G.
000:04:58 Schmitt I got some stars out on the right, but I don't see -
000:05:02 CC Five minutes, Geno, and you're GO down here. You're looking great.
000:05:05 Cernan ... Jack, Okay.
000:05:06 Cernan Okay, Robert. We're GO here at 5.
000:05:13 Evans Coming up on S-IVB to COI.
000:05:14 Cernan You guys believe me about that S-I staging now?
000:05:16 Evans (laughter) I can't -
000:05:19 Schmitt I can't believe how smooth this is.
000:05:19 Evans I can't - I can't believe how smooth this is.
000:05:21 Cernan Okay, let's keep this mother burning. We've got a long way to go. We're only half way there.
000:05:24 CC 17, Houston. Your times are nominal. Level sense arm at 8 plus 36; S-II shutdown at 9 plus 20. Nominal times.
000:05:33 Cernan 8 plus 36 and 9 plus 20. Roger.
000:05:36 Schmitt Coming up on gimbal motors, Geno.
000:05:37 Cernan Okay. ...
000:05:40 PAO CAPCOM Robert Obermeyer, advising Gene Cernan and the crew aboard Apollo 17 the second stage shutdown at about 9 minutes 20 seconds elapsed time. That shutdown about 3 and a half minutes from now.
000:05:52 Cernan I forget anything yet, Ron?
000:05:54 Evans No.
000:05:54 Cernan Okay, we're still MODE 2, coming up on -
000:05:56 CC Standby for S-IVB to COI capability.
000:05:59 CC MARK. S-IVB to COI capability.
000:06:01 Cernan Roger. S-IVB to COI. We're GO at 6.
000:06:04 Cernan Good. Gimbal motors?
000:06:04 Evans Go ahead.
000:06:05 CC Roger, Geno.
000:06:06 Cernan PITCH 1.
000:06:06 Evans Got it.
000:06:07 Cernan And YAW 1.
000:06:08 Evans Got it. Go ahead. ...
000:06:13 Cernan PITCH 2.
000:06:15 Evans Got it.
000:06:15 Cernan And YAW 2.
000:06:15 PAO Apollo 17 still right on the nominal trajectory at an altitude now of about 92 nautical miles.
000:06:16 Evans Got it. Okay, got a plus 15.8 and a plus 19. ...
000:06:21 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're got four good motors and we're GO at 06:20.
000:06:25 CC Roger. And, 17, we copied the gimbals and watched them and they looked good.
000:06:29 Evans One G? Just like sitting on the pad, isn't it? A solar storm.
000:06:35 Schmitt Okay, our calibration on that tank changed a little bit again, apparently.
000:06:39 Cernan Okay.
000:06:40 Schmitt Down at 90%.
000:06:41 Evans ... On the tank 2?
000:06:44 Schmitt On the hydrogen.
000:06:45 Evans Hydrogen ...
000:06:46 CC Stand by for S-IVB to orbit capability.
000:06:49 Cernan Roger, Bob. ...
000:06:49 CC MARK. S-IVB to orbit capability. And we'd like OMNI Delta, Jack.
000:06:54 Schmitt Roger. You've got it.
000:06:56 Evans Okay, 7 minutes ...
000:07:00 CC Roger.
000:07:00 Cernan 7 ... 6 degrees. How does that sound?
000:07:01 Evans Okay, that's good. 17, 3. Let's see, 119. We go to ...
000:07:03 PAO Now 7 minutes in and we have sufficient velocity to make orbit with the Saturn third stage should we have an unexpected early shutdown of the second stage.
000:07:08 Cernan Seven minutes, Bob. We're looking good onboard.
000:07:11 CC Roger.
000:07:18 Cernan Am I glad I took my hand off that abort handle!
000:07:19 Evans (laughter) man!
000:07:20 Schmitt So am I. (laughter) I'll tell ya (laughter)
000:07:24 Cernan Okay, we've got to get through this one, and then through staging. Standby for inboard. Okay. ...
000:07:29 PAO We're now less than 2 minutes from second stage shutdown and ignition of the Saturn third stage. And the center engine will be shutting down as scheduled in about 10 seconds.
000:07:34 Cernan Standby for inboard.
000:07:35 Evans Okay. Okay, we're at a G 1/2. Standby.
000:07:40 Cernan We have inboard cut-off.
000:07:43 CC Roger, Gene. Inboard on time.
000:07:47 PAO And that inboard shutdown looked to be on time. Apollo 17 now 625 miles downrange, 93 miles in altitude.
000:07:50 Cernan Okay, she pitches up just like the simulator.
000:07:51 Evans Yep. Sure does. Pitches -
000:07:56 Cernan (grunting noise)
000:07:56 Evans Is that hard to reach ...
000:07:57 Cernan Yes. ...
000:08:01 Cernan Eight minutes, and we are GO.
000:08:03 CC Roger, 17. You're looking great.
000:08:08 Cernan Okay, ... standby for a PU shift.
000:08:12 Evans Is that what that was?
000:08:14 Cernan Yes, I think it was.
000:08:15 Evans Yes, I think that was it.
000:08:17 PAO The spacecraft guidance systems agreeing very closely with the Saturn guidance. It looks good.
000:08:18 Cernan Okay, Ron. That level sense arm will be at 36.
000:08:20 Evans 36. Okay.
000:08:21 CC 17, Houston. You are GO for staging.
000:08:24 Cernan Thank you, Bob. We are GO for staging up here.
000:08:29 Cernan A little over a G.
000:08:32 Schmitt There's a little chug.
000:08:34 PAO Staging now less than 1 minute.
000:08:34 Cernan Okay, we've got to get through this one. Coming in, we're level sense arm now.
000:08:40 CC You have level sense arm this time, Gene.
000:08:42 Cernan Roger, Bob. Level sense arm.
000:08:46 Cernan Okay, Ron. Our next thing will be standby for MODE 4, and we'll have staging. I will call it out to you.
000:08:48 PAO Apollo 17 traveling at 21,000 feet per second. It's achieved about 83 percent of the velocity required for a minimum orbit.
000:08:52 Cernan And little S-IVB burn, baby burn. Gimbal ...
000:09:01 Cernan Nine minutes, Bob, and 17 is GO.
000:09:04 CC Roger, 17. You're GO here.
000:09:06 Cernan Okay, standby. 10 seconds.
000:09:09 PAO And about 10 seconds to staging.
000:09:16 CC Standby for Mode IV capability.
000:09:20 Cernan S-II cut-off.
000:09:21 CC MARK. Mode IV capability, and we copy cut-off.
000:09:23 Cernan Roger. Mode IV. And we do have S-IVB ignition.
000:09:28 CC Roger. We see it, and the thrust is looking good on it.
000:09:30 Cernan God, you see that glow ...
000:09:31 Evans Geez!
000:09:31 Cernan We saw that one, too, Bob.
000:09:33 CC Roger.
000:09:33 Cernan Did you see it go past us?
000:09:35 Evans Yes.
000:09:36 Schmitt We're right in the flame.
000:09:37 Cernan Yes, that's what the Titan used to do. Used to fly through the flame ... Let's, let's press on here we've got a lot to do. We're MODE 4.
000:09:45 PAO We're up to 23,000 feet per second - we'll be shooting for something over 25,000.
000:09:46 Evans Yes.
000:09:47 Cernan Okay, we're at - a little less than 1/2 G.
000:09:50 Evans Less than half of a G.
000:09:51 Cernan Okay, 10 minutes, Ron. I'll be at about fourty ...
000:09:55 CC 17, the steering has converged and the CMC is GO. You're looking great.
000:09:59 Cernan Roger. The CMC is GO, 10 minutes, and 17 is GO onboard.
000:10:02 Evans Okay, H-DOT's a little bit low, but not bad.
000:10:07 CC 17; Houston. You are GO for orbit - GO for orbit.
000:10:11 Cernan Those are kind words, Robert. We're GO for orbit here.
000:10:15 CC Good show, Gene.
000:10:18 Cernan Okay, coming off about 3.0, Ron.
000:10:20 Evans Okay.
000:10:20 Cernan Doublecheck everything.
000:10:21 PAO Coming up on 10 minutes 30 seconds after liftoff and the spacecraft launch vehicle now 11,000 - 1,100 miles, rather, downrange, altitude 93.4 miles.
000:10:22 Evans 3.0, 347 degrees. 23.9. Okay, we're a little bit high.
000:10:28 Cernan I couldn't see a star if I had to right now.
000:10:29 Evans I couldn't either. Velocity's a little high.
000:10:31 Cernan Okay. 10:30 and we're GO.
000:10:33 Evans H-DOT's a little high. A little bit low -
000:10:34 CC Roger, 17. You're looking great.
000:10:36 Cernan Okay, the cutoff is VI plus 100.
000:10:37 Evans VI ... okay, I'll ... down.
000:10:52 PAO And we're about 1 minute from shutdown, about 1 minute from orbit insertion.
000:11:04 Cernan Eleven minutes and we are GO.
000:11:06 CC Roger, Gene. And cut-off will be at 11 plus 47, 11 plus 47.
000:11:13 Cernan 11 plus 47. Roger.
000:11:31 Cernan Okay. 11:30 and we're GO here. And - Standing by.
000:11:35 CC Roger, Gene. Cut-off time is still holding good, 11 plus 47.
000:11:43 Cernan Okay. Cut-off at 42.
000:11:47 CC Understand. Cut-off at 42. Roger. We copy.
000:11:54 PAO And that looked like a near nominal shutdown. At shutdown we show 25,600 feet per second. That also looks very close.
000:12:00 Cernan We're looking at 93.5 by 89.5.
000:12:07 CC Roger, Gene. We're copying the DSKY.
000:12:12 Cernan Okay, Jack. Give - -
000:12:16 PAO Gene Cernan reporting the on-board Indication of an orbit of 93.5 by 89.5. Now we'll be getting tracking and confirming that here on the ground.
000:12:20 CC And the local horizontal maneuver has initiated, Gene.
000:12:45 Cernan And, Houston, the - looks like the - tank pressures are venting.
000:12:54 CC Roger, Gene. The range safety is safe and we - you are in a GO orbit, nominal.
000:13:00 Cernan Roger. GO orbit, nominal. Thank you.
000:13:15 CC And, 17, I'll be unable to update that AOS time, but 52:20 is looking good.
000:13:23 Cernan Roger.
000:13:47 PAO This is Apollo Control coming up on 14 minutes after liftoff, that liftoff coming about 2 hours 40 minutes late, and we'll be assessing the effects of that late liftoff on subsequent events in the mission timeline, passing those along. One of the effects will be a change in the acquisition of signal / loss of signal time and as we move along on the ground track -
000:14:10 Schmitt Houston, can you confirm - MAIN BUS TIE A/C, OFF?
000:14:15 CC Stand by on that, Jack.
000:14:18 Schmitt I've been carrying very low amps on the BAT BUS, and I did not see a drop. I'm carrying about 2 amps now. Volts are 3 - 30.5.
000:14:40 CC Jack, go ahead and take the B/C motor switch OFF.
000:14:47 Schmitt Okay. It's OFF. And I confirm that one.
000:14:50 CC And we think it's the EDS POWER switch and the fuel cell ... switch that are drawing the current that you're seeing there.
000:14:58 Schmitt Okay. That could well be.
000:15:01 CC Okay, Jack, we're going to lose you in about 1 minute off of Vanguard here and see you at 52:20.
000:15:06 Schmitt Roger; we're pressing and thanks, Bob.
000:15:09 Cernan Okay, Bob. Everything is looking GO onboard. Everything's stable. We can see the APS firing, and our attitudes look good.
000:15:20 CC Geno, everything is in good shape down here. The booster's in good shape; you're looking good; and their AOS time is 52:20 as I'gave you.
000:15:28 Cernan We got that, babe. We'll see you coming around.
000:15:30 CC Good show, babe. A little late but a good show.
000:15:33 Evans Outstanding ride.
000:16:26 CC 17, Houston. We're hanging with you here. Looks like you're hanging in Vanguard a little longer than we expected.
000:16:42 PAO This is Apollo Control at 16 minutes 45 seconds after liftoff. We've confirmed Apollo 17 is in a near nominal orbit. The crew reported an orbit of about 93.5 by 89.5 based on their onboard calculations, and computations on the ground show that we're very close to the nominal 90 mile - nautical mile orbit. As a result of the late liftoff, the trans-lunar injection will be a little bit earlier than the flight plan Ground Elapsed Time but we don't have an update on this time yet. We expect that it will be on the order of 8 to 10 minutes early. We'll update that time as we get a later update.
000:17:39 PAO We would expect that the time of arrival at the Moon will be approximately the same as the flightplan time in terms of Greenwich Mean Time. The Ground Elapsed Time will be somewhat earlier, and we expect that there will be clock update - a so called clock update - at some point where we make the clocks in Mission Control and aboard the spacecraft agree with the Ground Elapsed Time that they would be showing in the flight plan. The net effect will be that we'll arrive at the Moon in a shorter Ground Elapsed Time - in effect about 2 hours 40 minutes earlier than the flight plan would show, but at the same Greenwich mean time or local time here on Earth, that - that we would have had had we lifted off on time. We're in effect making up the time by speeding up the arrival at the Moon. The spacecraft at translunar injection will be going somewhat faster than a nominal liftoff translunar injection. Consequently, it will arrive at the Moon going slightly faster, and also somewhat earlier, about 2 hours 40 minutes earlier in terms of Ground Elapsed Time. This will also mean that the lunar orbit insertion will require a bit more energy to slow the spacecraft down and get it into lunar orbit. These details of course, will all be worked out in the time that we have before our lunar orbit insertion. And, when we get an updated translunar injection time, we'll pass that along.
000:23:56 PAO This is Apollo Control at 24 minutes. Apollo 17 now in an orbit about 90 miles by 93 miles, and everything appears to be nominal aboard the spacecraft and aboard the launch vehicle, Saturn third stage. One additional impact of our late liftoff will be the loss of television coverage for the transposition and docking maneuver. The television coverage will not be possible because the ground track has shifted and we don't have the site coverage that had been expected for television. The translunar injection burn, reigniting the Saturn third stage to put the spacecraft on its trajectory to the Moon, is now scheduled to occur at a Ground Elapsed Time of 3 hours 12 minutes 35 seconds, or roughly 9 minutes earlier than the flight plan time. This again the effect of the late liftoff.
000:25:11 PAO And we will be reacquiring Apollo 17 through the Carnarvon Tracking Station at a Ground Elapsed Time of about 52 minutes 20 seconds, roughly 27 minutes from now.
000:32:02 PAO This is Apollo Control now 32 minutes after the liftoff of Apollo 17 and we have loss of signal with the spacecraft, we will be reacquiring through the Carnarvon Tracking Station in about 20 minutes. And from the President of the United States we have the following message to the crew of Apollo 17. The message reads: "As you set forth on the final Apollo expedition to the Moon, I want to have my personal best wishes for a successful mission and safe return. I am sure your voyage, your scientific exploration, will be the crowning achievement in a program which has expanded Man's horizons, brought great credit to your country and lifted the spirits of people all over the world. Godspeed to you all." Signed Richard Nixon. The flight Dynamics officer, continuing to process tracking data, following orbital insertions, reports that there is a small amount of out of plane error showing up in the orbit. This it is believed is due to a small error in the instrument unit of the Saturn third stage. However, the orbit is very close to nominal, about 90 nautical miles by 93 nautical miles. And we look very good, both with respect to the spacecraft and with respect to the Saturn third stage which must perform that burn, putting Apollo 17 on its trajectory toward the Moon. At 34 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
000:35:33 PAO This is Apollo Control. The postlaunch press conference at Cape Kennedy is scheduled to begin at 12:33 Central Standard Time, 1:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Again, that time 12:33 Central Standard Time, 1:33 Eastern Standard for the post-launch press conference at Cape Kennedy.
000:51:00 PAO - Control at 51 minutes into the flight of Apollo 17 and we're standing by to reacquire the spacecraft through the Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station. One of the things the booster engineer will be looking for when we reacquire and get good lock on the data will be the Saturn 3rd stage instrument unit. Looking at one brief bit of data before we lost signal, it appears that one of the four batteries in the instrument unit had a very high current drain on it. We will be looking closely at that to see if it was simply a telemetry problem or if, in fact, that battery does have some problem. And we should be about 15 seconds now from reacquiring.
000:51:00 CC 17, read you loud and clear.
000:51:00 Schmitt Hey, we're going real well up here, Bob. Have no significant anomalies as yet; and we've just about completed our part of the insertion checklist. Gene has his SCS check yet, and Ron's got some P52 numbers for you. And the only thing I've seen so far is a - some spurious MASTER ALARM without caution and warning that seem to be associated with moving switches on panel 2.
000:51:00 CC
000:51:00 Schmitt So far, it's been fairly random. Some that I remember is the SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP EVAP switch, the LAMP TEST switch, - see - I think I got one with the TEMP IN AUTO switch. Gene got one doing something. I can't remember exactly what it was.
000:51:00 CC Okay - -
000:51:00 Schmitt Probably random.
000:51:00 CC - - we copy. Jack, we're standing by for that P52 data. We've only got about a 4-minute - a 5-minute pass here. We'll take the 52 data, and I got a few updates for you.
000:51:00 Schmitt Okay.
000:51:00 Evans Okay; 52 data is coming. NOUN 71 is 24 and 30; NOUN 05 is .01; NOUN 93s are plus .080, plus .029, plus .018; and we torqued at 35:25.
000:53:56 CC Okay. We copy that. Okay, while we're filling in some here, you might want to know this, Jack. Your sunset and sunrise times in the Launch Checklist are all off by 8 - approximately 8 minutes and 30 seconds. That every - sunset and sunrise will occur about 8 minutes and 30 seconds sooner than in the - in the Launch Checklist. That's an approximate number.
000:54:20 Schmitt Okay, we got you.
000:54:21 CC Okay. And on page 2-17 of the Launch Checklist, you're going to want to delete all reference to Honeysuckle AOS and LOS and delete all reference to Canaries AOS and LOS.
000:54:35 Schmitt Wilco.
000:54:37 CC And we want to add an Ascension pass; AOS at Ascension, 01 plus 54 plus 00, and Ascension LOS will be 02:00:16.
000:55:00 Schmitt Okay, Bob; you're going to have to repeat that.
000:55:03 CC Okay, stand by. Let me give you a page. On 2-17 - let's go Hawaii AOS first of all. On Hawaii AOS, on page 2-17. AOS - -
000:55:14 Schmitt Go.
000:55:14 CC - - is 01 plus 17 plus 24. Hawaii LOS, 01 plus 22 plus 49.
000:55:35 Schmitt Gotcha. Now what about the Ascension?
000:55:41 CC Okay, here - give you the Ascension again now. AOS, 01 plus 54 plus 00. Ascension LOS will be 02:00:16. Over.
000:56:05 Schmitt Okay, I got those. Hawaii is 01 plus 17 plus 24, and LOS is 01 plus 22 plus 49. And Ascension is AOS, 01 plus 54:00; and LOS, 02 plus 00:16.
000:56:21 CC Roger, Jack. Good copy. And booster's looking good down here and you're looking good.
000:56:27 Schmitt Okay, and I'll do a better job of itemizing those switches. We were pressing pretty hard, and I'll - I'll be able to go back and get most of them, I think. And We'll keep an eye on it - on the MASTER ALARMS.
000:56:40 CC Roger, Jack. We understand. And I think we copied most of what you said there, and we're working on it.
000:56:46 Cernan Okay, Bob; other than that MASTER ALARM, all is well on America, and I understand the booster is looking good to you.
000:56:52 CC That's affirmative.
000:56:54 Schmitt And, Bob, let me add that not - we did get spurious MASTER ALARMs without switch movement, but many came with switch movements. We've had about seven.
000:57:04 CC Okay; understand.
000:57:10 Schmitt That was only after insertion.
000:57:15 CC Seven times that your heart doesn't need, huh?
000:57:20 Schmitt Oh, we were paying attention to a sunset that was the biggest - -
000:57:25 Cernan Sunrise.
000:57:26 Schmitt - - or sunrise or something that we saw. It was the biggest rainbow I'd ever seen.
000:57:33 CC Beautiful. We can't wait to hear what you had to say about that - the ignition on the S-II. It sounded pretty spectacular.
000:57:48 Cernan Bob, just let it be said that that was quite a booster ride. When we get a chance a little later - -
000:57:55 CC Roger.
000:57:55 Cernan - - maybe we'll be able to tell you something.
000:57:56 CC We're about ready to lose comm here. You're looking great, guys, and we'll pick you up in Hawaii here shortly.
000:58:03 Cernan Okay, we're looking at the deserts of Australia right now and, again, everything's good onboard.
000:58:08 CC Roger. Pick you up at 01:17:24.
000:58:12 Cernan Roger.
000:58:12 STDN (REV 1/2)
000:59:03 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're coming up now one 1 hour after liftoff for Apollo 17. And as you heard CAPCOM Robert Overmyer reporting to the crew that everything looks good, including the Saturn 3rd stage. Apparently the indication we had of a possible battery problem in the instrument unit nothing more than a bad bit of telemetry there. When the booster engineer got a good hard look at the telemetry on this pass, he reported everything looked good. We are ready at this point to begin the post-launch press conference at Cape Kennedy and we'll switch to Cape Kennedy and stand by for that press conference.
001:17:25 Schmitt Hello, earthlings. We're back with you.
001:17:27 CC Roger, Jack. Read you loud and clear; how us?
001:17:32 Schmitt You're loud and clear. And no change systems-wise that I've seen.
001:17:37 CC Roger, Jack. Any more MASTER ALARMs?
001:17:39 Schmitt We had one when Ron's - looked like his neck ring hit panel 2. ...
001:17:44 CC Okay. Sounds like we had something loose in panel 2, huh?
001:17:48 Schmitt Yes. I don't know - it may be annoying, but so far it doesn't seem to be a problem.
001:17:53 CC Roger. Just for your information, everything is looking outstanding and no problems. We're taking a good look at the data here at Hawaii, and we'll make a GO/NO GO decision about 60 seconds after acquisition at Goldstone. But there's nothing right now to lead us to believe that zero opportunity will be required.
001:18:13 Cernan Okay, Bob, understand that. We are prepared, however. Spacecraft, other than those MASTER ALARMs, is looking very good. We got the docking probe extended. The SCS reference attitude check is complete.
001:18:30 CC Roger.
001:18:38 Schmitt Hey, Bob, I just remembered another switch that I think gave us a MASTER ALARM was H2O QUANTITY INDICATOR.
001:18:45 CC Roger. Copy that, Jack. H2O QUANTITY INDICATOR.
001:18:51 CC Roger we're - 17, we're going to lose you in about 30 seconds. But when you get over the stateside here, we're going to take - take the dump on the data, and we'll read it out real carefully so when you get in TLC we ought to be able to see where that MASTER ALARM glitch is coming in to.
001:19:08 Schmitt Okay, Bob. And - yell at me if you want anything done on the comm with this change in AOS LOS stuff.
001:19:16 CC Negative on that right now. We'll see you at 01:28:59 through Goldstone.
001:19:23 Cernan Okay, 01:28:59, Bob. We'll be there.
001:22:26 CC Roger, Gene.
001:22:48 GOLDSTONE (REV 2}
001:22:48 CC 17, Houston. We're back with you.
001:22:51 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're still same as before and ready when you are for TLI.
001:22:58 CC Roger.
001:23:03 Schmitt I can see the lights of southern California, Bob.
001:23:07 CC Roger, Jack.
001:23:11 Schmitt We're going to be going a little bit south of that area.
001:23:15 CC Right. Your ground track looks like it's taking you right up over the mid part of Baja California.
001:23:20 Schmitt Yes, sir; I'll believe that. I'll bet you I can see Ensenada right now.
001:23:24 CC Roger.
001:23:27 Cernan Bob, I expect he'll probably be able to see the lights of Silver City, too.
001:23:31 Schmitt Well, I'm sure going to be looking for them, I'll tell you.
001:23:40 CC Jack, just for your information, you'll probably - when you come up a little farther in this orbit here and get over Mexico, you should be able to see all that bad weather that was giving us so much worry and had Tindall and New Orleans and everything all messed up this morning when I went through there. They had a pretty bad line of weather along there.
001:23:59 Schmitt I was assuming it wasn't too bad. I think you made it, didn't you?
001:24:06 CC Oh, yeah, I made it, but I had to - you know, I had to work at it. But it's a - we were - I was worried about it getting down as towards MILA there after - you know if we had to scrub and go tomorrow night. Boy, I'm sure glad we got you off tonight.
001:24:21 Schmitt Guess who else is.
001:24:22 CC No, I can't - I wouldn't believe that.
001:25:00 PAO This is Apollo Control. 1 hour 25 minutes after lift off. During the post-launch press conference at Cape Kennedy, we had a short acquisition with the crew through the Hawaiian tracking station. During that period of conversation, and during that period of monitoring the systems on the spacecraft and the launch vehicle, we found that the situation was essentially unchanged. That is, both vehicles now looking good; the spacecraft and the launch vehicle. And we're progressing toward a normal translunar injection. 1 hour 46 minutes 50 seconds from now. The crew has discussed one unexplained series of events. It appears that when certain switches are cycled or moved on panel 2 which is the main panel in front of them, the center panel of the spacecraft, they're getting a master caution and warning signal. A light comes on - a tone comes on. This is to attract the crews attention that something may be wrong and the normal procedure is then to look at another matrix of lights which would zero them in on the problem. The light - the system or the subsystem or particular area being monitored, or which had the problem would light an individual light. However, when they go to this other matrix of lights, they find that none of them are lighted. This is leading the crew and the flight controllers here in mission control to believe that they are getting an spurious signal to the master caution and warning, when in fact nothing is wrong. We don't have any further explanation for the problem at this point. We will continue to look at the data and particularly during the translunar coast, we think we'll get a good long time to look at things in detail and try to find out precisely what is happening. At this point however, the problem presents no concern and one of the more likely explanations, or possible explanations that's been advanced is perhaps some contamination in some switches.
001:31:25 CC Parker can't make it back. He's got to come back on the golfstream. So you might have to have Young on for a while after we do a TLI.
001:31:35 Schmitt Hey, you just wouldn't believe, Bob, the lights you can see in the west right now. It must be absolutely clear.
001:31:44 CC Roger, Jack. Sounds spectacular. Jack, people in the room here want to know if you've been down your checklist yet?
001:31:56 Schmitt Oh, we got that out of the way in about 5 minutes. Have we missed something?
001:32:00 CC There's a different checklist here we're talking about.
001:32:05 Schmitt (Laughter)
001:32:05 Cernan If you're talking about the Flight Plan, yes.
001:32:13 CC Roger.
001:32:16 Evans What a waste.
001:32:32 Schmitt If I'm not mistaken, we must be just south of Arizona now. is that right, Bob?
001:32:38 CC That looks real good. Yes, you're over Mexico there, and looks like you're - oh - maybe a hundred miles south of the border there.
001:32:46 Schmitt Okay. I was pretty sure I was looking up in the Phoenix-Tucson complex there.
001:32:51 CC Roger. Understand.
001:32:54 Schmitt Beautiful -
001:32:56 CC Little better than ... Florida.
001:33:02 Schmitt The west is always that way. I wish it was daylight so we could see Sonora and that country. That's spectacular, I'll bet you.
001:33:13 CC Roger. ...
001:33:15 Schmitt Man's field of stars on the Earth is competing with the heavens, Bob.
001:33:22 Cernan Bob, you're coming through with a large squeal right now in the background.
001:33:32 CC Understand ...
001:33:47 Schmitt Okay, I think we got the Gulf Coast showing up now by the band of lights, Bob.
001:33:54 CC Roger.
001:33:58 Cernan Okay, Bob. Assume the booster is still looking good, and we'll be GO for a nominal TLI.
001:34:04 CC That's affirmative.
001:34:06 Schmitt Okay.
001:34:07 Cernan And you're still coming up with a loud squeal.
001:34:08 CC Roger. ...
001:34:19 CC 17, how do you read?
001:34:21 Schmitt Would you believe we're just south of Houston now, Bob?
001:35:17 CC 17, are you receiving Houston now?
001:35:20 Cernan All right, Bob. You came up unreadable with the squeal that time.
001:35:24 CC Am I still squealing? This is Houston.
001:35:27 Cernan That's affirm. You're very loud, almost unreadable with the squeal. Bob, why don't you give us the short count?
001:35:43 CC Geno, don't change anything. We think it's a ground site situation here, and just stand by.
001:35:49 Cernan I believe it's in the VHF, Bob.
001:36:18 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm not sure exactly where we are, but I'm looking out - to an awful lot of horiz - lights on the horizon out there at 12 o'clock, and an awful lot of lightning in the clouds out there.
001:36:31 CC Roger. I - we show you just about over the middle of the Gulf. Looking ahead, you're probably seeing the very southern tip of Florida there.
001:36:39 Cernan It looks like almost the entire Florida peninsula has got lights - out by in it somewhere.
001:36:49 CC Roger. How does my comm sound to you now, Gene?
001:36:52 Cernan Okay, give us a quick short count.
001:36:54 CC Roger. Short count follows: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; short count out.
001:37:01 Cernan Bob, you're all right now.
001:37:03 CC Okay.
001:37:05 Cernan And can you give us a feel for what the final weather was at the Cape - at launch?
001:37:13 CC Yes. Let me get that for you. The reason why we had that problem on the comm is we just handed over from Texas to MILA, and we're - and you're going through MILA now. And it's great. So we have a little problem with our Texas site.
001:37:25 Cernan Okay.
001:37:27 CC The television coverage had you all the way through staging very well on - and the S-II ignition. Then, you went right behind a cloud for a while, but they were tracking you pretty well.
001:37:39 Cernan Okay.
001:37:41 CC They also - cut in for about a half minute or so and showed a view of the crowd in just the available light from the booster, and it stood out pretty well.
001:37:53 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We're going right over Florida now, looking down at Miami. A beautiful view of the Keys all lit up, and I just saw a shooting star right over Miami.
001:38:04 CC Roger.
001:38:15 Schmitt That's a very, very fine view of Miami. Hard to believe.
001:38:21 CC I'll bet they sat there and watched you go.
001:38:43 Schmitt Looks like we're right over the Bahamas now, Bob.
001:38:47 CC Roger. I'll buy that.
001:38:57 Schmitt Well, I'm not easily impressed, Bob. But I'm certainly impressed by this one.
001:39:01 CC Roger. What's the CMP doing? We haven't heard much from him. is - is he at the other window?
001:39:07 Evans He's crawling around looking for things down in the LEB.
001:39:10 CC (Laughter) Okay. They won't let you have a window tonight, huh, Ron?
001:39:13 Evans No, I'll catch one here pretty quick.
001:39:24 CC Just a reminder, if you haven't already done it. There is no need to unstow the TV, because due to this late launch, there's just no site available.
001:39:31 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're not going to unstow it.
001:39:36 Schmitt Bob, I don't - I guess there's no site available for some time, is that correct?
001:39:42 CC That's affirmative. And if I can pull one of you guys away from a window, I've got a TLI plus 90 pad.
001:39:46 Schmitt Oh, I'd love to copy that. Just a minute.
001:41:28 Schmitt Hello, Houston; Apollo 17. How do you read?
001:41:31 CC 17, Houston. Go ahead.
001:41:33 Schmitt Okay. Lost you there for a minute. We had good signal strength all through that, so I figured it was your problem.
001:41:39 CC Roger. We're just waiting here - You ready for the pad?
001:41:43 Schmitt We were calling you, and you missed us. So you might think about that. Ready for the pad.
001:41:47 CC Okay. It's a TLI plus 90, SPS/G&N; 66953; minus 0.59, plus 1.88; ignition time, 004:40:01.48; minus 0351.8, minus 0000.1, plus 3378.2; roll is 180, 073, 003; NOUN 94 [sic] is - HA is not applicable, HA is plus 0020.1; 3396.4, 4:50, 3380.8; sextant star is number 11, that's 11, 342.4, 32.3. Stand by. 17, Houston; are you still reading me?
001:43:33 Schmitt Hey, Houston, if you read, we're reading you. Got you all the way through the trunnion on sextant star.
001:43:41 CC Okay, we'll have to wait and pick you up at Ascension. We just had a keyhole pass at Bermuda, and a little bit of a pass at Vanguard.
001:43:49 Schmitt Okay, I'll wait for you to finish that, and on the readback. Okay.
001:43:54 CC That's affirmative. Stand by. We've got Vanguard, I can continue on with - after trunnion, the bore-sight Star is not applicable, Jack. NOUN 61, plus 13.29, minus 032.00; 1099.2, 34904; GET of .05G, 024:38:09. Want to read back that much of the pad, Jack?
001:44:41 Schmitt Okay, Bob. It's TLI plus 90 pad, SPS/G&N; 66953; minus 0.59, plus 1.88; 004:40:01.48; minus 0351.8, minus four zeros 1, plus 3378.2; 180, 073, 003; HA is NA; plus 0020.1; 3396.4, 4:54, 3380.8; 11, 342.4, 32.3. Boresight is NA; plus 13.29, minus 032.00; 1099.2, 34904; 024:38:09. Over.
001:45:49 CC Roger, Jack. Good readback except burn time is 4:50 and not 4:54. And we'll be losing you here in about a minute, so wait on the rest of that pad. Just a reminder for Ron, we'll be standing by at Ascension for the next gyro torquing and we, might have a drift update on the IMU there,
001:46:17 Schmitt Okay, he copied that. And we'll wait for the rest of the pad.
001:46:21 CC Okay.
001:46:22 Schmitt Burn time was 4:50 - I think that was when you started to cut out.
001:46:27 CC Roger.
001:48:10 CC 17, this is Houston through ARIA. How do you read? Over.
001:48:33 CC 17, Houston. Through ARIA, how do you read? Over.
001:48:50 CC 17, Houston. Through ARIA, how do you read?
001:49:31 CC 17, Houston. How do you read through ARIA?
001:50:33 PAO This is Apollo Control at 1 hour 51 minutes. We're getting good telemetry data from Apollo 17 through one of the Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft out over the Atlantic Ocean. Apollo 17 moving across the Atlantic now towards Africa. And on the next revolution, at about this point, the spacecraft will be on its way to the Moon during the Trans-lunar injection maneuver. Ignition for that burn is scheduled to occur 1 hour 21 minutes from now. During launch the flight surgeon monitoring heart rates on the 3 crewmen recorded peak heart rates of 130 for the Commander Gene Cernan, also 130 for Command Module pilot, Ron Evans, and 115 for Lunar Module pilot, Jack Schmitt. We should be reacquiring the command service module and reestablishing voice communications with the astronauts in about 2 minutes from now through Ascension.
001:53:47 PAO This is Apollo Control. We should be acquiring the spacecraft through Ascension in about 5 seconds and reestablishing voice communications with the crew.
001:54:04 CC 17, Houston.
001:54:07 Schmitt Go ahead.
001:54:08 CC Roger. You're back with us. I'll finish up that TLI plus 90 pad so we can talk a little here if you want.
001:54:14 Schmitt Go ahead.
001:54:15 CC Okay. Set stars are Sirius and Rigel; RALIGN is 318; 148; 358. There'll be no ullage. Okay. Down at the bottom of the pad we've got the P37 for lift-off plus 9. GET is 009:00; DELTA-Vt, 4897; longitude, minus 175; GET of 400K, 033:49. Over.
001:55:02 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Zero - Sirius and Rigel; 318; 148; 358; no ullage; 009:00; 4897; minus 175; 033:49. Over.
001:55:19 CC Okay, Jack. Good readback.
001:55:26 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We had - as usual - up here (laughter) a spectacular sunrise, and Gene wants to talk to you.
001:55:33 Cernan I got some numbers on Ron's P52 for you, Bob.
001:55:36 CC Okay; standing by to copy. Go ahead.
001:55:38 Cernan Okay. NOUN 71 were stars 22 and 24; NOUN 05 are all balls; NOUN 93s are all minus. They're 00.037, 00.007, and 00.021. That's minus 37, minus 07, and minus 21; and they were torqued at 01:51:40.
001:56:05 CC Okay. We copy.
001:56:20 Schmitt Bob, we're over - what might be - intermediate to low stratus that have a very strong crenulation pattern - pulling out some geological terms here. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it flying.
001:56:38 CC Roger.
001:56:38 Schmitt Looks like about a north-south lineation with a very strong crinkling, roughly east-west.
001:56:47 CC Roger. Copy that; that's interesting. You know, you're just directly over that South Atlantic area. Your - you - your path just kind of kept you going right between the - Africa and South America, right dead center all the way.
001:57:39 CC And, 17, just for your information, we've searched all the data we can, and we cannot find anything wrong with the spacecraft or the booster at all. Everything is looking real fine, and the only problem in the air is that - those MASTER ALARMs that you have reported - we're not able to tie in anything common yet to any of those things either.
001:57:58 Cernan Okay, Bob. We have not had any for - quite some time, I think, since the last time we talked to you about them.
001:58:05 CC Roger. Understand. We'll probably get a good workout on that after TLI and try and track it down one more.
001:58:10 Cernan Okay. But, also, we have not really been doing much switching since the insertion checklist was complete, either.
001:58:16 CC Roger. Understand. It's got you glued to the windows, I guess, huh?
001:58:23 Cernan They are interesting; I'll say that.
001:58:26 Schmitt Well, I certainly am, Bob, and - again there's a big - a fairly continuous intermediate cloud deck, I think. And it has patterns comparable to what I've seen on pictures of ice floes.
001:58:40 CC Roger. Understand.
001:58:40 Schmitt And - of pack ice; I should say pictures of pack ice in the Antarctic.
001:58:56 CC 17, Houston. We've got two questions concerning the MASTER ALARMs. One, do you get the MASTER ALARM on the LEB also; and, two, do you get the tone with the MASTER ALARM?
001:59:10 Schmitt We did get the tones. The MASTER ALARMs were on both - panel 1 and panel 3. I can't tell you about the LEB right now. Maybe Ron can.
001:59:20 Evans No, I didn't pay that much attention.
001:59:23 CC Okay.
001:59:24 Cernan Hey, Bob, there was something interesting I wanted to get around to tell you. The - MISSION TIMER down in the LEB, when Ron went down there to get things squared away, was about 15 seconds or so behind all the other clocks.
001:59:45 CC Roger. We copy that.
001:59:47 Cernan Okay; and we reset it - re synced it - and it's been running okay. I don't know whether that's a clue to anything or not, but apparently it happened either during launch - or somewhere before we got down there right after insertion.
002:00:02 CC Okay, we're going to lose you here in about 9 seconds. You are GO is looking great, and we'll work on it, and if you get another MEV, will you check the LEB for us?
002:00:11 Cernan Yes sir, I sure will do, Bob. We'll see you. What's our next AOS?
002:00:16 CC Stand by. Carnarvon at 2:25.
002:00:20 Cernan Thank you.
002:00:41 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now over the horizon from the Ascension site - will be reacquiring in about 25 minutes through Carnarvon. And, as you heard CAPCOM Robert Overmyer advising the crew, we've been getting a good look at all the data, and spacecraft, launch vehicles, look fine. No discernable problems. Gene Cernan did mention one anomaly and that was the mission timer. One of the - one of the numerous clocks aboard the spacecraft which was running about 15 minutes [sic] slow - and Cernan said it appeared that it happened either during the launch phase or shortly before they got down to take a look at it in the lower equipment bay. No explanation for that one at this point. And we show now 1 minute - 1 hour, rather - 11 minutes until ignition for the translunar injection maneuver, the burn with the Saturn 3rd stage which will place Apollo 17 on its trajectory toward the Moon. Ignition time and still holding at about 3 hours 12 minutes 35 seconds Ground Elapsed Time, and that burn will be about 5 minutes 45 seconds in duration, but we don't have the final calculated time from the flight dynamics officer which will undoubtedly vary somewhat from the premission Flight Plan time. At 2 hours 2 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
002:25:10 PAO This is Apollo Control, at 2 hours 25 minutes. Apollo 17 now approaching the west coast of Australia. And we'll be reacquiring the spacecraft in about 35 seconds. During this pass over Carnarvon, we expect to pass up the first set of numbers to the crew that they'll use in the Translunar Injection Burn, to put them on their trajectory toward the Moon. That maneuver is scheduled to begin at 47 minutes from now. And we have acquisition of signal a little bit early.
002:25:30 CC 17, Houston. How are you doing?
002:25:40 CC Stand by. It's Carnarvon at 02:25-
002:25:44 Cernan Thank you.
002:25:46 Cernan I see you're trying.
002:25:48 CC 17, Houston. How are you doing?
002:25:51 Schmitt Well, we're pretty good. You're wavery here a little bit on signal strength.
002:25:55 CC Okay. We've got a TLI pad any time you're ready to copy it, Jack.
002:26:03 Schmitt Goodness; okay, let me get rid of something here. Ron, I'm putting that right underneath you.
002:26:07 CC And, guys, we'd like P00 and ACCEPT, please.
002:26:13 Schmitt Okay.
002:26:13 CC You'll get a CSM state vector if you'll give us P00 and ACCEPT.
002:26:18 Cernan Got P00 and ACCEPT.
002:26:20 Schmitt Okay. Let me have my favorite pad.
002:26:22 CC Okay. Here's the TLI pad. Time base 6 at 3:02:57; 180, 312, 000; 5:51; DELTA-Vc is 10359.6, 35582; 000, 345, 040; extraction will be at 300, 165, 320; 312.0, 306.0, 57:10, yaw is 0; ejection time, 4 plus 39 plus 00. Over.
002:27:40 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Here's your TLI pad. 3:02:57; 180, 312, 000; 5:51; 10359.6, 35582; 000, 345, 040; 300, 165, 320; 312.0, 306.0 57:10, 000; ejection time, 4 plus 39 plus 00.
002:28:22 CC Good readback, Jack; and we'd like OMNI Charlie, and it's your computer, and you've got your state vector.
002:28:32 Schmitt Okay. You've got OMNI Charlie. And, Bob, we had almost a completely weather-free pass over Africa and Madagascar. And the scenery - both aesthetically and geologically - was something like I've never seen before, for sure.
002:28:56 CC Roger.
002:28:59 Schmitt We got odds and ends on the tape and quite a bit on the film.
002:29:04 CC Roger; good show. Are you saying that you didn't have any weather over that southern Africa there?
002:29:10 Schmitt Not very much. Barely broken clouds in some places. Most of the countryside was clear.
002:29:17 CC Roger.
002:29:19 Schmitt There were - patterns - like I haven't even seen in textbooks. Maybe I haven't been looking enough, but some of the desert and grassland patterns were - had the appearance of ice crystals almost, except on a megascale, if you - have ever looked at ice crystals in sand.
002:29:36 CC Roger.
002:29:45 Schmitt Or, better yet, ice crystals on your car window when you - get out early in the morning up in northern areas.
002:29:55 CC Roger. And just be advised, we'll be standing by for the GO/NO GO for PYRO ARM when we get to Hawaii, and we'll be giving you a GO for TLI about that time.
002:30:06 Schmitt Okay; and we'll be ready.
002:30:16 CC And, Ron, in - on the Launch Checklist, on 2-25, on the manual and nominal S-IVB TLI-1, add 34 degrees on the nominal pad for all the pitch angles; and on the manual pad, add 34.5 degrees to all the pitch angles, and you'll have it right.
002:30:41 Evans Okay, Bob. You ... - -
002:30:43 CC And - -
002:30:43 Evans - - let me get set. That's - okay, we'll just add 34 to the nominal and 34.5 to all the manual ones ... - -
002:30:49 CC And you'll want to do that on your cue card also, Ron.
002:30:52 Evans Yes, that's affirm.
002:31:00 CC And we're about ready to LOS; we'll see you at Hawaii.
002:31:07 Cernan Okay, Bob, we'll see you - -
002:31:08 CC 02 plus 50 at Hawaii.
002:31:11 Cernan Okay, 50. And we'll be into our TLI checklist, and - we'll be ready for that PYRO ARM.
002:31:17 CC Okay.
002:32:32 PAO This is Apollo Control. We'll be reacquiring the spacecraft in about 18 minutes. And during that passover at Carnarvon, and we've passed up the numbers to the crew they'll use in the Translunar Injection maneuver. The burn is targeted to last 5 minutes 51 seconds with a change in velocity of some 10,359 feet per second. Accelerating Apollo 17 to the required speed to get it into an orbit that will intercept the Moon. And the time of ignition, 300 - 03:12:35 and we're showing an ejection time of 04:39. The transposition and docking maneuver which preceeds ejection, is somewhat fluid in that it's done when the crew and mission control are ready, following Translunar Injection. However, from the projected time for ejection, it would appear that transposition and docking will occur about 25 to 30 minutes ahead of the nominal Flight Plan time. And we're now 39 minutes away from the scheduled ignition for translunar injection. At 2 hours 34 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
002:49:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 2 hours 49 minutes. We're standing by now to acquire radio contact with Apollo 17 through Hawaii. During this Hawaiian pass we're getting another good look at spacecraft and launch vehicle systems. The last look we had through Carnarvon everything looked very good. Flight Director, Gene Kranz, going over the status for these flight controllers observed that there appeared to be no problems that would interfere with TLI and we expect to have a normal translunar injection, about 23 minutes from now as Apollo 17 completes its state-side pass and moves out over the Atlantic Ocean at the start of its third revolution.
002:49:50 HAWAII (REV 2)
002:49:50 CC Apollo 17, Houston.
002:49:51 Schmitt Go ahead.
002:49:52 Evans Houston, this is Apollo 17. Go ahead.
002:49:53 CC Hey, Ron, you're sounding great. Good voice here.
002:49:58 Schmitt Golly, we've got things all set up here and we're kind of standing by for a logic check whenever you guys can give us a GO.
002:50:09 CC Roger. As soon as we get some TM in here, we'll give you a GO.
002:50:19 Schmitt Okay.
002:50:33 CC 17, Houston. We're ready for the logic check.
002:50:37 Cernan Okay, Bob. Okay. Wait 1.
002:50:50 Cernan Okay. SECS ARM breakers are closed.
002:50:54 CC Roger.
002:50:56 Cernan Okay; and LOGIC 1 is ON MARK it;
002:51:00 Cernan and LOGIC 2 is ON -
002:51:02 Cernan MARK it.
002:51:12 CC 17, you're GO for PYRO ARM.
002:51:15 Cernan Thank you; understand GO for PYRO ARM.
002:52:55 CC 17 - -
002:52:55 Schmitt And, Bob, in case you're interested, there - all through the nightside pass here - there's a - quite a strong - well - stronger than I would have ever expected - horizon glow off to the north. I suspect that, I think Gene said a while ago that it's around on his side also.
002:53:12 CC Roger. Guys , I've got the word you wanted to hear; you are GO for TLI - you're GO for the Moon.
002:53:20 Cernan Okay, Robert. Understand. America and Challenger with their S-IVB are GO for TLI.
002:53:26 CC That's affirmative.
002:53:29 Cernan You're a sweet talker.
002:53:32 CC We try to please here, Gene.
002:53:40 Cernan You know, somehow, Bob, I knew you were going to say that - we were GO - and that you try to please.
002:53:47 CC We've been working together too long, I guess.
002:53:54 Cernan Not long enough, yet.
002:54:48 CC And, 17; Houston. You're about 1 minute from LOS, and we'll pick you up at Goldstone at about 3 hours and 00 minutes; and that's only a couple of minutes prior to time base 6 start.
002:55:02 Cernan Okay, Bob. We'll be with you.
002:55:04 CC Roger.
002:55:07 Schmitt Bob, that glow is actually above the horizon, just in case you're curious. I can see - stars below the top of the glow - down closer to the Earth.
002:55:19 CC Roger, Jack.
002:55:21 GOLDSTONE (REV 2)
003:01:15 CC 17, Houston. We're with you again, and you're looking good.
003:01:20 Evans Okay; mighty fine, Bob.
003:01:23 Cernan And, Bob, we've got the PYROs ARMED now.
003:01:25 CC Roger.
003:01:33 CC And you can expect some different OMNI calls as we go LOS and AOS again.
003:01:39 Cernan Okay.
003:01:40 Evans I always expect that, Bob.
003:01:42 CC Roger.
003:02:59 Cernan SEP light is ON on time.
003:03:03 CC Roger.
003:03:08 CC And it shows time base 6 right on time, Gene.
003:03:11 Cernan Okay.
003:03:21 CC We'd like OMNI Delta, please.
003:03:27 Schmitt Okay, you've got it.
003:03:28 CC Roger.
003:03:30 Schmitt I'll just switch, Bob. I won't give you a call.
003:03:33 CC Roger.
003:03:39 Cernan SEP light was OUT on time.
003:03:42 CC Roger, Gene.
003:04:21 PAO This is Apollo Control at 3 hours 4 minutes. We are now some 8 minutes away from ignition. Everything's looking good for the translunar injection maneuver, the combined S-IVB Saturn third stage and the spacecraft with an orbital weight of 308,298 pounds at the start of this maneuver.
003:06:15 Schmitt Comm check, Bob.
003:06:21 CC 17, Houston; go ahead.
003:06:23 Schmitt I was just checking with you; you're so quiet down there, we almost forgot you were there.
003:06:27 CC Roger. Don't want to forget me. We're just watching everything; we can't find anything wrong, so we're just trying to keep quiet here.
003:06:37 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're watching the S-IVB tanks pressurize.
003:06:41 CC Roger.
003:06:50 Schmitt You ought to look for the good things rather than the bad.
003:06:55 CC Well, that's good when we don't find anything wrong.
003:06:59 Schmitt Can't agree more.
003:07:32 CC 17, the chilldown is in progress, and the tank pressures are looking good.
003:07:38 Cernan Okay, Bob; looking down here.
003:09:37 CC 17, Houston. You are GO at 3 minutes prior to ignition. You're looking good, and you're going to - we're going to have A - ARIA coverage all the way through the burn until Ascension.
003:09:51 Cernan Roger; understand, Bob. 57:10, ORDEAL OPERATE -
003:10:38 PAO And we're coming up now on 2 minutes until ignition. This burn, again, will be a 5 minute 51 second maneuver. The S-IVB engine, delivering about 225,000 pounds of thrust, and it will be increasing the spacecraft velocity in the current state of about 25,000 feet per second up to about 35,585 feet per second.
003:11:01 Cernan We're in average G.
003:11:05 CC Roger. We confirm it.
003:11:16 Cernan SEP light ON at 3:06.
003:11:19 CC Roger.
003:11:37 PAO And booster reports the ullage engines are on. This is to settle the propellants in the S-IVB prior to ignition. We are at 53 seconds from ignition.
003:12:04 CC 17, you're looking great on the final status check here, and you're GO for TLI.
003:12:17 PAO 20 seconds now to ignition and we're maintaining communications with the spacecraft through one of the ARIA, Apollo range instrumented aircraft.
003:12:20 Cernan ... 42, the SEP lights are OUT.
003:12:26 CC Roger.
003:12:29 PAO 10 seconds.
003:12:40 Cernan The lights on and we have ignition.
003:12:46 PAO And, very faintly we copy the crew reporting S-IVB ignition and that's confirmed by the telemetry and booster reports the thrust looks good on the S-IVB.
003:12:57 CC 17, Houston. You're looking good, and the thrust is GO.
003:13:02 Cernan Bob, you're down in the mud, but we're GO onboard at 20 seconds.
003:13:06 CC Roger.
003:13:11 PAO And telemetry data from the Saturn instrument unit shows the velocity increasing up now to 26,000 feet per second, beginning to climb ever more rapidly. This burn was initiated at an altitude of about 97 nautical miles above Earth, and when finished, the spacecraft will be at about 150 miles above Earth, and on its way to the Moon, some 213,000 miles nautical miles away.
003:13:21 Schmitt ... antenna.
003:13:41 Cernan One minute, Houston in the blind, and we're GO.
003:13:45 CC Roger, Gene. We can barely hear you through the ARIA, but you're GO.
003:13:54 Cernan You have reasonable signal strength, but you are unreadable.
003:14:10 PAO Very weak voice communications and booster says the data is now static but at last look everything looked normal.
003:14:15 Cernan Everything's GO at 1:30.
003:14:22 Cernan Confirm a PU shift, and GO at 1:45.
003:14:34 CC 17, Houston, We can confirm PU shift, and you are GO.
003:14:55 PAO That was CAPCOM Robert Overmyer confirming to the crew that our data showed the Saturn shifting its propellant utilization for a most efficient utilization of the propellant.
003:15:10 Cernan Okay, Houston, 2:30 - in the blind - we're still GO.
003:15:14 CC Roger, 17. You're GO; looking great.
003:15:18 Cernan Okay, Bob. Got that. Understand we're GO from the ground; and it's a good ride, although it's rumbling around a little bit.
003:15:24 CC Okay.
003:15:31 PAO Coming up now 3 minutes into the burn and velocity approaching 30,000 feet per second.
003:15:41 Cernan Three minutes, and we are GO.
003:15:45 CC Roger, Gene.
003:15:53 Cernan Bob, we're going to TLI right through sunrise.
003:15:58 CC Roger; understand.
003:16:01 PAO Gene Cernan reporting the TLI burn has taken them out of darkness and into sunrise now and we're showing a velocity of 30,463 feet per second.
003:16:06 Cernan Okay, 3:30 is GO. We have - 17 is GO at 3:30.
003:16:16 CC Roger, 17.
003:16:31 PAO Apollo 17 now about 107 nautical miles above Earth and continuing to climb ever more rapidly.
003:17:05 PAO 4 minutes and 30 seconds now and everything continuing to look good. Apollo 17 at a velocity of 32,000 feet per second.
003:17:11 Cernan Okay, Bob, 17 is GO at 4:30. You're still unreadable.
003:17:16 CC Roger. How do you read me? You are GO, by the way.
003:17:23 Cernan Okay, we got you that time. Understand we're GO on the ground, and we're still GO here, and we're TLI-ing right through sunrise.
003:17:29 CC Understand.
003:17:41 PAO 5 minutes now, less than 1 minute to go, and booster engineer reports that we're very close to the nominal predicted shutdown time.
003:18:01 CC 17, Houston. Your burn time is nominal.
003:18:05 Cernan Roger. Understand burn time, nominal.
003:18:11 PAO Shutdown time now in about 21 seconds. Showing a velocity of 33,000 feet per second. Altitude now approaching 150 miles.
003:18:35 Schmitt Cutoff at 52.
003:18:39 Evans (Laughter) Did you read the DSKY?
003:18:42 CC We don't have the DSKY. You have to read it to us, Ron.
003:18:46 Evans Okay. VI is - I got a 00 and a 00 and NOUN 95 VI is 35573 - is a plus 9.
003:19:04 Cernan And, Bob, the EMS is minus - EMS is minus 19.4, minus 19.4.
003:19:13 CC Roger. We copy that.
003:19:17 Cernan And it was an auto cut-off - auto cut-off on time.
003:19:21 CC Understand a guided cut-off on time. Looking great.
003:19:27 Cernan And I am watching tank pressures - are venting, the tanks are venting.
003:19:33 CC Understand. The tanks are venting.
003:20:04 PAO And, we're still getting communications through the Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft. We'll be picking up through Ascension shortly, at which time we'd expect the communications to improve, the noise to drop off. From Gene Cernan's report, also from the reports from Ron Evans, it appeared that that translunar injection was extremely close to nominal. The crew read a cutoff time of 5 minutes 52 seconds. The premaneuver prediction was 5 minutes 51 seconds. And the cutoff velocity appeared to be very, very close to the planned normal. Booster engineer, Frank Van Rosilier reports the booster cutoff appeared to be exactly normal.
003:21:43 PAO And booster engineer now predicting that the maneuver to separation attitude will begin in about 3 hours 33 minutes 27 seconds.
003:22:56 Schmitt Okay, Houston, how do you read?
003:23:02 CC 17, Houston. We'd like OMNI Delta.
003:23:06 Schmitt Okay. I picked it up a little bit. How do you read now?
003:23:09 CC Read you loud and clear.
003:23:11 Schmitt Okay. I hope you got all that. It was a beautiful burn, right through sunrise. Did you get the numbers?
003:23:17 CC Yes, we copied your VI and your EMS numbers, and we've got a number for you. Maneuver start time will be at 3 plus 33 plus 27 -
003:23:49 Schmitt Okay, we got you. Maneuver at 03:33:27-
003:23:57 CC That's affirmative, Jack.
003:24:02 Schmitt You guys didn't tell us we couldn't see anything going through the sunrise.
003:24:09 CC (Laughter) Roger.
003:25:08 CC 17, Houston. We're making plans here for a spacecraft SEP time of 03 plus 43.
003:25:22 Schmitt 03 plus 43. Roger.
003:27:36 CC 17, Houston. We're copying cabin press of 5.9 this time.
003:27:42 Schmitt Roger. We - we just got it, Bob.
003:27:45 CC Okay.
003:27:46 Schmitt Thank you.
003:29:42 PAO This is Apollo Control at 3 hours 30 minutes. The flight dynamics officer has just reported that initial tracking, following the translunar injection burn, shows the spacecraft to be on a very nominal trajectory, and a relatively small midcourse correction indicated at this time. The pre-burn prediction on that first midcourse correction was around 5 feet per second and we expect that that will be updated as we get additional tracking following the burn.
003:30:28 PAO In about 3 minutes the spacecraft should - the launch vehicle should be - begin maneuvering to the proper attitude for separation and we're predicting separation to occur at about 3 hours 43 minutes - or about 13 minutes from now.
003:32:04 Schmitt Frame 65 for the LMPs mag November November.
003:33:28 PAO About 10 seconds now until the Saturn third stage begins maneuvering into the proper separation attitude.
003:33:58 PAO And booster engineer reports from telemetry data that the booster has begun maneuvering into the proper attitude for spacecraft separation.
003:34:21 Cernan Okay. We - we are maneuvering, Houston.
003:34:25 CC Roger. We're watching it.
003:34:52 Schmitt Now we've got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver.
003:35:02 CC Roger. Understand.
003:35:07 Evans There's a whole bunce of big ones on my window down there - just bright.
003:35:10 Schmitt It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window.
003:35:17 Schmitt Yes. Now you can see some of them in shape. They're very Jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.
003:35:25 CC Roger. They look like fluid of some sort?
003:35:28 Schmitt Not to me. They look like pieces of something.
003:35:33 CC Roger.
003:35:34 Schmitt They're very bright.
003:35:36 CC Jack, we'd like OMNI Charlie.
003:37:04 Schmitt Bob, for the most part, these fragments are not - or are tumbling at a very slow rate. I tried a couple pictures of them - different settings. You may get an idea of what, at least, the patterns look like.
003:37:20 CC Roger. I've got you. We're all ears on these fragments if you think you can figure out what they might be.
003:37:25 Schmitt Well, you know I - I don't know. There are a number of possibilities. If you had some kind of a - I got the impression maybe they were curved a little bit, as if they might be - off the side of the S-IVB. And that's a wild guess - -
003:37:40 Cernan Okay. RCS LOGIC is ... --
003:37:43 Schmitt - - ice chunks, possibly. Or maybe there's paint coming off of it.
003:37:46 CC Roger. I noticed on one trip up the elevator last weak near one of the flags. I thought it was on the S-II, but it might have been on the S-IVB. Looked like it was peeling. Maybe that's what you've got.
003:37:57 CC And the S-IVB maneuver is complete.
003:37:59 Schmitt ... In 1 minute.
003:38:03 Cernan Okay. We'll set the old clock.
003:38:04 Schmitt Okay. And the - with the maneuver complete, the fragment field is essentially static, except for very slight tumbling within the fragments.
003:38:13 CC Roger. Cut in.
003:38:15 Schmitt Every once in a while, a fragment of considerably higher velocity than the others goes across my window. But that's very rare.
003:38:23 CC Roger.
003:38:34 Evans Hey, that's that field of view I saw out my window Jack, do you see it now?
003:38:39 Schmitt Yes.
003:38:43 Schmitt And, Bob. At least, there - there's no apparent relative motion between fragments.
003:38:51 CC Roger. Understand.
003:38:54 Schmitt I'll take two pictures about a minute apart if I can. And it'll be Frame 70.
003:39:05 CC Okay. Frame 70.
003:39:07 Cernan And, Bob. This is Geno. My impression is that they are - flat, flakelike particles. Some may be 6 inches across. And, although there's no relative motion between the two, most of them seem to be twinkling. And I think, for the most part, they're all moving away from us.
003:39:31 CC Roger, Gene. Thank you.
003:39:48 Evans Okay. We've got 0180 and 0 on the old thumbwheels
003:39:53 Schmitt Okay.
003:39:56 CC Roger, Ron.
003:40:06 Evans Okay. TRANS CONTROL is ARMED.
003:40:07 Schmitt ... two ARMED.
003:40:09 Evans CONTROLLER number 2 is ARMED.
003:40:11 Schmitt ... SECS LOGIC ...
003:40:14 Evans Okay. SECS LOGIC is CLOSED; SECS ARM are CLOSED; LOGIC POWER is ON.
003:40:20 Schmitt Okay.
003:40:25 CC 17, Houston. You have a GO for T&D.
003:40:30 Cernan Okay. A GO for T&D.
003:40:51 Evans Okay. We'll ARM the PYROs. And we'll hit the GDC ALIGN.
003:41:13 Evans And maneuver's complete. Okay 0180 and 0? On the GDC? No. It's just ... it's kind of diddling.
003:41:31 Evans Okay. DELTA-V in NORMAL.
003:41:55 Evans S-IVB, okay. Okay, switches are all set.
003:42:06 Schmitt Okay; 59:30.
003:42:09 Evans Okay. Let's start the DET.
003:42:12 Evans Tickity-tick-tickity.
003:42:13 Cernan Houston. We're running at 59:30.
003:42:15 CC Roger.
003:42:19 Evans Okay.
003:42:25 Evans Okay. That's LAUNCH VEHICLE SEP, push button.
003:42:28 Schmitt Okay.
003:42:32 Evans MC in AUTO.
003:42:40 Evans Next?
003:42:43 Cernan SEPARATION, Houston.
003:42:44 Evans Okay, check the covers. Okay. And check the other ones off.
003:42:52 Schmitt They're all ..,
003:42:53 Evans Okay, I'm going to start the - My gosh, look at the junk! Okay; there's 15 seconds. Pitch her up. Okay, we'll PROCEED on the - -
003:43:03 Schmitt ... normal ...
003:43:11 Evans Okay, we've already PROCEEDed, Jack.
003:43:23 Evans Okay, we've checked her out.
003:43:26 Cernan Houston, we're right in the middle of a snowstorm (laughter).
003:43:29 CC Roger. And we'd like OMNI Delta.
003:43:33 Evans Hey, look at that burst. It's going to be bright as all get out.
003:43:35 Cernan And there goes one of the SLA panels.
003:43:42 Evans Yes.
003:43:51 Evans We're not there yet. Long ways to go yet. It's on the other side of the Earth, if the simulator's any good.
003:44:07 PAO Apollo 17 now in the process of turning around after having separated, blown the pyrotechnic charges that separates the spacecraft from the Saturn third stage.
003:44:08 Evans Oh, man!
003:44:09 Cernan There goes another SLA panel, Houston, going the other way.
003:44:10 Evans Yes.
003:44:11 Cernan I've - -
003:44:12 Schmitt Hey, there's the booster!
003:44:19 CC Roger. Bet you never saw the SLA panels on the simulator.
003:44:24 Cernan No, but we've got the booster and is she pretty. Challenger's just sitting in her nest.
003:44:29 CC Roger. We'd like OMNI Bravo, now, Jack.
003:44:38 Evans Okay, we'll plus-X it. We'll see the - oh, you can't see ... Okay. Oh, I can't see my COAS.
003:44:53 Schmitt And, Houston, some of the particles going by the window - -
003:44:56 Evans Okay, did you change the DAC?
003:44:59 Cernan - - were obvious enough - fairly obvious to me - paint.
003:45:00 CC Okay. We'll buy that.
003:45:10 Evans Okay. There it is. Okay, did you change the PAC? Got ATT l/rate 2?
003:45:32 Schmitt Okay, Houston, you want the high gain?
003:45:40 CC Roger. We're standing by for it, and the angles as published on L/3-3 should be good.
003:45:47 Schmitt Okay.
003:46:16 Evans Okay, it's flying pretty good.
003:46:37 Evans Okay, we're in REACQ here.
003:46:57 Schmitt Houston, how do you read? We don't have a very good knock - lockon here in REACQ.
003:47:01 CC Roger, Jack. We're reading you pretty good - voice.
003:47:14 Schmitt Okay. It looks like it's improving. It dropped off - signal strength dropped off, and now it's picking up again.
003:47:20 CC Roger.
003:47:24 CC We're getting good signal now, Jack.
003:47:32 CC Jack, the high gain is looking good.
003:47:33 Schmitt Oh, okay.
003:47:38 Evans I'm guessing. I don't know - about a hundred ... - -
003:47:40 Schmitt That's good news. It seemed to smoo - slew very smoothly, so it looks all right.
003:47:53 CC Roger, Jack.
003:47:54 Evans ATT 1/RATE 2?
003:48:25 Cernan I can't tell you too much, Bob, from the center seat other than Captain America is very intent on getting Challenger at the moment.
003:48:33 CC Roger. I can believe that.
003:48:41 Evans Yes, I'm coming in a little slow, but we've got plenty of time.
003:49:05 PAO Ron Evans now at the controls of America. Now moving in for the docking with lunar module Challenger.
003:49:13 Schmitt Okay, Houston. While we're moving in here, I can see a few chunks of that platy material, possibly paint, down in the SLA sort of bouncing around between the S-IVB and the LM.
003:49:32 CC Roger.
003:49:39 Schmitt But, so far, LM looks very clean. Can't see anything abnormal from this view yet.
003:49:48 CC Okay.
003:49:59 Evans Isn't it, though? That thing is really stable out there.
003:50:31 Schmitt Yes. Can you see it at all, Gene?
003:51:36 Schmitt Got one little chunk coming out - it just came out of the SLA, and it's spinning along the long axis, and it looks very stable.
003:51:46 CC Roger.
003:51:48 Schmitt Every once in a while, a small particle flies off of it though.
003:51:53 CC How big of a chunk are you talking about, Jack?
003:51:57 Schmitt Say again?
003:51:59 CC How big an item are you talking about?
003:52:06 Schmitt Oh, I - reference to the thrusters, about the same diameter as the thruster on the LM.
003:52:13 CC Oh, Roger.
003:52:16 Schmitt That's how long it was, and about - oh, a fifth that thick or that wide.
003:52:23 CC Roger.
003:52:24 Schmitt And I don't think - I don't think it's more than a quarter of an inch or maybe even less thick.
003:52:36 Cernan That same particle, Bob, came by and as it went spinning, it was throwing off pieces of itself - radially out.
003:52:44 CC Roger. We copy.
003:52:48 Cernan There's a small one come floating by and it looked like flakes. And I think I caught three of the four SLA panels going as we were maneuvering. I've got one out the hatch window now. It's quite a ways out.
003:53:10 CC Roger.
003:53:11 Cernan It's tumbling in all three axes.
003:53:16 Schmitt And I saw the fourth one out my side, so we saw them all.
003:53:32 Schmitt Area around the two spacecraft is cleaned up pretty well by now. There are just a few fragments moving around.
003:54:07 Evans Now she's coming in.
003:54:23 PAO The crew of Apollo 17 describing what appear to be paint or possibly ice flaking off the Saturn 3rd stage. But somewhat puzzling at this point is just exactly what the flakes or particles that they're describing might be. And Apollo 17 in the process of docking with the lunar module. Preparatory to extracting the LM from the Saturn 3rd stage. This occuring at some 5,300 nautical miles from Earth. And we're watching the spacecraft velocity drop off rapidly as that altitude increases rapidly. The velocity which at the translunar injection cutoff was around 35,000 feet per second down to about 22,000.
003:54:58 Schmitt Rover looks in good shape, so far.
003:55:26 CC Roger, Jack. Can you see down on that quad? is that what you're looking at?
003:55:32 Schmitt Yes, I'm looking right at it. And I got a good view of the MESA top anyway. It's pretty well covered, but it looks all right also.
003:55:46 CC Roger.
003:55:49 Schmitt All the antennas look good; thruster quads all look great. I could see all four of them a minute ago.
003:55:57 Evans Okay, about 10 feet there, Gene. Stand by for a ... on the barber pole.
003:56:14 Cernan Okay.
003:56:41 Evans All right; in good shape.
003:56:52 Evans About now.
003:57:03 Cernan Capture, Houston.
003:57:04 CC Roger. We copy.
003:57:05 Evans Okay, we're FREE; rates look pretty good. Let's lock it together.
003:57:14 Schmitt Okay. You ready?
003:57:15 Evans Ready. She's lined up not bad.
003:57:18 Cernan Okay.
003:57:20 Evans PRIME 1.
003:57:21 Cernan MARK it. Stand by.
003:57:22 Evans Here she comes.
003:57:28 Evans Ka-chunk. My gosh!
003:57:31 Cernan Okay, Houston, ripple fire; but we still have number A barber pole.
003:57:37 CC Roger. We copy.
003:57:38 Cernan And we have a MASTER - and a MASTER ALARM.
003:57:40 CC Roger.
003:57:41 Cernan We got - we got the most of the latches, but A is barber pole, and B is gray.
003:57:47 Evans Okay, check both circuit breakers; they're IN. Yes, Okay.
003:57:57 Schmitt We had one clear fire, maybe one or two latches and then a ripple fire on the rest.
003:58:07 CC Roger.
003:58:10 Schmitt And, by the way, I had a good view into the AOT, and I can still look in there, and it's very clean.
003:58:16 CC Roger.
003:58:29 Schmitt In fact - -
003:58:29 CC Ron and Gene, we saw your MASTER ALARM. Did you have any - anything on the matrix light up?
003:58:37 Cernan No, not a thing. I looked.
003:58:38 CC Roger.
003:58:47 PAO That appeared to be a repeat of the master alarm that has been reported several times previously by the crew. They get the alarm light and tone, but when they look for the exact location of precise indication of what's wrong it's not there, indicating some sort of a spurious response by the master alarm to a problem that doesn't exist.
003:59:38 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're going to go ahead and take a look at that docking malfunction before we press on here further and check this barber pole out.
003:59:48 CC Roger, We're working some words up here. We'll be back with you in a second on that, Gene.
003:59:53 Cernan Okay. We're down on the checklist through the EDS POWER breakers, OPEN.
003:59:59 CC Understand.
004:00:57 Evans And, Houston, in case we didn't tell you, it's talkback A that's barber pole.
004:01:02 CC Understand. We have it.
004:01:14 CC Say - say, Gene, we don't think it's a problem. We'll find out what it is when you get in. We think we should just press right on with the Flight Plan checklist and keep going.
004:01:27 Evans Okay, we concur with that. Okay, we'll press on, Bob.
004:01:58 Cernan Okay, Bob. We just got a MASTER ALARM when I went to the RETRACT PRIME, from 1 to OFF.
004:02:07 CC Roger. We copy that. Looks like panel 2 is jinxed up there, huh?
004:03:29 Evans Okay, O2 HEATER number 3 went to AUTO.
004:03:35 CC Roger. We copy that.
004:08:08 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're reading a DELTA-P of greater than 4, and I'm going to open the PRESSURE EQUALIZATION VALVE now.
004:08:18 CC Roger, 17. We copy that.
004:09:05 Cernan Okay, the DELTA-P is coming down, Bob.
004:09:09 CC Roger.
004:09:44 CC Gene, while you're watching that, I just thought you'd be interested. We talked to some of our friends down at the Cape who watched the launch, and they said you were aglow all the way until you faded into - you couldn't tell you from a star. They saw staging, and they could just see you as a star way off in the distance until you faded out. Not a cloud in the way at all.
004:09:53 Cernan Beautiful. Okay, we're at - we're at 2, and we're monitoring it for 3 minutes.
004:09:59 CC Okay.
004:10:08 Evans And, Houston. While we're checking the integrity here, on mag Alfa Alfa, there's about 50 percent.
004:10:18 CC Mag Alfa Alfa, 50 percent. Roger.
004:11:59 PAO This is Apollo Control at 4 hours 12 minutes. The crew aboard Apollo 17 at this time pressing ahead with their preparations for separating the lunar module and command module, now docked together from the Saturn third stage. You heard some conversation earlier about an indication that all of the docking latches have not locked up. Now there are 12 of these latches in the docking mechanism, 6 of which are instrumented, and of the 6 that are instrumented, there was an indication that one of those may not have latched. However, we are confident that more than enough latches have locked up to assure a good solid dock, and for that reason the crew is pressing ahead with their preparations for separation.
004:12:54 Cernan Okay, Bob. That's 3 minutes. It's - DELTA-P change is less than 0.1.
004:12:59 CC Three minutes and less than 0.1.
004:13:03 Cernan We are pressing on.
004:13:08 CC Roger; press.
004:13:11 PAO That report from Gene Cernan indicating that they have a good seal at the docking interface. Once the hatch is removed between the two vehicles, the crew will get a good look at all of those docking latches and they will be able to tell how many - if any of them didn't latch up. We're pushing ahead now for - for extracting the lunar module separating from the Saturn third stage at Ground Elapsed Time of 4 hours 39 minutes.
004:14:41 Evans Okay, you want cabin's at 4.8 now; REPRESS is about empty. Okay. No, not yet, it's still getting a little bit.
004:15:04 Evans That REPRESS PACKAGE VALVE is kind of noisy.
004:15:19 Evans That's all the REPRESS O2. We'll turn that OFF.
004:15:24 Cernan Okay, Houston, the REPRESS PACKAGE is empty now, and we're down to a DELTA-P of 0.2.
004:15:30 CC Roger. We copy that.
004:15:40 CC And, 17. Just be advised, you're going to have an S-IVB nonpropulsive vent start 04:18:27- You've got about 3 minutes on that.
004:15:51 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Thank you.
004:17:03 Schmitt Can you reach ... there?
004:17:05 Evans Yes, I'll get them.
004:17:07 Cernan Okay, Bob. We seem to be holding DELTA-P at about 0.2. I suspect that's probably zero.
004:17:18 CC Roger. We copy that.
004:17:24 Schmitt And the cabin pressure's about 4.5. You want us to wait until 5 PSI for the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE SELECTS?
004:17:42 CC Negative on that. Let's just go ahead and let's press on.
004:17:46 Schmitt Okay. They should be BOTH.
004:17:57 Evans Okay, EMERGENCY register working.
004:18:09 Evans Coming down though, Gene. Let's wait until it gets down a little ways.
004:18:28 Evans Yes.
004:18:51 Evans Yes. Straight up and down as well.
004:19:03 Evans Up one one. Must be the nonpropulsive VENT that's banging. (Laughter) Here comes all the - look at all the stuff going again. It's really glowing.
004:19:14 Schmitt Your nonpropulsive vent gives quite a glow.
004:19:18 CC Roger, Jack.
004:19:24 Evans It looks like a rainbow. Dark one.
004:19:40 Evans Okay. REPRESS PACKAGE to FILL.
004:19:47 Evans That ought to take the surge tank down a little bit ... about at what? About 400?
004:20:03 Evans 500 on the surge. No, they ought to be closed off by now, I think. Yes.
004:20:16 CC 17, Houston.
004:20:18 Evans Go ahead.
004:20:20 CC Roger. Be advised, you don't have to wait until 5 PSI cabin to go ahead and open the hatch.
004:20:26 Cernan Okay, we're not, Bob. We're pressing on with it now.
004:20:27 CC Roger.
004:20:30 Evans Okay, it looks like we're going to maintain about 400 on the surge.
004:21:04 Evans Okay?
004:21:18 Cernan Okay, Houston. The hatch is coming out.
004:21:21 CC Roger.
004:21:26 Evans (Laughter) I don't know what you're going to do with it.
004:21:39 Evans Put it up here in the - in the - on the couch.
004:21:57 Evans There we go.
004:21:58 Evans Hey, that's a lot lighter than it used to be (laughter).
004:22:04 Cernan There's going to be a lot of happy people down there, Bob. I haven't checked them all, but visually, they're all locked.
004:22:10 CC Understand, Gene. All of them are locked.
004:22:13 Cernan Let me give them a good check.
004:22:15 Evans Yes. You'd better check them, because we got a barber pole on that one.
004:22:21 Cernan Okay, here's one that didn't come over.
004:22:25 Evans What is the position of it?
004:22:27 Cernan 7 ***
004:22:45 Evans 7 and 9?
004:23:02 Cernan Okay, Bob. Maybe we aren't all going to be so happy.
004:23:04 CC Go ahead.
004:23:05 Cernan Okay, 7, 9, and 10 - the handle is flush; the bungee is vertical, but the handle is not locked down, and the - and the red button is showing. And I can pull each one of them back slowly. I haven't done anything with them. That's 7, 9, and 10.
004:23:35 CC Roger. We copy that. The handle is flush; the bungees are vertical, but the handle is not locked down, and the red button is showing on 7, 9, and 10.
004:23:45 Cernan That's affirm.
004:24:23 Cernan Okay, Bob. Bob, I just pushed the handle on 10 home a little bit and it did lock. And the red button is flush. So that leaves me 9 and 7.
004:24:36 CC Roger; understand.
004:24:47 CC Geno, go ahead and try the handle on 9 and 7; and, if that doesn't work, cock them and refire them starting with 9, please.
004:24:58 Cernan Okay; the handle doesn't work. I'll have to recock them.
004:25:02 CC Okay.
004:25:16 Evans When you trip it with your - did you cock it twice?
004:25:20 Cernan Yes.
004:25:21 Evans And it took two cocks to make it go?
004:25:24 Cernan Yes.
004:25:25 Evans Okay.
004:25:30 Cernan Okay, 9 cocked twice; it tripped. It is overcenter and locked.
004:25:34 CC Roger. How about the barber pole now?
004:25:38 Evans Okay. Wait a minute, I've got - DOCKING PROBE MAIN A circuit breaker's IN and gone to RETRACT, and it's gray.
004:25:44 CC Okay - -
004:25:44 Evans Aha! That did it.
004:25:46 CC Roger.
004:26:13 Cernan Okay, Bob. Cocked 7 twice and tripped it, and it's overcenter and locked.
004:26:18 CC Roger.
004:26:20 Cernan I think that takes care of them all.
004:26:25 CC Good show.
004:26:56 Evans Okay, DOCKING PROBE circuit breakers are OUT and EXTEND/RETRACT is OFF.
004:27:14 Evans Because it belongs on the probe. ... it's painted yellow, it belongs on the probe.
004:28:34 Cernan Okay, Bob. The umbilicals are connected.
004:28:39 CC Roger.
004:29:33 Cernan Okay, Houston, 7 Delta on the test meter is now reading 1.0, it jumped up to 2.6, and is now back to 1.0.
004:29:43 CC Roger. We copy. That's good.
004:30:06 PAO This is Apollo Control at 4 hours 30 minutes. About 9 minutes from now the crew will be firing the pyrotechnic charges that separate the lunar module docked to the command module from the Saturn third stage, and springs will push the LM CSM back away from the launch vehicle at a rate of about 1 foot per second, and at Ground Elapsed Time of 4 hours 52 minutes the launch vehicle will yaw to the proper attitude for an evasive manuever of about 10 feet per second to be performed at a Ground Elapsed Time of about 5 hours 3 minutes. This will increase the separation difference to assure no chance of recontact between the booster and the spacecraft on route to the Moon. On removing the hatch between the LM, the CSM, allowing the crew to get a look inside the docking tunnel, they found that 3 of the 12 latches had not locked up, but on manually recocking them and activating them, they latched up properly, which indicates that there's nothing physically wrong with the system. And we would expect that the next time the 2 vehicles come together to dock that the latches will function properly.
004:30:31 Schmitt There we go. Okay. There, we're going up in the tunnel.
004:31:50 Evans Pretty good ham sandwich.
004:32:30 Cernan Okay, Bob, the hatch is back in.
004:32:36 CC Roger, Gene.
004:34:24 CC 17, Houston.
004:34:27 Schmitt Go ahead, Houston.
004:34:28 CC Roger. We've got some new - new angles here for you.
004:34:43 Schmitt Stand by a minute, and let me find a place to copy them.
004:34:49 Evans What - what kind of angles are they, Bob?
004:34:52 CC They're your NOUN 22 attitude maneuver for APS burn out of the hatch window. They're in the middle of the page L/3-5-
004:35:03 Evans Oh, okay.
004:35:06 CC Instead of 270, we want 274.
004:35:11 Evans Wait 1. We're not quite with you.
004:35:12 CC Okay.
004:35:42 Schmitt Okay. I think I'm with you at 3-7; go.
004:35:48 CC It's on 3-5, Jack, middle of the page there. Those NOUN 22s.
004:35:56 Schmitt Okay, I take it back; 3-5, middle of the page.
004:36:01 CC Okay. You notice there's three angles there - 270, make that 274.
004:36:13 Schmitt Okay. That the only change?
004:36:14 CC And the - no, the next one, the 129-8, change that to 164. And 4.3 on the yaw, change that to zero. It's close enough; zero on the yaw.
004:36:33 Schmitt Okay. We got them 274, 164, 00.
004:36:36 CC Roger, and the high-gain angles that you've got on the Flight Plan are close enough and should do it.
004:36:45 Schmitt Very good.
004:39:13 PAO Telemetry data now shows the crew loading the information into the spacecraft digital auto pilot in preparation for separation from the Saturn third stage. That should be occurring in the next minute or so.
004:39:53 Evans Okay. We're 6 frames a second. Okay, what - what did ... RANGE ...
004:40:09 Evans Okay, I'll - I'll leave it at 10 feet and about an f - f/8. Okay, ... at set. Because I had that one to 0180 to 0.
004:41:01 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're aligning our GDC, and the next thing we'll pick up will be SECS ARM circuit breakers. And we'll give you a call on the LOGIC.
004:41:12 CC Roger, Gene.
004:41:26 Schmitt Okay, Bob. While we're waiting, does the balance on the - -
004:41:30 Evans I see what you mean (laughter).
004:41:31 Schmitt H2 and O2 flow in fuel cell 3 - well, actually, in all three fuel cells, look pretty good to you?
004:41:51 CC Jack, the flows look just right for the current.
004:41:58 Schmitt Okay. Used to seeing them more or less lined up, and I hadn't calculated any further than that.
004:42:04 CC Roger.
004:42:05 Schmitt O2 - O2 seems a little higher H2, relatively speaking. (laughter)
004:42:26 Evans Okay. That's pretty close. Verified: SECS ARM breakers are CLOSED.
004:42:33 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're ready to come up with the LOGIC.
004:42:42 Evans Okay, Houston, LOGIC 1 is coming on now and LOGIC 2.
004:42:48 CC Roger.
004:43:13 Evans And, Houston, just to keep track of EMS null bias check that time, was - went from 100 to 100.7 in 100 seconds.
004:43:34 CC 17, we'd like to just verify on that top line S-IVB/LM SEP circuit breakers - both of them are CLOSED?
004:43:45 Cernan Okay, we'll verify them again. We doublechecked them.
004:43:49 CC Okay, we just didn't hear your call and we want to make sure of that. Didn't want to miss anything here.
004:43:53 Cernan Okay. They are - they are verified CLOSED, and Jack just checked them again.
004:43:57 CC Okay. You are GO for PYRO ARM and GO for extraction.
004:44:01 Cernan Okay, GO for PYRO ARM; GO for PYRO extraction - or LM extraction (laughter).
004:44:09 Schmitt Okay, PYRO ARM.
004:44:10 Evans Okay, we'll ARM the old PYROs. There's PYRO A; PYRO B.
004:44:17 Schmitt SERVO POWER number 1 ...
004:44:19 Evans TVC SERVO POWER, AC 1.
004:44:21 Schmitt TRANS CONTROL POWER, up and ON.
004:44:24 Evans TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON.
004:44:29 Evans Okay, ROT CONTROLLERS are ARMED. Okay, I'll wait just a little bit on that - EMS to NORMAL. Get DELTA-V ...
004:44:58 Evans Okay, EMS to NORMAL? Push right there. Yes.
004:45:06 Cernan Okay; on my mark, the S-IVB/LM SEP will come on.
004:45:09 Evans Okay, and then I'll back it off to - Okay?
004:45:23 Cernan Okay, on my mark, S-IVB/LM SEP: 3,2,1-
004:45:32 Cernan MARK it. Okay, we got it.
004:45:35 Evans Oh, ho! Man, did we! There she goes. Yes; LM came with us.
004:45:43 Evans Okay, we're CMC, AUTO. All right. We've got 0.6. It's all right. Okay, whoopee-dee-doo!
004:45:58 Evans Safe the PYROs. Okay, LOGIC'S OFF.
004:46:08 Evans SECS - SECS ARM breakers are OPEN.
004:46:17 PAO This is Apollo Control. America and Challenger are on their own. LM injection occured at 4 hours 45 minutes Ground Elapsed Time - at an altitude of 13,000 nautical miles from earth.
004:46:41 Evans Now I think we ought to go to the maneuver pretty quick. Otherwise, the S-IVB will be so far away you can't see it. Okay, you ready to maneuver?
004:46:56 Evans Okay, CMC in AUTO, caged. Away we go. That - that ... wasn't as bad as the original SEP.
004:47:12 Evans Yes.
004:47:17 Evans Came right out, though.
004:47:19 Schmitt MAPPING CAMERA and PAN CAMERA are OFF.
004:47:29 Evans Okay. POWER'S OFF. Hey, Jack. Hand me the Hasselblad. I think we're bowing the right direction. Yes, the Moon is there. The Earth is - that's the Earth.
004:47:52 Evans SERVO POWER'S OFF, yes.
004:47:56 Evans The Earth just fills up window 5. Okay, f infinity, about a 250th.
004:48:15 Evans What - what do you have? A zero in there? Hey, I lost my watch. Turn the AC OFF. Yes, AC is OFF. Whoops, what a beauty! What a beauty! Yes, the Earth. I can see the S-IVB it's going ...
004:48:45 Evans Look at that.
004:48:48 Evans Yes, Madagascar and Africa. Got to be.
004:49:00 Evans ... see it.
004:49:02 Evans Got to be.
004:49:05 Evans Yes, as soon as I find the S-IVB, we'll -
004:49:21 Evans Hey, there's Antarctica. It's all full of snow. Okay. You want to look?
004:49:35 Evans Yeah.
004:49:42 Evans Yes. Oh, there it goes, there. Looks kind of empty down there without the LM - -
004:49:53 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're looking right up the dome of the S-IVB.
004:50:03 CC Roger. We copy that. We're standing by for your GO for yaw maneuver.
004:50:19 Evans We can give them a GO for yaw, can't we? We can see it now.
004:50:24 Cernan Yes, we can see it. You've got the GO for the yaw.
004:50:31 CC Roger. Thank you, 17.
004:50:42 Cernan Looks like she came out of there clean as a whistle.
004:50:48 CC 17, Houston. The yaw maneuver will be starting in about 4 plus 52, a little less than 2 minutes from now.
004:50:55 Cernan Okay.
004:51:16 CC Sounds like you are taking a picture of that old dome out there, huh?
004:51:22 Evans Oh, we're at the end. (Laughter) We're at the end - you know.
004:52:21 Evans ... In there.
004:52:35 Evans Hey, there it goes. Look at the aft fire of the thing.
004:52:38 Cernan Yes, we can see it fire now.
004:52:46 CC Roger, 17. Yaw maneuver started.
004:52:54 PAO The Saturn third stage now maneuvering into attitude for the APS evasive maneuver, a 10 foot per second burn using the auxiliary propulsion system that will assure -.
004:53:06 Schmitt The old S-IVB had a flare for the dramatic, but it certainly did its job for us.
004:53:10 CC Roger, Jack. Preliminary data indicate that you are about as nominal as you can be.
004:53:26 Cernan That's the way we'd like to keep it, Bob.
004:53:28 CC You'd better believe it.
004:53:31 Cernan Okay. She's - as we're looking at it, she's pitching up. She was looking right at us - we were looking right at the dome - and now she's pitching up. The shroud around the IU seems to be totally intact. It - it looked like a super clean separation. I can't really see where there's any paint or anything externally chipped off the - the booster from here. We're beginning to - to pick up the bell. It's really a shame you don't have this - this whole thing on TV; it's really quite a sight.
004:54:12 CC Roger. We concur with that.
004:54:25 Cernan The Mylar and the gold coating on the inside of the shroud that's now visible is also intact. It looks like you could use it again if you could get it back.
004:54:43 CC Well, it's got a job to do when it hits the Moon yet.
004:55:15 Cernan Okay, Bob. We've - we're almost looking at it broadside now.
004:55:20 CC Roger.
004:56:01 Cernan Okay. She's spitting a little; looks like the yaw maneuver may be complete.
004:56:13 Cernan We got a - full view of the - entire J2 from here; and no kidding, Bob, the whole bird, the shroud at the top by the IU, the separation plane down by the S-II, from here all looks as clean as a whistle, all the way.
004:56:32 CC Roger, Gene. If you're happy, we'd like a GO from you for the evasive burn.
004:56:40 Cernan Okay. You're going to burn on the boosters plus X-axis, is that right?
004:56:45 CC That's affirmative.
004:56:48 Cernan Let's get a picture or two here yet, and we'll give you a GO.
004:56:58 CC And, Gene, it'll be about 7 minutes until the evasive burn; 5 plus 03.
004:57:03 Cernan Okay. You have a GO.
004:57:10 Schmitt And for your reference, at frame 105 I started a few 250-millimeter pictures of the S-IVB.
004:57:24 CC Roger, Jack.
004:58:21 Cernan And, Bob, the entire sky, as far as I can make it out through the hatch window, is completely filled with our twinkling flakes.
004:58:47 CC Roger. We copy that.
004:58:57 Schmitt I saw a couple particles go by the window awhile back, and it looked a little bit like insulation in this - these particular case - styrofoam insulation, but in flat flakes.
004:59:19 CC Roger that.
004:59:22 Schmitt That was right after we separated from the S-IVB.
004:59:28 CC Roger.
004:59:29 Schmitt CSM SEP - CSM SEP, Bob.
004:59:33 CC Roger. Understand.
004:59:37 Cernan Bob, I know - I know we're not the first to discover this, but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.
004:59:52 CC Roger. That's a good data point. Have you gotten a good look at any of that weather down there on the Antarctic?
005:00:02 Cernan Well, on Ron's window number 1 - maybe he can tell you a little about it.
005:00:09 Evans You know, it's yeal funny there in Antarctica the - You can see the snow, but there isn't any weather at all in it. All of the weather's around it in the water.
005:00:18 CC Roger.
005:00:20 Schmitt That's where the moisture is.
005:00:26 Evans I don't know what to take a picture of.
005:01:12 Evans I can't see the U.S. at all.
005:01:14 CC 17, Houston.
005:01:16 Cernan Go ahead.
005:01:17 CC Look's like you've got a superconservative CMP up there. We've run off some numbers - Looks like you used about 40 pounds of RCS on the T&D, and you've used about a total of 42 pounds RCS total; so we're hanging right in there. Beautiful.
005:01:34 Cernan Very fine; glad to hear that.
005:01:37 SC ... velvet touch.
005:01:40 Evans Still a little bit too much, but that's not bad.
005:01:42 Cernan We'll be glad to leave all that extra, I hope, in the service module when we get home.
005:02:47 Evans It's in the Volkswagen pouch down there.
005:03:10 Schmitt Oh, I'll change the lens now.
005:03:11 CC 17, Houston. It's about 30 seconds from the evasive maneuver burn.
005:03:17 Cernan Okay.
005:03:19 Evans Here, Jack, can you see him good? Check the settings there. I took an f/22 stop.
005:03:51 Cernan There it goes, Bob.
005:03:52 Schmitt There it goes; finally.
005:03:54 CC Roger.
005:05:11 PAO This is Apollo Control at 5 hours 5 minutes.
005:05:12 CC 17, Houston. The evasive burn is complete, and the LOX dump will be at 5 plus 24 plus 20.
005:05:23 Cernan Okay; 5 plus 24 plus 20.
005:05:25 CC Roger.
005:05:26 Schmitt It's going to be gone, I think, before we see it.
005:05:41 Cernan And, Bob, you can tell Frank to forget the - returning that phone call I made to him a couple days ago.
005:05:50 CC Roger. Understand.
005:05:54 Cernan All my questions are answered.
005:05:56 CC Think you've had enough booster briefings, huh?
005:05:59 Cernan Yes. I figure this is probably the best one of all.
005:06:04 CC Frank said he'd guarantee all those S-IVBs would be just as good as this one.
005:06:08 Cernan Okay. That's - fair enough.
005:06:21 Cernan The S-IC and the S-II didn't put on a bad show either.
005:06:24 CC That's right.
005:08:38 Evans Houston, magazine November November is on about 1/23 right now.
005:08:46 CC Okay, Ron. Magazine November November is on 1/23.
005:08:55 Cernan And, Bob, we're on page 3-9 of the Flight Plan now. We'll check the LM/CM DELTA-P, get the cabin fan filter in. We'll go over the check - the Systems Checklist, get the primary EVAP and a few odds and ends, and start doffing our PGAs. How's that sound?
005:09:16 CC Sounds like a winner, Gene.
005:09:19 Cernan Okay.
005:11:01 Schmitt I guess you saw that one, Houston. That had no caution or warning with it.
005:11:10 CC Roger. That a MASTER ALARM?
005:11:12 Schmitt Yes, sir.
005:11:14 CC How about the LEB?
005:11:15 Schmitt Gene's got ... say again. (Laughter) You caught me. I forgot to look. Keep after us; we'll get you that data point.
005:11:26 CC Roger, Jack.
005:11:30 Schmitt Gene's got his hands all over panel 2, which probably is what caused it.
005:11:52 CC Jack, we think that might have been a real one due to the accumulator cycle with the O2 makeup flow going on there - it gave - it held the O2 flow higher for - greater than the16 seconds.
005:12:06 Schmitt Well, that's certainly a possibility. We didn't notice it - Looked upright at the time. But it - Sure that was the right time?
005:12:17 CC Well, EECOM's watching it here, and he feels it is.
005:12:24 Schmitt Gee, I can't argue with him.
005:13:50 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Ready to deactivate the primary evaporator if you concur.
005:14:01 CC Roger, Jack. We concur.
005:15:50 Schmitt Okay, Bob. VHF SIMPLEX Alfa's OFF.
005:15:57 CC Roger.
005:16:01 Schmitt And we're gradually moving into getting out of the suits.
005:16:05 CC Yes. I'll bet you're looking forward to that.
005:16:10 Schmitt Well, I'll tell you it's a different world without that old one G on you. The old suit's a little bit friendlier.
005:17:16 Schmitt And, as you may have noticed, Bob, we've come to the end of the Launch Checklist.
005:17:23 CC That's affirmative, and we've put ours away for posterity. We also stored it with our TLI zero data that we worked so hard to generate.
005:17:37 Schmitt Well, I'm just happy - didn't - use it. That view of the Earth for a rev there was something I was looking forward to and I was not disappointed.
005:17:49 CC That's great, Jack.
005:17:54 Cernan Bob, you've got a pretty good size storm over the north - I guess the northwestern coast of India, where it starts to wrap up and around to the west. It's a - rounded out on the horizon, so I can't make out exactly where it is too well.
005:18:17 CC Roger.
005:18:21 CC Could we get a read-out on the LM/CM DELTA-P?
005:18:51 Schmitt Plus 0.4.
005:18:56 CC Roger. We copy that.
005:19:00 Cernan Bob, Antarctica is what I would call effectively just a solid white cap down on the - South Pole. There's definite contact between the continent and the water. But, as Ron said, most of the clouds seem to be very artistic, very picturesque - some in clockwise rotating fashion but appear to be very thin where you can, for the most part, kind of see through those clouds to the blue water below.
005:19:45 CC Roger.
005:19:46 Cernan The continent - the continent itself is - is the same color as the clouds; but, of course, more dense - and striking difference than any of the other white background around because you can definitely see that contact with the water and with the clouds over the water.
005:20:05 CC Roger. Understand. There'll soon be a comm switch over to Madrid here shortly. We may break ... In just a few minutes here. Or a few seconds, rather.
005:20:26 CC And you might watch - your accumulator's going to cycle in about 20 seconds here. Let's see what happens on the MASTER ALARM.
005:21:03 CC 17, Houston. How do you read through Madrid?
005:21:07 Evans You're loud and clear, Bob, and could you give us our distance from the Earth?
005:21:12 CC Roger. I'm looking up at the board. I'd guess at about 19,000 miles. Want me to get it exact?
005:21:18 Evans No, just approximate's good enough.
005:21:24 CC 18,100, FIDO says.
005:21:27 Cernan Okay. And I suppose we're seeing as 100 percent full Earth as we'll ever see; certainly as I've ever seen. It appears to be - it may be a little bit - a little bit of a terminator way out to the - well, to the east - out beyond Australia and beyond India. But beyond that it's about 99 percent pure.
005:22:59 Cernan Bob, it's these kind of views - these kind of views that stick with you forever.
005:23:07 CC Roger, Gene.
005:23:09 Cernan We've got a - I guess probably the continent of Africa dominates the world right now. It's covering the - oh, the upper third - upper and western third of the - of the world. We can see the Sinai; we can see up into the Mediterranean; we can see across the Mediterranean, although we can't quite make out the countries up there; we can see across into India. I catch a glimpse of Australia out in the far horizon. Got Zanzibar on the southern tip of Africa, the Cape down there just almost directly below us. And, I don't know exactly how big Antarctica is, but I guess we can certainly see more than 50 percent of it. And - the rest of it is all ocean. The Indian Ocean out into the Pacific Ocean and back into the Atlantic Ocean. And for the most part relatively clear of clouds except in the Antarctica region, and up towards Europe which is - which is on the horizon, across the Mediterranean, it looks like there might be some clouds back up in that way. I can probably - probably - well, not probably - I can make out the entire coast of Africa from Mediterranean around to the west, coming back to the south, back where it takes its big dip to the east, back around the Cape, back around up through the Suez Canal, almost perfectly.
005:24:59 CC Roger. We understand.
005:25:02 Cernan And there's one batch of clouds in northern Africa, just a small batch, it looks like it may be up near the - well, no, it's not near the mouth of the Nile; it's quite a bit west of that as a matter of fact, I can see the mouth of the Nile; I can see it running straight down towards us as it parallels the Suez, and then sort of fades out into the central darker brown or darker green portions of Africa.
005:25:37 CC Roger, Gene. Sure be nice to have that on TV, wouldn't it?
005:25:42 Cernan Boy, I'd love to give it to you; any way I could.
005:25:56 Cernan You know - and there's no strings holding it up either. It's out there all by itself.
005:26:07 CC Roger. I just was going through the 17 status report on CSM systems and, boy, everything is absolutely nominal, with the exception of ... glitching MASTER ALARMs that we're trying to still track down; but every other system is just nominal it's - everything is great.
005:26:30 Cernan Okay. Sounds good. That's the way they built it for us.
005:27:29 CC Gene, looking at our plot board, you're directly over the southern tip of Africa or just slightly out in the Indian Ocean there, according to our plot board, which isn't exactly accurate all the time. But shortly you're going to start going backwards on the Earth here and head back across the Atlantic. That ought to be some sort of a first. You cross the Atlantic twice, going from west to east, and then, now you're going to cross it going from east to west here shortly. All in a very short span of time.
005:28:09 Cernan Yes. I guess that does sound like a first.
005:30:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 5 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The white team of flight controllers, headed by Gene Krantz, is in the process now, of handing over to the team headed by flight director Pete Frank. After 12 hours, the team came on about 3 hours prior to the scheduled launch time of 8:53 PM Central Standard Time. Of course, launch occurred 2 hours 40 minutes late at a Ground Elapsed Time of 11, - of a Central Standard Time rather, 11:33 PM. As a result of the late launch-time the trans-lunar injection, that's up through translunar injection, also slipped 2 hours, 40 minutes. We would expect that the translunar injection which is targeted to make up the difference will get us back on the nominal flight plan time by the time the spacecraft arrives at the Moon. In other words, arrival time at the Moon would be at the same Central Standard Time as called for in the Flight Plan at about 1:49 PM Central Standard Time, December 10. But, the Ground Elapsed Time would be about 2 hours, 40 minutes earlier than that provided for in the Flight Plan, the arrival being at about 86 hours, 14 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The 2 hour, 40 minute difference being accounted for in a speedier arrival time at the Moon, a translunar injection burn being targeted just slightly longer than would have been the case in a normal launch. The spacecraft getting to the Moon in a total elapsed time 2 hours 40 minutes less, in effect, making up for lost time from the late launch. In order to get the flight plan back in agreement with the Ground Elapsed Time the GET, or ground elapsed clock, will simply be moved ahead 2 hours, 40 minutes between now and the time spacecraft arrives at the Moon. So, that by the time Apollo 17 is inserted into Lunar Orbit, the GET will once again agree with the flight plan GET and of course, the Central Standard Time of arrival will be the same as was originally planned by virtue of a speedier trip time. As a result of the late liftoff it was not possible to program television coverage of the transposition and docking. This was because of a shift in the orbital ground track moving the ground track away from the needed Manned Spaceflight network coverage for television. We simply didn't have an adequate ground station to receive the television signal from the spacecraft. There has been one recurring problem that is yet unexplained. That is in the displays and control system. The crew reported on several occassions that MASTER ALARM was occurring. The master alarm manifests itself in a form of a light that flashes in the Command Module. There are three of these lights and also a tone that comes on and a normal procedure is when the MASTER ALARM light comes on and the tone sounds, the crew then looks at another matrix of lights to determine precisely where the problem is. However, when looking at this matrix of lights none of them were lighted, indicating that some spurrious signal had ignited or lighted the MASTER ALARM light and that there was in fact no problem in the systems. There is at this point no explanation for the problem. However, engineers here in the Control Center, are looking into the past history of Panel 2, which is the panel on which a number of switches are located, which have triggered this master alarm, to see if there is a history of Panel 2 that would indicate a possibility of some momentary short in the caution and warning system, which could give a MASTER ALARM. The problem at this point is an annoyance, but does not appear to be a serious problem. All other spacecraft systems are performing normally, and the trajectory to the Moon is almost precisely as planned at this point. We do not anticipate a change of shift press briefing. The white team will be coming back on at the regualar Central Standard Time 4:00 PM tomorrow. And in light of this rather short turnaround we're going to forego the change of shift press briefing. At 5 hours, 36 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
005:30:01 Cernan Bob, I can assume that from what you said there will be - probably not be a midcourse 1?
005:30:02 CC That's exactly what we're working towards, Gene. And I - I'm sorry I didn't convey that feeling to you a little earlier. There's no reason for mid-course 1 right now.
005:30:03 Cernan Okay. Because we prefer to press on and get the suits off and hit the sack rather than make it, unless we have to.
005:30:04 CC That's for sure. Roger. The earlier data showed us midcourse 1 would have been less than 3 feet per second, and we wouldn't have done it. And the data's been fluctuating, but they're smoothing it out, and it's still holding that way; so we won't be doing it, probably.
005:30:05 Cernan Okay. Very good.
005:30:06 Schmitt Bob, I'm looking over Gene's shoulder here at the Earth, and it must be an awful clear day for the so-called convergence zone across Africa. Gene, I think, Indicated, as it looked to us as we crossed it earlier, most of Africa is clear. Only some - probably are broken and scattered clouds -cumulus in the east central portion that are running along the line of - north/south lines.
005:30:07 CC Roger.
005:30:08 Schmitt Looks like a major circulation system off the southern tip of Africa, as Gene mentioned, plus one west of that, 20 or 30 degrees of longitude. Make that east of that.
005:30:09 CC Roger.
005:30:10 Schmitt And, southwest of the - make that south southwest of the tip of Africa at Cape Good Hope, there looks like an incipient circulation system developing about half way between the coast of Antarctica and Africa. If I had to guess, it's going to swing up north towards the Cape and - and then swing west The whole pattern, ... it looks like now, is a fairly equally spaced cyclones that are sort of circling around the Antarctic continent, as we can see it now.
005:30:11 CC Roger, Jack.
005:33:50 Schmitt But I would guess that South Africa is going to have good weather for several more days, at least. And if the pattern is - is apparent in the clouds we see is correct, the last disturbance I mentioned probably is going to pass south of the Cape also,
005:33:51 CC Roger. Understand.
005:33:52 Schmitt As we were going - over our daylight around the Earth in orbit, it was very clear looking at the various clouds, Bob, what were high clouds and what were low clouds, particularly when you had them together. The high clouds cast very distinct shadow patterns on the lower ones and, very commonly, had entirely different orientations -pattern orientations. The low ones seem to be more associated with arcuate front patterns; whereas, the high clouds were generally transverse to that, roughly north/south directions. That's not completely general observation, but I noticed it several times.
005:33:53 CC Roger. Understand.
005:33:54 CC I just noticed on the plot board here, it looks like you're come up on 20,000 miles out, right about now.
005:35:27 Schmitt It feels like about, 20,000 miles.
005:35:27 CC Okay.
005:37:28 Schmitt Bob, I have the first hint of contamination on window 5. It's covering, probably, the central - well, I'd say, - roughly around - it's square about - 7 inches in - on the side with a very thin film that's catching the sunlight; and slightly irridescent, but also very finely granular - very finely granular. You can just barely tell what it is, actually.
005:38:09 CC Roger. Understand.
005:38:11 Schmitt Looks like very uniform in thickness right now.
005:46:55 Schmitt Bob, this is Jack. We've got a UCTA dump scheduled, or is possible, at 6 o'clock. There's nothing sacred about that time, is there?
005:47:11 CC Nothing at all. Whenever you're ready, just go ahead and dump.
005:47:15 Schmitt Okay.
005:48:48 Schmitt Bob, one of the things that we missed in our training is a good geography lesson, and particularly on Antarctica. I got the monocular out, and apparently the dark band that Gene - Ron mentioned as interface between the continental water is that between the pack ice and the water. And you can, by very subtle changes in the apparent smoothness of the ground, probably make out where the actual continent begins and the pack ice ends. There are a few exposed ranges, I guess it's midsummer down there now, and you can make out the snow-free areas scattered at least in the northern portion of the continent.
005:49:47 CC Roger. Did you get any pictures of that, Jack?
005:49:50 Schmitt Oh, yes. We got some pictures earlier. I'm going to get another one here in a minute. I'll tell you, if there ever was a fragile-appearing piece of blue in space, it's the Earth right now.
005:50:03 CC (laughter) Roger.
005:50:06 Cernan And we got a MASTER ALARM.
005:50:08 CC Okay. We copy that.
005:50:11 Cernan And there's one in the LEB.
005:50:14 CC Okay. Good data point.
005:50:18 Cernan And there are no caution lights.
005:50:21 CC It came right at accumulator cycle, along with the high O2 flow again.
005:50:26 Cernan Yes, I just checked the time, and I think you are right on that one. Well, we gave you your LEB data point.
005:50:39 CC Yes, sir.
005:50:49 Schmitt The problem with looking at the Earth (laughter) particularly Antarctica, is it's too bright.
005:51:00 CC Understand.
005:51:02 Schmitt And so I'm using my sunglasses through the monocular, which is not the best (laughter) viewing platform. I think I can see some of the areas of the Dry Valley, but, again, I'm not too sure of my geography Bob. There are clouds over the continent, I believe, but, of course, they're just as white as the snow, and you only see differences in texture brought out by - probably varying photometric return because of fairly low sun angles down there.
005:51:41 CC Roger.
005:51:47 Schmitt But you can see patterns of what I believe is pack ice - leading off from that sharp interface that was talked about earlier. And those patterns seem to merge directly with the patterns of the clouds as if the - at least near the continent - the oceanic currents are controlling the air currents, up to a point, along with the movement of the pack ice.
005:52:24 CC Roger.
005:52:25 Schmitt I'm distinguishing the pack ice from clouds mainly by the angularity of the patterns within them. There is no good clear color or albedo distinction. So, I could - I could be looking entirely at clouds, but I suspect there are some pack ice patterns, too. I'm not keeping you awake, am I, Bob?
005:52:53 CC No, sir. Just keep talking; we're listening. And I'm sure not much of the world is listening, but this will all be recorded, and you can read it all when you get back and think it through and tie it up with the pictures. And I'm sure there's going to be people interested in this. And we're interested ourselves; just keep talking.
005:53:11 Schmitt All I want to do is read what I say.
005:53:14 CC Roger. If I had a little more geology training, I'd be asking you some better questions. I'm afraid, right now, I can't think of anything to ask you.
005:53:21 Schmitt Well, I can't - I really wish I knew that geography. I don't know - I wish I'd thought of bringing a good map of Antarctica. Could somebody do a little researching for me and see if they could tell me if we're - have a Little American view - say on the eastern edge of the continent?
005:53:48 CC Roger. We'll see if we can get some Antarctica geographers around.
005:53:53 Schmitt Yes, I'd like to - and, also, whether or not they think the Dry Valley area is visible to us. Let's see, there's some - some of the people over there in Bill Bennett's group, I think, have a little Antarctic experience, or used to. They might be able to help you out.
005:54:10 CC Okay. We'll see what we can track down on it.
005:54:13 Schmitt Don't use up a lot of people's time on it, but - but I'd be interested.
005:54:18 CC Roger. It's getting pretty empty around here. It's 5:00 in the morning, so - (laughter)
005:54:25 Schmitt Okay. There is a good strong northern hemisphere cyclone up near India, and I think Gene mentioned that. It, I think, was one I saw in some of the forecast sheets as a dissipating hurricane or typhoon. I'm not sure which it is there. I guess it's a typhoon. And I see something here that I noticed in Earth orbit, Bob. That as you approach the terminator - and now I'm looking at the eastern terminator - have to keep all my directions straight here - yes, eastern terminator. The clouds - those associated with the cyclone over India and one that's - appears to be due south of there - maybe 30 degrees of latitude - have a gray appearance. The - instead of the brilliant white of other clouds as you approach the terminator, those - at least the high level clouds are gray. Now, when we were going over them in orbit, the lower level clouds were still white, and I think I can see a hint of that right now. The Sun gives a strong light reflection off of the buildups in the low-level clouds; whereas, the high-level and probably layered cirrus and maybe some of the intermediate level stratus tend to look gray because of grazing Sun, I suspect.
005:56:26 CC Roger. You mentioned something in Earth orbit that kind of intrigued me. You mentioned seeing the rainbow, and we were trying to figure out how you saw a rainbow up there. And you were in orbit already at that time. Do you remember that?
005:56:41 Schmitt Well, - we're not - we were speaking of the merits of the sunrise.
005:56:46 CC Okay. Roger.
005:56:50 Schmitt - having a banded color appearance that varied as you approached sunrise. I can't remember what we - I think we put some of that on tape, and we were probably LOS at the time. But the banded character of the sunrise in the atmosphere was very, very marked. There was a gray-blue upper layer followed - that merged or graded into a brilliant blue intermediate zone that was just above the cloud levels. And within the clouds, you got a orange to yellow band, getting more yellow as the Sun rose, that was broken by the dark patterns of the buildups.
005:57:54 CC Roger. Good show.
005:57:59 Schmitt The interesting thing was the continual glow on the horizon we had, even at night, on the darkside pass - and that glow was in the atmosphere because I could see stars rise over the horizon in it and then pass on through it.
005:58:19 CC Roger. You were talking - the airglow, I guess, is the phenomenon most of the guys had seen before. It's kind of Interesting, huh?
005:58:25 Schmitt Yes, that's - that's right. It's interesting - I guess standard airglow, but it is very striking that it's a continuous thing even in the dark pass.
005:58:36 CC Roger.
005:58:42 Schmitt I think I did see the eastern tip of South America, now.
005:58:56 CC Roger. You're starting to back up now, coming the other way. So you're still over Africa, according to our chart here, but you're backing up towards the - South America.
005:59:07 Schmitt Yes, I can see the part of South America that Mercator thought that fitted in with the bend in Africa some many decades ago and started people thinking about moving continents around on the crust.
005:59:25 CC Roger. Jack, how'd the PGA doffing go? Most of you - are you all out of the PGAs now?
005:59:38 Schmitt That's in work. We're taking it slow and easy up here, Bob.
005:59:41 CC Roger. Understand. I'll just be curious to see if they all fit in that bag.
005:59:48 Schmitt I think you'll find that Ronald Evans will also be curious about that. He's already made comments.
005:59:56 CC Roger.
006:00:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours. As Jack Schmitt gives the description of the earth, Apollo 17 is 22,868 nautical miles from earth, velocity 12,520 feet per second.
006:00:17 Schmitt Bob, you certainly do have a very clear intuitive impression, although the evidence is hard to pull together, that the - any frontal systems that move off the Antarctic continent do not take on any well-defined character until they get into the moist regions of the ocean. And when they do, they seem to pick up an arcuate circ - circulation that, in the view we have, seem to get fairly regularly spaced cyclone patterns that lie between the Cape of Good Hope and northern portion of Antarctica. And these - circulations of the cyclones follows roughly an east/west pattern, and the curve - and the arcs of the fronts are more north/south than - let's say northwest, swinging around to the south.
006:01:30 CC Roger.
006:01:30 Schmitt All of them - all of them very - very nicely defined as southern hemisphere cyclones. There - about four of those visible swinging around - oh, I guess, that's latitude - I'm having to guess here, but I'd say latitude 50 to 60 south.
006:01:55 CC Okay; 50 or 60 south on that, huh?
006:01:58 Schmitt Yes, I have to look at the map here in a minute and see if that puts me between Antarctica and the Cape.
006:02:03 CC Roger.
006:02:08 CC Well, the tip - the tip of Africa there is at about 32 south.
006:02:14 Schmitt Well, that sounds like a pretty good guess, then. It looks like the intertropical convergence zone over Africa is starting to get more and more clouds in it now. I suspect as midday approaches, which is what we're seeing there, we can expect to see more and more moisture indications.
006:02:39 CC Roger. They're - they're probably about noontime right there right now. It's 11:36 at the zero meridian at Greenwich, so it's just a little bit before noon right in that area you're talking about.
006:02:51 Schmitt Yes, some of those masses of what I suspect are cumulus buildups - well, not really. They don't look like they're as concentrated and localized. More like just masses of fairly dense clouds that are developing in that band of green that crosses the lower portion of Africa.
006:03:17 CC Roger.
006:03:55 Schmitt Stay tuned for the next installment on the Earth. I'll try to get out of this suit.
006:04:01 CC Okay. Just take it easy, Jack, and we'll be listening.
006:04:06 Schmitt Man, I've never taken it so easy in my life. I'll tell you, Bob, I couldn't have believed this would be an experience like it is now.
006:04:15 CC Roger.
006:04:21 Schmitt Every time you turn around, there is something else to see and wonder what's causing it. Whether it's a particle zipping across the window, or one zipping across the cabin, or spring mechanics here in zero g; there's always something going on.
006:04:37 CC Roger.
006:07:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 7 minutes No midcourse correction number 1 will be performed. The value of the maneuver that would be required is less than 3 feet per second and midcourse correction number 1 will not be performed by Apollo 17. The spacecraft is now 23,682 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 12,301 feet per second.
006:09:55 Schmitt Bob, if I'm not waking you up, an observer from another planet certainly - probably could decide that we have such things as clouds and at least large thunderstorms because right at the terminator you get a brightening of the sunlit side and a long, long shadow out to the - out to the east that is reminiscent of what we saw in the early days looking at the Moon at the terminator.
006:10:37 CC Roger.
006:10:40 Schmitt However, in the next pass around, I'll bet you wouldn't see them.
006:11:21 Schmitt I've never been a big - Well, I didn't grow up with the idea of drifting continents and sea-floor spreadings, but I tell you, when you look at the way the pieces of the - of the northeastern portion of the African continent seem to fit together, separated by a narrow gulf, you could almost make a believer of anybody.
006:11:22 CC Roger. It's beginning to look like the globe that you might buy down at the store, huh?
006:11:57 Schmitt Oh, I don't think so, Bob. (laughter)
006:11:59 CC Okay.
006:12:01 Schmitt I don't think we'd better put this one up for sale. Somewhere there might be somebody who would like to buy it.
006:12:27 CC Say, Jack. We noticed the O2 flow has dropped down now. We're wondering, did you all close the waste storage vent valve?
006:12:36 Evans I don't think so; let me check on that. It might have gotten closed inadvertently in this game we were playing down in the LEB.
006:12:55 Schmitt Ron says it's still on VENT.
006:12:58 CC It's on VENT. Roger.
006:13:07 CC Okay. We're noticing the flow is coming back up slowly; so something caused it to drop, and it's coming back up.
006:13:15 Schmitt Okay.
006:17:41 CC 17, Houston.
006:17:44 Schmitt Go ahead.
006:17:45 CC Jack, just to ease those words I said before, we looked at the schematics here a second, and you'd be dumping urine out of that same line as that waste vent, and that would probably cause the pressure to build up enough to slow the O2 flow. And we noticed that the O2 flow is climbing back up to where it belongs.
006:18:08 Schmitt Well, that's clever. Okay.
006:18:11 CC Didn't mean to worry you there. Shouldn't have said it, I guess, before we looked at the schematic.
006:18:18 Schmitt Oh, I really hadn't started to worry about it yet, Bob, so no sweat.
006:22:15 Schmitt How'd the S-IVB work go Bob?
006:22:24 CC They just finished their second burn, and it's targeted right where they want it. Just working perfectly.
006:22:34 Schmitt Where were they going to put that one? I guess I lost track of that.
006:22:52 CC 7 degrees south and 8 degrees west, Jack.
006:22:57 Schmitt Say again, you cut out on the first.
006:23:00 CC Okay; 7 degrees south and 8 degrees west.
006:23:09 Schmitt Okay. That ought to be interesting.
006:23:29 PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 24 minutes. The S-IVB maneuver that was just being discussed was performed with the auxiliary propulsion system; just completed Delta V of 13 feet per second to tune up the trajectory for S-IVB impact at the desired location on the lunar surface of 7 degrees south, 8 degrees west. That's approximately 200 kilometers east of the Apollo 14 ALSEP site where the seismometer is located. That impact is expected to be picked up by the other seismometers on the Moon, the other Apollo lunar surface experiment seismometers. Booster systems engineer is now maneuvering the S-IVB stage, the third stage of the launch vehicle to a solar heat control attitude. This is to minimize the heat into the instrument unit. They will then track the stage for a considerable length of time and determine whether another corrective burn will be required. At 6 hours 25 minutes into the mission, this is Mission Control, Houston.
006:27:06 PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 27 minutes. Booster systems engineer has just reported to the Flight Director that the S-IVB stage is in good shape, with 14 hours life time remaining. The limiting factor on the S-IVB is the battery life. Fourteen hours of battery life remaining on the S-IVB.
006:28:47 Cernan Hello, Houston; how do you read CDR?
006:28:52 CC Read you loud and clear, Gene.
006:28:55 Cernan Okay.
006:29:31 Schmitt Bob, LMP's going off the air for a little while.
006:29:34 CC Roger, Jack.
006:29:39 Schmitt It sounded like a sigh of relief.
006:29:41 CC No, sir. Been enjoying listening to you; keeping - keep me awake down here.
006:29:48 Schmitt You had a long day.
006:29:49 CC Not as long as you've had.
006:29:52 Schmitt I've just been lying around, floating around.
006:29:56 CC You make it sound so good.
006:30:00 Schmitt Piece of cake. I'll talk to you in a little while.
006:30:05 CC Yes, sir.
006:33:26 PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 34 minutes. Apollo 17, now 26,553 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 11,606 feet per second.
006:39:55 Evans Houston, Apollo 17.
006:40:00 CC Go ahead, Ron.
006:40:03 Evans Okay; we had another MASTER ALARM, and I just glanced up and it was the MAIN A UNDERVOLT light that was on, just for a second.
006:40:18 CC Okay. Ron, we didn't see anything at all on MAIN A down here. We did have an ACCUMULATOR cycle again. Don't know if that ties in or not.
006:40:28 Evans Well, the MAIN A UNDERVOLT - I just happened to be looking right at the panel and the MAIN A UNDERVOLT light blinked on for a second. And, of course, obviously, MAIN A is up now.
006:40:45 CC Roger.
006:41:45 CC Ron, Houston here. We've checked the back room and the high-speed charts and that and don't see any glitch on MAIN A at all on our data down here.
006:41:57 Evans Okay, Bob.
006:48:59 PAO This is Apollo Control. It's 6 hours 49 minutes. Apollo 17 is 28,232 nautical miles from Earth; velocity 11,291 feet per second. We're continuing to operate at present on the normal GET of the flight plan, normal Ground Elapsed Time. Under that schedule the crews rest period will begin about 9 hours and 15 minutes into the mission. If, however, the crew completes the activities that are scheduled in the flight plan early, the rest period will probably begin early if they so desire. However, at the present time we are continuing to operate on the GET of the flight plan. At 6 hours 50 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
006:50:00 PAO On the GET of the Flight Plan. At 6 hours 50 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
007:06:58 PAO This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 7 minutes. Apollo 17 has just passed the 30,000 mile mark on its journey to the Moon. Now, at 30,039 nautical miles, velocity continuing to decrease now 10,932 feet per second.
007:10:10 Evans Houston, 17. That was O2 FLOW HIGH.
007:10:14 CC Roger. We copied that one. We saw it. Just about ready to call you when you called us Just now.
007:10:23 Evans Okay. Mighty fine.
007:14:51 PAO This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 15 minutes. Astronaut Bob Parker is now relieving Astronaut Bob Overmyer at the CAPCOM console and the commander of the backup crew, Captain John Young, has just left the control room. He has been sitting at the CAPCOM console with Overmyer since returning from the Cape early this morning. So the next CAPCOM voice you will hear will be that of Bob Parker.
007:34:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 34 minutes. Apollo 17 now 32,697 nautical miles from earth velocity 10,457 feet per second. The crew a little over midway in the scheduled meal period in the flight plan.
007:49:58 Schmitt Houston, 17.
007:49:59 CC Roger. Go 17.
007:50:03 Schmitt That little MASTER ALARM there, I can't be absolutely positive, but out of the corner of my eye, I think it was the SUIT COMPRESSOR light that glitched.
007:50:15 CC Okay. We copy that. You - we believe down here it was the HIGH O2 FLOW.
007:50:22 Schmitt Well, they're pretty close. I thought it was red and I thought, okay; that's good. That's the right time, I guess.
007:50:29 CC Okay; because we'd just called it out. I was just read for you 5 seconds before you called me.
007:50:36 Schmitt Very good, Doctor.
007:50:39 CC Roger. And Tony is back in Houston on the console.
007:50:42 Schmitt That's hard to believe. What are you doing back there? We're - we haven't even had time to go to sleep.
007:50:46 CC Well, I tell you, it's a tale that's hard to believe. It's almost as miraculous as your escape from the pad tonight.
007:51:06 Schmitt Did you enjoy the launch?
007:51:08 CC Beautiful.
007:51:20 Schmitt You've seen one night launch, you've seen them all. Huh, Parker?
007:52:15 Evans We go to SCS. Okay.
007:52:36 Evans Never know if this is it or not but we'll try it.
007:52:52 Evans Dust whipping all over the place. The stars in there -
007:54:33 Evans ... Yes, let's do it a little better now.
007:56:44 Schmitt ... Bob, mag November November is 130 now. And I just took another set of Earth pictures.
007:56:57 CC Okay. Copy that. November November at 130.
007:57:07 Evans And, Houston, 17. You copying the torquing angles now?
007:57:15 CC Roger. Stand by.
007:57:21 CC Okay. We have them, and you're GO to torque them.
007:57:25 Evans Okay. I'll torque it at 58:10.
007:57:58 PAO This is Apollo Control at 7 hours 58 minutes. Ron Evans is realigning the inertial platform that was scheduled on the flight plan for 8 hours 15 minutes. That indicates that they are running 15 to 20 minutes ahead of the flight plan. Jack Schmitt is obviously taking some pictures. He gave Bob Parker a report on a film magazine that he was using.
007:59:01 Evans ... REFSMMAT.
007:59:04 CC And, 17, we have a preferred REFSMMAT standing by if you want to give us ACCEPT, and we'll send it up before you do your second P52.
007:59:14 Evans Okay, you have P00 and ACCEPT now.
007:59:19 CC Roger. Understand we have updata. It's coming in. And, Ron, while we're sending it up to you, we'll also send you an update on the zero trunnion bias, as per the Flight Plan.
007:59:37 Evans Okay. Mighty fine.
008:00:09 Evans Somewhere. There it goes.
008:00:32 Evans There they are, right there.
008:02:36 CC Okay, 17 - Ron, you can go to BLOCK now. You've got your PTC REFSMMAT. You're free to do a P52 option 1 if you want. And, be advised we are suspicious from time to time you may have an open mike there.
008:02:51 Evans Okay. Thank you, Bob.
008:10:05 Evans Okay, Houston. Those are the differences in the gyro torque and I'll torque it - oh, 11, I guess. Eight ... 11.
008:10:14 CC Okay. Copy that.
008:12:07 PAO This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 12 minutes. Apollo 17 now 36,353 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 9,878 feet per second.
008:13:32 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Over.
008:13:35 Cernan Go ahead.
008:13:37 CC Roger. We've been discussing the question of what your sleep configuration is going to be in terms of headsets or not, particularly with reference to all of these various MASTER ALARMs. And I guess we'd feel better if one of you guys slept with his headset on. We were curious as to what your plans are.
008:14:01 Cernan Bob, since I've got to wear the biomed anyway, I might just as well go ahead and keep it on.
008:14:07 CC Okay. The other option is for us, if we were trying to get hold of you, is to put the Klaxon up. But we're a little - un-in-favor of that, because of the possibility of one of these spurious things waking everybody up that way.
008:14:22 Cernan Yes, I'll go ahead and keep it on and see how it works out for a while.
008:14:27 CC Okay. We copy that. And, when you guys are ready, we have a couple of - we have three items to read up to you, three updates in the Flight Plan.
008:14:52 Evans Okay. Go ahead, Bob.
008:14:53 CC Okay. The first's in the Flight Plan itself, and it's the quads for the PTC spinup, and they'll be Alfa and Bravo.
008:15:19 Evans Okay. For PTC spinup, quads Alfa and Bravo.
008:15:24 CC All right, we just took that back. It should be Bravo and Delta for spinup; Alfa and Bravo only for damping. Copy Bravo and Delta for spinup; Alfa and Bravo for damping.
008:17:04 CC And, 17, if you have that, I have two others. One's the Flight Plan Supplement Book, and the other one is in the G&C Checklist.
008:17:16 Evans Okay. Go with the Supplement.
008:17:18 CC Okay. In the Flight Plan Supplement, we have an E-LOAD update on page 1-43. Say; 1-43 - can give me a call when you get to that page?
008:17:42 Evans Okay, Bob. I'm there.
008:17:44 CC Okay. Under line - it's 30704, column Bravo - you'll find currently 33550. And let me give you a word of warning. When we change this, we'll be changing it again around 67 hours. These are primarily due to the launch delay. And we'll give you another GET update of this sort later on. The new number to replace 3 - -
008:18:15 Evans Bob--
008:18:15 CC Go ahead.
008:18:17 Evans Let me get a pencil, please.
008:18:17 CC Okay.
008:18:18 Evans I'll use that instead of a pen.
008:18:20 CC Okay.
008:19:21 Evans Go ahead.
008:19:22 CC Okay. Under - Again, I remind you, 30704 column Bravo, which was 33550, is now 34761. The line just below it, which is 05, also in column Bravo, is 15403. Over.
008:19:51 Evans Okay, Bob. For 30704 Bravo, 34761; and for 31005 Bravo, 15403.
008:20:04 CC Okay. Very good. And the next one is in the G&C Checklist under the P37 block data. And to help you find it, that's on page 4-23.
008:20:39 Evans Okay. Go ahead.
008:20:41 CC Okay. On the lift-off plus 15, be the first block. It's 01500, 3893, minus 174, 05756. The second block for lift-off plus 25 is 05 - Pardon me, start over again there; 02500, 6651, minus 175, 05725. Over.
008:21:37 Evans Okay, Houston; Apollo 17. First one would be 01500, a DELTA-V of 3893, minus 174, and GET 400 K is 05756. The other one is Tig of 02500, DELTA-V of 6651, longitude of minus 175. GET of 400K is 05725.
008:22:14 CC Roger. Good readback.
008:22:32 Schmitt Okay, Bob. This is Jack. I'm going to be moving into the pre-sleep checklist here. Are there any things you want to change or alter in that? Are you ready for the waste - waste stowage vent to be closed?
008:22:49 CC Roger, 17. We're ready for the vent valve to go closed. WASTE STOWAGE VENT to CLOSED. And we have no anticipated changes, at the present time, in the Flight Plan, Jack.
008:23:05 Schmitt Okay, I'm just looking at 1-29 in the pre-sleep checklist and - wondering if there was anything there.
008:23:19 CC Stand by, Jack.
008:24:00 CC Okay, 17. For antenna management tonight we'd like you to select OMNI Bravo at the current time, and stow the high-gain antenna. And we'll take care of managing our antennas from here on.
008:24:19 Evans Okay. We'll give you OMNI Bravo and stow the high-gain.
008:24:25 CC Okay.
008:24:53 CC And, Jack, we indeed do not have anything to add to the presleep checklist tonight.
008:25:06 Schmitt Okay.
008:25:14 Schmitt And - with your concurrence, I'll take the H2 FANS all to AUTO now.
008:25:22 CC Stand by.
008:25:26 CC Roger. We're ready for that. All to AUTO.
008:26:28 CC Okay, Jack. I guess that you - we're not quite sure what you said or meant there - or what - what it is. In the Flight Plan itself, we want H2 HEATERS 1 and 2 to AUTO, and we want H2 FANS, on tank 3 only, to AUTO. They're three there for H2 tank 3.
008:26:53 Schmitt Okay. You're teaching me to read carefully early, aren't you?
008:26:57 CC We're trying. The 1 and 2 HEATERS will be in AUTO and 3 FAN will be in AUTO.
008:27:04 Schmitt That's the way it is now, and consider the fans have been cycled.
008:27:08 CC Roger.
008:27:12 Schmitt According to the checklist, you might look at the third line on 1-29, and look at the H2 line on the Flight Plan, and see why I was confused.
008:27:37 CC Roger. We were just discussing whether or not there was a fan or fans in each tank.
008:27:44 Schmitt That ought to keep you awake this morning.
008:27:47 CC Going to take something.
008:27:54 Schmitt What I was really trying to do, Bob, was get out of chlorinating the potable water, but you wouldn't bite.
008:28:14 PAO This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 28 minutes. Apollo 17 now 37,832 nautical miles from Earth; velocity 9,667 feet per second. Apollo 17 crew in the period now in the flight plan where they're making preparations for their rest period. Getting the systems in the proper configuration for a sleep period. The spacecraft has been maneuvered to the passive thermal control or PTC mode - attitude, rather. And just prior to the rest period the crew will spin up the spacecraft for thermal control during the rest period. The spin rate will be slow or approximately 3 revolutions of the spacecraft per hour but it will keep the thermal balance on the spacecraft. At 8 hours 30 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
008:30:43 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Over, Jack.
008:30:48 Schmitt Go ahead. Over, Bob.
008:30:50 CC Okay. We're going to give you a little high-gain antenna practice here. We'd like to pick up with the high-gain antenna again so that we can get your PTC or can watch your PTC develop. We'd like you to go to a PITCH of 40 and YAW of 275 on the HIGH GAIN. That's 40, PITCH: 275, YAW; and MANUAL and WIDE. Over.
008:31:27 Schmitt Okay. You want the high gain selected, I presume.
008:31:29 CC That helps, yes.
008:31:33 Schmitt You got it.
008:31:35 CC Roger. Our apologies.
008:31:44 Schmitt Oh, I don't expect that'll be the last time you have to apologize. I think we're running about even now.
008:32:06 Schmitt You're missing quite a view, Bob. Sorry you're not here.
008:32:12 CC That makes two of us. White just said, "That makes three of us."
008:32:31 Schmitt What are you trying to tell me?
008:32:36 CC Look out.
008:32:39 Schmitt Who's your friend off on your right, tonight?
008:32:45 CC Wally Moon, would you believe?
008:32:50 Schmitt Say again?
008:32:51 CC Wally Moon.
008:32:52 Schmitt Oh, a Moon, huh? Why don't you ask him what he's reading at H2 tank 3 quantity?
008:33:05 CC Okay. I'm asking him.
008:33:16 Schmitt In percent.
008:33:21 CC Okay, 17. On tanks 3 of H2, we're reading 84.38.
008:33:30 Schmitt Okay, it looks like we're reading almost the same nowadays.
008:33:37 CC That's Good.
008:33:39 Schmitt I thought we launched a little bias, but I guess that's gone now. We're a little higher than that.
008:35:27 CC And, 17, Houston. We're seeing your rates are quite low enough to start the spinup to PTC.
008:35:45 Evans Okay. We'll see if we can't get it right this time.
008:38:35 Evans Houston, 17.
008:38:36 CC Go ahead, 17.
008:38:38 Evans Does it make any difference with the plus or minus roll there with the - now that you are going to use the high gain?
008:38:51 CC Okay. Well, the Flight Plan says minus roll, why don't we do it that way?
008:38:58 Evans Oh, okay.
008:39:01 CC And after you start the roll, 17, we'd like to go back to OMNI Bravo and stow the high gain.
008:39:09 Evans Okay.
008:39:11 CC We only needed the high gain to just keep a good check on your rates.
008:39:32 CC And, 17, that means stow the high gain after you - after the startup. We'd like to watch the startup itself.
008:39:40 Evans Okay. I was just going to ask you when.
008:42:20 CC Okay, 17 - We're ready for high gain to stow and select OMNI Bravo.
008:42:29 Evans Okay.
008:49:35 CC 17, Houston. We gather you're ready for sleep, almost. One thing we'd like to check at the end here is your O2 heater configuration. Over.
008:49:48 Evans Okay. Go ahead, Bob .
008:49:50 CC Roger. Can you give us your O2 heater configuration?
008:49:54 Evans Okay. We've got 1 and 2 in AUTO, and 3 is OFF.
008:50:00 CC Okay. We'd like those per the Flight Plan; 1 and 2 to OFF, and 3 to AUTO.
008:50:08 Evans Okay; 1 and 2 to OFF and 3 to AUTO.
008:50:12 CC Okay. And do you have a final change or update on the film status - beyond that 130 that Jack gave us?
008:50:21 Evans Stand by 1.
008:55:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 55 minutes. As the crew of Apollo 17 prepares for a 5-3/4 hours rest period, the spacecraft is 40,165 nautical miles from earth velocity 9,349 feet per second.
008:58:04 CC And, 17, your PTC is looking real good so far.
008:58:10 Cernan Okay. That number on that mag is still 130, Bob.
008:58:13 CC Okay. I copy that, Gene.
008:58:16 Cernan And Alfa Alfa, that 16-millimeter mag, is about 25 percent left.
008:58:23 CC Okay; copy that as well.
008:58:35 CC And I guess as soon as you change the LiOH canister, if you have or haven't, and charge BATTERY Bravo, then we're ready for you to go to sleep at your leisure. Configuring your comm, remember the SQUELCH, ENABLE, and the VOICE, OFF, when you get ready to go to sleep.
008:59:31 CC Roger, Apollo 17. We copy the film update, and we're ready for you to go to sleep once you've got the LiOH canister changed, if you haven't. And remember also the charge on brady - BATTERY Bravo. After that, it's just the comm configuration, SQUELCH, ENABLE, and VOICE, OFF, when you get ready to go to sleep.
008:59:31 Cernan Bob, You're cut in and out. Stand by. We'll talk to you in a minute.
009:00:00 CC Okay, I think we're losing an OMNI here.
009:00:01 REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
009:12:33 PAO This is Apollo Control at 9 hours, 12 minutes. Apollo 17 now, 41,677 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 9,159 feet per second. The spacecraft has stabilized into a passive thermal control mode now. It is completing one revolution every 18 minutes.
009:25:58 PAO This is Apollo Control at 9 hours 26 minutes. The Booster Systems Engineer has advised Flight Director Pete Frank that a second midcourse correction for the S-IVB, the third stage of the launch vehicle will be required. This maneuver is performed with the auxiliary propulsion system of the S-IVB, and the Booster Systems Engineer will command this burn at 11 hours 15 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The magnitude of the burn is not known at this time. That will be determined shortly before the midcourse is performed. The purpose is to tune up the trajectory to more precisely target the S-IVB stage to the desired impact point on the lunar surface. Tracking to this point of the spacecraft indicates that a midcourse correction will probably be performed for the spacecraft at the scheduled midcourse number 2 time at 35 hours and 30 minutes. A preliminary look - that's a very early look shows it to be about 10-1/2 feet per second, but that will be refined as we get closer to the time. At 9 hours 27 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
009:30:44 PAO This is Apollo Control at 9 hours 30 minutes. We have had no voice communications with the crew for some time now. But we do have indications that they have not yet fully configured the spacecraft for their rest period. Normally the voice switch is turned off the last step before the rest period. That voice switch is still on. Apollo 17 now 43,261 nautical miles away from Earth, velocity 8,964 feet per second.
009:48:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 9 hours 48 minutes. From the data that he is receiving, the Flight Surgeon, Dr. Sam P00l, reports that he believes the spacecraft Commander Gene Cernan is asleep. Cernan is the only member of the crew who is wearing the biomedical harness during the rest period, and therefore, is the only one that the flight surgeon is getting measurements on. But the indications are that Cernan is asleep and apparently the entire crew has gone to sleep. Apollo 17 now 44,749 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 8,794 feet per second. The awake clock as operating in the Control Center shows wake up for the crew in 5 hours 10 minutes 37 seconds.
009:58:55 PAO This is Apolio Control at 9 hours 59 minutes. The Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Boone, has computed the half way marks for the spacecraft in both time and distance. We'll give those to you now. Apollo 17 will reach the half way point in distance at a Ground Elapsed Time of 30 hours 3 minutes. Its distance from both the Moon and the Earth at that time will be 114,787 nautical miles. Its velocity, referenced to the Earth, will be 4,522 feet per second; referenced to the Moon, 3,826 feet per second. The half way mark in time will be reached at a Ground Elapsed Time of 43 hours 8 minutes 6 seconds. At that time Apollo 17 will be 144,924 miles from the Earth, with an Earth reference to velocity of 3,551 feet per second. And it will be 87,561 nautical miles from the Moon, with a Moon referenced velocity of 3,403 feet per second. Apollo 17 will cross the lunar sphere of influence at the Ground Elapsed Time of 70 hours 43 minutes 24 seconds, at which time it will be 190,725 nautical miles from the Moon. Earth referenced velocity 2,340 feet per second. Distance from the Moon at that time, 33,639 nautical miles, with the lunar referenced velocity of 3,356 feet per second. At 10 hours 1 minute into the mission, this is Mission Control Houston.
010:29:37 PAO This is Apollo Control at 10 hours 29 minutes. Apollo 17 now, 48,070 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 8,434 feet per second. Pete Frank and the orange team of flight controllers getting ready to hand over to Gerry Griffin and his gold team of flight controllers at this time. Astronaut Bob Parker will remain as the CAPCOM for a good deal of this next shift. Several spurrious master alarms that were seen while the spacecraft was still in Earth orbit are as yet unexplained. There are no obvious reasons for them. The spacecraft experts in the back rooms, the support rooms here at the Mission Control Center are still tracking this situation. It's not considered a serious problem. The more recent master alarms that have occurred during this shift and during the translunar coast phase after Apollo 17 burned translunar insertion, are attributed to a higher than normal oxygen flow at regular intervals in the cabin. The cabin is still being purged of the partial nitrogen atmosphere that it contained at launch that is being purged, a vent valve is open in the cabin and the higher than normal O2-rate has been introduced to help purge the cabin. Now, added to that when the water accumulator in the suit circuit cycles, there is a brief increase of oxygen flow over and above the higher than normal flow that we are using to purge the cabin. And this is just high enough to when the water accumulator cycles it brings it up just high enough to trigger the master alarm. It is not a problem. The last three or four master alarms that we have seen are attributed to this. However, the Earth orbit master alarms are not yet accounted for. But, they are not considered to be a serious problem. During this shift a midcourse correction number 1 was performed on the SIV-B stage of the launch vehicle, 13 feet per second performed with the auxilary propulsion system. A second midcourse for that third stage of launch vehicle is planned at a Ground Elapsed Time of 11 hours 15 minutes. The magnitude of the burn is not - is not yet known. These midcourses are to tune up the trajectory of that stage, to bring it closer to the desired impact point on the lunar surface. As far as the spacecraft is concerned midcourse correction number 1 was passed. We did not perform midcourse correction number 1. The magnitude at that time was less than 3 feet per second. We will probably perform a midcourse correction number 2 at 35 hours and 30 minutes. A preliminary look at that indicates about a 10-1/2 foot per second burn at that time. The Mission is going well. We have not heard from the crew for some time now and are confident that they are asleep. The spacecraft is in passive thermal-contro1 mode, stabilized in 1 revolution every 18 minutes, approximately 3 per hour. The crew is scheduled to be awakened 4 hours, 24 minutes from this time. At 10 hours 35 minutes into the Mission, this is Mission Control, Houston.
11:27:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 11 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Approximately 11 minutes ago, as you were 6 minutes ago, the S-IVB corrective burn was performed roughly 14.2 feet per second to modify the trajectory of the S-IVB third stage in the Saturn V, targeting for impact just west of the crater Ptolemaeus at latitude 7 degrees south by longitude 8 degrees west. However, the actual impact location and the time of impact will be forthcoming after some additional hours of tracking of the stage has been gathered. We're looking now at a midcourse correction burn number 2 of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at 35 hours 30 minutes, with a change in velocity - a posigrade of 10.5 feet per second. Some 3-1/2 hours remaining in the crew rest period. All three apparently sound asleep at this time. And the passive thermal control mode puts the spacecraft at spinning at some 3 revolutions per hour. To repeat earlier statistics on half way in distance, time, and when the so-called sphere of influence is crossed will be at the half way point in distance at 30 hours and 3 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, in which time it will be 114,787 nautical miles either direction to the Earth or Moon. And a half way point in time will occur at 43 hours 8 minutes and 6 seconds when the spacecraft will be 144,924 nautical miles out from Earth; and 87,561 nautical miles out from the Moon. The so-called sphere crossing, or the point in which the spacecraft is assumed to come under the gravitational influence of the Moon, will take place at 70 hours 43 minutes 24 seconds when the spacecraft is 33,639 nautical miles out from the Moon and approaching. The air/ground circuit has been up all of this time since the crew has retired for a fairly brief rest period, and at this time we will take down the air/ground circuit until the wakeup call is made some 3 hours 29 minutes from now. And at 11 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
012:27:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 12 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. And Apollo 17 at the present time is 56,948 nautical miles out from earth at a velocity of 7,609 feet per second. A short time ago the Booster Systems Engineer Frank Van Renseler reported that after the final APS burn in the S-IVB stage, which is targeting the stage to impact on the Moon, he reported that the S-IVB stage was tumbling intentionally, after that burn, and as he gathered up all his documents and packed his briefcase, he, on the flight directors loop, he said, "I've enjoyed working with you on the Apollo program." Flight Director in training Neil Hutchinson replied "It's been nice riding with you." The riding implication being that they were riding on his launch vehicle. Van Renseler is a Marshall Spaceflight Center Engineer detailed to the Flight Control Division here at Manned Spacecraft Center. Van Rensleser finished his job for the last time. He packed his launch vehicle documents and left the room. The booster systems console is vacant for the final time in Apollo. Some 2-1/2 hours remaining in the crew sleep period. No word from the crew. They have not talked to the ground nor vice versa in the last several hours and at 12 hours 29 minutes this is Apollo Control.
013:27:00 PAO This is Apollo Control 13 hours, 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. The spacecraft presently is 61,186 nautical miles out from the Earth, decelerating slightly in its velocity now 7,272 feet per second. Crew has another hour and a half of sleep period remaining. They will be awakened about 2:30 Central Time. This is a rather short sleep period slightly under 6 hours, the object being to get the crew back on to Houston time day-night cycle eventually. The cycle is disturbed somewhat by the, - initially what would have been a night launch, and ended up being a morning launch - early morning launch - at least by Cape time. Got a hand over to the Goldstone 210-foot tracking antenna, about 8 minutes ago. And that station at the present time is handling spacecraft data, and when the crew awakens will handle the voice transmissions between the Control Center and the Crew of Apollo 17. At 13 hours, 28 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
014:27:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 14 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Slightly more than a half hour remaining until spacecraft communicator, Robert Parker, wakes the crew of Apollo 17 up after a brief 6 hour rest period. Apollo 17 presently 65,273 nautical miles out from earth; velocity now 6,974 feet per second. And getting back on schedule with Apollo 17 because of the late liftoff and the hold situation early this morning. The translunar injection burn was targeted to get the spacecraft at the moon or into lunar orbit at about the same actual time as it would have had we launched on time - at 8:53 PM last night central time. However, to get the flight plan back on the actual indicated Ground Elapsed Times shown in the flight plan at approximately 64 hours they're going to have what is called a GET update some 2 hours and 40 minutes to force the event times in the flight plan to agree with actual Ground Elapsed Times flown in the mission. We'll come up again in about a half hour as Parker makes his initial wake up call to the crew and at 14 hours 29 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
014:57:53 PAO This is Apollo Control 14 hours 57 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. A 2 minutes mark remaining in the crew waken - wake period or sleep period before the crew is awakened. Spacecraft communicator, Bob Parker, should be calling them shortly and we'll stand by for that first wake up call. Rather slack day as far as crew activity today. After their post-sleep checklist checking over the systems. The flight director just advised the CAPCOM to hold off on the wake call until they switch antennas. There's some P-23 navigation sightings that will be run today, and that apparently is about all the activity scheduled during the - this work period. However, there will be at 35 hours and 30 minutes a midcourse correction number 2, which this time looks like about 10 and a half feet per second. Apollo 17 now is 67,365 nautical miles out from the Earth; velocity 6,829 feet per second. Spacecraft communicator, Bob Parker, has been joined at the CAPCOM console by backup Apollo 17 commander, John Young, and his relief CAPCOM, Gordon Fullerton. Standing by for the antenna arrangement to be sorted out. Spacecraft at this time, is still in the barbeque roll or passive thermal control mode, three revolutions per hour to stabilize the temperatures on spacecraft systems. They'll open up the air-ground circuit for the first call when it does come. At 15 hours and 1 minute, this Apollo Control.
015:02:45 PAO Here we go.
015:02:59 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
015:03:09 Cernan Hello, Robert.
015:03:11 CC Glad to have you with us again. You guys got a good night's sleep, we think.
015:03:16 Cernan Well, I'll tell you, it was (laughter) looked forward to.
015:03:31 Cernan Give us a few minutes here and we'll - get operational.
015:03:41 CC Roger. Give us a call when you're ready to talk to people.
015:03:48 Cernan Okay.
015:09:44 Cernan Yes, from the looks of things, Bob, down there, it looks like getting off last night was a good idea.
015:09:55 CC Got a new CAPCOM now, Geno. Why? Looks kind of cloudy down there?
015:10:01 Cernan Yes. Hello, Gordo. How you doing? Yes, I'm looking - oh, we're probably directly over - just west of the - out in the Pacific, but abeam of the bottom third of South America, I suppose. And I've got North America, Mexico, and the U.S. on the top third - the top 25 percent of the Earth. And it looks like you've got cloud cover from somewhere where the coast bends around Corpus right on north into the Great Lakes and is completely out into the Atlantic, including covering Florida out there.
015:10:43 CC Roger. I can verify the part between the Cape and Houston, anyway.
015:10:57 Cernan Yes, the Gulf looks like it's pretty well filled with clouds. Looks pretty thick from here.
015:11:03 CC Roger.
015:11:07 Cernan However, if you're interested in going to South America, the whole continent looks - looks pretty good. A few clouds; but, for the most part, you can see the entire continent.
015:11:18 CC Roger. Guess it's summertime down there.
015:11:29 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're - we're stirring slowly. We'll get back with you here.
015:11:34 CC Okay.
015:12:01 Cernan Gordo, one question. How does the spacecraft look to you? I didn't hear anything all night long as far as any MASTER ALARMs or anything.
015:12:10 CC I'm getting the word that nothing was seen here either. It looks absolutely super.
015:12:19 Cernan Very good.
015:15:25 Cernan Okay, Bob - or Gordo, I've got H2 HEATERS 1 and 2, OFF now.
015:15:32 CC Roger, Gene.
015:16:52 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
015:16:57 CC Go ahead, America.
015:17:01 Cernan Okay, Gordo. I'm looking over the Flight Plan today. We'll be with you with the postsleep checklist, and primarily it looks like a P-23 day for Ron And what we'd primarily like to do is spend a good part of that time getting the spacecraft cleaned up, reshuffled, restowed a little bit, and get it in order for the next few days ahead. It doesn't look like today's that big of a day.
015:17:33 CC Okay. Geno, I might give you some words on what we have in mind to get the GET back in sync here, if - if you want to hear those while you're looking through the upcoming hours.
015:17:57 Cernan Yes, why don't you - why don't you pass a few words on that?
015:18:01 CC Okay. The plan we're considering, and we're offering it to you now for your opinion, is at 65 hours GET, we'll update, and at the time the clock goes to 65, we'll update it 2 hours and 40 minutes to 67:40. And we're shaping your trajectory such that you'll arrive at the Moon at the same time GMT as you would have had you launched on time. In other words, your translunar time is 2 hours and 40 minutes less. So once we do that, we'll be back with all the right times in the Flight Plan without any updating. And the one thing we think of is that your next day will, which is now a 16-hour day, will shorten to a 13-hour and 20-minute day-. But that's about the only real effect we can see. How does that sound?
015:19:07 Cernan Yes, we - we'll get to the Moon, you say, the same GMT, so all our sunrise, sunset, lunar-orbit activities, and Sun angle at landing will be the same. And let me - I'll - it sounds pretty good, Gordo. I just want to take a look at that day that you're shortening and see what we're doing in there.
015:19:27 CC Okay. It doesn't cut out anything. In fact, we picked a time that's pretty much dead time as far as the Flight Plan goes. Take a look, and we'll talk about it later.
015:19:39 Cernan Okay.
015:19:45 Schmitt Good morning, Gordy. This is Jack.
015:19:47 CC Good morning, Jack.
015:19:55 Schmitt Let me fill my square on the postsleep checklist. I've got 24030, PRD.
015:20:07 CC Okay.
015:20:09 Schmitt And I slept in and out - probably totaled about 4 hours in that last period. But I feel pretty good in spite of that, and expect now that I've educated myself on how to sleep, that it'll pick up the next time around.
015:20:27 CC Roger.
015:20:32 Schmitt No medication yet, but I'm considering a couple of aspirin. I'll let you know if I take them.
015:20:37 CC Roger.
015:20:41 Schmitt And, fluids? Let's see, I guess I've had two of your little water-measurement-containers full so far, plus the meal I had in my pocket. And I'll catch up on - I think I'm a little dehydrated. I'll catch up on fluids with breakfast.
015:21:00 CC Okay.
015:21:02 Schmitt And my meal yesterday was the meal B in the pocket.
015:21:08 CC Roger. Meal B.
015:21:18 Schmitt And I guess consumables update. That's mainly yours.
015:21:25 CC Roger.
015:21:25 Schmitt There's plenty there. And I'll wait for your words on that. And the watch is wound.
015:21:31 CC Roger. Okay. Got the consumables update numbers, if you're ready to copy.
015:21:45 Schmitt Not quite, Gordy. I'll give you a buzz.
015:21:47 CC Okay. No hurry.
015:22:37 Schmitt Okay. The CMPs rad's, 1509.
015:22:43 CC Okay.
015:22:43 Schmitt 15019. 15019.
015:22:48 CC Roger.
015:23:33 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. How do you want to send the consumable - consumables information?
015:23:40 CC We were just discussing that here. Used to - in flights gone by, there was a place in the Flight Plan, a little form to fill out. But we're trying to figure out if there is such a place in the current data file. Do you know of one?
015:23:55 Schmitt Well, I'll tell you what I've got. I've got the consumables curves, and if there are any major changes to those curves, I guess you could give them to me, and I'll put them on as points.
015:24:09 CC There's no - -
015:24:10 Cernan Hey, Jack.
015:24:10 CC - - changes at all.
015:24:14 Schmitt Okay. And why don't we just do it that way in the future in case there is anything. And that's on page 1-45 and subsequent in the Flight Plan Supplement.
015:24:25 CC Okay.
015:24:31 Schmitt Looks like you took good care of my space - my systems last night.
015:24:36 CC No troubles at all.
015:30:59 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Your friendly medical officer up here has some more information for you. CMP, continuing, had about 3 hours of sleep, had - three cans of fluid, of water that is. And he ate everything in meal B but the fruitcake, and he didn't use the brownies and the beverage in meal C.
015:31:33 CC Okay.
015:32:30 Schmitt Okay. And continuing, the CDRs PD - PRD is 17019. He had 3 hours of fair sleep, no medication, and 1-1/2 cans of water, and one-half a sandwich. The CMPs sleep was 3 hours. And I'll try to get more systematic as we go along here.
015:32:57 CC Okay.
015:33:21 CC Jack, we are assuming no - no medication on the CMP. is that right?
015:33:28 Schmitt That's affirm. We haven't gotten that kit out yet
015:33:32 CC Okay.
016:00:55 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. Looks like the windows have cleared up pretty well in PTC from the - ice crystals, anyway, that were on window - window 1. The hatch window still seems to have a film of something on it. But, otherwise, they look pretty good.
016:01:13 CC Okay, sounds good. Jack, while you're there, I might try - we've been talking about consumable updates and what would be the most meaningful way to give you the information. As a trial, for 14 hours, with reference to the charts in the back of the book, which in the case of - in case of all of them, are listed in percentages except the RCS, which is in pounds. On the cryo quantities, when I take all the tank percentages and plot them, it turns out that there's no real significant difference from the lines that are plotted on either hydrogen or oxygen. On RCS, you're running about 3 percent ahead of the line. And if that's a satisfactory way to put it, that's the way we'll give you the - the updates rather than giving you every tank percent by percent. Over.
016:02:25 Schmitt Okay, that's good. That's outstanding.
016:12:20 Schmitt MARK. Two aspirin for the LMP.
016:12:20 CC Roger, LMP.
016:13:32 CC Jack, next time the Surgeon would like a mark on each individual aspirin.
016:13:42 Schmitt Well, I gave it to you since I swallowed them both simultaneously.
016:13:47 CC Roger.
016:13:51 Schmitt I knew they wanted that, Gordy, and that's why I only gave you one.
016:13:56 CC Okay.
016:13:57 Schmitt Would they rather have them go down one at a time?
016:14:05 CC I'll have to go back to the backroom on that.
016:25:06 PAO This is Apollo Control, 16 hours and 25 minutes. The Crew of Apollo 17 is now presently in a meal period. A little bit of levity a short time ago when Jack Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, called down to say: "This is LMP, mark, 2 aspirin." He had mentioned earlier in his post-sleep checklist that he was considering taking two aspirins. Apollo 17 is presently 72,843 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity 6,477 feet per second. We're continuing to stand by on the air-ground circuit for further conversation as the crew finishes up their meal period and gets what few flight plan updates are involved in the days activity. At 016:26 and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
016:44:44 CC
016:44:57 Evans Hey, okay, Gordo. We'll do that.
016:45:34 CC 17, Houston. Can you confirm that you did change the LiOH canister before going to sleep last night?
016:45:43 Evans Well, we can confirm that we didn't. How about that?
016:45:48 CC Okay.
016:45:48 Evans We'll - Thanks - thanks for reminding us. We'll try that first thing this morning. I was just getting too tired, and the CO2 didn't look quite that high last night, so I - -
016:46:00 CC Roger.
016:46:00 Evans - - I let it go.
016:46:07 CC Okay, that's - that's fine. We're not concerned about being late with it.
016:46:14 Evans Okay.
016:53:05 Evans Okay, Houston. That looks like a pretty good one that time. You note the star angle difference?
016:53:11 CC Roger. We copy.
016:53:15 Evans Okay (chuckle). I can't see squat out through that telescope. I just hope it lines it up and does the right thing. Okay. Those are the torquing angles, and you can let me know when you have them.
016:53:33 CC Okay. Stand by.
016:53:38 Evans The telescope is no different than any other time. There is just a lot of reflection from the lunar module. And even though everybody said that before, you don't quite believe it until you see it yourself.
016:54:08 CC Okay, Ron. You're clear to torque it.
016:54:12 Evans Okay. We'll torque it at 54:30.
016:54:16 CC Okay.
016:55:25 CC 17, Houston. When you - if you can find a stenographer, I got some dictation, some pads for you and also a Flight Plan update.
016:55:50 Evans Stand by 1, Gordon.
016:57:38 Schmitt Okay, Gordy.
016:57:41 Evans P37.
016:57:42 Schmitt Oh, okay. Stand by. Okay, Ron's ready to copy.
016:57:52 Evans P37 pad's first.
016:57:54 CC Okay. Okay, the P37 block data for 35 hours. Well, we've got 35, 45, 55, 65. GET ignition of 035:00. DELTA-Vt is 5326, minus 175, 081:39. For a GET of 045:00, 7728, minus 177, 08l:l8. For a GET of 055:00, 5859, minus 175, 105:30. GET of 065:00, 4703, minus 175, 129:40.
016:59:34 Evans Okay, I'll read that. Let's see, 35:00 at 5326, minus 175, and 81:39 At 45:00, 7728, minus 177, and 8l:l8. At 55:00, it's 5859, minus 175, 105:30. At 65:00, it's 4703, minus 175, and 129:40.
017:00:11 CC Okay, that's correct. I've got a maneuver pad for you. It's a flyby maneuver at a time of 81 hours, which is 5 hours prior to LOI, This is required because you're presently on an impacting trajectory. And this is assuming you wouldn't do midcourse 2. Midcourse 2 will put you on a - on the proper trajectory. If you can get a maneuver pad out, I'll give it to you.
017:00:44 Schmitt Okay. That's in work.
017:02:11 Evans Okay, Houston. This is 17. Ready for the flyby pad.
017:02:23 CC Okay, Ron. We were just watching your roll angle. You're going to - we're going to be updating the optics cal attitude. And the roll will be 164, and you're coming up on that. Maybe you want to stop the PTC near that roll angle first.
017:02:41 Evans Hey, that's a good idea.
017:02:48 Schmitt Gordy ...
017:03:10 Schmitt Gordy, did you read Jack?
017:03:12 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
017:03:14 Schmitt I can take the pad, if you want to while Ron stops PTC.
017:03:20 CC Okay. Why don't I give you the update to the Flight Plan, since that'll give you the new attitude and also the - change in the star for the P23. And then Ron can get on with that. The pad we can get after that.
017:03:36 Schmitt Go ahead.
017:03:38 CC Okay. Turn to 17 hours in the Flight Plan, page l8.
017:03:55 Schmitt Go ahead.
017:03:57 CC Okay. The "VERB 49 maneuver to optics cal attitude" right at the top of the page. Cross out the attitude numbers and replace them with "Roll l64, pitch 301, and yaw 348 at a high-gain pitch angle of minus 48 and a yaw of 315. Over.
017:04:34 Schmitt Okay; 164, 301, 348, minus 48, and 315.
017:04:40 CC That's correct. Now go down a few lines to the sighting attitude at - one's at 17 hours and 15 minutes. And cross out that attitude and the high-gain pitch angle and change to a Roll of 196, pitch 304, and yaw 348. High-gain pitch is minus 6l, and the yaw remains the same, 357. Over.
017:05:16 Schmitt Okay, 196, 304, 348, minus 6l.
017:05:22 CC That's correct. And now, on the first star of P23, we're going to change the star, so cross out - replace the NOUN 70 numbers with star 21. That would be three balls 21. And delete the NOUN 88 and the vector numbers there.
017:06:12 Schmitt Okay, start 21 and no NOUN 88s.
017:06:16 CC Right. And over on the right where it says "Merak," you can write in "Alphard." That's what 21 is.
017:06:35 Schmitt Okay.
017:06:36 CC Okay. Now down on the next page, at 18 hours 20 minutes, where it says "Optics calibration attitude." We got to put in the same thing as - the same change as above. We want, instead of 175, 298, 330, change that to l64, 301, and 348. High gain of minus 48 and 315. Over.
017:07:15 Schmitt Okay, l64, 301, 348, minus 48, 315. Over.
017:07:21 CC Okay. Now, about 10 lines down, delete "Charge battery A." We're going to leave battery A charged for a while longer, since we used up so much of it on the pad last night.
017:07:41 Schmitt Okay. Delete "Battery charge A," and you want to leave it on B.
017:07:44 CC Yes. Right. Flip the page. Might as well clean up all of these checklist changes. At 19 hours 40 minutes, change "Magazine Kilo Kilo" to "Magazine November November."
017:08:05 Schmitt Okay. That's done.
017:08:06 CC And then skip a few pages to 24 hours and 30 minutes
017:08:20 Schmitt Go ahead.
017:08:21 CC And just above the "CSM Systems Checklist" callout there, write in "Charge battery A."
017:08:37 Schmitt Okay, I got you.
017:08:40 CC And we'll be leaving it on battery A all night long. Okay, that's all the Flight Plan changes. I've got that flyby pad when you're ready.
017:08:55 Schmitt Okay, I'm all set.
017:08:58 CC Okay. Purpose is flyby, SPS/G&N. The weight is 66839; plus 1.21, minus .02 - correction, the yaw trim is a minus 0.12. Ignition time is 081:17:21.03 NOUN 81 is a plus 0091.1, plus 0204.1, plus 0459.3. Attitude is 121, 153, and 321, Apogee is NA; perigee, plus 0021.2. DELTA-V total of 0510.8, 1:17, 0506.3. Sextant star: 26, 096.5, 33.9. Boresight star is NA; NOUN 6l, plus 15-57, minus 175-00; 1099.9, 362.43; and GET of 0.05G is 153:24:11. PTC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069 - Ullage is none. And for remarks: number 1 is "Burn docked." number 2 assumes PTC REFSMMAT: number 3, LM weight, 3628l; and number 4 is "Assumes no Midcourse 2." Over.
017:12:30 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You read that?
017:12:34 CC I haven't heard anything since I finished the pad, Jack.
017:12:39 Schmitt Okay. I'll push the other button then. Okay, your readback: Flyby, SPS/G&N; 66839; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 081:17:21.03; plus 0091.1, plus 0204.1, plus 0459.3; 121, 153, 321; HA is NA, plus 0021.0; 0510.8, 1:17, 0506.3; 26, 096.5, 33.9. Boresight star is NA; plus 15-57; minus 175.00; 1099-9, 362.43; 153:24:11. Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069. No ullage. Remarks: 1, burn docked; 2, PTC REFSMMAT assumed; 3, LM weight, 36281; and 4, assumes no midcourse 2.
017:14:02 CC Okay. One correction on perigee of NOUN 44. That's a plus 0021.2.
017:14:18 Schmitt Okay; 0021.2 plus.
017:14:23 CC And one additional remark. This results in a 187-mile perigee - perilune.
017:14:58 Schmitt Okay. I got that.
017:15:00 CC Okay. For general information, we're planning midcourse 2 tomorrow at about 35:30, and it should be about 10 feet per second.
017:15:16 Schmitt Okay, Strangely enough, that's even scheduled at 35:30.
017:15:35 CC Roger.
017:15:45 CC I have one reminder to open the WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve as shown on the - at 17 hours there.
017:15:56 Schmitt Oh, okay. We were just going back to clean up. I think we owe you a LiOH canister change, too.
017:16:09 CC Roger. We concur with changing it.
017:19:57 Evans And, Houston. Apollo 17 will maneuver to the optics calibration attitude now.
017:20:04 CC Okeydoke.
017:20:08 Evans It's funny eating potato soup, and all the soup is all around the outside of the bag. And you get a little hole right down through the middle of it.
017:20:22 CC How about that?
017:20:42 Evans It's just like in one G. The sP00n isn't quite long enough to reach the bottom without getting your fingers on the side of the bowl.
017:20:51 CC Roger.
017:23:53 Schmitt Gordy, I don't know what your weather is like down there, but from here it looks like you're probably overcast today. Might even have a pretty good storm going.
017:24:04 CC Well, it's gray and cold and a little rain, so your - your call is correct.
017:24:14 Schmitt Yes, it looks like Mexico, in general, is pretty nice, although there is a band of east-west trending clouds that start from the Gulf of California, cross Sonora and probably up through New Mexico, and over into Texas as far around as I can see. Southern California looks like it's in pretty good shape today, but northern California looks like it's probably overcast. And a major system probably associated with that that stretches into the northern western United States. But a band of clear weather looks like it stretches from Arizona right on up through, I would guess it - through Colorado and Kansas and probably into the Midwest pretty well.
017:25:24 CC Roger. You're a regular human weather satellite.
017:25:30 Schmitt If Ron would just stop his maneuvers I'd tell you some more, but the Earth just set behind the LM.
017:25:38 CC Roger.
017:25:40 Schmitt More specifically, it set behind the Rover, which may be a space first. Pretty impressive storm system down off the west coast of Antarctica.
017:26:07 CC Roger.
017:27:11 Schmitt And, Houston. The canister has been changed. Number 3 is in A as per the earlier Flight Plan instructions.
017:27:24 CC Okay.
017:27:26 Schmitt Sorry we were late, but we got a little tired last night.
017:28:37 CC Jack, Houston. We'd like you to go ahead and get that WASTE STOWAGE VENT open now, so we can keep to the schedule on cabin enrichment.
017:28:49 Schmitt Okay; Ron is getting that. Keep nagging.
017:28:54 CC Thank you.
017:35:28 Evans That the same as I had before?
017:35:50 Evans Hey, that looks like a pretty good optics cal right there. That's three times. Okay. No, that's not very good.
017:36:09 CC Ron, we're copying your comments.
017:36:12 Evans Okay. Think we'll use that one there for the optics cal.
017:36:20 CC Roger.
017:36:41 Evans Okay. Let's go to the old sighting attitude. Well, let's put the other thing in there first.
017:39:59 PAO This is Apollo Control at 17 hours 40 minutes. In mission control at the present time we're in the midst of a shift handover. Flight Director Gene Kranz and his team of flight controllers coming on now to replace Flight Director Gerry Griffin. The spacecraft communicator at the present time is astronaut Gordon Fullerton. For the crew aboard Apollo 17 this is scheduled to be a rather short and - not too active period of time before they begin their next sleep period. They'll be performing a few midcourse navigation activities, also doing some routine maintenance on the fuel cells. And not a great deal of additional activity scheduled for them.
017:40:44 Evans Yes. That's a pretty good VERB 49. I got the - got an orange Earth in the sextant. Let me put up the old EMP now. If you all don't need all that light in there, Jack, I could sure - Like the window shade might help a little bit, really. Not - not very much. Okay. Address 304, we want 06. Address 305, 24 44; 306, 60 06 ENTER; 307 was 77. Okay, at address 310, we want 15 62 ENTER; 311, we want a 52 05 ENTER; 330, we'll VERB 30 37. VERB 25 NOUN 26 ENTER 1. Okay. R-2 is a 44 ENTER. R-3 is a 140 - 5. Okay, ENTER that. Now, we're ready to go on the first star here; 7 ENTER; 23 ENTER. ... we don't want to do an optics cal. No, we don't want to do that. ENTER. Okay, first star is 21. ENTER. I am going to use the ... 110 ENTER. PROCEED. Son of a gun. Okay, we don't want to do the 180 option, so ENTER that one; 19630 ... getting pretty close. Okay. PROCEED.
017:43:54 Schmitt ... mike ...
017:44:02 Evans Okay, we're CMC OPTICS ZERO'S OFF and low. Now let's see if we can see the old star in there.
017:44:14 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. You guys did a good job fixing that MAS - MASTER ALARM problem. What did you do?
017:44:28 CC Jack, did you call?
017:44:32 Schmitt Yes, I was wondering what you did to fix the MASTER ALARM problem.
017:44:39 CC Let me check and see.
017:44:45 Evans (Laughter) Yes, I've got to find the subsolar point. A little bit of an error looks like. Let me see, we'll fix it down a little bit. That really jars us back, doesn't it?
017:45:16 PAO This is Apollo Control. The participants have left Mission Control for the news conference, a change of shift press conference that should begin in about 5 to 10 minutes, in the MSC News Center Briefing Room -
017:45:25 CC Jack, I guess all we've done is wish it away, Actually, we think it's still there, and you may -you may get them here later after the waste stowage vent - O2 flow gets on up.
017:45:48 Schmitt Okay, but those were associated with the accumulator as I recall. Yes, the random ones is the ones I was interested in. They just seemed to stop. Of course, we haven't been moving switches on 2, but we were getting them without doing that also.
017:46:13 Evans Okay, there's the old star. Works just like the simulator; you can't see the star when it goes down in the Earth (laughter).
017:46:21 CC It's still being worked on, Jack. Though we don't have any real concrete story to give you on it yet.
017:46:31 Schmitt Okay, it seemed to be pretty quiet last night, so that's the only problem. Okay. Gene, you want to give me CMC FREE?
017:46:40 Cernan Okay.
017:49:45 Evans Let's see. 379, okay. That's not too bad. There it is; ENTER. Release 23; ENTER.
017:51:32 Evans Okay.
017:53:07 Evans Yes, I don't know what - what's -
017:53:44 Evans Okay, those would punch a hole in it.
017:53:47 PAO This is Apollo Control at 17 hours 54 minutes. The change of shift press conference is ready to begin at this time in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. We'll take down the live air-to-ground, record, and play back immediately following the press conference.
017:55:22 Evans I think that's five on that star. Do you concur that that's five on that star, Houston?
017:55:31 CC Stand by. Let me check.
017:55:34 Evans I think it was. I'll take another one just in case.
017:56:15 Evans Okay, Gene. CMC AUTO.
017:56:18 Cernan Roger.
017:56:20 Evans Okay, Betelgeuse. All right. That's all right; don't move.
017:57:11 Evans 20. Okay. Earth's far horizon; 25 ENTER. Plus 02745 ENTER. Plus 99128; 28 ENTER. Plus 12885 - 12885 - 12885. Okay. Hit. It's okay; want the 180 option, no? Computer ... Betelgeuse. Okay, that's Earth's far horizon.
017:58:30 Evans Punch a hole in them. Yes. Good. Okay, as soon as we're there - Okay. Set the old ... at the substellar point. Okay, it's the far horizon, the double line is down in the - down in the Earth. Shaft 280; okay. Reach up a little bit here.
017:59:55 Evans Okay. Didn't do such a hot job of putting them on there. You want to go to CMC FREE. Okay. Give it a flip that way and a flip thataway and a yaw that way, two yaws that way.
018:01:46 Evans (Singing) Holy mackrel.
018:01:57 SC Yes. That was a good ...
018:02:01 Schmitt Gordy, this is LMP.
018:02:06 Schmitt Hello, Houston; 17. Are you reading?
018:02:09 CC Go ahead, Jack.
018:02:12 Schmitt Yes, you got any news today - to read up to us?
018:02:17 CC Well, yes. As a matter of fact, we have a little bit made up here. I guess along the personal line, we checked with Barbara and Jan and the kids, and they're all back home safe and sound and they mentioned that they're going into their own personal quarantine period, glued to the squawk box. Over.
018:02:48 Cernan Okay.
018:02:48 Evans I was afraid you were going to get too personal there, for a minute. (Laughter)
018:02:55 CC I'll run down a few quick summaries of this morning's news. Former President Harry Truman has rallied slightly, despite his weakened heart and labored breathing. His doctors report that their main worry is whether his heart is strong enough to withstand the strain, the physical strain of 88 years. Despite the slight rally, Truman's condition is still considered critical. In Paris, Henry Kissinger met with Hanoi's Le Du Tho for 4 hours yesterday in planned secret talks. Paris newspapers report an imminent cease-fire, but neither Kissinger or Tho indicate that this is true. After the 4-hour talks, Kissinger shook hands; and his aid - got a little typo error here - but neither representative made any comment concerning their meeting. At Camp David, Maryland, President Nixon's press secretary, Ron L. Ziegler, said that Kissinger and Nixon are in close communication by cable concerning the secret peace talks. But Ziegler declined to provide more information about progress in the talks. President Nixon selected Claude S. Brinegar, a California oil executive and a doctor of economics, to be Secretary of Transportation succeeding John A. Volpe. Volpe will become the U.S. ambassador to italy. Here's one concerning last night's launch. Mrs. Spiro Agnew reportedly made a wish on a falling star just before the delayed launch of Apollo 17. Sitting beside her at the VIP viewing site was Barbara Cernan, who said that she was nervous when the lift-off was postponed. She added, "But Al Bean was there with me. He said not to be concerned." Mrs. Cernan was accompanied by her daughter Tracy, and her mother, Mrs. Jackie Ashley. Mrs. Ron Evans, who saw the launch with her children, Jamie and John, said that she was never worried because everybody knew what they were doing.
018:05:19 SC (Laughter)
018:07:36 Cernan Good summary, Gordo. We thank you, and our best wishes for the return to health of Mr. Truman.
018:07:46 CC Roger.
018:07:50 Cernan Gordo, we were figuring up here that we probably launched on the 6th of December in Houston and on the 7th of December in Florida.
018:08:00 CC That's right. You called it right.
018:08:06 Evans Okay, CMC AUTO there, Gene, please.
018:08:12 SC Oh, boy.
018:09:04 Evans Okay, let's use the VERB 23, ENTER. Oh, what did I do there. ENTER, let's see, is a 110. There, okay. VERB 25 - ENTER. Oh, Gamma Prime Leonis. (Coughing) Okay, minus 8490 - 84900, I mean; plus 40299 plus 40299 ENTER; plus 34176, plus - 76, ENTER; okay, PROCEED. 202 ... l8, okay. There already. ... I guess. We'll try that one more time. ... CMC, AUTO? 196306.
018:10:26 Schmitt Gordy, you still there?
018:10:27 Evans Okay; that's right.
018:10:31 CC Go ahead, Jack.
018:10:34 Schmitt Yes, I mentioned to Bob yesterday how - when we moved away from the Earth - how fragile a piece of blue it looked to be, and that impression certainly grows the farther you get from it. I wish everybody could have a chance to get that impression. Things might go a little easier for us.
018:10:57 CC Roger.
018:11:06 Evans Okay, Gene, ... CMC FREE?
018:11:11 Evans (Singing) ... must be making the vector worse and worse instead of better. (Laughter) Well, it was on the substellar point that time except it was halfway through the Earth almost. Not really.
018:12:41 Evans Hey, Gordy, we haven't really had a clear and detailed description of what you or somebody else saw at the launch, in terms of the lighting around the countryside, the state of the flame, and how long the - exhaust was under the S-IC. Do you have anything to add to that?
018:13:12 CC Well, I can give you my feelings, anyway. It was a spectacular sight, and no doubt about it. I'd say the level of illumination would have made it easy to - to read a newspaper or anything like that from my vantage point near the VAB. The - the plume itself actually looked no larger or - or even any brighter, really, except in contrast, than it does on a day launch by comparison. But - well, the effect, I guess, was about what I expected just trying to extrapolate previous launches into a nighttime situation. The weather was very clear. That was one advantage gained by delaying the launch the 2 hours and 40 minutes that you did. By that time, there were very few clouds around at all. And we could see a brilliant flash there when the first stage cut off and the second stage ignited. And I lost you visually probably, oh, 4 to 5 minutes into the second stage, as best I can remember. Part of the problem was the brightness of the plume during the first stage, it kind of burned a spot on my eye; and so then I was - had reduced efficiency at looking for a small point of light from there on out. Stu's here with me and he was watching it, too. I'll see if he has anything to add.
018:15:14 Evans Stu who?
018:15:19 CC He said after that comment he has no comment.
018:15:23 Evans (Laughter) I'm sorry, Stu. I can't believe that; Stu always has something to add. (Singing) Houston, in case you just noticed, I forgot the VERB 67 until just now. Although, in reality, all we're trying to do here is get a DELTA-H measurement anyhow. And, Houston, do you have any feel yet for what the DELTA-H is - line has been?
018:15:59 CC Stand by, Ron.
018:16:14 CC
018:16:28 Evans Okay, that's mighty fine.
018:16:32 Evans Okay, Geno, CMC AUTO? Let's see what's on this star here. Kalinan [sic] - that's Menkalinan, I guess. Okay, Earth far horizon; 23, ENTER 120, ENTER, 25 ENTER ... (Coughing) (Singing) Plus - 7073 ENTER, plus 70644 ENTER. Okay, that is the unit vector of the star.
018:22:14 Evans Okay, it's a l80 option we don't want. ... the real option. (Laughter) I guess they're getting - Houston, you must be getting all the good data without the high gain, huh?
018:22:38 CC That's affirmative, Ron.
018:22:40 Evans Okay. Okay, let's ENTER that.
018:22:55 Evans Okay, Gene, you go CMC FREE now? Yes, that's about a half a sextant diameter above the - above the horizon. Substellar point looks pretty good, though.
018:25:51 Evans Hey, guys, -
018:28:58 PAO This is Apollo control at 18 hours 29 minutes. During the change of shift press briefing, flight director Gene Kranz reviewed the status of the mission with each of his flight controllers everything essentially normal at this point. Flight dynamics officer reported that they have not yet gotten sufficient tracking on the S-IVB trajectory to give an impact point based on tracking. We should have that in a matter of hours. And we'll get a report as soon as a set of coordinates for the S-IVB impact are available. Also, capcom Gordon Fullerton read up a news report to the crew. And it's been relatively quiet for the past 5 or 10 minutes on the air to ground line. We'll replay the accumulated tape and as soon as we've caught up with the tape we'll stand by for live conservations with the crew.
018:30:54 Evans - Yes, not yet.
018:31:11 Evans Yes, it's on there.
018:36:43 Evans 30 ENTER - oops! CMC AUTO ... Now, last star. What was that? I'm going to go back to the calibration attitude.
018:38:04 Evans Okay, CMC auto engaged, and away we go.
018:38:11 Evans Hey, we ... dump the waste water, too - to 10 percent.
018:38:21 Evans 164, 301, and 318 - that's the optics calibration attitude that we want to start with. Put the landmark line of sight mark on star 22. Also the optics line of sight, with optics zero. Let's see, I'll the optics, I guess first.
018:45:43 Evans Okay, Houston, looks like optics calibration here is 89995 - I get that half the time and 997 the rest. So (laughter) we'll use 995, I guess.
018:45:57 CC Roger.
018:46:07 Schmitt Okay, Houston, you ready for some purges and dumps?
018:46:11 CC Let me make sure here. We're standing by.
018:46:43 Schmitt Okay. I'll get going on the 0 purges on the fuel cell.
018:46:43 CC Okay.
018:49:28 Schmitt Well, I had my clock on the wrong scale. is that about 2 minutes, Houston?
018:49:48 CC That's good, Jack.
018:50:09 CC Did you copy that, Jack? They said that was fine.
018:50:13 Schmitt Yes, sir, Stu; I copied that. How are you?
018:50:16 CC Okay; swinging.
018:50:21 Schmitt That's good to hear.
018:50:24 CC Sure am enjoying your descriptions.
018:50:31 Schmitt Well, if I could get Ron off his - work with the optics, we'd look at the Earth some more. But that will come. Right now I'm seeing all sorts of little ice crystals of various composition, (laughter) that are moving around, and every one of them bounces off the LM that I can see. No, none of them stick. I noticed that some of them will go into a corner with a fairly high velocity and either be turned around by a double bounce, or just get lost in the corner and have very low velocity when they come out.
018:51:10 CC Roger.
018:52:06 Schmitt Most of them look like they have at least a foot or 2 per second.
018:52:13 CC Roger.
018:52:24 CC Hey, Jack, I was surprised when you said when you got Ron off the optics. Don't tell me that Ron is going to let you look through his optics.
018:52:33 Schmitt Oh, heavens no! We just move the windows. (Laughter)
018:52:37 CC (Laughter) Okay.
018:52:38 Evans That's for sure.
018:52:47 PAO The CAPCOM at the present time is Astronaut Stuart Roosa, backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 17.
018:53:08 Schmitt Stu, apparently you get - do get some particle/particle collisions, because some of the trajectories are back towards us.
018:53:22 CC Okay; we're waiting for the explanation of that.
018:53:29 Schmitt Well, I think it's because the particles and - some of them, you know, are bouncing off the LM and get out into the stream, which normally would have no collisions. How's that? You can say it's not very good. I don't care.
018:53:55 CC Got to use tact here.
018:54:32 PAO That animated description of the behavour of a cloud of ice crystals drifting along with spacecraft is coming from Jack Schmitt. Apollo 17 at this point is 81,654 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 5,972 feet per second. And we see from the telemetry data that the fuel cell purge called for in the flight plan at this time is progressing. This involves flowing, in this case, oxygen at a high rate through the fuel cell for a short period of time to remove any build-up of contaminants. And, as a routine maintenance or housekeeping procedure, same thing is also done periodically for the hydrogen.
018:56:15 CC You can terminate the purge on fuel cell 3 - O2.
018:56:21 Evans Yes. I even forgot to listen for the ding on that one. Thank you.
018:58:32 CC 17, we'll be having a communications handover to Honeysuckle in about a minute and a half.
018:58:41 Cernan Okay, Gordo.
018:58:45 Schmitt That's great. Next time I look at the Earth, I'll see what's happening in Australia.
019:01:24 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're starting our waste water dump.
019:01:29 CC Okay.
019:01:30 Cernan Wish us luck. Wish us luck.
019:01:38 Evans Hey, that really goes out!
019:01:52 CC Can you give us P00 and ACCEPT? And we'll give you a new state vector.
019:02:01 Evans Probably need one after all those ... Okay, you've got P00 and ACCEPT.
019:02:09 CC Roger.
019:04:11 CC Okay, the vector's in there. It's your computer.
019:04:18 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Thank you.
019:06:58 PAO This is Apollo control at 19 hours 7 minutes. The crew aboard Apollo 17 has completed the next item in the flight plan in the way of housekeeping duties aboard the spacecraft. That involved dumping waste water. Water is accumulated in a 7 to 8 gallon tank on the spacecraft which is produced as a by-product of generating electricity in the fuel cells. These fuel cells generate quite a bit more water than the spacecraft is able to consume for cooling and for crew drinking purposes. The excess goes into a waste water tank and periodically it's dumped down to about lO percent, and the crew has just completed that activity. We're going to take advantage of a relatively quiet time in the flight plan at this time to replay a portion of the air-to-ground conservations with the spacecraft which included among other things a rather detailed description of earth given by Jack Schmitt, some weather patterns. This replay is necessitated by a problem that we had with a portion of the public affairs release circuit between 4:40 and 5:05 p.m. central standard time this afternoon in which a portion of the release circuit did not receive the air-to-ground and for the benefit of those people who missed that portion of air-to-ground we'll replay the tapes at this time.
019:09:51 Schmitt Houston, you going to want to cycle some film here?
019:09:56 CC That's affirm. We're planning on it. Let me make sure they're ready, though, before you do it.
019:10:07 Schmitt Well, I didn't want to bring it up, but you're about - 20 minutes late on your cue.
019:10:18 CC You must have missed our first call.
019:10:23 Schmitt I probably did.
019:12:21 CC Jack, we're ready for the pan and mapping camera film cycling. You haven't started into the procedure yet, is that correct?
019:12:32 Schmitt No, not yet.
019:12:34 CC Okay, at your convenience, we're ready to - watch you do it.
019:12:42 Schmitt Okay. And were those last high gain - I guess they're still good, huh? You want the high gain on it?
019:12:53 CC Okay; we'd like you to use PITCH at minus 50 and YAW 320 and acquire the high gain.
019:13:03 Schmitt Okay, will do.
019:14:06 CC You have 10 percent waste water now. You can terminate the dump.
019:14:12 Schmitt Okay. We're just about there.
019:15:07 Evans Okay, the old IMAGE MOTION is OFF.
019:15:12 CC Roger.
019:15:13 Schmitt DATA SYSTEMS are going ON. AUX TV is going to SCIENTIFIC.
019:15:23 CC Jack, we'd like AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN.
019:15:38 Schmitt There you go. Okay?
019:15:41 CC Thank you.
019:15:43 Evans Okay. SM/AC POWER is coming ON. MAPPING CAMERA is going to STANDBY; talkback's gray. PAN MODE is verified in STANDBY. PAN CAMERA MODE? Yes. Okay PAN CAMERA is going to POWER - now. Barber pole
019:16:19 Cernan Okay, the PAN CAMERA just went to POWER. Okay, Ron's talking to you. Didn't know that.
019:16:28 CC Roger.
019:16:31 Evans PAN CAMERA SELF TEST has gone to HEATERS.
019:16:38 Cernan High bit rate. Okay; waiting your cue, Gordy.
019:16:45 CC Okay, stand by.
019:16:50 CC Okay, Ron, we're ready for the film cycling.
019:17:45 Evans Okay, MAPPING Camera is going ON.
019:18:15 Evans Okay, PAN CAMERA SELF TEST is going to SELF TEST. That makes barberpole. Okay, I forgot to time it, yes.
019:19:08 Evans Okay, talkback went gray on the PAN CAMERA.
019:19:12 CC Roger.
019:19:27 Evans Okay, PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF.
019:19:54 Evans Okay, MAPPING CAMERA is going OFF.
019:20:34 Evans Okay. SM/AC POWER is coming OFF, huh?
019:20:42 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Film cycling is complete.
019:20:45 CC Okay. It looked real good on both cameras.
019:20:52 Schmitt Very good.
019:23:49 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. If your friends there on your left are wondering what strange sounds they're hearing, I just got the harness on.
019:23:55 CC Roger.
019:24:00 Cernan And, then, I guess if you're through with the high gain, I'll go back to OMNI Bravo.
019:24:07 CC Okay. We concur with that idea.
019:24:12 Schmitt And if I could ever get Ron out of the kitchen, we'd get into PTC.
019:24:21 CC Jack, you'll be glad to know your heart is beating normally. We have a good signal.
019:25:07 Schmitt Just so long as it's beating, Gordy. About 20 hours ago, I wasn't so sure.
019:27:06 Cernan Gordo, (cough) we're maneuvering to the PTC attitude now.
019:27:11 CC Okay.
019:29:20 Evans Houston, Apollo 17. Any recommended quads for damping the PTC rates?
019:29:29 CC Stand by on that, Ron. We'll give it to you in a minute.
019:29:39 CC Ron, we're recommending AB for damping and Bravo Delta for roll spinup. I'll say again. Alpha Bravo for damping and Bravo Delta for roll spinup.
019:29:52 Evans Okay, Robert, and welcome back aboard.
019:29:55 CC Roger, sir.
019:30:01 Evans You know, this eating in zero G is not so bad if you keep your bags right side up. If you keep them that way, you get the right perspective. It's sure something funny, if you turn the bag upside down, and it still doesn't fall out, you know.
019:30:19 CC Roger.
019:31:41 Evans Having a little peach ambrosia for a snack here.
019:33:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 19 hours 33 minutes. That completes our replay of the segments of the air-to-ground that were lost on a portion of the Public Affairs Release Network earlier today. During that replay, we accumulated about 5 or 6 minutes of additional tape with the crew, the activities involved during that period of time or completion of waste water dump, the crew dumping excess water produced by the fuel cells and stored in a storage tank on the spacecraft, and they dump it down to about 10 percent of its quantity, or its capacity. And, also completed one other routine housekeeping activity. That was cycling the film in the panoramic and mapping cameras contained back in the service module scientific instrument module bay. That bay, of course, still has the door over it. The door will be jettisoned before going into orbit around the moon exposing those cameras for use in lunar orbit taking high-resolution and very accurately controlled mapping cameras - mapping photos of the lunar surface. The cycling of the film is made necessary by the fact that the film is under some tension in the magazine in the transport mechanism. This tension tends to put pressure on the emulsion, and if the film is not advanced, oh, four or five cycles, at least once every 24 hours, it tends to create striations in the emulsion, and this is done during the translunar coast when the cameras are not being used periodically, once a day to prevent these striations from developing in the emulsion of the film. We'll replay that accumulated tape for you and then continue to stand by live.
019:42:07 PAO This is Apollo control. That completes our replay of accumulated tape we'll now stand by for any live conservations with the crew. One thing additionally that we get out of cycling the cameras the panoramic and mapping cameras as an indication of how they are performing mechanically. As you heard based on the telemetry data that we got here on the ground both cameras appear to be functioning properly tucked away in the scientific instrument module bay of the CSM. You also heard some conservation with Jack Schmitt who is wearing the biomedical harness during sleep periods it's customary for one of the three crewman only to wear the biomedical harness which allows them to get heart rate during the sleep period and the crewman take turns wearing that biomedical harness and during the sleep we are getting good biomedical data - good heart rate data on Schmitt at the present time. Also, Ron Evans commented on getting the spacecraft in the PTC attitude. Essentially, this attitude has the spacecraft oriented at right angles to it's direction of travel. Right angles to the Earth Moon plane so that the Sun is essentially shining on the sides of the vehicle of the CSM and LM. And, then using the reaction control system thrusters on the command module they set up a slow roll rate so that the two vehicles docked together are rotating at the rate of about three revolutions per hour. And, if this is done properly and it's a tricky maneuver usually crews get more and more experienced at it as they go through the mission, and tend to have the most problems early on in getting it set up. But if it is set up with all of the rates damped and everything very stable when the roll is started it will maintain this roll without wobbling out of it throughout the rest period. The purpose of this is to maintain a proper thermal equilibrium on the spacecraft so that the heating on one side from the Sun the cooling of the other as it is exposed to the black of space is uniform and nothing gets too hot or too cold. At the present time Apollo 17 is 84,482 nautical miles from Earth and the velocity continuing to decrease gradually down to about 5,824 feet per second, just a little over one mile per second. We'll continue to stand by live now for any conversations with the crew. This could continue to be a relatively quiet period based on Ron Evans or I guess it was Jack Schmitt's comment that Evans was in the kitchen leads us to believe that they are probably getting ready to eat. This is Apollo control at 19 hours 45 minutes.
019:51:21 PAO This is Apollo Control at 19 hours 51 minutes. On the telemetry data that we have here in the Control Center, we're watching as the spacecraft is automatically killing off its rates, in preparation for setting up it's passive thermal control mode. They're getting the vehicles very stable, and they're measuring rate changes in thousandths of a degree per second. And when it is as essentially as stable as it appears possible to get it, they'll then fire the thrusters, to begin rolling at a slow 3 revolutions per hour rate. This is the second passive thermal control mode established.
019:52:11 CC
019:52:20 Cernan Okay, Bob.
019:52:35 PAO The crew set up the spacecraft in the passive thermal control mode before their previous sleep period and experienced no difficulties, and they appear to be going very smoothly, in this passive thermal control setup. You heard CAPCOM Robert Overmeyer who's come in to relieve CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton, advise them that the rates have been killed off sufficiently to begin rotating the vehicles now.
019:54:40 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're in PTC. Or, Bob, I guess you're down there now.
019:54:51 CC Roger, Gene.
019:55:36 Schmitt Bob, did you ever find out what part of Antarctica we were seeing at various Earth orientations?
019:55:46 CC Jack, I've - I tried that this afternoon, and I couldn't get hold of anybody, and I looked on a map for a while, and I - I'm not sure where Little America was. I can't truthfully say I did it - get it. I'll keep looking at it.
019:55:59 Schmitt Okay. I - at any rate, it looks like there's a very well-developed front coming out of the northwestern portion of Antarctic ice shelf. And ... and it - let's see here. Well, stand by 1.
019:56:25 CC Roger.
019:56:26 Schmitt Have to change windows.
019:58:42 Schmitt Okay, Bob. That front looks like it starts and develops as a small - - it actually seems to start with an anticyclone development off the coast of Antarctica. Moves up across New Zealand, looks like the South island primarily, a little bit of the North island is still visible, and into the eastern coast of Australia. And I'll give you a spot where it intersects and crosses the whole of Australia. However, it - it breaks up and is not very well formed, once it gets inland away from the coast. I see no well-developed waves on it at this time, so it's hard to say how strong it is. There might be one developing just to the south of New Zealand or right off the coast of New Zealand.
019:59:55 CC Roger. I copy that, Jack.
019:59:58 Schmitt There at least is some sinusoidal motion or appearance to the front ... And you'll have to wait, because I lost it again.
020:00:16 CC Roger.
020:00:22 Schmitt I took two 5 - 50-millimeter pictures. Mag November November is on 132.
020:00:33 CC Roger. November November on 132. Those are pictures of the - -
020:00:39 Schmitt And that was the -
020:00:51 CC Jack, Houston. Was that - were those pictures of those fronts you are talking about?
020:02:39 PAO That was Jack Schmitt giving us the description of the weather patterns developing off the northwest coast of Antartica and extending up towards New Zealand and Australia. Apollo 17 at the present time is about 85,500 nautical miles from Earth and situated over the south Pacific. The spacecraft now essentially fixed with the respect to the Earth and Moon, but the Earth rotating beneath it as the earth rotates - -
020:03:14 Schmitt Bob, I got our orbital map out now, and that front is going off across to the coast of Australia north of Sidney and largely a little south of Brisbane and - and swings across the whole of Australia and seems to come - near as I can tell, go by into the Indian Ocean about - well, where the Great Sandy Desert intersects the northwestern coast of Australia.
020:03:53 CC Roger, Jack.
020:07:15 CC 17, I've got a Flight Plan update here.
020:07:23 Schmitt Stand by, please.
020:07:24 CC Roger. It's just a short one. One item to change.
020:07:31 Schmitt Well, if you saw my hands right now (laughter), you'd know why I said wait 1.
020:07:34 CC Understand. I'm just - just waiting for your call. Just didn't want you to think we're going to give you a whole rafter of it.
020:07:43 Schmitt Oh, we know you wouldn't do that.
020:08:03 CC If you're eating, Jack, just go ahead and eat. This is nothing that can - we can just wait, and any time, just go ahead.
020:08:11 Schmitt Yes, I'm not panicking.
020:09:13 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Go with the update, and LM/CM DELTA-P at 20 ... 09.
020:09:30 CC Want you to know, Jack, we just cut out by the antenna switching. Say again the LM/CM DELTA-P.
020:09:36 Schmitt Okay, 0.6 at 20 plus 09.
020:09:43 CC Roger. Okay. My update is just simply on the botton of page 3-23 at 2300 hours in the Flight Plan or 23 hours in the Flight Plan. "WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve, CLOSED." Just delete that one, and move it over to 24:30, That's because you got started late on that.
020:10:10 Schmitt Okay. You could've just said, move it.
020:10:12 CC Okay. Just change it down to 24:30.
020:10:17 Schmitt 24:30.
020:12:00 Schmitt Okay. Bob - about revision one on my previous discussion of the weather around Australia. That front does cross - probably Brisbane is probably cloudy. It does cross about that area, and - however, there is a bank of clouds that runs off of it down the coastline. So Sidney is either cloudy or has some pretty nice clouds off - off shore. And the remnants of the front as it dissipates in the hinterland of Australia dies out at about the Great Sandy Desert, and there is not a good indication that it crosses into the Ind - Indian Ocean. But we're getting over near the LM, and that's a little hard to tell.
020:12:53 CC Roger.
020:13:03 Schmitt Now, it - more - looks more and more like the cyclone circulation developing right over the top of New Zealand; the South island, I think. And now I'm looking with the binoc, and as much - that anticyclone circulation is centered on the ice shelf. And I think that - well, I Just don't know - I think that's the Ross Ice Shelf, but I'm not sure, off Antarctic. And the clouds from that circulation do extend over the ice shelf and barely into the Antarctic con - continent.
020:13:45 CC Roger, Jack.
020:13:58 Schmitt Now to the north of Antarctica. Let's see now. I ought to give you a better orientation than that. But, anyway, there is a large cyclone circulation pattern that has its southern extremity right on the edge of the ice shelf. And that - that is east by 20 or 30 degrees of longitude of the front that I just was discussing. By the way, that front intersects Antarctica.
020:14:40 CC Roger, Jack.
020:16:22 Schmitt Between New Zealand and Australia, the front I was discussing previously has some fairly strong transverse cloud patterns. It's hard to say whether they're high cirrus or not. But the clear area to the south of the front suggests that maybe the jet stream is roughly paralleling that front in that area.
020:16:53 CC Roger. I'd have to look up and see - -
020:17:01 Schmitt If I had to guess, I'd -
020:17:01 CC - - if they do have any jet stream down there right now.
020:17:05 Schmitt I - if I had to guess, if you were flying - west from Sidney this afternoon, you'd have a pretty strong tailwind behind you, Bob.
020:17:23 CC Roger.
020:17:27 Schmitt Let's see, did I get that right?
020:17:34 Schmitt Would you believe a headwind?
020:17:36 CC Okay. I'll believe that.
020:17:49 Schmitt But the bulk of Australia is very clear, all the south and the north. It's just that one line of - of clouds that crosses the center section.
020:18:04 CC Roger.
020:18:56 Schmitt That put all the major cities of the south, Perth and Adelaide, at least, and Melbourne, certainly in the clear. And in the North Darwin, in those areas, are very nicely clear today.
020:19:15 CC Roger. I hope we can get this out to them and let them know that you're watching and tell them how good the weather is.
020:19:28 Schmitt Oh, that's all right. I'm just having fun, Bob,
020:19:31 CC Understand. I imagine they'd appreciate it though.
020:35:18 Schmitt Bob, I tried to pick out the Hawaiian islands on that last little turn here through window 5. And I can't say that I did. I think I've got them - the area spotted. It looks like they might be under some fairly heavy cloud cover today. I do not see the islands. I'm not sure I could, if it was clear.
020:35:38 CC Roger. Hey, Jack, I got some answers to your question from last night on where Little America is with respect to - on Antarctica.
020:35:51 Schmitt Go ahead.
020:35:53 CC There's a - inden - indentation that looks like a gulf that's called the Ross Sea, and on the northwest edge of the Ross Sea is Little America, That's the location of it.
020:36:09 Schmitt Okay. And that would be the coast of Antarctica that sort of faces New Zealand and Australia. is that correct?
020:36:18 CC Negative. According to the map I've got, it's - the Ross Sea looks like it would be more facing up towards the South America area. It's actually kind of facing up sort of the middle between Australia and South America, Jack.
020:37:01 Schmitt Okay, Bob. You cut out, and I presume you meant that - the Ross Sea was facing north - sort of the Pacific between South America and Australia?
020:37:12 CC That's affirmative, Jack. It's a very sharp indentation or sea or gulf onto the Antarctica.
020:37:29 Schmitt Okay. I think I know the area you mean, and I'll check it out again when it comes by.
020:37:35 CC Okay. That's Little America on that west-northwest edge of that Ross Sea. That's where Little America is.
020:37:46 Schmitt Yes, all that - those names are familiar. I just had forgotten my geography. I'll see if I can recognize them.
020:45:11 PAO This is Apollo Control at 20 hours 45 minutes. We're occasionally picking up a bit of noise on the Air-to-Ground circuit. This is due to the fact that the spacecraft is in the passive thermal control mode, as it rotates. We're gradually losing contact through one of the OMNI antennas and re-establishing adequate signal strength on another one. And as it moves from antenna to antenna on our coverage, we get the noise. This is a characteristic that becomes more pronounced as the spacecraft gets farther and farther from Earth. Here in Mission Control, the Flight Activities Officer has been actively involved in figuring out how in the flight plan we're going to make up for the 2 hours 40 minutes difference from the flight plan liftoff time and the actual liftoff time. One of two things happen when you lift off late for a mission. Either the events that are called out in the flight plan occur at a different Earth time, Central Standard, Eastern Standard, or Greenwich Mean whichever reference you happen to be using, or the elapsed times change. And the flight planning is all done in terms of elapsed time for the most part. Events that are called out in the flight plan are listed by the amount of time that has elapsed from liftoff. At the present time, in the Apollo 17 flight plan, the amount of time that has elapsed since liftoff is unchanged from the pre-mission flight plan time. However, as, by the time we have approached or reached the Moon, because of the speeded up translunar coast time, occasioned by slightly faster or slightly greater amount of energy that was put in during the translunar injection burn, we'll have to make up 2 hours 40 minutes. In other words, we'll be arriving at the Moon 2 hours 40 minutes earlier than flight plan allowed for. This means that all of the events that are called in the flight plan to occur between now and lunar arrival have to be accomplished in 2 hours 40 minutes less time than the flight plan allows for. This creates no serious problems, because it's a relatively quiet period of the mission. It's very easy, by adjusting sleep period slightly and moving the activities up to accomplish it. However, the flight planning officer, flight activities officer, prefers to accomplish this shift in two increments rather than a single one. And this could be likened to a change of daylight savings time, where you don't want to make the jump too big at once, and you might start interfering in a way that would be noticeable, say, with sleep periods. But by accomplishing it in two segments, the change is relatively insignificant. And what this amounts to is that at two different times in the flight plan, we'll read changes to the crew, and they will go down the flight plan, moving a series of events approximately 1 hour earlier. The second time that this is done, they'll actually be moving events 1 hour 40 minutes earlier and at the same time, we'll update the clocks in Mission Control, the Ground Elapsed Time clocks, which serve as the key to where you are in the flight plan to agree with the changes we have made in the flight plan. And from that point on, the GET clock will be back in synchronization with the flight plan. This clock update is presently scheduled to occur at 66 hours Ground Elapsed Time, rather at 67 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, and we'll move the clocks to 66 hours. Apollo 17 at present time is 88,091 nautical miles from EARTH.
020:50:13 Schmitt Okay, Bob, checking on the Ross Sea, and if I've got her pegged right, it's got a fair amount of open water in it this time of year.
020:50:27 CC Roger.
020:50:27 Schmitt Although it's completely surrounded, I think, completely surrounded, I think by portions of the icepack. And off to the west of there, it looks like there's an area that might be - clear of snow, and - does my memory serve me correctly, that that's where McMurdo Sound is, and some of the dry valleys?
020:50:57 CC I believe so. That's the Little America area right now, all that general vicinity, Jack.
020:51:11 Schmitt Okay. It looks like the prime recovery area and the Samoa island region is clear, and my guess would be from the fairly subdued zero phase point, that they might have fairly nice seas out there. The boys on the Ticonderoga are probably enjoying themselves immensely, I hope.
020:51:36 CC Roger.
020:51:42 Schmitt Indonesia looks like it's having a nice day, with the possible exception of the region over just north of Australia. New Guinea and that area they - some clouds in there. I can't tell whether they are high or low clouds though. They look like they're probably fairly high clouds. But north of New Guinea, there's a strong concentration of clouds. Although small, it looks fairly dense like there might be a little tropical depression in that area.
020:52:20 CC Roger.
020:52:36 Schmitt The folks in Carnarvon ought to be enjoying a very nice day.
020:53:30 Schmitt I've been trying to spot tropical storm Teresa, which is - a couple of days ago was in the Philippines. But I can't - I don't think I quite have that visible to me right now.
020:53:47 CC Roger, Jack. Say, you might want to put something in the back of your mind here a minute. We made a run of the DSE recording just now of the TLI to get an idea of the quality of the DSE recording, and Gene came through loud and clear. Ron was very weak and almost unreadable, and we never caught you, Jack, in there. We don't - maybe you weren't saying anything during TLI, but we never did catch anything you said.
020:54:17 Schmitt Okay. I don't recall talking too much during TLI.
020:54:21 CC Roger. Understand. Now Gene - Gene came through real loud and clear. So whatever technique he was using went on that tape real well.
020:55:26 CC Hey, Jack; Houston.
020:55:31 Schmitt Hello.
020:55:33 CC Hey, Jack. Just a couple more comments on that DSE. I think, as you well know, it's very critical on the position of your - of your boom there, and those areas that you're critical in, why, make sure that you've - you've really got those beauties up or you're talking right in - right into it. And this - this really makes a difference, because the DSE - The volume is - is fairly low, and if you're muddled just the least bit, why, it - it's going to be difficult to pick it up. So talk slow, and - and get right up next to the mike, because I know you - you're doing it. Just some voices come across a little better than others.
020:56:18 Schmitt Roger, Stu. Thanks for the comments. As a matter of fact, you probably called it just right. I think during - once I got the helmet off, I loosened up my chinstrap, and my mike booms had moved away from my mouth some. And I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the reminder.
020:56:38 CC Yes. It's - that's probably the most critical item is that - is the position of those, and this has been true of - in the past, and it just really makes a difference in - in that - being able to pick up the data off the voice.
020:56:54 Schmitt Roger. I've - Ron and I did some experimentation with that in the chamber, and couldn't agree more. But I sometimes don't remember it. Thank you.
020:57:05 Cernan Well, Stu, I just - -
020:57:07 Schmitt I - I
020:57:07 Cernan - - thought I'd -
020:57:10 Schmitt Okay. Go ahead, Stu.
020:57:12 CC No, I was saying I was - I'm sure you - you're aware of that, but I think the fact that the volume is - is down just accentuates the - the problem.
020:57:28 Schmitt Okay. Gene had something he wanted to ask you.
020:57:31 Cernan Stu, I - I just thought you'd like to be aware of it, as much time as we've all spent down at the cape, probably May is one of the nicest months down there. However, having had the opportunity to - to be up here during May, I find out that it's not nearly as nice up here.
020:57:53 CC Okay.
020:57:59 Cernan And I'd like to - to thank all my friends for that
020:58:03 CC Okay.
021:03:21 PAO This is Apollo control at 21 hours 3 minutes. Things continuing to progress smoothly and very quietly here in mission control and aboard the spacecraft. And we'd like to have a bit more discussion of the Ground Elapsed Time update after first making the disclaimer that GET clock updates are not done for the purpose of confusing people; although, I'm sure it seems that way at times. And, by way of clarifying the previous description of this GET update we should point out that the amount of time that the clocks are changed both here and mission control and aboard the spacecraft will be 2 hours and 40 minutes and this clock change is scheduled to occur as mentioned previously at about 65 hours Ground Elapsed Time. In other words when the clocks here in the control center and the clocks in the spacecraft keeping track of the time that has elapsed since liftoff reach 65 hours they will be arbitrarily jumped ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes so that at that point the clocks agree with the flight plan. However, in order to account for these 2 hours and 40 minutes which are suddenly going to disappear from the amount of time available to the crew to accomplish their activities to make it easier on the crew it will be done in two increments. The first increment of 1 hour and the second increment of 1 hour 40 minutes. And, at about the time the second increment of change is made in the flight plan we'll also simultaneously update the clocks. Apollo 17 at this time 88,909 nautical miles from Earth and the velocity continuing to decrease gradually down now to 5,603 feet per second. Very little activity is scheduled in the flight plan between now and the time the crew begins it's rest period. This day aboard the spacecraft has been planned as a relatively short one recognizing that the crew would not get a great deal of sleep on that very long - as a result of the very long launch day. And a relatively short sleep period following. This day was intentionally kept short. They're now - should be completing their eat period although they really have nothing showing in the flight plan until about 22 hours or about another hour from now where they have alloted time for exercise. They will be changing the lithium hydroxide canisters that remove carbon dioxide from the spacecraft cabin atmosphere. They will be realigning the spacecraft platform the stable platform that's used as an attitude reference by the guidance navigation and control system. Then they have one more eat period and go through the pre-sleep checklist beginning an 8 hour rest period at about 25 hours Ground Elapsed Time or a little less than 4 hours from now.
021:10:18 Schmitt Bob, you with me?
021:10:24 CC Roger. We wouldn't go away, Jack. We're listening. Did you call?
021:10:29 Schmitt Well, I just - Yes, I almost lost a pass here, and just a couple more words about Australia. As a - as a general landmass, it's red. Very strong red hues, except for the north and eastern coasts, where that red gradually merges into a greenish-gray. It's as - as red as portions of - of northern Africa appeared to be yesterday.
021:11:12 CC Roger.
021:11:13 Schmitt Very striking color. It would be more of an orange-red, really, with brown subduing it. It's not - obviously not crimson or anything like that.
021:11:29 CC You think it's a function of Sun angle Jack? Or is it just - just a red like we see out in New Mexico area sometimes - some of the areas?
021:11:37 Schmitt Yes. No, it's not Sun angle, because that'll hold a good red color right - right in towards sunset or sunrise. It's - it's due primarily, I'm sure, like most desert areas, to the oxidation of the iron-bearing minerals in the sands and rocks in those regions.
021:11:58 CC Roger.
021:11:59 Schmitt Getting limonite and hematite. Little geology thrown in there, Bob. Sorry.
021:12:08 CC That's all right. Got to keep you warmed up for the next couple of days.
021:12:30 Schmitt Well, I think the Flight Plan will probably keep me warmed up, too.
021:12:35 CC Roger. We thought that time around T&D was just outstanding.
021:12:44 Cernan Hey, Bob. We - I think we've pretty well got impressions from you down there on that - on that night launch. I might give you a few of mine.
021:12:54 CC Go ahead, Gene.
021:13:34 CC 17, Houston. Are you there? You're right on the edge, if you read me. We're getting a lot of static. If you'll just hang on a minute, we'll be back into some calm air.
021:13:59 CC Gene, Houston. Go ahead.
021:14:47 CC 17, Houston.
021:14:49 Cernan Go ahead.
021:14:50 CC We're just standing by for your comments you wanted to make. I think we lost comm there a minute. We're back with you.
021:14:58 Cernan Okay, Bob. The entire boost itself was not unlike what you've heard and what Stu down there understands from the physical cues, and what have you. But the significant part of going at night is that as soon as we did have ignition down there in the bottom of the S-IC stack - even though I only have a little slit out of - out of the rendezvous window here, and Ron doesn't have much of a hole in the boost protective cover out of the hatch window, we could definitely confirm ignition because we could see the reflected light on out through in front of us. It was by no means blinding, of course; we had the cockpit pretty well lit up. We - as soon as we lifted off, that light immediately went behind us. We came into just S-IC staging, and I had an opportunity to say, "I told you so," to Jack and Ron. It was just like the great train wrecks of the past. I definitely could see the S-II ignite; and, then, of course, the - I could see the significance of the reflection through the window, besides all the other cues we had for ignition, very much like the S-IC lit up the windows on the stack. Tower jett was pretty spectacular. I could see - the entire boost protective cover and some flame from somewhere - I'm not sure - maybe it was through the hole in the windows - but I could definitely see it. Of course, it disappeared in short order. When the S-II shut down, the delay time between shutdown there and the S-IVB igniting, the entire - the entire flame overtook us, and we literally through - flew through the S-II flame when the S-IVB ignited, if you can imagine that. It's very similar to the Titan staging, where you actually fly through the fireball on the S-II. And that's something you never see - none of those things you ever see quite that way in daylight. On the S-IV, I could see - Of course, once we got going, I couldn't see any light from that plume again, but we could see the APS firing all the way through the burn. And once we got in orbit, as other guys have seen, you could see the APS firing at night without any difficulty. One of the most significant things about TLI is the fact that we, of course, started at night and flew right on up and through a sunrise, which in itself was a pretty spectacular thing. But, when you do it during a TLI burn, it even adds a little bit of momentum to your effort.
021:18:17 CC Roger, Gene. Any comment you might make on the possibility of picking up your yaw, if you'd lost your platform at that time - remember the discussion we had about the yaw in the late - like a Mode IV or something like that?
021:18:32 Cernan Yes, Bob. I not only will comment - I was aware of it, and I was looking for it. And during parts of the S-II and parts of the S-IVB burn, I even turned the lights down in the cockpit - in hopes that I could see stars out there; but I could not make out a one. Ron, I think, may have saw Saturn out the overhead hatch; but looking through the rendezvous window, during a boost phase and during a time-critical phase like a Mode II or Mode IV, I am very much afraid that we would not have been able to pick up that reference.
021:19:08 CC Roger.
021:19:11 Cernan As I remember it, as low as I had the interior lights there for a period of time - and I didn't want to keep them that low, of course - to see if I could get adapted very fast because we were in a dynamic phase of the burn. But my window just gave me a very deep purplish hue, a hue of which I could not, literally, see through to look to see any stars at all. Now, that may have been due to the very low intensity of our interior flood lights.
021:19:45 CC Roger, Gene.
021:20:01 Schmitt Bob, this is Jack. A little lay impression there. I think I - saw just about everything Gene was talking about - as far as his description - and felt like it was - although everything was an amazing experience, each one in itself, after each one was over, you could think back and say, "Yes, that's what other guys said it was like." The old Saturn V has got to be a pretty consistently performing vehicle. But - with the added night-time contrast, I think it made it probably the best ride any three guys have ever had.
021:20:45 CC Roger.
021:20:48 Cernan Bob, I might add, that the S-I was, as usual, pretty shakey on lift-off. I saw all the maneuvers as I called them out - the yaw and small reverse roll. Going through Max q, I got up to 25 percent; but my yaw attitude error was zero and my pitch attitude error probably wasn't even at - oh, certainly less than 2 degrees. After Max q, she smoothed out by comparison quite a bit ; and the S-II was a very quiet ride, a very smooth ride. However, you are always aware, due to just a little rumbling out in the S-IVB, that she was still burning for you. The S-IVB, I think, was just a continually - rumble but smooth or consistent ride, all the way through TLI.
021:21:54 CC Roger.
021:21:56 Schmitt Gene I think one of the big things that impressed me was the - how instantaneous the decelerations were of each one of the boosters when they cut off. That included the S-IV TLI cut-off. No physical appreciation of tailoff at all.
021:22:38 Schmitt And, Bob, from my rendez - from the right-hand rendezvous window when the tower jett occurred, there seemed to be a lot of burning particles streaming away from it. I could not see - did not notice or remember seeing the actual cover or tower itself; but I - we were inside the cone of the burn and with a lot of streaming. It looked very much like a sky rocket - portion of one at any rate. Reminded me of the Fourth of July out in Silver City a few years ago.
021:23:16 CC Roger. Say, any time you got your Flight Plan handy, I've got a discussion here I'd like to run through with you on the - how we're going to recover those 2 hours and 40 minutes from the launch delay - and you'll need to copy it into the Flight Plan. And then just wanted - want you to be advised, we're not happy with the PTC. We get a half angle of about 17 degrees; and so sometime after the P52 coming up at 23:00, we'll want to do another PTC, or initiate PTC again.
021:23:54 Cernan Well, that was the commander who initiated PTC, and I've already heard about that.
021:24:00 Evans (Laughter) You bet he has. Okay. We've got the Flight Plan here, Bob. Which part of it are you talking about ...?
021:24:06 CC Well, let's just talk some words here for a minute, and then I'll go through some specifics that you can just write down on a page because you don't want to do it until a little later. Okay, what we're going to set up here - You will arrive at lunar orbit at the same GMT time. The landing Sun angle - Sun elevation angle - and the camera settings and everything will be unchanged when you get to lunar orbit. To compensate for the 2 hour 40 minute late launch, we're going to hack 2 hours and 40 minutes out of the timeline. And we're going to - They'll be out of the TLC timeline - and we're going to do it in two groups. And this is where you might want to start copying now, Ron. Delete 1 hour from 46 to 47. From 46 to 47, we're just going to delete the activities that are presently scheduled at 46:30 to 47:00, you'll perform at 45 - move those to 45. Let me read that again. Delete 1 hour from 46:00 to 47:00. The activities that are listed at 46:30 to 47:00, perform at 45:00.
021:25:31 Evans Okay, Bob, looks like we delete 1 hour from 46 to 47 hours. And then the activities that are at 46:30, we'll do those at 45:00.
021:25:40 CC Roger, Ron. And then starting at 47, just take - just scratch 1 hour off of each time, just subtract 1 hour from each of those times up through 66 hours. Just subtract 1 hour from 47 up through 66.
021:26:10 Evans Okay, we can do that. Subtract 1 hour from 47 through 66 hours.
021:26:14 CC Okay. And then just for your information - you won't have to do it - but we're going to play the old simulator step-ahead game at 66 hours of the old time, which will be 65 hours of the new time. So however you want to call it, we'll call you; and we're going to sync you up at 67:40 at that point. We'll play the old step-ahead game there.
021:26:33 Cernan Okay, Bob. That means that you're not going to actually do any clock updates or syncs until - until somewhere in the 60's there and not in the 40's.
021:26:46 CC Roger. It'll be 65 hours of the new time or 66 hours under the old time; depends on how you want to look at it. But that's when we'll sync you up.
021:26:55 Cernan Okay.
021:26:57 CC You'll be in sync all the way out to that time; just - we're just going to delete and jump you to 67:40.
021:27:06 SC Okay.
021:27:10 CC And just another note of interest - You don't have to write this down - what - let's see; I'll read it to you. The awake periods will be - on day 3, you'll be 15 hours, 8 hours sleep starting at 11:33 CST; then at day 4, you'll be 14 and 20 hours, with 8 hours sleep. So - it actually just shortens a couple days there.
021:27:37 Evans Okay. Mighty fine.
021:27:45 CC The beauty of that - that Tommy came up with on that, Ron - is that all you have to do is go subtract those 1 hours and no more reading or anything else; just subtract them and we're in business.
021:27:57 Evans Yes, it looks real fine.
021:28:02 CC We're going to give Tommy a gold star for that one.
021:28:07 Evans (Laughter) You bet.
021:28:24 Schmitt (Cough) Bob, this is Jack. I'm going to try and get a little exercise. I'd be interested to know how high I can get my heart rate just fooling around up here.
021:28:33 CC Okay, if we can - We'll keep you posted, Jack.
021:28:59 Cernan Bob, just to keep you and the people there thinking a little bit, today is a relatively short day; but it is a good day because it gives us a chance to again get acclimated finish our stowage and just generally go through all the things that have to be gone through for the rest of the mission. We've got 3 eating days today, and judging from what we're thinking and talking about now - that the last two are going to be sort of stretched into one eating period because three meals on this particular day just is not really going to be stomachable.
021:29:47 CC Roger. We understand that.
021:29:57 SC I think you'll find out that our eating and drinking, for the most part, is starting off relatively slow; but - I think we'll pick it up here by tomorrow.
021:30:12 CC Roger.
021:33:04 Cernan Bob, one other thing while I'm thinking about it. The PU shifts were all noticeable, but probably the one that really caught me a little bit by surprise was the PU shift on the S-IVB during - during TLI.
021:33:20 CC Roger.
021:33:23 Cernan It just felt like you lit in the other burner.
021:33:27 CC Roger. Understand.
021:33:47 CC Just for Jack's information, you're running in the 80s on your heartbeat. We saw a 91 or 2 there for a few minutes. Are you working - still working out?
021:33:59 Schmitt (Laughter) Yes. That's sort of discouraging.
021:34:04 CC I'm sorry, babe (laughter).
021:34:11 Cernan Hey, Bob, what was Jack running before he started that?
021:34:20 CC He was running in the 60s; the count's somewhere in the mid 60s.
021:34:26 Cernan Okay.
021:35:15 CC Okay, Jack. You're running about 105 and 103 right now.
021:36:02 CC Kind of interesting, Jack. You slowed down, and then you're back up to 105 right now. Now you're slowing down again.
021:37:00 PAO Flight surgeon John Zeigelschmitt is watching the heart rate of Jack Schmitt, as Jack exercises aboard the spacecraft using a modified exerciser, that consists primarily of a cylinder and a cord that comes out of it allows him to adjust the amount of tension or resistance to pull that the device has, and there are a variety of ways in which it can be used, allowing him to pull against the adjustable tension - this bungee like device - and he's gotten his heart rate up somewhat in excess of 100 beats per minute .
021:39:55 Cernan Hello, Houston; 17.
021:39:55 CC Go ahead, 17.
021:39:55 CC Go ahead, 17; this is Houston.
021:39:55 Cernan Hello, Houston; this is 17.
021:39:55 CC Roger. Go ahead.
021:39:55 CC 17, Houston. Go ahead.
021:39:55 Cernan Hello, Houston; this is 17-
021:39:55 CC Roger, 17. Go ahead. Roger, 17. Go ahead.
021:41:25 CC Hello, 17; Houston. You read?
021:41:28 CT Honeysuckle comm tech, Houston comm tech, net 1. Goddard voice, Houston comm tech, net 1.
021:41:38 CT Goddard voice.
021:41:39 CT Roger, Goddard. I'm reading you loud and clear, Honeysuckle. I'm not getting to him.
021:41:44 Cernan Hello, Houston; this is America. Over.
021:41:47 CC America, Houston. Stand by. If you read us, don't change anything in the cockpit yet.
021:41:53 CT 17, Honeysuckle.
021:41:56 CT Roger, Honeysuckle. I read you - -
021:41:57 Evans Hello, Honeysuckle. 17's reading you loud and clear.
021:42:00 CT Roger. We have a comm outage and I'll be right with you.
021:42:05 Evans Okay. Very fine. How are things down there today?
021:42:08 CT Fine, your weather report was beautiful. ...
021:42:14 Schmitt Oh, your country looks beautiful from here.
021:42:30 CC Okay, 17; Houston. How do you read now?
021:42:36 Cernan We got you, Bob.
021:42:37 CC Okay. That was our network problem, not your problem onboard.
021:42:43 Cernan Okay thank you, I just figured out what happened on my PTC. Here - with his exercises, Jack is shaking all of America in all three axes, here.
021:42:54 CC Roger. He finally got to 115 on the heart rate.
021:43:01 Schmitt Yes, my rate needles are bouncing back and forth a half a degree (laughter).
021:43:04 CC Roger. Got to find something to pin it on.
021:44:55 CC Jack. Surgeon over here says you got a 120 on the heartbeat for a moment there - 122 right now. Okay, 130, Jack. 130. 140 , Jack, 140.
021:46:16 PAO The numbers reported to Jack Schmitt by CAPCOM are his heart rate. And you heard him report a heart rate up to about 140 beats per minute as Jack is apparently continuing to exercise vigorously with the onboard exerciser. This is aimed among other things at keeping the cardio vascular system which tends to get lazy in zero gravity in condition.
021:47:25 CC 17, we've got a serious one here. You might be interested. All that exercise banging around in there has destratified tank 3 O2, so it stirred it all up good.
021:47:38 Schmitt Yes, glad we brought him along then. We found some use for him. Once an EECOM, always an EECOM. I have to cre - create my own G in order to run in place.
021:47:55 CC Roger.
021:48:01 Schmitt How high up did the heart rate get, Bob?
021:48:05 CC We got you at 140, Jack. Were you running in place? is that - -
021:48:09 Schmitt 140 was - Yes, I was - I'm underneath the right-hand couch holding on to the main Y-Y strut with my hands and running against the LEB.
021:48:23 CC Roger. It worked real well. 140 and you were running in the mid-60's, so you picked up about - almost 70 beats there, no problem. The surgeon is very happy.
021:48:34 Schmitt Roger. (Laughter) Well, I'm happy too. You know, it took a while to find a technique I was - initially, I got up to 90 with just isometrics - pushing against the couch, and the running is obviously what it takes .
021:48:55 CC Roger.
021:48:55 Schmitt But I don't - Bob, I don't I really don't feel - I guess I lost you.
021:51:38 Schmitt Hello, Houston; 17. You still there?
021:51:41 CC Roger. We're with you. We had a little comm problem there as - you know, coning on this - as we were changing on the antenna - but we're with you.
021:51:52 Schmitt Okay. What's the heartrate right now?
021:51:57 CC Right at - Stand by. We had a data dropout, Jack, that's why I'm holding up. And it just came on and we'll tell you in a second here. About 60, Jack. Right about 60 even.
021:52:23 Schmitt Okay. That's where I was when I started, so that's - you certainly recover fast. I don't know whether that's faster than in one G or not.
021:52:35 CC Well, we're happy with it - the Surgeon is happy with it, so it's good.
021:52:40 Schmitt Well, I just - How does that compare - do they have any data on how that compares with the recovery - say, the 5 minute recovery time on the ergometer?
021:52:51 CC We can look it up, Jack, if you're interested. We - we'll have to check your records, they don't have it right in front of us.
021:52:57 Schmitt Well, no big deal, just curious.
021:52:59 CC Roger.
021:55:50 CC Jack, just for your information - the Surgeons pulled out the recovery rate data and it's the same with our data, which is a little rough here. It's the same for zero G as your one G ergometer data.
021:56:12 Schmitt Okay. That's very interesting.
021:56:15 CC Roger.
021:59:46 Schmitt Bob, since we've got a few moments to talk - which I know we won't have later in the mission. Something I don't ever remember happening, but it's happening now in the windows. That's the 1, 3, and 5, but not 2 and 4, is that in the center of the window about 6 or 8 inches in diameter, as you come through the night side of the rotation, you pick up a very light - oh, you might call it even a frost. Very light frost on the window - more like a - a moisture frost, film of moisture, or film of frost - not very thick like crystals at all. As you come through the sunlight, it tends to sublime away, but never - you never fully lose it until you go back into darkness again. The very artistic definite ice crystals that we had on my number 1 window over here yesterday - I think we reported to you this morning that they were gone or they sublimed away. But the impression they left on the window is still there; it's very sharp and very evident.
022:01:16 CC Roger. We copy that.
022:02:38 Schmitt Bob, I don't know whether you were copying Honeysuckle's call to us, while you lost comm there for a while.
022:02:45 CC Roger. We copy.
022:02:46 Schmitt But they said that they had - Okay.
022:02:55 CC They kind of concurred with your - -
022:02:56 Schmitt Okay - -
022:02:57 CC - - weather report there, Jack.
022:03:00 Schmitt Oh, lucky guess. I might say that the sub - the zero phase point that we're looking at is right at the northeast coast of Australia, and it's much brighter. Very - it's a very bright point now - oh, it's hard to say how far across. But, quite unlike what I mentioned being in the vicinity of the Samoan islands earlier. And it's right at the shore, and it could be just that the shore area has somewhat choppier seas. So maybe - maybe the brightness of that point is a function of sea state, although I don't know exactly what type of seas it would take to brighten it up. I suspect choppy seas are better than long swells.
022:03:55 CC Roger, Jack.
022:04:15 Schmitt That front is - seems to have slowed down its progress. It's about in the same position, possibly slightly farther north than when I started talking about it this morning. The wave that has - seems to be developing off the - now off the southwest coast of New Zealand is much more pronounced than it was. Definitely seems to now have a slight cyclonic pattern - clockwise pattern. And I wouldn't be surprised if the next couple of days that moves along the front over towards Sydney. And maybe a little farther north than that might - Brisbane is probably more likely.
022:05:06 CC Roger, Jack.
022:05:11 Schmitt Except I got the movement wrong again. Although it does seem to have progressed west from New Zealand.
022:05:26 CC Roger.
022:05:31 Schmitt I take back what I said about forecasting Sydney's weather. I think that will - I would suspect that would move to the northeast like - now that I look - it seems like an earlier front, which is partly dissipated, had the same kind of motion, and now lies considerably north and east of the one I've been talking about.
022:05:58 CC Roger.
022:06:44 Schmitt Thinking back on some weather briefings we had last week, Bob - Are you there?
022:06:49 CC That's affirmative.
022:06:54 Schmitt I'll talk to you later. I think you're - We're losing you for a little bit here.
022:06:59 CC Okay, Jack. We're reading you loud and clear right now. Oh, you're going out a little bit now.
022:10:33 Schmitt You back with us, Bob?
022:10:36 CC That's affirmative.
022:10:41 Schmitt Okay, I was going to try to recover there from that last few statements. As I recall, the weather briefings that we had at the Cape last week, that - talking with Ken Nabor and Jim Nicholson down there, that the patterns we were seeing from the satellite pictures in their forecast - or analysis anyway, charts in the New Zealand part of the Pacific, those waves formed along the front would move north and then curve east. And that appears to be the pattern that was visible in one of the older fronts. And I suspect if that pattern would hold with the wave that's developed off the coast - right on the coast of New Zealand now, that it might move on up the western coast of New Zealand. We'll probably have a chance to watch that the next few days and see what happens to it.
022:11:49 CC Roger, Jack.
022:12:40 Cernan Houston, how are you reading now?
022:12:42 CC Reading you loud and clear.
022:12:46 Cernan Okay, Bob. As I look at the clock, we're - just 24 hours ago we were about within our hold somewhere. For this period yesterday we were in our hold, and I think it goes without saying; but we'd sure like to pass on our bit of gratitude and thanks for the response that the people down at the Cape came up with. And particularly at Marshall. I think we all knew no one would be going anywhere unless everyone was satisfied that we were going all the way. And that's certainly the way we felt, but we do want to thank everybody who had a part in making that come true.
022:13:28 CC Roger, Gene. I think it was a superb show between the Cape and Marshall and Houston and probably even Goddard, with the Network and just about everybody concerned, really, had to do some work there to bring it off. And it went off real smoothly.
022:13:46 Cernan Yes. After flying with Stafford a couple of times and having that happen a few times back, I thought maybe he was aboard.
022:13:54 CC (Laughter) Okay. I think that was a first for getting a Saturn V to 30 seconds before ignition and - or rather actually 30 seconds before liftoff and holding there.
022:14:12 Cernan It got mighty quiet onboard about 30 seconds.
022:14:16 CC I sure imagine.
022:14:19 Schmitt We all felt like old hands the second time around, though.
022:14:23 CC Roger.
022:14:28 Cernan Bob, I've been at that 30-second count one other time and it's no different the second time around.
022:14:36 CC Roger.
022:14:40 Cernan But we do appreciate the work, and I think it's typical of - of what made this manned space program such a super program. The response of people like that.
022:14:52 CC We concur with that, Gene, wholeheartedly.
022:15:13 Cernan And with that in mind, tell everyone to stick around because there's a lot yet to be done.
022:15:18 CC You better believe it.
022:20:20 Schmitt The old accumulator cycle again, I guess, gang.
022:20:25 CC Roger. We're seeing it. It looks like you got a MASTER ALARM. is that affirm?
022:20:35 Schmitt Yes, sir. That's how we tell these days. Although it doesn't happen all the time, and I guess as long as - Whenever we have that WASTE VENT, CLOSED, we probably wouldn't be bothered by it at night.
022:20:49 CC Roger. That's - that's our feelings here, Jack.
022:21:16 CC Say, Gene and Ron, I talked to your fraus on the phone here a little while ago, and they gave me a very interesting observation you might appreciate. They were standing close to some water when launch and they noticed that when the booster lit up, something scared all the fish because the water literally began to boil with fish jumping from the light, I guess, or from the shock wave or something. It was - made a very distinct impression because that's the first thing both of them told me about.
022:21:54 Evans Yes, that's pretty neat.
022:21:58 CC A neat way to go scare up the fish, I guess.
022:22:02 Evans (Laughter) Right.
022:22:14 Cernan How are they doing today, Bob?
022:22:17 CC Really fine, really fine. They're just - like I said, they're just really tickled pink, and Barbara said that she wants you to know she's going into quarantine until after the weekend here, until after landing.
022:22:31 Cernan If she goes into quarantine, it'll be a space first
022:22:34 CC Roger.
022:22:44 CC You got to be careful about all this.
022:22:45 Cernan Well, you know what to tell them -
022:22:49 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
022:22:49 CC You got to be careful now - The hotboxes are open - the hotlines are open at the houses there, so everything you say is being listened to.
022:23:03 Cernan Yes; okay. In that case, just want to say hello and we're having a super good time looking forward to what's coming, and we thank you for the news, Robert.
022:23:19 CC Roger.
022:23:24 Cernan And my impression of the world, philosophically, I suppose you'll be getting from time to time, but it sure hasn't changed.
022:23:32 CC Roger, Gene.
022:23:33 Cernan It's sure beautiful. It's sure beautiful and, looking back at it, there's several billion people who have got a lot to work for because it's one of the most beautiful sights we've ever seen here.
022:23:51 CC Roger, Gene. You guys are sounding great and doing real great. We're pressing right on here.
022:23:59 Cernan I just want to emphasize, Bob, that these first 2 days - of course, yesterday was a pretty good day, but today we're catching up and - and, as I say, on the food consumption, don't be expecting too much.
022:24:14 CC Roger.
022:24:27 Cernan Acclimation and familiarity, and stowage, and preparation, and enjoyment and relaxation - are ready to call it a day today, which is probably the most ideal day in the Flight Plan to put it, because it's probably the only one we'll have.
022:24:43 CC Roger.
022:24:47 Cernan Not that they aren't all going to be enjoyable.
022:24:52 Schmitt Hey, Bob, your hourly weather report is due and - I'll wait awhile (laughter). I keep losing your comm.
022:25:04 CC Okay.
022:25:56 Schmitt Bob, you there?
022:25:58 CC Roger, Jack. We're standing by.
022:26:02 Schmitt Okay, I had a quick - quick look and just to bring you up to date, we're starting to be able to see the coast of Asia. The Philippines are wide open today. And the - that tropical storm Theresa that I mentioned I thought I could see - indeed, I'm sure that's what that little concentrated mass of clouds was north of New Guinea. And, I suspect, although I didn't get a good fix on it, that the folks in Guam may be in for some heavy weather.
022:26:37 CC Roger.
022:27:27 Schmitt Oh, and, Bob, I got another pair of pictures. And that would be up to 134.
022:27:27 CC Roger. That's on November November, is that affirm?
022:27:31 Schmitt That's affirm.
022:27:32 CC ... Good show.
022:27:41 Schmitt And that was taken - the last pass, about 10 minutes ago, if you want to keep track of GET.
022:27:48 CC Roger. Thanks, Jack; I'm doing that.
022:28:22 CC Just for some information for Ron, in particular. We've evaluated the data from the mapping camera and the pan camera cycling there and it looks real good. Everything looks right normal.
022:28:34 Evans Hey, that's outstanding. Good deal.
022:34:47 Schmitt Bob, how do you read 17?
022:34:51 KRANZ 17, read you 5 by.
022:34:59 Schmitt That's the strangest sounding Bob I ever heard.
022:35:04 KRANZ He's taking a short break.
022:35:06 Schmitt Okay. Good. Nice to talk with you. Hey, I don't know whether you were around, Gene, the other day when I was talking about the circulation patterns around Antarctica. We were looking then at the Indian Ocean - actually, South Atlantic in the Indian Ocean region. And you see the same pattern at about the same latitude, say 60 degrees south, where all the linear cloud patterns which presumably are - reflect the various cold fronts have - are arcuate with their convex sides, or more actually, almost pointed sides are all lined up in a west-to-east direction around that latitude. It's quite a spectacular appearing circulation pattern. And the little wave that I mentioned on New Zealand seems to be beginning to form another arrow or another convex point on that front that's fitting right into the same circulation pattern.
022:36:28 KRANZ Okay, copy.
022:36:32 Schmitt That would make four of those major convex fronts that I can see from this view crossing - south of Australia up into the South Pacific.
022:36:49 KRANZ Okay.
022:37:04 Schmitt On - on that tropical storm that was Theresa, I don't know whether they're still calling it now - that now, but I'm not sure it may be a little south of Guam. Guam may not be in trouble with that one.
022:37:21 KRANZ It looks like it's just a bit to the west of Manila there - about 5 or 6 degrees, no more than that about. It looks like it's about 5 degrees west of Manila and about 5 degrees south. And it is still called Theresa.
022:39:37 Schmitt Okay, Gene, if you're still there, I don't like to argue with you but I think our analysis chart is a little more up to date.
022:39:44 KRANZ Okay.
022:39:45 Schmitt That center - that area that you just mentioned is very clear now - east of the Philippines. Did you say west or east of the Philippines?
022:39:55 KRANZ West of the Philippines.
022:40:01 Schmitt Okay, that area that you mentioned, 5 degrees east, is very clear and the center of the - what appears to be the storm that I'm speaking of, would be about 142 longitude and maybe 8 degrees north latitude.
022:40:19 KRANZ Okay.
022:40:19 Schmitt Which would put it south of Guam.
022:40:22 KRANZ Okay, yes, you're over in the area between Guam and the Carolines, then.
022:40:26 Schmitt Say again, Gene?
022:40:27 KRANZ You're over in the area between Guam and the Carolines, then. You're saying it would be just about due west of the Carolines, then. Okay.
022:40:38 Schmitt Yes, you're probably looking at a - oh, I don't know - maybe a what - a 12-hour old prog, or something?
022:40:44 KRANZ Yes, that's the one I had for launch date.
022:40:49 Schmitt Okay. Well, it's - it's - moved quite a bit now, and I guess it's the same storm; still seems to be very well organized but quite concentrated and small.
022:41:02 KRANZ Okay. I'll get a new prog in and compare your estimate there.
022:41:10 Schmitt Okay. I think that's pretty good - those - 142 and 8 degrees would be pretty good center of that storm. I've got some pretty good coor - I can see Mindanao, and I can see the - let's see - just a second - what is that on Australia?
022:41:52 Schmitt Yes, of course, that is Port Moresby. I can see that point there, and between those two - I can pin that one down probably within a couple of degrees.
022:42:02 KRANZ Okay. We'll get a satellite photo and bring it in here in just a bit.
022:42:54 PAO The conversation over the past few minutes has been between Flight Director, Gene Kranz, and Jack Schmitt. Apollo 17 at this time, almost directly above the northeast coast of Australia - some 94,000 nautical miles from earth.
022:50:00 Schmitt Houston, canister number 4 is in Bravo now.
022:50:09 CC Roger. We copy that.
022:56:11 Schmitt Houston, 17.
022:56:24 CC Go ahead, 17.
022:56:33 Schmitt Okay, Bob. That storm off the - just off the southwest coast of New Zealand is still intensifying and has both high and low level clouds as you can see by shadow lines. It looks like it may go into pretty - pretty fair storm system. Borneo is very clear today; and, as is the Philippines. And as I mentioned, there's a - looks like a very strong frontal system that stretches from, oh, let's say, the south coast of - or southeast coast of Vietnam up - up between and across Tai - between the Philippines and Taiwan and across Taiwan. And right along, and I can't tell I think, just off - just south of Japan. I can't tell whether Japan is in the front or not. I'll look at it some more. The strongest storm center that I can see on that is - is way north, and probably - Hokkaido is - has a fair amount of weather from that storm system. There seems to be a tropical depression just north of Borneo. A very strong circulation system north of Borneo and, I guess, just south of - of Vietnam.
022:56:34 CC Roger.
022:56:36 Schmitt Probably south - probably southeast. I hadn't noticed it before, but it's extremely concentrated northern hemisphere cycl - cyclone pattern. I don't know whether that's on your prog or not. That's not what's left of Sally, is it?
022:58:58 CC Stand by. Let me look at the prog over here a sec. Okay. We - it doesn't show on the old one; the new one is coming in there shortly, Jack.
022:59:07 Schmitt Okay. If that is a developing depression, it's approaching Luzon and not very far away - 2 or 3 degrees of longitude now, although Luzon is clear.
022:59:25 CC Roger.
022:59:36 Schmitt I can see Korea quite well, Bob. It's clear today.
022:59:43 CC Yes, we - we've got the fronts. The leading edge of the front on our prog was past Korea and on Japan, and you've got it moving quite a bit further east there.
022:59:54 Schmitt Well, I'm not absolutely sure -
022:59:57 Schmitt MASTER ALARM on the accumulator.
023:00:01 CC Roger. We copy.
023:00:06 Schmitt I can't make out Japan spe - specifically yet; but it's clearly past Korea, and, by - by inspection, it looks like it would be also past Japan by now, the trailing edge of the front. However, the circulation center on farther northeast may be affecting Hokkaido, as I said.
023:00:33 CC Roger. Like I said, the front on the old prog for yesterday showed that front on the other side of Japan, so it's moved across pretty well.
023:00:59 Schmitt As I recall, they had a tropical storm called Sally that went into - ... a few days ago, and so I suspect this new one that seems - that I think I see between Borneo and Vietnam maybe something else; a new depression or I may be - be fooled by it.
023:01:49 Schmitt Mainland China, Bob, was the last pass here. I can't see the Ear - see the Earth now, but Mainland China looked like it was clear as far as I could see. There might be another front quite a ways inland, but that gets right at the LM, and I can't tell. But Korea, Yellow Sea, and the regions of China south of there - Shanghai , Nanking and those places are - look as if they are quite clear today. I'll check that again next time around.
023:02:21 CC Roger.
023:02:28 CC And, Jack, we are ready to terminate the charge on BATTERY B and start the charge on BATTERY A.
023:02:38 Schmitt Okay. That's in work.
023:03:55 Schmitt Houston, for your information, system test 7A is about 0.6.
023:04:02 CC Say that again, Jack. I missed that. 0.6 on system test 7A?
023:04:07 Schmitt That's affirm. Battery compartment pressure.
023:04:12 CC Thank you, Jack.
023:04:45 Schmitt Okay, Bob. BATTERY A is being charged now.
023:04:51 CC Roger, Jack.
023:06:30 Schmitt Bob, you got any of the LMies in there today?
023:06:36 CC Any of the LMies? Roger. They're all sitting by. Just gave me a big thumbs up, Jack.
023:06:44 Schmitt Okay. Give them a thumbs up on the rendezvous radar antenna. It looks real good.
023:06:55 CC Roger.
023:06:57 Schmitt I'm nose-to-nose with it practically here at about 2 feet, and it's extremely clean. And I see absolutely no sign of any - anything abnormal with it.
023:07:18 CC Roger.
023:07:31 Schmitt Matter of fact, compared to some of the flaking problems and things like that we've heard about in the past, I never saw a cleaner piece of hardware that that LM looks right now.
023:07:41 CC Roger.
023:07:50 Schmitt Appropriately, finally we're getting - we're starting to use it during the Christmas season. It sure looks like a Christmas package with all the orange tape on it.
023:07:59 CC Roger.
023:08:08 CC Ron, we got your NOUN - NOUN 05.
023:08:13 Evans Okay. I'll go ahead and accept that one this time.
023:08:59 CC We got the 9 degrees, Ron. You can torque.
023:09:06 Evans Okay. I'll torque at 940.
023:09:14 CC Okay. We got it.
023:09:26 CC And, Jack, we've been looking at our records. We don't have a previous SYSTEMS TEST reading for 7 Alfa. Do you recall any previous readings on that one?
023:10:03 Schmitt Okay, that looks like another accumulator cycle - got a MASTER ALARM.
023:10:15 CC We dropped data just then, Jack, so we can't concur or confirm it. That's exactly the right time - -
023:10:25 Schmitt ... all right.
023:10:34 Schmitt Bob, you cut out about your SYSTEMS TEST meter discussion.
023:10:38 CC Roger, Jack. Do you have any previous 7 Alfa readings? We don't have any in our log here written. We're just wondering what the past readings on that was.
023:10:51 Schmitt No, I think that was the first one we would have been called to make after a battery charge, right?
023:10:57 CC That's affirm, Jack.
023:11:28 CC Go ahead, Jack. I - you're coming in very weak.
023:11:35 Schmitt Well, I didn't intend to be transmitting. We were just discussing the battery vent and things. We may have missed something in the dump checklist. We'll check it out.
023:11:44 CC No, sir. We don't think so. We just thought may you might have read it earlier.
023:11:50 Schmitt Oh, yes, you want the battery vent - it should be closed now, right?
023:11:56 CC Stand by, Jack.
023:12:00 Schmitt Okay. Ron says it ought to be open.
023:12:02 CC That - that's affirm - -.
023:12:03 Schmitt ... So let me check the checklist.
023:12:04 CC - - it should be open. That - there's no question about that. It should be open.
023:12:09 Schmitt Okay. It's open.
023:12:12 CC Really, there's no problem, Jack. It should be open, but the value appears a bit low to us, and we'd like to read it again before you go to sleep. We may want to close it. And a nominal reading would be 1.7 - -
023:12:31 Schmitt Okay. We - we closed it when we were doing all our dumping some time back and neglected to open it again. So, it was closed when I gave you the reading, and it has been closed during some 2 hours, anyway. I'll - you can figure out how long.
023:12:52 CC Okay. We - we copy that.
023:13:26 CC Jack, would you mind opening the vent and watching the system meter concurrently with it?
023:13:38 Schmitt Stand by.
023:14:39 Schmitt Well, it's - it's CLOSED now, and it's still reading what it - 0.6. Do you want us to open it again?
023:14:49 CC Roger. Open the VENT and - -
023:14:50 Schmitt I mean, it's open now. I'm - I'm sorry, Bob. It is now open and reading 0.6. It read 0.6 when it was CLOSED.
023:15:00 CC Okay. Just leave it open now.
023:15:05 Schmitt Okay.
023:15:07 CC And we will want to still check it prior to your sleep period.
023:15:14 Schmitt Okay.
023:15:34 Schmitt Okay, Bob, a little update on the coast of Asia. It looks like some residual cloudiness would be affecting the Pusan region of Korea. And, also, that's residual after the frontal passage. And it looks like maybe Shanghai, after all, may have some storms associated with it, but it's really hard to pick out exactly - the exact coast line of Asia, but I - there are some clouds in the Yellow Sea behind the front, Look like they might be possibly some high cirrus is all.
023:16:21 CC Jack, do you still see that storm that you said was sitting between Guam and - Borneo in that area?
023:16:34 Schmitt Okay. I see there is this cloud concentration between New Guinea and Guam. The more I look at it the less well developed it appears to me compared to some of the other circulation patterns. It could be just a residual depression from Teresa that has moved out into that area. It is an isolated, a relatively isolated cloud pattern, fairly small, but apparently fairly dense. But has - does not have a strong cyclonic pattern to it. Nothing at all like the pattern that now exists above Borneo and seems to be moving towards Luzon.
023:17:18 CC Roger. We copy.
023:20:04 SC Say ...
023:21:33 Evans Okay, Houston. We're moving in the pieces of a Presleep Checklist. Here's some onboard read-outs for you. BATTERY C is 37.0; PYRO BAT A, 37.2; PYRO BAT B, 37.2; RCS A, 95; Bravo, 94; Charlie, 94; Delta is 96.
023:22:10 CC Roger. We copy that. And if you've started it, we don't want you to reinitialize the PTC until about 2400 on the timeline.
023:22:27 Evans Okay. We're - we're just getting a little ahead - we - took us longer last night on the presleep than we expected. We're trying to work it out again.
023:22:35 CC Yes. We don't to - we want to terminate the waste stowage vent at that time, because we think that that vent is what's contributing to our PTC coning.
023:22:46 Evans Okay. We're - we're not - we're not really ready to go to sleep yet, but we're just moving ahead.
023:22:52 CC Roger.
023:22:58 Evans And if it's okay, I'll cycle the H2 fans.
023:23:07 CC Roger. We're standing by.
023:24:16 Evans Okay. The fans are off.
023:24:18 CC Roger.
023:24:36 PAO This is Apollo Control at 23 hours 25 minutes. The crew has completed realigning the inertial measurement platform, the platform used as a stable reference. The spacecraft guidance and control system uses it as a reference in determining its own attitude. They've also been charging the two entry batteries that are used during peak electrical loads of liftoff, and then are recharged during the translunar coast when the fuel cells are producing a surplus of electrical energy. They've recharged one of those two batteries and are in the process of recharging the second one at this time. And you heard the crew describe going into their pre-sleep checklist and getting things aboard the spacecraft configured for the sleep period, which is scheduled to begin at 25 hours Ground Elapsed Time or a little more than 1-1/2 hours from now. Apollo 17 at this time is 96,244 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at 5,264 feet per second. And all spacecraft systems continue to function almost perfectly as planned. A little while ago the lunar module officer - control officer - confirmed from telemetry what Gene Cernan was reporting visually out the window and that is that the lunar module appears to be in very good shape. Of course we have a limited number of telemetry readings on the LM at this point. But one of them that we do have gives us an indication of the integrity or tightness of the LM cabins. We can see that in the amount of pressure decaying. It appears to be a very tight vehicle.
023:28:27 CC Say, Jack, we got a request in here from our ARIA friends.
023:28:38 Schmitt Go ahead.
023:28:40 CC They were just wondering if your looking out that way, if you could give them some sort of update of what the weather in the Wake island - Kwajalein - the south of the Wake area looks like.
023:28:51 Schmitt Okay. Let me work on that one.
023:28:53 CC Okay. You're going to mearn - earn your American Meteorological Society badge here pretty quick.
023:29:07 Schmitt Okay. Let me get the monocular, and we'll look at Wake island. I miss having all those nice latitude and longitude lines on the globe.
023:29:23 CC Yes sir.
023:29:43 PAO The ARIA friends that CAPCOM, Robert Overmeyer, is refering to, are the crews of the Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft used in supplementing the manned spaceflight network coverage. They'll be leaving from Patrick Airforce Base prior to the end of the mission and flying into the Wake island area to be on station during Apollo 17's reentry and splashdown.
023:33:44 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I'll probably have to work on this one a little more, but - but it looks like around Wake, or in the vicinity of the Kwajaleins and north of Wake, about all you have is a lot of cloudiness although - and in a generally - over a wide part of that Pacific, I'm talking about 15 or 20 degrees of longitude and latitude, there's a - roughly a clock - a clockwise circulation pattern. But the clouds do not look very dense or concentrated in any one area. And at leading off to the southeast from that general cloud mass, there're cyclonic - anticyclonic cloud mass is a - is one of the old fronts - or at least one of the old linear cloud patterns that extends down into the South Pacific.
023:35:06 CC Roger, Jack. I'm sure that the ARIA troops are listening down at Patrick and caught all that.
023:35:14 Schmitt Well, my guess is, Bob, and it's purely a guess, is that there - probably - if they were out there right now, would be experiencing an intermediate layer of clouds with scattered showers. And a not too strongly developed circulation system, so I can't predict the winds. But I wouldn't expect them to be anything - anything what might be down - associated with the remnants of the tropical depression Theresa. Now that Theresa - what's left of it, if I'm correct in - in picking it out there, probably is - is moving in that direction, although it looks weak enough that, right now I don't think it would be any big problem. And it may, in fact, go south of there.
023:36:11 CC Roger. The prog I got in my hand for 3-hour-old weather has Theresa located just about in the Manila area. Did you concur with that, or do you think it passed the - the Philippines?
023:36:25 Schmitt Well, I don't - Manila's clear. The only thing approaching near Manila is - is this other storm center that now is north of Borneo. And to the east of Manila, it's clear all the way over to this little cloud mass that I was guessing might be Theresa.
023:36:44 CC Roger. All I say, this is 3 hours old so - -
023:36:46 Schmitt - - And that's about - I gave Gene Kranz some coordinates on it. You can look it up. Those were pretty good coordinates for that cloud mass. Now whether that's really Theresa or not, I don't know.
023:37:02 CC We got one thing with - for the last couple of hours here, we've been getting high-bit-rate data through our new facility - a new facility at Tidbinbilla, Tidbinbilla is to a 210 dish, and they're covering the first - -
023:37:14 Schmitt - - between Wake in the Kwajaleins , Marshall islands, in that area, it doesn't look like a very concentrated weather pattern, although it looks like you'll have ceilings in that region. And they're overcast ceilings rather than broken. Except around the fringes of it.
023:37:31 CC Roger.
023:37:35 Schmitt We'll keep an eye on it of course.
023:37:51 CC Jack, how do you read us now?
023:37:54 Schmitt You're loud and clear.
023:37:56 CC Okay, 17, for the last 2 hours, we've been getting high-bit-rate data from a new facility, the facility at Tidbinbilla and they're working their first Apollo flight ever, you might give them a cheery hellow.
023:38:21 Schmitt Tidbinbilla, is that correct?
023:38:24 CC That's affirmative. It's very close to the Honeysuckle base - -
023:38:28 Schmitt Where is that?
023:38:29 CC Very close to Honeysuckle.
023:38:33 Schmitt Well, how you doing - how you doing mikes? We certainly appreciate you guys being on the loop for this one.
023:39:23 PAO That new 210 foot dish antenna at Tidbinbilla, which is near Honeysuckle Creek, which in turn is near Canberra, now online and accounting for our excellent signal strength from the spacecraft. Apollo 17 at this time is 96,958 nautical miles from Earth. The speed is 5,233 feet per second.
023:40:01 CC 17, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT, and we'll update your gyro drift, the pitch, roll, and yaw drifts.
023:40:12 Cernan Okay, got ACCEPT and P00.
023:40:16 CC Roger.
023:45:12 CC 17, Houston. The computer is yours. And you can go back to attitude and reinitialize PTC whenever you want to.
023:45:18 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
023:45:21 CC The computer is yours, Gene - -
023:45:22 Cernan Go ahead. We're reading you.
023:45:23 CC You can go to attitude and reinitialize PTC whenever you want to.
023:45:30 Cernan Okay. Did you mean to leave the computer with VERB 21 NOUN 01 up?
023:45:36 CC Roger. That's your computer with that - as you got it.
023:45:41 Schmitt Okay; that's right. That's l462.
023:46:43 Cernan Okay.
023:50:09 CC 17, Houston.
023:50:14 Schmitt Roger. Go ahead.
023:50:15 CC Roger. We've got a recommended configuration for your H2 fans and H2 heaters. We would like the H2 HEATERS 1 and 2 to AUTO and H2 FANS 1 and 2, OFF; 3 to AUTO. Your O2 heaters look good.
023:50:45 Schmitt Okay. Let me verify that I've got these right. H2 HEATERS 1, 2, AUTO. O2 HEATERS, 1 OFF; 2, OFF; 3, AUTO. H2 FANS - H2 FANS, you want OFF; OFF; and AUTO. is that correct?
023:51:07 CC That's what we want on the H2 FANS. And the O2 is fine, as you've got it.
023:51:14 Schmitt Okay. They're OFF, OFF - Okay; H2 FANS: OFF, OFF, and AUTO.
023:51:20 CC That's affirmative, Jack.
023:51:33 Cernan Okay, Bob. I just cleaned the suit circuit return valve screen, here. It was probably, as expected, a little crud on it. A few things have collected, but really not too bad.
023:51:48 CC Roger, Gene.
023:53:29 Schmitt Bob, a little more about Wake and the Marshalls and Kwajalein. That large pattern of what appear to be broken overcast clouds in a - a clockwise circulation pattern - crosses the equator region now that I've tried to project that through.
023:53:53 CC Roger, Jack.
023:57:25 CC 17, Houston.
023:57:32 Evans 17, go ahead.
023:57:33 CC Roger, Ron. When you stop the present roll on the PTC to reinitialize, pick a roll angle of 315 or 130 for stopping, so that we have good comm during the damping period.
023:57:51 Evans Okay. 315 or 120, okay.
023:57:53 CC 130, Ron.
023:57:57 Evans Okay. 315 or 130.
023:58:03 CC Roger. That'll give us good comm to watch the data on the damping.
023:58:08 Evans Okay.
023:59:35 PAO This is Apollo Control, now 24 hours after liftoff and Apollo 17, 97,917 nautical miles from Earth. The crew, at the present time, is stopping the passive thermal control mode. They'll be reestablishing it. It had begun to diverge a little bit - it had begun to wobble about the axis. The concern in going to sleep with that sort of situation is that it will wobble through the point at which they would have gimbal lock and of course we would wake them up before then but in order to avoid having to disturb the crew's sleep they'd like to get the passive thermal control very stable, so that it will hold up during the entire sleep period.
024:00:29 Cernan Hello, Houston. How do you read?
024:00:31 CC Read you loud and clear, 17.
024:00:34 Cernan Okay. We're at 300. Do you want us to go to 315 yet, or is 300 going to be okay?
024:00:39 CC That's good enough, Gene. And we'd like you to close your waste vent at this time, please.
024:00:56 Cernan Okay.
024:01:07 Cernan Okay. It's CLOSED now.
024:01:09 CC Roger.
024:01:32 CC And, 17, Houston. We've got the same recommendation. We recommend Alfa and Bravo for damping; Bravo and Delta for spinup. Over.
024:01:48 Cernan That was Alfa and Bravo for damping and Bravo and Delta for spinup.
024:01:52 CC That's affirmative
024:04:51 CC 17, Houston.
024:04:55 Evans Go ahead.
024:04:58 CC If one of you want to break out the Flight Plan Supplement, we have a change to the E-LOADS on page 143 due to the change of gyro-compensation parameters. If you want to copy them down when you get the Supplement out.
024:05:14 Cernan Okay. We'll give you a call.
024:05:15 CC Roger. We'll be standing by.
024:06:27 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're in our - we're on our damping cycle now.
024:06:34 CC Roger. We're watching you, Gene.
024:08:16 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're in the midst of turning over the shift now to Mission Control, to the team of Flight Director, Pete Frank. Gene Kranz and his team will be going off shift in about 25 minutes. we do not plan to have a change of shift Press Briefing. The crew aboard Apollo 17 is scheduled to begin an 8 hour sleep period in a little less than one hour at a Ground Elapsed Time of 25 hours. And we have no major activities in the flight plan before that time. At 24 hours 9 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
024:12:13 Cernan Bob, I just hit the control stick. It's locked again in roll; it may have burnped it a little bit.
024:12:20 CC Roger, Gene. We copy.
024:17:15 Cernan Houston, 17. Okay if we CLOSE the waste stowage vent now? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. It's CLOSED.
024:17:23 CC Roger, 17.
024:17:28 Cernan Forget it. We got it, I - I was left out.
024:17:53 Schmitt Okay, Bob. On the film status, we're still where we were, November-November, 134. And I'll probably take two more pictures before we go to sleep.
024:18:11 CC Roger. We copy.
024:19:38 CC And, 17, if one of you are down in the LEB, could you give us a read-out on SYSTEMS TEST 7 Alfa?
024:19:45 Cernan Stand by. ... Okay
024:20:58 Cernan Houston, 17. 7 Alfa is 0.6.
024:21:03 CC Roger. 7 Alfa equals 0.6.
024:22:51 Schmitt Okay, Houston; 17. Are we configured properly now for comm?
024:23:04 CC Stand by, Gor - stand by, Jack.
024:23:11 Schmitt Okay. I've got - I'm on OMNI Bravo right now.
024:23:24 CC We're in good shape on the comm, and we'll be controlling the OMNIs.
024:23:54 Schmitt Roger, Bob.
024:24:01 CC 17, the rates look great. We're ready to initialize PTC.
024:24:12 Cernan Okay, Bob.
024:27:14 Cernan Okay, Bob. PTC is initiated.
024:27:18 CC Roger, Gene. We copy, and we watch the roll start.
024:33:03 Cernan Hello, Houston. I think we've got everything done on the checklist. The chlorine has been - water has been chlorinated, we're in PTC, and I think Jack picked up everything else. How does it look to you?
024:33:19 CC Roger, Gene. Let's - let us make a check through the room here, and then just a reminder that I've got that addition on the E-LOADS for the - in the Flight Plan Supplement.
024:33:35 Cernan Yes. Stand by. Jack's going to keep the headset on and the biomed, and he'll close you out with that and if there's nothing else, I'm going to go off the air.
024:33:46 CC Roger, Gene.
024:33:49 Cernan Okay, say goodnight to my friends back there.
024:33:53 CC We certainly will.
024:33:56 Cernan Hey, Just so that we know, it is about midnight, right?
024:34:00 CC It's about 7 minutes after midnight, Gene.
024:34:06 Cernan Okay, Just didn't want - wanted to make sure it wasn't noon.
024:34:10 CC Roger.
024:34:13 Cernan Good night there, Robert.
024:34:14 CC Good night, Gene.
024:34:20 Evans Okay. Say good night, Dick.
024:35:55 PAO This is Apollo Control at 24 hours 36 minutes as Gene Cernan says goodnight Apollo 17 is 99,714 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 5,114 feet per second. The Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt, will be wearing the communications headset and the biomedical harness for the sleep period tonight.
024:36:44 Schmitt Bob? This is Jack. Your last report for the day as the Earth goes past window 5. The first thing I noticed was that our zero phase point is not nearly as bright on the west coast of Australia as it is on the - was on the east. And it's looking right at the coastline now and see no bright spot in the center. Also, that circulation pattern or tropical depression possibly that I saw earlier north of Borneo is now even more strongly developed at the tail end of the front that stretches up toward Japan. And it - it really looks like a humdinger from here. Beautiful circulation pattern and very concentrated. And it is now east of Vietnam, and again between Vietnam and - and the island of Luzon.
024:37:56 CC Roger. We copy.
024:37:57 Schmitt And I'd be very - be very curious to know tomorrow morning if you - you people are carrying that one on their progs or on their analysis chart.
024:38:10 CC Roger.
024:41:33 Schmitt Okay, Bob. You want me to erase something on page 1-43 and insert something else?
024:41:40 CC That's affirmative, Jack. On 1-43 under column A, down at line 11 and 12 and 13. Just to make sure you're at the right spot, the line 11 0-data is 00115. Do you copy that? Do you see that?
024:42:05 Schmitt I'm with you.
024:42:06 CC Okay. Change that line to 00377.
024:42:18 Schmitt Go ahead.
024:42:19 CC Change line 12 to 00050.
024:42:32 Schmitt Go ahead.
024:42:33 CC And line 13, 00523. Over.
024:42:45 Schmitt Okay, I got that and (laughter) as you might imagine, when I said erase, I did. And do you have the 04 and the 05 again, please? That is, if they're pertinent.
024:43:04 CC Stand by, Jack. I'm lost myself here a second.
024:43:10 Schmitt See, you gave me an update on 30704 and 31005, and I just erased it.
024:43:19 CC Okay, The 04 under column B is 34761, and the 05 line under column B is 15403. Over.
024:43:41 Schmitt Okay. Here we go. In line Alfa, 31411, 00377; 31512, 00050; 31613, 00523. In line Bravo, 30704 is 34761; 31005 is 15403. Over.
024:44:12 CC Roger. We copy, Jack. Just a reminder to be sure and configure the comm per the presleep checklist. And, just for your information, Jack, I - I hold you at 100,116 miles. I was going to give you a call at 100,000 even, and then I got talking to you. So you've crossed the 100,000 mark right now. Tomorrow, you're probably not going to be giving us our weather report, You'll be too far out, but we'll probably be starting to hear from the Moon, huh?
024:44:44 Schmitt We're not going to see much of the Moon, you know. It's going to be pretty dark, so I'll have to keep looking at the Earth.
024:44:50 CC Roger.
024:44:50 Schmitt Pretty good - pretty interesting place. Very interesting place.
024:44:56 CC I'm real sure.
024:44:58 Schmitt And I guess - I guess, maybe, I - 100,000 miles. My goodness gracious. That's impressive.
024:45:08 CC Yes, sir. You're slowing down all the way, Jack.
024:45:19 Schmitt Well, it's sure downhill all - all the way back, isn't it?
024:45:22 CC That's for sure.
024:45:37 CC Jack, did the CMP get off the line, and is he sacked out now, too?
024:45:44 Schmitt Yes, I lost both those guys. They - they decided they wanted to sleep, and I may be rumbling around here for a while but I took - we all three took Seconal, so I think we'll get to sleep before long.
024:45:57 CC Roger. Just give us a call if you need anything, and we'll be watching everything there, and pleasant dreams.
024:46:11 Schmitt Now, you don't really mean that, do you?
024:46:16 CC Well, I can't come up and tuck you in so - hope you have a good sleep. You need lots of rest up there, gang.
024:46:37 Schmitt I'll tell you, Bob, about halfway though this day, I think I acclimated. And I really feel good. I've been eating a lot better, and I'm not - the only thing I ever really felt was a slight headache. It really - not the fullness of the head that people described, I guess, but just a little headache. I could have been looking at the Earth too much. I don't know.
024:47:02 CC Roger, Jack. You've been sounding good.
024:47:06 Schmitt Oh, actually, I feel - I've been feeling fine. Just - none of us have felt like eating. And that's probably normal, and everybody's eating more now, and we'll start getting to sleep, I think.
024:47:18 CC Roger. Jack, just a reminder on that comm for the presleep checklist. It's important to us because we can get the - we can get high-bit-rate data more.
024:47:48 Schmitt Bob, he cut out, but I'm in the comm sleep configuration now. I'm working that way.
024:47:58 CC Okay. Ed Grindell was shaking his head for a minute. Now he says as long as you're working that way.
024:48:38 Schmitt Bob, you still cut out. Let's try it again.
024:48:42 CC No - no problem, Jack, Just a reminder on the comm; that's all. We're watching you go through the checklist here.
024:48:49 Schmitt Okay.
024:49:14 Schmitt Okay, I'm on HIGH GAIN now, and OMNI Bravo selected.
024:49:37 Schmitt How do you read, Bob, on the HIGH GAIN?
024:49:39 CC Read you loud and clear, Jack.
024:49:44 Schmitt Okay. And it's in REACQ and NARROW.
024:49:47 CC Stand by. Stand by on that, Jack.
024:50:30 CC Say, Jack, can we refer you to the checklist on S/1-27, a sleep configuration there, where you S-BAND SQUELCH, ENABLE, et cetera?
024:50:44 Schmitt Roger. I'm ENABLED.
024:50:55 Schmitt Oh, et cetera. Yes.
024:51:00 CC Roger.
024:51:05 Schmitt Okay. I'll get to that in a minute, Bob. Who knows, I might have something else to say.
024:51:08 CC Okay.
024:51:32 Schmitt Bob, I just probably ought to qualify all those remarks about the Earth's weather. It's purely a novice talking about something he is very unfamiliar with, except for having a longstanding interest in it. And I think the one philosophical point, if any, that comes out of it is that somebody, probably 3-1/2 billion years ago or so, could have looked at the Earth and described patterns not too dissimilar. And it was within those patterns that life developed, and now you see, I think, and obvious to everybody, what that life has progressed to doing. And I certainly think all of us feel that it has not stopped doing that progression, and we'll probably see it do things that even you and I can't imagine them doing I certainly hope so.
024:52:38 CC Roger, Jack. We concur.
024:54:06 Schmitt Bob, you always wished that you had a poet onboard one of these missions, so he could describe things that we're seeing and looking at and feeling in terms that might - might transmit at least a part of that feeling to everybody in the world. Unfortunately, that's not the case. But he certainly couldn't look at that fragile blue globe and not think about the ancient sails of life that are crossing its paths and wonder ahead to the - up to the present, to the modern sails of life that are represented by men that developed out of that life that are sitting there next to you and that are the country in all sorts of different guises and working towards the same end, and that is to put that life farther into the universe. I certainly hope that someday, in the not-too-distant future, the guy can fly who can express these things.
024:55:24 CC Roger, Jack. You're doing a pretty good job expressing them.
024:58:25 CC Jack, Houston.
024:58:30 Schmitt Go ahead.
024:58:31 CC Roger, Jack. We'd like to go to select OMNI Bravo, and stow the high gain the the normal stowage. It's customary we do not use the high gain for PTC going TLC.
024:58:55 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I'm sorry, but the checklist indicated that you do all go back to OMNI Bravo.
024:59:04 CC Roger. It's probably ambiguous. If you end up going up on the checklist, up to the top of 1-28, it shows you where you want OMNI Bravo.
024:59:25 Schmitt Ambiguous is the best word I can think of for it.
024:59:30 CC Say again, Jack.
024:59:34 Schmitt Ambiguous is the best word I can think of for it.
024:59:37 CC Roger. We - I concur. I should have probably called you earlier and just pointed out on the Flight Plan where it says presleep checklist. And then there's the word "comm," and it says "OMNI," and that leads you into the checklist and makes sure you use the OMNI setup for - for the sleep configuration.
024:59:58 Schmitt Ho, ho, ho. Tricky fellows. I guess you're right.
025:00:06 CC Yes, it's something we don't - we don't - sim PTCs, TLCs, and TECs very often. That's for sure.
025:00:21 Schmitt Well, that's because we have a whole day to learn out here.
025:00:24 CC That's affirmative.
025:00:31 Schmitt OMNI Bravo.
025:00:33 CC Roger.
025:01:16 PAO This is Apollo Control at 25 hours, 1 minute into the mission. Apollo 17 is 100,953 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 5,062 feet per second.
025:22:40 PAO This is Apollo Control at 25 hours 22 minutes. We haven't heard from Jack Schmitt recently, however, the Flight Surgeon reports that his data indicates he's not yet asleep. Apollo 17 now at 102,000 miles from Earth velocity 5,018 feet per second. We'll continue to leave this line up until we get an indication that the Lunar Module Pilot is asleep. The other 2 crewmen are asleep at this time. At 25 hours 23 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
025:25:37 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I think I'll hit the hay. How does everything look to you?
025:25:50 CC Looking pretty good, Jack. We'd like the S-BAND NORMAL VOICE to OFF, and S-BAND SQUELCH ENABLE, please.
025:25:59 Schmitt Yes, I'll get that. I just want to make sure that PTC and everthing looks good.
025:26:04 CC Yes, it looks real fine, Jack.
025:26:10 Schmitt Okay, talk to you in the morning - or to somebody anyway.
025:26:13 CC Roger. Parker will wake you up - I think. Have a good sleep.
025:26:17 Schmitt Oh god.
025:26:26 REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
025:26:52 PAO This is Apollo Control at 25 hours 27 minutes. Jack Schmitt has said "goodnight". We'll take the line down now and come back up with Mission Control reports hourly. Apollo 17 now 102,202 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 5,010 feet per second.
026:27:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 26 hours 27 minutes. The crew has completed the first hour and 1/2 of an 8 hour rest period. Here in Mission Control, flight controllers are monitoring spacecraft's systems while the crew sleeps. All goes well with Apollo 17. Spacecraft is 105,060 nautical miles from Earth. Its velocity is 4,893 feet per second. This is Mission Control, Houston.
027:27:11 PAO This is Apollo Control at 27 hours 27 minutes. 5 1/2 hours remain in the crew's rest period. All spacecraft systems continue to operate normally. Apollo 17 is now 107,835 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 4,784 feet per second.
028:27:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 28 hours 27 minutes. Everything continues to go well with Apollo 17. Astronaut Bob Parker has come on duty at the CAPCOM console now, and he will send a wakeup call to the crew in 4 hours and 32 minutes. Apollo 17 is 110,561 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 4,679 feet per second.
029:27:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 29 hours 27 minutes. Apollo 17 is 113,208 nautical miles from Earth. Traveling at a speed at 4,579 feet per second. In 36 minutes, Apollo 17 will reach the half-way point to the Moon in terms of distance, at a Ground Elapsed Time of 30 hours, 3 minutes, no seconds. Apollo 17 will be 114,787 nautical miles from both the Moon and the Earth. 3 hours, 32 minutes remaining in the crew's sleep period. At 29 hours 27 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
030:27:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 30 hours 27 minutes. 24 minutes ago Apollo 17 did reach the half-way point in distance in its journey to the Moon. At that time in the elapsed time of 30 hours 3 minutes, it was 114,787 nautical miles from both the Earth and the Moon. Its velocity at that time was 4,522 feet per second. At this time, Apollo 17's distance is 115,842 nautical miles from the Earth. Velocity is 4,483 feet per second. Midcourse correction number 2 will be performed at an elapsed time of 35 hours 30 minutes. That's 5 hours, 1 minute from now. It will be a 10.5 foot per second burn. The crew still has 2 hours and 31 minutes remaining in the sleep period. At 30 hours 28 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
031:12:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 31 hours 12 minutes. Apollo 17 is now 117,746 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 4,415 feet per second. Flight Director, Pete Frank, and his orange team of flight controllers will hand over Mission Control duties to Gerry Griffin's gold team of flight controllers in about 15 minutes at 7 A.M. Central Standard Time. Each of the departing controllers is now briefing his relief. There will be no change of shift news conference. The orange team will double back after 1 shift, returning to the Control Center at 5 P.M. today to get back on a schedule which will put them on the EVA shift. To summarize the shift now ending, the crew began rest period at 25 hours elapsed time. Each crewman took a sleeping pill, and Jack Schmitt reported that Gene Cernan and Ron Evans were asleep shortly after the crew configured the spacecraft for their rest period. However, Jack Schmitt, who was the duty man to wear the head set and the bio-medical harness during this rest period, seemed almost reluctant to surrender his view of the earth to sleep. At 100,000 nautical miles from the Earth he broadcast a weather forecast, then indulged in a bit of philosophy as he gazed from his window, about mankind's achievements. He remarked that from his vantage point the Earth probably looks the same now as it did at the dawn of man. Apollo 17 reached the halfway point to the Moon at an elapsed time of 30 hours 3 minutes. At that time it was 114,787 nautical miles from both the Earth and the Moon. Spacecraft's systems are continuing to perform well and the CAPCOM, astronaut Bob Parker, plans to awaken the crew at 33 hours elapsed time, that's 1 hour 44 minutes from now. Midcourse correction number 2 will be performed at an elapsed time of 35 hours 30 minutes, 4 hours and 14 minutes from now. Present indications are that it will be a 10 and 1/2 foot per second burn. The latest prediction on the S-IVB is that it will impact the Moon at an elapsed time of 86 hours 58 minutes 23 seconds. Coordinates of the impact location presently predicted 6.73 degrees south, 9.7 degrees west. The impact time and the coordinates are likely to change prior to the impact itself, and continued tracking of the S-IVB will be performed. At 31 hours 16 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
032:27:07 PAO This is Apollo Control at 32 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The Mission of Apollo 17, which at this moment is 120,887 nautical miles out from Earth, velocity has continued to decrease to 4,305 feet per second. Slightly over a half hour remaining until spacecraft communicator Robert Parker gives the crew a wakeup call. And a relatively busy day ahead with midcourse correction - midcourse correction maneuver #2 at 35:30 Ground Elapsed Time, a 10-1/2-foot per second posigrade maneuver which will raise the trajectory slightly from an impact trajectory with a minus pericynthion at the Moon, raise it to about 60 nautical miles above the surface. Latest numbers on the S-IVB impact predictions is for impact to take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 86:58:23 at 6.7 degrees south latitude by 9.7 degrees west longitude. The gold team of flight controllers have settled in for a 10-hour day here in Mission Control, which in addition to the midcourse correction burn, includes the first manning of the Lunar Module, first checkout, which begins at about 40 hours. They start actually, at 39:30 getting the probe and drogue removed from the tunnel, going into the Lunar Module. We'll come back up live with the air-ground when the first call is made to the crew by the spacecraft communicator. And at 32:29, this is Apollo Control.
032:58:01 PAO This is Apollo Control, 32 hours 58 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the Mission of Apollo 17, Almost 2 minutes remaining until the first wakeup call is made to the Crew of Apollo 17 by spacecraft communicator Robert Parker. Parker is joined this morning by Apollo 17 backup Commander John Young at the CAPCOM console, and it appears that Parker's relief CAPCOM, Gordo Fullerton, just walked in the door and likely will relieve Parker in the day's duties of getting off midcourse correction #2 burn, and the first housekeeping venture into the Lunar Module. Apollo 17 is now 122,186 nautical miles out from the Earth, velocity now 4,259 feet per second. We'll stand by with the circuit open for the first wakeup call the usual post-sleep checklist, and Flight Plan updates and all of the conversation that normally takes place when the crew first wakes up. Let's just open the line now.
033:00:38 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
033:01:06 Cernan Is that the best you could do?
033:01:09 CC That's not very good either. Give us a call when you want to talk to us.
033:01:18 Schmitt Good morning to you.
033:01:55 Cernan How's everything look, Bob?
033:02:08 CC You guys look absolutely super. No problem at all.
033:02:15 Cernan Nice way to wake up. Maybe we'll just sleep in for a few more hours.
033:02:22 CC Stand by. I'll check on that.
033:02:24 Cernan (Laughter).
033:21:09 Cernan Bob, 17. How do you read?
033:21:12 CC 17, this is Gordo. Bob just finished up his workday with that last call, and I'll be on now.
033:31:24 Schmitt Houston, 17. How do you read?
033:31:27 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
033:31:31 Schmitt Good morning, Gordy. How you doing?
033:31:33 CC Real good. How about you?
033:31:37 Schmitt We all feel pretty good this morning. Got some reports for you.
033:31:42 CC Okay. Ready to copy.
033:31:45 Schmitt Okay, on the CDR. PRD is 17025; 6-1/2 hours good sleep. One Seconal, which is the one I reported last night, so that's just one now. Had a - yesterday, midday or so - he had a nausea pill for gas. And we hadn't found the other gas pill, so he tried that one. And he drank, since I last reported, two and a half containers of water.
033:32:32 CC Roger.
033:32:37 Schmitt The CDR food intake, as with all of us, is a little bit random, and I don't know exactly the best way to report it, unless you want it all in detail.
033:32:54 CC Let me check while you - Go on, and I'll see if they want a detailed description of the food or not.
033:33:13 Schmitt Okay. LMP medical. PRD 24036; 5-1/2 to 6 hours good sleep, 1 intermittent. Again, I had a Seconal but that's the same Seconal I mentioned last night. And since last report - I guess one - two and a half containers of fluid. Water.
033:33:53 CC Okay.
033:33:56 Schmitt And just for checking on the water intake, you should have me down for six containers of water.
033:34:05 CC Roger. Six total.
033:34:09 Schmitt That's affirm.
033:34:20 Schmitt CMP medical. PRD is 15023; 7-1/2 hours very good sleep. He had the same Seconal we had. And, since last report, has three water containers for a total of six now.
033:34:45 CC Roger.
033:34:57 CC Jack, I guess we do want an accounting of all the food. Whatever you think is the best way to report it.
033:35:20 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Back on the CDR, and I'll just tell you what we ate. For the day 2. CDR: mixed fruit, that's the can, instant breakfast, one vitamin pill, a bag of tea, turkey and gravy, the wet pack, and orange juice.
033:36:01 CC Roger.
033:36:07 Schmitt Okay, The LMP: cinnamon toast bread, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, coffee, lemonade, peach ambrosia, one vitamin, one slice of bread, grapefruit drink, gingerbread, orange drink. And I have one complaint: somebody slighted me on a caramel candy in meal C.
033:36:50 CC Roger. We'll start an investigation.
033:36:54 Schmitt Yes, it was not there. Okay. CMP: the spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, and coffee, potato soup, and peach ambrosia. That's all for breakfast. And then later on, he had chocolate pudding and a grape drink. And let's see - we all - You might log him for a vitamin pill and me for a vitamin pill.
033:37:27 CC Okay.
033:37:30 Schmitt Oh, yes, I forgot. It's here; one frankfurter, for lunch.
033:37:36 CC Roger.
033:37:44 Schmitt And we just changed LiOH canister as per the Flight Plan.
033:37:49 CC Okay.
033:37:54 Schmitt And in a minute, I'll have weather report for you.
033:37:58 CC Very well.
033:40:59 Schmitt Hey, Gordy.
033:41:01 CC Go ahead.
033:41:04 Schmitt Gordy, the null bias check. Plus 0.9 and 100 seconds.
033:41:11 CC Okay, one question G&C had. Do you do that null bias at plus 100 or minus 100 on the EMS counter?
033:41:23 Schmitt Plus 100.
033:41:25 CC Okay, and it's increased up to 101.9, right?
033:41:32 Schmitt No, it increased to 100.9.
033:41:36 CC Roger. Miscopied you; 0.9. Okay; thank you.
033:41:40 Schmitt Yes, okay. Seems to me like last night it was 100.7.
033:41:48 CC Roger.
033:42:03 CC And for our part of the postsleep checklist, I have the consumables status, if you'd care to listen.
033:42:23 Schmitt Stand by, Gordy.
033:45:17 Schmitt Gordy, we'll take your consumables in a second. Let me bring you up to date on the weather around the world, if you're interested.
033:45:28 CC Yes, we are; go ahead.
033:45:31 Schmitt Africa, looks in pretty good shape. There is a - except for an area probably around Zambia and Rhodesia in the tropical convergence zone there, where it looks pretty cloudy and probably quite rainy. There's a very strong circulation pattern and presumably a storm off - just off the coast of northwest Africa. Very spectacular spiral formation of clouds in a cyclone development. It looks like there are probably two fairly weak cyclones - Southern Hemisphere cyclones in the South Atlantic. One, southwest of Cape of Good Hope, and the other about due west of - of the Falkland islands, maybe a little bit north of that. South America looks to be in quite good shape weatherwise, except possibly Uruguay and maybe northern Argentina which appear to have a - at least some fairly thick clouds there, although no strong circulation associated with this.
033:48:03 CC Okay, Jack. We got all that up to Argentina, then the OMNI switch kind of cut you off.
033:48:59 CC Jack, we got the - at least the first part of your weather report fine up through the clouds in northern Argentina, and then the switch in OMNIs cut you out.
033:49:12 Schmitt Okay, that was about it, Gordy. That's - I'll talk to you some more later about it. I guess the main thing I need now is - are your consumables.
033:49:26 CC Okay. By the way, you were looking back from more than halfway to the Moon. You're about 125,000 out now. On the consumables, the RCS is running at 1.3 percent over the Flight Plan line. On the O2 tanks 2 and 3 are right on the lines, and tank 1 is about 4 percent below the line. But it's been there all the way since launch, that same bias on tank 1. On the hydrogen: tanks 1 and 3 are right on the lines, tank 2 is about 3 percent above the line. All in all, you're looking real good consumablewise.
033:50:21 Schmitt Okay. That's hardly worth writing down, I guess.
033:50:26 Evans That's the way we like to see it.
033:50:30 CC Same here.
033:50:41 CC Oh, the only other thing I have in the way of updates is a PIPA bias update. You can load it yourself, or we can load it when we come up with the up-link prior to the burn. Your choice. And then We'll have an update to the erasable load update and a supplement to correspond with that bias update.
033:51:04 Cernan Gordy, why don't you go ahead and load it yourself when you send up the vector?
033:51:11 CC Okay, and I'll give you that update for the supplement. It's on 1-43 whenever you're - whenever it's convenient.
033:51:23 Cernan Okay, Jack's getting that out. I ran another PIPA bias at minus 100, and it confirmed the first one. It ended up at 99.2.
033:51:36 CC Roger.
033:51:41 Schmitt Go ahead with your update on 1-43, Gordy.
033:51:45 CC Okay. It's in the load A of the octal ID of 03, which now reads 77252. Change that to 77655.
033:52:33 Schmitt Did you copy, Gordy?
033:52:34 CC I didn't copy your readback; no.
033:52:39 Schmitt Okay, 306 03 and Alfa 77655.
033:52:44 CC That's right.
034:03:19 Schmitt Gordy, how do you read?
034:03:24 CC Loud and clear.
034:03:28 Schmitt Okay. For the reference on - on those menus, at least for the LMP, I think I'm probably putting 8 or 9 ounces of water in the citrus drinks and those kind of things, rather than 7, which has probably upped my water intake some.
034:03:47 CC Okay.
034:03:47 Schmitt And I think that probably goes for everybody. That probably goes for - it goes for Ron and probably Gene also.
034:03:54 CC Roger.
034:10:07 CC 17, Houston. I have a little synopsis of the news here, if you'd like to listen during breakfast. Let me know.
034:10:16 Cernan Okay, mighty fine. Send it up.
034:10:19 CC Okay, front page first. In Paris, Henry Kissinger met for 30 minutes this morning with French President George Pompidou at the Elysee Palace just hours before his scheduled conference with North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho - Tho, that is. North Vietnamese spokesmen accused Kissinger of attempting to force a peace settlement by threatening further escalation of the war. As both U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators expressed disappointment at the continued deadlock, Chief American delegate William J. Porter traveled to Brussels to brief Secretary of State William B. Rogers. Rogers will - will return later today from the NATO Conference of Ministers. This one is datel - date - datelined Brussels. Diplomatic sources indicated today that NATO allies will request negotiations with the Soviet Union and its allies on mutual troop reductions in central Europe. Exploratory talks expected to begin about January 31, with full-scale negotiations to follow sometime next fall. In Kansas City, vital life signs for Harry S. Truman appear to have stabilized. But the 88-year-old former President remains on the critical list at Kansas City's Research Hospital. Truman is suffering from lung congestion and heart weakness. In Argentina, aides to popular Argentine politician Juan Peron said that Peron will refuse the nomination to the presidency of Argentina and will return to exile during the coming week. And, on the sports page, Rice coach Al Conover is expected to reveal today - sometime today his decision to either remain at Rice as head coach or move to his alma mater, Wake Forest in a similar position. The Owl head coach has said that he has been offered the job and promises a yes-or-no decision today. There is some speculation that head coach Joe Paterno of Penn State may move to a head coaching job in the pros next year. Paterno is busy preparing his Nittany Lions for a Sugar Bowl meeting with Oklahoma and is refusing to discuss the matter until after the game. Locally, the state high school football playoffs - -
034:12:48 Cernan Lost you, Gordo.
034:12:51 CC Say again?
034:14:28 CC Okay, 17. Continuing after being rudely interrupted by the OMNI switch, the state high school football playoffs here in Texas are underway and with a whole host of games scheduled this weekend. And the final item, the Major League Baseball Players' Association and the Commissioner's Office are going at it again. It must be getting close to spring training time.
034:14:53 Schmitt Gordy, you cut out since the Nittany Lions.
034:15:03 CC Okay. Did you hear about the - the high school playoffs?
034:15:09 Schmitt No, the last we heard was the Nittany Lions.
034:15:13 CC Okay. (Laughter) Paterno, the head coach at Penn State, may move to a head coaching job in the pros next year. He's busy setting up his Nittany Lions for a Sugar Bowl meeting with Oklahoma and is refusing to discuss the matter until after the game. Here locally, the state high school football players are - playoffs are underway with a whole host of games scheduled for this weekend. And the final item, the - the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Commissioner's Office are going at it again, which means it must be getting close to time for spring training.
034:16:02 Schmitt No editorials, please (laughter).
034:29:28 Schmitt Gordy, film update on mag November November. I'm on frame 138, and that includes a couple of pictures I mentioned to Bob I took just before I went to sleep. And also, two pictures this morning at about 33:30. Those are the Earth.
034:29:53 CC Okay, Jack.
034:35:20 CC 17, Houston. A reminder. We need the H2 PURGE LINE HEATERS, ON, now. And I do have a maneuver pad for the midcourse when-you're ready to copy. Over.
034:35:36 Cernan Okay. I've already got the HEATER, ON. And give me about 5 minutes, and I'll get the pad.
034:35:43 CC Okay. And if you'll give us ACCEPT and P00, we'll get the up-link started just after the next antenna switch. We want to catch it between switches. Over.
034:35:57 Cernan Okay. You got P00 and ACCEPT.
034:36:00 CC Thank you.
034:46:19 CC 17, it's your computer. You have a state vector, VERB 66, and a target load, and a PIPA bias update.
034:46:27 Cernan Very good.
034:49:49 Schmitt Believe it or not, Gordy, I'm ready for your pad.
034:49:54 CC Okay, Jack. It's a midcourse 2, SPS/G&N; the weight is 66786; plus 1.21, minus 0.13; ignition time is 035:29:59.09; minus 0003.4, plus 0002.1, minus 0009.8; attitude is 132, 194, 343; HA and HP are NA; DELTA-Vt 0010.6, burn time is 0:02, 0006.5; sextant star is 25, 233.7, 16.4; rest of the pad is NA. Ullage, none. Other remarks; LM weight, 36281. High gain angles: PITCH, minus 21; YAW, 181. And this will give you a perilune of 53.1. Should make everybody onboard feel a little more comfortable. Over.
034:51:59 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. We haven't been particularly uncomfortable, but knowing no way we would hit the Moon. Here's MCC-2, 7 - SPS/G&N; 66786; plus 1.21, minus 0.13; 035:29:59.09; minus 0003.4, plus 0002.1 And you cut out on DELTA-Vz. Give me that again, please.
034:52:34 CC Okay. DELTA-Vz is a minus 0009.8.
034:52:45 Schmitt Okay. DELTA-Vz, minus 0009.8; 132, 194, 343; NOUN 44 is NA; 0010.6, 0:02, 0006.5; 25, 233.7, 16.4; rest of pad is NA. No ullage. LM weight, 36281. High gain PITCH, minus 21; YAW, 181. Perilune, 53.1.
034:53:23 CC Okay. That's a good readback.
034:54:21 CC 17, Houston. You can go back to BLOCK now.
034:54:33 Cernan Okay. We're in BLOCK.
034:55:16 CC Jack, a couple of quick items. We would like for you to terminate the BATTERY A charge now, and also turn the H2 tank HEATERS for tanks 1 and 2 OFF.
034:55:34 Schmitt Okay. H2 tank HEATERS 1 and 2 are OFF, and I'll terminate the charge.
034:55:39 CC Roger.
034:58:16 PAO This is Apollo Control 34 hours, 58 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 spacecraft, should at this time be coming out of the passive thermal-control mode and getting into the proper attitude for the midcourse correction burn #2, which is some 31 minutes and 23 seconds from now. Apollo 17, presently 126,988 miles from the Earth traveling at velocity of 4,098 feet per second. The midcourse correction burn #2 with an ignition time 35:29:59.1 has a velocity change in the posigrade direction of 10.6 feet per second, which for the service propulsion system engine is a BURP lasting 1.58 seconds. Purpose of this burn is to raise the pericynthion from an impact trajectory as it stands now, to one with a clearance over the Moon of some 53 nautical miles which will become the pericynthion of Lunar Orbit. Standing by on air-ground 1 at 34:59 this is Apollo Control.
035:02:54 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, there's all balls and 05 on that P52 .
035:03:04 CC Roger. That looks good.
035:03:05 Evans And you're looking at NOUN 93. Okay, you're looking at NOUN 93.
035:03:27 CC Okay, and we GO to torque it.
035:04:06 Evans Houston, Apollo 17. When we ran the DELTA-V test, we - we're reading minus 22.2 and I'm having a little trouble finding the SPS cue card. Wonder if FAO know exactly - knows exactly where that is?
035:04:23 CC Stand by; I'll check.
035:07:09 Schmitt Houston, if you saw a MASTER ALARM, it was the POWER SCE NORMAL switch getting hooked to OFF.
035:07:20 CC Roger.
035:07:33 CC As far as we know, the SPS burn card ought to be in with the rest of the cards in R-2.
035:07:41 Schmitt Gordy, we finally found that thing. It was way back in the back; sorry.
035:07:45 CC Okay.
035:08:23 Schmitt We're starting our purges, Houston.
035:08:27 CC Roger.
035:14:51 Evans Okay, Houston, We'll get to the attitude in about another 4 minutes or so. Then we'll whip in the P30 and go right into P40. We're doing a waste water dump, urine dump, and - man, the sky is just full of little bitty particles.
035:15:12 CC Roger, Ron.
035:15:54 Evans Hey, I doubt if we can get the star sextant check, but you can try it.
035:18:47 Evans Okay. Okay, 35:29:59:09 for the time. NOUN 81 - okay, NOUN 81s are loaded good.
035:19:10 Evans Just the burn time's good.
035:19:44 Evans Okay. We'll see if we can get the DET started here.
035:20:04 Evans Okay; got the DET started.
035:20:07 CC Jack, you can bring up the high gain any time now.
035:20:10 Evans In 10 minutes, Jack so we're in good shape. Okay, got that. ...
035:20:27 Evans Yes, he's dumping waste water. It's about 15. Yes. Yes, straight up to RELIEF, Jack.
035:20:40 CC And, Jack, also we're showing 10 percent on waste water, now.
035:20:44 Evans ... 786, LM weight. Okay, ..., OFF; ..., OFF. That's what I'm doing now. To what? One three, okay. Here we go. Set ... IMU. Okay. Realign the old GDC a little bit.
035:21:45 Evans Okay, GDC is aligned. STAB control breakers. All IN and good shape.
035:21:54 Evans MANUAL ATTs are RATE COMMAND; DEADBAND, MIN; RATE to LOW. Yes.
035:22:06 Evans Okay, TVC is in RATE COMMAND. LM/CSM is in LM/CSM. GIMBAL DRIVE is in AUTO. Okay.
035:22:14 CC Jack, this is Houston. We're ready for the high gain.
035:22:21 Evans (Laughter)
035:22:33 CC 17, Houston. Do you read?
035:22:42 Evans I think there's no trim on this ... Flight Plan.
035:22:49 Evans Okay.
035:22:54 CC Apollo 17, Houston. How do you copy?
035:22:57 Evans Okay, so that's ... trim, to 0.2.
035:23:07 Cernan No trim if it's greater than 2 feet per second.
035:23:24 Evans Yes, we're down to 6 minutes.
035:23:30 CC Apollo 17, Houston. How do you read?
035:23:35 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We got you.
035:23:38 CC Okay, we weren't getting through there for a minute or 2. We're ready for the high gain now.
035:23:54 Evans Okay. Minus - minus 21 and 181.
035:24:06 CC And 17, You're GO for midcourse 2.
035:24:12 Evans Okay. Sounds good.
035:24:19 Evans And, Jack, you ready for GIMBAL MOTORS? - I mean the BUS TIES?
035:24:27 Schmitt Ready for the BUS TIES.
035:24:42 Evans Okay, TAPE RECORDER, HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD, FORWARD, and COMMAND RESET.
035:24:52 Evans Check your HELIUM VALVES and check your ...
035:24:59 Evans Okay. SERVO POWER 1 and 2, we got.
035:25:10 Evans Okay, got SERVO POWER. AC1 and AC2.
035:25:16 Evans AC, DIRECTS are OFF.
035:25:19 Evans BMAGs, 1/2. Okay.
035:25:24 Evans No hardovers. Okay. We'll go to SCS. Okay, PITCH 1, Jack -
035:25:33 Evans MARK it. YAW 1 -
035:25:36 Evans MARK it. Okay. Got a minus - plus 1.1, okay. A minus 0.13; that's almost zero. Okay. Whoo! Man, bounces it around! (Laughter) little difference.
035:26:02 Evans Okay, we'll give it to the computer. Clockwise. Go TVC TVC. Okay, PITCH 2.
035:26:11 Evans MARK it. Got it. YAW 2.
035:26:13 Evans MARK it. Got it? Okay, got the trim, about a plus 12 and a minus 0.1. TVC, TVC, TVC, TVC.
035:26:28 Evans Okay, give it to the computer. Returns to zero. Go TVC TVC. Okay.
035:26:38 Evans AC/DC. DIRECTS are MAIN A/MAIN B.
035:26:42 Evans Okay, zero BMAGs.
035:26:46 Evans Okay, 50 18. PROCEED.
035:26:51 Evans ENTER it.
035:26:55 Evans Okay. Uncage BMAGs.
035:27:03 Evans Okay. Let's try a gimbal test. Plus 2, minus 2, 0, plus 2, minus 2, 0.
035:27:23 Evans Okay, she went to trim. 02:38 to go. Okay, we'll reach - SCALE was 5 what?
035:27:31 Cernan 39.
035:27:32 Evans Okay. RATE to HIGH.
035:27:37 Evans Okay, EMS NORMAL at 1 minute. Yes, we use bank A.
035:28:01 Evans This second burn, use bank A only. Okay, so in 3 seconds, Jack.
035:28:16 Evans Okay, cycle to ..., MIN, RATE to HIGH, DIRECT, CMC AUTO; uncaged, RATE COMMAND, GIMBAL MOTORS, LM/CSM and GIM - AUTO.
035:28:31 Cernan Okay, Houston. 01:30 and we're GO onboard for the burn.
035:28:35 CC Roger.
035:28:38 Evans Okay, Houston. No ullage.
035:28:44 Cernan Houston - Houston, I'm sure you've seen it. We're reading below the green band oxidizer pressure, about 163.
035:28:55 CC Roger.
035:29:00 Evans (Singing) Okay. Let's wait until 30 seconds and
035:29:09 Evans CONTROL POWER is ON. ... DELTA-V THRUST A switch. Get it and EMS at 30 seconds. Ullage - no ullage.
035:29:29 Cernan ... an average G is coming.
035:29:30 Evans Okay, average G is coming. EMS to NORMAL. DELTA-V THRUST A is ON. Okay, no manuals to it. You'll get the 99 - Okay?
035:29:52 Evans 10 seconds, Houston.
035:29:54 CC Roger.
035:30:00 Evans 99.
035:30:03 Evans Uh-hoo! There we go. Lift-off!
035:30:05 Cernan Okay. The burn is on time and - au - auto shutdown
035:30:08 CC Roger.
035:30:10 Evans Okay. Let's see what kind of trim we got. Yes, we trimmed it. Trimmed it to 0.2. Yes. Less than 2. Okay, plus 7 on the EMS.
035:30:23 CC Roger - -
035:30:24 Evans I mean on the R-l. (Laughter)
035:30:30 Evans Okay, we'll trim it out to 2. Plus 0.3. One more chance. Okay, there we go.
035:30:43 Cernan Okay, Houston. You're looking at NOUN 85, and the EMS is minus 3.3.
035:30:49 CC Roger, Gene.
035:30:50 Evans Okay, gimbal motors check. Two -
035:30:54 Evans MARK it. Two -
035:30:56 Evans MARK it. One -
035:30:59 Evans MARK it. One -
035:31:02 Evans MARK it.
035:31:05 Evans Okay. SERVO POWER is OFF.
035:31:10 Evans TRANS CONTROL POWER and DIRECTS are OFF.
035:31:15 Evans ULLAGE circuit breakers are OPEN. Hey, we just caught up with all the particles. They're all ... with us now.
035:31:34 Evans Okay, DIRECTS are OFF. PITCH and YAW. PITCH, ROLL, and YAW 1 are OPENED. Okay, you got the DELTA-V counter?
035:31:58 Evans Okay. BMAGs are caged. BUS TIES, JACK?
035:32:23 Evans Okay. BUS TIES are OFF. BIT RATE to LOW, while you're up there.
035:32:58 Evans That shouldn't change, I don't think; should it?
035:33:04 SC Okay.
035:33:22 Cernan Houston, America.
035:33:23 CC Go ahead.
035:33:32 Cernan Okay, the burn was on time. Looked like it was about 2 seconds. DELTA-Vx was 0,7. ROLL was .132, PITCH was 193, and YAW was 342. Residuals after trim were zero - plus 0.1, zero, and minus 0.1, and DELTA-Vc, is minus 3.3. OX 007. FUEL is 009 and DECREASE 50.
035:34:09 CC Roger.
035:34:57 Evans PAN CAMERA'S OFF. MAPPING CAMERA's OFF, huh? And SM/AC POWER will be coming OFF, shortly.
035:35:53 Schmitt You know, Houston, we must of caught up with everyone of those particles. Because we're right in the middle of them. They're going kind of in a random fashion. Most of them are drifting right along with us. Some of them are going against us and away from us. But before we did the burn - you know, the propulsion, they got out of the vent. Sent them all away from us in what looked like - in more or less the X-direction.
035:36:21 CC How about that.
035:36:26 Schmitt ... we really got a star field out there now (laughter).
035:36:30 CC Roger.
035:36:31 Cernan Say, Gordy, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 1 - That's 1.0. You want me to go to TUNNEL VENT?
035:36:41 CC Stand by.
035:36:57 CC Yes, that's affirmative, Geno. You have a GO for TUNNEL VENT valve, VENT.
035:37:03 Cernan Okay.
035:41:09 CC 17, Houston.
035:41:15 Evans Roger. Go ahead.
035:41:16 CC Okay, we do want to put BATTERY A back on CHARGE as shown in the Flight Plan. And, also, I have a new flyby pad. No hurry on this one, but it's a flyby pad post-MCC-2.
035:41:35 Cernan Okay, Gordo, how quickly should this tunnel vent?
035:41:41 CC Let me get a reading on that.
035:42:12 CC Geno, that should take about an hour. We'll try to remember to occasionally remind you to look at it.
035:42:23 Cernan Okay. I'm glad you said that because I don't see any indication of it moving here yet, at all.
035:42:29 CC Roger.
035:43:44 Schmitt Houston, 17-
035:43:46 CC Go ahead.
035:43:49 Schmitt Never got to give you a 7-Alfa reading on a - after the last charge. It was 0.6 - decimal 6 as before.
035:44:04 CC Okay. Ed Mitchell - Ed Mitchell must be working now. I was just about to ask you for that. And for Geno, one reminder, you will have to switch back to LM/CM DELTA-P in order to read the DELTA-P. Over.
035:44:25 Cernan Yes, Gordo, I'm - I'm aware of that, and I've done it. But in the about 3 or 4 minutes that I vented, I didn't see any change yet.
035:44:33 CC Okay. It's a pretty slow process.
035:46:32 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, battery A is being charged.
035:46:37 CC Roger, Jack.
035:46:44 Schmitt And I checked that 7-Alfa in the VENT position, and it's 0.6 also.
035:46:55 CC Okay.
035:52:18 Evans Okay, Houston. How's the CMP's "zippen" or ZPN?
035:52:26 CC Let me take a check to my left here.
035:52:30 Evans I'll take a deep breath for you.
035:54:32 CC Okay, Ron. Your ZPN looks good.
035:54:39 Evans Okay, I don't have the other one on yet. But I was a little bit curious because I left the electrodes in this thing, and - you know, the little sponges, I left those inside the electrodes, but they stuck to - to the back of the electrodes and kind of corroded the inside of it there a little bit.
035:54:59 CC Evidently, it's working okay.
035:55:03 Evans Okay, mighty fine.
035:55:07 Evans I'll put some new ones in.
036:07:47 Evans Okay, Houston, is my heart beating?
036:07:53 CC I'm sure it is, Ron, but I'll check to my left.
036:07:59 Evans Okay.
036:08:08 CC We'll wait a couple of minutes. It takes that long to settle down and give you a reading on it.
036:08:14 Evans Okay. No problem.
036:09:17 CC Ron, your EKG looks real good.
036:09:24 Evans Okay. Thank you much.
036:09:28 Evans That's all new, what you call it - those sponges and stuff, you know. And, Houston, I'm not - I'm not putting - putting any cover tape on it, so if it quits - you know, comes loose or something like that, well, let me know and I'll push it on again.
036:09:53 CC Okay, will do.
036:10:55 Schmitt You might make a note that Dr. Evans was assisted in that operation by Dr. Schmitt,
036:11:01 CC Roger, Doctor.
036:11:09 CC Jack, I've still got this flyby pad standing by.
036:11:17 Schmitt Nag, nag, nag.
036:11:29 Evans Can't talk with a mouthful of bread cubes, it all comes out.
036:11:34 Schmitt Okay, what kind of pad you want to give me? Flyby, right?
036:11:38 CC Right. A regular maneuver pad.
036:11:49 Schmitt Okay, and I guess the other one I can cross out, right?
036:11:53 CC That's affirmative. That's obsolete now that you've done midcourse 2.
036:12:12 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, I'm all set.
036:12:14 CC Okay, it's a flyby. SPS/G&N; 66678; plus 1.21, minus 0.13. Ignition time is 08l:l4:43.49; plus 0043.3, plus 0211.8, plus 0453.2. Attitude is 128, 146, 317; Ha is NA. Hp is plus 0021.1. DELTA-Vt is 0502.1. Burn time, 1:18, 0497.6. Sextant star is 25, 189-3 27.4. Boresight star is NA. NOUN 6l is a plus 15.60, minus 175.00; 1101.6, 36242. GET of 05G is 153:24:03 - GDC stars are Sirius and Rigel; 256; 152; 069. Ullage, none. Remarks: 1, burn docked; and number 2, assumes PTC REFSMMAT. And that's it. Over.
036:14:56 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Here's your readback. Flyby, SPS/G&N; 66678; plus 1.21, minus 0.13; 08l:l4:43.49; plus 0043.3, plus 0211.8, plus 0453.2; 128, l46, 317. Ha is NA. Plus 0021.1; 0502.1, 1:18, 0497.6; 25, 189.3, 27.4. Boresight, NA. Plus 15.60, minus 175.00; 1101.6, 36242; 153:24:03 - Sirius and Rigel; 256; 152; 069. There's no ullage. Remark 1, burn docked - docked; and 2, PC - PTC REFSMMAT is assumed.
036:16:16 CC Okay, that's a good readback.
036:17:55 Cernan Gordy, I might mention for future reference that we've established a new list of consumables, or at least added it to the old one. Now includes gray tape and tissues.
036:18:07 CC Okay, you want us to track those?
036:18:12 Cernan It might help. We have a heck of a time finding them in here.
036:18:16 CC Roger.
036:18:20 Cernan Oh, you meant quantity-wise.
036:18:25 CC Yes, we'll set up in a special back room.
036:18:33 Cernan We could call it the T-T room. Tissue and tape, of course.
036:18:39 CC Roger.
036:34:41 PAO This is Apollo Control at 36 hours, 34 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17, 130,714 nautical miles out from Earth, velocity now, 3,985 feet per second, continuing to decelerate as we approach the so-called cross over between the sphere of influence from Earth to Moon. I can't recall ever seeing two pages of a flight plan as blank as these are, from 36 hours to 38 hours. Later on today, the - after the eat-period the crew will crawl through the hatch into the Lunar Module for some housekeeping chores, checking out of stowage of equipment in the Lunar Module. But the most exciting thing going on now, was the checkout of the Bio-medical harness on the Command Module Pilot. Midcourse correction burn went nominally on time. The velocity just at time of ignition was 4,058 feet per second. It jumped approximately 10 feet since there was a 10-foot per second burn. But then, within a few minutes it was down below the original velocity as the spacecraft continues to decelarate. Altitude at the time of burn, or distance from Earth, was 128,217. We show a pericynthion of 52.09 miles at closest approach after the burn. And standing by at 36:36, this is Apollo Control.
036:42:07 CC
036:42:16 Cernan Okay; thank you. We'll do that.
036:43:13 Cernan It's 2.2, Gordo; I put it back in VENT.
036:43:17 CC Okay.
037:00:19 Evans Hello, Houston; America.
037:00:23 CC Roger, America. Go ahead.
037:00:26 Evans Okay, Gordo. We're up to 2.5 on the tunnel and still venting.
037:00:33 CC Okay. is that music we hear in the background?
037:00:40 Evans Yes, sir. (Music: Up, Up, and Away by Brazil '66) They've been making fun of some of my music. ...
037:00:59 CC Yes, it's coming down to us in living stereo.
037:01:05 Evans Reminiscent of yesteryear. (Music: Up, Up, and Away by Brazil '66).
037:02:43 Evans Music from America.
037:02:46 CC Roger. Thank you for the concert. That was very appropriate.
037:10:07 Cernan Gordo, Ron went off the air for a minute, and LM DELTA-P is now 2.6.
037:10:15 CC Okay, Gene.
037:10:33 CC Geno, we'd like for you to let it get up to 2.8 before closing off the VENT.
037:10:39 Cernan (Music) Okay, Gordo. We'll make it 2.8.
037:10:45 CC Roger.
037:20:42 CC America, Houston. That was a sight handover, the reason we lost signal for a second there.
037:20:48 Cernan Okay.
037:32:47 Cernan Houston, 17-
037:32:49 CC Go ahead.
037:32:53 Cernan Say, are we going to have a pretty good view of the Earth out of any CSM windows at the LM checkout attitude?
037:33:02 CC I'll check on that.
037:33:03 Cernan We're sort of blocked right now.
037:33:05 CC Roger.
037:42:31 CC America, Houston. We're predicting that your LM/CM DELTA-P ought to be about right now, about 2.8.
037:42:41 Cernan Okay.
037:42:45 CC We would like a reading -
037:42:45 Cernan We'll check it.
037:43:14 Cernan Gordo, 2.9.
037:43:18 CC Okay. Sounds good.
037:44:16 Cernan ...
037:44:30 Cernan Gordy, the reason I asked about that view of the Earth, we were sort of thinking maybe we might go early, if it was all right with you, and watch the Earth a little bit more.
037:44:45 CC Okay. We're still trying to get the answer on whether you'll have a window. Stand by. I might have it here.
037:50:05 CC America, Houston.
037:50:09 Cernan Go ahead.
037:50:11 CC Okay. The LM inspection attitude that you'll go to results in kind of a marginal view of the Earth out of window 1, about 60 degrees away from it, bore-sight line of sight. And we're - we can - we've started to work on and if you wanted to do is you can go to kind of intermediate attitude, which will be the LM attitude except for roll which will be off by about 60 degrees, which will - will give you a good view of the Earth out of window 1. And then when we get ready to do the LM entry, you can roll that additional 60 degrees to get to the proper attitude, if you wish. Your choice. Over.
037:50:58 Cernan Yes, if that doesn't bother anybody down there, we'd like to do that.
037:51:03 CC Okay. We'll have something for you here in a few minutes.
037:54:00 CC Okay. If you're ready to copy, I have a VERB 49 maneuver for you that will let you look at the Earth.
037:54:11 Cernan Wait a minute, Gordo, and I'll just let you load it as we go here.
037:54:15 CC All right.
037:54:27 Cernan Okay; ready to copy.
037:54:29 CC Okay. Roll is 240, pitch is 089, and yaw is 0. And the high gain for that attitude, we think it'll probably track to this attitude, is plus 29 and 27.
037:54:57 Cernan Okay. Plus 29 and 27.
037:55:00 CC Roger.
037:59:18 CC America, Houston. Until you get the attitude, OMNI Charlie will probably work better.
037:59:35 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We got you OMNI Charlie now.
037:59:37 CC Okay; loud and clear.
038:05:15 Schmitt Gordy, for your information we have our LM transfer items in the jettison bag ready to go over and we're pretty well squared away on the, all the command module stowage now with minor exceptions.
038:05:29 CC Okay.
038:13:02 CC America, Houston. We'd like you to go ahead and get on the high gain again since - and stop it just wandering around aimlessly. And how does the Earth look now?
038:13:30 Schmitt Sorry, Gordy, to be so slow. Earth looks great, and we'll get the high gain up in just a second.
038:13:36 CC Okay.
038:19:31 Schmitt Houston, 17. How do you read?
038:19:35 CC Go ahead. You're loud and clear.
038:19:40 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, going from south to north on noontime, at least our noontime weather, it looks like there is a fairly strong mass of polar air moving from the southwest up towards Tierra del Fuego. It's mixed with some cloudiness that extends from that area all the way down to the Antarctic ice shelf. But it looks like some pretty good movement patterns from the southwest, north - northeast. No strong weather waves or cyclone development on that yet, although one may be picking up about halfway between Tierra del Fuego and the coast of Antarctica, the - where the front, or at least the cloud masses, curve from the east-west direction to an almost due south direction. Most of South America still looks like pretty good weather. There is cloudiness along the Andean Ridge and also in the Amazon Basin, stretching from the eastern coast of South America on up about, oh, two-thirds of the way towards Central America. It doesn't look like frontal weather there. It's probably tropical convergence weather. Now there is this - still this small, moderately developed cyclone pattern that's hanging pretty much over Buenos Aires now, I think. Uruguay and Buenos Aires. I think I mentioned that earlier in the day. And that still is there, and I suspect those folks are getting a fair amount of weather out of it.
038:21:54 CC Roger.
038:22:00 Schmitt Except for scattered clouds, Central America and Mexico, for the most part, are clear - as is most of the Caribbean islands - Cuba and the others are - all look like they've pretty good weather. There's a little clouds off - cloud pattern off to the east of those islands, but it doesn't look like any major weather in that area. The eastern half and Midwest of the United States is completely cloud covered right now. There - however, the - extending from Mexico to Sonora and up into Arizona and New Mexico, and possibly as far north as Colorado, is a clear band. But then there is more cloudiness to the north of that. The Pacific regions west of - The West Coast of the United States is cloudy, at least west of Southern California. I cannot see Baja, so that cloudiness extends down south of - into Baja California. I see no strong new frontal patterns, although I'm looking right across the limb at the Earth now. There may be one that would be lying maybe across northern California and - and into Colorado, with a little clear area ahead of it, possibly in Kansas. But then into this, a solid bank of clouds that stretches from Brownsville, at least, clear up to - well, along the Gulf Coast across the panhandle of Florida, up the East Coast and on out past Nova Scotia, I'm sure. Florida is clear. Florida - the peninsular portion of Florida is - it looks very clear and some of the deep turquoise green waters to the south and southeast of that area are - are very obvious at this time.
038:24:42 CC Roger, Jack. I'm following along on the satellite weather picture here that's taken from about your same vantage point and - although nowhere near the detail that you're describing.
038:25:05 Schmitt Have you seen today's analysis charts of the United States or North America?
038:25:11 CC No, I haven't. I was just told, Jack, that the - the weathermen and a lot of other people around here, too, are following your weather reports with great interest.
038:25:40 Schmitt Yes. Does that mean they're right or wrong?
038:25:47 CC You've got the better view, by far.
038:25:52 Schmitt That doesn't prove much. Okay, Gordy, I'm - I suspect that that's a pretty healthy front. I don't know. Your weather must be cloudy and bad today. is that right?
038:26:04 CC It is. We've got about a half-mile vis and drizzly rain.
038:26:11 Schmitt Okay. Well, I suspect comparable weather extends all the way across the eastern United States. That looks like awful dense clouds, although there's no obvious frontal pattern. It just stretches from the Midwest to the East Coast. And, also, there's no good indication of stratification of those clouds, as if they'd be fairly - fairly thick up into the cirrus levels.
038:26:51 CC Roger, Jack.
038:26:52 Schmitt Looks like Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Sonora probably have some - one band of high cirrus. But other than that, probably a beautiful day out in that area.
038:27:19 Schmitt There's some transverse cloud patterns over the Mississippi-Alabama area. It suggests maybe that the Jetstream may be just north of that region. But otherwise, there's no good indication of Jetstream position right now.
038:27:42 CC Roger.
038:29:11 Schmitt Gordy, there is one minor weather disturbance, possibly just about over Puerto Rico or maybe just -just to the east of that island. No strong circulation patterns, although there's a hint of a cyclone development. There might be just a small depression in that area. I don't know whether your maps are carrying anything down there or not.
038:29:45 CC I think I see what you're talking about on the satellite picture, but I don't have a surface analysis that goes that far. I do - I just now got a copy of the surface charts for the United States. And there's - there's a front stretching from northern Texas northeastward up through Tennessee and Virginia and another one sort of parallel to it. But, this way southward from Louisiana along the Gulf Coast across northern Florida and on out into the Atlantic. And I guess the two are kind of blending together to make that irregular mass of clouds you mentioned.
038:30:31 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. If I'd been a little more observant I could see that there was a little bit, looks like a decrease in at least the thickness of the clouds, vertical thickness, between the two areas you just mentioned. So, there is some indication here of those two fronts, although they are contributing to a general weather pattern in the eastern United States.
038:30:59 CC Roger.
038:31:07 Schmitt I think, with a little experience in this business, you might have picked those two out of that mass. But it's not immediately obvious.
038:31:15 CC Roger.
038:31:23 Schmitt You got anything on there coming in from the northwest now, say up in Wyoming and Colorado?
038:31:38 CC The way it's drawn on this surface charts shows that - that northern front that I mentioned, just now, sort of curving on up through central Colorado, and then bending westward toward - through Utah. That's about the only other frontal activity. There's one, probably dry front, then a short one through central Arizona and southern Utah.
038:32:15 Schmitt Okay. Well, that makes sense. That would match with that - what I was thinking was high cirrus in Arizona. And also I can see how you could bend - that's the northern front up through Colorado and then back westward to explain the patterns we're seeing in the clear areas south of that.
038:32:38 CC Roger.
038:33:04 Schmitt Gordy, the zero-phase point now is off the coast of Chile and Ecuador - oh, maybe 10 or 15 degrees of longitude, and it is fairly dull. It does not seem to indicate any great amount of choppiness or wave action in that area.
038:33:35 CC Roger.
038:34:05 Schmitt And about 15 minutes ago, Gordy, I took two more Hasselblad shots of the Earth.
038:34:14 CC Okay.
038:34:29 Evans And, also, Houston, frame number - let's see, that's 16 and 17 - were taken of the Earth about 15 minutes ago, too. And that's magazine Sierra Sierra.
038:34:45 Schmitt Okay, Ron. We copy that.
038:34:56 Schmitt Gordy, with respect to the icepack off the coast of Antarctica, it's difficult to distinguish pack ice from clouds, in general. However, the clouds seem to pick up reflection patterns with respect to the Sun. And using that as a - and some shadows in below as the criteria, it looks as if the pack ice in the South Atlantic would extend to a latitude almost comparable to that of Tierra del Fuego. I don't know whether that - that's reasonable or not.
038:35:46 CC Okay. I don't either. But maybe someone who's more of an expert can clear up your question on that. I'll let you know.
038:35:57 Schmitt Now to the southwest of Tierra del Fuego there's a - looks like a small cyclone developing, clockwise rotation, just off the edge of the pack ice, and - but it does not seem to be closely associated with the frontal activity that I mentioned when I started out speaking at this - this particular time.
038:36:37 CC Roger,
038:36:37 Schmitt There is another - there is another one, maybe a front, a little bit ahead of that cyclone that's now extending north-south. Starts in the pack ice area and extends up - oh, about halfway from there to Buenos Aires - in the direction of Buenos Aires. It doesn't look like a very major mass of air or frontal system. It may develop into something over the next couple days though.
038:37:12 CC Okay.
038:38:09 Schmitt And centered, Gordy, at about 45 south and say 30 west, there is another cyclone area that's ahead of the last front I talked about that doesn't look - I think I talked about it yesterday - still does not look too strong, although the clouds, as I recall, the cloud cover is somewhat more well developed, and circulation patterns seem to be better developed. It may be an intensifying storm over what we saw yesterday.
038:38:47 CC Roger.
038:38:52 Schmitt I cannot see that it's associated with any clear frontal activity, however.
038:38:58 CC Okay.
038:39:05 Schmitt That, I presume, should be migrating in the direction of the - of the southeast coast of Africa, so we'll keep an eye on it.
038:39:16 CC Roger.
038:39:21 Schmitt And that reminds me, did you get any information on the - that - what looked like a very strong, concentrated typhoon or hurricane in the South Pacific between Borneo and the Philippines?
038:39:45 CC Let me check and see what we got on that. I wasn't here when you first talked about it evidently.
038:39:51 Schmitt Well, it was one that they didn't seem to be carrying, and it looked extremely well developed from here.
038:40:35 Schmitt Gordy, yesterday that - the one I'm speaking of - was centered at about 15 north and a hundred and - make that about 117 east.
038:40:57 CC Okay. I've been informed that they are - the satellite people are carrying that one now. I'm not sure whether they had seen it before or didn't see it until after you did. But they are aware of it now and are tracking it.
038:41:19 Schmitt Well, we're not competing. They just didn't have any information for me on it yesterday. We'll probably be able to see that again late this afternoon.
038:41:39 CC Okay. The one that you just gave the coordinates on is - does have a name, - that's Therese, Hurricane Therese. And - so the - the other one must be the - must not have the name.
038:42:05 Schmitt Okay. Now which one has - is Therese.
038:42:10 CC The one you just - the coordinates you gave almost exactly pinpoint Therese.
038:42:17 Schmitt Okay. That's near the Philippines.
038:42:19 CC That's affirmative. Between there and Vietnam,
038:42:39 Schmitt Okay. Well, then that sounds like - if that's an up-to-date position, it has relatively little movement since yesterday.
038:42:52 CC Roger. They show it moving just very slightly westward.
038:43:00 Schmitt Okay. Are they carrying anything south of Guam now that we talked about yesterday?
038:43:32 CC Take a minute to get something on that. They don't have a current map showing anything in Guam right now.
038:43:46 Schmitt And we also had a storm developing south of - or southwest of New Zealand. Might look at that one, too.
038:43:57 CC Okay.
038:44:10 CC Jack, are you making these observations through the monocular?
038:44:19 Schmitt Yes, sir.
038:44:20 CC Okay.
038:44:21 Schmitt Although most of them - well, at this distance, Gordy, the circulation - detailed circulation patterns to say what's a cyclone and what isn't are not visible to the naked eye, at least not to mine.
038:44:36 CC Roger.
038:44:38 Schmitt The major frontal patterns are, however.
038:46:49 CC Jack, that disturbance you mentioned near Guam isn't being carried on the current charts here as anything significant. They do show some cloudiness north of the tropical convergence zone, but just that.
038:47:08 Schmitt Okay. Well, I had a feeling what I was seeing yesterday might have just been the remnants of Teresa [sic], which I think went - got into that area a couple days ago. It was not a very well-developed system, but did seem - seem to be isolated from the other cloudiness that I would have put into the tropical convergence zone. That was between Wake and Kwajalein.
038:47:38 CC Roger.
038:49:04 Schmitt Gordy, let me try to give you a description of something that is a little bit unusual than what we've been seeing. The - there's an axis that runs from, say, the outer portion of the Ross ice shelf along the - and just off the coast of Antarctica, then bends up so that it would pass just to the east of Tierra del Fuego and - and then continues on that heading so that it would intersect the far east coast of South America, if it continued. Now along that axis, the - what appear to be multiple frontal patterns or at least linear cloud bands, bend very sharply and change from a heading that roughly parallels the axis around the one that is roughly north-south. And some of the front - frontal direction changes that I gave you earlier, down in that area, are - also bend around that axis.
038:50:35 CC Okay.
038:50:38 Schmitt And there just, oh, there are probably a dozen, if you tried to pull them out, cloud bands between the Ross Sea and Tierra del Fuego that bend around the same axis. Quite striking.
038:50:54 CC Roger.
038:51:07 Schmitt Now there's some indications, to me at any rate, that the Jetstream in that area may be essentially east-west - oh, maybe 20 degrees of latitude north of the Ross Sea, and then bends down very sharply so that it intersects the - or approaches the coa- Antarctic ice shelf to the east of the Ross Sea, and then maybe it bends up and forms the axis that I just described that's causing that bending of the cloud patterns.
038:51:55 CC Okay. Sounds like a good, theory.
038:52:09 Schmitt There's a linear clear area in that area north of the Ross Sea that - and to the north of that is a sharply defined front that I talked about earlier. And then, both the - that front continues. The clear area is cut off by the axis that I described, a cloud axis.
038:52:36 CC Roger.
038:52:36 Schmitt Now that should show up real well on the 250-millimeter pictures we took. Gordy, I'm back looking at zero-phase. And now, apparently, the exact zero-phase was partially obscured by a cloud pattern earlier. Now, when I - There is a very, very small bright spot in the center of the zero-phase area. Nothing comparable to what I described off the coast of Australia yesterday, but an extremely small spot. I suspect that the size of your bright spot in zero-phase has some direct - or indirect, at any rate, relationship to sea state.
038:53:31 CC Roger.
038:55:51 Schmitt Gordy, as you might expect, the whole coastline of Chile is - or all of Chile, practically, is clear. Beautifully exposed to us here, particular the Atacama Desert, which is noted for that particular characteristic, and - at least among geologists it is. And the coast of Peru is also clear with clouds following the Andean Ridge, probably the - certainly the coast side of the Andean Ridge. Lima ought to be enjoying a very nice day today. The - Ecuador, however, looks like it might have a little more cloudy weather, although it doesn't look like any major storm activity.
038:56:56 CC Roger.
039:03:14 CC America, Houston. We have a couple of words here on medications. is everyone listening?
039:03:25 Cernan Yes; we're on, Gordo. Go ahead.
039:03:27 CC Okay. Geno, you mentioned taking a nausea pill for some gas yesterday, and we were looking into some of the side effects. You definitely don't want to use that particular pill for gas. One of the side effects is that it's an appetite depressor. And there are some pills loaded in A-7, along with the vitamin pills, specifically for the purpose of eliminating gas. We would appreciate if you'd give us a call in advance prior to taking any medications except the Seconal and aspirin. Over.
039:04:19 Cernan Okay, Gordy, will do. I was aware that those gas depressors were around. At the time, we couldn't find them in A-7. And so I took one of those other things, whatever it is. And while you're talking about that, as per the preflight food check, gas is very evident on - particularly on me - and I think I'm suppressing it slowly. But is there any problem, or what do you recommend on that Mylinol [sic] or Mylicon or whatever it is?
039:04:59 CC Okay. Stand by 1.
039:05:02 Cernan This goes hand-in-hand with the amount of gas that I experienced preflight.
039:05:10 CC Okay.
039:05:11 Cernan And it's the kind of gas - it's the kind of gas that just stays in your stomach.
039:05:16 CC Roger.
039:05:45 CC Okay, Geneo. The recommended use of those gas pills is to chew one after each meal. And then, if needed, chew up another one before going to sleep at night.
039:06:04 Cernan Okay; fine. I chewed one after breakfast.
039:06:08 CC Okay. A little water after you chew it up, I guess, helps its effectiveness.
039:06:15 Cernan That's a basic requirement, I believe. The effect of it has not been too obvious yet though.
039:06:25 CC Roger.
039:07:53 Cernan Gordy, you want the 02 HEATERS 1 and 2 to AUTO now?
039:08:00 CC That's affirmative.
039:08:08 Cernan Okay, They're there.
039:09:07 Cernan Gordy?
039:09:10 CC Go ahead.
039:09:14 Cernan I don't want to cause any concern on that gas. It's no real great problem. It's just a slight discomfort; that's all.
039:09:20 CC Okay, Gene. I think we understand.
039:10:33 Cernan Gordy, I have just eaten my first peanut butter sandwich in orbit around the Earth.
039:10:43 CC Roger. How was it?
039:10:47 Cernan What's that? Well, it was just as good as it was when I was growing up - which means it was great. I grew up on those things, as I recall.
039:11:10 CC Charlie Duke's here with me and he - -
039:11:11 Evans Miss the lettuce. Sure have missed the lettuce and mayonnaise on mine though.
039:14:32 Evans And, Houston, we'll go ahead and maneuver onto the LM attitude.
039:14:37 CC Okay. We're watching you. Punch it in there.
039:14:40 Evans Okay.
039:27:23 Evans Okay. DIRECT O2 is coming OPEN now.
039:27:27 CC Okay.
039:30:12 Evans DIRECT O2 is OFF.
039:30:14 CC Roger.
039:30:55 CC America, before you open the equalization valve, we'd like one final reading on the LM/CM DELTA-P.
039:31:07 Evans Okitydoke.
039:31:17 Evans Okay. With this cabin pressure now, it's up to 3.5, almost 3.6.
039:31:25 CC Okay, Ron.
039:33:58 CC Jack, Houston. We're ready to terminate the charge on battery A.
039:34:10 Cernan Standby. Good. CSM LM pressure equalization, huh? Okay, cryo pressure indicator to surge 3 and verify cryo. Oh, wait a minute. See if I got the right one here. Recto 2 is on.
039:36:06 Cernan Okay, Gordo, I cycled the CRYO PRESSURE INDICATOR from up to down, back to SURGE/3. And we got a MASTER ALARM and there was no O2 HIGH FLOW with it at all.
039:36:26 CC Okay.
039:36:34 Cernan Okay, I just did it again to verify it. And that picked up - it picked up the MASTER ALARM, although it might be associated with the fact that the surge tank is down and coming back up.
039:36:48 Evans No, I don't think so.
039:36:50 CC Roger, Gene. Although, the surge tank shouldn't have caused it.
039:36:57 Cernan Okay, let me give you one more try on it. Well, that time it didn't wait. All I did was go up to 1 slash 2 and the ALARM came on.
039:37:12 CC Roger.
039:37:14 Cernan Okay, I went back to surge/3; it did not. So maybe it's coming on when I go up to 1 slash 2.
039:37:21 CC Roger
039:37:26 Cernan Yes, there it is, Gordy. It's definitely repeatable. I can go up to PRESSURE CRYO QUANTITY 1 slash 2 and the ALARM comes on.
039:37:38 CC Okay, Geno; understand.
039:37:39 Cernan You might note that - hey -
039:37:42 Evans Okay -
039:37:42 Cernan Gordo, you might think about the fact that we were getting them when the cabin pressure was high after launch. And there might be some association there, also.
039:37:57 CC Okay, a good observation.
039:38:05 Evans EMERGENCY CABIN selector to OFF. We got to unbolt it down there somewhere. Underneath the commander's couch. Okay.
039:38:38 Evans REPRESS PACKAGE valve OFF, should be OFF.
039:38:52 Evans Okay; verify DIRECT O2 is CLOSED. Okay; TUNNEL VENT VALVE, LM/C0MMAND MODULE DELTA-P. Okay, it's greater than 3.1. It's up around 3-6.
039:39:38 Evans Okay, we're going to open the pressure equalization valves.
039:41:09 Evans Okay. DELTA-P is 2-1/2.
039:41:12 Schmitt And, Gordy, battery A charge has been stopped and the battery compartment pressure is still reading 0.6.
039:41:22 CC Roger, Jack.
039:41:36 Evans Okay. There's the DELTA-P of 2. We'll close the equalization valve. Yes, we'll monitor for 3 minutes now.
039:44:01 CC Geno, Houston. We just wanted to verify that no - none of the lights in the matrix were - flashed when you operated that switch and got the MASTER ALARM.
039:44:15 Cernan That's affirmative, Gordo; none of the lights flashed at all.
039:44:18 CC Roger.
039:44:21 Schmitt When we get the cabin pressure down, Gordy, here, we might try one more time. Which Gene just did.
039:44:35 CC Okay, and nothing happened?
039:44:39 Evans That's affirm.
039:44:42 CC Roger.
039:45:40 Evans Okay, still holding at 2.0 on the DELTA-P.
039:45:48 Evans Okay, we'll open the pressure equalization valve and when the cabin pressure gets to 4.0, hit the REPRESS O2
039:46:58 Evans DELTA-P is about 0.6, we might make it this time.
039:47:20 Evans DELTA-P's - Okay, I'm going to open her right up. DELTA-P is 0.2 now.
039:48:29 Cernan Okay, Houston, the hatch is open.
039:48:32 CC Roger.
039:50:39 Evans Okay, the EXTEND LATCH is ENGAGED. Red is not visible. GN2 BLEED button. (Singing) Okay; GN2 BLEED. Not too much in there.
039:51:06 Evans Okay, PRELOAD SELECTOR lever - rotate parallel to the orange stripe. Okay. PRELOAD HANDLE, torque clockwise to unload the old support beams.
039:51:32 Evans (Clanking noise) Ah ha! The probe is big. Whoops - Oh, okay.
039:51:43 Evans The probe is loose in the tunnel. Okay, rotate away from the orange stripe. (Singing) Torque -
039:52:25 Evans Okay, we'll probe umbilicals. is the LM POWER OFF? Proceed - doesn't make any difference. DOCK PROBE CIRCUIT BREAKERS undone? ... That's good and tight.
039:52:56 Evans (Clanking noise) Oops. This darn thing. Okay.
039:53:22 Evans Son of a buck. Okay, I'm trying putting those things back on now, just for the heck of it. It's brand new; nice and tight.
039:53:48 Evans Can you smell nitrogen? Smell something up here.
039:53:56 Evans Okay, probe umbilicals disconnected and stow. Electrical connector covers are closed. Yes, yes, those are yellow ones. PRELOAD HANDLE, position against - against the umbilical connector. Okay, that's done.
039:54:18 Evans SELECTOR LEVER is in the mid position. INSTALLATION STRUT.
039:54:31 Evans Okay, INSTALLATION STRUT is unstowed. CAPTURE LATCH RELEASE HANDLE LOCK. Okay, the RELEASE HANDLE is unlocked.
039:54:57 Evans Okay, RATCHET HANDLE unstowed to the full extension; boost to the first detent. That's good and tight going back to the first detent. Okay. Fold probe, looks like. Yes, it's out. (Singing)
039:55:31 Evans Ooooh! There it comes. That's just like in the simulator. It comes down by itself. It comes - pushes me out of the way, as a matter of fact. Okay. I'll get it a little better.
039:56:00 Evans Okay, RATCHET HANDLE pulled to full extension and then ratchet one stroke. Gets it so it gets it off the thing.
039:56:25 Evans Okay, that's one stroke backwards now. Okay, RATCHET HANDLE and INSTALLATION STRUT are restowed. CAPTURE LATCH RELEASE HANDLE.
039:57:08 Evans Okay, CAPTURE LATCH RELEASE HANDLE is rotated 180 degrees and it's back in the recess. Okay, let's see if it comes out.
039:57:20 Evans (Clanking noise)
039:57:22 Evans Ooops. There it comes. I couldn't see it awhile ago, Let me look - the PROBE STRUT's in the way. That's why you can't see it until now. Where do we want to go with this thing down over here at the -
039:58:23 Evans Houston, it's a nice clean ... and release there on top of the probe. It's nice and clean down there. The button is depressed. There's play around the little button on the end of the probe there too.
039:58:40 CC Okay, Ron. In about 1 minute, we're going to have a site handover. You'll be talking through Hawaii after that takes place.
039:58:53 Evans Okay. What's the docking angle? Blew it, I guess. 1.2 degrees, huh?
039:59:23 Evans Yes, I think I better ver - verify that, just to make sure. COAS looks great.
039:59:41 Evans Hold a minute, Gene - wait a minute. You got - there we go.
039:59:51 Evans (Clanking noise)
040:00:06 Schmitt ... even getting - ... any scratching on here now. ... I ... out there.
040:00:27 CC Ron, this is Houston. We'd like to confirm the tunnel index angle - that's a positive - a plus 1.2, is that right?
040:00:37 Evans Stand by. I don't believe it yet. I want to check it myself. Well, Gordo, that's what I read, but I figure it's his privilege.
040:00:50 Evans I was just checking for any scratches on the drogue, but it doesn't look like there is any on there.
040:00:58 CC Roger.
040:01:04 Evans See ... (singing)
040:02:13 Evans Okay, Houston. The roll docking index is on a 1.2 - a plus - one point - a plus 1.2.
040:02:23 CC Roger. Plus 1.2.
040:02:28 Evans And - I took a look up there in the docking latch number 4. The bungee is parallel. ... Bungee is parallel, but it's not fully extended. You look down in the end of it you know, and it's not fully extended. And the - capture - the docking latch itself or the docking lever is loose on the docking ring. So, it looks like to me that's when I ought to recock and fire it again.
040:03:12 CC Okay. We copy that, Ron. Stand by.
040:04:08 CC Ron, can you estimate in inches how far down the bungee piston is?
040:04:18 Evans Yes, it's down about a half an inch.
040:04:21 CC Roger.
040:04:25 Evans And, when I take the - and move the handle back a ways and I can take the hook - no I did (laughter). I took the hook and I pulled it back off the docking ring and then it caught again, so now it won't go back over the docking ring. Maybe I just lifted the hook off the docking ... ring with my finger.
040:04:58 CC Roger.
040:05:29 Evans ...
040:05:34 CC Say, Ron, I would like to caution you again, sticking your finger around or under that hook - there may still be some spring energy stored up there that could release.
040:05:47 Evans Oh, you bet you. Yes, I know that. No, I was just touching the top of the hook when I pulled it back off the docking ring. I'm pulling back onto the docking ring, and it looks like it's back in the cocked position now.
040:06:08 CC Okay. I think we've got the picture.
040:06:42 Evans Do you want me to open the hatch here, Jack, or do you want to - while they're thinking about that I'll get out of the way and come on and open the hatch.
040:07:22 Evans (Laughter) Can't get up and can't get down - Okay - -
040:08:27 CC We're having a long conversation about that latch, Ron. Why don't you all just press on down the checklist and leave it as it is while we think about it?
040:08:38 Evans Okay. That's what we're doing here Gordo.
040:08:55 Evans Okay, Gordo, do you want the O2 HEATERS 1 and 2, OFF, and 3, AUTO? That's what you've got.
040:09:12 CC Yes, that's fine.
040:09:22 Evans Okay. He's going to open the hatch and IVT. Gordo, let me give you a little more on that docking latch. When I looked at it, of course, my handle was flush against the edge and it was also - essentially - locked in position. But since the bungee was down on the thing I took hold of it, and I felt that the hook itself was loose. Okay, so I took the handle and the handle will come back - would come back once you pressed the little button, you know, to release the handle. The handle would come back to about a 45-degree position just like it normally does when you try to cock the latches. Okay, with the handle back in that 45-degree position, then I grabbed hold of the hook and brought the hook off of the docking ring with my fingers and back to about that 45-degree position again just like it was comparable to the first cocked position. And that's the way it is right now.
040:10:31 CC Okay, Ron.
040:10:57 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, I'm running up through the tunnel from America to Challenger.
040:11:03 CC Roger.
040:11:19 Schmitt Yes... Okay ...
040:11:25 Schmitt One piece of tape coming up shortly, provided I can find the tape. Here it is.
040:12:25 Cernan Piece of tape coming up ...
040:12:51 Cernan I'll tell you, Gordo, it's remarkably clean up here. It doesn't look like the snowstorm that I remember coming into last time.
040:13:01 CC Roger Geno.
040:13:07 CC We tried to leave it all cleaned up - -
040:13:08 Schmitt ... up here. Hey, you did a good job, friend.
040:13:30 Schmitt Hey, that's good. Where is it? Oh, you - straight out there? Let me see; I want to see. I want to take a look at it, too. Hey, there it is; sticking straight out.
040:13:59 Schmitt Okay, Houston, America has a VHF antenna - looks deployed perfectly.
040:14:08 CC Roger.
040:14:19 Schmitt Hey, you guys are upside down in there (laughter). ...
040:15:13 Schmitt The commander's window has a slight amount of condensation on the - along lower left edge - that's the left-hand edge, really. It seems to be just there when the Sun warms the window.
040:15:30 CC Roger, Jack.
040:15:39 SC Okay, Houston. 74 on 1-3.
040:15:43 CC Okay.
040:15:55 Schmitt Geez, what was that? (laughter) What was that from? ... What the heck is this?
040:16:29 CC Sounds like the cabin repress is working up there.
040:16:34 Cernan Holy smole. ...
040:16:38 Cernan Man oh man, did the heart beat go up on that?
040:16:40 Schmitt Sorry about that ...
040:16:41 Cernan (laughter) ...
040:16:59 Schmitt Turns out - there's Sun out in the AOT.
040:17:06 CC Roger, Jack.
040:17:17 Schmitt Okay. I'm looking out the AOT, and I see a VHF antenna and part of a umbra radar antenna in position 1. Position 2 looks right in the radar antenna, and, as I said yesterday, it looks beautiful.
040:17:48 CC Roger.
040:17:50 Schmitt Position 3, I see the other side of America and very, very clean AOT, very clean. Okay, I got a good view of the side of the service module, and you can see these little blisters in the side of the covering there quite distinctly. I think people were talking about those before.
040:18:39 CC Roger.
040:19:04 Schmitt Yes, I take that back. That's the side of - that's the side of the command module - looking at that has the little blisters on it. Got to get oriented up here.
040:19:46 Schmitt Got a great view of the hatch - you ... watch your eyes there Gene. Look up, rather than into the Sun ...
040:20:51 SC Okay. Step 1 on 1-4.
040:20:56 SC Okay, Gordy. The LMP OPS is 6100 psi, 6100.
040:21:03 CC Roger.
040:21:11 SC And the CDR's OPS is 5900, that's five-nine-zero-zero.
040:21:17 CC Okay.
040:21:20 PAO This is Apollo Control. Cernan and Evans at this time have gone into the Lunar Module, and they're going through the housekeeping transfer of items from the command module into the lunar module and will proceed with the checklist of activating the spacecraft, or lunar module, spacecraft communications system, and the communications have been split into two links on Earth, Air-to-Ground 1 for the command module, and Air-to-Ground 2 for the lunar module. They're on hot mike or a voice-actuated circuit, so we can hear them run through the items as they accomplish them aboard the lunar module, Challenger.
040:22:24 SC Okay. Zip bag coming up.
040:23:02 SC You won't scare me any more if I come on up here with you, will you? (Laughter).
040:23:18 SC I got to go back in there.
040:23:18 SC Okay.
040:24:00 PAO This is Apollo Control, a correction on the earlier statement, it is Cernan and Schmitt in the Lunar Module Challenger at this time. Evans had the detail of removing the probe and drogue earlier, but he's by his lonesome, back in the Command Module.
040:24:24 SC Yes. Do you want to stack part of it over there?
040:24:31 SC No, wait a minute. There's strips of the stuff, you know, I'll just give you a strip of it. Take it over there.
040:25:38 SC Okay. Here you go. That's ... of them is that enough?
040:27:15 SC Yes, go ahead, Jack. Yes, in the tunnel. What do you need.
040:27:20 SC Okay.
040:27:28 SC Okay.
040:28:15 SC Checking circuit breakers now, Gordy.
040:28:22 CC Roger.
040:29:51 SC ... both circuit breaker panels were as advertised, Gordy.
040:29:57 CC Okay.
040:36:32 Evans Am I not looking in the right place?
040:36:37 CC Let me look. I don't know where one is, right offhand. I'll check here.
040:36:51 Cernan Well, just help me with some terms here. I was just looking again at sight of - underneath the power bungee.
040:37:22 Evans Okay, Gordy; we're at the top of 1-13 and all switches, valves were in proper configuration.
040:37:31 CC Okay, you could have asked me and I could have told you that.
040:37:39 Evans We were just trying to give you a plug - Well, if you don't want them - Well, we'll take it back. (Laughter) I shouldn't have said anything to the world's most experienced DLMP. Right?
040:38:05 CC Roger.
040:39:34 Schmitt ... hatch out there ...
040:40:27 CC Ron, at first glance, it doesn't look like you have one onboard, a picture of the latch. We're still looking though, but I don't think we have one.
040:40:38 Evans Well, it's kind of the conclusion I came to when I didn't find it in the systems data - Hey, I got a little bit to tell you about that. Oh, those little ones underneath the power bungee.
040:40:49 CC Okay, go ahead.
040:41:13 Evans ...
040:41:22 Evans Okay, if you look at the docking lights, number 4 up beside of that - Oh, kind of a ... looking thing. There is a snowman. In other words, a great big fat thing with a head on top of it. And if you consider the fat thing with the head on it as a snowman, well then, the snowman's head is pointing out a 9 o'clock, on that one. Whereas one that's fully cocked and latched over there, the snowman's head points up at about 11 o'clock. And - Okay, there is a lever that comes right out of the bottom of the power bungee, it looks like, and then it comes out of the bottom then left out of that lever, is another silver slot or silver bar that goes from the lever to the J-hook with the snowman on it. That particular thing that connects the J-hook to the lever coming out of the bottom of the bungee is visible. In other words, it's not sticking back underneath the J-hook. It's visible.
040:42:49 CC Ron, we've got just a line drawing here and we've still haven't got with you on what's what according to the drawing. Maybe you can hold off until we get a model of the latch, then we can stay with your description.
040:43:08 Evans Oh, okay, Gordy.
040:43:09 CC I'll give you a call.
040:43:13 Evans Okay.
040:45:03 SC (laughter)
040:45:38 Evans ... it's up to you. ... I want to float up in the tunnel. Do you want to float up and look?
040:46:05 Evans You know, the congestion I had all day yesterday is just about gone.
040:47:39 Schmitt Gordy, you'll be happy to know that putting the LMP's camera together is 500-percent easier in zero gravity.
040:47:48 CC Roger.
040:47:53 Evans It becomes a two-hand process.
040:51:30 Evans Is that temporary stow?
040:53:01 Evans Hey, Jack, if you get a chance, take a picture back this way.
040:53:41 Schmitt Okay ...
040:54:23 Schmitt Okay.
040:55:03 Schmitt Putting the cue cards up now, and the camera, by the way, Gordy, operated for two frames and the Reseau looked clean lens looks clean and everything's fine with it.
040:55:16 CC Okay, Jack; sounds good.
040:55:47 PAO This is Apollo control. Schmitt and Cernan at this time still in the lunar module going through the activation and housekeeping chores that are scheduled in the flight plan. They entered approximately on time as indicated by the flight plan. Meanwhile, here in the control center one of the docking collar capture latches is here in the control center being examined by flight controllers trying to sort out why some of the latches apparently did not fully engage during the docking operation. Spacecraft now 140,451 nautical miles from Earth; velocity now is 3,683 feet per second. Continuing to stand by on air-ground 2 for a conservation from the crew of Challenger.
041:01:22 SC The regular type, huh?
041:01:37 Schmitt Okay, I can do that.
041:01:41 Cernan Okay, Gordo, we're on the top of 1-15, we're ready to go ahead and transfer the power and we'll give you a call.
041:01:49 CC Okay, Geno.
041:02:03 SC Okay, the LM POWER circuit breaker is IN. What the - let me know what you want ... Okay, going to OFF, RESET. Okay, back ON. And, I got the old MASTER ALARM again. The pressure's been I don't know what it is.
041:02:34 SC Okay, Houston; we got a good transfer.
041:02:38 CC Roger.
041:02:39 SC Got it again by hitting the panel.
041:03:38 CC Ron, this is Houston.
041:03:43 Evans Yeah, go ahead, Gord.
041:03:45 CC Okay, we've got considerable conversation going on here about that docking latch, and it's not at all settled yet. But the primary thing we want to guard against is the possibility that it is malfunctioning and that we get it latched down on the ring and can't unlatch it, and, therefore, have problem with undocking, or possibly even prevent it. So, we'd like you steer clear of that until we come up with a final solution. No experimentation, please. Over.
041:04:22 Evans Okay, I understand. I'll leave them alone. And just one little other bit of information to let you know the handle itself is not free at this point to come on back down like it's - you know. Like, if it were fully cocked, the handle itself would be free to come back down. It is not free, I did not try to put a whole lot of pressure on it, but it's not free.
041:04:51 CC Okay. I understand.
041:05:01 Schmitt Okay, Houston. GLYCOL PUMP 2 is ON, it's been on about a minute, and we've got good talkbacks from batteries 1 and 4.
041:05:11 CC Roger, Jack.
041:05:42 SC ... and CDR buses are 262.
041:05:48 CC Roger.
041:06:00 SC Okay, Jack, you can go ahead and switch onto high taps on 1 and 4.
041:06:13 SC That didn't work. Okay, 1 and 4 are on high taps.
041:06:30 CC Roger.
041:08:22 Schmitt Houston, glycol pressure is 22.
041:08:31 CC You faded out, Jack. Say again on glycol pressure.
041:08:37 Schmitt Roger. It's 22.0.
041:08:42 CC Okay.
041:08:43 Schmitt Well, you can cut off the decimal.
041:08:55 Evans Okay, stand by 1.
041:09:10 Evans Okay, it's off, Jack.
041:11:00 Evans No, wait a minute, I got to go get it. Which one you on? A? Okay.
041:11:35 Evans Okay, Jack, I'm SIMPLEX Alfa. Okay, try it again. I got the - How me.
041:11:54 Evans Okay, Jack, you're cutting out on everything, and all I'm getting is the end of your transmission there.
041:12:04 Evans Okay, I got counting - 1, 2, 3, 4. Jack, you read Gene? Okay, you - you were unclear after your first two words in every case, just like you were cutting out on Bob.
041:12:31 Schmitt We got it all - -
041:12:32 Evans Got it all that time. You got it all that time there now, do you read me too?
041:12:52 Evans Well, that's interesting. Let me adjust the squelch on this one here.
041:13:17 SC Okay. They used to work. I can't hear the squelch on any of them.
041:13:26 Evans Jack, go VHF A TRANSMITTER and RECEIVER, OFF, and B TRANSMITTER ... Okay and off on B now.
041:14:00 Schmitt Okay. You're loud and clear, Ron. How me?
041:14:04 Evans Okay, loud and clear that time.
041:14:06 Schmitt Okay. And my - my VHF Alfa had to go to 2 on the SQUELCH, and I'm in 3 on Bravo.
041:14:17 Cernan ... okay?
041:14:18 Schmitt You're loud and clear Gene.
041:14:21 Cernan Okay ...
041:14:26 Schmitt Okay. How do you read now?
041:14:28 Cernan Okay I got it.
041:14:29 Schmitt Okay, I took it V to 2. So it's the same kind of thing I guess.
041:14:35 SC ...
041:14:50 Schmitt Okay, Houston, how do you ready Challenger? Counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Over.
041:14:56 CC
041:15:09 Schmitt ... give you a call ...
041:15:47 Schmitt Hello, Houston, America. How do you read?
041:15:51 CC
041:15:57 Schmitt Okay, stand by, and Challenger is going to give you a call on S-band, and VHF checks are both GO on A and B.
041:16:05 CC I think I side ... lock on Challenger, we are getting some data. We'll stand by for another check.
041:16:13 Schmitt We acknowledge that. I heard him the first time. Okay, you ought to be getting in ... low bit rate.
041:16:22 Schmitt Okay, Houston, this is Challenger. Counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How do you read?
041:16:28 CC Challenger, Houston. You're loud and clear, with some background noise.
041:16:38 SC They don't have a good up-link Gene. I had signal strength. And now I don't have any at all.
041:16:46 Schmitt Okay, Houston, Challenger gave you a call, but he does not have any up link signal strength at all.
041:16:46 CC
041:17:05 Schmitt Okay, understand hold configuration there. He just got about 2.2 on the signal strength.
041:17:11 CC
041:17:16 Schmitt And tell them I heard their transmission to you. No, a few minutes ago. I was at zero signal strength and I heard their transmission ... One of them. The first time they acknowledged, that I was going to do it.
041:17:50 Schmitt Did you shift my hose back?
041:18:05 CC Hello, Challenger; this is Houston. Do you read me?
041:18:13 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I read you. You're weak but clear. Signal strength is fluctuating. When you call me, it fluctuated down to about 1.6. Over. And it's 2 now.
041:18:26 CC Okay, Jack. You're loud and clear. The background noise I've been mentioning, although I guess you haven't heard me mention it until now, is what we expect in DOWN VOICE BACKUP and LOW BIT RATE. How have you read this transmission all the way through? Over.
041:18:45 Schmitt Did he say "say again?" Gene? Gene, did he say "say again?" I got a little bit - oh he's got three point -
041:18:57 SC ...
041:18:59 Schmitt What? Okay, Houston. I've got 3.4 on the signal strength, and try me again.
041:19:12 CC Okay, Challenger. You're coming in loud and clear. How do you read me?
041:19:19 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I know you tried to transmit. I could just barely tell that. I could see the signal strength vary down to 3. You were modulating, aparently, but you're not getting through to me.
041:19:36 CC Okay, Challenger. I'm transmitting simul now in both S-band frequencies, and it sounds to us like for some reason when I transmit, the up-link signal starts to break up. It's just the way you see it. Over.
041:19:52 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You're breaking up there. Still modulating, but I cannot read you. Would you - would you tell America what you said?
041:20:03 Cernan Yes, Gordy, we read you in America loud and clear on that simul.
041:20:08 CC Okay, Geno.
041:20:51 Schmitt Is he talking, Gene?
041:21:13 Schmitt As soon as he starts trying to talk, the signal strength drops off about 0.4. Now, I have had - I heard him loud and clear one time when he called you guys.
041:21:24 CC America and Challenger, we're going to hand over to a different site and try that here in about 30 seconds.
041:21:41 Evans What else do we have to do, get some of these mags stowed?
041:21:54 Evans We've got to stow the mags. Here, put the PPK where it belongs.
041:24:34 CC Hello, Challenger; this is Houston through Bermuda. How do you copy?
041:24:48 CC Challenger, this is Houston. How do you read me?
041:24:54 SC Do you want to ... up the camera ...
041:25:10 CC America, Houston ...
041:25:16 SC Go ahead ...
041:25:22 SC Go ahead Gord ...
041:25:24 CC Okay, Jack. I think he answered us, but he was completely lost in the noise. I could just barely make out ... somebody talking. Could he hear us okay?
041:25:41 SC No. If he did hear you, he didn't answer.
041:25:46 CC Okay. It was my imagination then.
041:25:55 CC Challenger, Houston. How do you read?
041:26:05 CC Hello, Challenger; Houston. How do you read?
041:26:30 SC ...
041:27:50 CC Hello, Challenger. This is Houston. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, how do you copy. Over.
041:28:05 SC ...
041:29:31 CC America, Houston.
041:29:36 CC Can you tell Jack, ask him to verify he's on aft OMNI?
041:29:45 SC Okay. I'll have him verify he's - That's affirm. He's verified.
041:29:55 CC Okay.
041:29:55 SC ... earlier when he was ... that he had good signal strength ...
041:30:07 CC Roger.
041:30:07 CC But on this last set of checks, we didn't hear anything ...
041:30:13 SC Apparently not.
041:30:16 CC Okay.
041:30:21 SC There was one time earlier when he had zero signal strength where he said he could hear you transmitting to us very weak but clear.
041:30:32 CC Okay.
041:30:59 CC Hello, Challenger. Hello, Challenger; this is Houston. How do you read?
041:31:04 Schmitt Okay. You're loud - well, you're about 3 by, Gordy, but very clear.
041:31:11 CC Okay, Jack. We can hear about 1 by 1 in the midst of a lot of noise, but we could tell you're sounding much better.
041:33:28 Schmitt No. I've got 2 now signal strength.
041:34:17 CC Challenger, this is Houston. Going up to you through Bermuda, and your - you should come down through Goldstone. How do I sound now?
041:34:41 CC Challenger, Houston. How do you read?
041:34:52 Schmitt You're 1.8, 1.8. Yes. Never heard him.
041:35:34 CC Hello, Challenger; Houston. How do you read?
041:36:46 Schmitt Gordy received me, didn't he? Well, he started to say something; then he dropped off.
041:36:50 Schmitt Now he's up. Haven't heard him.
041:37:57 CC America, Houston.
041:38:04 CC Okay. We're going to go back to Goldstone, both up and down, and we'd like Jack to do step 406 on the checklist; in other words, go to VOICE. S-BAND VOICE to VOICE, the BIOMED to RIGHT. And we're going to give it a try in the normal configuration. Over.
041:38:27 SC A 174 and 76, gentlemen. BIOMED, RIGHT; and S-BAND VOICE to VOICE.
041:38:35 CC That's affirmative.
041:38:39 Schmitt ... he's going there now.
041:38:40 CC Roger.
041:38:59 Schmitt Houston, do you read Challenger?
041:39:03 CC Roger, Challenger. Read you weak but clear. How do you read?
041:39:09 Schmitt Okay, Houston, You just came in loud and clear. How do you read?
041:39:13 CC Okay. And that time, you're loud and clear, Jack and sounds real good.
041:39:20 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Let me say once again, way back when we first started and Gene was talking to you, I heard one of your answers, weak but clear, with zero signal strength showing here. Now, that might have been through Ron's VOX, I don't know. Since then, you've been able to modulate the signal strength, with occasional weak words. And - and then, when that signal strength was up around 3.2, where it is now, then you came in loud and clear with a broadcast. I answered you, you said about three words, then dropped off completely. And then we - we changed configuration.
041:40:04 CC Okay, Jack. That correlates with what we've seen here in the way of signal strengths dropping in and out. Stand by, and I'll see where we want to go from here.
041:41:20 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to do step 7. We'll check out the telemetry HIGH BIT RATE.
041:41:30 Schmitt Okay; step 7.
041:41:40 CC And, Challenger; Houston. Making a voice check. How do you copy?
041:41:47 Schmitt Roger. You're loud and clear. How me?
041:41:49 CC You're loud and clear.
041:42:45 CC Challenger, Houston. We're looking at the HIGH BIT RATE for a minute here while we're waiting. Would you check the CROSS TIE circuit breakers, panel 16? Verify they're open.
041:43:05 Schmitt That's verified. CROSS TIEs BUS and BAL LOADS open.
041:43:10 CC Roger.
041:43:51 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to accomplish step number 8.
041:44:04 Schmitt Roger. Step 8.
041:44:23 Schmitt Okay, Houston. How do you read the Challenger? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Over.
041:44:27 CC Challenger, you're loud and clear. How me?
041:44:31 Schmitt Loud and clear.
041:44:33 CC Roger.
041:46:01 CC Challenger, Houston. Go ahead with step 9. Report the ED BAT VOLTAGES.
041:46:12 Schmitt Wilco. Stand by.
041:47:03 Schmitt Okay, Houston. ED BATs A and B are 37.2.
041:47:09 CC Roger. Okay. And go ahead with step 10, and then we'll go back and try to find out what's wrong with DOWN VOICE BACKUP.
041:47:35 Schmitt Gordo, say again, please.
041:47:38 CC Go ahead and check the sequence camera, if you haven't already, Jack, and then we'll have some steps for you to check out what was wrong with D0WNVOICE BACKUP.
041:47:56 Schmitt All righty. Stand by.
041:48:15 Schmitt Sequence camera - sequence camera is GO.
041:48:19 CC Okay.
041:48:23 Schmitt And I'm ready for your step.
041:48:25 CC Stand by 1.
041:50:36 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like the RANGING switch to OFF/RESET, and the VOICE switch to DOWNVOICE BACKUP, then give us a call. Over.
041:50:49 Schmitt Okay. OFF/RESET on RANGE, and DOWNVOICE BACKUP on VOICE.
041:50:53 CC That's affirmative.
041:51:01 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. On DOWNVOICE BACKUP, how do you read? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
041:51:08 CC Okay, Jack. You're readable. You're - okay, Challenger. We read your transmission, but you're just about - just about lost in the noise. Give us another count, please.
041:51:30 Schmitt Okay, Houston; this is the Challenger. You were loud and clear, loud and clear. No different from the transmissions in VOICE, and counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How do you read? Over.
041:51:44 CC Okay, Jack. It got a lot better. You're - you're perfectly readable now. Sounding good.
041:51:53 Schmitt That sounds good.
041:52:08 CC Okay, Jack. Would you go to HIGH BIT RATE?
041:52:13 Schmitt Roger. Challenger's HIGH BIT RATE. How do you read HIGH BIT RATE?
041:52:18 CC Okay. Still the same. Loud and clear.
041:52:36 CC Okay. We'd like BIOMED, OFF now, Jack.
041:52:43 Schmitt Roger. Going BIOMED, OFF. Okay, Houston. How do you read the LM? DOWNVOICE BACKUP; BIOMED, OFF; PCM, HI. Over.
041:52:54 CC Okay, Jack. You're loud and clear.
041:53:00 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. And that was hot mike, so that's working fine up here. And you're loud and clear, also.
041:53:11 CC Okay, Jack. Let's try PCM, LO, now.
041:53:18 Schmitt Okay. Talking to you DOWNVOICE BACKUP; BIOMED, OFF; and PCM, LO. How do you read? Over.
041:53:25 CC Okay. Same old loud and clear.
041:53:30 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Certainly is clear up here. You're coming through 5 by at signal strength 3.2, and - all appearances up here, that previous problem was an up-link. But I guess you were not reading me. is that correct?
041:53:53 CC Well, I was - The answer is yes and no at various times. We think, though, we have a good handle on the problem.
041:54:02 Schmitt Okay; very good.
041:54:16 Schmitt Are you ready for us to press on here, Gordy? We're all stowed and - in pretty good shape in the LM.
041:54:25 CC Okay. We'd like you to check one more switch first before moving on. Check the UPDATA LINK switch to OFF.
041:54:36 Schmitt Okay, That is verified OFF.
041:54:39 CC Roger.
041:54:57 CC Want you to stand by a minute or two Jack, until we verify a funny-looking parameter here on that up-link switch.
041:55:13 Schmitt Standing by. What's that? No, they want - they got something looking funny on the up-link - they're ... I guess on the up-link switch.
041:55:32 CC Challenger, Houston - -
041:55:33 Schmitt They want to look at it.
041:55:35 CC That was a bad call. We were reading the data wrong. You're clear to press on with the checklist now on page 1-20.
041:55:45 Schmitt Okay. We'll press on. Geno, here is your jettison bag. You can get back to Ron.
041:56:04 Schmitt Okay, S-band PR OFF, VHF OFF; I can hear you. PM OFF.
041:58:06 CC Roger, Geno.
042:02:11 SC Okay, Houston. We just transferred to CSM power, and the caution warning light did go off.
042:02:20 CC Roger.
042:07:37 SC Gordo, we're about wrapped up here in Challenger. It looks like there's some life in the old bird, huh?
042:07:48 CC Roger.
042:07:56 Cernan Okay. We'll give you a call when we get the hatch closed. Ron's doing some housekeeping in the command module, and we're going to take it slow getting back in.
042:08:05 CC Okay, Gene.
042:16:01 Evans Okay, Houston. The drogues are going in.
042:16:14 CC Roger, Ron. We've got a couple of questions for you about those - about the latch. Good old latch number 4 gave us problems I guess, huh?
042:16:38 CC America, Houston.
042:16:43 Schmitt America, go ahead.
042:16:45 CC Ron, can you take a look at the latch number 4, and is the hook back away from the ring approximately one inch, as opposed to resting against the ring?
042:17:42 CC America, Houston, did you copy my question?
042:18:22 SC We're going back to air ground one.
042:18:22 Evans Okay, I heard somebody going to air ground one that time, and -
042:18:36 CC Roger, Ron. Got a couple of questions on those - that latch number 4 if you can answer it for me.
042:18:56 CC America, Houston.
042:19:38 CC America, Houston. We're back with you after some site changeover. How do you read?
042:19:46 Evans Okay; loud and clear. How me, Bob?
042:19:48 CC Real good, Ron. On that number 4, latch number 4, is the hook back away from the ring about 1 inch as opposed to resting against the ring? Do you have about an inch clearance on that hook right now?
042:20:14 Evans Well, there's about 1/2 inch.
042:20:17 CC Okay. Understand about 1/2 inch. In what position was the latch handle when the hook was first moved back, Ron? We it kind of like in a normal stroke-back, or was it just flopping back?
042:20:32 Evans No, when I first looked at it, the latch handle was - see, the hook itself was over the ring when I first looked at it.
042:20:41 CC Roger. We understand that - -
042:20:41 Evans The hook was over the ring, and the - and the latch handle was flush, you know. It looks just like a normal - hooked docking latch, you know.
042:20:54 CC Roger. Understand.
042:20:55 Cernan And, Bob, this is Gene. I can confirm that it did not fold back easily, because I - I checked it yesterday. I didn't check - I checked to see that the hooks were over as well as where the handles would fold back, but I obviously didn't check to see whether that one was seated. But the handle was locked.
042:21:17 Evans Yes, that's right.
042:21:18 CC Roger. Understand. And the first thing you saw was the depression in the Bungee. is that - is that affirm?
042:21:24 Evans Yes, that's affirm. And the bungee is depressed about 3/8 - 3/8 to a 1/2 inch you know.
042:21:30 CC Roger.
042:21:48 Evans You can push the - you can push the hook about an inch away from the ring, but the normal - just a resting position on the thing is about a finger's width or 1/2 inch from the ring.
042:22:04 CC Roger. In other words, the loose - The hook is loose so it flops a little bit; you can move it back and forth. is that affirm?
042:22:12 Evans Yes. I can move it from about 1/2 inch to an inch from the edge of the ring - clearing the edge of the docking ring.
042:22:18 CC Roger. Ron, when you pulled the hook - when you pulled the handle back, did you reach and pull the hook back with it, or did it come back with the handle like a normal pullback then?
042:22:31 Evans No, the - the hook did not come back with the handle. The hook did not come back with the handle. Although, when I - when I pulled the handle back to - you know, which is - which is kind of a normally uncocked position - and then it wouldn't go any further, you know. It wouldn't go an farther. And then the latch itself - or the hook - the J-hook; I'll call it the hook. I moved it off the docking ring back to this position that was about an inch or 1/2 inch from the docking ring. And it stays right there now. And I can't push it back up into the docking ring at all. Can't push the hook back up to the docking ring at all.
042:23:25 CC Okay. We copy that.
042:23:38 CC Okay, Ron. Our plan here is to leave it like it is. And we're going to think about it tonight, and we'd like you to just keep pressing on. Just leave it alone, okay?
042:23:48 Evans Okay. Sounds good. It'll clear the docking ring; no problem.
042:24:02 Cernan Houston, America. While Ron is putting in the probe and getting the hatch back in, I'm going to go ahead and maneuver. How does that sound?
042:24:16 CC That's real fine, Gene.
042:24:30 PAO This is Apollo control at 42 hours 27 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We're estimating the change of shift press conference in 15 minutes, 15 minutes at 6:15 central time in the small briefing room. Spacecraft communicator now is Bob Overmeyer. During this past checkout of the lunar module we've had considerable difficulty in some of the communications configurations in the way the down links and the uplinks were set up. And some bit of difficulty in sorting out just what the nature of the problem with one of the docking latches is. People will be examining this through the night and during the checkout of the LM tomorrow or additional work in the LM perhaps the thing can be sorted out. Apollo 17 presently at 143,562 nautical miles out from Earth traveling at a velocity of 3,590 feet per second. At 42:28 and standing by this is Apollo control.
042:26:14 Cernan Bob, are you all going to want OMNI or HIGH GAIN on this?
042:26:20 CC Stand by on that.
042:26:37 CC We're all locked up on the HIGH GAIN. We'd just like you to leave it on HIGH GAIN. The angles you see in the Flight Plan are in case it breaks lock. That's what you need for - with this attitude.
042:26:52 Cernan Okay.
042:33:10 Evans Okay, Houston. The probe is installed. We'll get the hatch in now.
042:33:15 CC Roger, Ron.
042:33:21 Evans I'm not going to connect the umbilicals unless you really want to look at probe temperature.
042:33:30 CC Stand by on that, Ron. We concur on that, Ron.
042:33:43 Evans Okay; good.
042:39:28 Evans Okay, Houston. The hatch went in nominally, once the probe installation strut was stowed in the right position.
042:39:42 CC Roger.
042:41:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 42 hours 41 minutes. Apollo 17 now 144,002 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3,577 feet per second. The change-of-shift briefing is ready to start in the News Center briefing room. We'll take down this air-ground line and tape any communications during the course of the briefing and replay them at the conclusion of the news conference. This is Mission Control, Houston, at 42 hours 41 minutes.
042:43:47 CC 17, Houston. We are recommending QUADS Bravo and Delta for spin up.
042:43:56 Evans Okay; Bravo and Delta. Thank you.
042:57:34 Evans Okay, Houston. At 042:56:52.04, I started the stop watch, and also the watch read 18:30:01.
042:57:53 CC Okay, Ron. We got that.
043:02:24 Evans Okay, Houston. We've started on the heat select radial and lineal part - part of it. The little pie-shaped things are changing color as we go out. The lineal part of it - all of the chips seemed to have been concentrated on the front edge of the glass, and they're all pretty much in the linear direction or in XX-direction. At this point in time, I haven't seen any movement yet.
043:02:58 CC Roger, Ron. Aren't they on ... heads the same way they were on the backup unit the other evening in the White Room - on the lamp?
043:03:10 Evans Yes, all those chips seem to be - well - in an XX - I got the lineal direction, the lineal part of the experiment in the XX-direction. And all the chips are lined up in that XX-direction on the front or the top of the glass.
043:03:31 CC Roger. That's just the way you were in the backup unit the other day in the White Room.
043:03:37 Evans Yes, that's right.
043:11:36 Evans Okay, Houston. We've started the cooldown in LIGHT 5 position there. The radial cells, they all started to change color except the one from about 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock.
043:11:52 CC Roger. Except from 10 to 12. We've got it. Did the lineal ... stay right in line there, Ron?
043:12:02 Evans Yes, the crystals or chips that are inside there didn't move at all. Yes, they're ... - -
043:12:09 CC Roger.
043:12:15 Evans On the color patterns behind there - the one on the left, as you look at the unit - the color crystals only changed down to about 0.9 of the first square as you come down from the top. The rest of them are all black on that partic - on the left row.
043:12:39 CC Roger, Ron.
043:12:41 Evans So that's the maximum extent of the - that's the max extent of the heating.
043:12:47 Evans You might check and see if the guys want to heat it a little bit longer the next time, when they do it in the PTC.
043:12:55 CC Yes. Roger, Ron. We're copying everything you're saying, and we've got all kinds of support here; we - in fact, we've got one backup unit here watching what you're doing, so we'll keep you posted on what we think.
043:13:08 Evans Oh, okay. is the backup CMP operating it?
043:13:16 CC Matter of fact, that's affirm.
043:13:21 Evans That's the way to do things.
043:13:25 CC And, Ron, we'd like you to stay nominal on the heating time due to the film limitation.
043:13:33 Evans Okay; will do.
043:15:09 Evans Okay, Houston; 17 here. is there enough film in there to allow me to keep the camera running while I try to fill up that flow pattern?
043:15:22 CC Stand by on that, Ron.
043:15:27 CC It's affirmative, Ron. You can leave it running.
043:15:33 Evans Okay.
043:15:39 PAO This is Apollo Control at 43 hours 16 minutes. Apollo 17 is 145,178 nautical miles from Earth traveling at a speed of 3,543 feet per second. The crew is now in the midst of the heat flow and convection demonstration. This is the demonstration that's designed to provide more exact data on the behavior of fluids in a low gravity field. This type of investigation is really not possible on Earth where gravity determines flow of fluids. In space the flow forces surface tension. There are three test cells involved in this demonstration for measuring and observing the fluid flow, behavior and the results are recorded with the 16mm camera aboard. We have about 5 minutes worth of tape that accumulated during the news conference and we'll play that for you now and then pickup live.
043:16:51 Evans Okay, Houston. The first thing I noticed, as soon as I opened the FLOW four turns, it started running out a little bit, even - even without doing the inject. Okay; that's because the INJECT thing was open just a little bit, but it's all right.
043:17:11 CC Roger. We copy.
043:17:22 Evans Okay; I'll try to squirt some fluid in there -
043:17:26 CC Okay.
043:17:27 Evans With the fluid inject thing.
043:18:11 Evans Okay; I'm taking it in quite slow. It's noted there are quite a few small bubbles coming out with it. So far, so good. It hasn't overflowed the - the first capillary ring. And it's taken off, and it's going by capillary action toward the bottom and toward the top.
043:18:40 CC Roger, Ron.
043:19:27 Evans Okay; it finally met together at - that part going around the top and around the bottom - met together 180 degrees opposite of the inject port and now is starting to go out across the middle and fill up from the inject port.
043:19:46 CC Roger.
043:19:47 Evans We're getting a lot of big bubbles coming out now. That's after about a turn and a half.
043:19:55 CC Roger. We copy.
043:21:41 Evans Okay; that's two turns now. The meniscus is still holding on the first inner ring - it looks like all the way around, at least as far as I can see. The bubbles - big bubbles that have been coming out now, and also the fluid have taken over the right half of the bottom of the dish. We're starting to fill in a little bit, maybe a fourth of an inch - fourth of an inch circumference coming around from the left side opposite the injection port.
043:22:22 CC Roger.
043:22:31 Evans Okay; I'll keep going here. We're about two and a half turns now. And it looks like all of the bubbles have already come out. We're getting real fluid now coming out. It's a real pretty picture anyhow.
043:22:48 CC Roger.
043:22:55 Evans Okay; that's three turns. I don't believe we're going to be able to cover the entire bottom with the four turns.
043:23:27 Evans Okay. That's four turns, and - it's covered up the right - oh, three-fourths of the floor of the thing and about three-eights of an inch on the left side of the - of the floor - three-eights of an inch annulus all the way around, except for the right - oh, say right two-thirds of the floor.
043:23:55 CC Roger, Ron. You can use more than four turns if you need it.
043:24:01 Evans Okay; let's go ahead and try to cover up the whole floor on the thing before we do it. The bubbles are in there, and I'm afraid they're going to stay un - unless they disappear when we heat it.
043:24:11 CC Roger.
043:24:35 Evans There now it's - it's coming out with no bubbles now, and it looks like it almost formed a meniscus on top of itself - on top of where the bubbles were.
043:24:50 CC Roger, Ron. is it continuing to spread out?
043:24:54 Evans Yes, it's continuing to spread out now, and without pumping anything into it at all - I did that last turn fairly fast - and it seems to be spreading of its own accord now, and it should go on over and cover up the bottom, I think. Once it completely covers up the bottom, I think we should go ahead and start the heat HIGH on this pattern.
043:25:59 Evans Okay. Now the - Everything's all hooked together now. We completely filled up the bottom of the floor.
043:26:15 Evans Hey, for some reason, the bubbles seem to be starting to break now.
043:26:21 CC Roger. We copy that, Ron.
043:26:54 Evans Okay. I don't know if it's coincidence or what, but all the bubbles are formed together, essentially in the center - along the plus-X-axis direction. And they're about 1 inch wide. And then they start about three-quarters - I mean three-eights of an inch in from the circumference.
043:27:18 CC Roger.
043:27:58 Evans Okay; I was going to try to break the bubbles with a pencil, but if you try to push a pencil into the bubble, it just moves aside.
043:28:22 Evans So that being the case, I'm going to go ahead and start the - start the timer.
043:28:29 CC We concur on that, Ron.
043:28:33 Schmitt That's called the old push-a-bubble-with-a-pencil trick.
043:28:38 CC Roger. Just need a sharper pencil, Jack.
043:28:44 PAO Air-to-Ground is live now.
043:28:45 Schmitt Either that or a thinner bubble.
043:29:16 Schmitt This is the best Friday afternoon matinee I've ever been to.
043:29:24 CC How about Friday evening, Jack?
043:29:32 Schmitt Well, I've lost track. I don't think - I don't think there's any - -
043:29:35 Evans Stand by.
043:29:37 Evans MARK. That was 1 minute after the start.
043:29:41 CC Roger.
043:29:44 Evans I'll give you another mark when I go to HIGH on the - with the SELECT switch.
043:30:38 Evans MARK it.
043:30:40 CC Roger.
043:31:35 Evans Each bubble looks like it's locus of - it looks like it's starting one of the Bernu - Bernudi cells.
043:31:47 CC Say that again, Ron?
043:31:51 Evans Okay; each one of those bubbles looks like it's the locus - or the start of one of the Benard cells.
043:31:57 CC Roger.
043:31:59 Evans So far, the bubbles aren't breaking.
043:32:02 CC We copy that.
043:32:08 Schmitt Is Stu getting - did Stu get bubbles on his pattern, Bob?
043:32:13 CC We're not running it down here. We're just demonstrating on the demonstrator there, but Stu can tell you.
043:32:19 Schmitt Oh, I thought you were running - -
043:32:20 ROOSA Roger, Jack. Yes, I - you're talking of the one we - that we did, right?
043:32:29 Schmitt That's right. Well, I am now. I thought you were running it down there also.
043:32:35 ROOSA No. Okay. The one that we did in flight - Yes, I had - I had a lot of bubbles, but I couldn't get mine - Krytox out across the center. So, you all are already well ahead of what I did.
043:32:53 Schmitt Gee, I'm sorry you had to admit that, Stu.
043:32:56 ROOSA Oh, you all just do such good work.
043:33:05 Evans Another thing is, it seems to me like, in one G, the Benard cells started completely back to the edge, you know, right back to the edge of the circle. And in this case, at least, they haven't filled in yet back to the edge of the circle at all. They all started out in the center and are working around the bubbles, and then it's now - just now starting to form a few of them where there aren't any bubbles.
043:33:31 CC Roger, Ron.
043:33:36 ROOSA How large are the cells, Ron?
043:33:44 Evans Well, they're varying considerably in size. I can see one that's about a half an inch across, and then the other ones - they've got a great big bubble in it, and yet the cell itself is down to maybe an eighth of an inch. The bigger ones seem to be on the outside; and, of course, there are very few bubbles on the outside also.
043:34:09 CC Okay.
043:34:15 Evans And the bigger ones, generally right now, are averaging about - oh, a fourth to three-eights of an inch in their cross - cross section ...
043:34:54 PAO This is Apollo Control.
043:34:57 Evans The cells tend to be somewhat polygonal. Let's see, we've been going 6 minutes - 4 minutes into the eating part of it and the cells are polygonal but they don't seem to be quite as straight-lined as they were on the ground.
043:35:18 ROOSA Roger. We copy.
043:35:28 PAO Stu Roosa, Apollo 17 back-up Command Module pilot is talking to the crew now from the CAPCOM console. Stew performed a demonstration similar to this on his Apollo 14 flight. That demonstration was not as sophisticated as the 17 test and the 17 demonstration is expected to provide more exact data on the fluid behaviour.
043:36:18 Evans It almost looks like it's reached a steady state now. It's 9 minus 2-7 minutes.
043:36:28 ROOSA Roger.
043:36:28 Evans Hey, I think the one thing I neglected to mention is that we essentially have a convex surface from the - the material; in other words, con - convex with the high part in the middle; and, of course, that's where the bubbles are, too, but I think you'd generally have that type of a surface anyhow. And, it hasn't broken the meniscus of the lower, or the thinnest ring.
043:37:34 Schmitt We should have had some popcorn on our stowage list.
043:37:38 ROOSA Roger.
043:39:46 Evans Okay; now the Benard cells are starting to form in that outer annulus that went all the way around.
043:39:54 ROOSA Roger.
043:45:51 Evans Okay; we went back to light 4 now. And we never did get any real beliginal [sic] cells formed around the outer annulus. And even the cells that were formed on the thing, it seemed like the particle flow within the cells was very slow when you compare that with the way it was in one G.
043:46:19 ROOSA Roger, Ron.
043:47:59 Evans Okay; I'm trying to - suck the stuff back in the - the entry tube there, and it looks like part of it's going in.
043:48:21 ROOSA Roger, Ron. We copy that.
043:49:02 Evans And the camera is down to about 50 percent here, so I'm going to go ahead and turn it off now.
043:49:08 ROOSA Roger, Ron.
043:49:36 ROOSA Ron, if I didn't tell you, we concur with turning the DAC off there.
043:49:43 Evans Okay; yes, I got you. I'll turn it off.
043:50:02 Evans You know, I just happened to think, after I've already sucked part of those bubbles back in there, we've got enough fluid in there to pump it out the next time without sucking that back in there, don't we?
043:50:14 ROOSA I'm sorry, Ron. Say that again.
043:50:19 Evans Don't we have enough of the Krytox fluid without sucking that back in there? Maybe I can just wipe the Krytox off with some Kleenex, and maybe there won't be any bubbles the next time.
043:50:32 ROOSA Okay; stand by.
043:50:55 ROOSA Ron, I guess we understand you've pulled some back in, but you haven't pulled any of the bubbles. Now, if you pull any more in, you're going to start the bubbles back in. is that correct?
043:51:06 Evans Yes; that's correct.
043:51:08 ROOSA Okay; why don't you stand by here on that then?
043:51:14 Evans Let me see - I'll see if I can push the bubbles out of the way here with something.
043:51:23 ROOSA Okay. The consensus is that we would like to not pull the bubbles back in. I think you've got a good idea.
043:51:34 Evans Okay.
043:51:39 ROOSA It's the old keep-the-bubbles-out-of-the-Krytox trick.
043:51:44 Evans (Laughter) Okay; I'll see if I can do it.
043:52:05 Schmitt I see you're finally getting caught up in the humor of the thing there, Stu.
043:52:11 ROOSA Oh, I've always been in good humor. It sure sounded like that baffle did the trick, Ron.
043:52:32 Evans Yes, I think it did, too. It looks like it worked real well.
043:52:44 PAO This is Apollo control at 43 hours 52 minutes. Crytox which is a heavy oil is one of the fluids being used in the demonstration. Apollo 17 is now 146,455 nautical miles from earth, velocity 3,505 feet per second. And this shift of orange flight controllers being directed by Charles Lewis one of the several gentlemen recently promoted to flight director. The regular orange flight director Pete Frank is an observer for this shift.
043:56:16 ROOSA And, 17, just so you say we didn't give you our cue, we're standing by for the 1-17 procedures there in your Experiments Checklist - the film cycling.
043:56:44 Evans Okay; we'll have to get that shortly.
043:56:47 ROOSA Okay.
043:57:47 Schmitt Okay, Stu, we got you on that. The Saturday afternoon or Friday evening matinee was absorbing us so, we almost missed it.
043:57:58 ROOSA Okay.
044:03:28 Schmitt Okay, Houston. DATA SYSTEMS coming ON.
044:03:31 CC Roger.
044:03:38 Schmitt AUX TV's to SCIENCE, and SM/AC POWER is coming ON.
044:03:41 CC Roger.
044:03:48 Schmitt Okay; MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY -
044:03:51 Schmitt MARK it.
044:03:53 CC Roger. Mark it.
044:03:56 Schmitt PAN CAMERA MODE, STANDBY -
044:03:58 Schmitt MARK it.
044:03:59 CC Roger.
044:04:03 Schmitt I guess that's verified.
044:04:19 Schmitt PAN CAMERA POWER to POWER.
044:04:22 Evans Barber pole and a gray.
044:04:24 CC Roger.
044:04:33 Evans SELF TEST is going to HEATERS.
044:05:05 Schmitt Okay; we're standing by for your cue on MAPPING CAMERA, ON, and SELF TEST.
044:05:11 CC Roger. Stand by on that.
044:05:50 CC 17, you're GO for cycling the pan camera and the mapping camera.
044:05:58 Schmitt Okay.
044:06:11 Evans Okay; MAPPING CAMERA has gone ON; PAN CAMERA to SELF TEST. Barber pole and release.
044:06:44 CC Looks like 10 seconds on the PAN CAMERA there.
044:07:26 Evans Okay; PAN CAMERA POWER is coming OFF.
044:07:29 CC Roger, Ron.
044:08:20 Evans Okay; MAPPING CAMERA going OFF.
044:08:23 CC Roger, Ron.
044:09:02 CC That's 30 seconds off on the mapping camera, Ron.
044:09:09 Evans Okay; SM/AC is OFF.
044:09:17 Schmitt S-BAND AUX TV's OFF, and BIT RATE, LOW, now?
044:09:24 CC That's affirmative.
044:09:40 Schmitt Say, Bob, say again those jetts you're commended for PTC.
044:09:45 CC We recommended Bravo and and Delta for spinup - B, D.
044:09:51 Schmitt Ckay; do the rates look okay to you?
044:10:00 CC That's affirmative.
044:10:59 CC Jack, Houston.
044:11:05 Schmitt Go ahead.
044:11:06 CC Jack, when you get done with the PTC area here, we'd like you to get out the Flight Plan Supplement. We'd like to get a food report from you all on your food intake for today.
044:11:20 Schmitt I thought we gave you that in the morning. Happy to do it, but - -
044:11:24 CC That's affirm, Jack - -
044:11:24 Schmitt You want a special report? is that what you want?
044:11:25 CC We'd just like to have it - prefer tonight.
044:11:33 Evans It sounds like you don't think we're eating enough.
044:11:40 CC Ron, would you check your NOUN 78?
044:11:57 Evans Ah-ha! Thank you.
044:12:00 CC Roger.
044:13:27 CC Jack or Ron, when you come around, we'll ask you to stow the high gain on our call, and we'll be wanting OMNI Bravo.
044:13:37 Schmitt Roger.
044:13:46 Schmitt And are you ready for the trotting gourmet's report?
044:13:51 CC Roger. Everybody's here with all ears.
044:13:58 Schmitt Okay. The CDR today had scrambled eggs and three bacon squares and a can of peaches and pineapple drink for breakfast. And then later on in the day, he had peanut butter, jelly, and bread with a chocolate bar and some dried apricots. And the LMP had scrambled eggs and four bacon squares, an orange drink, and cocoa for breakfast, and potato soup, two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and a cherry bar, and an orange drink. And that hero of the matinee, the matinee idol of Spaceship America, had scrambled eggs, bacon squares, peaches, cinnamon toast, orange juice, and cocoa for breakfast. That's how he keeps his form. And, for lunch, he had a peanut butter sandwich and citrus beverage. And that's it, since there's nobody else up here.
044:15:51 CC Roger. We copy that. We'd like you to stow the high gain at this time and OMNI Bravo.
044:16:37 CC Jack, we appreciate all your information, and we'd like to just pass on some recommendations here from the ground that we'd like you to keep on with your regular menu as much as possible. And, if you do cut anything off, we'd like you to concentrate on eating the meats, the juices, and the fruitcake, which are the most effective for maintaining your electrolyte balance.
044:17:07 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We understand what you're saying. We're shooting at eating - eating it all. It's just a lot of food, that's all.
044:17:18 CC Roger. We understand, Gene. Also, on that group of foods, peanut butter's great for the bal -e lectrolyte balance, also; so you're doing okay.
044:17:30 Cernan I knew it was good for something. It couldn't be that good without being good for something.
044:17:35 Schmitt I think we're all trying to make a concentrated effort also to keep quite a bit of water down.
044:17:42 CC Roger. I understand. Real fine.
044:18:32 PAO This is Apollo Control at 44 hours 18 minutes. The Flight Surgeon, John Zieglschmid, is pleased with the food report for today. Apollo 17 is 147,306 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 3,481 feet per second.
044:26:07 Evans Houston, 17.
044:26:10 CC Go, 17; Houston.
044:26:14 Schmitt Okay. Got a little information on what we were talking about yesterday with respect to southern Pacific weather, if you've got nothing else going on.
044:26:26 CC Go; speak to me.
044:26:32 Schmitt Okay, looks like a little - cyclonic circulation we had over New Zealand is still there. It's - looks like the front it was associated with is broken up a little bit; however, that pattern is - seems to be hugging the New Zealand area, and - but not - has not intensified. If - if not - it may have even weakened a little bit since yesterday. It's hard to be sure exactly. The front does not look as strong, and it still seems to be hanging - just stabilized, and with all of Australia clear now and the western edge of that front being just offshore north of Brisbane. The - there is -east of New Guinea - in the vicinity of the Solomon islands, it looks like a fairly moderate-sized cyclone developing at the western edge of the - of a front that was somewhat farther north and west than the one over New Zealand. North of that - Wake/Kwajalein region that was of interest yesterday to the ARIA people - still seems to be in general overcast condition, but the clouds do not look very heavy or impacted at all. New Guinea is just on the limb, so -
044:28:17 Schmitt Yes, I think I lost them.
044:32:00 CC Okay, I think we've got you now, 17.
044:32:08 Evans You're loud and clear, Stu.
044:32:10 CC Okay.
044:32:51 Schmitt Stu, I think we lost you about the time I lost view of the Earth and mentioned the Wake/Kwajalein area; right?
044:33:00 CC That's affirmative. We didn't get much of the Kwajalein report.
044:33:08 Schmitt There was nothing new to add over yesterday. There just seems general cloudiness in the area, but they do not look too intense or well organized. Just probably a general overcast.
044:33:19 CC Okay.
044:33:36 Schmitt I'll try to get some exercise, and then I'll be back at you with some more information. Maybe we can see the Philippines by then.
044:33:44 CC Okay.
044:33:53 Schmitt And, Stu, I've got my biomed hooked up. Are you guys bringing it in during this exercise thing? This is Jack.
044:34:03 CC Yes, Jack. We'll check on that.
044:34:11 CC Okay; you're coming in loud and clear, Jack.
044:35:37 PAO This is Apollo control at 44 hours 35 minutes. Spacecraft distance 147,866.
044:35:47 Schmitt Okay.
044:35:49 Cernan Stu, are you reading?
044:35:51 CC Roger. We're reading you loud and clear.
044:35:55 Cernan Okay, I think that big storm that Jack was referring to - that has moved off to the - well to the east of Australia. Very definite counterclockwise rotation and then it stretches to the south or what might even be the southeast. And then just rolls right - we ... a big frontal pattern and then it rolls right into another - another clockwise - clockwise rotating low down there near Antarctica. It gives me the impression of a - of a parrot's comb when he's got his feathers ruffled. And it, in turn, has another low trailing it, arcing and then flowing into another - another low that is very near the continent down there of Antarctica. They form a chain, as I just described froming - coming from - well, possibly southeast of Antarctica - it's hard to really tell what east is down there - on up to due west of Australia by several hundred miles.
044:37:13 CC Roger.
044:37:21 Cernan South of Australia, you get a hint of a very large cloud mass, from there all the way down to Antarctica, that has the tendency to - -
044:37:46 PAO This is Apollo control that was Gene Cernan picking up Jack Schmitt's weather observations as Jack is now in an exercise period. Spacecraft is in the passive thermal control mode and is rotating. We've broken lock on the OMNI antenna. We'll pick up another antenna very shortly. Spacecraft distance 147,953 nautical miles velocity 3,462 feet per second.
044:39:43 CC 17, Houston.
044:40:11 CC 17, Houston.
044:40:15 Cernan Go ahead.
044:40:17 CC Just wanted to get comm there again. We had some switchover there. You might be interested; we've got an ATS map in here from this morning. Just - you're just about on - We can see the flow patterns in the Antarctic just about at - 120 degrees west, which is a little closer to South America than what you're calling, I guess. But we do - we do see that activity down there.
044:40:46 Cernan Okay, Bob. And there is a very large cloudy air mass between Australia and Antarctica. It has a tendency to want to start a rotation, and you can see a hint of that; it's not too strong right now. We're seeing about three-quarters of the Earth, I guess. Judging from our clocks and what we can see, it looks like the Sun is setting out over the west coast; and it leaves us with about three-quarters of the Earth available to us.
044:41:20 CC Roger. It'll be about 06:15 Los Angeles time right now, so it's probably sunset out there.
044:42:38 CC Ron, just a reminder from the Flight Plan change last night. You'll have a P52 coming up here at 45 hours in your Flight Plan.
044:42:51 Evans Roger. Mighty fine; thank you.
044:42:54 CC Roger, Ron.
044:43:01 PAO This is Apollo control at 44 hours 43 minutes. That was a reminder that we are approaching the time where we are going to make the first step in a two step adjustment caused by the late launch. This will be to bring the Greenwich mean time, the Ground Elapsed Time and the flight plan together. What this first step will account for an hour of 2 hours and 40 minutes adjustment that will be made eventually. The clocks will not be recycled at this time at 45 hours. The clock recycling will be accomplished later in the mission at 65 hours elapsed time. This 1 hour adjustment consists of moving the activities that were scheduled in the flight plan to take place between 46 hours and 30 minutes and 47 hours up to 45 hours in the flight plan. Therefore, during the hour from 45 hours to 46 hours we will have accomplished all the flight plan activities that were originally scheduled to be accomplished from 46 to 47 hours. This will put us 1 hour ahead on the flight plan. We would pick up the activities originally scheduled at 47 hours at 46 hours under this plan. And this would proceed in an orderly fashion one hour ahead up to the 65 hour mark at which time we will synchronize the Ground Elapsed Time clock to 67 hours and 40 minutes and at that time go to the 67:40 time in the flight plan and we will be back on schedule.
044:46:27 CC Jack, just for information, you've got your heart rate to 103.
044:48:19 CC Jack, you've got your heart rate to about 103; and we lost data right now.
044:48:40 CC Jack, just for information, the last heart rate we had was 103; and it's - we lost data right now, so 103 is max we saw right now.
044:48:55 Schmitt Okay, I was just doing some isometrics. I just tried running in place again then.
044:49:00 CC Roger. Do you want us to call you your heart rate if - if we get data in here now?
044:49:06 Schmitt Sure.
044:49:07 CC Okay.
044:50:18 CC Okay, you're up to 115, Jack.
044:58:20 PAO This is Apollo Control at 44 hours 58 minutes. Moving the GET clock ahead at 65 hours will affect the time that has previously been given for the lunar sphere of influence crossing. Newsmen who are interested in this time should add 2 hours and 40 minutes to the time previously given, which would make the time for lunar sphere crossing now 73 hours 23 minutes 24 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. The distances and the velocities that were previously predicted will remain the same. Those are 190,725 nautical miles from Earth; 33,639 nautical miles from the Moon; and an Earth reference to velocity of 2,340 feet per second. Apollo 17 is now 148,668 nautical miles from Earth - -
044:59:52 CC
044:59:56 Schmitt No, I'm resting right now. Didn't seem like my arms have the stamina they did yesterday to hold the artificial g. What - -
045:00:02 CC ... understand.
045:00:02 Schmitt - - did I get to?
045:00:05 CC We copied about a maximum of about 118 - -
045:00:07 Schmitt What heart rate did - -
045:00:07 CC - - on the heart rate.
045:00:11 CC About 118 max, Jack.
045:00:15 Schmitt Roger. Understand.
045:00:17 CC Don't let me - let me harrass you. I just wan kidding you on that. Whatever you think is fair.
045:00:27 Schmitt You're not harrassing me. When my arm's rested, I'll try again.
045:00:39 PAO Spacecraft velocity now 3,441 feet per second.
045:00:50 CC Couple of interesting data points for you, Jack. We saw the - while you were doing that, we saw the PP CO2 go up; and we saw the tanks destratify again the same way.
045:01:05 Schmitt Very good. Next mission they'll have to Flight Plan it.
045:01:08 CC That's affirmative.
045:01:12 Schmitt You saw the P CO2 go up?
045:01:17 CC That's affirmative. Let me get the numbers here, if you want. It took a jump from 1.3 to 2.4 on that.
045:01:27 Schmitt Okay. That was with two of us going, and part of the time, three of us going.
045:01:33 CC Roger. Understand.
045:01:33 Schmitt Now we've still got one going.
045:01:36 CC Well, it's not unexpected. I just thought you'd be interested.
045:01:49 Schmitt Sounds sort of normal.
045:03:01 Schmitt Hey, Bob, with this change in the hour, what time does penumbra start?
045:03:08 CC Say again the question, Jack. What time does what start?
045:03:13 Schmitt With the change in hour, what time does the penumbra - what time do we enter the lunar penumbra?
045:03:27 CC Right now, we don't - Tommy doesn't think we're going to go into the penumbra, and we're verifying that.
045:03:37 Schmitt Okay.
045:03:37 CC Say Ron, could we ask a question about the heat-flow experiment setup?
045:03:44 Evans Sure. Sure, go ahead.
045:03:47 CC You mentioned that the lineal chips were all on the - in the XX plane, and we're just wondering - do you mean along the XX axis of the spacecraft?
045:04:03 Evans Yes; along the XX axis of the spacecraft.
045:04:12 CC Is the long XX axis of the lineal cell along the XX axis, Ron?
045:04:21 Evans Yes, that's affirmative. It's right-side up, if you're looking at the connect panel, you know?
045:04:30 CC Yes. That's - we'd - they'd like it so that that - the axis of that lineal cell was - would be parallel to the bottom of the panel 100, as an example. It's prob - right now, it's perpendicular to the bottom of panel 100, isn't it?
045:05:00 Evans Well, wait a minute.
045:05:15 Evans Yes, the lineal thing is, right now, perpendicular to the bottom of panel 100.
045:05:42 PAO This is Apollo Control at 45 hours 5 minutes. Ron Evans is making preparations to again perform the heatflow and and convection demonstration.
045:07:33 Evans Hey, Houston; America.
045:07:36 CC Go ahead, Ron.
045:07:41 Evans Okay, I think I see what you're saying. I'm sorry; I read the thing with lineal cell in a plus-X direction. But what they mean is, lineal cell in the - in - (laughter) -
045:07:55 CC Lineal word, I guess, is the - -
045:07:55 Evans ... lineal cell up.
045:07:57 CC Roger.
045:08:01 Evans Okay, I'll turn around the other for this PTC part of it then.
045:08:05 CC Wait a minute on that, Ron. We're having a debate whether we want to, maybe, continue the next part in the same attitude or just rotate it .
045:08:15 Evans Okay. Seems to me like you'd like to - maybe leave it in the same attitude.
045:08:44 CC Ron, the only rational reason to change it right now is we're hearing words that if you had rotated to the other way, that you'd get better pictures out of the DAC due to the lighting reflection on it. The PI would like to change it back to the other way.
045:09:06 Evans Okay.
045:12:31 CC 17, just for information, we will not be going into the penumbra.
045:12:40 Schmitt Okay. Sorry to hear that.
045:15:49 CC Ron, we see your 52; and you can go ahead and torque.
045:16:06 CC Ron, Houston. We're watching your 52, and you can go ahead and torque.
045:16:16 Evans Okay, Houston; 17. Thought you said go ahead and torque. is that correct?
045:16:21 CC That's affirmative, Ron.
045:16:25 Evans Okay. We'll torque at 1630.
045:16:31 CC Roger.
045:17:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 45 hours 17 minutes. Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Boone, has just informed the Flight Director, Chuck Lewis, that 9 hours of tracking since the midcourse correction No. 2 burn, confirms the burn was indeed a good one. On the present trajectory of the spacecraft the height, the closest approach to the Moon, is 52 miles.
045:23:54 CC Ron, a couple reminders - LOI - -
045:25:03 CC 17, Houston.
045:25:58 CC 17, Houston.
045:26:08 Evans Roger. Go ahead.
045:26:09 CC Roger, Ron. Just a reminder on the LOI [sic] canister change - Have you gotten into that?
045:26:21 Evans No, not yet. We're - probably get started on this -
045:26:25 CC Okay. On the - -
045:26:26 Evans On the heat flow first.
045:26:27 CC Roger. Understand. We'd like to know when you start on that heat flow, Ron, because we need to get the DSE to high bit rate.
045:26:42 Evans Okay. I'm having a little trouble getting them mounted - in a stable position this way,
045:26:48 CC Understand.
045:29:50 Evans Okay, Houston; this is 17. I'm about ready to start it here in about 45 seconds here; let me know when you get the tape recorder going.
045:29:59 CC Roger, Ron.
045:30:09 CC Okay, we got the tape recorder in HIGH BIT RATE.
045:30:17 Evans Okay.
045:30:18 CC Hey, stand by 1, Ron. We got a little change here we'd like to make on the plan on page 2-6.
045:30:31 Evans Okay. Stand by for zero. 3, 2, 1 -
045:30:36 Evans MARK it. It's reset. Start the stop watch.
045:30:39 CC Roger. And, Ron, on the checklist on page 2-6 after the l6-minute "End of test and proceed to next test" we'd like to turn the DAC OFF at that position.
045:30:57 Evans Okay. Will do.
045:30:58 CC And, then, you turn it back on at the re - where it says "Reset stop watch and start." The time zero there - point. Prior to that, turn it on. I'll remind you of it.
045:31:10 Evans Okay. You don't want to watch me fill that pan again, huh?
045:31:21 CC Say again, Ron.
045:31:26 Evans You don't want to watch me fill the pan again.
045:31:28 CC Yes. Roger. Yes, it'll be up before then. We'll watch you fill the pan. We just - while you're taking time wiping it and all that, that's when we - we don't want to use up the film there.
045:31:50 Evans Okay. I'm with you. Actually, I've already cleaned out the - the little area there.
045:32:05 CC Roger. I've got 1 minute on my timer right now - about 01:27, actually.
045:32:11 Evans Oh, thank you.
045:32:24 Evans Well, we'll start at 2 minutes.
045:33:37 CC
045:38:41 PAO This is Apollo Control at 45 hours 38 minutes. Distance now 149,941 nautical miles from the Earth; velocity 3,405 feet per second.
045:47:50 Evans Okay, Houston. The DAC is OFF now.
045:47:53 CC Roger. DAC OFF.
045:48:12 CC Say, Ron.
045:48:20 Evans Go ahead, Houston.
045:48:22 CC Yes, Ron. If it's not too much bother, it's one of those nice things to have. The PI would like you to take a picture with the - with the 35-millimeter indoor of the orientation of the heat flow as it's mounted. See if you can get that, if it's not too much problem.
045:48:42 Evans Okay. No problem. Good idea.
045:48:48 CC And that should be magazine SS, which is the same one you'll use for - with the ALFMED tomorrow.
045:49:00 Evans Affirmative; okay.
045:49:23 Evans Okay. I opened the flow about four turns. A little bit is running out - one big bubble in it. And I still have a little bit left over, even though I wiped it out pretty good awhile ago. The meniscus is up to the bottom ring, and I think we put in eight things in there where it's going to try to get the meniscus up to the top baffle. is that correct?
045:49:56 CC That's correct, Ron.
045:51:16 Schmitt There must have been a few more bubbles down in there again. That was two turns now, and I've got it about half full all the way across.
045:51:29 CC Roger.
045:51:31 Evans But, maybe there's just about eight or 10 bubbles in it.
045:52:30 Evans ... That's three turns. The fluid is essentially .. and we're still going on the first - fourth turn now, and it's still develops a meniscus around the lower baffle - the smaller baffle.
045:54:56 Evans Okay. Looks like about six of the bubbles have developed into three, for some reason.
045:55:07 CC Roger.
045:55:57 Evans Oh-oh. It was doing real well there. Then on seventh turn, a bunch of bubbles came in again.
045:56:03 CC Roger.
045:57:24 CC Ron, I might have given you a bad call before. We don't want the DAC on until just before that 2-minute mark here, where just prior to going EXPERIMENT/HEAT SELECT - FLOW PATTERN - LOW. At that point, is where we want the DAC on.
045:57:44 Evans Okay. You want the DAC on when it starts heating up.
045:57:47 CC That's affirm.
045:57:51 Evans Okay. You, know - I may have lost track of the turns here, but I think we've got 7-1/2 or 6-1/2 turns in here. And it still hasn't overflown that first lower baffle. I've got a tremendous concave - convex surface on the fluid, but it still hasn't broken the meniscus of the first baf - baffle.
045:58:20 CC Roger. We copy that.
045:58:55 Evans Okay. I'm going to go ahead and take it another turn, because it was my understanding we wanted to try to get in the second baffle, anyhow. So, I'm going to take another turn of Krytox and put some more in there.
045:59:08 CC That's correct, Ron.
045:59:37 CC Ron, if that - if that doesn't do it, they're saying you might want to take a pencil or something and stir it up a bit and try and break it up from lower baffle into the upper baffle.
045:59:50 Evans (Chuckle) Okay. I'm afraid, I may have it all over the place if I do that, but I'll try it.
045:59:55 CC Roger. Very slowly.
045:59:59 Evans (Laughter) Right.
046:00:55 CC Ron, just a question while you're watching it here. Do you have any bubbles in the lineal cell?
046:02:56 Evans Yes. This one is going to be interesting. There are about, oh, a dozen, nine to a dozen - small bubbles right next to the inject board and then about the same number right in the center of the convex portion of it.
046:03:14 CC Roger, Ron. Did you - we didn't copy your answer to our question about any bubbles in the lineal.
046:03:26 Evans No, I didn't get to your question on that. In the lineal unit there are no bubbles whatsoever.
046:03:32 CC Roger. Thank you.
046:03:33 Evans And there might have been very slight movement. Matter of fact, I can see just a very slight movement, even now. The particles, in there, they're still lined up in the YY direction essentially though, although it looks like some of them may have deviated from the front of the lineal unit back toward the center, or toward the back of the lineal unit, as you call it.
046:04:10 Evans Well, I missed the 2-minute start time there, but I can keep track of it here.
046:04:14 Evans So we'll start the DAC, and then I'll turn this to LOW at 02:45.
046:04:31 CC Okay. We got a hack on it, Ron. If you started it, we started our clock.
046:04:38 Evans Okay. You know, just for future reference here, if we like to do things in zero G and without jarring or jiggle, we want to make sure that the switch actuates with a minimum of pressure.
046:05:07 CC Roger, A good point.
046:05:11 Evans (Laughter)
046:06:16 Evans Okay. That's just now starting to develop. Look like circular cells, great big ones. And then some of the bigger ones are subdividing now.
046:06:32 CC Okay. We got that.
046:06:32 Evans ... are even - some of them are even getting bigger. One of them is - oh, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and it hasn't divided yet, at all.
046:06:53 CC Those are real good comments, Ron. I was in just talking with the experimenters, and if you've got nothing else to do, giving us some sizes of those cells would certainly be very beneficial.
046:07:13 Evans Okay.
046:07:22 Evans Okay. Frame 27 was taken at an elapsed time of about 4 minutes.
046:07:37 CC Okay. We got that.
046:07:42 Schmitt Stu, this is Jack. I was taking the pictures. I took four pictures about 20 seconds apart - of the sequence just after he started it. And that ended with - or started with frame 26.
046:08:05 CC Okay. Frame 26 for 4 seconds - I mean for 4 frames.
046:08:14 Evans Okay. That one cell I spoke of that was about three-quarters of an inch in diameter now is about an inch long and maybe three-quarters of an inch wide. Each - All of the cells seem to be bigger, in general. They're bigger this time. There is two small ones at about an eighth of an inch and - and along one side. The other one is a half-inch, a half-inch - oh, a quarter of an inch, a halfinch, and then a circular when you get around the outs - out - annulus of the cup. Then you start getting circular sides instead of straight sides. All of the flow comes from the little center spot and flows outward from the center toward the outside of the cells.
046:09:07 CC Okay. We - we copy that - -
046:09:07 Evans ... all of the bubbles have disappeared, except two.
046:09:19 CC Ron, is the smallest cell you see about an eighth of an inch across?
046:09:26 Evans The smalles cell I see is a four-sided one; it looks like a diamond. And it's an eighth of an inch on one side, an eighth of an inch on the other side, and maybe 3/16 on the other two sides.
046:09:39 CC Okay. That sounds - that's a good description, Ron. I know on mine some of the smaller ones didn't show up in the - in the film, and we were not - not sure what size they are. So you might, before you quit, bracket the - the smallest or the biggest cells by your estimate of the size.
046:10:17 PAO This is Apollo control at 46 hours 10 minutes. Apollo 17 is 150,976 nautical miles from Earth traveling at a speed of 3,375 feet per second.
046:11:20 Schmitt ... any rate, frame number 31, frame number 31 ...
046:11:36 Evans And the information first half of the experiment. The orientation was 90 degrees from this one. (Laughter) in that the lineal cell was on the right, and the lineal cell was aligned with the XX axis.
046:12:00 CC Okay, Ron. We got - We had a drop in our signal strength there, and we did get your last comment about the orientation. We missed some comment about the frame numbers; I think came from Jack.
046:12:14 Evans Okay. Something's a little different on this one here. Right at the top of the flow circle, it looks just like a finger. It's a curved surface that goes out and almost touches the - the circumference of the dish. And it looks just like if you're holding your finger up and looking at it. It's that type of a shape to it. It comes back down, and it's about a half an inch wide. The flow again emanates from a source that is almost on the fingertip, you might say.
046:12:58 CC Okay. We copy.
046:13:10 Evans Okay. Somehow, that fingertip finally touched the complete circumference, and the tip of the finger disappeared.
046:13:21 CC Okay.
046:13:24 Evans Okay. My - my small one-eighth inch - or one-eighth of an inch sided diamond joined with another one, now, and one side of the diamond is gone. I still have three sides of the diamond and the fourth side of the diamond, or the upper right-hand corner of the diamond, you might say, has disappeared and goes on with another little square - or rectangle. One - one end of the rectangle is about 3/l6 of an inch long; the other two sides are about three-eights of ar. inch long.
046:14:07 CC Ron, what's the location of that - of that diamond and rectangle in the - in the circular dish? And is it near the edge, or is it towards the center?
046:14:18 Evans There are almost - No, it's almost in the center. Towards the center. Almost in the center. On the left edge, as you look at the piece of equipment , as you're looking at it, there are absolutely no patterns at all. There is a flow. You can see a stream of flow. Whoops. I can get up then and start looking at it. I blew on it when I was talking. You can see a stream of flow from the circumference in toward the outer group of cells. The outer group of cells is at least half an inch from the circumference though, at that point.
046:15:04 CC Okay, Ron. We copy all that.
046:15:18 Evans Yes. I think there is a general migration of - of the cells. Kind of toward the bottom of the circle, if you want to look at it that way. They seem to be stretching kind of in that direction, too.
046:15:40 CC Okay. You're saying that's toward minus X?
046:15:47 Evans ... No, toward the plus Y, as you're looking at it.
046:15:52 CC Okay. They're migrating toward plus Y.
046:15:53 Evans I'll - I'll try to make all directions, with respect to - with respect to the right-side-up of the equipment, you know.
046:16:01 CC Okay. We've got you.
046:16:06 Evans And the first finger I talked about was at 12 o'clock. It has joined the edge now and almost disappeared. The second finger was - still essentially the way it was - is getting slightly closer to the edge. There's maybe - oh, less than 1/32 of an inch between the tip of the finger and the edge. And it goes out at - at 2 o'clock. Okay, from 3 o'clock on around to about 7 o'clock, the cells - it's in a shadow, and I can't see for sure if they're touching the edge or not, but it looks like they're probably essentially touching - the ... the edge.
046:16:51 CC Okay.
046:16:56 Evans And then from 7 o'clock on around to 12 o'clock again, none of the cells are touching the edge at all. And they're - oh, an average of three-eighths of an inch from the outside circumference.
046:17:15 CC Okay. We're getting all that, Ron.
046:18:03 CC And, Ron, we'd like to verify that the fluid is up to the second baffle.
046:18:11 Evans That's verified. It's up to the second baffle.
046:18:15 CC Okay - -
046:18:15 Evans All I had to do was start it in one position, and as soon as I started it - started it in one position, it whipped all the way around it. From the point I started it, it went all the way around in both directions.
046:18:28 CC Okay. That sounds beautiful. That ought to be a good data point for something.
046:18:35 Evans Yes. Right.
046:18:37 Evans I think that in the low flow here evidently things are even a little bit slower than they were in the high rate - in the high - in the high heat rate. But my little diamond now, is almost joined with the rectangle. And I think given half a chance, it's tending to go into another fivesided figure.
046:19:09 CC Okay. We copy.
046:20:44 Evans And we start to cool down ...
046:21:12 Evans Okay. As we're cooling down, the flow patterns tend to join together, so far. The ones on the outer periphery dissolve into straight lines. Straight lines are emanating in a radial direction from the center of the circle.
046:24:10 Evans And, Houston, if you're listening; or DSE if you're listening. Had a little bit of film -oop, there's the end of film right now. May as well stop it. Hey, I went to HIGH for a little ways.
046:24:24 CC Okay, Ron. You came back in; I didn't get all of that. Understand you ran out of film. And say the other.
046:24:35 Evans Well, I still had a little bit of film when the cooldown - the 2-minute cooldown period was left, so I went back to HIGH on the FLOW PATTERN just to see what would happen. And it looked like they were starting out with - again larger-sized cells developing into smaller ones. And, initially, all of the cells were about a half an inch in diameter, and they were closer to the periphery of the dish than they were in the LOW FLOW position.
046:25:15 CC Okay. We copy that, Ron. After - after you went to HIGH - after the 19 minutes - how long was it before you started seeing a change?
046:25:37 Evans It was within a minute there. See, it cooled down fairly rapidly at the end of the 2 minutes. All of the cells had essentially dissolved. You had some radial lines on the outer perim - The cells that were on the outer side degraded into a strictly radial lines, back to the second row of cells. The row of cells that were on the inside kind of joined together and all ended up into one or two large cells about an inch - or about 3-3/4 of an inch across.
046:26:18 CC Okay. Sounds like real good data - -
046:26:20 Evans Still got the HIGH going.
046:27:42 Evans I still have it in HIGH, and the pattern that's developing is almost identical to the - what was happening in the LOW, except it seems to be happening at a faster rate.
046:28:00 CC Okay. We copy that - -
046:28:01 Evans ... triangle or a little diamond developed down there and then - and it disappeared. Only this time, it kind of joined with a different little cell, but it was the same cell next to it. I still have the big one. It's about an inch long, at 11 o'clock, as I had before. I still have a finger that's developing about 12 o'clock, and another one about 2 o'clock. And they seem to be migrating again toward the bottom of the dish.
046:29:57 CC Okay, Ron. It sounds like you've really wired that experiment in great shape, and all the - and everybody's real happy with the - with the data. I guess now you might as well tear it down and press ahead.
046:31:32 CC Okay, Ron. We're back with you now, and everybody's real happy about the data and experiment. And it looks like you did a super job, and you might as well tear it down and press ahead.
046:31:48 Evans Okay. I still got it in HIGH, and I'm kind of sucking the fluid back down the - the intake. And as I get the fluid thinned out, low and behold there's a whole bunch of bubbles underneath there. And each bubble is a source for one of those little cells. It's the internal source.
046:32:24 CC Okay, Ron. We got that. You may have made a breakthrough for science.
046:32:32 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
046:34:07 CC 17, Houston.
046:34:11 Evans 17, go ahead.
046:34:13 CC Ron, just a reminder that we're scratching that page 3-45 that - from 46 to 47 - that's scratched out. And from then on all the times, you just subtract an hour from it, if you haven't done that already.
046:34:28 Evans Let's see. Yes, we've already done that, Bob. Thank you.
046:34:32 CC Roger. Just a reminder on that. And EECOM is over here trying to figure out if you changed the canister or not. Just a reminder on that one.
046:34:42 Evans Okay. We'll get that as soon as I get this out of the way. Okay?
046:34:45 CC Sure. While you're back there - Panel 100 and that - you might park the optics. We see they're not in ZERO.
046:35:00 Evans Okay.
046:35:02 CC And along that same line, Ron, we did notice several times while people were watching through the optics that they went to ZERO. And it's no problem if the rates are low, but just a reminder that we don't want to burnp them into the stops with any kind of a rate.
046:35:25 Evans Yes. I concur with that, Bob. I guess I didn't realize we were doing that.
046:35:31 CC We just picked up some data points down here that people - You were all looking around, I guess, and you might - it's easy to miss that TRUNNION going to ZERO, I guess.
046:35:48 Schmitt Houston, 17.
046:35:50 CC Go ahead, Jack, or Gene.
046:35:56 Schmitt I'm ready to update your weather in the Western Pacific, if you're interested.
046:36:02 CC Roger. Go ahead.
046:36:07 Schmitt Still can't quite figure out what that circulation around New Zealand means. It looks like it's merging with some more weather to the southeast. I suspect it's stormy there, but I still -It's not a terribly well-developed storm, although it seems to be broadening in its extent. Australia is completely free of any significant weather and almost completely free - free of clouds. The - There appears to be a front - although right now it does not look too intense - approaching from the southwest. And it looks like it's about 5 degrees of longitude south of the southwestern tip of Australia. The typhoon Cirrus - or Therese, I guess it is - appears to be just about the same position it was yesterday. And that is north of Borneo and between Vietnam and the Philippines.
046:37:26 CC Roger. We see that on the prog here, Jack.
046:37:33 Schmitt Okay - -
046:40:02 CC Jack, we've been out of comm here. We've missed any of your last report here.
046:41:36 CC Ron, did you ever get your P23 data from today.
046:41:42 Evans That's negative; never did.
046:41:44 CC Okay. Just got some updating information for you, if you want to listen to it. I don't think you need to copy it down.
046:41:53 Evans Very good. Go ahead.
046:41:54 CC Okay, Ron, the effective horizon was 25, plus or minus 6 nautical miles, which is real fine. The substellar pointing error was 1 arc-minute, plus or minus 1 arc-minute, which is less than the 1-SIGMA error. The marking data was extremely consistent, and all techniques and procedures were excellent. And the horizon updates from the current onboard value of 28 - is not required, so you're extremely good P23. Outstanding.
046:42:31 Evans Hey, that's good to hear. Great. Thank you.
046:42:36 CC And I do have one input from your other half. There's a concern that if you spill grape juice on your flight suit, it's hard to get out. So be sure - and when you're eating - drinking grape juice - you want to make sure you learn to drink it right.
046:42:54 Evans (Chuckle) Okay. We - we'll try that, for sure.
046:46:58 PAO This is Apollo Control at 46 hours 46 minutes. The display which shows distance and velocity is referenced to the Moon at this time so these numbers I'm about to give you will be Moon referenced and not Earth referenced. Apollo 17 is 80,322 nautical miles from the Moon. Velocity 3,349 feet per second. The crew is in a meal period at this time and we don't expect much conversation for some time. Earlier today, while the Lunar Module was being checked out and during a test of simultaneous dual communications capability from Challenger and America, a portion of the conversation was lost due to a communication line configuration in the Public Affairs distribution system. We have now obtained tape of this lost conversation from the Air/Ground recorders in the Control Center and will play that for you now.
046:50:40 Schmitt Houston, 17.
046:50:42 CC Go ahead. 17, Houston. Go ahead.
046:50:47 Schmitt I need to make a correction. Roger. I need to make a correction. It looks as if that storm area that was in New Zealand yesterday has moved up across the two islands and is now sitting northwest. It's getting a little hard to identify the smaller islands in the pacific, but - pretty sure I've got it in the right place now looking at the map. And it is northwest of New Zealand. And it looks like New Zealand is probably having reasonably good weather today, although I suspect it rained last night.
046:51:27 CC Roger, Jack. That's interesting because on my prog it doesn't show a thing down that area. This just may not be up to date here yet.
046:51:36 Schmitt Well, there may be nothing down there except some cloud patterns and - but that's all I can see, of course. The front that's south of Australia now - I presume front - just looking at a fairly well-developed, although narrow, cloud line, is about 5 - about 10 degrees south of Perth right now, southwest of Perth and runs on a northwest-southeast line - over to a point about 10 or 15 degrees southwest of Tasmania. And then it intersects a curved front that runs from there up to - to Tasmania, and then back around down south of New Zealand about 10 degrees.
046:52:42 CC Roger, Jack.
046:56:24 Cernan Say, Bob, this is Gene. I got some new sensors on. You might want to take a look at them.
046:56:29 CC Roger. Good show, Gene. We were just wondering about that, and I'll bug the guys on my left here and make sure they're looking at them.
046:56:51 CC We're not getting any data yet, Gene.
046:56:55 Schmitt Bob, we're starting to get ... from just off Luzon on the northeast trend ... seen so far a shadow line of fairly thick high clouds overlying some thick lower clouds behind the front.
046:57:29 CC Roger. You might have - be of interest onboard there, the FIDOs - -
046:58:52 CC Jack, we've been having comm dropouts here on this OMNI as you swing around on us.
046:59:03 Schmitt Okay. What - where did I leave you, Bob?
046:59:08 CC Well, I'm not sure because we picked up a number of different bits, and then we dropped it all.
046:59:17 Schmitt Did you get the overcast over Korea and Manchuria bit?
046:59:22 CC Negative. I didn't get that.
046:59:36 Schmitt Okay. That generally - South China looks clear. I haven't had a real good look at it yet, it's out on the limb. It's clearly, however, overcast over Korea and Manchuria. It does not appear to be frontal weather there, though. The dominant front in the northwestern Pacific stretches on a northwest line from just off Luzon on up as far as I can see to the terminator. And it seems to be an extremely strong front with what I would guess is heavy air-mass weather all along it. And up to the east-northeast of Japan, there's an excellent example of a shadow line from some fairly thick high clouds on solid overcast of lower clouds. Don't see any major cyclone development along it, or wave development. It just locks like a very strong air-mass front.
047:00:51 CC Roger, Jack. We've got it on our prog here. We don't show the one on the northeast part of Japan, but we do show a front prog for tomorrow morning going off of Taiwan and - right from Taiwan eastward - past the Ryukyu islands and just on into the northern Pacific there. Looks like pretty heavy cloud mass over there.
047:01:14 Schmitt Roger. That's the one I'm - Roger. That's the one I'm looking at. Extremely heavy. And right now it - in fact starts about at Luzon. It looks like Taiwan is almost on the back side of it.
047:01:30 CC Yes. That's what our prog - it shows it right on Luzon and then Taiwan's clear.
047:01:37 Schmitt Very good.
047:01:39 CC We'll keep up with you yet there, Jack. Say, you may be interested. We've got 9 hours of good tracking on the - after the midcourse - and we show a perilune of about 52 miles which confirms a good midcourse.
047:01:59 Cernan Sounds outstanding - -
047:02:00 Evans That's great.
047:02:01 Cernan You can cross off the canister, by the way; it's changed.
047:02:05 CC Okay. EECOMs happy about that now, finally. And, Gene - the CD - your data looks good.
047:02:17 Schmitt Okay. I never had a chance to tell you, Bob, but you - as you see - I presume - I - the LMP no longer has sensors on.
047:02:29 CC Roger. We confirm that.
047:02:34 Schmitt By the way, those were the - I guess you know - the sensors that we put on at the Cape. And they still seemed to be in good shape when I took them off. I figured I'd let things rest a while, and then I'll put them on again tomorrow.
047:02:49 CC Roger. Looks like you've got eat period scheduled here for an hour, and then into the presleep checklist.
047:02:59 Schmitt Whoopee! The old preslip [sic] checklist.
047:12:19 CC Apollo 17, Houston.
047:12:25 Cernan Go ahead, T.P.
047:12:26 CC Yes. I was going to say, is that talkative commander onboard?
047:12:32 Cernan How are you doing down there?
047:12:34 CC Well, I feel lots better. Like I told you Geno, I think that you were the jinx on Gemini 9 for all the delays. Over.
047:12:43 Cernan No way; you got a longer history than I do.
047:12:47 CC Everything's looking great.
047:12:52 Cernan Yes, it's looking good onboard. We're - I think we're pretty well squared away. We've got our stowage in shape, and we're in the house-cleaning routine. And that's about 50 percent of the battle.
047:13:06 CC Right.
047:13:10 Cernan The weather down there didn't look too good today. How's it been?
047:13:13 CC Well, as it started out, it was below minimums this morning and finally, this afternoon, it cleared up. But it was strictly zilch this morning and starting last night. There's another front due in here later tonight.
047:13:28 Schmitt Yes, we've been watching that one.
047:13:32 CC Well, Jack, you're turning into a very trained weather observer besides being a geologist.
047:13:40 Schmitt Oh, I'm enjoying it immensely, Tom, as you may have gathered.
047:13:45 CC Right.
047:13:45 Schmitt Very interesting place to watch; I'll tell you.
047:13:48 CC Absolutely superb.
047:13:52 Cernan How are things on the home front, T.P.?
047:13:55 CC Geno, things couldn't be better.
047:14:01 Cernan Well, you might sound all the good words from us.
047:14:03 CC Oh, will do. I plan to drop by and burn a cup of coffee tomorrow.
047:14:11 Cernan I'd love to invite you up here for supper.
047:14:16 CC And I wish I could join you. I could make another couple of remarks, but they'd be X-rated; so I shouldn't.
047:14:25 Schmitt Okay. I'll accept that.
047:14:30 Cernan You notice I haven't yet.
047:14:33 CC (Chuckle) I'm very well pleased, Geno. Your - your language is superb.
047:17:38 CC 17, Houston, just a couple of words. We'd like you to know we're real satisfied with all the LM data that we saw during the LM activation work today, and, looking at it, the data looked real good.
047:17:54 Schmitt Great, Bob. I was - you had me worried there for a while with that comm. Do you have a good idea what caused that?
047:18:02 CC Yes, we're sure about 99.9 percent of it was just ground linkup.
047:18:10 Schmitt Yes, that's certainly the way it acted onboard.
047:18:14 CC I guess there won't be any need to go back and change the Checklist on that, but there's a lot to be said for maybe going to a real good stable condition and then getting a good firm checkout before you go into that downvoice backup mode and things like that. And I think that's what we'll do in the future.
047:18:31 Schmitt Understand.
047:18:33 PAO This is Apollo Control at 47 hours 18 minutes. That completes the tape from this afternoon. At this time Apollo 17 is 79,293 nautical miles from the Moon. With the lunar referenced velocity of 3,343 feet per second. The flight director has just gotten another update on the S-IVB impact prediction, based on tracking to date. The newest prediction is that the impact will occur at an elapsed time of 86 hours 59 minutes 55 seconds, at 3 degrees 58 minutes south latitude, 12 degrees 35 minutes west longitude. While that tape was playing, there were several conversations with the crew. Including one between Brigadier General Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan. Stafford was Cernan's spacecraft commander in both Gemini and Apollo. We'll play those conversations for you now and then come back up live.
047:45:49 Schmitt Houston; 7 - 17
047:45:54 CC Go ahead, Jack.
047:45:57 Schmitt Yes, I'm just a little curious about the difficulty on holding the OMNIs. is that about the same as past missions, or are we losing a little bit more than usual?
047:46:12 CC We're going to have Ed here give us a description for a minute, so let me stand by.
047:46:19 Schmitt Okay.
047:46:44 CC Jack, according to that - to our stalwart INCO over there, due to this new 210 down at Tidbinbilla we're holding actually longer than in the past history.
047:47:00 Schmitt Okay. I just guess I've never been on this end before.
047:47:04 CC Roger. Do you - do you hear it onboard when we break lock there?
047:47:13 Schmitt Yes, matter of fact, with the SQUELCH ENABLED, we lose all the background noise. And we know when we're picking you up because we start to get background noise again.
047:47:27 CC Roger. In other words, you - you are able to stop talking or something when you - when you know we're breaking lock then.
047:47:36 Schmitt Well, if we happen to be talking when you break lock - no, unless we're watching the meters we won't. We lose you when you get about 55 - say 60 percent signal strength. And apparently we're not talking to you when we have less than that.
047:47:52 CC Roger. Yes, INCO gave me a briefing tonight and showed me what chart to watch so I can look at numbers when to talk. I've been talking to myself too much, lately.
047:48:07 Schmitt Yes, they have a beautiful chart there for that purpose.
047:48:13 CC I never really wanted to be an INCO, but I guess I was forced to tonight.
047:48:23 Schmitt There are lots of comments for that one, Bob; but I'd better not say anything.
047:48:26 CC Roger.
047:48:27 Schmitt Ed would never speak to me again.
047:48:29 CC Well, that's all right. We can't X-rate the transcripts, so we'll just have to take - take it easy.
047:48:52 Schmitt Say, Bob, I've got another question about the Challenger.
047:48:54 CC Go ahead, sir.
047:49:01 Schmitt (Music) Yes, sir. The battery voltage on low taps, strangely enough, was just like the simulator; but I had expected that the simulator might have been wrong - that we would have seen higher voltage there. is that - is that about what you guys expected?
047:49:23 CC Roger. They said they expected that because the extra time on the pad that they're running. That 2-hour-and-40-minute delay is coming into play again.
047:49:35 Schmitt Oh, yes, yes. That's right. Good. I forgot all about that. Something made that slip my mind.
047:49:43 CC Well, things have been going so well that I can't blame you forgetting that.
047:49:53 Schmitt ... Stanley Holloway's crazy Flight Plan updates that we've just forgotten that we were ever late.
047:50:00 CC Roger. Say, by the way, we like the music in the background. Sounds pretty good.
047:50:01 Schmitt Yes, we sort of - didn't - we didn't get it out at all until today. [Music: Whipped Cream by Al Hirt] I don't know whether we forgot about it or too many other learning things going on. It's - it's quite pleasant.
047:50:23 CC Roger. I don't think you forgot about it. I think you were just glued to those windows.
047:50:30 Schmitt Well, I still am, as a matter of fact. The old Earth's coming by. And, say, I mentioned a couple of fronts that joined together about 20 degrees south of - of - the south coast of Australia. And it looks like that's a fairly healthy storm center developing down in there - conceivably may migrate up across Tasmania and maybe up - up the Sydney-Brisbane coastal area in the next few days.
047:51:07 CC Roger. Where is the exact center of that, Jack? it took me a second to get my prog out here.
047:51:15 Schmitt Well, just a second. Let me give you better from the map.
047:51:18 CC Roger.
047:52:05 CC While you're looking at your map, I just might mention to Gene, I just talked to your - your better half over there, and everybody's fine and happy.
047:52:18 Cernan Great. Always like to hear news like that, Bob.
047:52:21 CC Roger.
047:52:31 Schmitt Bob, did you get that - 15 to 20 degrees south southwest of Adelaide?
047:52:43 CC Roger.
047:53:20 CC 17, Houston. Are you into your pre -
047:53:42 CC 17, Houston. Are you into your presleep checklist ...?
047:53:54 CC 17, Houston. Are you into your presleep checklist now?
047:54:02 Cernan We're just about ready to get started, Bob. We're running a little bit behind, but - we'll catch up here.
047:55:08 CC Okay. No sweat.
047:55:16 Schmitt (Music) Trying to get some more of this good food down.
047:55:19 CC Roger. Keep saying those words. The people on my left appreciate that.
047:55:29 Cernan Yes, but it does take awhile.
047:55:32 CC I'm sure of that.
047:55:38 Schmitt You know what we really need is Rita to fix it for us.
047:55:43 CC That's affirmed. I'll go along on that.
047:56:18 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to cycle H2 FANS 1 and 2.
047:56:24 CC Okay, we're watching.
047:57:48 Cernan FANS are OFF.
047:57:51 CC Roger.
047:59:15 Schmitt Bob, we're still on November November frame 140, and I'm going to take two more pictures before I go to sleep.
047:59:23 CC Roger, Jack. We copy that. November November frame 140. And you ought to be on 142 when you go to sleep, I guess, huh?
047:59:35 Schmitt That's affirm.
048:09:37 PAO This is Apollo Control at 48 hours 9 minutes. Apollo 17 now 77,623 nautical miles away from the Moon and the lunar referenced velocity 3,333 feet per second. Here in the Control Room flight director Gene Kranz and his white team are preparing to relieve the orange team which has been directed tonight by flight director Chuck Lewis. Major activities during this shift have been the heat flow and convection demonstration which has been performed twice during this shift. Once, while the spacecraft was nulled in all three axes and again after the passive thermal control spinup mode had been established. That demonstration is to provide data on behavior of fluids in a low gravity field and the information learned from the demonstration could be valuable in the future science experiments and perhaps for manufacturing processes in space. The crew is in its presleep checklist at the present time and we have a - again a new update on the S-IVB impact just provided by the flight dynamics officer - updates impact time to 86 hours 59 minutes 38 seconds at 3 degrees 37 minutes south latitude, 12 degrees 7 minutes west longitude. We do not anticipate a change of shift briefing at the end of this shift. Handover is scheduled for midnight and there will be no change of shift briefing. At 48 hours 12 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
048:14:48 Schmitt Houston, 17-
048:14:51 CC Go ahead.
048:14:55 Schmitt Roger. One final word. I got those pictures; and, I tell you, that typhoon off - north of Borneo - looks like it's right off the coast of - the east coast of Vietnam now, and it's about as tightly organized and solid as anything I can remember seeing in photographs. It looks as if, from yesterday, it's moved quite a bit to the west.
048:15:29 CC Roger. We concur. The prog for 12:00 - Let's see, that's about 6 hours from now - shows it to be right over the Vietnam area, the Viet - Vietnam peninsula there. So it looks like it's moving the way they're progging it, huh?
048:15:45 Schmitt Yes; well, it's right there. Yes, it certainly is. It's - it's moved from just a little bit west of Luzon over to the coast there. So it's a pretty healthy storm.
048:16:01 CC Roger. It looks - on the prog chart here - it looks real tight. It's a very - very centralized thing and real tight circular.
048:16:15 Schmitt Oh, yes, you better believe it. It in really - it is tight. It - it's really - really no bigger than the - in terms of cloud pattern - no bigger than the - say, South Vietnam itself.
048:16:33 CC Roger. How're you getting that, Jack? Are you looking with the monocular now?
048:16:41 Schmitt That's affirm. Monocular still gives real good resolution on the cloud patterns. [Music] Naked eye, you just see the masses; but with the 10-power monocular, it's perfectly adequate for seeing the kind of patterns we're talking about.
048:17:03 CC Roger. I understand.
048:19:59 CC Well, guys, I guess I won't get the chance to say goodnight to you because Parker's going to come in to put you to bed.
048:20:09 Schmitt Heavens.
048:20:13 CC And we'd - we'd like you to clear - -
048:20:15 Schmitt You can still say goodnight, Bob.
048:20:16 CC - - the DSKY, if you will.
048:20:20 Schmitt Say goodnight, Bob.
048:20:22 CC Say goodnight, Dick, huh? One last word. You know, we're always hounding you guys - really don't mean to - but we - we'd like to see a clear DSKY so something doesn't burn out. Don't know the exact words on that, but -
048:20:39 Cernan Okay, we - we'll give you a clear DSKY.
048:20:42 CC Roger.
048:20:50 Cernan Goodnight, Robert.
048:20:57 CC We'll see you tomorrow, troops. And we had a good show today, and We'll have more tomorrow.
048:21:17 Schmitt Ron says goodnight, Bob.
048:21:22 CC Roger.
048:28:25 Schmitt Robert Parker, are you there?
048:28:29 CC That's affirmative.
048:28:33 Schmitt Well, you're just in time to put us to sleep. A nd I'll give you one last little old observation here. Extremely bright zero phase point right off the northwestern corner of Australia right at Carnarvon, it's as bright as I've seen. They must have a pretty good surf or something going in there.
048:28:58 CC Okay; that sounds good.
048:29:29 CC Okay, 17, we copy all that; and I gather you're going to sleep at this point.
048:29:37 Schmitt Well, we're going to try, Bob. I don't think any of us are real sleepy right now, but we're going to give her the old space try, here; and I'm sure we'll be asleep before long. Ron is on watch; and, if you don't wake him up with your voice, give him a crew alert. He says he'll wake up with a MASTER ALARM.
048:29:59 CC That's a healthy sign. All right, guys; if I stick around long enough in the morning, I'll wake you up.
048:33:25 Cernan Okay, Robert, are you happy with your high - antenna configuration?
048:33:34 CC That's affirm. INCO is happy.
048:33:40 Cernan Okay, you have anything else for us? I'll take care of our sleep configuration if you don't.
048:33:47 CC Okay, stand by. I'll go around the MOCR here with white.
048:33:54 SC (Laughter)
048:34:00 CC Okay. A lot of happy people down here with nothing to ask you.
048:34:07 Cernan Okay. Nice to have everybody happy. And you - that Includes the - the biomed on the commander, huh?
048:34:22 CC Okay, I guess they're happy.
048:34:40 Cernan Okay, are you going to sing to Ron in the morning to wake us up?
048:34:44 CC Depends on how soon you guys decide to wake up in the morning. I'll be around for 8 hours anyway.
048:34:57 Cernan What's your expected GET of awake?
048:35:19 CC Stand by, Okay, 17, it should say 56 - -
048:35:20 Cernan ... 56.
048:35:21 CC Go ahead.
048:35:26 Cernan Yes, we're just going to say the same thing.
048:35:28 CC Okay. Should show 56 on your clock.
048:35:45 CC In fact, Dr. Kranz, here, just decided that you guys get another half hour in the morning if you wanted it. But you better tell us now because we'll wake you up at 56 and ask you if you want the other half hour then, unless you tell us.
048:36:06 Cernan Yes, why don't you give us another half hour; and if we happen to wake up and want to move around, well, We'll do it.
048:36:12 CC Okay; We'll wake you up at 56:30.
048:39:12 PAO This is Apollo Control at 48 hours 39 minutes. We now have turned off the voice subcarrier up to the spacecraft and INCO just a few minutes ago reported that the crew has also turned off the voice subcarrier from the spacecraft, indicating that they have completed their presleep preparations and should begin scheduled 8 hour rest period shortly. Spacecraft Communicator, at the present time, is astronaut Robert Parker. He has replaced Robert Overmyer in that position and in Mission Control we're set to maintain the watch while the crew is sleeping, keeping an eye on spacecraft systems via telemetry. Apollo 17 is now 76,630 nautical miles from the Moon and everything appears to be functioning normally aboard the spacecraft at this time. At 48 hours 40 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
048:57:45 PAO This is Apollo Control at 48 hours 58 minutes. At present time in Mission Control, Flight Director Gene Kranz is going around the room polling each of his Flight Controllers on the mission status and all the reports are coming up very good. The orbital science officer said that the temperatures in the SIMBAY where the various scientific instruments will be used in Lunar orbit to observe the Moon from orbit appear to be about as would be expected at this time. During the previous shift the film in the panoramic and mapping cameras was cycled and this is done once every 24 hours if the cameras are not used, to prevent the pressure points on the film in the transport mechanism from creating striations in the film emulsion, and those cameras are cycled ahead several frames to move that pressure point around on the film emulsion. During Lunar module housekeeping when the crew entered the LM on the previous shift, everything looked to be in order in that vehicle. And the guidance and control officer reports that the midcourse correction maneuver performed earlier in the day - was very close to nominal. Also, the command module is running a bit ahead of the flight plan schedule as far as reaction control system propellent usage and service propulsion system propellent usage and we have a bit more than had been predicted for this point in the flight. And the Electrical Environmental Communications Officer, EECOM, said that in general the command module - the command and service module appear to be in very good shape. Apollo 17, at this time, is 75,975 nautical miles from the Moon and we're showing a velocity with respect to the Moon of 3,325 feet per second. We don't anticipate any further conversation with the crew, having said "goodnight" to them - and we are planning to give them an additional 30 minutes on their rest period if they so desire. The rest period, according to the flight plan, is scheduled to end at a Ground Elapsed Time of 56 hours. However, we do not plan to put in a call to the crew until 56 hours 30 minutes, giving them the option to sleep an additional 30 minutes if they so desire. We showed at 48 hours 38 minutes, or about 23 minutes ago, that they had turned off the voice sub-carriers indicating that they were preparing to bed down and get to sleep. During this sleep shift we'll plan to have the air-to-ground lines down to minimize the amount of noise on these circuits. We'll be recording any conversation with the crew and will be prepared to bring the lines up in very short order should we have any calls from the crew. At 49 hours 2 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
049:57:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 49 hours 57 minutes. It's been nearly an hour and a half since we said goodnight to the crew and there's been no change in the status of the spacecraft or operations here in the Control Center. Everything's progressing along very smoothly at this point. We don't expect to put in a call to the crew until 56 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time or about 6 1/2 hours from now. Apollo 17 is now 74,098 nautical miles from the Moon and the spacecraft velocity is 3,317 feet per second with respect to the Moon. The flight dynamics officer has the option of setting up the display which gives us the velocity of the spacecraft and its distance relative to either the Moon or the Earth. And his option is to look at the spacecraft position and velocity with respect to the Moon or to Earth. At the present time, we are looking at those parameters with respect to the Moon. The large display plot up on the large 10 by 20 foot describing plotter display at the front of the Control Center shows us that the spacecraft is now approaching 160,000 nautical miles from Earth. At 49 hours 59 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
050:58:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 50 hours 58 minutes. The crew has been in a rest period now for about 2 1/2 hours. The Flight Surgeon, has bio-medical data on the Commander, Gene Cernan, indicates that at least Cernan is soundly asleep at this time and we presume that all 3 crew members are sleeping. Wake up call is scheduled for 56 hours 30 minutes or about 5 and a half hours from now. Apollo 17, currently 160,762 nautical miles from Earth and we're showing the spacecraft 72,200 miles from the Moon and its continued to be very quiet in Mission Control, almost no conversation on the loops here, and no change in any of the systems aboard the spacecraft - everything going along very smoothly and performing well at this time. The cabin temperature at the point we monitor it, that's where our telemetry which is the outlet of the air flowing into the cabin, shows the temperature at that point to be about 63 degrees. The cabin temperature itself would be somewhat warmer than that, probably up around room temperature - 68, 69, 70 degrees - in that area. At 50 hours 59 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
051:57:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 51 hours 57 minutes. We've had no signs of any activity from the Spacecraft and it appears that the crew is sleeping at this time. Apollo 17 some 70,200 nautical miles from the Moon. And we have a clock counting down to the time at which the crew is scheduled to awake - some 4 hours from now. Actually, that would be the earliest that we would expect to hear from them and prior to beginning the rest period we advised them that we would not plan to put in a call until about 30 minutes later than called for in the flight plan. They were about a half hour late beginning the rest period. Tomorrow's schedule is relatively uncluttered and Flight Director, Gene Kranz, decided to give them the extra 30 minutes of sleep if they desire to take it. On awakening the - one of the main activities in the flight plan for today has the crew re-entering the lunar module, Challenger and partially powering the vehicle up and running some additional checks. And there has been no change in the status of the spacecraft based on the telemetry information we're getting here in Mission Control everything continues to perk along very smoothly. At 51 hours 59 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
052:57:27 PAO This is Apollo control at 52 hours 57 minutes. We're now mid way through a scheduled 8 hour crew sleep period. And it continues to be very quite here in mission control. No signs of activity aboard the spacecraft, and everything going along very smoothly. The flight dynamics officer has been working on the trajectory, and looking at tracking data as a result of the midcourse correction performed yesterday. And at this point it appears that no further midcourse maneuvers will be required to get Apollo fif - Apollo 17 into lunar orbit at the desired altitude and time. However, the flight dynamics officer is going to reserve final decision on that point probably until tomorrow. Although it does appear certain at this point that there will be no midcourse correction required at the midcourse correction three opportunity. And probably not even at midcourse correction four. Our data displays at this time show Apollo 17 68,237 nautical miles from the Moon. And on a different display we're reading 165,584 nautical miles back to Earth. At 52 hours 59 minutes this is Apollo control Houston.
053:57:17 PAO This is Apollo Control at 53 hours 57 minutes continuing very quiet in Mission Control. Now about two and one half hours remaining in the crew sleep period. The flight plan calls for the sleep period to end at 56 hours Ground Elapsed Time, however, we don't plan to give them a call until 56:30, giving them the option to sleep for an additional 30 minutes. Apollo 17 now 167,000 nautical miles from Earth and we are showing velocity with respect to the Moon at 3,293 feet per second, some 66,300 nautical miles from the Moon at this time. This is Apollo Control at 53 hours 58 minutes.
054:51:20 PAO This is Apollo Control at 54 hours 57 minutes, some 1 hour 33 minutes now from the scheduled crew awakening time. What has been a very uneventful sleep shift for the crew and a very quiet period here in Mission Control. After the crew awakes, one of the activities on their schedule for the day will be to update the clocks for the spacecraft, we'll be updating the clocks here in Mission Control at the same time. This clock update is occasioned by the fact that we lifted off 2 hours 40 minutes late from Cape Kennedy, however, in order to place the spacecraft in lunar orbit at the same diurnal time or the same Sun time, and retain the lighting conditions desired for the lunar landing, the translunar injection burn was given a slight bit longer burn - just a little bit more energy put into that burn - trip time to the Moon decreased by 2 hours and 40 minutes. The net effect of this is that we now arrive at the Moon at the same time that we would have arrived had the liftoff been on time. One other effect is that the crew has a net 2 hours and 40 minutes less time to accomplish those things that needed to be accomplished in the translunar coast. This is of small consequence because the translunar coast time is relatively a slack period for them, however, in order to avoid any sudden shift in sleep periods and that sort of thing, the time has been made up in two increments - the first one of 1 hour at 45 hours in the flight plan. The crew activities were jumped ahead by 1 hour and they essentially began doing those things that were called for 1 hour later in the flight plan. They will again jump ahead an hour and 40 minutes and that'll occur at 65 hours. By that time they will have completed all those activities required up through 67 hours 40 minutes in the flight plan. Or, in other words, they'll have completed all of the activities required to get them into lunar orbit 2 hours and 40 minutes early. And in order to make the clocks then agree with where the crew will be in the flight plan, we'll jump the clocks ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes. This clock update which can be likened to going on daylight saving time, only 2 hours and 40 minutes worth of change instead of 1 hour of change as we do on daylight savings time, will occur at 65 hours when the crew will have completed all of those flight plan activities up through 67 hours and 40 minutes. This simply involves setting our clocks at 65 hours in the Control Center and aboard the spacecraft at 65 hours, moving them ahead to 67 hours 40 minutes. Then, barring any further changes in the mission timeline from that point on, the elapsed time clocks which are used as the cue to flight plan activities, should agree with the flight plan and events that - in the flight plan are called out for a certain time will happen at that time on the elapsed time clocks in Mission Control and aboard the spacecraft. This is a convenience factor. The other alternative wodd be to go through the flight plan and change all of the flight plan times to agree with the clocks. We simply find it easier to change the clocks and avoid having to make all those updates to the flight plan. At the present time, Apollo 17 is 64,232 nautical miles from the Moon and we're showing 169,518 nautical miles from Earth. Spacecraft velocity at the present time, again with respect to the Moon, is 3,289 feet per second. And we are now 1 hour 27 minutes away time at which we anticipate the crew will be awakening. At 55 hours 3 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
055:57:14 PAO This is Apollo Control at 55 hours 57 minutes. We're about 30 minutes away from the scheduled crew awakening time. And we've seen no signs of activity aboard the spacecraft at this point, however, we could hear from the crew almost any time between now and the next 30 minutes. And if we haven't heard from them within about 30 minutes we'll be putting in a call - a wake up call to the crew. Here in the control center the next team of flight controllers beginning to come on duty. Flight director, Neil Hutchinson, will be relieving flight director, Gene Kranz. And the spacecraft communicator on the upcoming shift is to be astronaut Gordon Fullerton. He'll be replacing CAPCOM, Bob Parker. Apollo 17, at this time, is 62,415 nautical miles from the moon and traveling at a speed of some 3,280 feet per second and we show a range to Earth now of 170,650 nautical miles. We'll bring up the lines and monitor live at this point for any call from the crew. At 55 hours 59 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
056:29:41 PAO This is Apollo Control, we're getting ready to wake up the crew. Bringing up to the voice circuits in the network at 56 hours 29 minutes, almost 30 minutes. Timing out to wakeup zero mark.
056:31:17 PAO We're waiting for the spacecraft to rotate through the next best OMNI antenna, before we make the wakeup call.
056:35:40 CC (Wakeup Music)
056:36:58 CC Good morning, Apollo 17. It's Houston. Over.
056:37:33 PAO Apparently the crew has not turned on the downlink on their transmitter. That was the University of Kansas J-Hawk Fight Song, which is Ron Evans Alma Mater.
056:38:15 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
056:39:16 CC Apollo 17, this is Houston. Good morning.
056:41:15 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning.
056:45:38 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're going to try one more time with the Jayhawk Fight song and see if we can get them to turn on the transmitter. 56:45 Ground Elapsed Time standing by. Here we go.
056:45:54 (Music: Jayhawk Fight Song)
056:46:56 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning. Are you with us this morning?
056:48:43 PAO As they say in the entertainment music business, one more time. We're going to send crew alert and when we see the voice up carrier up we're going to roll the tape again, the Jayhawk Fight song. Either crew is very sleepy this morning or else they have their volume turned down where they can't hear the music. At 56:49 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
056:55:02 PAO We are now sending crew alert. Gene Cernan's pulse rate still at about 49 which indicates the klaxon didn't wake him up. No indication yet that the spacecraft transmitter's has been turned on.
056:57:12 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apparently the crew either does not have their volume turned up enough to hear the calls from the ground or perhaps the ear plug has slipped out of the ear of the crewman who's to monitor last night which I understand was Evans. Therefore, about every 10 minutes the CAPCOM is going to give a wake up call to the crew again in an attempt to raise them. Spacecraft Communicator Bob Parker is - has unplugged from the CAPCOM Console and is being replaced by Gordo Fullerton. And when we see on telemetry that the voice subcarrier from the spacecraft has been turned on, we'll play the old fight song again: Jayhawk Fight Song, University of Kansas. And, eventually we may get these sleepheads awake. At 56:58 Ground Elapsed Time, Apollo 17 is 60,471 nautical miles out from the Moon, approaching at a velocity of 3,285 and our slant range in nautical miles from the Earth to the spacecraft is 171,985 nautical miles. Standing by at 56:58, this is Apollo Control.
056:57:30 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Good morning. Are you with us this morning?
057:05:02 CC Good morning, Apollo 17. It's time to rise and shine. Over.
057:22:23 PAO This is Apollo Control at 57 hours 22 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The crew is still asleep. Have been unable to raise them until now. They're considering using an oscillator passed directly into the air-to-ground circuit to put a high-pitched tone, that perhaps even with the earplug out they would be able to hear it from a fairly good distance. Presently, Apollo 17 is 59,682 nautical miles out from the Moon approaching at a velocity of 3,285 feet per second. Mother Earth is behind them some 172,562 nautical miles. Here goes another call.
057:23:14 CC Apollo 17; oh, Apollo 17; it's morning. Time to get up. Over.
057:23:31 CC Hello, Apollo 17; do you read? Over.
057:39:14 CC
057:39:35 (Music: Jayhawk Fight Song)
057:40:32 CC Hello, 17. Hello, 17. How do you read us this morning?
057:40:42 Schmitt We're asleep.
057:40:47 CC That's the understatement of the year.
057:40:53 Schmitt Never let Evans be on watch.
057:41:02 CC I think we'll go along with that from here on.
057:41:03 SC ... good morning.
057:41:06 Schmitt (Laughter) That was some party last night, Gordy. Man, that was a humdinger.
057:41:13 CC Must have been.
057:45:07 CC 17, Houston. Over.
057:45:13 SC Go ahead ...
057:45:14 CC Okay, we're starting out late, as you know; but there's nothing ahead that we can see that's time-critical. So you might try to hurry a little, but don't - don't go to any great lengths to try to catch up with the Flight Plan. We can slip the LM telemetry activation without any problem. Over.
057:45:42 Schmitt Okay, we got you. Our biggest problem this morning is keeping Ron from going back to sleep.
057:45:48 CC Roger.
057:45:53 Evans By the way, my sleep report is ... looks like I had about 7-1/2 hours of pretty good sleep.
057:46:02 SC And if you believe that, you're really a ...
057:52:20 Schmitt Okay, Houston; 17. I don't know if you're ready for this or not, but we have a few reports for you.
057:52:27 CC We're ready. Go ahead, Jack.
057:52:34 Schmitt Okay. On your CDR: PRD, 17028; he claims 7-1/2 hours of good sleep. He had a Seconal before going to bed, and since the last reporting, has had four containers of water.
057:53:01 CC Roger.
057:53:14 Schmitt Okay, with respect to food - let's see, we gave you a intermediate report yesterday. Do you want that repeated?
057:53:28 CC Negative.
057:53:33 Schmitt Well, I'm not sure I can differentiate what I said yesterday, so I'd just better give it all to you. This is yesterday's complete report.
057:53:40 CC Okay.
057:53:41 Schmitt CDR was scrambled eggs, three bacon squares, peaches, pineapple-grapefruit drink, peanut butter, jelly, bread, chocolate bar, orange drink, apricot - that's dried apricot - one frankfurter, a third of a fruitcake, half a beefsteak, butterscotch pudding, orange drink, and tea.
057:54:20 CC Okay, we got that.
057:54:23 Schmitt Let me know if I'm too fast for you.
057:54:27 CC No, we've got it all on tape. Go ahead.
057:54:42 Schmitt Okay, with respect to food yesterday - LMP: scrambled eggs, four bacon squares, orange-pineapple drink, cocoa, potato soup, two peanut butter, two jelly, two bread, cherry bar, orange-grapefruit drink, beefsteak, orange drink, and tea.
057:55:18 CC Okay.
057:55:30 Schmitt Okay, and the PRD is - -
057:55:31 CC Jack, we're just about to switch antennas now. Why don't you wait until we get through it before continuing.
057:55:40 Schmitt Roger.
057:57:46 Schmitt Okay, Houston. You back with us?
057:57:50 CC Okay, Jack. I think we're back with you again.
057:57:55 Schmitt Okay; got you. LMP: PRD, 24064; 7-1/2 hours very good sleep, 1 hour intermittent. Had a Seconal. I took two aspirins yesterday. And since the last reporting, I've had four containers of water.
057:58:25 CC Roger.
057:58:29 Schmitt Okay. Old CMP - the man of the hour, one might say. Scrambled eggs, bacon squares, peaches, cinnamon toast bread, orange juice, cocoa, peanut butter, jelly, bread, cherry bar, citrus beverage, fruitcake, butterscotch pudding, orange drink, turkey and gravy, two frankfurters, and tea. You might say he was a little logey. Okay. CMP: PRD, 15027; 7 and a - let's - Make that 8 hours of very good sleep. He claims he didn't get to sleep for a while. Seconal, and he's had five containers of water since the last reporting.
058:00:01 CC Okay.
058:00:20 CC Jack, if - future reports if it's any easier, we can go to negative reporting. If you're fairly close to the menus, just tell us the differences. Whatever is easiest for you is fine with us.
058:00:41 Schmitt Okay. Well, now that we're eating well, that may be the best way to do it.
058:00:48 CC Okay. I have the - your consumables status, if everybody that's interested is listening.
058:00:57 Schmitt Go ahead, Gordon.
058:00:59 CC Okay. Your RCS is running right along at 1.3 percent above the Flight Plan line. On your cryos, the O2 tanks 2 and 3 are right on the lines. Tank 1 is still, as before, about 4 percent below -below the line but looking real good. On hydrogen, you're a little above on one tank - on tank 2 - a little bit below on tank 3, but the average is right with the Flight Plan lines. So consumables look good. Over.
058:01:47 Schmitt Okay. That's good to hear. And, I see that our old SPS oxidizer pressure has dropped some more. I guess the old - the helium is working it's way in there - or out of there.
058:02:03 CC Okay. That's the way it looks to us. One final thing. Management has informed me that since you've been so late getting to work this morning, we are going to have to dock you all a day's annual leave.
058:02:21 Schmitt All of us! I can understand - I can understand that for the commander, since he's always the commander, but I do not understand why the LMP loses a day - an hour.
058:02:48 Cernan Hello, Houston. This is America.
058:02:51 CC Hello, Geno. Good morning.
058:02:55 Cernan Hello, Gordo. Request is that I handle the disciplinary problems up here; how's that?
058:03:03 CC Okay.
058:03:45 CC Geno, we'll have FAO work on a good time in the Flight Plan later here to work in a captain's mast.
058:03:56 Cernan Okay; (chuckle) that'll be great. Hey, Gordy, for the record; I swallowed three of those - those gas pills yesterday.
058:04:05 CC Okay.
058:11:46 PAO This is Apollo Control at 58 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the Mission of Apollo 17. The crew at this time having a belated breakfast, having overslept about an hour, despite many attempts to raise them by playing the Kansas fight-song and the crew alarm being sent up on the up-link, which causes a warbling sound in the headsets. However, apparently, Ron Evans, who was on watch was unable to hear, since likely the earplug had fallen out of his ear while stirring around in his sleep. Some amount of levity there is - it was suggested that their pay be docked or they should be charged with one hour of annual leave at any rate. The spacecraft is presently 58,073, it's just now changed, 58,067 nautical miles out from the Moon approaching an ever increasing velocity as they draw near the moon now 3,284 feet per second. The Earth continuing to get farther away behind them 173,821 nautical miles. At 58:13 and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
058:18:30 Evans Houston, 17.
058:18:50 Evans Houston, 17.
058:19:10 CC Okay, Ron, we see the 93s; and you're clear to torque them.
058:19:16 Evans Okay, we'll torque them at 19:20.
058:19:20 Schmitt And, Houston, I've started the dumping.
058:19:25 CC Roger.
058:20:10 Schmitt And, Houston, we're going to dump A on the water dump - WASTE WATER DUMP.
058:20:14 CC Okay.
058:28:33 Schmitt Houston, we're starting a - O2 purge.
058:28:38 CC Okay, Jack.
058:29:00 Cernan Hey, Gordo, we'll get everything cleaned up in the Flight Plan, including eating, up to 59 hours where we start checking the DELTA-P and pressurizing the CSM for LM entry.
058:29:19 CC Okay. We see you doing all that now, and we're just checking things off as you call them. Sounds good.
058:29:28 Cernan Okay. And then when we'll clean all that up - regards to what the time will be, we'll pick up the 59-hour mark then.
058:29:38 CC Okay.
058:31:33 Schmitt Okay. Waste water dump is terminated.
058:31:36 CC Roger.
058:35:27 Schmitt Fuel cell purge complete.
058:35:30 CC Roger on the fuel cell purge.
058:39:27 Schmitt Hello, Houston; 17.
058:39:30 CC Go ahead.
058:39:34 Schmitt Roger. While we're getting organized to eat a little bit here, I'll give you your morning weather report, if you want it.
058:39:40 CC Okay, go ahead.
058:39:45 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. That little storm - fairly big storm - that was off the coast of northwest Africa yesterday, has moved inland and presumably is giving those people up there some weather. Might even be getting some snow up in the Atlas Mountains. It's still fairly well organized and inland a few hundred miles - or the edge of it is inland a few hundred miles. The people at the Cape of Good Hope ought to be seeing some clouds that are forerunners of a large circulation system that's south-southwest of them - that, although large, seems to have most of its heavy clouds to the southeast of the center. And they may not get any major weather out of this one. But they'll probably have cloudiness for a few days. The storm that was over Buenos Aires yesterday has apparently moved out to sea and is now west - or east-southeast of that area. Otherwise the - except for those three storm areas, the South Atlantic looks relatively calm. The zero phase point is now off the - east coast of South America, and it looks fairly dull and gray. And I suspect no extensive choppiness in that area.
058:41:54 CC Jack, take a breather there. We got an antenna switch coming.
058:45:10 CC Okay Jack, we're back with you and listening.
058:45:18 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, I can't see you right now. I think that was about the extent of it. We'll get some food and, while I'm eating, I'll look at it and see if there are any more details.
058:45:29 CC Okay.
058:45:54 PAO This is Apollo Control. As Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt began describing the global weather systems, as he saw them, from almost 180,000 miles out from Earth, the weather service meterologist here in the Control Center, Allen (Sandy) Sanderson brought in some TIROS weather maps and laid out on the spacecraft communicators console, so that CAPCOM could follow what Schmitt was describing. The crew still having breakfast at this time. CAPCOM is going to describe the tracking after the midcourse 2 yesterday. Spacecraft now 56,962 miles from the Moon, approaching at a velocity of 3,284 feet per second.
058:51:44 CC 17, Houston. I have the morning news here, whenever you'd like to hear it - if you would.
058:51:52 Cernan Go ahead, Gordo. We'd like to hear it now.
058:51:57 CC Okay. First, a look at the weather in the local area. It's going to be mostly cloudy through Sunday, with a chance of showers here today - but much warmer. I'll have to wait until we get through the OMNI switch here, and then I'll be back with you.
058:55:03 CC Okay, 17, continuing on with the weather. It should be - get up to the upper 60s here in Houston today. It was foggy when I came to work, but I understand the Sun is out now and the fog is burned off. On the international/national scene: There's another reported snag in negotiations between Dr. Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The two have discussed the peace terms since Monday; but, so far, little news concerning the talks has been released by either side. They meet again today. A judge in the Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel Ellsburg has declared a mistrial. Judge Matt Burn has asked that a new jury be selected. Both sides in the cases must now go back to the beginning and prepare their arguments again. Former President Harry Truman is still hospitalized with a serious heart condition. Although listed in critical condition, the 88-year-old former Chief Executive has shown some improvement, according to his daughter, Margaret Truman Daniel. President Nixon has completed selection of his new cabinet by announcing that he will keep Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General, There will be a number of major changes, though, in upper levels of the Justice and Interior Departments. Life Magazine will be no more as of the end of December. The pictorial magazine lost over 30 million dollars during the past 4 years. No doubt some of the final pictures to appear in the famous 36-year-old publication will be those of the Apollo 17 mission. An airliner crashed at Midway Airport in Chicago, Friday. Of the 6l persons aboard, only l8 survived the crash. In other national and international highlights: Unemployment figures show a drop to the lowest level in 2 years; 5.6 billion dollars has been released by the Federal Government in the first revenue-sharing payment to the state and local governments; and the NATO foreign ministers have urged the Soviet Union to cut down troop strength and allow freer movement of people over the east-west borders. In local and regional news: New hijack control devices have been installed at Houston Intercontinental Airport. The new metal detectors are being installed in many airports around the United States. New inspection procedures will also begin in January - of all hand luggage carried aboard airliners. And on the sports page: Al Conover is not going to return to Wake Forest as rumored. The Rice coach has met with University President Dr. Norman Hackerman to discuss a firm 5-year contract agreement. Professional football highlights today's sports; the "Over-the-Hill-Gang" from Washington with Billy Kilmer and Larry Brown will take on the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium in Irving. The Cowboys will, no doubt, go with Craig Morton at quarterback. Dallas can ensure itself of a "wild card" slot in the playoffs with the Redskins, if they win. For Dallas, it's a revenge game. The Skins have won nine straight. Johnny Bench, the Cincinnati Reds all-everything catcher, has been hospitalized for tests. X-rays showed a spot on a lung. Doctors feel sure the lesion is benign, though. The University of Houston basketball team takes on Xavier tonight. The Cougars, with four wins and one loss, will face a Xavier team that likes to play slowdown basketball. The Houston Rockets beat the Portland, Oregon, Trailblazers last night in Hofheinz, 114 to 108. The Big Eight Athletic Conference has joined the Big Ten and the Ohio Athletic Conference in breaking relations with the U.S. Olympic Committee. Back in Houston again: Bill Peterson, the Oiler coach, says he's not planning on new assistant coaches. He says, "The Oilers need more togetherness with their coaches, not new ones." And a final item: the Des Moines, Iowa, post office was emptying a mail pouch. One package fell on the floor, broke open, and spilled all over the place. The contents were Postal Service instructions on how to wrap and mail packages to insure safe transit and delivery.
059:00:02 Schmitt Very good news report, Gordo -
059:00:06 Cernan Yes. That crash in Chicago, can you tell me a little bit more about it?
059:00:12 CC I read real briefly in the paper, just before I came in, that it did crash in a populated area. It was a very brief report. I don't think the final details have been published yet. I'll check to see if we've got anymore in.
059:00:33 Cernan Okay. And I guess you know where - at least my wishes go for that Cowboy game, don't you?
059:00:48 CC I'm not sure that I do.
059:00:56 Cernan I'll just let you make an assumption.
059:00:59 CC Okay. We've got an antenna switch coming here.
059:04:21 CC 17, Houston. I have a little more on the plane crash, if you'd like to hear it.
059:04:28 Cernan Yes, sir, Gordy. Go ahead.
059:04:30 CC Okay. It was a United Airlines jet, 6l people aboard. And it crashed into a south-side Chicago neighborhood while trying to land at Midway. Most of the 55 passengers - There were - well, I'm not sure I'm getting all the numbers right here. But it said here that most of the 55 passengers were found dead in the debris of a - and it was a Boeing 737 about a half a mile away from the airport. One of the victims was representative George Collins, a Democrat from Illinois - who was returning from Washington to organize a children's Christmas party. The weather, at the time, was a 500-foot ceiling and 1-mile visibility. And sleet and snow were falling at the time. There were no reports that any occupants of the houses were injured or killed. I turn back to the back of the paper, here. A United spokesman said one of the six crewmembers, a stewardess, was among16 persons admitted to Holy Cross Hospital. She said there were two infants among the passengers. Jet apparently missed runway 13 at Midway on - and cruised over the neighborhood of bungalow homes at heights of 500 to 1000 feet and then with his nose up and tail down tore into the dwellings. Witnesses said the plane scraped the roofs of two bungalows and sheared through six houses, setting them aflame. The fuselage of the airliner split, but the nose remained intact. A tail section was sticking out of one house. The plummetting airliner sheared through utility lines and a 2-square-mile area was blacked out. Telephone service was knocked out. A power company spokesman said 5000 homes were affected.
059:06:43 Cernan Okeydoke.
059:06:50 CC And a little news about your trajectory. Since the midcourse 2, you've been looking real good. You've - you're homing in on 53-1/2-mile parallel. We're discussing midcourse 4, which - if we do it all - it's going to be very small. It's looking like about a foot and a half per second right now. And I guess if we do it, it will only be because it will save us DELTA-V at LOI. Over.
059:07:28 Cernan Okay, I was just looking. Those dumps really knocked us for a loop, didn't they?
059:07:34 CC Yes, it - it's driving your PTC out.
059:07:40 Cernan Yes, we're at almost 40 degrees now.
059:10:50 Schmitt Gordy, has the temperature been pretty cold down there?
059:10:55 CC Here, in Houston, it warmed up considerably last night - yesterday afternoon and last night. And this morning, it's probably in the 60s somewhere.
059:11:20 Schmitt Makes it - -
059:12:04 PAO This is Apollo Control, 59 hours 12 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 currently is 56,148 nautical miles out from the Moon closing on the Moon at 3,284 feet per second. Distance from Earth is now 175,441 nautical miles. We'll continue to leave the line up as we proceed into today's activities which includes another activation and check out of the lunar module and hopefully today the communications noise will be somewhat less than it was yesterday. At 59:13 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
059:18:32 CC 17, Houston. I have some words about the troubles we had during the LM comm checks yesterday, if you have a free moment to listen.
059:18:47 Cernan Go ahead, Gordy. We're listening.
059:18:49 CC Okay. We think we've got a pretty good handle on what the problem was - and that was, that the - the LM communications gear, we think, was jumping on the voice subcarrier, rather than the main carrier. And the symptoms that we had point to that. What would happen is, when I would try to transmit, then it would lose lock as soon as I put modulation on the voice subcarrier. During the checks today, we're going to try to verify that the system is indeed working okay. And we can do it without any changes in the onboard procedures by - purely by procedures that will be handled at the ground site and here at Mission Control. And so that's what we're planning to do. We really don't - The problem that happened has been seen before, evidently; and it's not that unusual. We really don't think there's anything wrong with the onboard equipment. Over.
059:20:07 Schmitt Sounds good, Gordy. We'll just take her slow and easy when I get over there today and make sure we understand it.
059:20:17 CC Okay, Jack. And there's no - real no voice check scheduled, and we don't think any are required. We can tell what we need to do without any voice checks from here.
059:20:29 Schmitt Gordy, you're breaking up. Talk to you as soon as we get another OMNI.
059:20:33 CC Okay.
059:20:41 Schmitt While I got you, I took three pictures of the Earth I thought I might have moved one of them. And we're on frame 145.
059:21:07 Schmitt Did you copy, Gordy?
059:21:10 CC That's affirmative, Jack. I copy. You may not be reading me through the OMNI switch.
059:21:16 Schmitt Okay, that was mag November November.
059:21:21 CC Roger.
059:23:49 Schmitt Houston, 17. Do you want us to go into a battery B charge?
059:23:55 CC Let me check, Jack. That's affirmative. Go ahead
059:24:02 Schmitt Okay.
059:25:23 Schmitt BATTERY B is being CHARGED. And, Gordy, different than the last time - the charger amps is moving up very slowly. Started out at about 0.2 and now is 1 amp - little more - it's still going up. Before, it jumped right up to about 2 amps. is that expected?
059:25:49 CC Oh ... we'll check on that. Stand by.
059:25:59 Cernan Gordy, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.6. You still want us to take the command module up?
059:26:19 CC Geno, that'll be fine. You will not have to jack up the command module pressure.
059:26:28 Cernan Okay, I think I'll maneuver at attitude then.
059:26:38 CC Okay; sounds good.
059:28:06 CC Jack, the way the amps are going to look when you put the charger on is the function of the state of the charge of the battery. And what you described is about what we'd expect, considering where the battery should be.
059:28:24 Schmitt Okay; that's what I figured. It's up about one and three-quarter amps now.
059:28:28 CC Roger.
059:28:34 Schmitt And it appears to be stable.
059:28:37 CC Okay.
059:28:39 Schmitt Gordy, I'm in the process of - I'm in the process of putting biomed sensors on.
059:28:44 CC Roger.
059:30:44 Evans Hey, Houston; 17. Thanks to a little South Carolina boy we had up here last time, we've got some grits up here. And they're really not too bad. A little butter on them and - A little bit dry. Of course, you could add a little more water to them and they'd be a little better, but not bad at all.
059:31:06 CC I can't believe I'm hearing that from a real Yankee
059:31:13 Evans Of course, Kansas is not exactly Yankee.
059:31:16 Cernan Let me tell you, that does not apply to the little old farm boy from Chicago.
059:31:23 CC Roger.
059:31:30 Schmitt As you students of American history may recall, Kansas caused a lot of the problem we had with those two people.
059:31:41 CC Roger.
059:31:46 Cernan And grits is causing the rest of it.
059:32:38 CC 17, Houston. We see that you're making a maneuver uncoupled in pitch, and we'd rather you make it coupled to keep FDO happy. Over.
059:32:50 Schmitt Okay.
059:32:54 Cernan Yes, that was my fault, Gordo. I screwed up here.
059:42:50 Evans Houston, EMERGENCY CAB REPRESS is OFF.
059:42:56 CC Roger.
059:43:04 Evans Okay, REPRESS PACKAGE valve is OFF.
059:43:08 CC Say again, Ron.
059:43:09 Cernan Hello, Gordy. You with us?
059:43:10 CC Yes. How do you read?
059:43:15 Cernan We're reading you loud and clear. The EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE SELECT is OFF. And we're about ready to open the EQUALIZATION valve.
059:43:25 CC Okay. And we're ready for the high gain.
059:43:32 Evans Okay.
059:44:30 PAO This is Apollo Control 59 hours 44 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. The crew, at this time, making preparations for entry into the lunar module.
059:44:44 Schmitt Gordy, that's the high-gain. How do you like it?
059:44:48 CC Looking good.
059:45:20 Cernan Okay, Gordy. I was reading 0.2 on the DELTA-P and the hatch is cracked.
059:45:25 CC Roger, Gene.
059:48:40 Schmitt Hey, Houston; 17. How do you read the LMPs biomed?
059:48:46 CC Let me check.
059:49:08 CC Jack, the EKG looks great. Your ZPN looks like a sensor may be loose.
059:49:25 CC And we'll be handing over here in - -
059:49:27 Schmitt ... loose sensor ...
059:49:28 CC - - about 30 seconds.
059:49:31 Schmitt Okay. We're in the process of getting the probe and drogue out. I pushed on the sensors real hard again, and see if that helps it.
059:49:40 CC Okay. We'll take a look.
059:49:53 CC That helped it. Don't worry about it, until we call you again.
059:50:05 Cernan ... on that one, Gordy. You've always been one of those smooth talkers.
059:54:50 Evans There's all - yes - they're down there somewhere.
059:54:54 Evans Okay. The probe is out. And we'll try the drogue now.
059:54:58 CC Okay, Ron.
059:57:53 Cernan Okay, the - the drogue is out, and we're going up to take another look at Challenger.
059:58:03 CC Okay, Gene.
059:59:31 Schmitt Somebody left their lights on in here.
059:59:37 CC Roger.
059:59:44 Schmitt It's just like a refrigerator.
059:59:49 CC Roger.
060:00:36 Schmitt Docking index is unchanged.
060:00:40 CC Okay. It's a plus 1.2. Right?
060:00:45 Schmitt That's affirm.
060:03:18 CC Ron, Houston. Over.
060:03:23 Evans Go ahead.
060:03:25 CC Okay, Ron. When you get a - a moment, when it's convenient, we'd like you to go up to the latch number 4 there, the one that's been giving us trouble, and we'd like you - well, we think it's just half cocked and we'd like you to stroke it. We think it will probably cock on one - with one more stroke. We'd like you to stroke it at least twice more to verify that it is fully cocked. And as you do stroke the handle, we'd like you to notice approximately what point in the - in the throw that the resistance increases. I think that summarizes what we want you to do, if you keep us advised as you go along.
060:04:21 Evans Okay.
060:04:23 CC We - we're going to leave it cocked then from here on until redocking after rendezvous. Well - we don't want to - we don't want you to fire it.
060:04:38 Evans Sure. Understand.
060:05:08 Schmitt Houston, we're transferring to LM POWER.
060:05:11 CC Roger.
060:05:14 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I'm going to give them LM POWER. I'm going to go RESET and OFF.
060:05:22 Schmitt And we have LM power.
060:05:25 CC Roger.
060:05:49 Cernan Gordo, this is Geno.
060:05:51 CC Go ahead, Gene.
060:05:55 Cernan Okay. While my compatriots are carrying out their respective tasks, I'm going to go off the air here for a - a few short minutes. And give you a call when I get back.
060:06:07 CC Okay.
060:06:10 Schmitt And I'm in step 3, Gordy, on 2-2.
060:06:15 CC Roger.
060:07:25 Evans Okay, Houston. America here. I'm on nor docking latch number 4 now.
060:07:31 CC Okay, Ron.
060:07:50 Evans Okay, the handle itself is free swinging at - to a point about 1 inch beyond the backside of the J-hook.
060:08:10 CC Roger.
060:08:11 Evans And, I'll go ahead and try to cock it now.
060:08:19 Schmitt Gordy, ED BATs are 37.2 and 37.2, and the BUS VOLTAGES are 26.2 and I'll bring on the high taps.
060:08:36 CC Okay, Jack. Sounds good.
060:08:41 Evans And, Houston, as we all suspected, it has one cock on it, or it had one cock. Now it's fully cocked. And the handle itself is free swinging. The plunger has depressed, oh, almost three-quarters of an inch from the top. And it is no longer parallel with the surface.
060:09:14 CC Roger, Ron.
060:09:18 Evans Okay. When you look back in the side of it there, that little J-hook with the snowman in it, the snowman's head points - as you look directly at the side of it, it points - the snowman's head is at 8 o'clock and the connecting link from the one that connects - the one that goes into the plunger to - to the little fat J-bar there, is parallel with that slot, so that the point of the J sticks out. So it is, indeed, fully cocked.
060:10:00 CC Okay, Ron. Sounds good and that's where we'd like to leave it.
060:10:05 Evans Okay. Will do.
060:10:21 Schmitt Okay. Step 5, 2-3.
060:10:24 CC Roger.
060:11:20 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Step 5 complete. Glycol pressure is 21. It's down about a psi from yesterday.
060:11:28 CC Okay, Jack. Copy.
060:11:34 Evans And, Houston, is magazine II a good one to use for a - some opportunity interior photos?
060:11:44 CC Let me check, Ron.
060:11:57 CC That's affirm; II sounds good.
060:12:04 Evans Hope so. Looks like that's the only one I have.
060:12:12 CC Do you - do you recall when you did the heat flow on HH, if you used all of HH up on that experiment?
060:12:23 CC Don't get it out to look, but I just wondered if you remembered.
060:12:24 Evans ... No, it ran out. It didn't - I got the complete cooldown part of the ex - of the experiment on HH and then switched to HIGH. And I got about 2 minutes of HIGH before the film ran out again. Had that at HIGH power on the - on the - -
060:12:50 CC Okay, Ron. Thank you.
060:12:53 Evans After the main part of the experiment was complete.
060:12:56 CC Roger.
060:13:02 CC And, Jack, we're copying LM data now.
060:13:04 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Beautiful. I was just going to say step 6 is complete.
060:16:46 Schmitt Houston, 17.
060:16:48 CC Go ahead.
060:16:54 Schmitt Roger. I just was thinking while I was waiting here that the cleanliness of these two spacecraft is certainly a tribute to the - all the people at Grumman and Downey and at the Cape, who worked so hard to put them that way.
060:17:14 CC Okay. We'll make sure they hear about it.
060:19:32 CC Challenger, Houston. We're - we've looked at the LM data and it looks perfect, no problems at all. What we're doing right now, though, is - is - the checkout on the carrier and subcarrier lockups on the LM comm. So far, we've had no trouble with it, but we haven't quite completed the routine we wanted to try. Over.
060:20:00 Schmitt Okay. I understand, Gordy. No - no hurry here.
060:25:34 CC Okay, Jack. We've completed our investigation of the comm, there. It all looked good. You can press on page 2-4.
060:25:47 Schmitt Roger.
060:27:14 Schmitt Say, Gordy, I see I neglected to pull the BAL LOAD circuit breaker when I went to - after going to high taps. You want me to go back and show you that again?
060:27:27 CC Stand by.
060:27:38 Schmitt That's the BAL LOADs breaker on 16, so the buses were tied together.
060:27:42 CC Roger. I understand.
060:27:53 CC Jack, there's no need to go back. Just keep on going.
060:28:00 Schmitt Okay. Sorry about that.
060:28:03 CC No problem.
060:31:40 CC America, Houston. We're all ready for the E-MOD dump, if it's convenient to you.
060:32:18 Evans Houston, this is America. I guess that's for me, isn't it?
060:32:24 CC That's right, for Captain America.
060:32:28 Evans (Laughter) Okay. We'll get her here.
060:32:39 Evans Okay, VERB 74 ENTER.
060:32:46 CC Okay, we're getting it.
060:32:52 Evans Okay.
060:33:11 Evans And, Houston, we have 50 percent remaining on magazine India India.
060:33:18 CC Roger.
060:33:23 Evans And they're all taken at 6 frames a second.
060:33:29 CC Okay.
060:33:55 CC Okay, America, we've got the dump.
060:34:04 Evans Okay. Understand; you have the dump.
060:35:45 PAO This is Apollo Control at 60 hours 35 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. LM checkout apparently going along quite well at this time. The bulky docking latch has been recocked and will be left in that position until redocking after lunar orbit insertion after the landing. Apollo 17 is now 53,438 nautical miles out from the moon. Velocity now 3,286 feet per second. Meanwhile, back at the Earth, the spacecraft is now 177,980 nautical miles from the Earth. At 60:36 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
060:37:34 Cernan Hello, Gordo. This is Geno. I'm - back on the line.
060:37:39 CC Okay. Welcome back.
060:37:45 Cernan Yes, I was just testing out survival techniques in space.
060:37:51 CC Roger. Did you survive?
060:37:58 Cernan Well, so far.
060:38:01 Cernan And we've got the IM back on CSM power.
060:38:05 CC Okay.
060:38:30 Cernan Gordo, it's called education of necessity.
060:38:35 CC Roger.
060:38:43 Cernan Okay. I guess the LM looked pretty good to you, huh?
060:38:48 CC Yes, sir. It looked perfect. And we also went through the little communications main carrier sub carrier lockup check, and the - and the comm system worked perfectly, so there's no problems at all to report.
060:39:09 Cernan Okay, fine. We'll start in - with the - Jack donning the PGA, and then I'll follow him.
060:39:18 CC Okay.
060:40:38 Schmitt Gordy, how'd that ZPN turn out?
060:40:42 CC Let me get another check, here.
060:41:21 CC Okay, Jack. It looks fairly good right now. Don't bother changing anything.
060:41:30 Schmitt Well, I'm just going to be in a position to work on it in a little while and if the occasion arises, I could.
060:41:40 CC Okay, we'll keep that in mind, although it looks reasonable at the moment. It has shown some - at some times, it's gone to - from edge to edge on their scale but it's come back in right now. I'll find out later if they want to do anything.
060:42:02 Schmitt Okay, the - the electrolyte pads may be still expanding a little bit so I'm going off the air briefly to start getting into the suit. And I'll talk to you in a little while.
060:42:15 CC Okay.
060:53:48 Cernan Hello, Gordo.
060:53:51 CC Hello.
060:53:56 Cernan Okay. We're up to frame count 151 on magazine November November. They've been pictures of the - primarily of the CSM out the LM windows by the CMP.
060:54:13 CC Okay.
060:54:19 Cernan He's been up there fooling around for a while. We may have to check it out and see what he did.
060:57:42 CC America, Houston.
060:57:47 Cernan Go ahead, Gordo.
060:57:48 CC That dropout there was because Ascension had a problem. We're now over on Madrid, and you're sounding good.
060:57:59 Cernan Okay.
061:01:14 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Jack is in his suit, unzipped at this time. I'm going off the air, and Ron will come on and keep you informed as to how we're going.
061:01:30 CC Okay. Fine.
061:03:07 Schmitt Houston. How do you read the LMP?
061:03:10 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
061:03:14 Schmitt Okay. I'm in my suit, presently unzipped. Didn't seem to be any problem at all.
061:03:22 CC Okay.
061:04:07 Schmitt And, Gordy, I think I found a problem with the biomed sensors. And when I come out of the suit, I can fix it. I put a little of that bacterial cream on the sensor places last night as a preventive mechanism, and I think it's just a little greasy to hold the sensor.
061:04:29 CC Okay.
061:09:08 Evans Okay. Gene's got his suit on and he's going across to the LM now.
061:09:12 CC Roger, Ron.
061:15:26 Evans Okay. This is CMP. I'll go off the line here, for a little bit, until I can get my suit on again.
061:15:32 CC Okay, Ron.
061:15:36 Evans And Jack's still on the line up there in the 124 though.
061:15:39 CC Okay.
061:17:37 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're both zipped now, and it went quite easily.
061:17:43 CC Okay, Jack. Sounds super.
061:21:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 61:21 Ground Elapsed Time. Position and velocity on the spacecraft now 51,982 nautical miles from the moon, velocity 3,288 feet per second, distance from earth 179,437 nautical miles. Crew completing their checkout of the lunar module, getting partially suited in their pressure garment assemblies or space suits, if you will, for the installation of the probe and drogue, and closeout of the tunnel into the lunar module. At 61:22 up and live on the air-ground circuit, this is Apollo Control.
061:29:38 Evans This is CMP. I finally got my suit on now.
061:29:43 CC Go ahead.
061:29:55 CC America, Houston. Did you call?
061:30:02 Evans No, I was just saying - the CMP. Got my suit on now. And I had a little trouble with the donning liners getting stuck - stuck in the zipper; but I figured out how to get them out of the way now.
061:30:16 CC Okay.
061:38:40 Evans Okay, Houston. Gene has his suit pretty well on now.
061:38:47 CC Okay, Ron.
061:38:53 CC We reviewed the data on the E-MOD. Everything looks normal. One thing you might do is - no big thing, but you might zero NOUN 26. It's still loaded, left over from the EMP you used in the P23 yesterday.
061:39:13 Evans Okay. Thank you much.
061:39:48 Schmitt Gordy, this is the LMP. How do you read?
061:39:51 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
061:39:55 Schmitt Say, when I was switching batteries, I noticed switching from low to high taps that there were some reverse-current indications. Sure that's nothing to be concerned about; you probably expected those, right?
061:40:13 CC That's affirmative, Jack. That's normal.
061:40:19 Schmitt Right.
061:49:38 PAO This is Apollo Control. From all indications on telemetry here in Mission Control, the crew at this time have - has closed the Lunar Module hatch and it should be reinstalling the probe and drogue assemblies. And finally the Command Module hatch, thereby closing out the tunnel. Apollo 17 now 177, whoops would you believe our space digital have gone back to Earth reference momentarily. At any rate the spacecraft is 177,966 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a velocity of 2,652 feet per second in - with reference to the Earth. And as soon as the space digital display goes back to the Moon reference, we'll read those numbers off. We're waiting for the call from the crew that they have completed stowing or installing the probe and drogue assembly in closing out the tunnel. At 61:51 standing by this is Apollo Control.
061:55:30 CC America, Houston. We'd like to terminate the charge on battery B.
061:55:40 Evans Okay; stand by 1. Okay, we'll get that in a minute, Gordon.
061:55:46 CC Okay.
061:58:49 Evans Okay, Gordo, the charge should be terminated on BAT B.
061:58:54 CC Okay.
061:58:56 Evans And 7 Alfa's still - 7 Alfa's still 0.6.
061:59:01 CC Roger.
062:04:02 Cernan Okay, Gordy, I - I'm looking around, but I can't figure out what that MASTER ALARM is. I didn't see any O2 HIGH PLOW and I didn't see any lights, and we did get it down in the LEB.
062:04:13 CC Okay, Gene.
062:04:18 Cernan And there it is again.
062:04:22 CC Roger.
062:04:30 Cernan And again.
062:04:34 CC Roger.
062:04:35 Cernan Okay, I saw SPS PRESSURE blink on that one.
062:04:42 CC Roger.
062:04:45 Cernan Yes, Gordy, she's triggering continually on SPS PRESSURE.
062:04:59 Cernan Yes. I can't reset it, and a minute later she's coming up with a blink on SPS PRESSURE.
062:05:12 CC Okay, Gene. We think it's the - well - well, we - we're sure that it's the oxidizer pressure is right on the trip limit. We're almost certain it's due to helium absorption.
062:05:27 Cernan Yes, we're reading 155 right now.
062:05:31 CC Roger.
062:08:26 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We got the SPS PRESSURE light on steady now.
062:08:30 CC Roger.
062:15:25 CC America, Houston. If you give us ACCEPT, we'll give you a new state vector. Nothing much wrong with the one you've got, but we're just going to tweak it up.
062:15:37 Cernan Okay, Gordy, you've got it.
062:15:39 CC And one other question. Do you have the LM closed up now? We're seeing some heater currents that are a little hight indicating maybe the light's still on. And we're just trying to understand where the LM is at the present time.
062:15:57 Evans Okay, I just closed the hatch, just about the time you started talking there.
062:16:02 CC Okay, we'll take a look at the currents now.
062:18:03 CC America, it's your computer, and we did the VERB 66.
062:18:11 Cernan Okay.
062:29:02 Cernan Say, Gordo, what's the trend in thinking on that SPS light - to leave it lit or to burnp the pressure up?
062:29:12 CC Well, I - Ed Mitchell must be at work, because we were just talking about that subject. I'll call you when they come up with a final decision.
062:29:26 Cernan Okay. And Ron has put the - has closed LM hatch. He's put the drogue in. He's put the probe in, and he's putting the CSM hatch in as a one-man exercise - suited. So he's doing the whole thing, and he's still in his suit. Our suits are stowed.
062:29:47 CC Okay, Gene. We got one question here, that - just - just waiting for a convenient time to ask, and that was - wondered if, with reference to the wakeup problems we had this morning, if you'd clarify just exactly why Ron didn't hear our crew-alert MASTER ALARM. You know exactly why?
062:30:20 Evans Well, it's not the Seconal. As much as I hate to admit it, the POWER AUDIO/TONE was OFF (chuckle) in my headset.
062:30:42 CC Okay. We kind of suspected that - that one.
062:30:44 Evans Okay; that lets you rest a little bit easier. And just to prevent something like that from happening again - or if it should happen again - what we'll do, we'll hook up the tone booster, which we didn't have hooked up last night.
062:31:02 CC Okay. We concur. Sounds good.
062:31:22 Evans Yes. I woke up and I saw that light there and I thought, "Gee-whiz, I just got it in time." Until I tried to push - push out that caution and warning MASTER ALARM. And burned my end of my finger.
062:31:33 CC (Laughter)
062:31:50 Evans I was also in a sleep restraint and upside down with a zipper in the back. And I had a little problem getting my hands up to start with, also.
062:32:01 CC Roger.
062:32:40 Evans Hey, Houston, CABIN REPRESS is back to BOTH now - I mean EMERGENCY CABIN REPRESS.
062:32:48 CC Roger, Ron.
062:36:20 Schmitt Gordo, if you don't have any objections, we'd like to ge ahead and secure the high gain, and go on to PTC while Ron's doffing his PGA.
062:36:33 CC Let me check and see if we have any.
062:37:20 CC Sounds good to us. Go ahead and, per Flight Plan, spin it up.
062:37:29 Schmitt Okay.
062:37:34 CC Okay, I didn't want to mislead you. I mean, you can get ready to spin it up. We'll give you the GO to spin up.
062:37:42 Schmitt Okay.
062:39:05 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You want to leave the high gain until you call?
062:39:15 CC Stand by.
062:39:24 CC Okay. Jack, this is a good attitude to go to OMNI Bravo, and you can go ahead and secure the high gain.
062:39:33 Schmitt Okay.
062:44:43 CC America, Houston. The rates look good; you're GO for spinup.
062:44:50 Cernan Okay; great, Gordo; we're GO for spinup. We've - we've got a show in here that very few men have ever seen, and that's a CMP trying to get out of his suit by himself.
062:45:05 CC Wish I was there to watch.
062:45:10 Schmitt It really is a story to behold.
062:45:15 Cernan Needless to say, we're both very impressed.
062:45:19 CC I can tell.
062:45:53 CC America, Houston. Use B/D roll for spinup.
062:45:59 Cernan Okay.
062:46:31 Schmitt Okay, Houston. This is the LMP on biomed. How do you read?
062:46:39 CC Okay, Jack. Let's take a point check here.
062:47:09 CC America, D-2 ROLL is not on. You need the Delta ROLL jet.
062:47:17 Cernan Yes, I'm still working on it, Gordo. I was just deciding whether to spin minus or plus; but I guess we ought to spin minus, as per the Flight Plan.
062:47:25 CC Okay,
062:48:13 Cernan We're on our way.
062:48:17 CC Okay. Okay, - the LMP's EKG and ZPN look good. And on the SPS light, we recommend not doing anything with the system. We want you to go to ACKNOWLEDGE so the - get the light out of your eyes, and then just fly there in ACKNOWLEDGE on the CAUTION and WARNING.
062:48:53 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We're in ACKNOWLEDGE, and - I presume, probably after LOI, we'll be able to go back to NORMAL, right?
062:49:08 CC That's affirmative.
062:49:13 Cernan Is that an abnormal amount of helium ingestion [sic], or do you think that's about right?
062:49:19 CC It's - it's absorption, and that's normal.
062:52:04 Cernan Hello, Houston. You read?
062:52:06 CC Loud and clear.
062:52:11 Cernan Okay, now that we got another look at you, Gordy, it looks like Houston might be right on the fringes of either being clear or clearer. The entire Gulf is pretty nice. Florida looks pretty clear, and Mexico looks pretty clear. There's a big air mass of clouds that looks like it picks up somewhere around the coast at Houston, heads on up north, and then covers most of the Midwest and the East, from about the middle of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia on north. It's clear enough now to even see the coral reefs down off of Florida. And it looks like west Texas is probably also pretty clear, at least in a run from east to west. We can see Baja, and on up the coast of California up north.
062:53:09 CC Okay, sounds like the whole crew is turning into weathermen.
062:53:25 Cernan It's one of the better views we've had of the States, I think, even though we're quite a ways out.
062:53:46 CC Roger. Looks like your subso - subspacecraft point is just about Peru right now.
062:53:57 Cernan Yes, we're - looks like we're looking straight down on the center of South America, pretty close to what you're saying.
062:54:47 Cernan Gordy, you want to bring us up to date briefly on how you plan on handling this time update again?
062:54:57 CC Okay. I'll do that. Let me - but let me practice before I start here. Just a minute.
062:55:04 Cernan Okay. I'm primarily interested in those parts of the Flight Plan which we're going to eliminate.
062:55:14 CC Okay. Just one second.
062:57:33 CC Geno, I'll read you the PAO release; they summed up pretty well, and I'll just use their words here. The time has been made up in two increments. The first one of 1 hour and 45 minutes in the Flight Plan. The crew activities were jumped ahead by 1 hour, and they essentially began doing those things that were called for 1 hour later in the Flight Plan. They will again jump ahead an hour and 40 minutes, and that will occur at 65 hours. By that time they will have completed all those activities required up through 67 hours and 40 minutes in the Flight Plan. Or, in other words, they will have completed all the activities required to get them into lunar orbit 2 hours and 40 minutes early, and in order to make the clocks then agree with where the crew will be in the Flight Plan, we'll jump the clocks ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes. This clock update, which can be likened to going on daylight saving time, only 2 hours and 40 minutes worth of change instead of 1 hour of change as we do on daylight saving time, will occur at 65 hours when the crew will have completed all of those Flight Plan activities up through 67 hours and 40 minutes. (Chuckle) This simply involves setting our clock to 65 hours in the Control Center and aboard the spacecraft to 65 hours, moving them ahead to 67 hours and 40 minutes. Then, barring any further changes in the mission time line, from that point on, the elapsed time clocks, which are used as a cue to Flight Plan activities, should agree with the Flight Plan and events that, in the Flight Plan are called out for a certain time will happen at that time on the elapsed time clocks (laughter) in Mission Control and aboard the spacecraft. (Laughter) This is a convenience factor.
062:59:15 Cernan You're lucky; we're going to lose an OMNI.
062:59:19 CC Okay. I'll hold off there for the rest.
062:59:25 Cernan Gordy, never mind. I think I got the gist of it.
063:04:13 Cernan Did you give up, Gordy?
063:04:19 CC Okay. What we're really going to do is - (chuckle) really is simple. At 65 hours we're going to do the update of 2 hours and 40 minutes. And the procedures are shown in the Flight Plan at 67:35. There just happens - happens to be really no - no activities we have to reschedule in the intervening time. So, after the update is complete, we'll be right on the Flight Plan, both timewise and activitywise. Over.
063:05:05 Cernan Okay. We're looking at it. Going to have to squeeze my shave in somewhere else, I guess.
063:07:38 CC Hey, Gene; Houston.
063:07:44 Cernan Go ahead.
063:07:45 CC Hey, you got to break - you can cast the tying vote. Which is the best description: the water bag or the clock one?
063:08:10 Cernan Oh yes. Now I remember. You got a little - give a little credit on this last one, I guess, to - to Public Affairs, because I don't think Gordo could have thought that one up all by himself.
063:08:36 CC Very diplomatic.
063:08:38 Cernan ... Considering I - I was trying to do - to do Charlie's technique step by step, I guess I got to give him little bit more credit from the gymnastic point of view.
063:09:00 Schmitt That sounded like one of Gordy's aircraft schedules.
063:09:06 CC Amen.
063:09:18 PAO This is Apollo Control at 63 hours 9 minutes.
063:09:26 Cernan ... they were moving another Saturn V out on the pad.
063:09:37 CC Jack, we lost all of that due to the antenna switch. Say again.
063:09:58 CC Jack, we missed your last transmission - -
063:10:00 Cernan Gordy, you listening?
063:10:01 CC - - due to the antenna switch.
063:10:06 Cernan You say you got it, or you're getting it?
063:10:09 CC No, we missed it.
063:10:15 Cernan Okay. I said you can look right down at the Cape area - that's the Cape that we know - in Florida, and it's little disheartening because the last time I was up here looking back from this angle, they were moving another Saturn V for another Moon trip out on the pad already. But I guess they're working pretty feverishly out there on B.
063:11:19 PAO This is Apollo Control at 63 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Charlie Duke was on the spacecraft's communicators console for a while there, discussing the clock update description that had been read up earlier by Gordo Fullerton asking for a judgement on the part of the crew as to whether that description was better than - -
063:11:52 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. I think Gene was right. You got some - probably scattered cloud weather, but not very far away from you there's a pretty heavy mass of clouds. It may be the forerunner of that dry cold front you were talking about yesterday, which I can see stretching over into Sonora. But where it hits the stateside, it's got quite a mass of clouds associated with it. It looks like they're moving in your direction.
063:12:24 CC Okay, Jack, thanks for the warning.
063:12:30 Schmitt Clear behind it, in Arizona and New Mexico and maybe southern Colorado, it looks like there may be another front stretching, or maybe it hits northern Arizona and Utah and up through northern Colorado, and on in to Canada, trending northeast.
063:12:57 Schmitt You're calling it right on, Jack. I'm looking at the surface chart, and that's about what we see.
063:13:20 Schmitt Looks like a low might be developing on that one - a wave up in northern Colorado and - although the clouds are a little hard to read.
063:13:31 CC Roger.
063:13:41 PAO And that was lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt.
063:13:45 Schmitt Our sub - or our zero phase point - About 20 degrees west of Bolivia, our sub - our zero - zero phase point, and it is quite a bit brighter than yesterday and looks as if, and more general, as if maybe the seas have picked up in that region a little bit.
063:14:18 CC Roger.
063:14:26 PAO Some more real-time weather reporting.
063:14:29 Schmitt One of the more unusual features is developed - as I see - developed in the southeast Pacific just north of the Ross Sea and that is a very striking mushroom pattern on a very large scale. It has north/south clouds streaming streamers from the Ross Sea. And when it gets up about the latitude of Tierra del Fuego, but quite a bit west of that land, it branches out to the east and west in a large mushroom pattern. And, it looks like the top of that mushroom may be a curved cold front that's pushing its way up into the southeast Pacific. It currently - the eastern edge of that front is probably 10 degrees longitude from Tierra del Fuego, and it looks like that land in southern Chile is picking up high clouds, probably associated with that front's movement.
063:15:49 CC Roger.
063:15:56 Schmitt I'll get some shots of that next time around. That's a spectacular pattern. You almost get the feeling that the cold airmass moving out of Antarctica streams for a while north/south. And then it picks - The cloud patterns change and as it starts to migrate, the winds start to change from east to west, Maybe that's where it encounters the Jetstream.
063:16:25 CC Roger.
063:18:04 PAO This is Apollo Control. Going through an antenna switch at the present time.
063:19:29 CC America, Houston. I have a couple of miscellaneous items here.
063:19:46 Evans Okay; go ahead.
063:19:47 CC Okay. We'd like you to disable B2 and D2 just for a drill here.
063:19:58 Cernan Oh, thank you, Gordo.
063:20:01 CC Also, the SHe tank looks exactly nominal, as far as the rise rate goes, to us.
063:20:16 Cernan Can't argue with that.
063:20:19 CC And to summarize your film budget situation, have three magazines: KK, LL, and MM are budgeted for the scheduled photos such that they have only five, 19, and one, respectively, frames left over after you've done all the scheduled pictures. And November November, we think, has just - has just nine frames remaining now. The two nonscheduled magazines are OO and PP; 160 frames each. Those are the ones provided for optional use. We have 44 additional frames scheduled out of November November, scheduled during lunar orbit. There is only nine left in it now, so we'd like to save at least 60 frames out of either Oscar Oscar or Papa Papa, the two optional magazines, to cover the scheduled frames. Guess what we're saying is there's no problem. We've still got plenty of film, but you will have to use some of your optional mags for scheduled pictures. Sixty frames is what we want to save.
063:21:58 Evans Okay; mighty fine, Gordo. Plan on Oscar Oscar for that magazine.
063:22:05 CC Okay.
063:23:04 PAO This is Apollo Control at 63:23 GET. The space digitals display here in the Control Center still showing Earth to Spacecraft distance and velocity. Distance 180,309 nautical miles, velocity relative to Earth 2,593 feet per second. A few moments ago the lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt, who is a professional geologist, put on his hat as an amateur meteorologist and described some of the global weather systems visible from their vantage point out beyond 180,000 miles from Earth. Still up live and standing by at 63:24 GET this is Apollo Control.
063:34:01 Schmitt Gordy; this is Jack.
063:34:04 CC Go ahead, Jack.
063:34:08 Schmitt I - Cal Tech will never forgive me; I'm a little hesitant on my elementry optics. But I just put Ron's polarizing filter in front of the monocular, looking at the Earth and rotate 90 degrees, and from max to min in terms of brightness, there's a remarkable change. And I suspect that means that the Earth is polarizing light enough to see it. The main thing that happens is that the oceans get considerably darker when I rotate the filter towards the dark position anyway. The continents don't seem to show any obvious change, but the oceans and the zero phase point darken - oh, I would guess by a factor of two in brightness. Maybe that's an extreme, but I think it's that.
063:35:10 CC Roger. I was just trying to think of a reason. is it uniform change over all ocean areas, or is it more of a change in some areas than others?
063:35:24 Schmitt Well, I'd say that the subsolar point shows the greatest change, but you can still - the zero phase point shows the greatest change. But all the oceans get darker.
063:35:39 CC Very interesting. We are just about to switch OMNIs.
063:42:00 Schmitt Houston, 17.
063:42:02 CC Go ahead.
063:42:06 Schmitt Gordy, I figure you're getting an optics briefing ready for me, right?
063:42:11 CC I haven't had anybody volunteer one. Strictly some layman theories going around, but nothing official.
063:42:25 Schmitt Okay.
063:45:48 CC America, Houston. Just got started on the Cowboy-Redskin game, about 5 minutes into it. The Cowboys are ahead 7 to nothing. They scored the first time they got the ball.
063:46:16 Schmitt Gordy, you started talking before we had an OMNI. Try it again.
063:46:21 CC Okay. The Cowboy-Redskin game just got started. It's now 7 to nothing, Cowboys. They scored the first time they got their hands on the ball.
063:46:38 Schmitt Okay. I think we got most of that. It happened again, though.
063:46:45 Cernan Did you say it was 7 to nothing, Cowboys?
063:46:48 CC That's what I said. They scored the first time they got the ball. It's - the game's just about 5 minutes old.
063:46:57 Cernan Outstanding. I thought this was Saturday. isn't - isn't today Saturday?
063:47:03 CC It is, but the college is all through, so the pros are playing on Saturday now.
063:47:11 Cernan Beautiful. Seven to nothing, huh? Go get 'em, Cowboys.
063:47:20 Schmitt But, he would say the same thing for Washington, I'm sure.
063:47:26 Cernan Nosiree. Go get 'em, Cowboys.
063:48:39 Evans Houston, 17-
063:48:41 CC Go ahead, Ron.
063:48:46 Evans Okay, Gordo, my apologies on the CMP's in-suit drinking bag. There was, in fact, water in it. However, somehow, when we put the suit on, the water bag had gotten turned sideways, I guess, is the way to explain it. It had gotten turned sideways such that the suction tube was crimped sideways. And, as a result, there was no way that you could get any water to go through the tube.
063:49:25 CC Okay. You're talking about the problem we had there just before launch, right?
063:49:32 Evans That's affirmative - prelaunch.
063:49:36 CC Okay, and for your information, the PTC looks good. It ought to hold.
063:49:46 Evans Okay. Mighty fine. I lost my scissors. If there's anything you can do to help me find them, it'd be appreciated.
063:49:59 CC Okay.
063:50:03 Evans Okay (1aughing).
063:52:20 CC Got a game plan update for you here. It's now 14-nothing, Dallas; still in the first quarter.
063:52:30 Cernan You're sure a bearer of good news, Gordy. That's great.
063:52:41 Schmitt Gordy, I just - this is Jack. I just tried the red filter on the front of the monocular and about the only major thing I noticed was that the cloud patterns over the landmasses seemed to be enhanced. The contrast between cloud and land, particularly green land is enhanced. Otherwise, all it does is make the red - the Earth look a little red.
063:53:17 CC Roger, Jack.
063:56:04 PAO This is Apollo Control at 63 hours 56 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Space digital display still showing the Earth reference numbers 181,123 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity 2,573 feet per second relative to the Earth. There will be a change of shift press conference in the News Center Briefing Room at approximately 4:15 with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson and at 63:56, standing by, this is Apollo Control.
064:04:13 Cernan Hey, Gordo; this is Gene.
064:04:32 Cernan Hey, Houston; this is 17.
064:04:37 CC Roger, Geno. I think we've got you now. Go ahead.
064:05:01 CC Okay, Geno. I think we got you - -
064:05:02 Cernan ... 17.
064:05:03 CC - - Now. Go ahead.
064:05:06 Cernan Okay. I just happened to be throwing a few switches, and I see our helium tank temperature on quad A is about 95 or so. And the others are quite low. is that because of our attitude there during - the LM checkout?
064:05:28 CC That's affirm. That's the reason.
064:05:33 Cernan Okay. I also see the tank that - package temperature a little higher on that quad too. But, being close to a hundred it seems a little unusual. You're - you're happy, right?
064:05:46 CC That's affirm. No problem. We've been watching it, and it seems to be coming down now.
064:05:55 Cernan Okay. Fine. Thank you.
064:09:07 Schmitt Houston, you want the H2 HEATERS to AUTO and the FAN 3 OFF now?
064:09:29 CC Stand by, Jack.
064:09:46 CC That's affirmative, Jack. Go ahead.
064:09:54 Schmitt Okay. That's done.
064:10:04 CC Now 21 to nothing, Cowboys. Second quarter.
064:10:13 Cernan Super Bowl, here they come. Watch out now.
064:10:23 CC Should remind you that the Commander in Chief is a Redskin fan.
064:10:33 Cernan I read about that. That's why the Cowboys need as much help as they can get.
064:10:52 Schmitt Gordy, in the continuing saga of looking at the Earth through rose-colored glasses, I tried a blue-colored glass, and it - as you might expect, completely masks out the continent. The land areas are just not visible through the blue. Otherwise, the ocean and clouds - or the contrasting ocean and clouds remain about the same.
064:11:21 CC Roger, Jack.
064:11:35 Schmitt And, Gordy, I tried putting all the filters we had together to check the Sun for sunspots, but just not quite enough light attenuation to do that.
064:11:49 CC Okay. For a while I thought you were a human weather satellite. Now I think you're a human Earth resources satellite.
064:12:01 Schmitt Well, about all I can say is I'm a satellite I guess.
064:12:26 Schmitt Gordy, it looks as if the distribution of water and ice in the ri - Ross Sea has changed in the last day or two. I didn't - don't remember looking at it yesterday specifically, but it seems to be different today than it was the first day.
064:12:44 CC Roger.
064:19:49 Schmitt Houston, 17.
064:19:52 CC Go ahead, Jack.
064:19:57 Schmitt Yes, about this icepack in the Ross Sea. The - as I remember a couple days ago, there were two clear areas, triangular in shape and quite elongate, that were projecting out into the sea from the innermost part of the bay, or of the - from the continent. Today those are not apparent, at least the first look I made. And it looks like there is an elongate, more irregular clear area that is roughly parallel to the Antarctic coastline within the sea itself. We'll check that a little more closely and see if that's right.
064:20:56 CC Okay. Seems like kind of a quick change for something like ice, doesn't it?
064:21:06 Schmitt Yes, and that's what bothers me. That's why I wonder if I'm not being fooled by cloud patterns or something.
064:21:13 CC I'm looking at a satellite picture here, which I guess is around 12 hours old though. But over to the east of Australia, maybe about a continent width east of Australia, there is really striking long frontal system - striking because it's so long and so straight, sort of west-northwest, trending west-northwest and east-southeast trending. Can you see that?
064:23:33 Cernan Gordo, are you there?
064:23:36 CC Yes, sir, right here.
064:23:41 Cernan Okay. Now Jack and I may be talking about two different frontal systems or patterns, but the one I think you might be referring to is the one I referred to yesterday as a ruffled parrot's beak. Actually two of them tied together, one starting up probably southeast of Australia and - and then heading down with a long arcing frontal system to another clockwise rotational parrot's - parrot's cone, I should say, down around - near the tip of South America, between it and Antarctica. There is one strong tributary front heading up to the north-northwest from the western side of this big, arcing, frontal mass. And I think that's probably what you're referring to. I'm not sure. I can't quite see Australia coming up over the - over the horizon yet.
064:24:53 CC Okay. I - my picture cuts off right about the - oh, two-thirds of the way south in Australia, that latitude. So most likely we're talking about the same thing, but I can't verify the southern part of it.
064:25:15 Cernan There is some tremendous - western side of that curve front is a tremendous clockwise rotational airmass. It must cover hundreds of square miles. The one down near - near the continent of Antarctica, down there, near the tip of South America, seemed to be squashed slightly as if there is possibly some - some squashing or effect coming off - off the South Pole area near Antarctica. I think, if I turn around and look at it the way Jack was looking at it, it's a cap of a mushroom. Only instead of simply curving in underneath the cap, it has clockwise rotations on both sides as it curves under.
064:26:18 CC Roger.
064:26:46 PAO This is Apollo Control at 64:26 Ground Elapsed Time. The space digitals, meanwhile, has come back to Moon reference numbers. Our distance now from the Moon is 45,955 nautical miles. Velocity 3,300 feet per second. And the Earth is 183,365 nautical miles behind Apollo 17. Shift change press conference at 4:15 with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. Chuck Lewis taking over now, with his team of flight controllers at 64:27 and continuing to stay up live on the Air-to-Ground this Apollo Control.
064:28:22 Schmitt Gordy, I just took 2 pictures of the Earth at the present time, and those are, right now the camera is on frame 153.
064:28:38 CC Okay; 153.
064:29:28 Schmitt Gordy, where did you say your ATS satellite picture left off to the west?
064:29:34 CC Okay. To the west, it goes clear on over to Africa. But to the south, it cuts off about 30 south, or not quite all of Australia.
064:29:54 Schmitt Okay. Yes, that mushroom pattern we've been talking about, on either edge - either end of the cap - and the mushroom points north - is a major cyclone circulation system. And also taking - moving, in one case - or trending, in one case, to the northwest and the other to the northeast, there are linear cloud patterns. Gives it a very symmetrical and a striking appearance. I hope it shows on those pictures.
064:30:43 CC Okay. It doesn't show on the one I got. Maybe a later version will have that one. Because it cuts - it's cut off on this one.
064:32:59 Cernan (Chuckle) Hey, Gordo. This is Geno.
064:33:03 CC Go ahead.
064:33:06 Cernan To put this update in simple terms - at 65, I guess on our clocks, you'll update us to about 67:40, right?
064:33:13 CC That's affirmative.
064:33:17 Cernan Does that mean we have to eat 2 hours and 40 minutes earlier?
064:33:25 CC Oh, you got me there. I - You haven't been eating - you haven't eaten since breakfast. is that right?
064:33:32 Cernan Oh, yes, sir. We just finished. We'll take another go at it, but I feel I've spending my life here eating.
064:33:47 CC Yes. Well, we'll leave it up to you on this special case here.
064:33:53 Cernan Okay, I think we'll take - a - a jab at supper here later in the day as per the Flight Plan.
064:34:00 CC All right.
064:34:09 Cernan Gordy - the whole suiting operation - I was really very pleased with. Jack and I both got in our suits very easily. And one by one we went into the LM. And that's where we zipped each other up. And we really had little or no trouble. We took our time. We got all configured in terms of changing our pockets around and whatever else we needed to do. And, actually, I think it's much easier to get suited than it is to get unsuited, personally.
064:34:49 CC Okay. Sounds good.
064:34:55 Cernan Ron stayed suited and did the entire tunnel work. And then went - did it by himself - and then totally doffed his suit and stowed it by himself, also, to sort of extend that little exercise.
064:35:13 CC Roger.
064:43:22 PAO This is Apollo Control at 64 hours 43 minutes. Change of shift News Conference is ready to begin in the News Center briefing room. We'll take this line down now and tape for the duration of the News Conference.
064:46:31 CC America, Houston. Halftime score is 28 to 3, Cowboys.
064:46:39 Cernan Keep talking, Gordo.
064:46:42 CC Okay, I'll keep talking (laughter). The - I've learned that when you get to the ALFMED and pull it there, you'll see some tape around the emulsion shields. Those are three rectangular areas in front of your eyes and to either side that contain the photographic emulsion. This tape is around the edges of each of those three areas to help seal out light leaks. You haven't seen it before. Leave the tape on there. Don't pull it off. Over.
064:47:16 Cernan Okay.
064:48:12 Schmitt Gordy, just took a series of pictures of the Earth with the 35-millimeter using the polarizing filter in the two positions. And the frame count is now 39. I took six pictures. And with the filter, on the first of each pair, in the DOWN position. The second's in the UP position. And I changed the f-stop from - the first set at f/4, the second set at f/2, and the third set at f/8.
064:49:01 CC Okay; we got all that, Jack.
064:49:06 Schmitt And, Gordy, you might ask one of the experts around there in - is the lightmeter in the 35-millimeter integrating over the interior spot, or over the hairline spot? The larger one.
064:49:24 CC Okay, I'll ask.
064:49:30 Schmitt It acts as if it's the interior one, but ...
064:49:35 CC Okay.
064:49:52 CC Jack. The answer to your question is the center spot is weighted for 60 percent of the reading and the rest of it for 40 percent. Over.
064:50:04 Schmitt Okay. That - that makes sense. That would explain why the needle moved as I moved it across the series of spots.
064:50:11 CC Roger. Note: At 2 days 17 hours, the GET in the MCC was updated. To correlate times from this point on, add 2 hours 40 minutes to those shown in this transcript to make them correspond to MCC GET.
067:40:42 Cernan Gordo, we're - we're ready any time you are for that update. And after we get the TFM and everything squared away, we'll go into ALFMED.
067:40:53 CC Roger. Stand by on that, Geno; and we'll be with you in a minute.
067:40:59 Cernan Hello, Robert. How are you today?
067:41:00 CC Real fine, Gene. You're sounding great.
067:43:06 Cernan Doing great out here.
067:43:43 CC Geno, we're ready for the clock update. We'd like P00 and ACCEPT. And we're got two loads to put in, so it will take a couple of minutes here.
067:43:55 Evans Okay, you got it?
067:43:56 CC Thank you, Ron.
067:45:26 PAO This is Apollo Control at 67 hours 45 minutes. We have advanced the Ground Elapsed Time clock in the Control Center and on the Flight Plan are operating at the point indicated for that time. In the News Center, the monitors, the actual GET time will be shown on the Time Base 5 clock. The GET clock will now show the Flight Plan GET time. And in the Flight Plan, the Central Standard Times and GET times listed will now agree and be correct. We accumulated a few minutes of tape during the News Conference and we'll play that for you now.
067:46:08 CC 17, Houston. I've got an update on your flyby maneuver pad due to this clock update. Would you like to copy it?
067:46:20 Cernan Stand by just 1 second (music).
067:46:28 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Go ahead with the flyby pad.
067:46:34 CC Okay, stand by 1 on that - on our end. We're done with the - we're done with the upload. The computer is yours, and we need a read-out on the TFM.
067:46:46 Schmitt Okay, that's in work.
067:46:55 CC Okay, we've got the read-out.
067:50:05 CC 17, Houston. The data looks good, and you're GO to copy it, and recommend you copy it into the Plight Plan Supplement. And that's on page 1-43 of the supplement.
067:50:21 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We have it.
067:51:49 CC And, 17, we got that flyby pad now. If you're still ready, we're ready.
067:52:03 Schmitt Okay. is this a full pad or just a change to the other one?
067:52:06 CC It's just a change, Jack. It's a change to NOUN 83, the GETI, and a change to the bottom line, the GET of .05G. Just two changes.
067:52:29 Schmitt Okay, go ahead.
067:52:32 CC Jack, if you'll just add 2 hours and 40 minutes to each one of them, that's it. The GETI is 081:54:43.49. The GET of .05G, 156:04:03 - Jack, I guess I read 8l. I was looking at the old pad. It's 83 - 083 - on the GETI.
067:53:10 Schmitt You're too fast for me. I was just going to chew you out.
067:53:15 CC Sorry about that, Jack. I got it around the room.
067:53:16 Schmitt 083 - (laughter) 083:54:43.49; 156:04:03.
067:53:29 CC Roger.
067:54:08 Cernan Okay, Bob. We got all of our clocks set onboard.
067:54:14 CC Roger. Understand.
067:54:18 Cernan What was the exact amount of that update time?
067:54:24 CC Two hours, 40 minutes; 2 plus 40.
067:54:35 Cernan Okay, 2 plus 40, exactly. Thank you.
067:55:08 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We're going to work up an appetite with the ALFMED today.
067:55:13 CC Roger.
067:55:33 Cernan Hey, Bob. May be a little premature - but I don't think so - but I think there was some good thinking into that update, looking at the Flight Plan up until now and where we go from here. I don't think we - we overlooked a thing.
067:55:48 CC Roger. Like I said the other night, we gave Tommy a gold star on that one.
067:55:54 Cernan Except I think he and Rita got in - in cahoots.
067:56:00 CC A little soon for supper, huh?
067:56:05 Cernan Yes. We just finished lunch, and it's about time to eat again.
067:56:09 CC That's known as the simulator step-ahead.
067:56:21 Schmitt Can you give us our distance from the Moon - from the Earth?
067:56:28 CC Roger. Stand by on that.
067:56:40 Schmitt Are we about 5,000 miles closer now?
067:56:45 CC Don't you wish.
067:56:50 Schmitt Well, isn't that what - isn't that the way these step-aheads work?
067:56:54 CC Normally, yes. But this one didn't work that way. Jack, you're at 183,000 miles. It's really amazing how time flies when you're interested in your work, isn't it?
067:58:36 CC Jack, Houston. Did you read your - my last call with the distance?
068:01:37 PAO This is Apollo control at 68 hours 1 minute. Apollo 17 is 183,211 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity is 2,521 feet per second. The spacecraft communicator now is Bob Overmyer. Stu Roosa the backup Command Module Pilot for Apollo 17 is also at the CAPCOM console with Overmyer.
068:04:27 Cernan Houston, 17.
068:04:30 CC Go ahead, 17.
068:04:33 Schmitt Okay, Bob, we're getting ready for the ALFMED. I just took a red-filter and a blue-filter pictures, - On frame 41 now, with a 35-millimeter - pictures of the Earth. And I took them one stop smaller - that is, more open - than the lightmeter said, hoping to compensate for the small Earth. The Earth just barely fills the most inner - the innermost circle of the spotmeter. Also, there's a very strong band of clouds, shaped sort of like a narrow fir tree, with a base about 20 degrees of longitude west of Baja California, that extends up, I believe, into the vicinity of Hawaii. And the top terminates in a very strong northern cyclone pattern.
068:05:36 CC Roger, Jack. Was your magazine Sierra Sierra?
068:05:45 Schmitt That's affirm. Sierra Sierra.
068:05:48 CC Roger, Jack. And you say that cloud is right -that cloud area is right near Baja California? I've got a picture of it here in front of me, from one of the satellites.
068:05:58 Schmitt No, it's about 20 degrees west - longitude degrees west of that.
068:06:05 CC Yes. Okay, we've got it on the spot here.
068:06:07 Schmitt And maybe even more than that. Okay, maybe even more than that. It's - it might be as much as 40 degrees west, and - Actually, Hawaii may be on the west side of that. It's a little hard to tell. It's close enough to the LM that it's hard to say.
068:06:40 CC Roger, Jack. I think I've got it on our map here. It shows a pretty heavy dense cloud area right down in that area you're talking about.
068:07:11 PAO This is Apollo Control at 68 hours 7 minutes. ALFMED is Apollo Light Flash Moving -
068:07:20 Cernan Okay, Bob. For the ALFMED, CDR will be in the left seat. CMP will be in the center seat with the ALFMED. For our reporting, when we get the VOX, we'll just call out our first names to shorten it and the comments following. And Jack will be recording.
068:07:43 CC Roger. We'll be listening.
068:07:51 PAO That's the Apollo Light Flash Moving Emulsion Detector, associated with the visual light flash phenomenon that most crews have reported on past missions, seeing points of light in their eyes, when their eyes were closed. There are a couple of theories proposed on the origin of the flashes. One is that they are caused by cosmic rays. The other is that they are high energy atomic particles which enter the eyeball or ionize upon collision with retina or cerebral cortex. The ALFMED is an emulsion plate device that Ron Evans will wear. It will cover the front and sides of his head and will provide information on time, strength and path of particles penetrating the emulsion plates. The other two crewmen will wear eye shields. This test will last for approximately an hour. And the data on the - recorded by the ALFMED device will be correlated with the crewmen's verbal reports on flash observations.
068:11:00 Evans Okay, wait a minute. Houston, how do you read on VOX with the lightweight headset?
068:11:07 CC Read you loud and clear, Ron.
068:11:10 Evans Okay.
068:11:24 Evans Yes. Wait a minute. Let me get this little old box set to go here, first.
068:11:30 CC Okay.
068:11:40 Evans Yes.
068:12:11 Evans Okay, UTILITY POWER is OFF.
068:12:21 SC Yes. POWER switch is OFF. Okay, it's connected, now.
068:12:34 Evans Okay, UTILITY POWER is ON. Okay, let me get strapped in here, somehow, or I'll float all over.
068:14:18 Evans (Music) Okay, let's see.
068:14:32 Evans Uh huh, I think I can.
068:14:49 Evans Okay, my blindfold's going on, now.
068:15:09 Evans Okay. Sounds like they clipped. Okay, somebody will have to help me put this thing on now; yes, just kind of - like so, yes. It goes around the old ...
068:16:18 SC ... yes, but you ought to ... kind of maintain your head in the same position, if you can.
068:17:19 Evans ... to operate now?
068:17:43 SC No, Just turn it down a little bit.
068:18:18 Evans Go to operate while you're taking the pictures there (chuckle).
068:18:45 Cernan Hello, Houston. CDR put his blindfold on at 68:18.
068:18:51 CC Okay, we copy that.
068:18:57 Cernan And how do you read me in VOX, Bob? This is Gene.
068:19:00 CC Read you loud and clear, Gene.
068:19:04 Cernan Okay, I'm conducting the experiment. And the - frame Sierra Sierra is now at 45. I got two shots. One - two from the side and two from the bottom.
068:19:21 CC Roger. We copy.
068:19:26 Evans Hey, looks like a countdown for ready to go, Jack?
068:19:35 Cernan Hey, Bob, does it make any difference if your eyes are opened or closed?
068:19:40 CC (Chuckle) it may be a personal thing, Gene. I - This is Stu. I had to have my eyes closed but give it either way.
068:19:58 Cernan Okay; thank you.
068:20:07 Evans Okay, we'll count down to start. 3, 2, 1 -
068:20:13 Evans MARK it. It's buzzing.
068:20:37 Cernan Yes.
068:25:17 Cernan Change it. The other side is not very good.
068:25:25 Evans ... two.
068:26:08 Cernan MARK. Gene. I've got a series of random lines, which do not appear to be the width of my field of view, that are moving like a flashing horizon with thunderstorms on the horizon. They're dimly flashing, and they're moving across the eye from left to right and from top to bottom, individually. Both eyes. It's stopped now.
068:27:02 Cernan MARK, this is Gene again. Going from the upper left to the bottom right. Lines of the same sort of thing. Dimly lit flashing horizon-type flashes. But they're linear. They're linear, and they tend to come from the - either the upper left or the upper right and work their way downward. Now they've stopped. Both eyes.
068:28:48 Cernan MARK. Gene again. Both eyes. This time the same flashes on the horizon, but they don't seem to be moving out of both eyes. Tend to be up at the tops of both eyes. Just rapid, sequential, lightning-like flashes. And they've stopped.
068:29:57 Cernan MARK. Gene again. Similar type of flashes. They don't seem to be moving, but they're coming from the right of the right eye and from the upper left of the right eye. And I can actually see an outline of a - of a curved horizon, and the flashes are coming out from behind it. They've stopped.
068:30:37 PAO This is Apollo control at 68 hours 30 minutes. Distance from Earth 183,910 nautical miles.
068:30:45 Cernan MARK. Gene again. I see - peripherally out of my right eye - I cannot see these flashes - but I can see peripherally the right-hand and upper-right-hand side of my right eye being lit up.
068:31:13 PAO Distance 183,920 nautical miles velocity 2,504 feet per second.
068:31:46 Cernan Pardon? This last one? They were peripherally I couldn't see them all I know is that there was some light out peripherally out - yes - but a flashing glow. Oh man, there is a good one the left eye right in the middle it's almost a purple flash. It's still going right in the middle of my eye and it's coming out from behind a horizon that is almost. It starts out as a semicircle and then folds in to a point like on a pencil, and then it disappears. That's the horizon and the light is flashing from behind it. It's gone.
068:33:31 CC Hey, Gene, Houston.
068:33:35 Cernan Go ahead.
068:33:36 CC Okay. According to all our experts here, the phenomena you're describing is pretty much the phosphene effect - sort of like when you rub your eyes or squint your eyes too hard - because the effect is lasting too long. The streaks or the flashing that we're looking for are very fast, and they do not remain as a scene to your eye. And I guess the only thing we could say would be to maybe either relax your squint a little bit or to - if the blindfold's on exceptionally tight. I know this sounds kind of screwy, but those are the words that we would like to - like to say to you. But the actual phenomena we're looking for will be a very short-lived phenomenon. It will either be a flash or a very fast streak. Something along this - we're not trying to load the data, but we feel you're describing a different phenomena.
068:35:20 Cernan Stu, we lost all that last conversation. You better repeat it.
068:35:26 CC Okay, Gene. Sorry about that, and here I thought I had waxed so eloquently. But the - the effect you're describing is an effect that can come from rubbing your eyes or perhaps squinting too hard. But the effect we're looking for - and I guess we're really not trying to load the data - but the effect that we're looking for is a very short-lived phenomena and would not - -
068:35:50 Evans MARK. Ron. I got one. In the right eye, Coming from - back - going towards ... Very narrow streak.
068:36:10 CC And, Gene, our only words of wisdom are try to relax the - the eyes a little bit or if you have the blindfold on exceptionally tight, you might work on that. But the - just - I guess sort of relax and see if we can see the other - the other phenomena.
068:36:28 Cernan Okay.
068:39:26 Evans MARK, Ron. One about 12:00 in the right eye; looked like it was just a spot.
068:42:43 Evans How about 15 seconds ago. It's so dim now I hardly noticed what it was. but, kinda started in the left eye and just a flash in the left eye and then a flash in the right eye, very dim. Going left, left to right.
068:44:38 Evans MARK. Can't tell if it's right or left eye. Looks like it's almost between the two eyes. There's a -
068:44:47 Evans MARK. One in the left eye. Just about right in the center. Spot; no streak or anything, just a spot. First spot seemed to be right between the two eyes, upper half of the field of view.
068:48:42 Cernan MARK; Gene. Streak from the upper right, of the right eye, down to about the middle.
068:50:23 Evans MARK; Ron. About 8 o'clock ... diameter out, just a bright flash; it's the brightest flash I've seen yet. Left eye.
068:50:43 Cernan Just about a second or two after Ron said "Mark," I saw a vertical bright line in the left side of the left eye; just flashed.
068:51:36 Evans It was the greatest intensity - the intensity on that last one I had - but - the brightness was there, but it was kind of dull glow to it. It wasn't a - a spot that you could really focus on.
068:53:21 Evans MARK; Ron. Left eye, about 09:30, half way - -
068:53:28 Cernan MARK - -
068:53:29 Evans - - to the left.
068:53:30 Cernan - - Gene. Left eye, very bright spot; left eye, left side about halfway in towards the middle. That was the brightest one I've seen, and it was just a spot.
068:53:58 Evans Ron. The intensity of the last one I had was - oh, a fourth of the bright one I had before that.
068:54:17 Evans Spot. Yes, on the left eye.
068:55:08 Evans MARK about 5 seconds ago, about 6 o'clock in the right eye.
068:55:14 Evans MARK. Right between the two eyes, seemed like. Both spots.
068:55:26 Cernan MARK; Gene. A sharp line from the center of the left eye to the upper left-hand - upper left-hand side.
068:56:41 Cernan MARK; Gene. It's a very short - very short line, upper left hand of left eye going towards the right.
068:57:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 68 hours 57 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth is 184,548 nautical miles, traveling at a speed of 2,488 feet per second.
068:57:32 Cernan MARK; Gene. Upper right eye, tangential to my eye, just a very short line. Moving - -
068:57:44 Evans MARK; Ron. Oh, a fourth of a diameter out in the right eye. Bright spot. Seemed like it was coming in. I could see the spot and then the streak. It went from that point kind of in - or up, I guess.
068:59:53 Cernan MARK; Gene. A dull flash on the bottom inside corner of the right eye. Correction - -
069:00:02 Evans MARK; Ron. Go ahead, Gene.
069:00:03 Cernan Okay. Correction, Gene. That was on the left eye, that last one.
069:00:12 Evans The last one for Ron was at 10 o'clock. Three-fourths of the diameter out. Just a - ... was only about an eighth of an inch in diameter. Right eye.
069:03:05 Cernan MARK; Gene.
069:03:06 Cernan MARK again. A flash - first flash was in the left eye on the left side. It went vertal - vertically up and away. And following that was a flash in the identically same spot. It was a line flash, up and away. On the left side of each eye, and it went up in both cases, but they were split by about 2 seconds.
069:08:41 Evans MARK; Ron. A fourth of the diameter out at 3 o'clock in the right eye. I mean a half a diameter - half a radius; put it that way.
069:08:52 Cernan MARK; Gene. A flash across the bottom of the right eye coming inward from left to right.
069:09:12 Evans On the last one, it looked like it was a - -
069:09:15 Cernan MARK; Gene. Just a spot flash in the bottom of the left eye.
069:09:27 Evans This is Ron. On my last one, it was just a spot flash. No direction to it at all.
069:09:57 Evans Ron; MARK, MARK; Ron. When I first said the word - it kind of looks like a - almost a sine wave transition from the corner upper at 10 o'clock in the right eye to about 2 o'clock in the left eye. Right between the two of them. The sin wave was - maybe two wiggles in it, and it was about a fourth of an inch long. Going from right to left, yes. And going into the left at about 2 o'clock.
069:10:56 Cernan Turn that music higher.
069:10:59 Evans Yes.
069:11:20 Evans MARK; Ron. Seems like I looked up, and as I looked up, there was one in the left eye about 12 o'clock just a flash. On the outer periphery.
069:15:34 PAO This is Apollo Control at 69 hours 15 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth 184,987 nautical miles. Velocity 2,477 feet per second.
069:18:02 Evans MARK; Ron. ... down about 06:30; just a flash. Right eye.
069:18:42 Evans MARK; Ron. Left eye, about 03:30, three-quarters of the radius out. A very dim flash. About 03:30.
069:19:44 Evans MARK; Ron. Left eye. Starting at 5 o'clock on the circumference going to 3 o'clock at about three-quarter diameter - three-quarter radius, I mean. Just a straight line.
069:20:14 Evans Did I say left eye? I guess I did. Okay, let's ...
069:21:11 Cernan Okay, the motor quit. Okay.
069:21:20 Cernan Is that it?
069:21:28 Evans Yes, I can get that, Gene.
069:21:46 Evans Okay, you want to take a picture of it first? Okay, POWER ... Okay, stand by. 3,2,1 -
069:22:00 Evans MARK it. POWER switch is OFF.
069:22:28 Cernan Say, Bob or Stu.
069:22:31 CC Roger. Go ahead.
069:22:35 Cernan Okay, add - to add to today. Not last night, but - I guess the first night I was in bed - I definitely saw some of these - because I had a hard time going to bed, to start with - I saw some of the same peripheral horizon-type things you said were not the type of data you were looking for; but I also saw a - some sets of the streaks. And probably the one most imposing thing I remember is - and the last one I remember before falling asleep - was the fact that there was a very bright spot that flashed right between my eyes like a very bright headlight - like a train coming at you, only with a flash. It's difficult probably to estimate the frequency of any of those because I was in a - sort of a sleep-hazy mode.
069:23:39 CC Roger.
069:23:43 Cernan But then, as today, I saw some that flashed and lit up the horizon and some that lit up peripherally; and I guess, as you say, that's a different kind of data, but I did see them there and they impressed me.
069:24:00 CC Okay. We got all that, Gene.
069:24:07 Cernan Okay.
069:24:08 Evans And it might be interesting to know I've never seen it before today.
069:24:31 CC Hey, Gene, we appreciate all the data. We were just trying to make the data fit the curve; you know the old trick.
069:24:40 Cernan Okay, I just wanted you to - just told them like we saw them. That's all.
069:24:47 CC Roger.
069:24:52 Cernan I will say one thing, though; no question in my mind but that they're there. Last trip I took, I guess I just wasn't looking for them or paying any attention to them. Maybe they were there and I ignored them because of other things. But they're there.
069:25:11 Schmitt Okay, all you flash bugs down there - or flashbulbs I guess is the word - frame 50. I just took four pictures to show - two on the side and two on the bottom - to show the position of the ALFMED, and one of them of each set was focused on the ALFMED. The others were focused on the other - the other set was focused on the struts.
069:25:39 CC Roger, Jack.
069:25:48 Schmitt And when you don't have anything else to do, why don't you have somebody predict where the S-IVB is. I think I've got her spotted - behind us and above us with respect to the Earth and our travel from it.
069:26:02 CC FIDO just went out and shot himself, but we'll get working on it.
069:26:08 Schmitt Oh, don't worry about it. Shoot. I thought you guys might have an idea off-the-cuff there.
069:26:13 CC No, what's humorous on this, Jack, is they have really been working on that S-IVB impact point, and they've really been - it's been a - a real difficult problem for them so far.
069:26:24 Schmitt I'll tell you, I bet you Ron could give you a star sighting on it (laughter). I looked at it through the monocular and sure looks like the S-IVB.
069:26:37 CC Jack, we're not doubting you at all. We could probably start cranking it right now.
069:26:47 CC Jack, are you sto - you all stowing the ALFMED now or are you done?
069:26:53 Evans What's that, Bob?
069:26:54 CC Are you all done with the ALFMED now, Ron?
069:26:59 Evans Yes, I've got to get it to - get the plate moved back down there yet.
069:27:03 CC Okay, Ron - -
069:27:04 Evans ... get the blindfold off first so I can see what I'm doing.
069:27:08 CC Roger. I just want you to know. We've got a real long update coming up to you here on the LOI abort charts and that - and it's going to be, probably, a difficult readup. And you're the most familiar with the charts; you probably would want to take them. But whenever you want to take them, they are on - charts on page 3-8l, 3-82, and then the cue card for LOI limits. Whenever you want to take them. It will be a lengthy one.
069:27:36 Evans Stand by, Bob. Let us get squared away from the ALFMED; then we can get going on that.
069:27:41 CC No, I don't want to hurry you, Ron. I just want you to know what - when - just get yourself comfortable and be ready to take them whenever you want them. It's going to be a lengthy time, though.
069:27:52 Evans Okay.
069:27:54 Cernan Hey, Bob, I'm looking at what - what Jack was talking about; and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby because there is another one I can look at and get a three-dimensional comparison with. It is a - it is a bright object, and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, as I say, because there are particles that are close by and it's obviously not one of those. It's apparently rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost - almost on time. And it's as we look back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00 about - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there.
069:28:51 CC Roger. We don't doubt it, Gene. And we might work out a set of gimbal angles or something here; maybe we can get a look at it through the optics.
069:29:03 Cernan Okay. And I - I - I just want to emphasize that it's definitely not - not one of these particles that tends to look like a star out there. It's something physical in the distance.
069:29:48 Cernan (Laughter) Oh, yes.
069:30:08 SC ... thing off.
069:30:14 Evans Yes, guess I am.
069:30:29 CC Hey, Gene. If you can call up a NOUN 20 so we know the spacecraft attitude, and if you can reference the object you're looking at out of your window, with - with respect to body axis and let us look at your - your - give us a mark, somehow, and give us your NOUN 20s, we can try and get a tie-in and start locating - locating this object down for you.
069:30:58 Cernan Okay, I'm looking it out - looking at it out the center window - the hatch window - and I'll give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis at the center window; and I guess it's up maybe 45 degrees
069:31:18 CC Okay, give us a hack and we're copying your NOUN 20s right now.
069:31:26 Cernan Okay, Jack says pitched up about 30 degrees but - -
069:31:30 Schmitt No. 45 because -
069:31:31 Cernan Yes, he agrees. It's 45 degrees pitched up, and I'll give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis.
069:31:52 Cernan Okay -
069:31:53 Cernan MARK it. It just crossed through the - -
069:31:56 CC MARK. We got it.
069:31:57 Cernan - - let's call it the XZ plane of the spacecraft. One unique thing about it, Bob, is that it's got two flashes. As it comes around in - in rhythmic fashion, you get a very bright flash; and then you get a dull flash. And then it'll come around with a bright flash, and then a dull flash.
069:32:19 Schmitt That's the side and - of the S-IVB - and then the engine bell, Gene.
069:32:34 Schmitt The commander doesn't think that I can see the engine bell on that thing.
069:32:39 CC Roger, Jack. is that with the monocular you're looking at it?
069:32:46 Cernan He couldn't see the engine bell if he had 10 monoculars.
069:32:54 Evans Okay. I've got the cable restowed now.
069:33:00 CC Say again, Ron.
069:33:11 Evans And, Gene, where's your blindfold? ...
069:35:25 Schmitt Bob, couple of revolutions ago when I was looking at it, I had a much brighter view and I believe I was looking at it broadside. It looks to me like it may be flashing more or less end-on now. It's much, not - not as bright, although it's getting brighter. But it's not as bright now as it was awhile ago.
069:35:50 CC Roger, Jack.
069:36:16 Schmitt ... we've been noticing that, I think, for about 24 hours or so. I just - hadn't put it together as maybe being the S-IVB. I thought it was just some other particle out there.
069:36:28 CC Roger, Jack.
069:36:31 Cernan Hey, Robert, what's the final Cowboy score?
069:36:35 CC Okay; I was just going to update that. The Cowboys won it 34 to 24. And by winning it, they wrap up the wild-card slot in the NFC; and so both Washington and Dallas will be in the playoffs.
069:36:54 Cernan Sounds good.
069:37:17 Schmitt Bob, that line of clouds I called a fir tree pattern that swings up towards Hawaii - Hawaii, if you will - has - also has a mushroom pattern on the top. It has the appearance as if two major air masses - one going from west to east and the other form east to west - have converged along that line, and the joint movement of air at the interface being south to north. And up in the area of Hawaii, I think, it tends to mushroom so that the pattern then goes back to flow from west to east on the east side and from east to west on the west side.
069:38:18 CC Roger.
069:38:27 Schmitt In a little while, we'll probably get a pretty good look at a - what looks like a very concentrated intense storm that, I think, is just - east - -
069:39:09 Evans ... And then we'll put them, once we get updated a little bit. Yes, I'll get out of VOX in a minute.
069:40:28 Schmitt I was looking for the Flight Plan and stuff. And the little books.
069:40:50 Schmitt Say, Bob.
069:40:52 CC Go ahead.
069:41:11 Schmitt Houston, 17. How do you read?
069:41:14 CC Go ahead, Jack. Read you loud and clear.
069:41:19 Cernan Okay, Bob, you want to update the LOI card and Flight Plan 3-82 and 3-81; is that right?
069:41:31 CC That's affirmative.
069:41:36 Cernan Which one do you want to start on?
069:41:39 CC I would say 3-81 is the most difficult one to start on.
069:41:50 Cernan Okay, in that case, why don't you start on the board - on the cue card?
069:41:57 CC Okay. We can start on the cue card. Your - your druthers.
069:42:03 Cernan Yes, go ahead. I'm ready.
069:42:05 CC Okay, on the LOI limits. The VGO column - let's go right down the VGO column; I think that would be the easiest way to do it. Where it says, "VGO 2980," change that to "2986."
069:42:31 Cernan Why don't you just keep going?
069:42:33 CC Okay. The next one going straight down the line, "2721, 2521, and 2316." That's, all the changes on the VGO line.
069:42:57 Cernan Okay; and all those changes were in Mode I?
069:43:02 CC That's affirmative.
069:43:06 Cernan Okay, I got 2986, 2721, 2521, 2316.
069:43:13 CC Roger. Now under the burn time column, the first one opposite the 2986, the burn time remains the same. Do not change that one. The next one changes -
069:43:35 Cernan Go ahead.
069:43:36 CC Zero plus 40.
069:43:39 Cernan Which one is that, Bob? I missed you.
069:43:41 CC Okay. Where it says, "0 plus 28," change that to "0 plus 40."
069:43:56 Cernan Okay, press on through them all now.
069:43:59 CC Change the "0 plus 53" one to "l plus 10." Change the "l plus 31" to the number "l plus 40". Over.
069:44:18 Cernan Okay. I got - in order - burn time 0, and then 0 plus 40, 1 plus 10, and 1 plus 40.
069:44:26 CC Roger. V-measured column: the first one, the zero does not change. The next one - in this order: "265, 465, and 670." Over.
069:44:55 Cernan Okay. I got 0, 265, 465, and 670.
069:44:59 CC That's affirmative, Gene. That's the changes to the LOI limits cue card.
069:45:14 Cernan Okay, Bob, I think we got all that. I guess DELTA-V measured down there in the bottom - 2980, should be 2986, huh?
069:45:31 CC Roger. We felt that wasn't - that - that is - correct. To be technically correct, it should be 2986 at that last one.
069:45:46 Cernan Okay, I guess we're coming in just a sukosh hotter, huh?
069:45:52 CC That's affirmative.
069:46:05 CC You'll see from the curves that we're going to have to update, that you're a lot closer to the free-return trajectory.
069:46:17 Cernan Okay, why don't you go ahead on 3-81?
069:46:22 CC Okay, this is the tough one. The first thing we're going to do is plot a couple or three points here in the Mode I - 2-hour - the Mode I 2-hour line changes, also. So you might want to draw a line at a LOI DELTA-V DVM of 265, 265 and draw that straight up the curve. That'll be the no - the new--
069:46:55 Cernan Okay, the LOI DELTA-V magnitude of - DVM of 265 huh?
069:47:02 CC Roger. That will be the crossover point from the Mode I 2-hour to the Mode I 30-minute.
069:48:54 Cernan Bob, are you there?
069:48:55 CC That's affirmative. Go ahead.
069:49:04 Cernan Okay, Bob, I've got a - 265 vertical line drawn and I expect I can extend the Mode I 2-hour abort to that limit.
069:49:10 CC That is affirmative, Gene.
069:49:14 CC Now you're going to have a new curve, so don't bother to draw in the old curve. We're going to give you three points to plot and draw a straight line in between them that will create a new curve.
069:49:26 Cernan Go ahead.
069:49:27 CC Okay. The first one is at - the point is defined with a DELTA-VM of zero and an abort DELTA-V of 1525, 1525.
069:49:50 Cernan Okay.
069:49:52 CC Okay, the second point is defined by a DELTA-VM of 150; an abort DELTA-V of 1810. Over.
069:50:17 Cernan Bob, that last was 1810?
069:50:20 CC That's affirmative.
069:50:37 Cernan Okay. I got it.
069:50:38 CC Okay, and the last point is defined by DELTA-VM of 265; an abort DELTA-V of 2105.
069:50:59 CC The curve defined by those three points will be your LOI plus 2 hours abort DELTA V.
069:51:08 Cernan Okay, and that - that last point is just the DPS available curve with 265.
069:51:15 CC That's affirmative.
069:51:43 Cernan Okay, it's drawn in and I - -
069:51:46 CC Okay, now we got a curve 1.
069:51:47 Cernan - - guess at 2 - Okay, go ahead.
069:51:53 CC I'm sorry I cut you out. Did you have something else you want on that?
069:51:57 Cernan No, it's good. Our curve's in.
069:51:59 CC Okay. Curve 1 is two points defining it. The first one is DELTA-VM of 265, abort DELTA-V of 1855.
069:52:26 Cernan Okay.
069:52:27 CC And the second one is a DELTA - DELTA-VM of 400, abort DELTA-V of 2065.
069:52:55 Cernan Okay.
069:52:56 CC Okay. Those two points from the curve 1 of the Mode I 30-minute.
069:53:04 Cernan Okay, I got it.
069:53:06 CC Okay, now curve 2 has three points defining it. The first point is identical with the end point of curve 1. It's 400 on the DELTA-VM and 2065 on the abort DELTA-V.
069:53:29 Cernan All right.
069:53:30 CC Okay, the second point is 530 for the DVM and 2245 for the abort DELTA-V.
069:54:02 Cernan Okay.
069:54:03 CC And the last point is DVM of 670 and a DELTA-V - abort DELTA-V of 2475.
069:54:47 Cernan Okay.
069:54:48 CC Okay; and if you draw a line up the page at the DVM of 670, that is the end of the Mode I 30-minute and everything to the right of that you are in Mode II.
069:55:54 CC Gene, Houston.
069:56:03 Cernan Stand by, Bob.
069:56:04 CC Roger.
070:00:13 Cernan Hello, Houston. Are you reading yet?
070:00:15 CC Roger. Go ahead.
070:00:19 Cernan Okay, Bob, curve looks good. I just checked the DPS/APS crossover on the DPS available, and it comes out with what you gave me on the card - about 2521.
070:00:28 CC Roger. And just one minor point. Across the top, on the velocity to be gained, you can bias all those numbers - add a six to every one of them across the top, to be technically correct.
070:00:51 Cernan Okay.
070:00:58 CC The next thing we have on that, Gene - -
070:00:59 Cernan ... correct, I could have done that before I - before I plotted the curve; but that's good. We understand, and we got it down.
070:01:08 CC Okay. The next thing I've got is - that whole update column in the little block there is all updated; and we probably ought to get a readback on all these numbers, Gene. I can give it to you right like a regular pad, just from the - right down from the top to the bottom, and then read it back to me. I think that'll be the best way, don't you?
070:01:26 Cernan Okay. Ron's going to go ahead and take them; and we'll double check them, and he'll read them back.
070:01:31 CC Okay.
070:01:32 Evans Okay, just go ahead and start at the top and go down.
070:01:35 CC Okay. I'm starting at LOI ignition time. 88:54:26.8. Pitch is minus 43, yaw 112. GET abort ignition, 89:24:26.8; roll 217, pitch 6, yaw 25. Minus 42 on the Pitch, 110 on the yaw. 216, 6, 18. High-gain angles again. Minus 75, Yaw 250; GET abort ignition there 90:54:26.8; 153, 17, 19. Next time there, GET abort ignition for the LM FDAI angles there - 90:54:26.8; Roll, Pitch, and Yaw angles, 202, 29, 330. Over.
070:03:50 Evans Okay, Bob, here we go on the readback. I'll Just read them right down the line. 88:54:26.8; minus 43, 112, 89:24:26.8; 217, 6, 25; minus 42, 110; 216, 6, 18; minus 75, 250; 90:54:26.8; 153, 17, 19, 90:54:26.8; 202, 29, 330. Over.
070:04:39 CC Roger, Ron. A real good readback. The - on the next page, on page 3-82, the data there is exactly the same as the LOI limit cue card - the changes. We can read it up to you individually or you can take it from your cue cards; your choice.
070:05:00 Evans No, we'll change it from the cue card.
070:05:03 CC Okay.
070:05:26 Schmitt Bob, since they won't let me write anything, I tried looking for the Moon near the Sun with the filters and could not see it.
070:05:36 CC Roger.
070:05:43 Schmitt You sure you're sending us to the right place?
070:05:46 CC Roger, Jack. Hey, I've got some information on that S-IVB that you're looking at. The azimuth was in - within 1 degree of what you called when we looked - checked out on your angles.
070:07:08 CC Hey, Jack. Houston.
070:07:48 CC 17, Houston.
070:07:53 Evans Go ahead, Bob.
070:07:54 CC This was for Jack and Gene. The trench has computed the S-IVB location in reference to your body axis; and the azimuth was within 1 degree, very close, and the - we calculate it should have been out of that window at 62 degrees from the X-axis, and you reported 45 degrees, which is just a 17-degree error. It's real close there. You know, just eyebailing it like that.
070:08:23 Schmitt That's great. Then that is the S-IVB, huh?
070:08:26 CC Okay. Well, we - you might check it this way, Jack. Line up the star Denebola and Rigel - say again, Regulus; I'm sorry, Regulus - Denebola and Regulus. And then, on that line, go perpendicular to that line right above Ri - right above - right above Regulus, and that should be the S-IVB. It forms one point of a right triangle with Denebola and Regulus.
070:08:59 Schmitt What you're saying is, it's the eye of Leo the Lion.
070:09:03 CC That's affirm.
070:09:07 Schmitt Except we can't see Leo the Lion very well.
070:09:11 CC Okay.
070:10:16 CC And, 17; Houston.
070:10:21 Schmitt Go ahead.
070:10:22 CC We've got a rather lengthy Flight Plan update series here. We can read up to you any time you want. Just a reminder that we are sitting here waiting with it. Your call.
070:10:46 Schmitt Generally what is it, Bob?
070:10:49 CC It's changing a number of attitudes all through the Flight Plan, 84:32 - 84:35; changing VERB 49 maneuver, things like that, due to the TLC change here on times and that.
070:11:09 Schmitt Okay, where are you going to start?
070:11:11 CC Okay, it's at 84:32. Standby 1.
070:11:24 CC Jack, FLIGHT Just told me we can wait on this if you want until some other time in the Flight Plan. We want to get into this Experiment Checklist with the pa - pan camera, mapping camera film cycling. Or we can do both of them concurrently.
070:11:57 Cernan Hey, Bob, let's get the camera cycling out of the way first, and then we'll pick up the Flight Plan updates.
070:12:02 CC Roger. We concur with that.
070:13:12 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I'll get to that camera in just a second. The coast of Australia is starting to come into view. Still looks pretty clear. We'll give you more on that later, probably. That cyclone I talked about yesterday in the vicinity, I believe, of the Solomon islands, looks even better organized than yesterday. It's really tightening up. Starting to look very bright and dense right in the core, not too dissimilar from Therese. Although it has a little broader extent in the southeast quadrant.
070:13:56 CC Roger, Jack. Trying to match that up in my prog here. I can't find it.
070:14:05 Schmitt Well, you didn't have it there yesterday either. It certainly looks like a tight little storm now though.
070:14:12 CC Roger. I understand.
070:14:25 CC Jack, would you mind repeating that location of that.
070:14:27 Schmitt Can't give you much on the progress - -
070:14:31 Schmitt Well, I'll try to give it to you a little better later. It's the one I was talking about yesterday as being in the vicinity of the Solomon islands. That's somewhat east-southeast of New Guinea.
070:14:45 CC Yes. Roger. I've got it.
070:15:09 Schmitt I think before we go to bed, we'll probably be able to update the progress of the - that front south of Australia, also.
070:15:17 CC Oh. Roger. I've - I've got a pretty disorganized area to the east of New Guinea. It's probably right over the Solomons. Looks pretty disorganized on our satellite photo - from, let's see, I guess that was this morning sometime.
070:15:39 Schmitt Well, there is a lot of cloudiness in the equatorial regions, the intertropical convergence zone in there. This is south of that, sort of on a - I'll talk to you later.
070:15:59 CC Roger.
070:19:01 Schmitt Houston, how do you read 17?
070:19:03 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
070:19:09 Schmitt Okay, S-BAND AUX TV to SCIENCE.
070:19:14 Schmitt MARK it.
070:19:26 Schmitt Okay, SM/AC POWER is coming ON.
070:19:32 Schmitt MARK it.
070:19:44 Schmitt MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY.
070:19:47 Schmitt MARK.
070:20:13 Schmitt PAN CAMERA POWER is POWER; barber pole - gray.
070:20:24 Schmitt SELF TEST is to HEATERS.
070:20:32 Schmitt And, do you want the high gain?
070:20:40 CC That's affirmative. Minus 50 on PITCH and 270 on YAW.
070:21:27 Schmitt Okay, there she is, all locked up. PCM RATE'S going HIGH.
070:21:35 CC Roger.
070:21:39 Schmitt Okay. When you're ready, I'll do the big deal here
070:21:43 CC Roger. Stand by for my cue on that, Jack.
070:21:58 CC Okay, Jack; we're ready.
070:22:02 Schmitt Okay, MAPPING CAMERA - MAPPING CAMERA is ON.
070:22:07 CC Roger. We mark it.
070:22:15 Schmitt Okay; and PAN CAMERA SELF TEST - going SELF TEST. Got a barber pole.
070:23:37 Schmitt And the PAN CAMERA SELF TEST - or talkback is gray.
070:23:41 CC Roger. We'd like REACQ on the HIGH GAIN. Check.
070:23:52 Schmitt You got it.
070:23:53 CC Thank you.
070:23:56 Schmitt Sorry, I didn't read the checklist.
070:24:39 Schmitt MAPPING CAMERA is OFF.
070:24:44 CC Jack, say your last.
070:24:48 Schmitt MAPPING CAMERA went OFF at 2 minutes, and the PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF.
070:24:53 CC Roger. And we'd like to select your checklist angles now on the high gain, please.
070:25:03 Schmitt Okay.
070:25:24 Schmitt Do you want those on the dial? You don't want me to try to acquire there, do you?
070:25:30 CC That's affirmative.
070:25:37 Schmitt Okay, SM/AC POWER is going to come OFF here, now.
070:25:42 CC Roger.
070:25:49 Evans Okay, SM/AC POWER is OFF; and how is my ZPN doing?
070:26:02 CC Jack, say again your question, please.
070:26:08 Evans This is Ron. How is my ZPN doing?
070:26:12 CC Oh. Roger. Let me take a look here.
070:27:02 CC Hey, Ron, we don't - we don't want to say it's bad, but we're glad you're talking to us because we want to make sure you're with us.
070:27:11 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Let me ... a little bit then.
070:27:16 CC Roger. We think we've got a bad skin - skin sensor interface there, Ron.
070:27:34 PAO This is Apollo control at 70 hours 26 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth 186,663 nautical miles, velocity 2,436 feet per second. This is Apollo control at 70 hours 27 minutes. We have another update on the S-IVB stage. Impact time and coordinates predicting an impact time of 89 hours 39 minutes 38 seconds at 4 degrees 21 minutes south, 12 degrees 12 minutes west.
070:30:35 Schmitt Bob, how do you read 17?
070:30:38 CC Read you loud and clear, Jack.
070:30:42 Schmitt Okay; that storm I'm talking about - a little more precisely is maybe centered at 2 degrees latitude, north of the Solomon islands.
070:31:02 CC Yes, that kind of matches up, Jack. Does it look like New Guinea and that is pretty well clobbered?
070:31:11 Schmitt No, not really. New Guinea is at the western edge of a cloud zone that is part of that inter-tropical convergence zone that starts at New Guinea and swings east-northeast in an arc for about half the visible Pacific, and then that arc crosses back down over the equator and heads generally towards Central America, I suspect, although that's beyond the terminator now. The storm I'm talking about is clearly south and separate from that inter-tropical convergence cloud - pattern.
070:32:03 CC Roger.
070:32:07 Schmitt It's getting very tightly wound in the - the clockwise sense, and - and is - is just where there was a less well-organized pattern yesterday. Although maybe it's moved northward a little bit.
070:32:40 CC Roger. We understand, Jack.
070:33:17 Schmitt Our zero-phase point, Bob, is about 10 degrees - make that 15 degrees longitude east of the Solomons and has a - is a - fairly - low intensity at this time. I'll keep an eye on it as it approaches that storm area and see if it changes.
070:34:15 Schmitt Okay - I'll be ready for them - Bob, just one last thing on that line of clouds that stretches up toward Hawaii. They're very - they look very thick and dense based on the structure you can see as that - as the terminator approaches them. They cast a pretty strong shadow to the west.
070:34:38 CC Roger. I see those on our satellite photo. They look pretty - pretty thick in there. I'm strictly an amateur talking to you, Jack, but it looks pretty thick in there.
070:34:50 Schmitt Yes, right.
070:34:55 Schmitt How about some flight - when you come around again, can you start the Flight Plan updates?
070:35:02 CC Any time you want them, I can start them.
070:35:06 Schmitt Go ahead.
070:35:08 CC Okay, the first one is at 84:32 in the Flight Plan.
070:35:36 Schmitt 84:22. Go ahead.
070:35:39 CC 84:32. 32. Add the following - -
070:35:43 Schmitt Okay - -
070:35:44 CC Roll right 12 degrees in parentheses, To a roll of 150. The purpose of this change is to avoid - -
070:36:02 Schmitt Say again the - say again the number in parentheses.
070:36:09 CC R, roll of 150, 150.
070:36:17 Schmitt Okay, at 84:32, "ROLL right 12 degrees to roll 150."
070:36:24 CC Roger. And in parentheses here, just a comment, it's to avoid gimbal lock during VERB 49 maneuver directly below it.
070:36:50 Schmitt Okay; go ahead.
070:36:52 CC Okay. At 84:35, the VERB 49 maneuver, change the attitude to "ROLL 320, pitch 010, YAW 324." And we want the high gain antenna angles: PITCH, minus 29; YAW 17. Over.
070:37:34 Schmitt Okay. 320, 010, 324. High gain: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17. And that's at - that's for the VERB 49 maneuver at 84:35.
070:37:47 CC That's affirm. And it goes without saying, scratch out - scratch out "OMNI Alpha" there.
070:37:54 Schmitt Got you.
070:37:55 CC Okay, the next one is at 85:42. 85:42.
070:38:03 Schmitt Go ahead.
070:38:04 CC This is just a couple of notes here. The P52 stars we got in the CMS are 16 and 17. Gyro torquing will take 10 minutes 47 seconds, 10 minutes 47 seconds.
070:38:35 Schmitt Okay, the stars will be stars 16 and 17. Torquing will take 10 minutes 40 seconds - 47 seconds.
070:38:43 CC That's affirmative, Jack. Okay, at 85:44, over there on the right where it says, "LOI REFSMMAT attitude," change that - "ROLL 064, PITCH 135, YAW 005." Over.
070:39:15 Schmitt Okay, got you. Change is to ROLL 064, PITCH 135, YAW 005.
070:39:23 CC Okay, Jack, and let's take a break here, and you can go ahead and secure the high gain and give me OMNI Bravo, and call me when you're ready for some more of these.
070:40:05 Schmitt Okay, go ahead.
070:40:08 CC Okay, Jack. The next one is an addition at 86 hours, 86 hours. We just want the following words: "Manually pressurize SPS." Over.
070:40:43 Schmitt Go ahead.
070:40:44 CC Okay; did you get that last one, 86 hours?
070:40:49 Schmitt Roger. 86 hours, "Manually pressurize the SPS."
070:40:52 CC That's affirmative. And just for your information, that's because we need a couple hours of data on it. Like to look at it a couple of hours prior to LOI. Okay, the next one's at 87:20.
070:41:14 Schmitt Go ahead.
070:41:15 CC Okay. Where it says, "Manual roll left to 30 degrees," change "30 degrees" to "63 degrees, 63 degrees. Change the roll angle - -
070:41:31 Schmitt All right.
070:41:33 CC -- from "050" to "001".
070:41:53 Schmitt Okay, that's roll left 63 degrees and the roll is 001.
070:41:59 CC That's affirmative. And the new high gain angles will be PITCH, minus 27; YAW, 339.
070:42:14 Schmitt Okay, minus 27 and 339.
070:42:17 CC Okay, just a little bit below that - where - at about 87:27 or 87:30, where it says, "Manually roll right 30 degrees," change the "30" to "63", 63. Change the roll to "064".
070:42:47 Schmitt Okay, roll right 63 degrees. Roll will be 064.
070:42:52 CC That's affirmative. And scratch out "OMNI Alpha" and add "High gain antenna: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17", YAW 17.
070:43:13 Schmitt Okay. That's high gain: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17.
070:43:21 CC Roger, Jack. And the next one is over at 89:03. We've got a comm attitude.
070:43:39 Schmitt Okay, 89:03.
070:43:42 CC Okay, that attitude there should - it's pretty close. ROLL 165, PITCH 060, YAW 338.
070:45:08 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
070:45:10 CC Did you get that last - the attitude change there? it's a real trivia change; we probably shouldn't have called it, but it's - -
070:45:16 Schmitt 89:03 ... to me.
070:45:17 CC - - 165, 060, and 338.
070:45:20 Schmitt 89:03; excuse me.
070:45:23 CC Roger. Did you get that attitude at 89:03?
070:45:30 Schmitt Repeat 8 - 89:03.
070:45:34 CC Roger. ROLL 165, PITCH 060, YAW 338.
070:45:51 Schmitt Okay. New comm attitude: 165, 060, 338.
070:45:56 CC Roger. That seems hardly worth it on that, Jack. Sorry on that one. Just one last note, general note on all this we gave you. Everything has been checked in the CMS. You probably figured that anyway.
070:46:11 Evans Roger. Always know those fellows are working with us.
070:46:14 CC Roger. And, Ron, we've got good data on you now.
070:46:19 Schmitt Is that it?
070:46:21 CC That's affirmative, Jack.
070:46:27 Evans Okay; thank you, Jack.
070:46:43 Schmitt Bob, Gene just told me I may have confused you on the clouds that I told you I could see near the terminator with a good shadow - and the shadow's on the eastern side as the - the terminator approaches.
070:47:04 CC Roger.
070:49:40 Schmitt Bob, how do you read 17?
070:49:45 CC Read you loud and clear, Jack.
070:49:49 Schmitt Okay, I mentioned earlier, I can't remember exactly when, that it looked like the wa - pattern of water in the Ross Sea - clear areas within the Ross Sea icepacks had changed, and I feel more strongly about that now. It looks like it's opened up considerably. The tri - long - elongate triangular areas, two of them that were there a couple of days ago, seem to have merged, and you also have clear water along most of the inner portion of the shoreline of that sea.
070:50:28 CC Roger. Must be getting towards summertime down there.
070:50:33 Schmitt Well, I'm very surprised that it's changed shape as much as that, and it could be that that triangular pattern was caused by a cloud bank that split what is now open water and made it look as if it was icepack.
070:50:51 CC Roger. Understand.
070:51:09 Schmitt Hey, Bob, can one of the guys there give me a - a hack on when - when the terminator should cross Hawaii?
070:51:21 CC Roger. We'll work it out.
070:51:28 Schmitt Do it in either GET or CST, either one.
070:51:33 CC We'll crank it up to you in GET.
070:53:20 PAO This is Apollo Control. It's 70 hours 53 minutes. Apollo 17 is now 187,288 nautical miles from Earth. The spacecraft velocity is 2,421 feet per second.
070:53:43 CC Ron, we missed a NOUN 05 in there. Can you give us a NOUN 05?
070:53:56 CC Ron, Houston. We missed the NOUN 05 on the data - can you give us what your NOUN 05 was?
070:54:04 Evans Would you believe five balls?
070:54:07 CC Oh, I'd believe that.
070:54:11 Evans Okay.
070:54:12 CC You can go ahead and torque, Ron.
070:54:16 Evans Roger. Roger. We'll torque at 30 - 54 30.
070:54:24 CC 54 30, Roger.
070:56:17 CC Jack, Houston.
070:56:21 Schmitt Go ahead.
070:56:22 CC Roger. We've been listening to the playback of the DSE tape from the ALFMED period, and all three of you sound pretty good on that. Gene is still clearer than the rest, but all three of you sound real clear and very readable.
070:56:41 Schmitt Excellent. That'll make up for my note taking.
070:56:47 CC Roger. And also, Jack. You had a question earlier about the different response of sea and continental areas when viewed through monocular polarizing filter, and I've got a note here from John Dietrich that kind of explains it.
070:57:08 Schmitt Okay, let's hear what John has to say.
070:57:10 CC Okay. This is pretty much referencing the time you were looking at it, and here it is. "Ocean scenes near the bright area off Bolivia, which is the spel - specular point, include a high proportion of polarized light. The spacecraft-Earth-Sun geometry now is approximately equal to the Brewster angle which is nearest 53 degrees, where maximum plane polarization due to reflection occurs. Therefore, a high response of scene brightness to changes of filter position can be expected. Continental scenes are dominated by Lambertian or diffuse reflectors, which are characterized by low proportion of polarization in the reflected beam. For such scenes, changing position of the polarization filter produces changes in scene brightness that are near or below the threshhold of detectability." Over.
070:58:13 Schmitt Okay. That sounds very good. It's sort of like the contrast between the lunar surface response and - the oceans being more like that, I guess, and the - between the lunar surface and terrestrial land surfaces.
070:58:33 CC Roger, Jack.
070:58:48 Schmitt That's very good, very interesting. Thank - thank John for me. I should have thought about that, but I've been away from it too long.
070:58:57 CC No problem. Okay; terminator over Hawaii at 73:45 GET.
070:59:09 Schmitt 73:45; thank you.
071:02:44 PAO This is Apollo control at 71 hours 2 minutes. Apollo 17's distance from Earth now 187,507 nautical miles, velocity 2,416 feet per second. On Monday 80 foreign students who are touring space research science centers in the United States will begin a three day visit here at the Manned Spacecraft Center. They will observe the three periods of lunar exploration by astronauts Cernan and Schmitt and will also tour the facilities at MSC. This International youth tour began December 2 in Washington D. C. and is being conducted under the auspices of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the cooperation of the State Department. The student group saw the Apollo 17 launch at Cape Kennedy and since that time have toured the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Oakridge National Laboratory facilities in Tennessee. Today they're at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama tomorrow they will tour the National Oceantic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Bureau of Standards in Bouider, Colorado. The students were selected by their respective governments in response to a NASA invitation, and they range in age from 15 to 17 years and rank high academically and have strong scientific interests. Following their visit to Houston the group will tour the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffitt Field, California and the jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California. Schedules for the visit here at MSC and a complete list of the participating students, and countries may be obtained at the MSC news center. At 71 hours 5 minutes this is mission control, Houston.
071:05:46 Schmitt Houston, 17. How do you read?
071:05:49 CC Go ahead. Read you loud and clear, Jack.
071:05:53 Schmitt Roger. Gene and I are going to stir your cryos - Gene and I are going to stir your cryos for you.
071:05:59 CC Okay, we'll be watching for it.
071:09:21 Evans Okay, Houston; Apollo 17 here. We have canister number 8 in the Bravo.
071:09:28 CC Roger; 8 in the Bravo. We got it. You made EECOM happy tonight there, Ron.
071:09:37 Evans Okay, and I'm still looking for my scissors.
071:09:42 CC For your what?
071:09:47 Evans My scissors.
071:09:48 CC What did you do, misplace them? Or do you want me to look up and see where they're supposed to be?
071:09:55 Evans (Laughter) No. They were stuck in the hand controller number 1. That little thing you're supposed to put the lap belt and things into. It was stuck in there last night when I went to bed, and I got up this morning, it was gone.
071:10:11 CC Scissor, scissor, who got the scissor, huh?
071:10:12 Schmitt ... waiting for him to get up.
071:10:16 Evans Yes.
071:10:21 CC Well, I've got a - I've got a feeling they're still with you somewhere.
071:10:29 Cernan All sorts of things happened on his watch.
071:10:34 Evans Yes; we won't talk too much about that.
071:15:30 Evans Houston, are you watching Jack's EKG?
071:15:39 CC Say again, Ron; we missed that.
071:15:44 Evans Roger. Are you watching Jack's and my EKG?
071:15:49 CC Roger. Let me punch the Surgeon here.
071:15:50 Evans We're doing a little - we're doing a little bit of exercising, now.
071:15:56 CC Oh, we can see that in the cryos. We know you're doing exercises. Let me go over and get the numbers here.
071:16:06 CC Jack's at 120 on the heart rate.
071:16:13 Evans Okay.
071:16:13 CC And, Ron, you're about 90.
071:16:19 Evans Okay.
071:16:22 CC And, Jack - guess you can pass the word to Jack we refined that Hawaii terminator number through the Pacific fleet and called it all around. It is actually at 72:55 GET.
071:16:38 Evans Okay. 72:65 GET.
071:16:42 CC No, 72:55, 55.
071:16:46 Evans Roger. 72:55 -
071:17:56 CC Okay, Jack. We got you at 130 right now.
071:20:50 Schmitt Houston, this is the LMP. What was the last number you saw on my heart rate?
071:21:00 CC Okay, you peaked at 135, and we had you at 130 for several minutes.
071:21:10 Schmitt Okay.
071:22:06 CC Jack, just for interest, in that time you got banging around so hard there, you caused the heaters in the H2 to shut off. The - the pressure went up until the heater shut off.
071:22:19 Schmitt Well, that's what you wanted, wasn't it?
071:22:20 CC That's affirm.
071:22:25 Schmitt Good thing there's not another mission or we'd have to flight plan this kind of thing for your EECOMs.
071:22:31 CC That's right. Got to conserve at all cost.
071:22:39 Schmitt Who's sitting on your right tonight?
071:22:42 CC Got a big Moon over there.
071:22:46 Schmitt He's always there, isn't he?
071:22:50 CC Roger.
071:24:33 Schmitt Say, Bob, I took another picture of the Earth and forgot to give you the GET on it. That was about 15 minutes before the end of the ALFMED experiment, if you can go back that way.
071:24:49 CC Okay.
071:24:55 CC Let me see, Jack. We - the last thing we had was right about the end of it. We had you in Sierra Sierra, frame 50. And you had four pictures then. is that before that or after that? Okay, those four were for the ALFMED, weren't they?
071:25:09 Schmitt That's affirm. No, this was with the - the Hasselblad, the EL camera.
071:25:20 CC Oh, okay; got you.
071:25:27 CC We had FAO working on matching that one up.
071:25:33 Schmitt Okay.
071:28:27 Schmitt Houston, 17.
071:28:29 CC Go ahead, Jack.
071:28:33 Schmitt Roger. That weak front that I talked about south of Australia yesterday has moved north, but it looks considerably weaker than it did yesterday even. Just a very thin line of clouds - very thin line of clouds that now is touching the - the tip of Australia, south of Perth.
071:31:06 Schmitt Houston, 17. I think maybe you dropped out before I said that little weak front moving north-northeast, south of Australia. The western end of it is just touching the coast of Australia, south of Perth, but it looks much weaker; and I, right now, would not expect very much weather out of it.
071:31:32 CC Okay. That - I can't tie up with you on that one, Jack, because my prog doesn't go down that far; it only stays up in the landing area. And my satellite photo doesn't go down that far south either. So, I can't touch up with you on that one.
071:31:49 Schmitt Okay. Well, it - it looked stronger yesterday, and it might have developed. Now there is a larger disturbance at the southeastern end of that front, still south of Tasmania; although, I suspect, unless it stays on a pretty northerly course, it will not affect the weather on the east coast of Australia very much.
071:32:15 CC Roger.
071:33:04 CC Jack, just thought you might be interested. I called same friends of yours in Tucson, and everybody's fine there and wanted to say hello and tell you everybody's fine and getting along real good.
071:33:20 Schmitt Thank you very much. Good to hear. They've learned to take care of themselves pretty well, haven't they?
071:33:25 CC They sure have. They - they're - they're having a little trouble with the squawk box, and we'll get working on that and it's - they're having trouble reading a little bit, but they're keeping up with us.
071:33:35 Schmitt That's nothing new.
071:33:36 CC Roger.
071:33:37 Schmitt But try to fix it, please.
071:33:39 CC Oh, we'll - definitely on that one.
071:33:58 Schmitt Bob, Ron got you all - the Earth down there zeroed in in the sextant, and it puts my little binocular to shame. I tell you, it's a fine instrument. And I'll just confirm that the - that disturbance over the So - Solomon islands is an awfully tightly wound little storm system. And right now, I finally have seen New Zealand for the first time in a couple of days, for sure. And the South island's got some, probably high cirrus over it. North island looks pretty clear. That's the end that I can get right now.
071:34:36 CC Roger. We saw you looking at Regulus there; we didn't realize you were looking at the Earth instead.
071:34:44 Schmitt Ron's been looking for the booster. And he called me down and asked me to look at the Earth. He's been holding out on me.
071:34:50 CC Roger.
071:34:54 Schmitt Pass the torch of weather forecasting to Ron.
071:35:21 CC Hey, Jack. I also have some words for you and Gene. Got some advice from the home front. The thing to do with Ron in the future is to hook up a Baby Ben and a metal dishpan. It works every time, if you want to wake him up.
071:35:42 Evans No. I think that's not a good way.
071:35:57 CC Ron, everybody's fine over at El Lago. They are doing great. Listening to every word.
071:36:06 Evans Very good, Bob. Thank you very much.
071:36:16 Cernan Hey, Bob. We got two of those flashers out there. They could be SLA panels. I don't know. They're alike in intensity and pretty regular in the - in the intensity, bright and dim flashes they come out with, and they're widely separated. One is about the position we called at the first time; the other one is - oh, as I'm looking at the Earth, far to the left. Closer to the center window now.
071:36:51 CC Roger.
071:41:06 Schmitt Houston, 17.
071:41:12 CC Go ahead.
071:41:17 Schmitt Yes, Bob, what is your - analysis chart, if you have it - surface terms analysis chart show for Hawaii today?
071:41:41 CC Stand by on that.
071:41:52 CC Jack, according to the - -
071:41:53 Schmitt The reason I ask is that for using your term - Go ahead.
071:41:57 CC No, go ahead on that, Jack.
071:42:02 Schmitt I was going to say, using your terminator time as a partial - mark for where Hawaii ought to be, Hawaii ought to be, it looks like that cyclonic circulation at the north end of the cloud bank I described, approaching that area, would be just about on the Hawa - Hawaiian islands. I'm curious if they're getting some weather down there now.
071:42:42 CC Stand by right now; I've got my weatherman right beside me here.
071:42:50 Schmitt Also, that major front we talked about last night as being east and south of Japan has progressed even farther and is, oh, maybe 20 degrees longitude - about 20 degrees longitude from the Hawaiian islands. And I'm making some guesses on exactly where Hawaii is.
071:43:25 CC Roger, Jack. We've got nothing adverse in the Hawaiian area at all. Just a lot of winds, high winds and surface winds and surface roughness, but we don't have any bad cloud area in the Hawaiian area. I'll get the Hickam sequence report here shortly, Jack.
071:43:55 Schmitt Okay, ... a little bit. The - our zero-phase point is now centered just a little south of the disturbance near the Solomon islands. And I see no distinct change in the intensity of that zero-phase point over what I had talked about a couple hours ago.
071:44:22 CC Roger, Jack. The Solomon islands disturbance and everything is confirmed on this chart that I've got. It's very definitely confirmed in there.
071:44:32 Schmitt Okay. Well, it's a lot more obvious today than it was yesterday; but even then it was showing pretty strong circulation. It is starting to wrap up, look very much like Therese did yesterday.
071:44:49 CC Roger. I'm sure of that. The one right off of Vietnam is also pretty tight, isn't it still?
071:44:57 Schmitt Well, we can't see that one yet.
071:44:58 CC Okay.
071:45:08 Schmitt Australia in general is still very clear except in the northeastern portions where it looks like they have got scattered clouds; but it looks like a pretty night - over Australia.
071:45:24 CC Roger. Looks that way from the satellite photo from the last couple days. Looks pretty nice down there.
071:45:32 Schmitt Right.
071:46:36 PAO This is Apollo Control at 71 hours 46 minutes. Weather reporter, Schmitt, is 188,524 nautical miles from Earth and the spacecraft from which he is observing is traveling at a speed of 2,392 feet per second.
071:47:04 CC Jack, in looking at the sequence reports for Hickam and Hilo and that area, it looks like they just got their standard 3500 scattered, 4500 broken clouds, maybe a rain shower or two. But just their standard tropical fluffy clouds.
071:52:33 Schmitt Houston, Apollo 17.
071:52:35 CC Go ahead, Ron.
071:52:40 Evans Bob, I don't know whether I told you or not, but we ended up with the LMP and the CDRs suit in the bottom of this suit bag. My suit is in the top, and I sure don't have any idea how in the world the other crews got three suits in there. I guess they never did because these things are plumb full right now, of suits, in the suit bag. And it's a good thing we lengthened them. I don't have room for anything else inside the suit bag. The water bags and - you know - contingency water bags, and my g -suit, and those flight things are - I found a place to stick them all around the wall on the outside of the suit bag.
071:53:30 CC Roger, Ron. Good work.
071:53:50 Schmitt Bob, you made some comment earlier about the weather. It may have been Hawaii, but you broke up.
071:53:55 CC Roger; I just got the sequence report for Hawaii, and Hickam had 3500, scattered; 4500, broken with minor rain showers; and Hilo had about the same. And basically, it's just their tropical puffy weather out there. The typical nothing. No frontal-type weather - no cyclonic-type weather.
071:54:19 Schmitt Okay. Well, it may be just patterns induced by the - the wind currents, or maybe I don't have the position of Hawaii quite right.
071:54:29 CC Well, it's - it's possible. You know they do have high winds out there, and I've seen it, just flying in that area in the past, where those broken clouds get pretty close together at times. It almost looks like a solid overcast. And especially when you look at it from an angle, they all blend together.
071:54:59 Schmitt I hope you're going to save all those charts you're gathering together as we talk about it on this outbound leg. Be interesting to compare them and the pictures we take sometime in January.
071:55:14 CC Jack, the Weather just was out here, and they told me that's exactly what they're doing. And if your time will permit in January, they'd like to go through and maybe help piece them all together, but they're going through these transcripts and they're gathering all their satellite pictures and plotting what you're seeing versus the satellite pictures etc., etc. And they'd like to go over it with you when you get back.
071:55:40 Schmitt I'd love to do that. I hope, in general, we're getting the directions right. At least, I know I thought I'd worry about the descriptions, and it's hard to place points on the globe, particularly in the Pacific, if you can't identify land masses near them or have those nice little latitude and longitude lines painted on the Earth.
071:56:04 CC Well, that's right. We'll - we'll put in a request for some lat - long lines out there.
071:57:12 CC Jack, we're going to have a slight changeover from Goldstone to Honeysuckle at 72 hours, so we will probably break by.
071:57:25 Schmitt Okay. Bob, you know you're just the last turn or so, you started to break up occasionally as if you might be getting a bad mike button or something.
071:57:36 CC Okay, I'll check it out,
072:02:47 CC 17, Houston through Honeysuckle. How do you read?
072:02:55 Cernan You're loud and clear, Bob.
072:03:00 CC Roger, sameo sameo.
072:08:12 Schmitt Houston, 17-
072:08:16 CC Go ahead.
072:08:20 Schmitt I was just playing with the polarizing filter again, and it looks as if - when you have the knob on the filter parallel to the - roughly parallel to the polar axis of the Earth, - you get maximum darkening. And, of course, the opposite 90 degrees to that you get maximum lightening of the globe. And, in the - in the case of Australia, it also appears to lighten and darken, but not to the extent of the - of the ocean areas.
072:09:02 CC Roger.
072:09:06 Schmitt It could be that in the more desert climate you get finer grain material on the ground and give you the response that John Dietrich had talked about.
072:09:19 CC Roger.
072:10:59 Schmitt Houston, 17.
072:11:01 CC Go ahead, Jack.
072:11:06 Schmitt I rechecked that little story I was trying to give you about the ice pack there in the Ross Sea.
072:11:12 CC Roger.
072:11:13 Schmitt And whether I was right a couple of days ago or not - whether I was right a couple of days ago or not in the patterns, right now there is a lot of open water between the ice pack and the inner or, let's say, southern and south - eastern shore of the sea that I don't recall being there the other day.
072:11:45 CC Roger.
072:11:49 Schmitt I don't know whether you have any connections with all the Marines stationed in Antarctica, but maybe somebody knows what the ice pack's been doing the last few days.
072:12:00 CC I'll - I'll see if we can find out, Jack. I don't think we've got any gates in Antarctica, though.
072:12:08 Schmitt Well, that way you can't lose any.
072:12:11 CC Roger. Well, they never stole the continent.
072:12:18 Schmitt Sounds like pretty good duty, Bob.
072:14:40 PAO This is Apollo Control at 72 hours 14 minutes. Apollo 17 now 189,167 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 2,377 feet per second. And, we're just over an hour away from the time that Apollo 17 will enter the lunar sphere of influence. Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Boone, has re-computed the time for that event. That will occur at 73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds.
072:31:11 Schmitt Houston, 17.
072:31:15 CC Go ahead, 17-
072:31:21 Schmitt Yes, I - may have misled you earlier about a storm system south of Tasmania. It's - If there is one, it's just developing, and it's probably 20 degrees of longitude south. As I recall yesterday, there was some indication that a couple fronts were joining forces and moving in that direction. Today, the weaker and more western front appears to have dominated the system, and the only area where there seems to be cyclonic circulation developing is - is that point way south of Tasmania. That conceivably might move up and affect New Zealand in a few, in a couple days, but right now I don't see how it could affect Australia.
072:32:19 CC Roger, Jack.
072:45:46 PAO This is Apollo Control at 72 hours 45 minutes. Apollo 17 now 37 minutes away from entering the lunar sphere of influence. Present distance from Earth is 189,878 nautical miles, velocity 2,360 feet per second.
072:55:26 CC 17, Houston.
072:55:31 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
072:55:32 CC I just wanted to give you fair warning, Jack. In case you all feel a burnp there when you're about ready to go to sleep there. At 73:17:45, you'll cross that magic line into the lunar sphere of influence.
072:55:50 Cernan What's the number, Bob?
072:55:52 CC 73:17:45.
072:56:03 Cernan Bob, do you read us?
072:56:05 CC Roger. We read you loud and clear.
072:56:12 CC We're reading you, Jack. How me?
072:56:17 Evans You're reading Gene. How me?
072:56:20 CC Okay, sorry. I'm reading - reading 17 loud and clear.
072:56:28 Cernan Okay, this is Geno. What was that number on the lunar sphere of influence?
072:56:32 CC 73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds: 73:17:45.
072:56:46 Cernan Okay, Bob. You're a little intermittent. Anyway, what you mean is we start hauling the mail I gue...
072:56:56 CC Roger.
072:57:00 Cernan I guess we hit our slowest point. How fast are we going now?
072:57:43 CC Gene, you're pretty slow today. You're at 2,354 feet per second.
072:57:53 Cernan Yes. That's - that's quite a drop from the 35K that the S-IVB put us on.
072:58:01 CC That's for sure.
072:58:08 Cernan Say, Bob. What do you hear from my home front? Anything?
072:58:18 CC Talked to Tracy a little while ago, and she's listening to the box quite often and enjoying it, and everybody's fine there.
072:58:30 Cernan Bob, you're continuing ... We're getting every third word.
072:58:52 CC Gene, do you read me any better on this one?
072:59:11 CC 17, Houston.
072:59:15 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
072:59:17 CC How do you read me now?
072:59:23 Cernan I think you're still ... off.
072:59:25 CC Roger; you're breaking up on us, too. Let's check it through here a minute.
072:59:31 Cernan Okay.
072:59:43 CC We were wondering who was going to be wearing the headset tonight, Jack. Who's got the duty?
073:00:10 CC 17, Houston.
073:04:33 Cernan Hey, Bob. You reading us now?
073:05:09 CC 17, Houston, did you call?
073:05:14 Cernan I just wondered if you're reading us now, Bob.
073:05:19 CC Roger. Reading you now loud and clear. I was just off a minute there, talking to Barbara on the phone. Everybody's fine on the home front, Gene.
073:05:29 Cernan Okay, what did you say Tracy said earlier?
073:05:31 CC She just said she's tickled pink and listening - listening on the squawk box.
073:05:44 Cernan I guess that's the way a 9-year-old daughter should be in a case like this, huh?
073:05:47 CC That's affirmative.
073:05:53 Cernan In case she's not listening, tell her not to forget to feed the horses.
073:05:56 CC Roger. Barbara said I should find some nice young female voice around here to tell you she loves you, good night. But I figure we'd better not do that.
073:06:14 Cernan Okay; enough said. I guess what we don't need right (chuckle) right now is a nice female voice.
073:06:27 CC I'm sure of that.
073:06:37 Cernan We're just happy, health - healthy, hungry, and homesick.
073:06:47 CC You got a lot of work to do, and you better not say you're hungry. The doctor about went through the overhead over here when you said that.
073:06:56 Cernan That's a cliche.
073:06:59 CC Roger.
073:07:09 Cernan Bob, just in general, how is the spacecraft looking to you? Pretty good, I hope.
073:07:22 CC That's affirmative. We - we haven't found anything I guess we're - stopped getting those spurious MASTER ALARMs here for a while. So that - that was the only witch hunt we were having right there, was trying to find that.
073:07:41 Cernan Yes, they disappeared. The ones we've had recently seem to be real ones.
073:07:46 CC Roger.
073:07:54 CC Hey, guys, we were just still trying to figure out who is going to wear the headset and got - who has the duty tonight?
073:08:03 Cernan Oh, I'll wear it tonight, Bob.
073:08:07 CC Is that Gene?
073:08:11 Cernan Yes.
073:08:12 CC Okay.
073:08:25 Evans And, Houston; 17. You ready for some onboard read-outs?
073:08:29 CC You better believe it.
073:08:35 Evans Okay. BAT C, 36.8; PYRO BAT A, 37.0; and Bravo is 37.0. RCS Alpha, 93, 91, 91, and 94. Over.
073:08:58 CC Roger. Got them all, Ron.
073:11:38 Evans Houston, we're cycling the H2 FANs, now.
073:11:47 CC Roger, 17. Go ahead.
073:11:53 Evans Okay. We're cycling the H2 FANs.
073:12:00 CC Okay; we copy.
073:18:12 PAO This is Apollo Control at 73 hours 18 minutes. Apollo 17 has just entered the lunar sphere of influence and the distance velocity displays here in the Control Center are now referenced to the Moon, Apollo 17 is 33,803 nautical miles from the Moon, traveling at a speed of 3,355 feet per second.
073:23:30 PAO This is Apollo control at 73 hours 23 minutes. On it's present trajectory and without doing a lunar orbit insertion burn Apollo 17 would reach it closest approach to the Moon at a Ground Elapsed Time of 88 hours 58 minutes 12 seconds. The distance of that closest approach would be 53.48 nautical miles and spacecraft velocity at that time would be 8,198 feet per second. We expect the crew to settle down into an 8 hour rest period here very shortly. On the flight plan that rest period due to begin at 73 hours some 24 minutes ago. We do expect that the crew will shortly go into that rest period.
073:43:09 Cernan Hello, Houston.
073:43:14 CC 17, Houston. Go ahead.
073:43:20 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're going to turn out the lights now and hit the sack.
073:43:28 CC Okay. Have you gone through the presleep checklist, getting ready on the comm and all that?
073:43:40 Cernan Yes; that's affirm - the presleep checklist. ... one.
073:44:05 CC We're not getting any biomed data on - supposed to be on Ron, I guess. We're not showing any biomed data.
073:44:22 Cernan Houston, do you read 17?
073:44:25 CC 17, Houston. How do you read me?
073:44:30 Cernan Yes, I'm reading you, Bob. What did you say I might want?
073:44:33 CC You might check the sensors on Ron, We're not getting any biomed data. is he unplugged?
073:44:41 Cernan Well, that's because he's - Yes, he's unplugged. Give him a chance to get hooked up and change some leads here.
073:44:47 CC Okay,
073:44:49 Cernan Everything else - the presleep check - the presleep checklist is complete. I'm going to leave the comm cap on tonight. Our tone boost doesn't work, so I'll just be on comm all night.
073:45:33 Cernan Do you have any biomed on Ron?
073:45:40 CC Stand by on that, Gene.
073:47:07 Cernan Good night, Robert.
073:47:10 CC Good night, Gene.
073:47:15 CC Got a busy day tomorrow, and we'll - we'll be with you then.
073:49:23 PAO This is Apollo Control at 73 hours 49 minutes. We said goodnight to the crew at 73 hours and 47 minutes and we don't expect any more conversation with them tonight. Flight Surgeon is now receiving good biomedical data from the Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans. We'll leave the line up for a few minutes in case there are any postscripts to the air-ground and if not we'll take the line down and come back up hourly with reports. But for the moment we'll leave the line up live. This is Apollo Control. As the crew turns in the spacecraft is 32,741 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,362 feet per second.
074:04:45 PAO This is Apollo Control at 74 hours 4 minutes. Apollo 17 now 32,264 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,366. The crew has settled down for the night and we'll take the lines down now and come back up with hourly reports.
074:50:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 74 hours 50 minutes. Gene Kranz and the white team of flight controllers are preparing to take over duties in the Mission Control Center, relieving the orange team which has been directed tonight by Chuck Lewis. This has been a relatively quiet shift. A major activity was the medical experiment to gather more information on light flashes that most Apollo crews have seen with their eyes closed. We also updated the Ground Elapsed Time clock during this shift, moving it ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes, this being necessary to bring the Greenwich mean time Ground Elapsed Time in the flight plan into agreement. These areas had not agreed because of the late launch. The crew reported seeing the S-IVB in the distance at one time during the shift. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence at 73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds, and we said goodnight to the crew at 73 hours 47 minutes. 6 hours 8 minutes remaining in this rest period now. There will be no change of shift news conference when the shift breaks at midnight - no change of shift news conference. In its present time, Apollo 17 is 30,705 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,378 feet per second. At 74 hours 52 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
075:37:07 PAO This is Apollo Control at 75 hours 37 minutes. Flight director Gene Kranz and the oncoming white team of flight controllers have been going over the status of the mission and find everything progressing very smoothly at this point. No anomalies in the performance of the spacecraft. All systems in very good shape and we're either up to or slightly ahead of the flight plan values on consumables at this point. During the shift a number of the flight controllers will begin working on some of the data the crew will use on awakening to place the spacecraft in lunar orbit, that event scheduled to occur at about 88 hours 56 minutes, and the retrofire officer and the flight dynamics officer will be busy during this shift working out some of the preliminary numbers that'll be used in the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. There is still no decision as to whether or not midcourse correction 4 will need to be performed and we suspect that that decision will also be made later on during this shift. At the present time Apollo 17 is 29,152 nautical miles from the Moon, and the spacecraft velocity is now 3,391 feet per second. This is Apollo Control Houston.
076:37:05 PAO This is Apollo control at 76 hours 37 minutes. Now about 4 - 1/2 hours away from the scheduled crew awakening time, the flight surgeon reports that the crew appears to be resting comfortably at this time. Command Module Pilot Ron Evans is wearing the biomedical harness during this sleep period. And Commander Gene Cernan has the watch wearing the headset that would receive any call from the control center. Apollo 17 is 27,178 nautical miles from the Moon. And we're watching the velocity gradually build up under the growing affect of lunar gravity, up now to 3,411 feet per second. This is Apollo control Houston standing by at 76 hours 38 minutes.
077:37:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 37 minutes, continuing to maintain the watch while the crew aboard Apollo 17 gets some sleep - Now about 3 1/2 hours left in that sleep period and that could be extended by 30 minutes or so if a decision is made not to make the final midcourse correction before going into lunar orbit. We expect to be getting a reading on the necessity for that midcourse correction which in any event will be a very small maneuver, before this shift ends. The midcourse correction opportunity occurs at 83 hours 55 minutes in the flight plan and the Flight Dynamics officer has gotten what appears to be a good final indication of the impact coordinates for the Saturn third stage. The latest coordinates are 4 degrees 11 minutes south and 12 degrees and 23 minutes west. Apollo 17 at this time - 25,131 nautical miles from the Moon. The spacecraft velocity 3,434 feet per second. This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 38 minutes.
078:37:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 78 hours 37 minutes. There's been no change in the spacecraft status during the past hour. Everything continues to function normally and we have about 2 1/2 hours remaining in the crew's sleep period. The flight dynamics officer reports that we've got a midcourse correction if it's performed prior to Lunar Orbit Insertion of about one half foot per second or less and that very small maneauver, if performed, would occur at 83 hours 55 minutes. Apollo 17 is now 23,112 nautical miles from the Moon and the spacecraft velocity up to 3,460 feet per second. We'll see that increase to somewhat in excess of 8,000 feet per second as the spacecraft reaches the Moon and swings around the Moon goes into orbit. The Lunar Orbit Insertion Burn removes on the order of 3,000 feet per second from that velocity. A lunar orbital velocity of about 1 mile per second. The flight surgeon has noted some stirrings of a bit of an elevation in the heart rate of Ron Evans, who is wearing the bio-medical sensors during this sleep period, although for the most part Evans has been sleeping soundly. At 78 hours 39 minutes, this Apollo Control, Houston.
079:37:10 PAO This is Apollo control at 79 hours 37 minutes. Now about an 1 1/2 away from the scheduled time for crew awakening. And it has again been very uneventful, very quiet sleep shift. With the flight controllers here in mission control monitoring spacecraft systems. Everything continuing to perform almost perfectly as planned; everything nominal. And our flight dynamics display at the present time is showing the spacecraft distance related to Earth, Apollo 17 now 198,800 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed again with respect to Earth of 2,168 feet per second. After awakening the crew's major activities during the day include jettisoning the scientific instrument module door which exposes the scientific instruments in the spacecraft's service module to the lunar environment. Lunar orbit insertion is scheduled to occur at about 88 hours 56 minutes. The Saturn third stage will be impacting the lunar surface. And there's still a possibility of a final midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion. That midcourse correction to occur - if it occurs at 83 hours 55 minutes. And we expect that we will have a decision or recommendation from the flight dynamics officer within the next couple of hours as to whether or not that midcourse correction will be required. If it is done, it will be a very small maneuver performed with the reaction control system thrusters on the CSM. At 79 hours 39 minutes this is Apollo control Houston.
080:41:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 80 hours 41 minutes. We have about 18 minutes remaining before the scheduled crew awakening time, however, we're planning to give them at least an additional 15 minutes of sleep and perhaps 30 minutes additional. The Flight Dynamics officer hopes to delay a decision on the need for midcourse correction 4 until additional tracking data is available. That maneuver, if its performed, remains very small - on the order of a half foot per second. And the decision revolves around what height of approach pericynthion we'll have with or without the maneuver. Tracking data right now shows that Apollo 17 will be approaching the Moon with a pericynthion of about 52 nautical miles - the desired pericynthion is 53 1/2. And the FIDO would like to get a bit more tracking data before making that decision. So we'll be putting off the decision as to whether or not to awaken the crew or give them more sleep time until the last possible moment. Apollo 17 at this time is 18,839 nautical miles from the Moon and the velocity up to 3,500 feet per second. We've seen no signs of activity aboard the spacecraft. The Flight Surgeon will begin to note increased heart and respiration rates on Ron Evans, who is wearing the bio-medical sensors during the sleep period and before receiving a call from the crew we'll see the voice sub-carrier come on and we'll be watching for any of those cues. If it appears that the crew is indeed up and about we'll bring the lines up and standby live or as soon as the decision is made to send them a wake-up call we'll come up and standby live. At 80 hours 44 minutes this is Apollo Control.
081:25:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 81 hours 25 minutes. We are planning to put a call through to the crew in about 5 minutes to awaken them. And, Apollo 17, at this time, is about 17,350 nautical miles from the Moon. Spacecraft velocity is about 3,567 feet per second. After awakening the crew we will be discussing a minor problem that has been noted during the sleep period. This involves a heater - a heater cycling in one of the three cryogenic hydrogen tanks that supplies hydrogen to the fuel cells. The nature of the problem is a heater that is cycling more often than normal. These heaters are controlled by a pressure-sensitive switch in the tank. As the temperature within the tank drops and the pressure drops, the switch senses this and activates the heater to bring up the temperature and hence the pressure within the tank and ensure a constant flow of hydrogen to the fuel cells. The sensor appears to be responding to a much narrower range of temperature decrease that would normally respond to about a 20 degree excursion in temperature and it is now apparently responding to about a 2 to 3 degree temperature excursion, and therefore cycling more rapidly than would normally be the case. This in itself is no concern, however if the automatic cycling should fail, if the automatic cycling function should fail, it would require going to a backup manual mode whereby the crew would be instructed to turn the heaters on and off at certain intervals to maintain the proper pressure in the tank, which, by the way, is a mode of operation that has been used on previous missions and works very well with a minimum impact to the crew time. And, as mentioned at this point we would see no reason for having to go to a manual mode. That would require some subsequent failure. This situation, however, will be discussed with the crew and they'll be advised as to the procedure that would be taken in the event that subsequent failure should occur necessitating the manual activation of the heater within this one tank. And we are now about 1 minute 50 seconds away from the scheduled awakening time, having given the crew an additional 30 minutes of sleep. The flight dynamics officer expects to give us a GO or NO/GO for the midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion in about a half an hour at some 82 hours Ground Elapsed Time. We'll continue to stand by live for that call to the crew.
081:30:28 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Did you call?
081:31:00 Cernan Good morning, Houston, Anybody there?
081:31:03 CC Okay, good morning. It's LOI day, Apollo 17.
081:31:11 Cernan Hello, Robert. You gave us an extra half hour.
081:31:14 CC That's affirmative. We're presently still debating on midcourse 4, Geno, and at the present time, it's small, about a half a foot per second. We're expecting a final decision on whether it's necessary or not in approximately 1 hour at 8 - 82:30. We'll let you know then, but it will be small, and so we decided to give you an extra half hour of sleep.
081:31:41 Cernan Okay, Bob, without me having to look it up, when will it come if it comes?
081:31:48 CC Stand by. 83:55, so we'll give you about 1 hour and 25 minutes advance notice.
081:32:00 Cernan Okay. Well, we'll start stirring around.
081:32:06 CC Okay, give me a call when you want to talk to people.
081:39:55 Schmitt Hello, Houston.
081:39:56 CC Hello there, 17. Good morning.
081:40:02 Schmitt I'm not sure we're ready to talk yet, Bob, but I just thought you'd like to know we got a pretty spectacular view of - of Africa today. We can see the Sinai, can see the Red Sea, the Sea of Aden, and for the first time I think we can not only see the Mediterranean, but we can see the - most of the Southern European countries, Turkey and Greece and up into italy and some of those places, can't quite see Spain because you're just about on the horizon. And for the most part, it looks like the weather throughout the Mediterranean and Northern Africa looks pretty good.
081:40:46 CC Okay, we're copying that. And, if you guys are willing to do a little switch flipping this early in morning, we'd like you to turn on the pan camera heaters, which means if somebody's down there in that vicinity, it's SM/AC POWER, ON, and the SELF TEST switch to HEATERS. Over.
081:41:08 Schmitt You want the SM/AC POWER, ON, and the SELF TEST switch to HEATERS?
081:41:12 CC That's affirm.
081:41:16 Schmitt Okay, we'll get that.
081:41:18 CC Okay.
081:41:29 SC Okay, we got both of those.
081:41:33 CC Gee, I didn't wake you up, did I?
081:41:40 Schmitt Well -
081:48:43 Cernan Okay, Bob. The LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.6.
081:48:49 CC Okay. Copy that. Sounds good.
082:00:40 Evans Hello, Houston; Apollo 17. How do you read?
082:00:43 CC Loud and clear, 17. We're with you.
082:00:48 Evans Okay, we didn't get you there for about 5 minutes, Bob, with good up-link signal strength. Were you guys having a problem?
082:00:56 CC No, not that I know of. We were getting a lot of noise down here, and we seem to think that you guys were prob - assumed you guys were turned away from us or something. But we're with you.
082:01:10 Evans No, you might think about that one a little bit. We had a very strong up-link - signal strength, as good as right now. And Gene was trying to call you, off and on, for several minutes and we didn't get any response. But sounds real good now.
082:01:25 CC Okay, sorry about that.
082:01:31 Evans Hey, Bob. Good morning. It's a good chance to talk to you for once.
082:01:35 CC Yes, for once, yes. Talk to me now this next hour and I won't talk to you again for another 3 or 4 days, Ronald.
082:01:43 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
082:01:46 CC Nice to be able to talk to somebody for a change -
082:01:48 Schmitt Bob, your friendly medical officer -
082:01:51 CC Go ahead.
082:01:56 Schmitt Go ahead, if you've got something to say.
082:02:02 CC Speak.
082:02:06 Schmitt Okay. Your friendly medical officer has all the good words starting with the CDR and the food. Are you ready to copy?
082:02:15 CC Ready to copy.
082:02:24 Schmitt Okay. It was a big day yesterday, eating-wise. CDR had sausage patties, pears, and cocoa for breakfast. And a quarter - one-fourth cheese spread, one-half bread, and one-half cereal bar, and one orange beverage for lunch. Tomato soup, half a hamburger, half mustard, vanilla pudding, and an orange-pineapple drink for dinner.
082:03:00 CC Okay, copy that.
082:03:12 Schmitt ... 5 hours of good sleep, and two more containers of water.
082:03:24 CC Okay, 17, I got the CDRs food and then you broke up, and I got 5 hours of sleep and two containers of water. Was there something between?
082:03:36 Schmitt That's firm, your - his PRD reading, 17032.
082:03:43 CC Okay, copy that.
082:03:54 Schmitt And I think, Bob, we're coming around different OMNI, so I'll wait on the rest of it.
082:03:59 CC Roger, That's affirm.
082:06:53 Schmitt Okay, Houston; 17. How do you read now?
082:06:55 CC Okay, read you again; go ahead.
082:07:02 Schmitt Okay, for the LMP, the food eaten - Well, let's see, I guess it's a tossup: eaten versus not eaten, so I'll give you what I ate. Sausage patties, grits, pears, pineapple-grapefruit drink, coffee, and let me make a note that the package of peaches in that pack had been - was broken in the package. Also, chicken - I had chicken soup, ham, bread, orange drink, and four bacon squares. For dinner, I sort of ate some leftovers and grape drink, corn chowder, chocolate pudding. And I've had - well, stand by. The PRD reading: 24080; and 7-1/2 hours of very good sleep last night. I took a Seconal in order to get to sleep, and I've had 1 and 1 or - 2-1/2 containers of water since last report.
082:08:35 CC Okay, copy all that, Jack.
082:08:46 Schmitt Okay, the CMP, the chowhound of the kennel here, had: sausage, grits, fruit cocktail, orange beverage, and coffee. He had ham, cheese spread, peaches, cereal bar, and orange-pineapple drink. Later on, he had tomato soup, half a hamburger, half mustard, vanilla pudding, sugar cookies, grape drink, and tea. And he has a complaint this morning, much like mine, that his apricot package had broken in the bag; and, although not too significant itself, it makes everything else pretty sticky.
082:09:36 CC I copy that.
082:09:45 Schmitt Okay, CMP medical is 15031 PRD; he had 7 hours restless sleep, and he'd like a comment from the doctors on how that looked on his biomed; and he had a Seconal, and he's had four containers of water.
082:10:08 CC Okay, we copy all that one also. Jack, you guys still going to fit in your space suits?
082:10:20 Schmitt If you'd stick around - you'd know we tried those on yesterday.
082:10:25 CC Roger; copy. Tried to talk to you guys yesterday morning, but I didn't quite make it there, there was a problem apparently some place.
082:10:37 Schmitt That's all right, we're stuffing him with food so he can't sleep.
082:10:42 CC Okay, and the comment concerning Ron's sleep from the Surgeon, Jack, is that he was restless the first hour and had periods of restlessness during the night, but we logged him for about 7 hours of sleep also. But we did see periods of wakefulness, some of which were maybe up to 10 minutes long.
082:11:07 Evans That sounds about right; that's good, thank you. If I can't tell how long I'm awake and, you know, how long you were really asleep.
082:11:15 CC I'll tell you, Ron, if you wake up during the night, you might sit there and stare at the second hand then maybe you could count and tell how long you're awake.
082:11:25 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
082:11:32 CC Okay, we owe you guys a consumable update - update. And on RCS consumables, your RCS fuel remaining is still 1.4 percent above the Flight Plan; that's a slight improvement over the 1.3 percent from yesterday.
082:12:18 Schmitt I guess everything else is about like yesterday. Is that right, Bob?
082:12:22 CC Roger. The consumables are still about the same. And if you guys will wind your watches, we'll consider the postsleep checklist finished.
082:12:33 Schmitt Okay, and Geno has got his null bias check for you.
082:12:36 CC Okay, Roger on that. We're waiting.
082:12:44 Cernan Okay, Bob, made two checks over a period of 100 seconds. One was minus 99.0 and the other was minus 98.9.
082:12:56 CC Okay, we copy minus 99-0 and minus 98.9? Geno.
082:13:07 Cernan And - -
082:13:10 CC And we'd like OMNI Charlie, please there, 17.
082:15:25 CC And, Apollo 17; Houston. We'd like to recommend you go SQUELCH, OFF, at this time, if you haven't; and we'll keep calling you the OMNIs to change as you rotate there. Over.
082:15:41 Schmitt Okay, Bob, we've been flying normally with it enabled; maybe you think that's the problem.
082:15:51 CC Stand by on that and, while we're thinking about that, can we confirm that the only medication you've had is a Seconal for you and a Seconal for Ron, and nothing for the Commander?
082:16:06 Cernan This is Geno, that's right; I did not take any Seconal last night. One thing I wanted to talk to you about though, I - I took one antigas pill after breakfast, I took one after supper, and I took one prior to going to sleep, which were probably within an hour apart. If you've got a better solution than those gas pills, I'd sure like to hear it.
082:16:36 CC Understand that, Gene. We'll get back with you, I guess, on that later.
082:17:19 CC And, Jack, as far as turning the SQUELCH, OFF, they do believe that we're better with that for margins and general management at this distance with the OMNI. As soon as we plot a PTC and go on the high gain, we'll be much better off.
082:17:38 Schmitt Okay, Bob.
082:18:46 CC And, 17; Houston. You can do without your water dump now. We're in good shape. We'll dump at 94 hours.
082:18:58 Cernan 94 hours. Okay.
082:20:12 Cernan Bob, does that mean we can go ahead with the urine dump on schedule?
082:20:18 CC Say again there, Geno, on the urine dump.
082:20:44 CC Say again, Geno, on the urine dump.
082:20:50 Cernan Roger. Can we press on with it on schedule?
082:20:53 CC That's affirmative, sir. It's Just that we don't need to do the water dump, that's all.
082:20:57 Cernan Oh.
082:20:59 Cernan Okay, fine.
082:24:40 Schmitt Hello, Hou - Houston; 17. How do you read?
082:24:43 CC Roger. We have you back again, 17.
082:24:49 Cernan Okay. We may play the S-band squelch by ear, a little bit. We got an awful lot of noise when you guys drop off the line. So, if that's all right, we'll just use it as required. Also, I'm on frame l63 on the Hasselblad, and I just completed two pictures of the Earth about 5 minutes ago. And there's one that I did not report late yesterday at about 72:30 GET. A set of two pictures of the Earth.
082:25:38 CC Copy that.
082:25:45 CC Say again that time. Was that 78:30? You were sleeping then.
082:25:55 Cernan Negative. That was 72:30.
082:25:58 CC Okay. Copy that. And part of the reason we had a little problem that - this - this last time, Jack, was we planned to call the OMNIs and we didn't get the word around down here. And we didn't call the OMNI to you in time. We're still planning on doing that, and I think we'll be more coordinated next time.
082:26:25 Schmitt Okay. We'll bear with you.
082:26:41 CC And, Jack, I presume that's magazine November November.
082:26:52 Schmitt That's affirm, Bob.
082:30:23 CC Omni, Charlie, 17 please.
082:30:40 Evans You got it.
082:32:35 CC And, Apollo 17; Houston. For your information, we are scrubbing midcourse 4; and you can stay in PTC until 83:30, which will be about when you start to get ready for LOI anyway. We'll give you a call on that.
082:33:32 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now 14,948 nautical miles from the Moon. And, CAPCOM, Bob Parker, just advising the crew that we will not require a midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion. The flight dynamics officer had been reviewing tracking data and establishing another vector, as he calls it, on the trajectory based on that last vector and it appeared that a midcourse correction of something less than a half of foot per second would be required, if performed. And flight director, Gene Kranz, made the decision to cancel the midcourse correction prior to lunar orbit insertion.
082:34:30 Schmitt Hey Bob, we're about three quarters of the way through eating. You got some news for us?
082:34:37 CC Stand by. I'll see. Did you catch the midcourse-4 scrub?
082:34:44 Schmitt Yes, sir. Apparently, you're not getting some of our acknowledgements.
082:34:48 CC Okay, must be. Captain Young here wants to tell you that it's raining outside; and the paperboy apparently hasn't come in yet. OMNI Delta, please.
082:35:13 Cernan I'm surprised he didn't get his papers delivered before he came in.
082:35:18 CC Roger. I suppose I should apologize to all the paperboys after saying that, but the news is still being put together for you guys. And - stand by.
082:35:54 CC And, Geno, some advice to you on the gas pills. I guess - suggestion down here from the Surgeon is that one thing we ought to be sure to do is chew the pills thoroughly. It apparently is - helps in their effectiveness quite a bit; and Dr. Young, beside me, also suggested if you're chewing chewing gum, you might cut down on that a bit because he thinks this might be causing some gas.
082:36:29 Cernan Thank you.
082:36:41 Cernan I might add that both of those alternatives have been - worked on.
082:36:47 CC We thought probably so.
082:37:13 Schmitt Bob, although we're getting close to concentrating our attention on the Moon, it doesn't decrease the interest in looking back at the patterns of activity we can see on the Earth. That storm I talked about yesterday that was in North Africa, looks like it has left that area and has moved in - maybe, if it's there at all, it's just over the - Iberian Peninsula, and maybe Gibraltar and that area is getting a little activity today.
082:38:02 CC Okay; copy that, Jack.
082:38:03 Schmitt It does not look very well organized, but - it's not very well organized right now, but - it's right out on the LM, and it's hard to get a good view of it.
082:38:17 CC Okay.
082:38:18 Schmitt The storm I guessed yesterday - I thought might be moving into the Cape of Good Hope looks like it's dissipating and also staying south of that area. The whole of Africa is essentially clear, except in the southern part of the intertropical convergence area where there's scattered patches of - of fairly dense clouds. They're probably getting scattered rain showers of some kind in there this morning. Some of those extend farther south than I've - than we've seen them - down into South Africa. There's a - On one of the earlier revs, although now it's at the terminator, it looked like there was a depression developing about 30 degrees longitude, east of Madagascar in the middle of the Indian Ocean. A little bit northeast of Madagascar, there's also a new area of clouds developed that looks like it's getting organized into a cyclone pattern.
082:39:32 CC Roger. OMNI Alfa, please.
082:39:41 Schmitt Okay, you got it.
082:39:42 CC Thank you.
082:39:51 CC Okay. And, Jack, while you guys are finishing your lunch - your breakfast there, excuse me - Are you all on your headsets?
082:40:04 Schmitt Yes, sir. Go ahead.
082:40:06 CC Okay. Let me brief you on a little funny that we we saw last night. And I'll start the briefing by mentioning that, at the present time, it is not a great concern; but just to keep you up to date with what's going on, let me mention it to you. About 70 hours, which was probably about the time of your last exercise period, we saw three funnies with the hydrogen tanks - as I say, none of which is causing any great concern. The first of these was a shift of the limits of the pressure switch, the one that turns the heaters on and off. Remember, there are two of those switches, one on tank 1 and one on tank 2 and they work in series. And one of those switches - we can't tell which, but we suspect it's probably tank 2 because of the other funnies I'll get to in a minute on tank 2 - one of those switches went from a 13-psi range; in other words, a plus or minus 6.5 psi range. It changed its range down to plus or minus 1.5 psi. So it's now - its total range is only 3 psi. The main result of that is that it means that the pressure switches and the motor switch turning the heater on acts more frequently over shorter periods of time. The second thing which we observed following this - and we're not at all sure if there is any correlation between this and the others - We observed a high-frequency pressure oscillation in tank 2. It was about a 5-psi peak-to-peak oscillation, a frequency of about 2 cycles per second. And this lasted about 3 to 5 minutes. A third funny that we observed - and this was in tank 2 - the third funny that we observed was an erratic - and possibly correlated with the high-frequency oscillation - but an erratic total fuel cell current, and here again we were looking at - oh, peak-to-peak variations of something like 5 amps, or of 5 to 10 amps. And the suspicion is that, coupled with the shift in the limits of the pressure switch, some acoustic vibrations were set up in that tank - we may have seen them causing the oscillation of the motor switch, which was then reflected in the fuel cell currents. The - again, these erratic and possibly correlated fuel cell currents lasted for about 3 to 5 minutes. And since then, all during the night, they've [sic] been no further events of this sort; and the pressure switch with its reduced limits has been acting quite normally, just with the reduced limits overnight. As I say again, we're looking at it, people are studying it in great detail, with no real answer at the moment; but there is no great concern at present, and it appears that the worst that can happen is for the motor switch to fail because of overuse. And if this were to happen, it would force us to go to man - manual management of the heaters on the H2 tank. But that appears at the moment to be the worst, that we can anticipate from this - from this group of funnies. Over.
082:43:40 Cernan Okay, Bob. I understand that. You know, I wonder if we ought to stop stirring the cryos the way we've been doing it.
082:43:56 CC That - that has been suggested, but - but, again, it's not very clear that any of these things are terribly correlated.
082:44:06 Cernan Okay. Also, you know, if you want to reduce the activity on that switch - depending on how much you need to have it done during quiet periods, such as eat periods and things like that - we could go to manual operation.
082:44:21 CC Negative, Jack, because the switch - OMNI Bravo, please, 17.
082:44:27 CC ... If you pull out your schematics there, you'll find that the - no matter what you do, the - you can turn the thing off, in fact, and the switch will continue to operate the motor switch - the pressure switch will continue to operate the motor switch off the service module buses. There's nothing you can do. The only thing you'll do if you go from AUTO to MANUAL or OFF is you'll keep the current from going to the heaters, but the motor switch will still operate.
082:44:57 Cernan Okay. Thank you for the education.
082:45:33 CC And I've been corrected. The frequency of the pressure oscillation was more in the vicinity of a cycle every 4 or 5 seconds.
082:45:56 Cernan Okay.
082:46:22 CC And 7 - -
082:46:23 Schmitt Bob, let me ask a couple of questions to make sure - -
082:46:25 CC Go ahead.
082:46:29 Schmitt Make sure I understand this. You're not sure whether the heater cycling and the pressure cycling were correlated. is that correct?
082:46:38 CC That's affirmative.
082:46:44 Schmitt In a cycle very 4 or 5 seconds, is it possible for the heaters to affect the tank that fast?
082:46:55 CC That's not possible, so the only thing that really - we think could - The tank is too much of a heat sink to do it that way. What may have happened was that if you set up an oscillation - a mechanical oscillation in the tank - through - one way or another, that this could then have acted back up on the motor. But the motor switch in driving the heaters could not have reinforced the oscillation because the tank is too much of a heat sink.
082:47:26 Schmitt Okay. When did you say this happened with respect to our exercise period?
082:47:34 CC That's not well pinned down, 17. We do know it hasn't occurred since about 71 hours; and it did occur at approximately 70 hours, which was about the time of your exercise period. But we haven't been able to correlate that exactly with the start of or the finish of the exercise period.
082:47:55 Schmitt Well, you know you should be able to do that because of the biomed on - at least on me, and Ron was on, too. But, as soon as I started exercising, you should have the biomed data on my heart rate. It was an unscheduled exercise period. We just went into it before an eat period there, I think. Let me check back.
082:48:16 CC Okay. And we can check back and inform you more specific on what the times were there in terms of your exercise period, also. I'd like OMNI Charlie, please, there, 17. And we might mention that oscillations like this have been seen on the ground under somewhat different circumstances, but oscillations like this have been seen on the ground in ground tests previously. And I might say, also, that as far as other things in the spacecraft are concerned, everything looks absolutely normal or nominal, as the case may be, and in great shape and emph - I'd emphasize again that we've seen none of this oscillation again since 71 hours. Over.
082:49:03 Schmitt Okay, Bob. That was, as you say, pretty close to the exercise. I can't pin it down in the checklist exactly, but it was somewhere after ALFMED was complete and before we changed that canister. I think we changed that canister a little early, about 70:50. So I think the medic should have pretty good data on when we were exercising. And the reason I say that was because the way we were - I was exercising anyway - I'm sort of running in place against the LEB and conceivably could have gotten an oscillation going in the tank.
082:49:51 CC Roger. Understand that.
082:52:54 CC OMNI Delta, 17.
082:53:10 CC And, 17, we did a little - a little investigation of times down here. We found that at 71:12 you were exercising at 130 beats per minute there Jack. And we think the exercise period ended about 10 minutes later at 71:22. The H2 tank funnies started at about 71:37 with the pressure switch shift and 71:42 with the oscillations. Over. So, there it's - oh, at least 15 minutes after the exercise period was over.
082:53:49 Schmitt Okay. I just wanted to clear my reputation, Bob. Now it's perfectly clean again.
082:54:01 CC As clean as ever, anyway.
082:54:30 CC Okay. 17, I guess we decided we'd let - we'll run the OMNIs down here instead of having you guys push them all the time. So if you'll select OMNI Bravo at the present time, then we'll take over and run the OMNIs for you.
082:54:50 Schmitt Okay, Bob. It's not too big a deal. If anytime you think you want to talk to us continuously, go ahead and call them, if we're not busy.
082:55:00 CC Okay. Copy that. Let us know when you're ready. I've got a pad here for you guys to copy, but there's no big hurry on it. Finish your eat period and give us a call.
082:55:17 Schmitt Okay. I'll be with you in about 5 minutes.
082:55:23 CC Say again there, 17,
082:55:29 Schmitt Be right with you, Bob.
082:55:30 CC All right.
082:55:35 Cernan And, looking at the Flight Plan, we're going to go ahead and change a canister; and we've got the H2 purge LINE HEATERS, ON. We're going to configure for the urine dump. We'll go ahead and do our - stop our PTC at 83:30, and then we'll do our P52.
082:55:57 CC Roger. Copy that.
082:56:30 CC And, 17, that P52 at 83:10 was primarily intended for the MCC-4. There's some more following, anyway, before LOI. So we suggest you scrub the P52 at 83:10.
082:56:51 Evans Okay, fine. I may just do a little OJT without torquing.
082:56:57 CC That's your business.
082:57:10 PAO This is Apollo control at 82 hours 57 minutes. We're completing a shift handover at this time in Mission Control. The team of flight controllers headed by flight director, Gerry Griffin, coming on now to replace the Gene Kranz team. The spacecraft communicator on the upcoming shift is Astronaut Gordon Fullerton. We do not plan to have a change of shift press briefing at this shift change.
082:57:40 Cernan Bob, when we come out of PTC, then you want us to go right to the SIM door jett attitude?
082:57:49 CC That's affirmative, 17.
082:57:54 Cernan Okay, and you want us to do that about 80 - 83:30, huh?
082:58:00 CC Roger. That's affirm.
082:58:05 Cernan Okay.
082:58:07 Schmitt Bob, what pad are you going to give me?
082:58:09 CC Okay, I've got a - coming up, pericynthion - plus-2-hour abort pad here.
083:01:33 CC 17, Houston.
083:01:39 Schmitt Yes, Bob. Here is 17. Say, for a while here, why don't you guys go ahead and manage the OMNIs. I think we can get things done a little better; and when it becomes inconvenient for us to switch, we'll let you know.
083:01:57 CC Okay. You want us to call them to you - is that what you're saying by you manag - we manage the OMNIs?
083:02:04 Schmitt Yes, we lose 5 or 10 minutes going around here without comm, and it usually breaks up seemingly when somebody has something to say, either you or us.
083:02:14 CC Roger. Okay. That's fine. Stand by.
083:02:23 Schmitt That's up to you guys, but, it seems to me, it would be more convenient.
083:02:28 CC Okay; things are good now, Jack. Do you want to copy this pericynthion-plus-2 pad at the present time?
083:02:37 Schmitt Yes, I'm just about ready, Bob.
083:02:41 CC Okay, give me a call when you get it.
083:02:50 CC And, while you're getting ready there, you might think back to yesterday afternoon just after the exercise period; and the question that's raised is whether you were running the DAC or some other miscellaneous equipment at that time which might have caused some high current usage - or erratic current usage.
083:03:27 Schmitt We'll think about that, Bob; but offhand, none of us can remember doing anything like that.
083:03:32 CC Okay; copy that.
083:06:15 CC OMNI Charlie, 17.
083:07:35 CC And, 17, your faithful night shift CAPCOM is signing off. I'll talk to you on the surface tomorrow. Good luck.
083:07:47 Cernan Thank you, Robert. Looking forward to seeing you there.
083:07:51 Schmitt Are you leaving us, Bob?
083:07:55 CC That's affirm; he's already left.
083:08:00 Schmitt Boy, he doesn't stick around long, does he? And he wanted to read that pad to me; well, that's too bad. Okay, Gordy, I can take the pad now.
083:08:13 CC Okay, Jack. It's pericynthion plus 2; SPS/G&N. Weight is 66373; plus 1.18, minus 0.l4; ignition time is 090:49:55.82; plus 1787.5, minus 1891.7, minus 2396.8; attitude is 237, 126, 332; and all the rest of the PAD is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage is none. Remarks: number 1, burn docked; number 2, assumes LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
083:09:50 Schmitt Okay. Pericynthion plus 2, SPS/G&N; 66373, 1 - plus 1.18, minus 0.14; 090:49:55.82; plus 1787.5, minus 1891.7, minus 2396.8; 237, 126, 332; rest of pad is NA; Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. No ullage. Remark 1, burn docked; 2 is LOI REFSMMAT assumed.
083:10:31 CC That's correct.
083:10:47 CC Need OMNI Delta now.
083:11:39 Evans Houston, 17. Canister change complete.
083:11:44 CC Okay.
083:15:08 CC America, switch to OMNI Alpha.
083:17:38 CC America, Houston. I have the morning news if it's a convenient time.
083:17:46 Schmitt Fire away, Gordo.
083:17:49 CC Okay, first of all the weather. It's raining fairly - fairly heavily all night; there's a lot of water standing around. Temperatures here are in the high 50's, but it's supposed to get a little cooler tonight with a low in the 40's. I think you know how the Dallas-Redskin game came out - the only thing additional mentioned here is that chances look good now that Washington and Dallas may meet in the rubber games for the National Conference representative in the Super Bowl. In the other pro game yesterday, a field goal by Don Cockroft was the difference in a 26-to-24 win by Cleveland over rival Cincinnati. Other sports highlights: The Pittsburgh Steelers play the Oilers today in the Dome. Other big games will be Atlanta at San Francisco, Green Bay at Minnesota, and Baltimore at Kansas City. Tennessee State beat Drake University in the Pioneer Bowl 29 to 7. And East Texas State beat Carson Newman in the NAIA football playoffs. The Southwest Conference has pulled out of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Some college basketball scores: The Houston Cougars routed Xavier last night out at Hofheinz Pavilion 114 to 73; and Rice downed George Washington 93 to 89. Geno, you'll be glad to hear Purdue ripped TCU 101 to 70, and it was Texas over Oklahoma State 86 to 66. And SMU over Oklahoma City 106 to 83. We couldn't find any score at Cal Tech, Jack, but - Switch to OMNI Bravo, please. But one final score, Ron, Kansas lost to Iowa 69 to 56. The only thing new on the plane crash Friday in Chicago - it's reported here that the plane was apparently waved off because another plane was still on the assigned runway. The Democratic Party's stormy session in Washington saw the old-guard Democrats apparently take back control of the Party from pro-McGovern forces. Mrs. Jean Westwood was replaced as Party Chairman by Texas lawyer/businessman Robert Strauss. Former-president Truman appears to be more than holding his own at a hospital in Kansas City. There's a good chance the 88-year-old former Chief Executive may be taken off the critical list. There's been a 1-day interruption in the secret peace talks between Dr. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. The two conferred for over 3 hours yesterday. Both sides have agreed not to talk to newsmen on any substantive matters. In other news highlights, President Nixon has named Daniel Moynihan as U.S. Ambassador to India. And Chilean President Allende has flown to Cuba to visit Fidel Castro. Here's an interesting one: A 45-year-old pilot lost in the Arctic for 31 days has been found alive and well. Three companions were killed. The Soviet Party boss Leonid Breshnev has delayed a scheduled visit to the U.S. It looks as if the visit may come in the fall rather than this coming spring. One last note: The news media says that the flight of Apollo 17 is the smoothest on record so far, and I call that last one pretty accurate reporting. Over.
083:22:11 Schmitt Thank you, Gordo, appreciate the news. Sounds like things are still happening down there.
083:22:36 CC Got some more parochial news here - -
083:22:39 Schmitt Houston, we're starting our -
083:22:40 CC Go ahead.
083:22:44 Schmitt No, we just - I just wanted to tell you we're starting our waste dumps.
083:22:48 CC Okay. A little more parochial news. I have your oxygen consumable status here. Tank 1 is still running 4 percent below the line; the other two are right on the line; really no news there. Same with the hydrogen; all three are essentially right on the preflight lines. Over.
083:23:16 Schmitt Okay, that's the way like to hear it.
083:23:22 Schmitt We'll bring all of it home if we can.
083:23:25 CC Okay.
083:24:08 CC We'd like OMNI Charlie, please.
083:28:49 CC Need OMNI Delta now.
083:29:07 Evans Okay, Gordy. How would you like a hydrogen purge this morning?
083:29:14 CC Let me make sure.
083:29:46 Evans Houston, 17.
083:29:49 CC 17, we do want the hydrogen purge; go ahead.
083:29:57 Evans Okay, hydrogen purge is in process. You'd never believe it, dust collection container assembly serial number 5725 developed a hole in it. Fortunately, with a lot of dexterity, I was able to put a piece of tape over the hole.
083:30:31 CC Okay. I guess that's why we sent men into space.
083:30:38 Evans (Laughter) Right.
083:31:09 Schmitt Gordy, while the purges are going on here, I might mention, a little while ago, I looked at the Earth througih a Polaroid colored glass again and had a full view of Africa. And it appeared as if, in the red and yellow portions of Africa, that the land areas darkened considerably more than those areas that are green or foliated, and that would be the central portion; that is, they darkened with the orien - handle on the lens going in a north-south rather than east-west.
083:32:02 CC Roger.
083:32:12 Schmitt The land areas, though, still do not show as marked a contrast as do the oceans.
083:32:19 CC Roger,
083:33:22 CC We'd like OMNI Alfa.
083:34:37 Schmitt Okay, hydrogen purge is complete. HEATER is going OFF.
083:34:40 CC Roger.
083:35:00 Schmitt Gordy, it looks like the cloudiness and possibly the showers associated with the intertropical convergence over Africa are moving as far south as Johannesburg right now. It's quite a distinct change from even an - an hour or so ago - a couple of hours ago. They're down into an area where, presumably, they're not normally found if vegetation indications are any criteria. And also, in the Atlantic - South Atlantic near Goa island, there seems to be a possible storm developing as part of what was probably now a fairly weak front. And whether or not that will develop into anything and move in towards Capetown is hard to say at this time.
083:36:08 CC Roger, Jack.
083:36:30 Schmitt It looks as if our old friends at Ascension are enjoying a fairly nice day out there.
083:36:39 CC Roger.
083:37:44 CC OMNI Bravo, please.
083:40:09 CC Jack, this is Houston. We recall you mentioning the purge complete and the heaters off. We just wanted to be sure that you did leave the H2 purge line heaters on for 10 minutes after terminating the purge. Over.
083:40:29 Schmitt Thank you, Gordy. I'll turn them back on.
083:40:32 CC Okay.
083:40:45 Schmitt Who's sitting over there reminding me of all these good things this morning?
083:40:52 CC Well, that was a combination effort by John Aaron and Charlie Dumis.
083:41:00 Schmitt Wow! You've got a real powerful team there.
083:41:05 CC You bet.
083:41:11 Schmitt Hey, you really ought to get them a cup of coffee though sometime this morning.
083:42:15 Schmitt Gordy, also curious who's wa - who's watching Challenger this morning?
083:42:23 CC Well, let's see.
083:42:27 Schmitt Not much to see, I realize, but I'm sure somebody's there.
083:42:36 CC We need OMNI Charlie, Jack.
083:42:51 CC Well, we've got the first team on - the gold team - your LOI and landing team, and the LM guys are Merritt and Thorson.
083:43:08 Schmitt You cut out on the telmu. Who is it?
083:43:13 CC Merlin. Merlin the Magician.
083:43:27 Schmitt I'm sorry, Gordy, you clipped off the first again.
083:43:32 CC Merlin Merritt, the magician.
083:43:37 Schmitt Oh, yes; of course. As I recall, he's the only one that really understands Thorson.
083:43:58 CC He says he doesn't think anybody understands Thorson.
083:44:13 Schmitt Well, we're sure looking forward to having a chance to make those guys work a little bit.
083:44:25 CC They say - well - Merlin says he is, too. I don't know about Thorson. He's out of the room at the moment.
083:44:36 Schmitt He's probably spilling coffee in SPAN.
083:44:40 CC Roger.
083:46:32 CC We need OMNI Delta now.
083:48:46 Schmitt Gordy, for some reason, it's a lot easier to tell the difference between the Antarctic Continent and the icepack.
083:49:00 CC Roger.
083:49:07 Schmitt Maybe the glancing Sun is picking up the breaks in the icepack and giving it a different appearance.
083:49:18 CC Roger.
083:49:33 Schmitt The continent itself - all you can see are very - what appear to be very gentle differences in - or subtle differences in shading, possibly indicating rolling relief due to a photometric dark beam along the - as a function of local phase angle.
083:50:05 CC Copy.
083:50:21 Schmitt And except, maybe, for the area just - well, no - even there, I didn't the ... - it looks like the whole visible continent is clear of clouds this morning. Possibly some clouds just east of the Ross Sea, which is just coming into view, I think.
083:50:53 CC Roger.
083:50:56 Schmitt I know we don't have many listeners in Antarctica, but it looks like they're having a - exceptionally fine day over the portion of the continent we can see.
083:51:13 CC Roger.
083:51:20 Schmitt That weak front I mentioned in the South Atlantic stretches from the apparent storm center around Goa island - I'm not sure about that pronunciation either - up just to the coast of South America from Brazil, where it reaches its maximum eastward extent.
083:51:50 CC Roger.
083:51:57 Schmitt Our sub - our zero-phase point of the spacecraft is in the middle of the South Atlantic. And it's moderately bright, although there is no central bright point at all - a fairly large area, but moderately bright. The seas down there might be moderately choppy or rough this morning.
083:52:34 CC Okay.
083:54:27 Schmitt Houston, 17.
083:54:30 CC Go.
083:54:35 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You might say "uh" before you - you start your sentences because you're clipping your first word. The question I had was the pan camera - we're on 1-6 of the Experiments Checklist and need your word on whether you want the PAN CAMERA, OFF, at this time - SELF TEST, OFF.
083:54:56 CC Stand by.
083:55:16 CC We'd like you to leave it in HEATERS.
083:55:21 Schmitt Okay, we're leaving it in HEATERS.
083:56:39 Schmitt Okay, Houston. The S-BAND AUX, TV is to SCIENCE - -
083:56:46 CC Roger.
083:56:47 Schmitt - - and I'm turning the IR, ON.
083:56:49 CC Okay.
083:56:58 CC Jack, we'd like OMNI Alfa.
083:57:04 Schmitt How do you read on OMNI Alfa?
083:57:07 CC Okay; you're readable, fair amount of noise.
083:57:30 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read?
083:57:32 CC Jack, this is Houston. You're clear with considerable noise. Over.
083:58:36 Schmitt Houston, how do you read 17?
083:58:39 CC Apollo 17, Houston. Still reading you with a lot of background noise. Over.
083:59:04 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read?
083:59:08 CC 17, Houston. Weak but readable.
083:59:14 Schmitt Okay, we'll have you up on your high gain pretty soon. I'm turning the IR, ON.
083:59:21 CC Roger; Roger; Roger. IR, ON.
083:59:36 Schmitt Say again, Gordy.
083:59:38 CC We copy. IR, ON. Over.
083:59:56 CC America, we'll take the high gain now. PITCH, minus 15; YAW, 188. Over.
084:01:07 CC America, Houston. Let's try the high gain now. I see you're moving it. Minus 26 and 199.
084:01:22 Schmitt Okay, I think we've got a main load block now on the high gain. How do you read?
084:01:27 CC You're loud and clear, Jack. It looks good here.
084:01:33 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Let me keep going here. I did not turn the IR on because I thought you said something. IR is going ON now.
084:01:41 CC Okay. What I said is, "Roger. IR, ON."
084:01:56 Evans Coming on.
084:02:03 Evans MAPPING CAMERA going to STANDBY.
084:02:06 CC Okay; STANDBY on the MAP CAMERA.
084:02:34 Evans Okay. I'm waiting your cue for PAN CAMERA POWER, to POWER.
084:02:41 CC Roger. We're still locking up on the data. We'll give you a cue.
084:03:35 CC Okay, Jack. You have our cue for PAN CAMERA POWER to POWER.
084:03:53 Evans Okay. PAN CAMERA going to POWER.
084:04:13 Evans Okay, Gordo. We're in the SIM bay door jett attitude.
084:04:17 CC Roger.
084:06:12 PAO This is Apollo Control 84 hours 6 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Present distance from the Moon -
084:06:19 Evans PAN CAMERA POWER is going to BOOST.
084:06:22 CC Roger.
084:06:31 PAO Velocity 3,763 feet per second. Next major maneuver is Lunar Orbit Insertion, which presently is scheduled for 88 hours 54 minutes 22 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. Total DELTA-V or change in velocity which will be retrograde of 2,988 feet per second. Service propulsion system engine burn time of 6 minutes 38.08 seconds. Mother Earth is 206,059 nautical miles behind Apollo 17, and locked up on the high-gain antenna at this time so we should have fairly good communications all the way through the SIM BAY door jettison and until the spacecraft passes behind the Moon prior to the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver, which now is some 4 hours and 37 minutes away, roughly. At 84:07 standing by live on air-to-ground this is Apollo Control.
084:09:14 Evans Oh, down there. Oh.
084:09:43 Evans Me to you.
084:10:08 Evans Okay, Houston. I'm in VOX now. Do you read?
084:10:12 CC Yes, sir. You're loud and clear.
084:10:18 Evans Okay. On panel 181, the LOGIC POWER MAIN A, MAIN B circuit breakers are CLOSED.
084:10:26 CC Roger.
084:10:28 Evans Okay. LOGIC POWER number 1 is going to JETT, number 2 to JETT. Standing by for your GO, Houston.
084:10:39 CC Okay. Stand by.
084:10:43 Evans Okay.
084:10:47 CC Okay, America, you're - -
084:10:48 Evans What happens now is - -
084:10:49 CC - - GO to jett the SIM bay door.
084:10:56 Evans Okay, Jack, let me know when you've got the camera ready.
084:11:04 Cernan Okay, Houston. You say we are GO to jett the SIM bay down a little early, huh?
084:11:10 CC Well, stand by. I think we're backing down here. Stand by 1 second.
084:11:17 Cernan Okay.
084:11:39 Evans No. I checked it at one frame.
084:11:44 Cernan Might check it.
084:11:46 CC Okay, America. Once again, you're GO to jett the door, and you can do it early, if you wish.
084:11:54 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We'll do it on - on Ron's mark down there.
084:12:00 CC Okay.
084:12:01 Schmitt Hey, Houston. You know this attitude - this attitude has the Sun right into window 5 - it's probably going to be on the lens of the camera. I'll - I'll try to shade it the best I can, but I don't have an awful lot of hope for these pictures.
084:12:25 CC Roger.
084:12:29 Cernan I think we're probably stuck with it, Jack, because we need to be in this right attitude, for the clearance and -
084:12:45 Evans Okay. SIM door jett 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
084:12:53 Evans JETT. Oh, I got a good bang. You see it, Jack?
084:13:00 Schmitt Houston, there it goes, I got it out the hatch window and it looks like it was a clean jett. It's rolling and pitching and yawing, slightly. There is a lot of garbage that came out with it.
084:13:11 Evans Can you take a picture, Gene?
084:13:27 Cernan Let me see it.
084:13:32 Evans Ah - ah (laughter).
084:13:40 Cernan You take a picture. Yes, there it goes.
084:13:43 Cernan Hello, Houston. How do you read?
084:13:44 Evans It's really - -
084:13:45 CC Loud and clear. Sounding good.
084:13:49 Cernan Okay. Did you get the word we got a clean jett?
084:13:52 CC That's right, Geno. Sounds good.
084:13:55 Cernan Okay. The door's moving - the door's moving directly away from us, mostly rolling. And it looks like it was a very clean - clean separation.
084:14:14 CC Okay.
084:14:21 Evans Yes. Boy, we got a good bang out of it. You could hear that - that pyro going, I think. It's rotating at about 5 - or 1 revolution per 5 seconds.
084:14:33 CC Roger.
084:14:42 Evans And it's rotating - what, about the long axis? Yes. Rotating about the long axis.
084:14:57 Cernan Houston, the garbage that I said went with it was just a small amount of debris, I'm sure around the sealant pyro area. There was one, oh, about a 4-foot-length piece of, oh, 1 or 2 inch tapelike material that also went out with it.
084:15:18 CC Roger, Gene.
084:15:22 Schmitt (Laughter) Okay. What do we do with these LOGIC POWER switches? Don't they go back to OFF now?
084:15:30 Evans DOOR JETT's OFF, down.
084:15:34 Evans Okay. You go on to the DEPLOY/RETRACT on number 1.
084:15:38 Evans DEPLOY/RETRACT on number 2.
084:15:45 Cernan FUEL CELL REACT VALVES are NORMAL. I'm sort of glad we had those in LATCH.
084:15:50 Evans Yes, me, too, because that's a pretty good bang.
084:16:25 CC You've loaded the wrong pitch angle there in NOUN 22.
084:16:40 Cernan Well, I'm - I got 10 degrees loaded; that's what we've got copied down here in the change.
084:16:50 CC Maybe it's our mistake. Let us check here, Geno.
084:16:55 Cernan Okay, we got 320, 010, and 324, and before I go into the muver - maneuver, I'll roll right about 12 degrees,
084:17:14 CC Bad call, Gene. Our error; you're right.
084:17:20 Cernan Thank you, sir.
084:17:27 Evans Okay, and the UV SPECTROMETER is going to go ON here.
084:17:33 Evans MARK it.
084:17:34 CC Roger. Mark the UV.
084:17:39 Schmitt Okay, and the IR will be OFF on your cue.
084:17:45 CC Okay, Jack, that'll be 12 or 15 minutes from now.
084:17:52 Schmitt Okay, just give us a call.
084:19:43 Schmitt Okay, the 100-WATT O2 HEATER circuit breaker's coming OPEN.
084:19:47 CC Okay, Jack.
084:20:16 Schmitt Okay, 02 HEATERS 1 and 2 going to AUTO, and 3, OFF.
084:20:21 CC Roger.
084:21:51 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We'll wait until 50 past the hour and pick up the LM/CM DELTA-P; we're still reading 0.6.
084:22:01 CC Roger. That sounds good.
084:22:07 Cernan And we're in the process of maneuvering and I guess I'll start to see if I can't get you some biomeds.
084:22:18 CC Okay.
084:22:27 Schmitt I don't know whether you were watching the LMP on the door jett, did you see a jett on my heartbeat?
084:22:36 CC We'll - we'll check this data here, Jack.
084:22:45 Schmitt I guess I was remembering erroneously 15's comment that it was very quiet, but I - of course, Ron reminded me they were in the suits.
084:23:05 CC Okay, Jack. John Young was talking about the same thing here, but we didn't see anything on your EKG.
084:23:17 Schmitt How stable can you get?
084:23:27 Evans And Houston, 17 here. Mag Bravo Bravo is indicating 20 - let's see - indicating 76 percent now - 76-percent full.
084:23:42 CC Okay, Ron.
084:23:49 Cernan And, Gordo, we are watching the 8-ball.
084:23:57 CC Roger. We're keeping an eye on it, too.
084:33:06 CC America, we'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please.
084:33:15 Schmitt Okay, you've got it to AUTO. I think we may have a new discovery about microphones up here.
084:33:24 CC Oh, is that right? What's that?
084:33:30 Schmitt Well, Gordy, it looks as if you could improve your voice quality by putting fingers over the end of the mike booms. At least that works on the intercom.
084:33:44 CC How about that.
084:35:17 CC America, Houston. We're ready for the IR to OFF.
084:35:23 Schmitt Okay. IR's coming OFF -
084:35:32 Schmitt MARK it.
084:37:15 Schmitt Hey, Gordy. Who's operating in the trench in front of you today?
084:37:21 CC Okay. It's the LOI and descent team, Presley, Green, and Deiterich.
084:37:38 Schmitt They're a trio of musketeers, if I ever heard of one.
084:37:43 CC Roger.
084:37:46 Schmitt All they lack is a French accent.
084:37:59 CC A New York accent is about the best they can do.
084:38:13 Schmitt I wasn't going to exercise any value judgments, Gordy.
084:40:59 CC Jack, this is Houston. I have a preliminary LOI pad anytime it's convenient.
084:41:09 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I was just checking to see if I could find the Moon, and I still can't see it out there.
084:41:18 Schmitt I'll be with you in 30 seconds.
084:41:20 CC Okay.
084:42:47 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
084:42:51 CC Okay. This is a preliminary LOI, SPS/G&N. 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:22.71; minus 2798.8, plus 1045.7, minus 0037.3. Attitude is all zeros. HA is 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2988.0, 6:38, 2981.7; sextant star 45, 252.1, 13.5. Boresight star and all the rest is NA. GDC align stars: Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage, none. Remarks: LM weight, 36312; and single-bank burn time is 06:51. Go ahead.
084:45:10 Schmitt Okay. Preliminary LOI, SPS/G&N. 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:22.71; minus 2798.8 plus 1045.7, minus 0037.3. All zeros; all zeros; all zeros; 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2988.0, 6:38, 2981.7; 45, 252.1, 13.5. Set stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. No ullage. LM weight is 36312, and single-bank burn time is 06:51.
084:46:14 CC One correction on the ignition time. The seconds are 22.77.
084:46:26 Schmitt Okay, 22.77.
084:46:29 CC That's affirmative; otherwise, good readback.
084:47:19 Evans Okay, Houston. At 84:45, we've got about 2-1/2 to 3 minutes at 1 frame a second on mag Bravo Bravo, through the celestial adapter of the Earth.
084:47:43 CC Okay, Ron. We caught that. And if you're looking for the Moon, according to our figures here, it should be visible out window number 1 about 30 degrees off the boresight axis. Over.
084:48:02 Schmitt Okay, got you. I'll try again.
084:49:16 CC America, Houston. I'm ready with a TEI-4 pad anytime it's convenient.
084:49:24 Evans Stand by.
084:53:36 Evans Okay, Gordy, I'm ready for a TEI-4 pad.
084:53:41 CC Okeydoke. It's TEI-4, SPS/G&N; 40090; plus 0.50, plus 1.17. Ignition time is 097:20:47.45. NOUN 8l, plus 2004.8, minus 2951.1, minus 1547.3; attitude will be 202, 083, 312. Rest of the pad is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 133; 200; 030. Ullage: four jets, 12 seconds. And remark number 1: burn undocked; number 2: assumes no DOI; number 3: assumes landing site REFSMMAT; number 4: with the LOI REFSMMAT, your attitude will be: roll, 180; pitch, 220; yaw, 38 - correction -yaw is 338. Over.
084:56:13 Evans Okay, TEI-4, SPS/G&N; 40090; plus 0.50, plus 1.17; 097:20:47.45; plus 2004.8, minus 2951.1. minus 1547.3; 202, 083, 312. Rest of pad NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133; 200; 030. Four jets, 12-second ullage. Remark 1: burn undocked; 2: no DOI assumed; 3: landing site REFSMMAT; 4: LOI REFSMMAT attitude 180, 220, 338. Over.
084:57:20 CC Okay. That's a good readback.
084:59:29 CC America, Houston. If you give us ACCEPT, we'll pop up a state vector - a preliminary state vector and a VERB 66, preliminary target load, and an LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
084:59:44 Cernan Okay, Houston. You have it.
085:01:08 Cernan Okay, Houston. This is America. How do you read the commander on biomed?
085:01:14 CC Stand by. I'll take a look here.
085:02:44 CC America, Houston. Looking at the O2 pressures, we think maybe TANK 3 isOL VALVE got jarred closed. Would you check the barber pole over on panel 278. If it's barber pole, would you reopen the valve?
085:03:01 Schmitt Gordy, we checked that. I'll check it again. We checked it right after the Jet.
085:03:17 Schmitt And, Gordy, it's gray. Would you like me to cycle it?
085:03:30 CC That's affirmative, Jack. Go ahead and cycle it OPEN.
085:03:40 Schmitt Okay. That's been done.
085:03:43 CC Roger.
085:04:08 CC America, Houston. It's your computer. You can go back to BLOCK.
085:04:18 Evans Okay, we're back to BLOCK. In the DELTA-V test, I got a minus 22.0, and I'm on a bias check right now.
085:04:30 CC Roger.
085:06:37 CC America, Houston. The biomed looks good on all three of you.
085:06:46 Cernan Okay.
085:07:01 Evans And the null bias check, on a plus 100, it went to 100.4. I'm working on a minus now.
085:07:13 CC Okay, sounds good.
085:08:19 Evans Okay. The minus 100, it ended up minus 99.5.
085:08:26 CC Okay, Ron.
085:10:38 Evans Gordy, the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs are OFF.
085:10:43 CC Roger.
085:11:00 Evans Okay, EQUALIZATION valve in the tunnel has come OPEN.
085:11:07 CC Roger.
085:13:11 Evans Okay, Gordy, the LM TUNNEL valve is in LM PRESS, and EQUALIZATION valve is CLOSED.
085:13:21 CC Roger. And was it a 0.6 DELTA-P when you started this, as before?
085:13:29 Evans That's affirm. It was 0.6 and now it's down to - we been seeing it as about 0.1.
085:13:37 CC Roger.
085:13:56 Evans And, Gordy, I've got the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs back to BOTH.
085:14:01 CC Roger.
085:17:45 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, we're changing mags on the - the EL camera, and mag November November is being stowed with 59 frames on it - or 59 frames used - 159.
085:18:07 CC Okay, Jack; copy.
085:18:27 Evans Gordy, you can record that as the second commander's P52 that came up all balls.
085:18:37 CC Okay, we'll get a hard copy.
085:19:05 CC Okay, we got the 93s; you're clear to torque.
085:37:35 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, there's the gyro torque angles.
085:37:40 CC Okay, we're copying them down. Stand by.
085:38:07 CC Okay, Geno; torque them.
085:45:06 PAO This is Apollo Control at 85 hours 45 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Presently 7,900 nautical miles out from the Moon and approaching at 4,009 feet per second. We're still about 3 hours and 8 minutes away from Lunar Orbit Insertion manuever, which will place the Apollo 17 spacecraft into a 52 by a 170 nautical mile lunar orbit. Earlier today, Gene Cernan asked Mission Control for suggestions concerning his gas symptoms. A decision has been made for the flight surgeon to consult privately with Cernan to discuss these symptoms. There's no indication that this situation will have any effect on the progress of the mission. A summary of the conversation will be released shortly. Meanwhile, for distance back to Earth, Mother Earth stands some 208,068 nautical miles behind Apollo 17. We have 2 hours and 56 minutes remaining until the first loss of signal as Apollo 17 passes behind the Moon. 3 hours and 7 minutes and 50 seconds until ignition on the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver, which presently is scheduled for a Ground Elapsed Time of 88:54:22. Total burn time on the SPS engine of 6 minutes 38 seconds, for a total velocity change in retrograde of 2,988 feet per second. At 85:47 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
085:50:31 PAO This is Apollo Control 85 hours 50 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Here in the Control Center, the Flights Dynamics Officer, Jay Green, just passed up to the Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, the latest predicted figures for the S-IVB impact. The present predictions on time are for the S-IVB to impact at Ground Elapsed Time of 89 hours 39 minutes 43.4 seconds. The coordinates of the impact are predicted to be 4.12 degrees south latitude by 12.22 degrees west longitude. 3 hours and 3 minutes to Lunar Orbit Insertion ignition. 2 hours 51 minutes until Apollo 17 passes behind the Moon for the first time. Distance from the Moon, presently 7,653 nautical miles, velocity ever increasing, now 4,032 feet per second. At 85:51 Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo Control.
086:12:15 CC America, Houston. America, Houston. We've lost the high gain and data. Go on OMNI Alfa.
086:12:43 CC Hello America, Houston in the blind. Go OMNI Alfa ...
086:13:18 CC America, this is Houston. How do you copy?
086:13:26 Schmitt Clear, and we're OMNI Alfa. If you don't answer this transmission, we'll try the high gain again.
086:13:32 CC Okay, Jack. We're reading you now. I heard you say OMNI Alfa. Say again the first part.
086:13:40 Schmitt Roger. We've been reading you. I think you're on VHF, however. Would you like us to reacquire on the high gain?
086:13:48 CC Stand by. I'll check on that.
086:14:05 CC Okay, Jack. We'd like you to try the HIGH GAIN at a PITCH of minus 29, YAW 17, MANUAL and WIDE.
086:14:24 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, we're on the HIGH GAIN.
086:14:29 CC Okay, Jack.
086:14:34 Schmitt How do you read?
086:14:37 CC I'm reading you - I can read you, but there's still a lot of background noise.
086:14:47 Schmitt Like VHF would sound, but I'm not sure I believe it.
086:14:56 CC Jack, we just commanded NORMAL voice.
086:15:26 Schmitt Gordy, did we end up somehow out of NORMAL voice?
086:15:35 CC Jack, we'd like you to try a NORMAL acquisition. Go AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN.
086:15:50 Schmitt Okay, that peaked it up, AUTO and NARROW.
086:15:54 CC Okay, you're loud and clear now.
086:15:59 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You said that you had to command NORMAL voice. Did we get a spurious command in there some way?
086:16:21 CC Okay, we had - we did all that ourselves to establish voice through Ascension; no problem. Over.
086:16:36 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. How did you reach us when you finally started calling?
086:16:44 CC Stand by.
086:17:10 CC Jack, we didn't do anything to cause the problem there, we were up-linking through Madrid and downlinking through Ascension. Did you see anything onboard that could have caused the loss of lock?
086:17:25 Schmitt No, sir. We had good signal strength. It wasn't peaked for the high gain. It was more like an OMNI signal strength, about 70 percent. And we called you several times after the switch in lines, and then finally you came through clear, but with some background noise and sounded like VHF. I presume it wasn't, now. And when you called, I went to OMNI Alfa, with no change in signal strength, still about 70 percent, and you were still coming up the same way and apparently didn't hear us. And then the high gain - with high gain acquisition, it's been pretty clear.
086:18:13 CC Okay, that's the way - that story's the way it sounded to us. And we're looking around here to see if we can figure out a reason for loss there.
086:18:28 Schmitt Okay, and I'm ready to pressurize the SPS, if that's what you want.
086:18:34 CC Okay, let me make sure here.
086:18:48 CC Okay, Jack. We're ready for it.
086:18:55 Schmitt Okay, you want me to just use SPS HELIUM VALVE 1?
086:19:07 CC That's affirmative,
086:19:31 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. We're going to ON with SPS HELIUM VALVE 1. We checked the circuit breakers, they're IN.
086:19:41 CC Okay.
086:19:42 Schmitt Okay, pressure's com - pressure's up; FUEL PRESSURE is stable at 175 and OXIDIZER at 175, and the light is out. And we're back to NORMAL on CAUTION AND WARNING. And the VALVE now is back to AUTO.
086:20:03 CC Roger. And looks - looks good here. We're reading 184 oxidizer and 185 fuel.
086:20:44 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, this is the LMP. I got a question for you.
086:20:48 CC Shoot.
086:20:54 Schmitt I'm just wondering if - I'm showing about 85 amps, and is that a good normal power load with - I presume the O2 HEATERs are ON now.
086:21:08 CC Just a second, we'll check that.
086:21:15 Schmitt I'm just trying to reestablish my references here for LOI.
086:21:21 CC EECOM says the HEATERs are ON and that's the normal load.
086:21:30 Schmitt Okay. Very good. Thank you, sir.
086:22:51 Evans Houston, 17.
086:22:54 CC Go ahead.
086:22:58 Evans Roger. We got about an hour sitting around here. We can go to wide dead band, if you want, if you'll remind me to go back to narrow again when we need to.
086:23:07 CC Let me check on that.
086:23:20 Evans Might save a teacupful of fuel.
086:24:40 CC Ron, we suggest just staying where you are on the dead band; there's no problem on fuel.
086:24:49 Evans Okay. Mighty fine, Gordo. Thank you.
086:27:42 CC America, Hou - Houston. We just finished a site handover. And we're seeing some excessive counts on the UV. We'd like to chase the problem a little, and to do that, we'd like you to turn the UV OFF for 5 seconds and then back ON. Over.
086:27:42 CC Ascension COMM TEC, Houston COMM TEC, Net 1 voice check. How do you copy?
086:32:40 ASC Ascension COMM TEC, I read you loud and clear.
086:32:43 CC Roger, Ascension.
086:33:38 Schmitt Houston, 17; how do you read after a COMMAND RESET?
086:33:42 CC 17, this is Houston. You're loud and clear. Have you been calling?
086:33:50 Schmitt Yes, sir, we've been calling. After your handover, we heard your statement that you handed over and then hadn't been able to contact you after that. I just hit a COMMAND RESET.
086:34:32 CC Okay, Jack, that was a problem here on the ground. Over.
086:34:42 Schmitt Okay.
086:35:17 Schmitt Say, Gordy, 17.
086:35:20 CC Go ahead.
086:35:25 Schmitt Yes, we've got B DUPLEX - B SIMPLEX ON, apparently left over from the LM checks. I suspect I should turn that OFF. Right?
086:35:41 CC That's affirmative.
086:36:07 Evans Houston, 17.
086:36:09 CC Go ahead.
086:36:15 Evans Gordo, just an interesting observation on my part. I don't know why, but all the air bubbles in the beverage packs - you know, none of the air bubbles will come together at all. If you get it a small air bubble, it stays in a small air bubble. And they'll never co - come together. However, in my chicken and rice soup package here, I had a whole bunch of small air bubbles and now it's all one great big air bubble in the middle.
086:36:49 CC Okay.
086:36:50 Evans Most of the - most of the sP00n bowl packs you know - or wet packs, whereas the juice bags won't do it.
086:37:04 CC Okay, that's interesting. I sure don't know why either.
086:37:14 Schmitt We're just trying to keep your day interesting here, Gordy. Now that you won't let us look at the Earth anymore, we'll start looking in the cabin.
086:37:33 CC Okay, while you're looking in the cabin, I've got a new hydrogen cryo configuration for you to minimize the pressure cycling and cut down the wear and tear on the motor switch. If you're ready to do it, I'll read it.
086:37:52 Schmitt Go ahead.
086:37:54 CC Okay, on H2 TANK 1 and TANK 2 HEATERS, both of them, OFF. On the FANs, TANK 1 FANs ON, TANK 2 FANs OFF. I think they're there already. And TANK 3 FANs AUTO. Over.
086:38:18 Schmitt Hey, there's a new configuration. Okay, H2 HEATERs 1 and 2 are OFF. H2 FANs - 1 is ON, 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
086:38:29 CC Okay, sounds good.
086:38:37 Schmitt That sounds like an EECOM special.
086:38:41 CC That it is.
086:46:30 Cernan Hello, Houston, I've got the limb of the Moon.
086:46:34 CC Very good.
086:46:36 Cernan I've got the limb of the Moon out the - got it out the center hatch and we're just barely seeing a - barely seeing the horizon of the Moon. But, boy, is it big.
086:46:52 CC Roger.
086:46:53 Evans Well, that must be a - what - you know, talk about a sliver of the Moon, that is a sliver of a sliver.
086:47:03 Cernan Gordo, we're coming in right down on top of it. What's our perigee, did you say? 73 miles?
086:47:11 CC Roger. That's about right. Don't worry, you'll miss it.
086:47:17 Cernan I just want to hear you say it because I'm going to hold you to it.
086:47:33 Cernan As long as you shadow your eyes from the Sun - the Sun is just about laying on the horizon of the Moon, and as a matter of fact, as I watch it, I can watch the horizon - the amount of - of daylight terminator get larger.
086:47:49 CC Roger.
086:48:55 Cernan Gordy, unless I get proven wrong here, I think we'll be able to watch it all the way in as long as we can keep shadowed from the Sun.
086:49:07 CC Okeydoke.
086:49:12 Cernan I'll tell you, when you get out here, it's a big mamou.
086:52:01 Cernan Gordy, it's a sight to remember. Not just because of the uniqueness of the view, but because we all got to ask ourselves if we really know where we are and what we're really looking at right this moment, and when you answer that question is yes, it certainly becomes an epic sight in your mind.
086:52:26 CC Roger, Gene.
086:52:31 Schmitt My congratulations to the trench for solving another rendezvous - rendezvous problem.
086:52:40 CC Roger.
086:53:43 Cernan Gordy, can you tell us how far we are right now from the - from the Moon?
086:53:50 CC Surely can; stand by.
086:54:10 CC Right now, you're about 5,000 miles from the surface.
086:54:18 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
086:55:25 Schmitt Houston, 17.
086:55:27 CC Go ahead.
086:55:32 Schmitt I think I got a visual on the SIM bay door now out window 5. It's just about directly off our present plus-Y axis.
086:55:46 CC Okay. Must be way out there by now.
086:55:55 Schmitt Oh, yes. It's a long way out there; just flashing.
086:55:59 CC Roger.
086:57:31 Schmitt Gordy, what's the MOCR having for dinner Sun - this Sunday?
086:57:43 CC Well, let's see. I guess we haven't sent out for hamburgers, yet. There's a few brown bags in sight, but that's about it.
086:57:58 Schmitt My goodness.
086:58:33 Cernan Gordy, it doesn't look like I had a chance to go to church today, but under the circumstances I guess it'll be okay. Next time you see the good Father you might have him put a good word in for us.
086:58:46 CC Okay, I'll do that.
087:07:56 Schmitt Gordy, is - in our present attitude I'm seeing the lip of the Moon convex down toward our minus X axis. That's out of the hatch window. Can you tell me which is the north and which is the south pole?
087:08:20 CC Okay. Stand by.
087:08:26 Cernan Yes, I'd be all squared away if - if the Moon were on Jack's side, because he's got that end on his head, but I'm a little mixed up now.
087:08:34 CC Roger. I understand your problem.
087:09:24 Cernan Gordy, I - I'm thinking the - the top of the - the LM towards the Sun is probably the north.
087:09:39 CC Roger.
087:10:26 Cernan Hello, Gordy. I - I think I got it. Window - the - the north has got to be on the right as I look at the limb of the Moon opposite the Sun. Because when we go into retrograde attitude, it's got to be over there. I think I can see Korolev without any problem. It's a little bit north of the - of the equator.
087:10:56 CC Roger.
087:11:03 Cernan Gordy, are you still with us?
087:11:07 CC That's affirm. I'm with you, and I'm getting lots of advice here.
087:11:14 Cernan Okay. Okay. I'll bet you are. But I - I think I got it oriented. You can literally watch yourself fall down in. As we get closer, if we're going to have a view like this, it's going to be pretty dramatic. Because we're calling the way you climb on out of the Moon when you leave it, if you can see. And I remember remarks at that time, "Gee, if we could see it like this when we came back in, we'd have to close our eyes." If we can see this thing coming in like I think we may be able to see it at 50 miles, it isn't going to look like very much.
087:11:58 CC Roger. We agree.
087:12:00 Cernan And we're even considering the win - putting - Gordy, we're consider - Gordy, we're considering putting the window covers up.
087:12:15 CC You're chickens, huh?
087:12:21 Cernan It's going to be one of those high - high - angle energy conversion roundouts.
087:12:28 CC Roger. From our information here, if you're looking at the Moon so that the - the dark limb is up, then north should be to the right.
087:12:42 Cernan Yes. I - I concur, and that's the way it is.
087:12:45 CC Roger.
087:12:48 Cernan The horizon is just steadily growing bigger.
087:12:54 CC Does it look about the same as last time?
087:13:04 Cernan What do you mean, "last time?" Couple years ago?
087:13:07 CC Right.
087:13:12 Cernan Gordy, we never saw it coming in a couple years ago. We saw it, as I recall, a day out, and we saw just a - a shadow of the limb. But we - to my best re - recollection, we never saw it this close. As a matter of fact, we went into darkness prior to going into LOI, and this time, much to my amazement, we don't. But I see now that we won't, and I see why. I'll tell you, everyone who's seen that view leaving knows how fast you climb out. And by golly, the closer we get to it, the faster we're coming in.
087:13:56 CC Roger.
087:16:11 PAO This is Apollo Control at 87 hours 16 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Some 1 hour and 38 minutes until ignition on lunar orbit insertion. Presently, the spacecraft is 4,243 nautical miles away from the Moon. The Moon is getting larger, as noted by the crew. They considered closing the window shades in the spacecraft. Velocity now 4,544 feet per second. Some numbers on acquisition of the spacecraft. With the burn - a normal burn, the acquisition on the east limb of the Moon would be at 89 hours 16 minutes 29 seconds. Without a burn, it would be somewhat sooner, 89 hours 7 minutes 46 seconds. A private conversation was conducted with the Apollo 17 crew from Ground Elapsed Time of 85:46:55 to 86:04:46. The subject of the conversation was Gene Cernan's request for suggestions concerning alleviating some gas symptoms he had had during the flight. The following is a summary of the conversation. The call to the crew was made by Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations. Dr. Royce Hawkins, Chief of Medical Operations at MSC asked Cernan to explain his symptoms, Cernan reported it was no great problem, but that he has had some greater gas discomfort than his fellow crew members. He said he felt quite fine at this time, and there was never any pain or nausea associated with the discomfort. Cernan advised Dr. Hawkins of the anti-gas medication, symethocone, he'd been taking. Dr. Hawkins recommended to Cernan that he continue the medication after meals and before going to sleep. Hawkins also advised Cernan on some changes to his menu over the next 2 days to reduce the discomfort. Cernan reported quote "I'm better, there's nothing detrimental or incapacitating about this; we're all in good shape. We hope things are looking as good down there as they are up here." close quote. Lunar Module pilot Harrison Schmitt reported the crew had encountered some difficulty with the onboard system that separates gas bubbles from the drinking water supply. Schmitt was advised that the gas separator system has given the crews problems on previous Apollo flights. Astronaut John Young, Commander of the Apollo 16 mission and Back-up Commander for Apollo 17, also talked briefly to the Astronauts, and wished them well. Distance now 4,125 nautical miles from the Moon. Velocity 4,570. Still an hour and 35 minutes, MARK, until ignition on lunar orbit insertion burn. At 87:19, this is Apollo Control.
087:19:28 Cernan Gordo. The - the widest-most part of the convex horizon probably covers a good couple of degrees. I can now see relief on the - on the horizon itself against the dark space.
087:19:47 CC Roger.
087:19:52 Cernan And the rim of Korolev is readily visible standing out by itself in the - in the darker or the unlit part of the - of the Moon. I can see the central peaks or mountains very well lit up.
087:20:50 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. This is Jack. is there any reason not to start the checks at about 87:43?
087:21:05 CC Stand by.
087:21:25 Cernan Okay, Gordy. What I - what I called a - a central peak or range in there must undoubtedly be that inner ring, but it - the way it was lit up in the sunlight gave you a definite impression that it had an enlongated central range.
087:21:45 CC Roger. And for Jack, no problem starting early on the checks.
087:21:54 Schmitt Okay. They're in work.
087:23:36 Cernan Okay, Hous -
087:23:37 Schmitt ..., Houston. Going to ... put the UV COVER OPEN. How long?
087:23:45 CC Okay, Jack. And we'd like 5 minutes of operation with it OPEN.
087:23:56 Schmitt Okay.
087:23:57 Schmitt MARK it, OPEN.
087:25:40 Schmitt Okay, Houston; 17. I've started the secondary glycol pump, and I neglected to make a check on the evap OP temperature. Do you have that, and did we get a decrease?
087:25:56 CC Stand by. Looks okay, Jack.
087:26:12 Schmitt Thank you.
087:28:13 Schmitt Okay, Gordo. There's NOUN 05.
087:28:17 CC Roger.
087:28:32 Schmitt And you're looking at the torquing angle.
087:28:58 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I'm going SPS PRESSURE INDICATOR to 2.
087:29:03 CC Okay, Jack. And you can close the UV cover, and go ahead and roll back to 064 ROLL. And you're clear to torque the P52.
087:29:18 Schmitt Okay. UV COVER is CLOSED.
087:29:55 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Going back to SPS PRESSURE INDICATOR 1.
087:30:01 CC Okay.
087:32:31 CC America, Houston. We - we still see the UV door open. Have you closed it yet?
087:32:51 Schmitt Okay. It's now CLOSED, Gordy.
087:32:54 CC Roger.
087:33:31 CC America, Houston. I have the LOI and map update pads when you're ready.
087:33:40 Cernan Stand by 1, Gordo.
087:34:59 Cernan Okay, Gordy. What do you have, a map update on page 3-83 of the Flight Plan?
087:35:05 CC That's affirmative.
087:35:13 Cernan Why don't you go ahead?
087:35:14 CC Okay. It's for rev 1. AOS without burn is 089:07:46; with the burn is 089:16:29.
087:35:34 Cernan Okay. Without the burn is 07:46, and with the burn is 16:29.
087:35:39 CC That's affirmative, and then I have your LOI maneuver pad.
087:35:50 Cernan Okay. We're ready to go.
087:35:53 CC Okay. LOI, SPS/G&N; the weight is 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; ignition time is 088:54:21.74; NOUN 81, minus 2798.8, plus 1044.9, minus 0042.5; roll, pitch, and yaw are all zero; NOUN 44, 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2987.7, burn time is 6:38, 2981.4; sextant star is 45, 252.1, 13.5; rest of the pad is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage is none. Remarks: LM weight, 36312; single-bank burn time is 6:51. Over. Stand by on the readback. Okay. We'll take ACCEPT, and give you the up-links while you're reading it back.
087:38:18 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Here's your readback. You've got ACCEPT. It's LOI pad, SPS/G&N; 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:21.74; minus 2798.8, plus 1044.9, minus 0042.5; 000, 000, 000; 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2987.7, 6:38, 2981.4; 45, 252.1, 13.5; rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. There's no ullage. LM weight, 36312; single-bank burn time, 6 plus 51.
087:39:28 CC Okay. That's a good readback.
087:41:06 CC It's your computer, America. You have a state vector, a VERB 66, and a target load. Go back to BLOCK.
087:41:15 Cernan Okay. It's in BLOCK, Gordy. We're finishing up on the bottom of 3-79.
087:41:21 CC Okay.
087:41:25 Cernan And back at this roll attitude, I've got the big old Moon again, and from where I sit, it looks like we're right on target. Fifty miles above target, I'd like to add.
087:41:43 CC Okay. That sounds good.
087:41:49 Cernan The limb is, of course, still growing and a little more rapidly. And what I can see of the - of the limb that's not blocked out by the Sun, it's getting obviously much larger in the window.
087:42:09 CC Roger.
087:42:10 Cernan Now I guess it depends on the shadowing of the Sun as to whether or not we're going to see too much. I think retrograde, we ought to see quite a bit once we get over the terminator.
087:42:35 Cernan Gordy, there's enough of the lighted portion of the Moon where you can see the relief - not just a shadowing relief, but the actual relief of several craters as they stretch across the terminator, both to the north and to the south. I can see even more definite relief now on the horizon, just to the north and behind Korolev - on the black horizon against space.
087:43:06 CC Roger.
087:43:09 Cernan The - the unlit part of the Moon, as you might expect, is just as dark from here as is deep space itself.
087:43:22 CC Roger.
087:43:23 Cernan It's black, I might say at this point.
087:43:57 CC America, Houston. For your information, your altitude is about 3000 miles now.
087:44:06 Cernan Okay, 3000 miles.
087:44:19 Cernan Gordy, the - the limb has much more three-dimensional relief now. Towards us, you can - you can get the feeling that the horizon - the litted portion of the horizon definitely does flow in our direction. And although you can't see the unlit portion of the Moon, you get a feeling that there's a great deal more of it a lot closer than that which you can see.
087:44:50 CC Roger.
087:45:52 Cernan Okay, Gordy. The pre-SPS burn aim prep is complete.
087:45:57 CC Roger.
087:46:19 Cernan And I'm going to give my buddies a chance to look at it now.
087:46:23 CC Okay.
087:47:06 Cernan I never thought I'd see a geologist speechless at his first near - near shot at the Moon, but I haven't heard a word from him yet.
087:47:15 CC Roger.
087:47:19 Schmitt This geologist turned engineer for about an hour.
087:47:33 CC He's probably speechless because there's no clouds to talk about.
087:48:07 Cernan Gordo, everything's looking good onboard. We're just waiting for about 88:05. We'll be in our maneuver at that time.
087:48:17 CC Okay. Everything looks good here also.
087:48:31 Cernan Okay. And is your LOS of about 45 still good?
087:48:37 CC I'll doublecheck that.
087:50:13 CC America, the Flight Plan is correct on LOS. To be exact, it will be 88:43:40.
087:50:26 Cernan 43:40. Thank you, Gordo.
087:51:04 Cernan If - if you guys could get an idea down there of the needle you're threading when you shoot for 50 miles at a quarter of million, you'd be mighty proud of yourselves, I'll tell you, we are.
087:51:19 CC Roger.
087:51:28 Cernan I guess I really ought to wait and tell you that at 89:16:29.
087:51:35 CC Roger.
087:52:38 Cernan Hey, Gordy. Do you have any idea what our relative speed is to the - to the Moon at this time?
087:52:46 CC Yes. It's 5000 feet per second. You're presently 2660 miles up.
087:53:00 Cernan Okay.
087:53:15 Cernan I assume T. P. is there, and I guess John is, too. I don't know if John saw this coming in on 16, but I know they can recall what we saw leaving on 10. And other than the fact that you can't see as much of the Moon, it's just as impressive.
087:53:37 CC Roger. I was just talking to John about it a couple of minutes ago. Their view on 16 was - they didn't have any sunlit Moon, but they did have some pretty good earthshine.
087:53:59 Cernan Well, he - he knows what I'm talking about then.
087:56:59 Cernan Gordy, it's an unbelievable view through the monocular now. You can really see down in the depths of some of the larger craters and with a great deal of clarity. And you can see the - some of the higher ridges actually rolling right over the horizon as they go away from you.
087:57:21 CC Roger, Geno.
088:05:31 Cernan Hey, Houston. As much as I hate to, I think we're going to have to maneuver out of this attitude.
088:05:38 CC Roger. As you take your last look there, you're presently 20 - just a little over 2000 miles up, and you're coming down about 4500 feet per second.
088:05:58 Cernan Yes. You'd better believe that.
088:09:32 Cernan Gordo, there's only one better view than this.
088:09:37 CC What's that, Gene?
088:09:39 Cernan Right at the moment anyway. Right at the moment anyway, is to be out there and watching this spacecraft maneuver in attitude and - and watch it burn over the lunar surface. I get the feeling someone is watching.
088:10:00 CC Roger.
088:11:06 CC Give us OMNI Charlie, please.
088:13:24 CC Apollo 17, Houston. We just had a site handover. That's resulted in the LOS time changing 19 seconds. It's now 43:21.
088:13:39 Schmitt Okay; 43:21, and we are - we're on OMNI Charlie,
088:13:45 CC Roger.
088:13:51 Schmitt And just to round out things as we pitch back into LOI attitude, lo and behold from over the top of the LM came the Earth.
088:14:05 CC Very good.
088:14:09 Schmitt Got the whole thing in one big package.
088:15:13 Cernan Pretty interesting, Gordo. We can - we can see we're right over South America and, of course, we can see up the Gulf Coast. And it looks like Houston is covered with clouds, but poetically enough, we can see the Cape, at least we can see Florida.
088:15:31 CC How about that.
088:17:05 PAO This is Apollo Control, 88 hours 17 minutes into the mission of Apollo 17. Some 26 minutes now until Apollo 17 passes behind the Moon, coming up on the Lunar Orbit Insertion burn in which the spacecraft will start its initial orbit measuring 52 nautical miles by 170 nautical miles, an elliptical orbit around the Moon. That maneuver will take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 88 hours 54 minutes into the flight, and will slow the spacecraft down considerably from its present velocity of some 5,700 feet per second. Presently, the Apollo 17 spacecraft is 1,528 nautical miles out from the Moon, approaching at 5730 feet per second. After the spacecraft passes behind the Moon, 25 minutes from now, assuming as successful lunar orbit insertion burn, it should come from behind the east face of the Moon, the limb of the Moon, at approximately 33 minutes later. It'll take a few moments for the ground stations to lock up on the downlink from the spacecraft even though the theoretical contact time is roughly 33 minutes after loss of signal. At 88 hours 18 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
088:19:03 Evans Yes, a VERB 41 NOUN 91. And I'm on VOX now. Get the commander's light. (Laughter)
088:19:22 CC Ron, you're loud and clear on VOX.
088:19:27 Evans Okay, Gordo. We're in attitude now.
088:19:31 CC Roger.
088:20:47 Evans Okay, Houston. The star sextant check is GO. We've got it in the sextant.
088:20:53 CC Roger.
088:22:06 Evans Okay. Okay. Let's go ahead and go and do the P40; 22 - about - -
088:22:15 Cernan How many?
088:22:15 Evans - - about 20 minutes. Well, it looks like it's going pretty close to where we want to be anyhow.
088:23:07 Evans Okay - okay.
088:24:16 Evans ... back the other way.
088:24:24 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're standing by in P40.
088:24:31 CC Roger. We're watching you.
088:24:38 Cernan Okay. Everything is checking out good onboard.
088:24:43 CC Roger.
088:24:48 Evans Okay. Let's go over the cue cards. Okay. DELTA-V check's complete. Set the DELTA-V 2981.4. Okay. We have the pre-DELTA-V in standby. And the SIM bay's been checked, Jack?
088:25:26 Schmitt Yes, it's been checked.
088:25:28 Evans Okay. We're in RATE 2 on the BMAGs. Okay, no trim. We'll just leave 12 of them ON then. I've checked the DAP. Yes. Yes. Check it again. Yes. B/D - B/D ROLL. Get it? That's good. Plus 1.21 and minus 0.12.
088:26:40 Evans Okay. The DAP is loaded.
088:26:41 Cernan Okay, Houston. The DAP looks good.
088:26:44 CC Roger.
088:26:48 Evans Okay. We're CMC and AUTO. And we're at the pad attitude now. Okay. Boresight sextant star check is complete. Yes, I did it once. Let's try it again. It kind of drifts quite a bit.
088:27:25 Evans Okay. The old GDC is aligned.
088:27:31 Evans Okay. DIRECT ULLAGE breakers are going IN. PITCH 1. YAW 1. MAIN A circuit breakers are IN. The rest of them are all IN.
088:27:49 Evans DAP control and SPS are all CLOSED.
088:27:54 Evans Okay. We have three of them in RATE COMMAND. That looks like about DEAD BAND, RATE to LOW.
088:28:20 Evans SCS TVC is in RATE COMMAND.
088:28:27 Evans Okay. CG is in LM/CSM.
088:28:31 Evans GIMBAL DRIVE: PITCH 1, YAW 1, AUTO. PITCH and YAW in AUTO.
088:28:43 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're down to 6 minutes in the checklist.
088:28:46 CC Roger, Gene.
088:29:18 Evans Okay.
088:30:14 Evans Okay.
088:30:27 Evans Okay.
088:30:43 Evans Okay. We keep tight limits, though, to 1 plus 10, huh? Okay. Here we go; 25 - 25 21. BR. That's not it. Getting tight - tight lim - 340. Yes.
088:31:29 Evans 06:38. Single-bank burn time is 06:51. I'll start on BANK A first. That - that means we may get a chug when we start on BANK B.
088:31:58 Evans Yes, but if - Okay.
088:32:37 Evans Oh, my scissors flew up and disappeared somewhere. I'll have a hard time eating if you guys take all the scissors with you.
088:32:57 Evans But my teeth are pretty good though.
088:33:33 Evans Okay.
088:33:54 Evans That's unless you start - start an hour and 20 minutes late, and then it's burn time plus 5.
088:34:13 Evans Okay.
088:34:22 Evans Okay.
088:34:44 CC Apollo 17, Houston. If - if you three are interested in sticking around awhile, you have our GO for LOI.
088:34:54 Cernan Roger, Houston. Understand. America is GO for LOI. And let it be known that the crew of America is GO for LOI.
088:35:06 CC Roger that.
088:35:20 Evans I'm kind of worried about this camera back here. It might come banging down.
088:36:37 Evans (laughter) Yes. Yes.
088:36:52 Evans (Humming)
088:37:00 Evans Okay ...
088:37:53 Evans Okay. Panel 8 looks good.
088:38:03 Evans Okay. We're 5/1, 1/2, CMC, GDC. COMMAND, RATE COMMAND, RATE COMMAND.
088:38:11 Evans LIMIT CYCLE is OFF. DEAD BAND, MIN. RATE to LOW. TRANS CONTROL POWER is OFF.
088:38:15 Evans A - AC DIRECTS are OFF CMC in AUTO, RATE 2, RATE 2, RATE 2.
088:38:24 Evans TVC is RATE COMMAND. GIMBAL MOTORS are OFF.
088:38:28 Evans LM/CSM, ELS is AUTO - I mean the ELS is MANUAL.
088:38:33 Evans RCS LOGIC is OFF. ROLL is OFF. .05G. AC and GPI.
088:38:41 Evans GIMBAL DRIVEs in AUTO. Everything looks good.
088:38:58 Evans (Humming)
088:40:08 Evans (Humming)
088:41:32 Schmitt Four minutes - a little better.
088:41:38 Cernan Hello, Gordy. As we approach LOS, we've still got America out the view of the hatch window. We'll see you at 89:16:29.
088:42:07 CC Okay, Gene. About 1 minute left until LOS. You have our wishes for a good burn.
088:42:17 Cernan Thank you, sir. We shall have one.
088:42:32 Schmitt Okay.
088:42:55 Cernan And, Gordy, I assure you we will be out at 16:40.
088:43:01 CC Very good.
088:43:38 PAO This is Apollo Control at 88 hours 43 minutes into the Mission of Apollo 17. We have had loss of signal as Apollo 17 coasted behind the Moon on the start of the first lunar orbit, 10 minutes and 28 seconds away from Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver. A retrograde service propulsion system burn of some 2,988 feet per second. Assuming a successful burn, the spacecraft should come out from behind the Moon at 89:16:29 Ground Elapsed Time as Gene Cernan promised it would before they went behind the Moon. At loss of signal, the spacecraft was some 395 miles above the surface of the Moon, traveling at a velocity of 7,241 feet per second. 9 minutes and 30 seconds - MARK, until LOI ignition. At 88:44 and returning just before acquisition of signal, as Apollo 17 comes from behind the Moon, this is Apollo Control.
089:15:30 PAO This is Apollo Control at 89 hours, 15 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Some 55 seconds until Apollo 17 comes from behind the Moon, on the start of the first Lunar Orbit. We're awaiting appearance of the spacecraft and word that the burn went successful, which apparently it has because the spacecraft without a burn would have appeared some 8 minutes ago. The ignition time i s 88:54:21 in Ground Elapsed Time. Should be getting lock on fairly soon, zero. That was the theoretical acquisition time. Of course, it does take a few seconds for the ground station to lock onto the signal from the spacecraft. We're awaiting word from the communications officer that we have indeed gotten a signal and telemetry from the spacecraft.
089:17:00 Evans Didn't ... me yet.
089:17:06 Evans No, it's not in yet. Well, yes, it is. There's AOS limits right there.
089:17:14 Evans I think we just passed Hertz and -
089:17:17 CC Hello there, America. We hear you talking.
089:17:31 Evans AUTO and NARROW. Yes, AUTO and NARROW.
089:17:48 Evans Good; I thought it dropped off. Hey, it dropped off.
089:17:55 Evans Minus 43 and 345.
089:17:58 CC Hello, America; this is Houston. How do you: read?
089:18:01 Evans Attitude? Yes, 65, 60, 8. Yes, we're in attitude.
089:18:21 CC America, Houston. Over.
089:18:42 Evans Don't tell me the old high-gain crumped.
089:18:49 Evans Okay. Let's see you're MANUAL -
089:19:08 Evans Yes, we started to get it - awhile ago.
089:19:11 Evans Yes, put it in AUTO and NARROW.
089:19:13 Evans There.
089:19:36 Evans The time?
089:19:47 Evans Yes, we're at the edge of Marginis.
089:20:05 PAO This is Apollo Control. Here in the Control Center we are hearing the crew aboard the spacecraft of Apollo 17 very clearly, however the ground has not be able to fully lock up on the spacecraft with the so-called uplink, on the voice uplink. And apparently it has to do with the 85 foot antenna at Goldstone. We're continuing to stand by until the 2-way communications are complete. An hour and 20 minutes before loss of signal as we go across the face of the Moon, the front face of the Moon on the first Lunar Orbit. At 89:20 and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
089:20:16 Evans There's Al-Biruni over here.
089:21:02 Cernan Okay. It came in then. There it goes. Hello!
089:21:13 CC Hello, America. How do you read Houston? Over.
089:21:18 Cernan America - Houston, this is America. You can breathe easier. America has arrived on station for the challenge ahead.
089:21:27 CC Very good. We've been hearing you for a couple of minutes now. We've had a ground site problem, but you're loud and clear now.
089:21:37 Cernan Okay. That's what we sort of thought, Gordo. The SPS burn could not have been more nominal. I've got some numbers for you, if you're ready to copy.
089:21:46 CC Go ahead.
089:21:55 Cernan Okay, TIG was on time. TIG was on time, burn time was 6 plus 33, VG is 29899; roll was 008; pitch, 357; yaw, 006; all at the end of the burn. Residuals minus 0.3, plus 0.1, and 0. DELTA-VC, was minus 6.8; oxidizer, 34.0; fuel, 34.5; unbalance is 110, decrease. The CMC holds us in a 170.3 by 52.5.
089:22:49 CC That sounds great, Gene.
089:22:54 Cernan It was an auto ignition. It was an auto shutdown. I think any comments during the burn are on the tape. But, to me, it was probably the smoothest and quietest SPS burn I ever remember.
089:23:08 CC Roger.
089:23:10 Schmitt Houston, this is Jack. The PUGS was erratic. It's the only thing I noticed that was offnominal. It - it bounced ground a lot, in bouncing arou - initially for about a minute - around - oh, 1.8 decrease, then it gradually started to diverge from that to a more decrease, down to about 2.5 or make that 3 decrease. And I went to DECREASE on the switch; and about the time of crossover, I had it at - oh, about 1 decrease and it crossed over and stabilized at zero, and I went to NORMAL and it stayed there the rest of the burn - until just near the end, it started to go decrease again.
089:24:02 CC Okay, we copy that, Jack.
089:24:06 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, did you by any chance get the S-IVB impact?
089:24:12 CC We're - Okay, the new impact time for that is 89:39, so we haven't quite got there yet.
089:24:26 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
089:24:29 Evans And, Houston - Ron here. Something a little bit of a surprise to me. When I turned on bank A, the chamber pressure came up to 87 percent, and stayed there essentially. Five seconds later, I put on band B, the chamber pressure rose to 90 - about 91 - somewhere in that area. And then, throughout the burn, chamber pressure increased, which you'll see on the strip chart. But I was sure surprised at only 87 percent when we started it. It looked like the velocity gained versus time was correct throughout the burn, though. The maximum the chamber pressure ever got to was about 97 percent, and that was toward the end of the burn.
089:25:21 CC Roger, Ron.
089:26:10 Cernan A little disappointed here, Gordo. I brought an airborne and a ground geologist along with me and it took them until AOS to make sure they knew where we were.
089:26:20 Evans Ha, ha, ha. That's not true.
089:26:23 CC Roger.
089:26:25 Evans My big problem was all the holes were hills when I first started. Looked just like you had the picture upside down.
089:26:32 CC Roger, Ron. I have a couple pan camera photo pads for you.
089:26:50 Schmitt Go ahead, Gordo.
089:26:52 CC Okay, the first one goes in the Flight Plan at 90:45, and the start time is 090:50:32. Stop time is 091:10:57. Go ahead.
089:27:16 Schmitt Okay, I got 090:50:32 and 091:10:57.
089:27:21 CC Okay, and next one goes on the next page. Start time is 091:18:05. Stop time is 091:27:43.
089:27:45 Schmitt 91:18:05, 91:27:43.
089:27:53 CC That's right.
089:27:57 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, I turned the PAN CAMERA, OFF, there about 30 seconds ago and the post-SPS burn checks are complete. LOGIC - no, that's - well, just a minute. The post-SPS burns are complete down to LOGIC POWER, two, to DEPLOY/RETRACT. No, that's your Flight Plan. Okay? MODE is STANDBY.
089:28:32 Schmitt MARK it. POWER is ON on the PAN CAMERA. Okay, Houston, we're waiting your cue on the power.
089:28:43 CC Okay on that, and there'll be no update to the TEI-4 pad. Over.
089:28:51 Schmitt Beautiful.
089:29:02 Schmitt Here's Smythii, gang. Coming over Mare - No, let's see, Crisium. coming over Crisium. It's - coming underneath us now.
089:29:21 Schmitt I will have in a jiffy. Okay, I'm going to hang off then a little bit. Get a - Boy, this window.
089:29:44 Cernan And, Gordo, how did the spacecraft look to you as we came around?
089:29:50 CC Real good, Geno. Nothing to report.
089:29:57 Cernan Very fine. Thank you.
089:30:04 Schmitt (Laughter) One little minor problem, Gordy, is that we're breathing so hard that the windows are fogging up on the inside for a change.
089:30:24 CC Okay, and we'd like the PAN CAMERA POWER, off, now. The pan camera run; good.
089:30:38 Cernan Beautiful.
089:30:43 Schmitt Oh, boy, there is Picard - or Peirce, one of the two.
089:31:00 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, all those dark and light albedo changes around Picard and Peirce are not obvious at this particular angle yet. There's some hint of them.
089:31:18 CC Roger.
089:31:21 Schmitt The - rim - is there one farther south of Peirce?
089:31:29 Schmitt Which - is it far - is the one farthest - Picard, yes.
089:31:38 Schmitt Picard, I think, is the one I'm looking at. Yes, it is. Yes, and I can see Peirce now just - behind the rendezvous antenna - or radar. And - Yes, way out there, you ought to start seeing them.
089:32:02 Evans I guess I ought to get that other stuff on the camera, huh?
089:32:09 Schmitt Okay. We're just about over the top of Picard, and the rim materials, which go out about a third of a crater in diameter, as near as I can tell, are - are distinctly darker but not by much. They're more gray, really, then the gray-tan, or tannish gray of the rest of the mare.
089:32:33 CC Roger.
089:32:38 CC Now we assume you're all set up or about to get that way for the landing site photos.
089:32:46 Schmitt Yes, sir. There is no obvious ray pattern or secondary pattern outside of that blanket around Picard.
089:33:07 CC Roger.
089:33:08 Schmitt I see no loops or obvious alignment that would be related to that crater. There are blocks - look like great big blocky areas on the rim.
089:33:21 CC Roger.
089:33:28 PAO This is Apollo Control, some 6 minutes 13 seconds away from S-IVB impact. The traces - seismograph traces - from Apollo 14 and Apollo 16 will be visible in the news room video monitors. There will be a briefing in the small briefing room on the seismology of the impact. Some 5 minutes 43 seconds now away from S-IVB predicted impact.
089:34:08 Schmitt Do they want the 80-millimeter lens on these terminators now?
089:34:32 Schmitt There's Taruntius, Ron.
089:34:37 Schmitt Yes, I guess that's right.
089:34:58 Schmitt I've got to get another magazine on it.
089:35:11 CC America, can you verify the position of the P - PU valve at this time for us?
089:35:18 Cernan Roger. It's in NORMAL.
089:35:21 CC Okay.
089:35:44 Schmitt Macrobius, Macrobius, my friend.
089:35:46 Cernan No, it's Microbus [sic].
089:35:57 Schmitt Okay, I'm loaded up for your terminator, Ron. What's - is it not out of 105, or what? is it - Okay, 80-millimeter or -
089:36:13 Evans 80.
089:36:14 Schmitt 80 - -
089:36:15 Evans ... Millimeter ... f/ll at 1/500 ...
089:36:18 Schmitt Okay.
089:36:19 Evans 80-millimeter.
089:36:21 Schmitt Okay.
089:36:22 Evans f/11 at 1/500.
089:36:23 Schmitt Five frames over the terminator, huh?
089:36:25 Evans 12 frames.
089:36:26 Schmitt 12 frames. Very good. How soon do I start?
089:36:29 Evans Well, about -
089:36:33 Schmitt Okay.
089:36:36 Schmitt Okay, in about 5 minutes, all right.
089:36:39 Schmitt Gordy, you'd be interested - there's a crater that just on - on the west rim of Crisium. Relatively fresh rim - fairly crisp rim - but no strong ray pattern. There's no ray pattern apparent at all. It looks like it's pre - the plains material around it - that - since they come right up over the - right up to the edge of the crater in one spot. That is Posidonius. That's right. That's what I'm looking at.
089:37:20 CC Roger.
089:37:26 Schmitt Not Posidonius, Proclus. That's what I'm describing. You know I - You're looking where?
089:37:36 Cernan ... 41.
089:37:38 Schmitt Infamous Proclus. Okay, give me a mark when I'm - Hey, look at the - -
089:37:50 Cernan Okay, I'll give you a mark, Jack.
089:37:51 Schmitt At the Cauchy Rilles here. Man, is that neat. Let me see. Going to have to -
089:38:06 Cernan One right there with the shadowed peak in there. Right? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And that's out of this window, huh? I'm not - sure I'm seeing it yet.
089:38:40 Schmitt Manischewitz! Look at those terminators.
089:38:42 Cernan Shadows.
089:38:44 PAO One minute MARK to the S-IVB impact.
089:38:49 Schmitt There's the mare domes for the central craters. They're certainly obvious. In - northern part of - Let's see -
089:39:05 Cernan The lineations that trend to the northwest through this entire - entire section - they go through the - mostly through the highlands.
089:39:21 Schmitt I can get the pictures. is it directly out of window 5? Okay. We've got about another minute and a half. I'm going to proceed here at 41.
089:39:32 Evans It'll be right underneath the groundtrack. It's right under it.
089:39:35 Schmitt Well, that's the way we're going. I'm taking them east-west.
089:39:38 Evans Okay. I ...
089:39:40 Schmitt O - yes. Okay.
089:39:49 Cernan Hey, Jack, we're at - coming up on 40.
089:40:03 PAO We had loss of signal right on time with the instrument unit of the Saturn IVB which - -
089:40:07 CC ... about a minute to PRO on P20.
089:40:09 Cernan Yes. We're at 40 - Okay, I'm with you, Gordo. Thank you.
089:40:27 PAO Seismic signals beginning to come in.
089:40:30 Evans Okay, you got it.
089:40:38 Schmitt Okay.
089:40:52 Cernan Don't forget to PRO, Ron; you've got - you got 8 seconds.
089:41:01 Cernan MARK it - 41. Okay, I guess you can - -
089:41:08 Schmitt Goes. With the usual FAO flight planning, that was a good time.
089:41:17 CC Roger.
089:41:18 Schmitt Hey, you can even see horizon in the - earthshine out there.
089:41:26 Cernan Boy, you sure can. You can see an earthlit horizon out there into the dark part of the Moon.
089:41:34 Schmitt Can you see the landing site? I think it's going to be in the darkness.
089:41:37 Cernan You know, I - it - The shadows are so contrasting here, Ron, that I -
089:41:44 Evans Give me that thing a minute.
089:41:59 Schmitt Donius [sic]. There's le Monnier, the landing site. I can't -
089:42:08 Cernan No, it's just - it's just dark.
089:42:09 Schmitt Isn't it a little north of track?
089:42:12 Cernan No, I think it's right below us, Jack. I think it's right smack below us in darkness.
089:42:17 Schmitt Yes, I yes, it is. I can't - I think I'm looking at Littrow right there, right below us. But I can't quite tell.
089:42:31 Cernan If I could see Vitruvius, I'd have a better handle on it.
089:42:36 CC A reminder to go to f/4 and 1/250 on the last six pictures.
089:42:44 Cernan Roger. That's Posidonius all right, le Monnier; we're here early.
089:43:04 Schmitt Boy, I tell you, there's no question that right at the terminator you - you pick up relief that you normally would not believe is there in the mare. I remember Bill Anders talking about the appearance of a sea swell within the mare itself and that's certainly clearly shown right at the terminator. Plus you start to see the shadows from all the very small craters that otherwise don't show up as much more that just little depressions, if that.
089:43:35 CC Okay. We need ACCEPT so we can give you a landing site REFSMMAT.
089:43:44 Evans Okay, you have it.
089:44:06 Schmitt Yes. Okay, I think that will do her. Okay, Houston. I cheated. I took three extra pictures, and those were at 2.8 and a 250th at the end.
089:44:22 CC Okay, Jack.
089:44:25 Schmitt And, your - actually your times might have been a little off, because I was just about ready to lose the terminator because of the maneuver - are we maneuvering or have we? Yes. But, I think we got a good set going up to the terminator.
089:44:50 CC Roger.
089:44:51 Schmitt Plus a couple of shots - a few shots on the CEX mag Quebec Que - No, mag Kilo Kilo as we came around the Moon and that number's now on 20. Kilo Kilo is 20, and Quebec Quebec is 42.
089:45:16 CC Okay, we need the IR, ON, now.
089:45:21 Schmitt Okay, back to work.
089:45:28 CC It's your computer; the up-link's in there, and you can go back to BLOCK.
089:45:30 Schmitt IR going ON -
089:45:32 Schmitt MARK it.
089:45:45 Schmitt Yes, enough - enough tourist activity.
089:46:02 Schmitt Warm in here, isn't it?
089:46:15 CC America, a couple of items. Would you verify the S-BAND AUX TV switch is in the SCIENCE position? And one other thing, we think you were in LOW BIT RATE during the burn.
089:46:32 Schmitt Okay, it's in SCIENCE and we very definitely were in HIGH BIT RATE during the burn by the checklist.
089:46:39 CC Roger. We may have a problem there because it looks like LOW to us on the data. We'll check further.
089:47:01 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, there was - Ron questioned - brought up the question or possibility of not having gone to COMMAND RESET; but, just before we left you, you'll probably be able to see that I went COMMAND RESET and turned on the tape, because I remember seeing the tape motion.
089:47:18 CC Okay, Jack. We're discussing it - what happened there.
089:48:35 CC America, you can go back to BLOCK.
089:51:52 Schmitt Okay, Houston. How do you read 17?
089:51:55 CC You're loud and clear, Jack.
089:51:59 Schmitt Okay. Before we really got concentrating on the burn, and I had an opportunity to - we all had an opportunity to look at Korolev, at a very low grazing Sun, one of the striking things was the - to me was the extreme absence of relief, the very smooth surface that existed in Korolev, independent, of course, of the craters that are penetrating that surface. And it looked like there was a ring in the floor - outsi - next to the wall, about maybe one-sixth of a crater radius, that was somewhat brighter at the low grazing Sun, suggesting it may have had a different slope. And I believe I'm correct in saying that the inner floor may be slightly raised. We'll try to make other observations this next time around on that one, but there was just a very smooth floor. The light plains material in that crater is very smooth.
089:53:13 CC Okay; understand. One quick word from FAO's - -
089:53:18 Schmitt And, of course, that's independent - -
089:53:19 CC - - film watchers here, has to do with optional photographs. We'd rather you take the optional photographs on either OO or PP and reserve KK for the scheduled photographs. And, as it stands now, we've got to reserve 80 frames on either OO or PP for scheduled photography. Over.
089:53:42 Schmitt Okay, you have to keep track of that. We need - I was hoping we had an optional capability on our first rev, and we'll work it out.
089:53:53 CC We do. We just want to put them on OO.
089:53:59 CC That's right; just stick them on OO.
089:54:48 CC Jack, the problem on the high and low bit rate there was a synchronization problem between you on the burn checklist and us on the ground on our pre-LOS command. No hardware problems, and I don't think it will be a problem in the future.
089:55:08 Schmitt Okay. But you did lose the high bit rate. is that correct?
089:55:11 CC That's affirmative. We just had low bit rate during the burn.
089:55:18 Schmitt Okay. I may have jumped the gun on you there a little bit. But I thought we were supposed to do that just before we went AOS - LOS. I think I did it about a minute before.
089:55:32 CC Okay. It was almost identi - simultaneous with our sending the command. You've got about 4 minutes to start looking at Copernicus coming here.
089:55:44 Schmitt Okay. Thank you. We're just - Sun's Just setting.
089:56:07 Schmitt Okay, I have a visual on Copernicus.
089:57:05 CC And by the way, the S-IVB crunched in on time, and it's been ringing the ALSEP seismometers like mad for some time now.
089:57:42 Schmitt VOX, and that's VOX. How do you read the LMP, Gordy?
089:57:45 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
089:57:48 Schmitt Thank you. Okay, good. All right, I've got a visual on Eratosthenes and Copernicus. The - they are obviously different-age craters in this light. You can see the ray patterns in Copernicus moderately well. You can even tell that they do cross Eratosthenes. Stadius shows up as a very clear dark area to the southwest of Eratosthenes. Now, one of the things that we mapped on the southeast and south rim of Copernicus were dark albedo areas within the ejecta. And those are apparent here, very clearly. And also, within - on the upper portion of the rim and on the benches, in that quadrant. The walls - there are the dark spots - lower albedo material that we mapped. They are - form linear patterns along the benches, apparently. Although the bench - the topography is not too clear. But the dark spots are in arcuate linear arrangement parallel to the rim. And they appear to have - be elongate along radius - along the radius of the crater.
089:59:34 CC Roger, Jack.
089:59:36 Schmitt This is in the southeast - southeast quadrant I'm referring to. Copernicus H is also very obvious as a dark-rimmed crater, relative to the albedo of the ejecta blanket. And the northwest quadrant, which we mapped as a smooth floor material and somewhat darker albedo, is just as apparent here, although all the contrasts, of course, are less. The main thing that you can pick out in earthshine are albedo distinctions. Now - now we - we - I remember that we also, at one time - and I can't remember whether it made the final map or not - mapped an arcuate fault structure, based on the change in albedo. And this was on the southwest quadrant of Copernicus. And that crossed the southern rim, more or less north-south, went down and curved across the floor and up the southwest rim, and that is a very clear arcuate pattern in this lighting. Darker albedo than the rest of the crater. And along the arc, there appear to be a couple or three even darker spots - much as we thought we saw in some of the early photography.
090:01:23 CC Roger.
090:01:24 Schmitt There is a general streaking - radial streaking - within that arcuate dark area that radiates radially from the crater, and if I had to project, the dark area would - north - whose northeast terminus is the arc in the crater, I'd project it off to southeast about crater diameter and a half, maybe. Now there's - I'm getting - essentially directly overhead, and again the dark spots within the crater wall are still apparent, and the streaming or the radial elongation of these spots is clear. Now, on the lower wall - that's below the first bench - I can see four of these dark areas, and on the next wall above that, above the first bench, there are two - two obvious ones and a couple that are somewhat more subtle.
090:02:43 CC Okay - -
090:02:44 Schmitt In the middle of the - -
090:02:45 CC - - Can you see anything of the - that stuff we were wondering about in the central peaks?
090:02:51 Schmitt No, Gordy, I can't. The - there's very little indication of relief in earthshine and particularly at this high Sun ang - high Earth angle, pardon the expression.
090:03:07 CC Roger.
090:03:08 Schmitt The central peaks do stand out, though, as a much lighter albedo area within the crater. It looks to me like the best thing you can do in earthshine is work with albedos. Knowing the general topography from the - from the pre - earlier photography. We're coming up on Kepler now. Copernicus is out of my view in window 5 - Maybe Ron sees it. Do you, Ron?
090:03:44 Evans No, it's out of ny view now, too.
090:03:49 Schmitt Okay, we, we - -
090:03:50 Cernan Can you see Reinhold over there?
090:03:53 Schmitt Reinhold, I was not conscious - Yes, I can see Reinhold. Reinhold is one of the craters just like Copernicus that may have contributed ejecta into the Apollo 12 soil. Do you see anything - -
090:04:05 Evans An S - an S-IVB - l6's S-IVB hit out there to the south, I think.
090:04:10 Schmitt Well, I don't - -
090:04:12 Evans No, I don't think you1d see it.
090:04:13 Schmitt I don't see anything that would indicate that. Reinhold is an Eratosthenian Age crater, as you may recall. It's crossed, very obviously even in this light, by the Copernican rays, which is prime - the main way we determine the age, other than it doesn't have any rays itself. Although, on the good photography we now have, we know it has secondary crater patterns around it.
090:04:41 Cernan You're not looking at the same crater I am then.
090:04:46 Schmitt Reinhold is right down here, Geno.
090:04:47 Cernan Where are you looking ...
090:04:48 Schmitt Well, it's south of Copernicus.
090:04:50 Cernan Okay, I'm looking up here.
090:04:52 Schmitt South and a little west.
090:04:54 Cernan I don't have the same view you have.
090:04:58 Schmitt Okay, I can see Lansberg now. And I'm afraid I can't shed any light, pardon the expression, on the old question we've had about the age of Lansberg relative to the mare.
090:05:16 CC Okay.
090:05:25 Schmitt Kepler ray pattern is very striking in this light, An anastomoting - mosing series of - of bands which only average being radial. In most cases, they're a little off radial, but by joining together, they give you a general radial pattern.
090:05:50 Cernan I just wanted to see a -
090:05:52 Schmitt Okay. Out the window 4, I have an excellent view of Kepler. Once again, albedo differences, such as the - are very clear - such as the distinction between the wall - light - or brighter wall materials and the rim which, in itself, is brighter than the surrounding mare. We can look right down some of the rays, and the rays are not completely linear. I'm looking now to the northwest. Gene, you can see Aristarchus way up there in the northwest. See it?
090:06:31 Cernan Yes. It's coming into ...
090:06:32 Schmitt You ought to have a good view of Aristarchus. Very bright, up in the northwest part of our field of view.
090:06:37 Cernan The inside of that crater almost looks as if it's backlit.
090:06:41 Schmitt That's right. Well, it should be (chuckle). Strangely enough.
090:06:45 Schmitt And - but I want - these rays when contrast to the - maybe the feeling one would have that they are - once they get started, they form a linear pattern across the surface. They don't seem to have done that. As a matter of fact, they're quite strikingly curved along their pattern. They'll break from the general radius they're out on, curve away and then curve back. Some - all - let's see, there are one - one, two, three, four - four rays that go from out - to the northwest of Kepler, all of which show that nonlinear characteristic.
090:07:33 Cernan Yes, they're all radial, though-
090:07:34 Schmitt They are radial, in general. But when you look at them in detail, only portions of them are radial. And a single ray, which you can follow continuously, will bend and then curve back.
090:07:49 Evans The - it's unique. We've got rays from - I guess those must be Copernicus over here - those long ones out to the right, which you might not be able to see. Kepler and Reiner are all - all intermingling up here.
090:08:05 Schmitt Yes, this is the area now we're going over where the gamma ray work on 15 indicated a relatively high radioactivity. And - not yet, it's -
090:08:25 Evans Houston, America here. Do you see the torquing angles?
090:08:31 Schmitt I was going to look for the Hortensius domes near Copernicus, but got sidetracked with Kepler and missed them.
090:08:38 CC Okay, ... torquing angles, Ron,
090:08:39 Schmitt They are not obvious, though, in looking in the general direction -
090:08:44 Evans Okay, I'll torque it to 845.
090:08:47 CC Roger.
090:08:56 Schmitt Okay, we're getting out into Procellarum - Oceanus Procellarum proper now and, before long, should pick up the medial ridge that makes that mare so distinctive from the other mare. Actually, the ridge that stretches something like 2000 kilometers north to south, if you want to tie a vari - a number of things together. And, probably is the lun - the Moon's closest analogy to an oceanic ridge, which has - which have been in the news over the last decade.
090:09:34 CC Roger.
090:09:50 Schmitt Once again, the topography of the Procellarum Mare is not clear in this light. It's just not quite enough light to give you strong, distinct shadows, at least not yet at this Earth angle.
090:10:07 CC Okay. And as you get the camera set up for the orbital science pictures of Galois would want to change and use magazine OO instead of KK. That's listed in the Flight Plan at 90:20.
090:10:24 Schmitt Okay, we'll - we'll do that.
090:10:32 Schmitt Okay I'm - out of the window 4, I'm able to see some of the Rima Gamma materials, and it's - awful hard to say more than just the fact there is a very clear light-colored pattern off to the north - of our position at any rate. I think all I can say is that I've seen it. I can't give you much information on it.
090:11:17 CC Okay.
090:11:20 Schmitt We can see the area where Marius Hills should be, although it's not an obvious topographic feature in this light. Still see Aristarchus off up there shining like a star, if the Moon could have stars.
090:11:41 Evans Okay, Houston. I'm going to torque those cos - coarse align errors out at 1, 2.
090:11:49 CC Roger, Ron.
090:11:55 Schmitt And - -
090:12:03 Cernan You squared away?
090:12:08 Evans It's good to be able to see some stars out of the telescope. It's the first time I've been able to see any.
090:12:14 Schmitt Gordy, we have a - a very clear zero phase point for the earthlight. It's certainly not a strong contrast for the Sun, but it's out there. And within it, again, the fresh craters tend to brighten - quite a bit more than the surrounding mare. Still looking at Oceanus Procellarum. And now, out window 3, up to the northwest, Grimaldi is starting to show up - a very obvious dark area within the highlands of that part of the Moon - and one of the darkest mare regions that we have seen on the - on the Moon. It's comparable, at least in the photographs, to that of Tsiolkovsky.
090:13:26 CC Roger.
090:13:27 Schmitt Normally, of course, we think of the dark mare as being the younger basalt flows that - on the Moon, but in our case, of course, young means something on the order of 3 billion years or older.
090:13:45 CC Roger.
090:13:45 Schmitt For our interp - If we can extrapolate from the samples returned by other missions.
090:14:04 Schmitt Amazing how far over - now the highlands to the west of Procellarum are - still are bright, and the contrast between fresh craters and the normal highland are very - are very obvious still in earthlight, particularly along the zero phase point with respect to the Earth. Rima Gamma now is - is coming a little bit closer to our oval track in the horseshoe in the - larger and more western end of it; the dark horseshoe is quite clear in this light. It's a west - or northwest-pointing horseshoe, as is the complete trend of that strange feature. I think Ron is going to have an excellent chance to study these light-colored swirls within the mare and other parts of the Moon. We had some good views of them and Mare Marginis and to the east of Crisium - Mare Crisium, and he should - if there is anything to be seen, he should be able to see it for - during the next few days.
090:15:36 CC Okeydoke.
090:15:51 Cernan Say, Gordo, something I Just noticed here in working with the GDC what have you. I - looked at the PC gauge, and in the PZ - PC position, there is a continuous bias on it now of about, oh, 7 percent, and if I switch to ALPHA, it goes to zero. We never saw that bias before this last burn.
090:16:16 CC Roger, Gene.
090:16:35 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, I'm looking right up the western edge of the Procellarum mare where it contacts the - the - the high - western highlands of the Moon, and we're just about to fly a little bit south of Grimaldi. That edge is very irregular. There is no obvious indications that it - there are large basins that have been flooded by mare that have formed that edge, but, again, the topographic distinctions possible in this light are small. Now I'm starting to see that there are shadows in the craters.
090:17:22 CC Roger.
090:17:23 Schmitt That's the small craters. There, in the Mare Procellarum closest to Grimaldi, there are two arcuate rilles. Looks like they're probably V-shaped in their cross section. I'm sure we've seen those on the photographs much better than I can see them here. Those - the rille patterns, though, do seem to project over into the highlands.
090:18:03 CC Okay.
090:18:04 Schmitt To the north of that - to the north of that bay of mare. Just interrupt.
090:18:11 Schmitt Hey, I just saw a flash on the lunar surface!
090:18:16 CC Oh, yes?
090:18:18 Schmitt It was just out there north of Grimaldi. Just north of Grimaldi. You might see if you got anything on your seismometers, although a small impact probably would give a fair amount of visible light.
090:18:32 CC Okay. We'll check.
090:18:34 Schmitt It was a bright little flash right out there near that crater. See the crater right at the edge of Grimaldi. Then there is another one north of it. Fairly sharp one north of it is where there was just a pin prick of light.
090:18:51 CC How about putting an X on the map where you saw it.
090:18:52 Schmitt I keep looking occasionally for - yes, we will. I - I was planning on looking for those kind of things. Starting to see the edge of Orientale, Gordy. Way off to the west. Hey, just yell, Gene, anytime you - -
090:19:47 Schmitt Gordy, to the north of Grimaldi there is a large basin that is about the same size but only incompletely filled with mare in its northeastern quadrant. The rest of it looks like a fairly irregular and hummocky floor material of some kind.
090:20:11 CC Roger.
090:20:12 Schmitt But it's almost the same size as Grimaldi. It even looks like it is a little bit deeper, but, of course, Grimaldi has considerable fill. Grimaldi on its eastern edge has some of the graben, or it's rim, if you will, is cut by three or four anastomosing grabens that make it look like some of the bench areas in the larger basins.
090:21:00 Schmitt Okay, the first ring of Orientale is showing up. The inner - next ring in is extremely obvious; got some very bright east - east-facing slopes.
090:21:17 Cernan I'll turn off the intercom.
090:21:24 Schmitt It has some very bright east-facing slopes, and you can see the bands of mare that are filling the - both the first bench area and the inner bench.
090:21:53 Schmitt Any time you need us, Gordy, just interrupt me.
090:21:57 CC Okay; we'll do that.
090:22:03 Schmitt Now, as I look north along the first bench, that's the first bench from the outside, one inside the Cordillerian ring. I better check that; I may have my names mixed up. Got Orientale, there - handy? ... see. Should be on there. Yes, this is what I need. What's the name - they got a name on that ridge, there? That's Rook Mountains. Yes, the Cordillera. Yes, that's right. Looking just west of the Cordillera on the first bench, as I look north, in this light, which is casting some shadows now, Gordy, over in here, it looks extremely smooth. Now this is not mare; it's lighter albedo, lighter reflectivity than the mare, and, although there are patches of mare in the lower areas in it. But looking along that plain, in fact, a lar - a long linear plain, it - it looks quite smooth with only some very broad undulations that appear to be roughly radial to Orientale itself. The more - closer we get to it, the more I see minor relief showing up. I start to see the shadows, I guess. And that relief seems to bring out a hummocky texture in - in addition to the craters you would expect to see there.
090:23:59 CC Roger.
090:24:00 Schmitt I won't try to give you a trend on the hummocks because I think the shadows are biasing my view; they do ap pear to be north-south trending, but I think that is because of the shadow patterns. This is a spectacular sight, you guys; you ought to take a look at Orientale. One of the largest fresh basins on the Moon. It still is probably 4 billion years old, or 3.8 at any rate, if our dating criteria are any - any good. It has the outer Cordillerian ring and the inner ring called the Rook Mountains - very, very nicely shown. There are massifs on that inner ring, the Rook Mountain ring; there are massif complexes much like what we'll be studying at Taurus-Littrow. There are low areas, nonmare areas, that are comparable to some - to the Taurus - the valley that we'll be landing in. And, all in all, I think we'll find that our ring in the Taurus-Littrow area around Serenitatis is comparable in many regards to this Rook Mountain ring around Orientale. You want - did you interrupt, Gordy?
090:25:34 CC No. I didn't say anything.
090:25:38 Schmitt Okay; I thought I heard your key. Okay; in the inner portion of Orientale, as we approach a terminator, the lighting is still excellent. Matter of fact, it appears brighter than what we were looking at over at Copernicus. Now, part of that may be we're seeing much sharper relief since the slope - Earth-facing slopes are nicely lit, and the backfacing slopes, of course, are in shadow. The first portion of the bench inside the Rook Mountains is partially filled by mare. Now, the higher land in there is very smooth, in a gross sense, is a very smooth hummocky terrain, cut by roughly circumferential grabens. The trend of the hummocks themselves are not radial; they're more - well, they're about a 45-degree angle to the radius. They, in detail, have a much finer hackly texture, much like we've been able to see on photographs before. And, in general, you get the impression that, in several areas here, that that hackly tex-tured surface is draped over material that resembles the massifs of the Rook Mountains themselves. There's one area just to the north now of our track where there's a large, roughly equidimensional mountain mass, with a few projections of massiflike peaks through this hackly textured surface.
090:27:47 CC Roger.
090:27:47 Schmitt There are also some radial grabens; I just now picked one up, which we've also seen on the Orientale photographs taken by Lunar Orbiter. It's amazing how fresh appearing this basin looks, considering its great age. But it's - it probably is not - had any more violent a history than Imbrium. Now, we're getting up, just about to go over a delta-rim crater that's out in the basin. I don't remember the name of it offhand. But it's - be familiar to some of the geologists who have mapped this basin. It does not appear to have a strong impact ejecta blanket around it. It's filled with mare, and it's quite sharply in contrast to a crater of comparable size to the northwest. See that one, Ron; I don't know whether you can get it. I get a good view out of 5 now of that one. And, once again, it looks as if this hackly textured material that forms the higher hills in the inner bench - has a draped appearance over the, over preexisting terrain, and, in fact, along the ridges of the hummocks, you - we now can pick up little rilles that roughly parallel the hummocks, although not - not - not consistently. They do cross down into the valleys. But it has appearance that there may have been a tensional relief along the crest of each of the hummocks, or many of the hummocks.
090:29:53 CC Roger.
090:29:53 Schmitt Delta-rim crater just as has been, I think, discussed in the literature, has just that, delta rim with no obvious ejecta blanket around it, compared to other larger craters within the basin. We're directly over that crater right now. It's filled with mare, very smooth mare. Matter of fact, within that fill, I can see no - no craters. Getting very close to the Earth terminator, but you see good texture in the ejecta blanket of the large crater in the north part of the inner basin of Orientale. The radial ridge and valley patterns are very clear; the concentric coarse hummocks near the rim are apparent; and you can even see the second - patterns of secondaries, the larger secondaries, extending out away - radially out away from that crater. The south - the mare fill in the south floor of Copernicus, I mean of Orientale, is very smooth but does have the sea-swell texture that we saw over in Tranquillitatis.
090:31:30 Cernan Better let him say something before AOS.
090:31:40 CC I ain't got nothing to say.
090:31:40 Cernan Houston, I guess we're getting close to AOS. We're getting close to AOS. Do you have some words for us?
090:31:51 CC Okay. We show about 9 minutes to LOS. We'd like to clarify one thing, and that was on this tape recorder commands and high and low bit rate. And we just want to make it clear that preburn the 6 minute callout is HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD, FORWARD, COMMAND RESET. Did you - did you tell us a few minutes ago that you did indeed do all those at about 6 minutes?
090:32:26 Schmitt Yes, Gordy, I certainly thought I did, but I can't specifically - I know the HIGH BIT RATE was there, because we switched to LOW later. I can't - I'm afraid I can't specifically verify the COMMAND RESET.
090:32:43 Cernan Gordy, I can specifically say that when those - after the bus stars came on, we called that out. I'm almost sure Jack did get it, because I had him then check the helium valves and the nitrogen - helium and the nitrogen valves,
090:32:58 CC Okay. We're just trying to make sure if we - or to determine if we do have a switch problem. The INCO did send LOW BIT RATE, COMMAND, just prior to - to LOS there before LOI, which is the way it's called out in the Flight Plan. And then you should have come along later with a COMMAND RESET, setting the switch to HIGH BIT RATE, and the COMMAND RESET switched into HIGH BIT RATE mode, and for some reason it did not go into HIGH BIT RATE.
090:33:41 Schmitt Well, you want to test it out here, before we go around?
090:33:46 CC That's a pretty good thought. I think we will. On stand by. We'll give you - we'll figure out how we're going to do it here.
090:34:25 CC Okay, Jack. We just now commanded LOW BIT RATE, and you're in LOW BIT RATE. We'd like you now to select HIGH and COMMAND RESET.
090:34:41 Schmitt Okay. Gordy, you also have an oscillation in uplink signal strength and a clicking in the - in the audio. Do you read? We just went steady and at about 60 percent - 70 percent signal strength.
090:34:59 CC Roger. We hear that.
090:35:03 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to - you want me to go ahead and command HIGH and COMMAND RESET?
090:35:11 CC That's affirmative. The HIGH GAIN just went WIDE BEAM, but we're still reading you loud and clear. Go ahead in HIGH BIT RATE and COMMAND RESET.
090:35:20 Schmitt Okay. HIGH BIT RATE; COMMAND RESET.
090:35:36 CC Okay; it seems to have worked properly, Jack.
090:35:46 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I may not have got the COMMAND RESET at 6 minutes. I - I - I just can't tell you right now.
090:35:57 CC Okay; I want to assure you it was no big problem as far as the burn goes. No great loss there.
090:36:08 Schmitt I hope not.
090:36:32 CC America, Houston. About 5 minutes to LOS now. We'd like to have you go ahead and get the jet inhibits and the covers open as shown in the Flight Plan so we can see that before we lose you.
090:37:00 Schmitt Okay; Gordy. IR COVER is coming OPEN.
090:37:04 Schmitt MARK it.
090:37:05 CC Roger.
090:37:09 Schmitt Okay; UV COVER coming OPEN -
090:37:13 Schmitt MARK it.
090:37:16 CC Roger.
090:37:25 Schmitt And you want me to stay in HIGH BIT RATE?
090:37:28 CC That's affirmative. You're there. You're going to have to do it in a minute anyway, so since you're there already, stay there.
090:37:38 Schmitt Okay. We're there; we've got tape motion.
090:37:43 CC Okay.
090:37:49 Cernan Gordy, the deadban - or the A/C - B/D, A/C roll has been changed, and you should have the proper jet configuration now.
090:37:58 CC Okay. We see it; it looks good, Geno.
090:38:03 Cernan Okay.
090:38:59 Schmitt Okay; if you're still with us, we're going to OPEN up the MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER.
090:39:04 CC Okay, Jack.
090:39:28 Schmitt Okay. We're going to EXTEND the MAPPING CAMERA.
090:39:34 CC Roger on that.
090:39:35 Schmitt Okay. Okay.
090:39:38 Schmitt MARK. Barber pole.
090:39:42 CC Roger.
090:39:42 BEGIN LUNAR REV 2
090:40:03 PAO This is Apollo control. We're estimating a change of shift briefing at 3:45 Houston time, 1 minute and 16 seconds away from Loss of Signal on this first lunar revolution. Participants in the flight director change of shift briefing will be Gerry Griffin who has been in charge of the gold flight team, Dr. Royce Hawkins the flight surgeon, and Charlie Dumis the EECOM. At 90 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo control.
090:41:00 PAO This is Apollo control at 90 hours 41 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We've had loss of signal. As the Apollo 17 spacecraft coasted behind the Moon on the first lunar orbit currently in an orbit measuring 52.6 by 168.6 nautical miles. It will be up again in about 47 minutes or approximately. The tables are not up on the display here on the next acquisition of signal as to the next time the spacecraft comes around on the second lunar orbit. Change of shift briefing at 3:45 approximately 10 minutes from now in the small briefing room building 1 news room. Participants Flight Director Gerry Griffin, flight surgeon Dr. Royce Hawkins, and the EECOM Charlie Dumis. At 90 hours 42 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo control.
091:23:40 PAO This is Apollo Control at 91 hours 23 minutes. We're 23 seconds away from acquiring Apollo 17 on it's second revolution of the Moon. During this pass, we will send up a DOI 1 pad. That's instructions to the crew for the Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver. We should be acquiring any time now. We'll stand by for the first call.
091:24:34 Evans Okay, Houston. We're with you on the OMNI Delta.
091:24:42 CC Roger, Ron. Read you loud and clear.
091:24:48 Cernan Okay, Robert. We should have gotten everything right on up through AOS here in the Flight Plan.
091:24:57 CC Good show.
091:25:01 Cernan And the pan camera should be running right now.
091:25:28 Evans Okay, Houston. America here. We stopped the orbital photo path, frame 59. And at about the sub-stellar point, we took 59 to 66, and frame 67 was taken of the, oh, the dark slide on the corner of Lobachevsky.
091:25:57 CC Roger, America.
091:26:34 Schmitt Those frames that Ron mentioned - this is Jack - that he mentioned were taken of a area where there's a much lighter gray albedo. Rather than the tannish gray, it's pure gray material that generally is on the rim crest of a number of craters. It may be related to the swirls that we see elsewhere.
091:27:05 CC Roger, Jack.
091:27:56 Schmitt Bob, we're abeam of Al-Biruni and coming up on Goddard and Margin is right now.
091:28:08 CC Roger, America. We're tracking you on the map here, watching it.
091:28:14 Schmitt Okay.
091:28:24 Schmitt Al-Biruni has got a - a variation in the - its floor, variations in albedo. It almost looks like a pattern as if water were flowing on a beach. It's that irregular. Not in great areas, but in small areas around on the southern side, and the part that looks like it's a water-washing pattern is of a much lighter albedo, although I cannot see any real source for it. The texture, however, looks about the same.
091:28:56 CC Roger, Jack.
091:29:26 Evans And Houston, America. For your info, it took an hour - an hour (laughter) - a minute and 45 seconds for the map - your mapping camera to extend and a minute and 45 for it to retract.
091:29:39 CC Roger, Ron. Copy. 1:45, extend and retract.
091:29:52 Cernan Bob, what's our altitude now?
091:29:57 CC Looks like you're crossing - you're just about 90 miles, but we'll firm that up here, Gene. You're 90.8 - -
091:30:06 Cernan Okay.
091:30:06 CC - - America.
091:30:10 Cernan Okay; thank you.
091:30:18 Schmitt Bob, this is Jack. And the question of these irregular swirls that we've got in Mare Marginis, and we are looking just north of Nep - Neper now. I tell you, in the mare, there just is no visible relief. Although there seem to be some sinuous systematics anyway to the distribution. Like, there'll be a very dark area associated with the light area. And that dark area is darker than the mare. I think the pictures will show that. Now, in the highlands, however, the - the light albedo areas, which are very comparable, that appear to be swirllike patterns of the same type, seem to be associated with a crest of crater ridges and other high points. We're on over - right over a concentration of these now in the northern part of Marginis, where the rule of a - of the light areas being associated with a - either - either symmetrically around a much darker area than the normal mare, or on one side, and in this case, generally the south side - of a dark area is - that rule is very clear. And that also seemed to hold in the back side that there was a slightly darker region between areas of light-colored swirls.
091:32:42 CC Roger, Jack. We understand, and we're standing by. We have a DOI pad and some other updates.
091:32:51 Schmitt Okay. We'll go back to work.
091:33:21 CC America, Houston. We'd like PAN CAMERA, OFF.
091:33:31 Cernan You're reading our minds, Bob.
091:33:32 Schmitt It's OFF.
091:33:34 CC Roger.
091:33:34 Cernan It's off.
091:33:35 CC PAN CAMERA'S OFF, and we'd like ACCEPT. We've got the DOI target load, the CSM state vector, PIPA - and an SPS tailoff constant.
091:33:49 Cernan Okay; you've got ACCEPT, Bob.
091:33:51 CC Roger, Gene. And there will be no PIPA bias.
091:33:56 Cernan Okay.
091:34:47 Schmitt Bob, I can start with that pad if you want to.
091:34:50 CC Roger. We're standing by. I'll start with D0I-1. Are you ready to copy?
091:34:59 Schmitt Go ahead.
091:35:00 CC Purpose: DOI-1, SPS/G&N; 40035; plus 1.90, minus 0.64; 093:11:36.60. NOUN 8l's minus 01916, all balls for DELTA-Vy. DELTA-Vz, is plus 0047-8; 000, 228, 000; 0058.9, plus 0014.5; 0197.4, 0:22, 0192.1; sextant star is 45, 187.5, 19-1. Let me say trunnion again; it's 19-1. The rest of the pad is not applicable. Set stars will be Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Four jet, 15 second on the ullage. Other comments: overburn limits, DELTA-V one seven - 17 feet per second; burn time, 2 seconds. Over.
091:37:11 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Ready for a readback. DOI-1, SPS/G&N; 40035; plus 1.90, minus 0.64; 093:11:36.60; minus 01916, all zeros, plus 0047-8; all zeros, 228, all zeros; 0058.9, plus 00l4.5; 0197-4, 0:22, 0192.1; 45, 187.5, 19-1. Rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Four jets, 15 seconds ullage - Overburn limits: DELTA-V 7 - 17 feet per second; burn time, 2 seconds.
091:38:14 CC Roger, Jack. Good readback. Okay; I've got a map update for - at 93:38 in the Flight Plan.
091:38:33 Evans Okay; go ahead. I have it.
091:38:35 CC Okay, Ron. AOS without burn, 93:31:37; with burn is 34:24. Over.
091:38:52 Evans Okay. Without, 93:31:37; with burn is 34:24.
091:38:58 CC Roger, Ron. I've got a - You can go back to BLOCK, Ron. And on that same page with the J-3, I've got the T-horizon and TCA.
091:39:17 Evans Okay; ready to copy. Go ahead.
091:39:19 CC Okay. You can go to BLOCK on the computer. T-horizon time 93:48:04; TCA minus 20 is 93:50:44. Over.
091:39:41 Evans Okay. T-horizon, 93:48:04; TCA minus 20 is 50:44.
091:39:48 CC Roger. Good readback.
091:39:51 CC Okay, Ron. Over at 93:52, 93:52, we've got a difference in the NOUN 89 value.
091:40:04 Evans Okay; go ahead.
091:40:05 CC Okay. the NOUN 89s have changed to the following: NOUN 89, the first one, plus 20.284, plus 15.151, minus 001.96. Over.
091:40:36 Evans Okay. It's a plus 20.284, and a plus 15.151, and a minus 001.96.
091:40:45 CC Roger, Ron. And here's a note for you. The landmark is F Crater, located on landing site - picture 4 of 4 in the Lunar Landmark Maps. Over.
091:41:03 Evans Okay. Understand.
091:41:08 CC Okay; and I've got a TEI minus 5 pad. Over.
091:41:26 Schmitt Okay; go ahead. TEI-5.
091:41:29 CC Roger , Jack. TEI minus 5: SPS/G&N; 38570; plus 0.49, plus 0.92; 098:39:43.24. NOUN 8ls, plus 2329.8, minus 2403.1, minus 1152.8; 193, 099, 318. The rest of the pad is all not applicable. Set stars, Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Ullage four jet, 12 seconds. Comments: burn undocked; assumes a DOI. Over.
091:42:58 Schmitt Okay, Bob. TEI-5, SPS/G&N; 38570; plus 0.49, plus 0.92; 098:39:43.24; plus 2329.8, minus 2403.1, minus 1152.8; 193, 099, 318. Rest of pad NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030. Ullage: four jets for 12 seconds. Comment 1: burn undocked; comment 2: assume DOI.
091:43:41 CC Good readback, Jack.
091:43:49 Schmitt Okay. What else can we do for you?
091:43:52 CC Stand by 1, here. I've got an addition for Ron on that comment about that F Crater landmark. Let me get it. It's right here, and I'll come right up to Ron on it.
091:44:02 Evans Okay; I'll stand by.
091:44:19 CC Ron, this additional comment will have - the crater is 8 nautical miles north of your track. You will lose the landmark at a 36-degree elevation angle. Over.
091:44:41 Evans Okay. It's 8 miles north, and I'll lose it at 30 degrees. Okay; so that'll be pretty quick.
091:44:47 CC Thirty-six degrees; pretty quick still.
091:45:06 Evans Is that the one on Family Mountain?
091:45:11 CC Stand by on that, Ron. Let me look at the book here. And I'll get Farouk to help me out on that one.
091:46:40 Evans Okay, Houston. I've got F Crater, now. I'm all squared away. Thank you.
091:46:45 CC Okay, Ron. It's - it's right in the middle of that landing site 4 of 4 which is right before Ignin in the book on your - on the Landmark Tracking Book. And it's right dead center on that page.
091:47:01 Evans Okay, I've got it now. I wrote down 404; it's 4 of 4.
091:47:06 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We've got a good shot of the landing site.
091:47:09 CC Roger. Understand. And Roger, Ron.
091:47:27 Schmitt The shadows, Bob, go all the way across the Scarp and very long pyramiding shadows go all the way past Family Mountain. It looks like the Sculptured Hills are lit up on this side, but it almost puts the entire North Massif in shadow, from where I stand.
091:48:05 CC America, Houston.
091:48:06 Schmitt Quite an interesting place to land down there.
091:48:12 CC America, Houston.
091:48:21 Cernan We can now, I think, see contrast down in the shadow. And the only part of the scarp that is visible - I think Jack picked it out - as being right where Lara is.
091:48:41 CC Roger. America, Houston.
091:48:47 Schmitt Roger; go ahead.
091:48:49 CC Roger. Just some words in your - You'll be going through your systems checklist here and you'll probably see that it says dump the waste water if it's greater than 85 percent and you are at about 89.6 percent. We'd - we'd like you not to dump the waste water until the nominal time in the Flight Plan. Do not dump the waste water during this systems check. Over.
091:49:12 Cernan Okay, and I understand that was about 94 hours as I recall.
091:49:17 CC That's affirmative. That's where the nominal time is and that is where we'd like it dumped.
091:49:22 Cernan Okay.
091:49:36 Cernan Bob, that's a - a fantastic black-and-white shot of the landing area with the shadow stretching across most of it.
091:49:45 CC Roger. Understand.
091:50:35 Cernan Bob, I can now see down in through the shadow. I can see - Bare Mountain, I can see - I can't really make out the - the slide yet. Most of the North Masstif - Massif are still in shadow due to the - due to the Sculptured Hills. And just at the point where we can start really to see through the shadows and see the - some hummocky terrain on the North Massif, it just went out of my next reach. But, I did see some sort of albedo change that went across the canyon about in the vicinity of the - of the scarp.
091:52:20 Schmitt Bob, with respect to the landing site - this is Jack - when we had near - or were closer to low phase angle, approaching it - when I first had it in view - there was a clear lightening in the area of the light mantle. It was not sharply defined, but around the crater Lara and Nansen and to the west of the scarp - there was very clearly, slightly brighter - reflectivity.
091:53:00 CC Roger, Jack.
091:54:51 PAO Apollo 17's orbit is 168.8 by 52.5 nautical miles. Present altitude 154.9 nautical miles moving towards apolune.
091:56:27 Cernan Houston, America. The MAPPING CAMERA and LASER ALTIMETER COVERS are CLOSED. I'm going to ENABLE A-l, A-2, and C-2.
091:56:35 CC Roger, Gene.
091:56:48 Evans Yes, it looks like the old gravity gradient worked there or something. I didn't see it get out of attitude at all. Did you all see any movement at all?
091:57:00 CC Max error was about 0.2 - 0.3 of a degree, Ron.
091:57:08 Evans Okay.
091:57:36 Schmitt I'm sorry, Houston. I should have cued you on changing the SPS pressure indicators. You want to see that again?
091:57:47 CC Stand by on that.
091:58:32 CC Jack, it's not required to go back and do them again. We watched it on telemetry.
091:58:39 Schmitt Okay. I'll try to remember to be a little more informative.
091:58:46 CC No problem, Jack; no problem.
092:08:52 Evans Okay, Houston. There are the torquing angles.
092:08:56 CC Roger. We see them. They look good.
092:09:04 Evans Just for another little matter of interest - once the Earth is in the field of view, which it's about - looks like it must be about 12 degrees from Regulus - it's so bright, that it blacks out any - blanks out the telescope for any star recognition. However, it worked real good, in the sextant. You can see the star real well. You just have to assume it's Regulus, though.
092:09:29 CC Roger. Would that star angle difference - -
092:09:31 Evans Okay, I'll torque at 30.
092:09:35 Evans I torqued at 30 - 09:30.
092:09:39 CC Roger. We copy.
092:09:42 Evans And the first - the first star angle difference was - you know, you can get a little bit lax about it - if you want to spend a little time at it, you can get five balls every time, looks like.
092:09:57 CC Roger, Ron. With that star angle difference on the second one, I can assume it was Regulus. I think you're safe in your assumption.
092:10:07 Evans Oh, yes. Right.
092:10:11 Cernan He had to do it, or else I'd have to go down there and do it.
092:10:14 CC Roger.
092:11:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 92 hours 11 minutes. Apollo 17 now at the highest point of it's orbit, 168.8 nautical miles. 37 minutes remaining before loss of signal on this revolution.
092:14:06 CC America, Houston. P40 looks good.
092:14:12 Evans Okay. Mighty fine; we'll go ahead and maneuver to attitude then.
092:14:17 CC Roger.
092:15:17 Cernan Houston, I think I put the wrong number in on the PITCH. We'll correct it. It's 228, isn't it?
092:15:26 CC That's affirmative, Gene.
092:15:31 Cernan Okay, we'll fix that.
092:16:37 PAO This is Apollo control. Apollo 17 is maneuvering to the proper attitude for Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver. This will put the crew heads down.
092:18:09 CC America, Houston. We'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
092:18:20 Cernan You've got it.
092:18:22 CC Roger.
092:21:48 CC America, Houston. We'd like you to hold off switching to OMNI Charlie until we cue you on that.
092:21:58 Cernan Wilco.
092:22:43 Schmitt Bob, this is Jack.
092:22:45 CC Go ahead, Jack.
092:22:49 Schmitt Was there any indication on the seismometers of an impact, about the time I thought I saw a light flash on the surface?
092:22:59 CC Stand by that - we'll check on that, Jack.
092:23:05 Schmitt Don't worry about it. Some - I thought somebody was looking at it. It could have been one of the other light flashes.
092:23:15 CC Roger. We copied the time and - -
092:23:17 Schmitt I have a place marked.
092:23:17 CC - - passed it to the back room.
092:23:22 Schmitt Okay, I got it marked on the map, too.
092:31:19 Cernan Okay, Bob. The star sextant checks out okay.
092:31:23 CC Roger, Gene. Good show.
092:33:02 PAO Flight Director, Pete Frank, now checking all flight control positions for a GO NO-GO on the Descent Orbit Insertion burn. He's getting a GO from all positions.
092:34:41 CC America, Houston. You are GO for DOI and you can leave the high gain selected. We're holding good.
092:34:50 Cernan Okay, Robert. DOI. ... the high gain.
092:34:58 CC Ro - Gene, say again. You were way down in the mud on that one. Can you say again, please?
092:35:07 Cernan Roger; understand. We are GO for DOI, and you have the high gain.
092:35:11 CC That's affirmative, Gene. Just -
092:35:24 Schmitt Hey, Bob, I know I've argued against this kind of thing, but you got tenths on that burn time?
092:35:36 CC It's 0.1 on that.
092:35:43 Schmitt Okay, 0.1.
092:35:44 CC Jack, just some words from the back room on you. The - There may have been an impact at the time you called, but the Moon is still ringing from the S-IVB impact. So it's masked any other - would mask any other impact. So they may be able to strip it out at a later time, but right now they don't see anything at your called time.
092:36:05 Schmitt Just my luck.
092:40:37 Schmitt Bob, log us for a picture of the Earth at 92:40 on mag Oscar Oscar. And we're on frame 68.
092:40:53 CC Roger, Jack; we've got that.
092:40:59 Schmitt You've got a lot of healthy weather out there in the Pacific today. Looks like most of those things we talked about yesterday, up in the Hawaii region and also in the south, have intensified.
092:41:17 CC Roger.
092:45:37 CC America, Houston. We're about 3 minutes until LOS and everything is looking great. No changes since our GO for DOI. We'll expect to see you at 93:34:24.
092:45:53 Cernan We'll see you at 93:34:24, Bob.
092:45:57 CC Roger, Gene.
092:49:03 PAO This is Apollo control at 92 hours 49 minutes. And, we've had loss of signal as Apollo 17 goes behind the Moon. During this pass Jack Schmitt saw a flash just north of the crater Grimaldi at an elapsed time of 90 hours 18 minutes and thought it might be a meteor impact. We could not confirm that; however, the Moon was still ringing from the S-IVB impact and would mask out other activity on seismometer recorders in the science support room here. Apollo 17 will perform the Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver behind the Moon just after the start of the third revolution and at a point near perilune the low point in that revolution. Ignition time for that maneuver is 93 hours 11 minutes 36 seconds. Delta-V change of velocity of 197.4 feet per second. Duration of the burn 22 seconds and we anticipate a result orbit of 58.9 by 14.5 nautical miles. If the burn is performed as expected we'll next acquire Apollo 17 at 93 hours 34 minutes 24 seconds. If Apollo 17 is unable to perform the burn acquisition time will be 93 hours 31 minutes 37 seconds. We'll come back up just prior to the no burn acquisition time and stand by through that period of several minutes. At 92 hours 51 minutes this is mission control Houston.
093:30:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 93 hours 30 minutes. We're a minute and a half away from acquisition without a burn, 4 minutes 10 seconds away from acquisition given a nominal Descent Orbit Insertion burn. Acquisition between those two times would indicate a partial burn of some kind. We'll leave the line up now.
093:31:55 PAO We've passed the no-burn AOS time and do not have a signal. That's an encouraging sign that we did perform a maneuver.
093:33:24 PAO One minute to nominal AOS.
093:34:25 PAO We have a signal, right on the money.
093:34:50 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
093:34:54 CC America, Houston. Go ahead.
093:35:00 Cernan Okay. And the burn was good on all counts, 22-second burn. It was on time, Vgx, 1982; roll after the burn, 357, 225, and 003. Residuals were plus 0, plus 0.2, and plus 0.1. DELTA-Vc is 0.1, and that was with DELTA-V total set into the EMS. Should have been - should been zero and the residual on the EMS was plus 0.1. OXIDIZER's 305, and FUEL is 311 and an UNBALANCE of 150 DECREASE. We're in a 59.1 by 14.9.
093:35:55 CC Okay, America; sounds great.
093:36:01 Cernan It looks pretty great.
093:36:14 Cernan We're getting back down among us where us plain folks belong.
093:36:20 CC Roger.
093:36:45 PAO Those orbital numbers are an on-board readout, we'll confirm those m a few minutes after some tracking.
093:41:00 Schmitt Houston, this is the LMP. There seem to be two general kinds of ray patterns: those associated with a lot of secondaries and light colored, and those that have no visible secondaries. And that's independent, yet, from the irregular light-colored areas we've been calling swirls.
093:41:22 CC Roger, Jack. We're copying.
093:42:14 Schmitt Houston, there also - a lot more - there is - there is a lot more of that light-colored swirl-like irregular material, or discoloration - if - whatever you want to call it, in the back side highlands, particularly as we approach Marginis, than I had previously gathered from the available photography.
093:42:48 CC Roger, Jack.
093:42:54 Schmitt And there still seems to be no relief associated with it. Although, in many cases, it seems to follow ridge lines, or crater rims part way. In other cases, it's quite irregular in its distribution.
093:43:09 CC Okay.
093:43:32 Evans And bank A, that time, with the chamber pressure, was up to 95.
093:43:38 CC Roger, Ron. And we got tracking data on you; has a 13.1 perigee - peri - perilune, rather.
093:43:49 Cernan Roger.
093:43:49 Evans Okay, that's great, Bob, and we're still looking at that zero bias on the DC meter of about 5 to 7 psi.
093:44:01 CC Roger.
093:44:07 Evans Okay ...
093:45:51 Schmitt Some of the boys might be interested to know that in a place where the Sun is just grazing the slope - it's a steep slope on the north rim of Crisium, I can see the horizontal lineaments that were such a controvery on 15.
093:46:08 CC Roger. Understand. The north rim of Crisium?
093:46:09 Cernan ... big one with the central peak.
093:46:13 Schmitt Roger. There are some very steep slopes that just have grazing Sun on them now, and with the binocs, you can see that horizontal lineation pattern.
093:46:25 CC Roger.
093:46:36 Evans There it is. T-horizon will be good. Yes. Okay, I've got the edge of Crisium now. ... Getting hills on the side of Crisium, there. Sure a lot smoother-looking material than I thought it would be.
093:47:03 CC Ron, you're about 1 minute from T-horizon.
093:47:09 Evans Okay, Bob. Thank you. Oh. (Laughter) Here.
093:47:26 CC And, Ron, we - we're copying you on VOX, we believe. is that affirm?
093:47:32 Evans Yes, that's right.
093:47:33 CC Roger.
093:47:34 Evans You're not supposed to copy the other guys, though. Are you copying the other guys?
093:47:37 CC No, just you, Ron.
093:47:40 Evans Okay.
093:47:43 Cernan I may have been talking loud.
093:48:02 CC Okay, Ron. You should be at T-horizon.
093:48:06 Schmitt MARK. T-horizon.
093:48:09 Evans Okay, that's pointing at the horizon all right. I don't see the crater, yet.
093:48:19 Evans Okay.
093:48:38 Evans Okay, I can see the rims of Microbus [sic] A and B.
093:48:59 Evans Okay.
093:49:25 Evans Okay, I really don't see it yet. I can see Microbus A and B, real well.
093:50:02 Evans Okay, I'm going to pick out one and start marking on it.
093:50:08 Evans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. That's the wrong one. Okay, now I see what I'm supposed to mark on; okay.
093:50:22 Evans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and it's gone.
093:51:09 Evans Okay?
093:51:22 Evans No, the ones I just wrote in there. Right?
093:51:44 Evans Okay? And, lets - now I'm going to take a look and see if it looks like a cinder cone. Hey! There's Maraldi Gamma, the mound sticking up there right beside Maraldi. Hey, you guys are going to have some good hills to run down in there. Can you see it all - at all, coming up?
093:52:28 Evans ... north. That crazy radar is going to be in the way - the LM (laughter). Okay, it's going through the landing site, now. The shadow is just up to - You can really see the scarp on there.
093:52:59 Schmitt See what they mean by Sculptured Hills, Gene? See the knobby characteristics in that - -
093:53:02 Cernan Yes. That'll be ...
093:53:03 Schmitt - - area down there. That's part of the Sculpured Hills.
093:53:04 Cernan That's a massif there, too.
093:53:12 Schmitt Now, we're just over the rim of Serenitatis, looking over the Graben Plains - -
093:53:19 Evans Yes, I can just see. I'm going to switch to 17-1. 3, 4, 5, 6 - just got six of them on 17-1 and then the other three were were on F - F Crater; 17-1 was just barely in the - Sherlock was just barely beyond the shadow.
093:53:46 Schmitt This is all supposedly covered with the dark mantle, Gene, what you're seeing down there.
093:53:50 Cernan Yes, the Sun angles are so that you can't tell the difference in albedo.
093:53:53 Schmitt And look at those mare ridges, though.
093:53:57 Cernan I tell you, that's looking out into the gray -gray desert down in there.
093:53:59 Schmitt That's the old Littrow site.
093:54:08 Cernan I think so. I think we're just about ready to climb.
093:54:11 Schmitt I think the terminator is giving you the feeling of that, maybe. Ain't nothing out there.
093:54:17 CC Jack, Houston. Can you see any albedo difference in the landing site area between the dark massif and the light area?
093:54:28 Schmitt We can't see any difference between - in the low areas, between the dark mantle and other materials right now. We're right at the terminator.
093:54:39 Cernan Yes, but Jack and I weren't really looking at the landing site. I think Ron was.
093:54:43 CC Roger.
093:54:53 Evans Gerry, you could really see a difference between the - the South Massif and the - the mantle material around through there. The mantle is not nearly as dark as it looks on the pictures, though. But the massif, South Massif especially, looked almost a whitish color. I guess it's because the, partly the Sun was shining on it. But then - -
093:55:19 Cernan Could you see anything that looks like the slide?
093:55:20 Evans Oh, yes. You can see the slide on the thing and definitely see the scarp going across through there. I was primarily concentrating on looking for the various craters so I didn't spend that much time, you know, concentrating on how the thing looked. But in the marks on the thing, the first about four or five marks were on F Crater and then I saw Sherlock about halfway through it and I got about five marks on the Sherlock for 17-1.
093:56:00 Schmitt ... Gene.
093:56:23 Schmitt Houston, in crossing Crisium and Marginis, it looked fairly clear that with the small fresh craters, and I don't have a good size estimate right now - I think I'm looking in terms of 100 or 2 meters. You can distinguish where blocks have been thrown up by them, or not - possibly giving depth of the local regolith from the pictures you'll get in there.
093:57:05 CC Roger, Jack.
093:57:12 Schmitt And, also, on that lineation question, not only, where the Sun grazes a - a slope do you see the horizontal lineations, but they're at the southern end of the shadowed area on a slope. You get a couple other lineations showing up at least in a couple places I saw. One would be parallel to the slope - that is cross-contour, and the other was at a - an angle to that direction - oh - say of about 30 degrees.
093:58:02 CC Roger, Jack. We're copying you loud and clear and no problems with comm at all.
093:58:10 Schmitt Okay. We just had sunset.
093:58:15 Evans And, Houston; America. On mag Bravo Bravo, 75 to 70 percent were utilized on J-3 and F Crater and 17-1 through the sextant.
093:58:33 CC Roger. Just want to confirm, Ron. You started on J-3 and then you went to F Crater and -
093:58:43 Evans Yes. I went to F Crater and then back to Sherlock or 17-1.
093:58:48 CC Roger.
093:58:51 Evans Actually, on J-3, I took four marks on a crater that was to the west of J-3 and then I finally saw J-3 and started marking on it.
093:59:01 CC Roger, Ron.
093:59:06 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Mag Oscar Oscar is 85.
093:59:13 CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
093:59:15 Schmitt And, then - okay; and there's a number of pictures - Now, just a minute, let me try to give you a general feeling for where they were taken. Stand by 1.
093:59:51 Schmitt Okay; a number of the last pictures that were taken on that series, or that rev, were taken between - say about 115 east, and - oh, about 100 east and they show several examples of the light-colored or swirl - -
094:00:27 Evans Coming up now.
094:00:28 Schmitt - - alterations to the surface. And that's in highland country where that is a distinct gray against the tan-gray or tan highland background - general highland color.
094:00:45 CC Okay, Jack. I got that.
094:01:03 Evans And, all my pictures, Jesus (laughter).
094:01:13 CC Ron, Houston. We'd like you to move up and do the waste water dump starting now and the O2 fuel cell purge.
094:01:24 Schmitt Okay, we'll get to that and mag Quebec Quebec is on frame 50.
094:01:31 CC Roger. Copy.
094:01:34 Evans Okay, you want to dump the waste water on the front side?
094:01:39 CC That's affirm, Ron. We'd like to get a third dump now, so we have it dumped prior to the camera pass.
094:01:48 Evans Oh, okay.
094:01:48 CC We want to get a dump prior to the UV work there, Ron.
094:01:56 Evans Okay, that's right - I'm sorry, I forgot about that.
094:02:02 Evans ... how ... going to go, with BATTERY VENT to - Okay, BATTERY VENTED, BATTERY VENT is CLOSED and going to DUMP A.
094:03:30 Schmitt PAN CAMERA POWER going OFF.
094:04:22 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Beginning the fuel cell purge - O2
094:04:28 CC Roger, Jack.
094:05:14 Cernan Bob , any objections to making that VERB 49 maneuver, now?
094:05:32 CC Stand by on that, Gene.
094:05:36 Cernan Okay.
094:05:54 CC America, no objection to going to VERB 49 maneuver any time. Just do not open the UV door until the 94:45 Flight Plan time.
094:06:06 Cernan Okay. We're with you.
094:08:50 PAO This is Apollo Control at 94 hours 8 minutes. Apollo 17 now is maneuvering to the attitude from which the ultraviolet spectrometer and the infrared scanning radiometer experiments will be performed. The start of those experiments on this pass will be after LOS, behind the Moon.
094:09:23 Cernan Hey, Gordo. I think we're still in LM PRESSURE up there in the tunnel. You want us to go back to LM/CM DELTA-P?
094:09:36 CC Okay, Gordo's off. I'll have to wait a minute here, Gene.
094:09:49 Cernan For a Sunday night, you're - you're hard to get along with.
094:09:56 CC Oh, come on.
094:09:58 Schmitt Wise Marines - wise Marines end up in Antarctica.
094:10:06 CC Roger. Can't do that. They don't have any gates down there.
094:10:15 Cernan That sounds like a job you could probably handle.
094:10:19 Schmitt Listen, after that answer, I'll build one down there for you.
094:10:22 CC Thank you, sir. Hey, you can go to LM/CM DELTA-P.
094:10:28 Cernan Okay, thank you. (Laughter)
094:12:28 CC America, Houston. The fuel cell 3 purge can be terminated.
094:12:34 Schmitt I beat you.
094:12:48 PAO This is Apollo Control at 94 hours 15 minutes. Apollo 17 is just south of the Oceans of Storm, Ocean of Storms now. Shortly, we'll be coming up on the crater Grimaldi again. That's where Jack Schmitt saw a flash on the last pass. We're showing an orbit of 58.9 by 14.3 nautical miles at the present altitude of 28.1 nautical miles.
094:17:34 Cernan Hey, Bob. Who you talking to us with, Honeysuckle or Goldstone? Honeysuckle, I'd guess.
094:17:50 CC We're talking through Goldst - Goldstone, Gene.
094:17:59 Cernan Okay, looks like about a tossup from here. I'll tell you, there is really one heck of a big low-pressure area developing somewhere off the coast of California, Washington, or Canada, out in the Pacific Northwest part of the country.
094:18:17 CC Roger. We copy.
094:18:26 Cernan We were watching it earlier today, but I tell you, now, it's really dragged in some other clouds with it. It must cover an enormous distance and it's got some real spectacular circulation.
094:18:39 CC Just for curiosity, are you using a monocular on that?
094:18:49 Cernan No, I'm using a binocular.
094:18:52 CC Roger.
094:19:33 Cernan Bob, it's - it's got a trailing front. I can't really see the States, or even the North American continent, because - -
094:19:40 CC Stand by, Jack - or Gene. We'd like for you to terminate - -
094:19:43 Cernan - - pretty well covered - -
094:19:44 CC - - waste water dump.
094:19:47 Cernan Okay.
094:19:49 CC Sorry about that. Go ahead.
094:19:54 Cernan Okay, I was just going to say, it's got a - looks like a tremendous trailing front. Roughly, north-northwest, south-southeast, and it looks like it may just sweep up the western coast. It's hard to tell how far off the actual center rotation or even a front is. I just remember from earlier this morning, when I could see landmasses, that it appeared to me to be off the Pacific Northwest out in the ocean.
094:20:25 CC Roger.
094:22:21 CC Jack, Houston here. We've just been kicking around with Farouk, and if you get - if you want to, during your - any of your free time, if you have any, you might look at Copernicus with your binoculars and see if the dike goes all the way - all the way across. He would recommend using the binoculars. Don't take any of your eat or sleep time at all, but you might get a chance on this one eat pass to, as you go by there.
094:22:54 Schmitt Okay. I'll give her a try. You might give me a couple minutes' warning the next time around.
094:23:06 CC Okay, Jack.
094:23:10 Schmitt I'm not sure the attitude is too good for that. I wish I'd thought of it this round.
094:23:15 CC Roger. Well, we were pretty busy coming up on it this time. I think the - that's why we mentioned the attitude may be okay during the eat period. We don't want you to break away from your eat period unless you see you can spare the time.
094:24:04 Schmitt Just looking at the southern edge of Grimaldi, Bob, and we probably have it covered on photos, but there's a nice tangential to slightly circumferential graben along the southern wall and climbs out over the western rim and off the eastern rim, and that graben is premare - premare.
094:24:40 CC Okay, I copy on that, Jack, and as long as we're talking about Grimaldi, you might just rem - we'd like to have you brief Ron exactly on the location of that flash you saw. We'll probably ask him to take a picture of it, maybe during one of his solo periods.
094:25:11 Cernan Hey, Bob, before we get awfully involved, just let me tell you what our motive is here in the next couple of hours. That's to eat and get done what's in the Flight Plan, and come our rest period, we're probably going to turn out the lights and make sure everything's done by then so we can start it on time tonight.
094:25:32 CC Yes, that's a definite - we concur with that definitely, Gene. Don't want you to work into your sleep period.
094:25:44 Cernan Okay.
094:27:19 CC Gene, Houston.
094:27:25 Cernan Go ahead.
094:27:27 CC Gene, last night you didn't use a tone booster, and the work you gave us was that it had - it wasn't working, and we're just wondering if you want - we're thinking about working up a test board to see if - did you test it out thoroughly to make sure it wasn't working, or was that just your desire not to use it?
094:27:46 Cernan We tried it, Bob, and it did not work. The only reason I'm reluctant on a test is I just don't want it to take much time.
094:27:57 CC I don't think it would take much time. The only thing I could say is it would - you know - two obvious things I'm sure you checked them, Gene, would be the utility power and make sure you had the right lamp tests on when you tried it, and that's the only - I'm sure you did it, and that's the only obvious thing - maybe a circuit breaker or something like that.
094:28:19 Cernan Well, we checked it both on the left side and on the right side with two separate UTILITY POWERS and verified that the MASTER ALARMs came on with the test on both sides, and nothing ever happened.
094:28:33 CC Roger. I was sure of that, Gene. Just wanted to make it - put everybody at ease that it's just not working. That was essentially the test. Just forget anything we said about tests.
094:28:51 Cernan Okay.
094:28:55 Schmitt What test?
094:28:57 CC Roger. Got you guys trained up there, finally.
094:29:07 Schmitt Arf, arf.
094:29:13 Evans Houston, America.
094:29:14 CC Roger. Go ahead, Ron.
094:29:19 Evans If I don't find my scissors here one of these days, I think it takes about four bolts on either side of the - you know the optics, where they stow the optics? it looks like there are four little tool E bolts that'll come out. And I think maybe they might be back behind there, I don't know. See, there's a great big slot up at the top of that - oh, it's at least an inch - inch between the top of the optics thing and the top of the spacecraft. I looked back in there with a flashlight and can't see anything, but it's a big hole back there anyhow.
094:30:07 Schmitt I think the commander might have something to say.
094:30:12 Cernan Hey, Bob, just ignore everything he said. We'll leave him a pair of our scissors, and he's just worried about being hungry.
094:30:21 CC Roger. Those are your EVA scissors, too, aren't they?
094:30:24 Cernan But, he is not - Yes, but we can handle - we can handle it with one down there. He is not taking the spacecraft apart to find his scissors, and I will not let him go hungry.
094:30:35 CC Roger.
094:30:39 Evans Okay, either way.
094:35:46 Schmitt Hey, Bob, before we lose you, how did the Oilers do today? (Laughter)
094:35:57 CC 9 to 3. Steelers over the Oilers.
094:36:02 Schmitt 9 to 3?
094:36:04 CC That's affirm.
094:36:09 Schmitt 9? 09 to 03?
094:36:12 CC That's affirmative. Played one of their better games, I guess.
094:36:21 Schmitt How about the Chicago Bears? You got their score handy?
094:36:25 CC Hey, Jack, how about if we pick you up during the eat period. While you're eating, we'll brief you of the whole NFL situation for today. Okay?
094:36:36 Schmitt Well, we are eating. I guess we wait until we come around next time. Okay.
094:36:39 CC Oh - I - well, the Bears were ... losing but - -
094:36:48 Schmitt Bob, we'll wait and you can get up the late evening news prepared for us here the next time around.
094:36:55 CC Okay. Have your gourmet dinner and I'll give you the news.
094:37:00 Schmitt Okay.
094:38:13 CC America, Houston. We're going to lose you here in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll see you at 95:28, according to the Flight Plan, and you're looking good. We don't have anything, any anomalies or anything against you right now. You're looking great.
094:38:33 Cernan Thank you, Robert. We'll see you coming around the horn.
094:38:36 CC Roger.
094:38:46 Cernan Hey, Bob, if you could, it might be appreciated with a word or two from our home fronts.
094:38:54 CC Yes. You didn't let me do it. I was going to give them all a call while on this LOS here, Gene.
094:39:02 Cernan It's that thing again. I bet you were concentrating on the dot.
094:40:15 CC Hey, guys. The Bears 21 to 12 over Philadelphia.
094:40:23 Cernan Thank you. We're going to watch your signal get cut off here.
094:40:28 CC Roger. Was touch and go on that because at one time they're losing that game.
094:40:31 Cernan I won Gene ...
095:21:08 PAO This is Apollo Control at 94 hours 41 minutes. We've had lost signal on the 3rd revolution. Ron Evans performed some landmark tracking on the front side of the Moon during this pass and we got some earth weather reports from lunar orbit, believed to be a first, in the Apollo series. And spacecraft is in the attitude now to perform the ultra-violet spectrometer and the infrared scanning radiometer experiments. We - we expect to acquire Apollo 17 next at 95 hours 28 minutes. Will come back up then, at 94 hours 42 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
095:27:07 PAO This is Apollo Control at 95 hours 27 minutes. We should be acquiring Apollo 17 on it's fourth revolution of the Moon in about 45 seconds. We'll stand by for the first words.
095:28:25 PAO We have a signal and are receiving data.
095:28:59 Schmitt Hello Houston, America.
095:29:03 CC Hello America. Reading you loud and clear.
095:29:09 Schmitt Bob, the flight plan is complete to 95:30.
095:29:13 CC Roger.
095:29:22 Schmitt And Bob, the IR cover came open about 1 minute late.
095:29:27 CC Okay, Understand. Might be interested, the lasted tracking data has you at about 14.1 perilune. It's coming up closer to your CMC data. And, America, we'd like to have the H2 tank, H2 tank 1, fans off. We'll be letting that pressure decay on that. We'll be bringing them back on prior to sleep period.
095:30:04 Schmitt Okay, that's OFF.
095:30:08 CC I've got a number of pads and flight plan update any time you're ready for them, if you want or you can hold off it awhile.
095:30:28 Schmitt Why don't you start with flight plan updates Bob?
095:30:29 CC Okay, At 97:30, 97:30.
095:30:41 Schmitt Okay.
095:30:42 CC You should have a pen and ink change there that says UV cover CLOSE. After that add UV OFF.
095:31:03 Schmitt Okay, got it.
095:31:04 CC Okay, now, just a note, or you can jump way ahead to 106:51, where it says delete, see where it says UV off, just delete that, or else make a verified, because it will be off during that whole period.
095:31:22 Schmitt 106. Yes, I'll just put a verified by that. 106:51.
095:31:27 CC Roger. The next thing I've got are the pads. The TEI 12 and TEI 19 pad.
095:31:42 Schmitt Okay. Go ahead.
095:31:44 CC The first one is TEI 12, SPS G&N 38570, plus 0.49 plus 0.92, NOUN 33 times 111:54:42.86 plus 2543.8 minus 1765.6 minus 7950. Roll is 186, 109, 328. The rest of the pad is not applicable. BREAK - BREAK Jack, we'd like an ACCEPT on the computer please.
095:32:51 Schmitt You got it.
095:32:53 CC Okay. The set stars are as always, Sirius and Rigel, 133, 200, 030. Four Jet, 12 second on the ullage. Three notes: Burn undocked, assumes no CIRC, longitude of the Moon at TIG will be minus 140.19 degrees. Over.
095:33:56 Schmitt Bob, give me note two again please.
095:34:00 CC Okay, Jack, the three comments are: assumes burn undocked, assumes no CIRC burn, and the Moon at TIG, the longitude will be minus 140.19 degrees. Over.
095:34:26 Schmitt Okay, I got everything, but number 2. All right, here's your readback. TEI-12, twelve that is, SPS/G&N 38570 plus 0.49 plus 0.92 111:54:42.86 plus 2543.8 minus 1765.6 minus 0795.0. 186, 109, 328. Rest of the pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel 133, 200, 030. Ullage is 4 Jets for 12 seconds. Remarks: (1) burn undocked, (2) assume no CIRC, (3) longitude, lunar longitude at TIG minus 140.19 degrees, .19 degrees.
095:35:22 CC Roger. Good readback, Jack, and I've got the TEI-19 pad, if you're ready.
095:35:43 Schmitt Okay, go ahead.
095:35:44 CC TEI-19, SPS/G&N 38023 plus 0.49, plus 0.86; the TIG time, 125:46:47.22; plus 2456.3, minus 1925.3, minus 0731.3; 186, 108, 325. Rest of the pad is not applicable. All the notes are the same as on the TEI-12 pad, except the longitude is minus 147.62. Over.
095:37:06 Schmitt Stand by 1.
095:37:50 Schmitt Okay. Here's your readback. TEI-19, SPS/G&N; 38023; Plus 0.49, plus 0.86; 125:46:47.22; plus 2456.3, minus 1925.3; minus 0731.3; 186, 108, 325. Rest of pad is NA. And the remarks are the same as for the TEI-12; that includes set stars. And the only change is the 3, which is the lunar longitude at TIG of a minus 147.62. Over.
095:38:40 CC That's a good readback Jack. I've got a LM DAP read-up here for you. They recommend this be copied on page 1 of the LM Data Card Book, Jack.
095:39:00 Schmitt Well, strangely enough, the LM Data Card Book's in the LM.
095:39:04 CC Yes, I figured as much.
095:39:04 Schmitt We'll put it in our Activation Book. Let me find the right page.
095:39:08 CC Okay.
095:39:08 Schmitt Let me find the right page.
095:39:10 CC Roger.
095:39:15 CC And, Jack, the computer's yours.
095:39:21 Schmitt Okay.
095:40:27 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
095:40:29 CC Okay. LM DAP information: LM weight, 36714; CSM weight, 38078.
095:40:55 Schmitt Okay, the DAP load is LM weight 36714, CSM weight 38078.
095:41:02 CC Roger, Jack, and I'd like to correct one call on my, the TEI pads. There is one other difference between the TEI-19 and the TEI-12 under notes. And the TEI-19 assumes the circ burn, over.
095:41:36 Schmitt Okay, that's corrected to assume circ on the TEI-19.
095:41:41 CC Roger, Jack. I'm sorry on that. I've got some notes from the flight - -
095:41:45 Schmitt That's alright, Bob.
095:41:50 CC Got some notes for Gene from the Flight Surgeon. He promised an update to you on some meal recommendations here on food. You might want to copy this into a supplement.
095:42:09 Schmitt Okay. Just standby one, please.
095:42:12 CC Roger.
095:43:25 Schmitt Bob, let us take a look at the landing area and will be right back with you.
095:43:30 CC Okay. Just whenever you want it, there's no hurry on this at all. Jack, you just might put a little note there somewhere for yourself that Copernicus is at 96.03 if you want to look at it.
095:43:44 Schmitt Okay. 96.03.
095:45:45 PAO Apollo 17 is coming up over the Taurus Littrow landing site now.
095:46:27 Schmitt Now we're getting some clear - look like pretty clear high-water marks on the - -
095:46:31 Evans There's high-water marks all over the place there.
095:46:33 Schmitt - - on the north part of Tranquillitatis in here - mare onto the highlands.
095:46:41 CC Roger.
095:47:11 Evans Yes, there's high-water marks all over that - that - I think that's Maraldi there, isn't it? Are you sure we're at 13 miles up?
095:47:28 CC You're at l4.1, to be exact, Ron.
095:47:34 Evans (Laughter) Looks pretty low.
095:47:38 Cernan Gee, I wonder what it feels like to be at 8 to 10.
095:47:45 CC You're going to find out, I think.
095:48:17 Schmitt I tell you there's some mare ridge or scarps, very sinuous - just passing one. They not only cross the low planar areas but go right up the side of a crater in one place and a hill in another. And it's not at all like a fault scarp. It looks very much like a constructional ridge. And it has the sinuousity of a, pardon the expression, rattle snake.
095:48:42 CC Roger. Does it look like that one we saw on the track the other day?
095:48:49 Schmitt Yes, very much like that one that you almost caught. Look at that. There's a tongute - there's a tongue depressor - several of them - grabens in here. We must be out on the edge of Serenitatis now, right?
095:49:08 CC Yes, we show you on the edge of Serenitatis, Jack.
095:49:15 Schmitt Roger. I just - we didn't get a view of the site, though, going over this time. I think it was off to the north of us just a tad. That's the best example of a mare - mare-like ridge that was as clearly constructional as I would want to see it. Out on the mare, it's never quite that obvious. But there, it climbed up over a hill and then back down again.
095:49:43 CC Roger.
095:49:50 Schmitt And that was just east of the - an area just east of the edge of Serenitatis and probably a little bit south of the landing site.
095:50:05 Cernan Say, Bob, rather than copy specific recommended changes or deletions to a diet, can you have a general comment that's any different than what I already understand?
095:50:18 CC Right. It's no problem.
095:50:19 Cernan If not, I would rather delay it.
095:50:20 CC No, it's no problem, Gene. Two quick comments: the next couple of days, delete the peach ambrosia and the mixed fruit bar, and don't delete anything from the LM menu. And make sure you get all the water in for rehydration, and take - bias it if you think you get 30 percent gas, then put in 30 percent more so you get all the water that is required. And take two anti-gas tablets after each meal instead of one. That sums it up.
095:50:53 Cernan Okay - Okay. Very good. I'll - I'll handle all those words according to their needs.
095:51:00 CC Roger.
095:51:02 Cernan Appreciate them, though.
095:51:15 Evans Houston, America.
095:51:19 CC Go ahead.
095:51:19 Evans We're shooting magazine QQ, frame 50 - frame 50, 51, and 52. We're taking - looking south at the terminator.
095:51:36 CC Ron, we need to get looking at the pan camera here, per the Flight Plan.
095:51:45 Evans Thank you.
095:52:14 Schmitt Okay, Bob. POWER on the PAN CAMERA now.
095:52:23 Schmitt MARK it.
095:52:33 CC Roger. We got it.
095:52:37 Schmitt Okay. And has my biomed been looking all right?
095:52:43 CC That's affirmative.
095:52:52 Schmitt Okay.
095:53:42 CC America, you can turn the PAN CAMERA, OFF.
095:53:49 Schmitt Okay. PAN CAMERA going OFF.
095:53:52 Schmitt MARK.
095:55:21 Cernan ... the up-link.
096:00:29 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Let's see. Will Copernicus - will be north of our track. is that correct?
096:00:39 CC I believe so, from my charts here, but let me doublecheck that. That is affirmative. Tommy just gave me the up on that one.
096:01:22 CC If you guys got time to listen, I can update you on the homefront while you're wor - looking out the windows.
096:01:34 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
096:01:36 CC Let's see. For the CDR, they're eating beans and combread over at Nassau Bay tonight. Probably a good thing they're eating beans there, Gene, because you're feeding 25 tonight. And the horse is getting fed, also.
096:01:55 Cernan Beans and combread? it's a good thing I'm eating up here.
096:02:00 CC You better believe it. And, of course, everybody sends their love. And over in El Lago, they're -
096:02:10 Cernan Well - -
096:02:11 CC Go ahead, Gene.
096:02:16 Cernan I was Just going to ask you to return mine for me, would you?
096:02:20 CC Oh, you better believe it. They're listening to the squawk box. You don't have to say anything to me. And over in El Lago, Jamie's saying - is saying her prayers ending them with, "God bless America and Challenger from now on." And John is saying, "There's Daddy's rocket - makes it go pitch, light out." And of course, everybody sends their love - -
096:02:42 Evans They're great.
096:02:46 CC And they're all listening right now if you'd - -
096:02:48 Evans Tell John, though, that I shaved the other night.
096:02:51 CC Roger. He'll be listening, hearing that. They're all over at the - in Nassau Bay at a big meeting of the Flight Plan. The Parkers are briefing the Cernans and the Evans on the Flight Plan tonight. And out in Tucson, for the LMP, it's kind of cloudy and cold out there today. It's colder than normal. Everything's working fine on the speaker out there, Jack, and they're just listening, and Mother - your Mother is really tickled and just pleased as all get out.
096:03:23 Schmitt That sounds like Mother. And I just got a real good view of Copernicus, but I'm afraid I can't help you out on that structure in the central peak. Just a little too dark.
096:03:36 CC Okay.
096:03:40 Schmitt But it's a fantastic sight at this altitude. It is a big crater. It looks like it's about 80 kilometers in diameter.
096:03:54 CC I'll drink to that.
096:03:59 Schmitt And put down a verify on those dark deposits in the wall. And also on the southeast wall, there's one right on the rim. I think we mapped that one, too, but I'll have to go back and check.
096:04:20 CC Okay.
096:04:22 Schmitt That one looked like it had a crater in it. However, they all tend to be elongate radially, with respect to the crater. But that's about all I can add now.
096:04:46 CC Okay.
096:04:58 Schmitt Bob, I'm glad, the squawk box is fixed. And, of course, send my love and best wishes out there to Tucson.
096:05:08 CC That's a Roger, Jack. You guys might also be interested, here in the Houston area, all of the ground voice or air-to-ground is being carried on FM stations a hundred percent of it. And KUHT, the television station, will cover the - educational TV station - is going to cover 100 percent of the EVAs, all three of them, for all the time.
096:05:41 Cernan That sounds great. We hope we can provide them with as much education as we can entertainment.
096:05:49 CC We're counting on it.
096:05:55 Cernan I guess Parker's all we had left down there to brief them on the landing site, huh?
096:06:07 CC vl won't even comment on that one.
096:06:12 Cernan (Chuckle) Okay. I figure he will later.
096:06:27 Cernan I'd like, also, to send my best up north to the Bellwood - the Bellwood area up there, because I think there's a squawk box up there, too.
096:06:39 CC Beautiful.
096:06:45 Cernan And, Bob, it's - all in all, it's been a pretty exciting day. I think a pretty accomplishing day, and certainly a rewarding day on our part. It's also been a long day, but we're hoping that it can only be superseded by tomorrow. And judging from what we've got in store, it might very well be.
096:07:07 CC I think that sums up the day. It's a day of anticipation for what's going to happen tomorrow. Everything's gone off real well here, and we're just glad you're in the orbit you're in and ready for tomorrow.
096:07:21 Schmitt My goodness, Bob. This is Jack. It's awful hard to spend much time up here anticipating. The events come so fast and certainly are exciting and rewarding, each one, one at a time. But obviously, tomorrow is going to be the biggy.
096:07:39 CC Roger.
096:07:50 CC Ron, we're watching your 52; and just be advised you do not have to do the option 1.
096:07:59 Evans Okay. Real fine, Bob.
096:09:26 Schmitt Bob, I'm not sure whether it's entirely proper, being a bachelor, but I'd like to send my regards to everybody - all the families listening to squawk boxes tonight.
096:09:42 CC Roger.
096:09:55 Schmitt Bob, we're going right over the Procellarum Ridge now, if I'm not mistaken, out in the middle of Mare Procellarum. And we're low enough now that you can see some of the terrain.
096:10:09 CC Okay.
096:10:12 Schmitt That is - that is, some of the hills and rilles and valleys associated with that ridge system.
096:10:24 CC Roger. BREAK - Ron, we've got the 52, and it looks good. You can torque.
096:10:31 Evans Okay. I'll torque it 10, 3, 0.
096:11:08 PAO This is Apollo Control. Gene Cernan's remark about up north in Bellwood is a reference to his mother, Mrs. Andrew Cernan, who is following the course of the mission at her home in Bellwood, Illinois.
096:12:04 Evans Houston, America. You want an E-memory dump?
096:12:08 CC Roger. We're standing by. We're ready for it.
096:12:14 Evans Okay. VERB 74 - sync
096:13:03 Evans The GDC is aligned, and we verified that the LM valve is in LM/CM DELTA-P.
096:13:13 CC Roger. We got you.
096:13:26 CC The E-MOD is finished, Ron.
096:13:32 Evans Okay. Thank you.
096:14:21 CC Ron, we're ready to up-link the jet monitor program and one of the burn constants.
096:14:30 Evans Okay. You have CMC and ACCEPT.
096:14:33 CC Okay.
096:14:34 Evans P20 and ACCEPT.
096:16:28 CC While you're eating or getting ready to eat, I can update some of the news for you tonight, if you're away from the windows. Or are you all still looking out?
096:16:38 Cernan No. Go ahead, Bob.
096:16:39 CC Okay. There's not a whole lot of news on the wire tonight, matter of fact. President Nixon received a firsthand report on private Vietnam peace negotiations today from a key member of the U.S. negotiating team, General Alexander Haig, Jr., Henry Kissinger's Chief Lieutenant. Haig flew back from Paris to report to the President, while technical experts from both sides held an unusual Sunday meeting in the French capitol. Presidential Assistant Kissinger will resume his talks with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho on Monday after a 1-day recess. And former President Harry Truman continued to show some signs of improvement late today after he was earlier removed from the critical list at Research Hospital up - up in Kansas City. His cardiac situation has improved, and this improvement included a slower and stronger pulse and a stable blood pressure. The football scores are as follows in the National Football League today: The Bears defeated the Eagles 21 to 12; the Detroit Lions and the Buffalo Bills played to a 21-21 standoff; Dolphins extended their undefeated streak 23 to 13 over the New York Giants; the Patriots defeated the New Orleans Saints 17 to 10; Green Bay sewed up the Central Division of the NFC by defeating the Vikings 23 to 7; the Cardinals upset the Rams today 24 to l4; Denver defeated San Diego 38-13; Kansas City upset Baltimore 24 to 10; the 49ers defeated the Falcons 20 to nothing, 20 to 0; and Pittsburg defeated Houston 9 to 3, and they - they took the Central Division of the AFC. So the playoff picture is becoming a little clearer. You've got - in the NFC, you've got Washington, Dallas, and Green Bay. And the fourth team will either be San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Atlanta. That will be decided next week. In the AFC, Pittsburg, Miami, and Oakland are in it. And the fourth team will be either the Jets - and another team. They've got the Giants listed here, but it can't be the Giants because that's the wrong division. So we'll - we'll check that one out. Cleveland; okay, Cleveland. The fourth team is either going to be Cleveland or the Jets.
096:19:49 CC And did you get a spurious MASTER CAUTION and WARNING?
096:19:56 Cernan No. Ron was retesting our bleeper again.
096:20:01 CC Okay.
096:20:02 Cernan And it's one of those that works in lunar orbit, I guess. It doesn't work during coast because it's working now.
096:20:10 CC Good show.
096:20:16 Cernan Sounds like there's going to be some good football games coming up.
096:20:19 CC Yes, indeed. You really can't call - -
096:20:24 Cernan Who is playing tomorrow night?
096:20:30 CC Stand by.
096:20:52 CC That's the Oakland - Oakland and the Jets.
096:20:59 Cernan Okay.
096:22:16 CC Ron, the up-link is complete. The EMP is running, and the computer is yours.
096:22:25 Evans Okay, Bob. We got it back.
096:24:10 CC Ron, we'd like the H2 TANK FANs on and that will be the sleep configure. H2 TANK 1 fans ON, and leave 3 in AUTO.
096:24:23 Cernan You want H2 TANK 1 - You want 1 and 2 ON?
096:24:30 CC Negative. TANK 1 ON.
096:24:36 Cernan Okay, that leaves us with TANK 1, ON; TANK 2, OFF; and TANK 3 in AUTO. is that what you want?
096:24:45 CC Roger. If you're calling fans; that's what we want.
096:24:53 Cernan Yes, H2 FANs, Bob; I'll say it again. H2 FANs: 1 is ON, 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
096:25:01 CC That's a good configuration, and that will be the sleep configuration.
096:25:06 Cernan Okay.
096:25:27 Cernan Hey, Bob, it looks like we might make - getting to sleep on time tonight, and - well, we will make it. And I think it goes without saying, we definitely want to get up on time tomorrow.
096:25:42 CC Roger.
096:25:55 Evans I'm going to have the tone booster plugged in, and also I want to make sure the suit power and audio power and all that stuff is on.
096:26:03 CC Roger.
096:29:32 CC Ron, Houston.
096:29:37 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
096:29:39 CC If Ron's listening, just some words about the mapping camera extend/retract times. We came up with slightly different times than what he'd called and we were wondering if his were just ballpark or whether he had timed it? in either case, the times are a little bit long on extend/retract which is a little cause for worry about that - the mapping camera may fail and later on downstream we may want to change our operating mode on that mapping camera and he might want to time it a little closer. If he - if he can - the chance should come up.
096:30:15 Schmitt What - what times - -
096:30:15 Evans Hey, Bob, that's a good point on the thing. Those weren't exact times and, as matter of fact, we looked - kind of looked away and it was about in -y ou know, somewhere around that - that period of time. We looked away and when - when we looked back, it was gray again, so - next - -
096:30:31 CC Okay - -
096:30:31 Evans - - next time we extend them, I'll get a good accurate indication.
096:30:36 CC Okay. Well, no problem.
096:30:38 Evans ... - -
096:30:38 CC We'll believe the strip chart. We'll take the strip chart data. We've got 01:24, 1 minute 24 seconds for extend and 01:51, 1 minute 51 seconds for retract. And both those sire a little bit on the high side.
096:31:02 Evans Okay. I would believe the strip chart.
096:31:06 CC Roger, Ron. You all are about 4 minutes from LOS.
096:31:20 CC Okay, we might lose you a little bit earlier than that. INCO.
096:31:41 CC Okay, we may lose you a little early due to the SIM bay attitude and we'll pick you up at 97:22.
096:31:53 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Once more around at 97:22.
096:31:53 BEGIN LUNAR REV 5
096:34:22 PAO This is Apollo Control at 96 hours 34 minutes. Apollo 17 has turned the corner a little early, about 50 seconds early. We've lost contact with the antenna because of it's attitude, about 50 seconds early. During this 4th pass on the front side of the Moon there was considerable description of the Lunar surface and photography was accomplished. The mapping camera experts will continue to study the extension and retraction times of the camera. If those times continue to grow, they will probably revise the Flight Plan somewhat to reduce the number of times that camera must be extended and retracted. At the present time though they are just keeping a close eye on those times to see whether they will continue to grow. We'll next acquire Apollo 17 on it's 5th revolution of the Moon at 97 hours 22 minutes.
097:21:25 PAO This is Apollo control at 97 hours 21 minutes. We're 50 seconds away from the time Apollo 17 should be within communications range on it's fifth revolution of the Moon. We'll stand by for the first contact.
097:22:45 PAO We have a signal now.
097:23:33 Schmitt Houston, 17.
097:23:35 CC 17, Houston. Go ahead.
097:23:40 Schmitt Roger. We're just about ready to finish up here. I have a couple of questions. Do you want us to cycle the cryo fans or just leave them alone now?
097:23:54 CC We'd like them just left alone, left in you configuration you are now, Jack.
097:24:01 Schmitt Okay, there will be no cycling then.
097:24:07 CC Roger. We have one question. Who's got the duty tonight or will he be wearing a headset?
097:24:20 Schmitt Yes, he - Ron has the duty. He will be wearing the headset, but I will be on the biomed underneath.
097:24:26 CC Understand that. And one note for Gene. It's an addition to that Flight Surgeon's note. When you rehydrate your food, make sure that you go the - let it rehydrate for the maximum amount of time. I know you miss it on this one, but the next - like tomorrow morning, make sure it rehydrates the maximum amount of time.
097:24:49 Schmitt Okay, I'll tell him.
097:24:51 CC Roger.
097:25:00 Schmitt And we got the star crater stereo trio.
097:25:07 CC Roger.
097:25:09 Schmitt And the - we're - mag - Oscar Oscar is on 93 now. The last three pictures were that trio.
097:28:20 PAO This is Apollo control at 97 hours 28 minutes. We're showing -
097:28:25 Schmitt Bob, we're ... complete on the presleep checklist. And except for computing communications configuration and Ron will take care of that.
097:28:39 CC Roger.
097:28:57 Schmitt And, Bob, while we're gradually getting in configuration here, let me reiterate something that I've been watching this rev as we did a lot of other things. And that was this relationship of the light-colored or light gray swirl patterns on the surface to patterns - associated pattern - parallel patterns that are darker than the average of the surrounding area. And this is true both in Mare Marginis and in most cases on the back side.
097:29:48 CC Roger, Jack. We'll get that to the PI.
097:29:54 Schmitt Roughly, although they're very irregular patterns - roughly it's concentric zoning of dark to light within a intermediate albedo surface. Now there are variations on that theme; sometimes you don't get the symmetry quite as good, but it's common enough that I think it's worth noting.
097:30:20 CC Roger.
097:30:35 Schmitt Also, there's a sequence of different kinds of crater filling on the far side, and I think that, as the orbital stay progresses, we may be able to pin down the relative age relationships and the characteristics of those crater fill - filling episodes. Whether they are single episodes that happen in a variety of crater or they're a function of the age and characteristics of the craters in which you find them is not clear right now, but the - they seem to form fairly distinct groupings of crater-fill material.
097:31:20 CC Roger. Jack.
097:32:07 Schmitt One of those crater-fill materials that you also see in other kinds of depressions other than craters is a very smooth, light, plains-forming material. And it is, although cratered, when you see it at the terminator, it is smoother than the mare; that is, it does not seem to have the swell, the sea swell characteristics or ridges or any other features other than the crater's superimposed on it.
097:32:39 CC Roger. We copy.
097:33:12 PAO Apollo 17's orbit now 59.2 by 13.7 nautical miles. The present altitude 17.8 nautical miles.
097:35:20 CC 17, Houston. You can go ahead and close the UV cover. We'd like to hold off 1 minute before you turn the UV off. We want to look at 1 minute of data with the cover closed.
097:35:41 Schmitt Oh, okay. Roger. A walk-on. I see it now.
097:36:09 Schmitt Okay, it's CLOSED.
097:36:11 CC Okay, We'll give you a cue when you go UV, OFF, and INCO would like to know what you've got on your high gain pitch and yaw knobs. Not the dials but the knobs.
097:36:26 Schmitt All right. The knobs are - about plus 20 and 185.
097:36:44 CC Okay, PITCH of 20 and 185 on the YAW.
097:36:53 Schmitt That's affirm.
097:38:22 CC And, Jack, you can turn the UV off now.
097:38:38 Schmitt Okay, it's OFF.
097:41:54 Schmitt Okay, I got the landing site. We're right over the top of it, and the scarp is fantastically detailed at this - Can you see in there, Gene? Right down, right down, straight down there.
097:42:07 Cernan No, I can't.
097:42:16 Schmitt Okay, well, the sli - the light mantle is ob - very obviously mantling the area. The scarp was very detailed, and, so far, could not see any structure in the massifs at all, but I haven't had any - didn't have much time to watch it on that pass.
097:42:47 Schmitt The slide very definitely subdued the general detail in the plains area - or the light mantle, if you will, rather than slide. MOCR Crater was finally out of the dark.
097:43:07 CC Roger.
097:43:11 CC Jack, we'd like to know if you think you can adjust the high gain as close to plus 15 and YAW 190 as possible?
097:43:43 Schmitt Okay, Bob, that's adjusted plus 15 and 190, and I suspect I was a little closer to 15 than 20 when I called you before.
097:43:51 CC Roger.
097:43:58 Schmitt I'll tell you, from this altitude and with that low Sun, there's no question of the sharpness of the topographic features in the landing area. The - the scarp, and even some of the apparent back - pardon - backflow features - and Parker will know what I'm talking about - that is apparent flows to the west in the light mantle area were extremely sharp, even those fronts going west were sharp. It looked even more like a mare ridge than it ever did before.
097:44:42 CC Roger.
097:46:02 Cernan Okay, Bob, this is Gene. I had a - just a quick view of the site, and if we're anywhere near it, we'll recognize it, I think, without question. And, I think with that, we'll bid farewell and good night.
097:46:18 CC Okay, gang. And looking for a busy day tomorrow - -
097:46:20 Evans Never fear. Your old CM - -
097:46:26 CC Go ahead; I cut you out.
097:46:30 Evans I say never fear, your CMP is watching.
097:46:34 CC Roger. And, just a reminder S-BAND - -
097:46:35 Evans He's got the watch tonight.
097:46:36 CC - - NORMAL VOICE to OFF tonight, please?
097:46:44 Evans Okay, okay, as soon as I get bedded down, I'll do that.
097:46:48 Schmitt Don't worry, he's got a batch of guys up here reminding him of that one.
097:46:53 Evans And I checked out the little whistle, and it works like a charm.
097:46:59 CC Roger. I was betting on - -
097:47:02 Evans Just to make sure, I'm going to check it again.
097:47:03 CC - - you guys to get that switch last night, and I lost my bet.
097:47:15 Schmitt And, Robert, good night to all.
097:47:18 CC Good night up there.
097:47:23 Schmitt And that is a test. This is a test, test, test.
097:47:28 Cernan Good night, babe.
097:48:22 PAO This is Apollo Control. We said goodnight at 97 hours 47 minutes. We'll leave the line up for a few minutes longer, to see whether there's any further conversation.
097:53:55 PAO This is Apollo Control at 97 hours 53 minutes. Crew has just turned off the voice switch on the spacecraft, indicating they do not intend to talk anymore tonight, and we do not intend to put in anymore calls to them, so we'll take this line down now and come back up with hourly reports, during the sleep period, which has just started.
098:52:00 PAO This is Apollo control at 98 hours 52 minutes. Flight Director, Pete Frank and members of the Orange Team, are preparing to hand over flight control duties to Flight Director, Gene Kranz and the White Team at this time. There will be no change of shift news conference. Shortly after the Orange Team came on duty, the Descent Orbit Insertion number 1 maneuver was performed. At 93 hours 11 minutes 36 seconds, this was a very good burn. Duration 22 seconds. Velocity change of 198.2 feet per second. Resultant orbit was 59.1 by 14.9 nautical miles. Apollo 17 crew since that time has been performing landmark tracking through the sextant, a great deal of photography, and performing the ultraviolet spectrometer and infrared scanning radiometer experiments, and providing surface descriptions, the geology reports and some Earth weather reports from lunar orbit. The infrared experiment will be continued throughout the rest period that the crew is now in. The ultraviolet experiment has been terminated for tonight. The mapping camera is taking longer to extend and retract than expected. And the last operation took 1 minute 24 seconds to extend and 1 minute 51 seconds to retract. Each of these operations should be accomplished in 1 minute 12 seconds. The camera experts will continue to watch this and if the delayed operation continues, they may reduce the number of times that the camera is extended and retracted. Crew said goodnight at 97 hours 47 minutes. They're anticipating a big day tomorrow, landing, first EVA. 7 hours 49 minutes remaining in that rest period. Apollo 17's present orbit is 59.1 by 13.5 nautical miles. And a short time ago the flight dynamics officer gave the flight director the latest impact coordinates for the S-IVB which impacted the lunar surface today at 89 hours 39 minutes 40 seconds. Coordinates for that impact: 4.21 degrees south latitude, 12.31 degrees west longitude. At 98 hours 55 minutes this is mission control Houston.
099:16:06 PAO This is Apollo Control at 99 hours 16 minutes. We're about 1 minute from reacquiring Apollo 17 now in its 6th revolution of the Moon. We said goodnight to the crew on the last revolution at 97 hours 47 minutes and the Flight Surgeon reported that it appeared Jack and Ron were both dozing off before we lost radio contact with the spacecraft as it went around behind the Moon on the fifth revolution. Here in Mission Control, Flight Director Gene Kranz has been reviewing the status of the mission with his oncoming team of flight controllers. No problems of note to be reported. The service propulsion system engine, it was reported, looks to be in very good shape as a result of the, or based on the data that we received during the LOI and DOI, the Lunar Orbit Insertion and Descent Orbit Insertion maneuvers performed earlier. The Flight Dynamics Officer, during this shift, is going to be following the spacecraft trajectory very closely looking for any cross range or down range errors which would need to be compensated for prior to the lunar landing. We don't expect any conversations with the crew. We have had confirmation of acquisition of signal now and we'll stand by for a short period of time to get a look at the systems and to assure that we're not going to get a call from the crew.
099:29:12 PAO This is Apollo Control. No sign of any activity from the crew. The Flight Surgeon reports that Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans, both of whom are wearing their biomedical sensors during the sleep period, appear to be sleeping soundly at this time. Apollo 17 is currently in an orbit 59.1 by 13.5 nautical miles and we have about 52 minutes remaining before the spacecraft again goes behind the Moon and we lose radio contact. We'll come up with a status report shortly prior to loss of signal. At 99 hours 31 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
100:22:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 100 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17 has now gone behind the Moon and before we lost radio contact the Surgeon reported the crew appeared to be sleeping soundly. We have about 6 hours 22 minutes remaining in this sleep period before the crew awakens to a very busy day which will include landing on the Moon for the Lunar Module Crew, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan, and the first Lunar Surface EVA. Shortly before losing radio contact Gene Kranz checked with each of his flight controllers, got a report that everything was in order, no problems as Apollo 17 went behind the Moon. We'll be reacquiring the spacecraft in its seventh revolution in a little less than 45 minutes. At 100 hours 23 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
101:10:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 101 hours 10 minutes and we are standing by now to re-establish radio contact with Apollo 17 at the beginning of its seventh revolution of the Moon. We anticipate the crew will be sleeping soundly as they were when we last had radio contact with the spacecraft some 45 minutes ago. In fact, the 2 crewmen on whom we have biomedical data, Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt, appeared to have gone to sleep almost as soon as they said goodnight. Very shortly thereafter the surgeon noted the slow down in heart rhythms typical of sleep. And that is the condition they were in when we last saw them at the end of the sixth revolution. And we have reacquired radio contact with Apollo 17 and getting good data from the spacecraft at this time. The crew is scheduled to end this 8 hour rest period in a little over 4 and one half hours from now. And it appears that everything is quiet aboard Apollo 17 and no signs of any crew activity. We will take the lines down and continue to monitor and we'll come up with another status report just prior to Loss of Signal as the spacecraft goes behind the Moon on this the seventh revolution. This is Apollo Control at 101 hours 12 minutes.
102:16:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 102 hours 16 minutes. The sleep watch going very smoothly and very quietly here in Mission Control. We now have 3-1/2 hours until the scheduled crew awakening time. And we've just loss of signal from Apollo 17, now going behind the Moon on its seventh revolution. We'll be reacquiring in about 40 minutes. At the present time we show Apollo 17 in an orbit roughly 59 by 13 nautical miles. And it appears that the crew is continuing to get good sound sleep with 3-1/2, as we said, remaining in the sleep period. At 102 hours 18 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
103:04:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 103 hours 4 minutes. We're standing by now to re-establish radio contact with Apollo 17 as the spacecraft comes around the eastern limb of the Moon and reappears on the front side in it's eighth revolution of the Moon. The crew now, a little more than 5 hours into their sleep period, about 2 hours 40 minutes remaining before we send them the wakeup call. And all spacecraft systems continue to perform normally. No outstanding problems at this time. We are showing Apollo 17 in an orbit of about 59 by 13 nautical miles, and we should be seeing telemetry data shortly now. Radio from the spacecraft being received at the 210 foot dish antenna at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, near Canberra. And we're once again receiving data from the spacecraft. We, of course, do not expect any activity from the crew and we'll have the lines down during this front side pass, should there be any unexpected conversations we'll bring up the lines immediately. We'll have about 1 hour and 5 minutes before Apollo 17 disappears around the back side of the Moon on the eighth revolution. This is Apollo Control, Houston.
104:10:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 104 hours 10 minutes. Apollo 17 has just gone behind the Moon now. The spacecraft on its eighth revolution of the Moon and we'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes as Apollo 17 comes back around the eastern limb of the Moon on its nineth revolution. During the nineth revolution we'll be sending the wakeup call to the crew, getting them ready for one of their busiest days on the mission which will include LM seperation from the Command Module and the powered desent to the lunar surface followed by the first period of lunar surface exploration in the valley of the Taurus Mountains. The flight surgeon reports the crew has been getting, apparently, a very good night's sleep. They are now six and one half hours into that scheduled 8 hours sleep period with about an hour and a half of sleep remaining. Apollo 17 in an orbit 59 by 13 nautical miles and if everything goes according to the Flight Plan undocking will occur about 11:20 Central Standard Time on the twelveth revolution with powered descent to the lunar surface coming at about 1:55 PM. At 104 hours 12 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston.
104:58:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 104 hours 58 minutes and we're standing by to reacquire radio contact with Apollo 17, spacecraft now in it's nineth revolution of the Moon, and will shortly be coming around the eastern limb of the Moon and back out on the front side. During this front side pass CAPCOM, Joe Allen, will be putting in a call to the crew getting them up and started on a very active day which will include landing on the lunar surface in a valley of the Taurus Mountains near the Sea of Serenity. Our last look at the spacecraft's lunar orbit showed it to be maintaining an orbit fairly close to 13 nautical miles by 59 nautical miles, actually dropping down somewhat below 13 on the pericynthion to about 12.6. And we should have radio contact with the spacecraft shortly, and we'll begin getting telemetry data on all of the spacecraft systems. We have 46 minutes showing until scheduled crew wakeup time. And we've had the AOS call, Acquisition of Signal, getting good high bit rate data at this time. And the flight dynamics officer's orbit display shows Apollo 17 to be in an orbit of a high point of 59.9 nautical miles. The low point or pericynthion of 12.5. We'll come back up a few minutes before the scheduled crew awakening time, about 45 minutes from now, and follow live from that point on as the crew begins preparations for LM activation, seperation, and the landing on the lunar surface. This is Apollo Control, Houston.
105:40:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 105 hours 40 minutes. We're about 5 minutes away now from putting in a call to the crew, getting them up for breakfast, and ready to start a day that will culminate with landing on the lunar surface and the first EVA at the Taurus Mountain site, Taurus Littrow, near the Sea of Serenity. CAPCOM, Joe Allen, will be putting in a call to the crew in about 4-1/2 minutes from now and we'll stand by for that wakeup call to the crew of Apollo 17. Here in the control center the landing shift, landing team of flight controllers, is beginning to come on duty, after a very quiet uneventful night monitoring Apollo 17 in lunar orbit. The spacecraft now on its nineth revolution of the Moon completing the front side pass and we'll be losing contact with the command module as it goes behind the Moon on the nineth revolution in about 22 minutes.
105:45:00 CC (Music) "Good Morning America, How Are You"
105:47:28 CC Good morning, America. How are you?
105:47:49 Evans This is America. That's a good way to wake up.
105:47:54 CC Good morning, America. How are you? you'll be gone a million miles before the mission is done.
105:48:03 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
105:48:33 Evans Houston, America. How you reading? Okay now?
105:48:36 CC You're loud and clear, Ron. How are we?
105:48:40 Evans Okay; might fine, Joe.
105:49:09 Schmitt Let's hear it again, Joe.
105:49:15 CC Are you serious?
105:49:20 Schmitt Well, I Just got on a headset. You never had a chance to - -
105:49:25 CC Stand by. Here it comes.
105:49:25 Schmitt - - wake me up before. (Laughter)
105:50:04 CC It's coming at you, America.
105:50:11 Schmitt Okay.
105:51:04 (Music: City of New Orleans by John Denver)
105:53:44 CC How about that?
105:53:45 Schmitt Thank you, Joe. That's great. We're moving on.
105:53:53 CC Don't you know?
105:53:54 Evans And a big eight-wheeler.
105:54:07 CC And, America, you're 10 minutes from LOS, and the spacecraft looks great.
105:54:19 Schmitt Okay, Joe. That's good to hear. And we're starting to move now, and we'll be ready for you when we come around.
105:54:26 CC All righty.
105:54:33 Schmitt How long are you with us this morning?
105:54:37 CC Oh, not too many more minutes.
105:54:43 Schmitt Hope we didn't keep you up last night.
105:54:49 CC The pleasure was ours, Jack. We devoted our 8 hours to selecting your wakeup call this morning and got a little help from the news room P00l on that suggestion.
105:55:10 Schmitt Well, that was a good suggestion. I had forgotten all about that song. That's a good one.
105:55:34 Schmitt You ought to find the "Golden Rockets" for us some morning.
105:55:45 CC You'll wish you hadn't asked.
105:56:55 CC 17, this is Houston. You'll be pleased to hear that the IR in the SIM bay is returning some beautiful data to us here.
105:57:08 Evans Hey; great, Joe. That's good to hear, by gosh.
105:57:11 Schmitt What are you learning, Joe?
105:57:15 CC Hotspots on the Moon, Jack.
105:57:25 Schmitt Well, we know we had one going around it. We didn't know we had any on it.
105:57:35 Evans Houston, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.4.
105:57:41 CC Copy that.
105:57:50 Schmitt Where - where is your big anomalies, Joe? Can you summarize quickly?
105:57:57 CC Jack, we'll get - get that for you next pass.
105:58:04 Schmitt Well, don't worry about it. I think we're going to have a lot of things on our mind the next pass. But we're just passing over Orientale again, Joe, and in earthlight it's probably one of the most spectacular sights in nature.
105:58:34 CC Copy that, Jack. I can imagine.
106:00:39 Schmitt Joe, can you imagine waking up anywhere else?
106:00:57 CC 17, we'll think about that until you go LOS.
106:01:10 Schmitt Roger.
106:01:38 CC 17, about 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you on the other side. It's boing to be a good day.
106:01:46 Schmitt Righto, Joe.
106:01:47 BEGIN LUNAR REV 10
106:02:40 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've now had loss of signal as Apollo 17 goes behind the Moon on the ninth revolution. We'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes - a little bit less, as the spacecraft comes back on the front side on the tenth revolution. And by that time the crew should have completed breakfast. They'll be getting the pressure suits unstowed and begin preparations for entering the lunar module, for the separation, landing on the lunar surface, and the first EVA, all scheduled to occur this day. The IR data which Joe Allen advised the crew we're getting in such good form back here on the ground from the spacecraft's service module, is from the IR scanning radiometer. This is an instrument carried in the CSM SIM bay, Scientific Instrument Module bay. And it's obtaining surface temperatures under the groundtrack of the spacecraft from which scientist will be able to construct a temperature map. From this information they hope to be able to characterize such lunar surface physical parameters as the general conductivity, the bulk density, and the specific heat. Apollo 17 at the present time is in an orbit about 59 nautical miles at it's high point and about 12-1/2 miles above the lunar surface at the low point. At 106 hours 5 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
106:50:46 PAO This is Apollo Control at 106 hours 51 minutes. We're about 2 minutes now from reacquiring Apollo 17 as the spacecraft comes back around on the front side of the Moon on the tenth revolution. And when we again establish radio contact the crew should have pretty well finished breakfast and be getting suited up, ready for Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan to enter the lunar module and begin preparations for separation, powered descent to the lunar surface. Here in the control center we're in the process of a shift handover. Flight Director, Gerry Griffin, and the team of flight controllers who will be on during today's powered descent are now coming on to replace the Gene Kranz team. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson will be in charge of CSM activities once the two vehicles separate. CAPCOM for the lunar module will be Astronaut Gordon Fullerton and Astronaut Ken Mattingly is moving in taking up position at the console to handle CSM activities. And we're now about 30 seconds away from reacquiring Apollo 17.
106:53:17 PAO INCO reports acquisition of signal. We'll stand by for a call to the crew.
106:54:36 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're with you and we're in the process of getting the tunnel pressurized and moving right towards probe and drogue removal.
106:54:49 CC Okay, Jack. Good morning.
106:54:54 Schmitt Good morning, Gordy. Welcome aboard.
106:54:58 CC Thank you.
106:55:13 Schmitt I take it you're going to pick up the - the reports - post-sleep reports later. is that correct? From Ron?
106:55:23 CC Any way it's convenient to you.
106:55:29 Schmitt Well, we're moving towards getting the suits on. Unless you want me to take 5 minutes here, we'll leave it alone and let Ron give it to you.
106:55:39 CC That'll be fine.
106:55:43 Schmitt Everybody ate and drank and slept just about like last night.
106:55:47 CC Okay.
106:56:16 Cernan Good morning, Gordy.
106:56:19 CC Good morning, Commander.
106:56:24 Cernan Tell Joe I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to say hello to him, but I did hear his presence being evident.
106:56:34 CC Okay. We'll pass it along.
106:56:55 Evans Houston, America. The tunnel hatch is out.
106:56:59 CC Okeydoke, Ron.
106:57:12 Cernan Gordy, how does America look to you this morning?
106:57:18 CC Beautiful, as it has all the way to date.
106:57:29 Cernan Okay.
107:00:40 Evans Okay, Houston; America. The old probe is underneath the couch.
107:00:48 CC Okay.
107:03:45 Evans Houston, America.
107:03:48 CC Go ahead, America.
107:03:53 Evans Okay. How are Jack's EKGs and stuff. He's going to tape them now.
107:03:59 CC Let me get a check.
107:04:00 Evans (Chuckle) Wait a minute, he's not plugged in. But, you know, he's had them on all night. Were they good?
107:04:10 CC Stand by.
107:04:16 CC Yes, when he was plugged in we had good signals.
107:04:23 Evans Okay; good.
107:08:04 CC America, Houston. If someone's near the telemetry switch, if you go to ACCEPT, we'll give you a state vector.
107:08:20 Evans Okay. You have ACCEPT.
107:08:24 CC Okay. And as we're supposed to update your trajectory, which is looking good - predicted perilune at PDI without DOI-2 would be 11.9, a little lower. So that means that DOI-2 will be a little less, in terms of DELTA-V, than nominal. But, otherwise, looking good.
107:08:52 Evans Okay. Did you say 11.2 for perigee, now - without DOI-2?
107:08:58 CC I might have said that. It's 11.9 predicted at PDI time without DOI-2.
107:09:09 Evans Oh okay, 11.9 predicted without - at PDI time without DOI-2.
107:09:14 CC That's right.
107:09:17 Evans Okay, so DOI-2 will be a little less than predicted.
107:09:20 CC Affirmative.
107:09:26 Evans I'm repeating it to these guys that are getting suited here, see.
107:09:30 CC Okay.
107:10:27 CC Okay. I have your vector now. You can go back to BLOCK.
107:10:33 Evans Okay. We'll go to BLOCK.
107:13:11 CC America, Houston. You owe us a reverification of docking tunnel index angle.
107:13:22 Evans Okay. Let me check it.
107:13:34 Evans Well, I kept ... thinking it might move back to zero, but it hasn't moved - plus 1.2.
107:13:40 CC Okay; plus 1.2. For your information, Ron, on consumables this morning, we're running 6 percent above the Flight Plan line on RCS. On the hydrogen, we're about 8 percent above the line on TANK 2; right on the lines on the other two hydrogen tanks. And on the O2, we're running our standard 4 to 5 percent below the line on oxygen TANK 1; TANK 2 is right on; and TANK 3 has now gained to about 3 percent above the line. All looking good.
107:14:26 Evans Okay, Houston. Hey, that's mighty fine.
107:19:50 Schmitt Houston, America.
107:19:52 CC Go ahead.
107:19:56 Evans Okay, I'll give you the commander's food from yesterday.
107:20:00 CC All right. Ready to copy.
107:20:08 Evans Four bacon squares, cornflakes, orange beverage, two sips of coffee, a vitamin. Okay, Meal B: chicken and rice soup, meatballs and sauce, orange PA drink, and caramel stick - one caramel stick. Okay, Meal C: potato soup, beef and gravy, citrus beverage, a chocolate bar, a package of pecans.
107:21:12 CC Okay. We're with you so far.
107:21:38 Evans Okay; commander's medical log: PRD 17036, 6-1/2 hours of good sleep, one Seconal last night, three bags of fluid.
107:21:58 CC Roger.
107:21:58 Evans Three bags of water, let's - I better put it that way, I guess.
107:22:53 Evans Okay. Here we go on the LMPs food.
107:22:56 CC Okay.
107:23:01 Evans Okay; two bacon squares, scrambled eggs, two apricots, cocoa, and a coffee. Meal B: fruitcake, cit - citrus beverage, hamburger, and a coffee. Meal C: lemonade, beef and gravy, ambrosia, cereal bar, and tea. I guess that's it.
107:24:02 CC Okay.
107:24:32 Evans Hey, Houston. Why don't I give you LMPs menu this morning too - day 5?
107:24:38 CC Okay.
107:24:38 Evans Then I won't have to get back in their pages. Okay. It's a sausage patty for LMP - sausage patties, cinamon-toasted bread, instant breakfast, coffee with K, and a grape drink, and a vitamin. Okay, for the commander on day 5: spiced oat cereal, sausage patties, instant breakfast, and vitamins.
107:25:23 CC Roger.
107:25:48 Evans Okay; for the LMPs medical log: PRD 24108, 7-1/4 hours very good, one Seconal last night, 3-1/2 cans of water.
107:26:10 CC Roger.
107:26:58 CC Okay. We're ready to go on Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America and his ... menu.
107:27:10 CC Go ahead, captain.
107:27:15 Evans Okay, Bacon squares, scrambled eggs, cornflakes, orange juice, two coffee, three caramel candies - that's three sticks of caramel candy. Meal B: chicken and rice, meatballs, butterscotch pudding, orange PA drink. I missed the vitamins up there in A, too. Okay, Meal C: potato soup, beef and gravy, chicken stew, orange GF drink, tea, chocolate bar, and a package of pecans.
107:29:04 Evans Okay; CMP medical log: PRD 15034, and about 5-1/2 of good sleep; a little trouble getting to sleep last night, and I woke up early this morning. I took a Seconal; didn't seem to have much good - much effect, and I had four cans of water.
107:29:35 CC Roger.
107:29:45 Evans I think I was on the biomed all the time last night, too, so you can check out that sleep.
107:29:53 CC Okay, Ron, While you've got that book with you, I can give you a one-line change to the E-memory load as a result of our changing the short-burn constant.
107:30:10 Evans Okay. Stand by 1 here.
107:31:16 Evans Okay, Houston; America. I've got the right page now.
107:31:19 CC Okay. It's page 1-43. It's load Delta. Identifier number 5; the old value is 01606. Change that to 01637.
107:31:44 Evans Okay. It'll be load Delta, and the octal identifier 05, and its new value is 01637.
107:31:55 CC That's correct.
107:32:34 Evans Okay. The LMP has got his suit on. They're connecting up the LCG water connection, and he's still unzipped.
107:32:45 CC Okay, Ron. In the Flight Plan, you're coming up on a VERB 45 and then going to P00 prior to the P52. After going to P00, we'd like you to change to B/D ROLL from A/C. Over.
107:33:03 Evans Okay. We'll change the B/D ROLL. Looks like we're going to run into a problem on our P52 down here, with these guys getting suited. is it really necessary now?
107:33:19 CC There's no time criticality on that. When they're out of the way, go ahead with it.
107:33:28 Evans Okay. Good.
107:42:44 Schmitt Okay, Houston, how do you read the LMP?
107:42:47 CC LMP, you're loud and clear.
107:42:52 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, I'm opening the hatch.
107:42:55 CC Okay.
107:43:05 Schmitt And the light's still on.
107:43:09 CC Roger.
107:43:36 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Index 1 plus - or plus 1.2.
107:43:42 CC Roger.
107:45:49 Evans Okay, Houston, I'm going to skip the P52 for a while and maneuver to the docking attitude - undock attitude, that is.
107:46:00 CC Roger. - Stand by on that one, Ron.
107:46:12 Evans Wilco.
107:46:14 CC We want to be sure we can get some stars - good stars in the undock attitude.
107:47:14 CC Ron, this is Houston. We didn't see you do a VERB 45. Over.
107:47:22 Evans You're right. Good one.
107:47:26 CC And if there's any - if you - if there's no reason why not, we'd just as soon you go ahead and do the P52 now. Finish that off and then start the maneuver. Over.
107:47:41 Evans Okay. The big reason is that Gene's getting into his suit right now.
107:47:48 CC Okay.
107:47:48 Evans As soon as he gets out and gets in his suit, well, I'll do a P52 maneuver.
107:47:52 CC Okay.
107:48:34 CC Ron, Houston. Can you give us AUTO on the HIGH GAIN?
107:48:45 Evans Okay. Just a second, Houston.
107:49:22 Schmitt We're transferring to LM POWER, Houston.
107:49:24 Evans Okay; OFF, RESET, back to OFF.
107:49:30 Schmitt Okay. We have LM POWER.
107:49:32 Evans Okay. That was 107:49:28.
107:49:39 CC Roger.
107:50:16 Schmitt LM WATER is OPEN, and O2 is OPEN.
107:50:20 CC Roger.
107:50:55 Schmitt Okay; 3-4, Houston, in the LM. And step 1 is good.
107:51:05 CC Okay.
107:52:31 Schmitt Okay. Step 2 is complete.
107:52:34 CC Okay, Jack.
107:52:38 Schmitt And I'm going off of CSM comm, and I'll be coming at you before long on S-BAND, if I can.
107:52:50 CC Okay.
107:56:15 CC Ron, Houston. We've taken a look at stars available in the undock attitude, and they don't look too good. We suggest you use the present attitude for your 52 and then maneuver. Over.
107:56:30 Evans Okay. I'm just about to get Gene out of the way here, and then I will.
107:56:33 CC Okay, and we're less than 3 minutes to LOS now. So when you finish that 52, we'd like you to copy down the NOUN 5 and 93s for us.
107:56:45 Evans Okay; will do.
107:58:23 CC America, Houston. About 1 minute to LOS. Nothing further for you. We'll see you on the other side.
107:58:33 Evans Okay, Gordo. We're hustling like hell. We might make it. (Laughter)
107:58:38 CC Roger.
107:58:38 BEGIN LUNAR REV 11
107:59:32 PAO This is Apollo Control at 107:59 Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. We've had loss of signal at this time as Apollo 17 coasted behind the Moon on the tenth lunar orbit. Approximately 47 minutes until the spacecraft both come around the far side as the crew prepares to transfer into the lunar module; that is, Cernan and Schmitt prepare to transfer into the lunar module. Get it powered up in preparation for today's activities of the Descent Orbit Insertion maneuver number 2 and ultimately the landing at Taurus-Littrow and the first extravehicular activity. As they come around the Moon on the eleventh revolution, they will have checked out the lunar module with a few exceptions such as they will deploy the landing gear after acquistion of signal. Also at that time, both spacecraft, Challenger and America, though still docked, will be on separate air to ground links. The lunar module will be on the normal channel; the command service module link, with Ron Evans, will be piped into Room 161 in the News Center building for those newsmen covering the mission who prefer to listen to the command service module orbital science activities. As Apollo 17 went behind the western limb of the Moon, the orbit measured 12 nautical miles at pericynthion and 60.2 at apocynthion. Some maneuvers coming up - the next major maneuver for the lunar module will be the descent orbit insertion number 2 which at this time is predicted, or is calculated to take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 1 minute 59.1 seconds. Total burn time of 21.8 seconds. For a Delta V or velocity change of 7.6 feet per second, which will change the orbit to an apocynthion of 60.4 nautical miles and a pericynthion, or nearest approach, which is just uprange of the landing site, of 6.7 nautical miles. The big maneuver of the day, of course, is Powered Descent and Landing, which at this time is calculated to take place at a Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 49 minutes 27 seconds, lasting 11 minutes and 57 seconds, plus whatever hover time is available as they get down to the landing site. Total Delta V, or velocity change, to get out of orbit and break into the descent path and ultimately the hovering and touchdown at Taurus-Littrow is 6,693 feet per second. Some 43 minutes now away from acquisition as Apollo 17, America and Challenger, come from behind the Moon on orbit number 11. And at 108:04 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
108:44:56 PAO This is Apollo Control at 108 hours 44 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Less than 2 minutes away from acquisition as America and Challenger, the spacecraft of Apollo 17, come around from behind the Moon on lunar orbit number 11. At that time the voice downlinks from both spacecrafts will be separated. For those newsmen in Houston who wish to listen to the voice from Ron Evans in the command service module, this will be available in room 161 in the Newscenter Office Wing. At the time the spacecraft reappears from behind the Moon, the crew should have completed most of the lunar module checkout procedures, and be prepared for deploying the landing gear, and a series of communications checks with the ground. Just before loss of signal on the eleventh revolution, the crew will be given a GO / NO-GO for undocking and separation, which will take place during the time when the spacecraft is behind the Moon near the end of revolution number 11. In other words, when they reappear again, they will be flying separately on the twelfth revolution. We should have acquisition any moment now, we've counted down to zero on the acquisition of signal clocks here in the Control Center. It takes a few seconds for the ground to lock up solidly with the downlink signal with the spacecraft. Network reports acquisition of signal, let's bring up the line and listen for the first call.
108:47:34 Schmitt There we go. Should have done that in the first place.
108:47:55 Schmitt Okay, Okay.
108:48:02 CC Challenger, this is Houston. How do you read?
108:48:12 Cernan Hello, Gordie, this is Challenger, we read you loud and clear.
108:48:15 CC Okay. You're readable. Lots of background noise at the moment.
108:48:24 Cernan Okay. We'll update you in just a minute.
108:48:30 Schmitt Okay, Gene, that's locked.
108:48:39 Schmitt Okay. Another one is verify locked. The band was up. So you're locked here; the red thing is in.
108:48:47 Cernan Okay.
108:48:48 Schmitt And I'll ... you up.
108:48:52 Cernan Okay, and I got it over here.
108:48:55 Schmitt Okay. Okay. Comm checks.
108:49:02 Cernan Let me give them an E-memory dump. I can press on. Gordy, Jack will update you in just a second. And I've got some words for you, but I'd like to give you an E-memory dump as soon as you get the steerable.
108:49:12 Schmitt ... they got the steerable. Okay.
108:49:16 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. How do you read the LMP? This is your S-BAND T/R in secondary power amp check.
108:49:23 CC Okay, LMP. You're clear. Lots of background noise though.
108:49:31 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to bring up the steerable.
108:49:33 CC Okay; go ahead.
108:50:21 SC Okay, steerable ...
108:51:13 Cernan ... going to make it?
108:51:17 Schmitt ... switch here, I have to wait for this one.
108:51:35 Cernan Pitch is good. ...
108:51:52 Schmitt Okay. YAW minus 0.2.
108:51:57 Cernan Yaw is good.
108:52:30 Cernan Do you know where our scissors - -
108:52:31 Schmitt Okay, Houston. How do you read?
108:52:33 CC Okay. You're loud and clear, Jack.
108:52:36 Schmitt Yes, they're in the - -
108:52:38 Cernan Okay. Okay.
108:52:39 Schmitt ... data file.
108:52:43 Schmitt Hey, Ron. We need to check out that VHF. You ought to get that done before you close up, Ron. Houston, we'll be right with you. We're going to check out our VHF. Let me finish this part of it, and then - we'll get that.
108:53:05 Schmitt Okay. You want to read that to me, Gene - the S-BAND?
108:53:10 Cernan Okay. Where are you now?
108:53:12 Schmitt I'm right here in the middle of the page.
108:53:15 Cernan Okay. S-BAND PM.
108:53:17 Schmitt PM.
108:53:18 Cernan Secondary - -
108:53:32 Schmitt Houston, How do you read the LM?
108:53:34 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
108:53:40 Schmitt Okay. We're in step 2, and - we're giving you your second S-BAND check. And I'm going TRACK MODE AUTO.
108:53:48 CC Okay. You sound good.
108:54:05 Schmitt Okay, Houston, I can hear the antenna rumbling up there, but - I still have not peaked. Still reading 3.7.
108:54:16 CC Okay. You're loud and clear, Jack. It looks like a good lock to us.
108:54:22 Schmitt Okay. We'll leave it - Okay. I'll leave it there, and I'm going BIOMED RIGHT.
108:54:31 CC Roger.
108:54:35 Schmitt Okay. SQUELCH is OFF. How do you read?
108:54:38 CC Still loud and clear.
108:54:44 Schmitt Roger. Okay ...
108:55:10 Schmitt Hello, Houston. I'm ready to give you an E-memory dump.
108:55:13 CC Okay. We're ready to take it. Go ahead.
108:55:15 Schmitt Okay, Ron, how do you - Ron, how do you read on SIMPLEX Bravo?
108:55:23 Schmitt I do not read you. Coming at you.
108:55:35 Evans Okay. I don't read you at all, Jack.
108:55:37 Schmitt Hey, Ron, I do not read you. Check your VHF switch.
108:55:47 Evans Okay. I'm down to SIMPLEX Bravo.
108:55:54 Schmitt Yes; go ahead.
108:55:59 Evans I'm talking on B now. How do you read?
108:56:03 Schmitt I do not read you. Do you read me?
108:56:05 Evans No, I don't read you at all either, Jack.
108:56:10 Evans No, I don't read you.
108:56:26 Evans Okay. I've got everything on in my AUTO panel. Let me try the other one for backup.
108:56:49 Evans Yes, I'm on LEFT. On what? Let me go to BACKUP.
108:56:54 Schmitt Okay. I've got you; I got you.
108:56:56 Evans I don't have you, yet.
108:56:59 Evans Okay.
108:57:01 Schmitt Okay. How do you read on VHF Bravo? You're loud and clear.
108:57:04 Evans Hey, I finally got you.
108:57:06 Schmitt That was my fault, Ron.
108:57:07 Evans Okay. You were kind of clipping there for a little bit. I got the last part of your transmission.
108:57:13 Schmitt Okay. It was just warming up. You're loud and clear now.
108:57:17 Evans Okay. I heard it - I just missed - I just missed it. It was just warming up, but I got the loud and clear.
108:57:22 Cernan Okay, Houston. I've got a couple I want to pass out to you.
108:57:25 CC Go ahead, Gene.
108:57:31 Cernan Okay. When I first put in the - -
108:57:34 Schmitt Okay, Ron, how do you read now?
108:57:35 Cernan - - LGC breaker -
108:57:36 Evans Okay. I read you loud and clear; that's VHF B.
108:57:40 Cernan Stand by, Houston.
108:57:44 Schmitt Am I clipping now, Ron?
108:57:46 Evans Yes, I didn't hear you at all that time.
108:57:48 Schmitt Am I clipping now?
108:57:50 Evans Yes, you're still clipping. All I got was "now."
108:57:59 Schmitt Okay. How do you read now?
108:58:01 Evans Okay. "How do you read now?" I got that.
108:58:03 Schmitt Okay. I guess we're okay. It was the squelch.
108:58:07 Evans (Laughter) Then I missed that part of it.
108:58:16 Cernan Ron, how do you hear, Gene?
108:58:19 Evans Okay. Loud and clear, Gene.
108:58:20 Cernan Okay; very good.
108:58:22 Schmitt How do you read the LMP now, Ron?
108:58:26 Evans Now, you're still clipping, Jack. Can you move your mikes a little bit closer or something?
108:58:34 Schmitt Okay. How do you read now?
108:58:36 Evans No, I didn't read you at all that time.
108:58:40 Schmitt How do you read now?
108:58:41 Evans Not clear.
108:58:43 Schmitt Okay. I've got the SQUELCH to full decrease.
108:58:49 Evans Well, you're going to have to yell or something. I still - you're still clipping yourself out, Jack.
108:58:53 Schmitt Okay. Do you read Gene, Ron?
108:58:57 Evans No, I didn't read you that time.
108:58:58 Cernan Okay. We're going to press on and get these VHF checks GO. We can cut them.
108:59:03 Evans Okay. Okay; switching to Alfa.
108:59:12 Evans Bravo is off; SIMPLEX Alfa is on.
108:59:20 Schmitt Okay, Ron. How do you read on Alfa?
108:59:24 Evans Don't read you.
108:59:27 Schmitt How do you read on Alfa, Ron?
108:59:29 Evans Don't read you.
108:59:33 Schmitt How do you read the LMP on Alfa, Ron?
108:59:40 Evans Okay. I don't read you guys at all, except through the tunnel.
108:59:49 Cernan How do you read on Alfa, Ron?
108:59:51 Evans Okay. Got you loud and clear that time. And, Gene, can you verify the capture latches are all engaged?
109:00:00 Cernan Okay. How do you read me?
109:00:02 Evans I didn't read you at all, Jack.
109:00:04 Cernan This is Gene. How do you read me on Alfa?
109:00:06 Evans Didn't read you.
109:00:07 Cernan Okay. Let's press on. You're getting us intermittent. We can get it.
109:00:10 Evans Okay. I got you that time, and check the capture latches.
109:00:17 Cernan Okay, Houston. I'm pretty sure the VHF - -
109:00:20 Evans Okay?
109:00:20 Cernan - - is all right. It seems to have something to do with the SQUELCH setting, and it's probably because we're so close.
109:00:28 CC Okay. We concur. We'd like you to press on and not worry about the VHF any more for now.
109:00:35 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We are. Here's a couple of quick ones. When I pushed the LGC DSKY breaker IN, I did not get a restart light. The keyboard came up with 400 in R-2. The LGC light was already on, and it went off as prescribed. When I did a VERB 35, I got all the proper lights except when the LGC and isS lights came on, the entire CAUTION and WARNING dimmed. One more item. In our DAP setting, we are reading in our checklist for R-l plus 645 and for R-2 plus 641. The DSKY DAP came up plus 641 and plus 645. It just reversed those numbers. And I'm going to deploy the landing gear.
109:01:35 CC Okay.
109:01:51 Cernan Okay, Houston. MASTER ARM is on, and B light is on.
109:01:54 CC Roger.
109:01:57 Cernan Roger. Are you ready for a landing gear?
109:01:57 Evans Yes, I'm up in the tunnel, but go ahead.
109:02:03 Cernan Ron, if you read, the landing gear is coming on my MARK.
109:02:07 Evans Okay. I read you. Go ahead.
109:02:07 Cernan 3, 2, 1 -
109:02:11 Cernan MARK.
109:02:14 Cernan Hey, Houston. We got a good one out front.
109:02:17 CC Sounds good.
109:02:17 Evans (Laughter)
109:02:21 CC We show them all deployed.
109:02:23 Cernan And the flag is gray. Okay. The flag is gray.
109:02:27 CC Roger.
109:02:27 Schmitt Okay, Houston. The PRIMARY EVAP FLOW time, 108 - EVAP FLOW time 108:16:55. And I'm ready to copy your abort constants and a DOI-2 pad.
109:02:41 CC Okay, Jack. Here come the abort constants. 224 is - 6 - -
109:02:48 Schmitt Stand by, Gordy.
109:02:51 CC Okay. Stand by.
109:02:58 Cernan Ron, when you get the tunnel closed out, I'll need you for an IMU coarse align.
109:03:06 Evans Okay. I'm getting the probe umbilicals installed now.
109:03:15 Cernan Okay. I'll need your NOUN 20s, when you get a chance.
109:03:18 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You can go ahead, and you have DATA on the UPDATA LINK.
109:03:27 CC Okay. We'll have the up-link in a minute. 224 is 60470, 29364, 60386, 00594, 32772, 54404. Go ahead.
109:04:00 Schmitt Okay. 60470, 29364, 60386, 00594, 32772, 54404.
109:04:18 CC Okay. That was a good readback. Ready with DOI-2 when you are.
109:04:29 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
109:04:32 CC Okay. The - it's DOI-2; TIG time is 112:02:40.92; NOUN 81 is a minus 0007.5, DELTA-Vy plus all balls, and DELTA-Vg is plus all balls.
109:04:54 Evans Okay, Gene. Can you look at the capture latches? I've got it preloaded here now.
109:05:00 CC NOUN 42, 00615 - -
109:05:04 Evans Okay. Preload the - it's pushing on by, so I'll going to - ... preloaded.
109:05:04 CC - - plus 00067 - -
109:05:12 Evans Okay.
109:05:12 CC - - 00075; burn time 0:22, 000, 074 - -
109:05:30 Evans What do you mean; probe locked?
109:05:30 Evans Yes, it was locked. Oh, the dorgue. Yes. Yes, it's locked in there.
109:05:30 CC And 373 is a 0122.7.
109:05:36 CC The AGS DELTA-Vs are NA.
109:05:43 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. 112:02:40.92; minus three zeros 75, plus all zeros, plus all zeros; 00615, plus three zeros 67, three zeros 75; 0:22; all zeros, 074; 0122.7; rest of pad NA.
109:06:14 CC That's correct, Jack.
109:06:28 Cernan Okay. Stand by - I've - let's see. Okay.
109:06:33 Cernan Okay. I need your numbers then. NOUN 20.
109:06:39 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I'm going to start the lunar batt check, and it'll be silent.
109:06:47 CC Okay. We're watching.
109:06:48 Cernan Ron, I need your - your NOUN 20 numbers.
109:07:07 Cernan Okay. I got 356.95, 106.34, and 001.49.
109:07:14 Evans Right?
109:07:17 CC Challenger, we want to get the attitude tweaked back up closer to the normal before doing the coarse align.
109:07:17 CC America, Houston.
109:07:34 Cernan Hey, Ron, they want a more normal attitude for you You're not quite nominal.
109:07:52 Cernan If you're talking to me, it's about 0 - 104.7 and then 0.
109:08:05 CC Challenger, the up-link's in there. It's your computer.
109:08:11 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Thank you. And, Ron, let me know when you're tweaked up, and then go MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD.
109:08:22 Evans Okay, Houston; America. 0105 and 0, correct?
109:08:25 CC Yes, sir.
109:08:43 Evans That's interesting. I don't know how it got off attitude.
109:08:51 CC Yes, I was going to ask you the same thing. You might have knocked a - a stick or something while everybody was flailing around down there. Could you - -
109:09:02 Evans Maybe - maybe I hit the stick or something. Yes.
109:09:05 CC Yes.
109:09:14 Evans Okay, Gene. We're MIN DEADBAND ATT hold at 0105 and 0.
109:09:18 Cernan Okay. Read out NOUN 20.
109:09:23 Evans Okay; VERB 6, NOUN 20: 000.32, 104.40, 359.55
109:09:44 Cernan Okay. I got all those.
109:09:46 Evans Okay.
109:09:50 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I skipped a step on LUNAR BAT, OFF/RESET; I'll go back.
109:09:58 Evans Okay, Houston. I forgot to release the docking latches. Okay. I'll go up and release the docking latches 1 and 7.
109:10:05 CC Okay.
109:10:08 Evans And if I just put the - No, I won't that.
109:10:13 CC Jack, we need the - we think you missed a step. We need to -
109:10:14 Evans I was going to say you could read the probe temp if I put the circuit breakers in.
109:10:19 CC CDR, LUNAR BAT, OFF/RESET.
109:10:21 Schmitt Yes. That's right, I'll go - that's affirm; I'll go back. Stand by.
109:10:28 CC Okay.
109:10:35 Evans Okay. There's number 1. One releases; two releases, and it's free - -
109:10:40 Schmitt Okay. I'm back to LUNAR BAT - LMP LUNAR BAT OFF/RESET.
109:10:43 Evans - Seven.
109:10:51 CC Roger.
109:10:58 Cernan Okay, Gordy. For the LM, I've got 300.88, 284, and three balls 45. How does that sound?
109:10:59 Evans One release, two releases, and it's free.
109:11:10 CC Stand by. We're checking.
109:11:36 Evans Okay. DOCKING PROBE circuit breakers; two of them are going CLOSE. MAIN A. MAIN B. PROBE EXTEND/RELEASE is going to RETRACT. Ah ha, I've got two barber poles.
109:11:52 CC Okay, Geno. Those angles are okay.
109:11:56 CC That's a good sign.
109:11:57 Cernan Okay, figured they were. They're going in.
109:12:01 Evans Okay. The docking probe circuit breakers are going to open. Okay. EXTEND/RELEASEs, and they went gray, of course, when they went open. Okay. EXTEND/RELEASE to OFF. Verify probe extend latch engage indicator not visible. Well, I'll go back - it wasn't awhile ago, but I'll go look again. Only if you hit EXTEND with the circuit breakers in. Mighty fine. It's still back inside there. Extend latch is still engaged.
109:13:34 Cernan Okay, Ron. On my mark, I'd like an 06 20.
109:13:37 Evans Okay. Standing by. Go ahead.
109:13:44 Cernan Okay, 3, 2, 1 -
109:13:46 Cernan MARK it.
109:13:48 Evans Okay. 000.44, 104.63, 359.69.
109:14:09 Cernan Okay. Got those.
109:14:21 CC Okay, Challenger. We've got those angles here on the ground - -
109:14:24 Schmitt Okay - -
109:14:24 CC - - for both spacecraft.
109:14:29 Cernan Fine, Gordy.
109:14:30 Schmitt Okay, Houston, ED bat, 37.2, 37.2 at 109:14:00.
109:14:39 CC Roger.
109:14:47 Schmitt And all battery indications onboard were normal, once I got started.
109:14:52 CC Okay. They looked good to us, also.
109:15:00 CC America, Houston, in order to get on and stay on the time line, I'll remind you about the lithium canister after PDI; we can let that one go. And if you'd like to let the camera business slide until after your suit check and we'll get those things. I'll come back and remind you of those, too.
109:15:04 Cernan Ron, I want you to stay in that MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD. I'm going to do a P52.
109:15:21 Evans Okay. I've got the - the cameras all set. I got them out, anyhow. I don't have the - the right values on the lenses yet; but, anyhow, the camera are out and they're loaded.
109:15:35 CC Okay.
109:15:36 Evans I've got mag OO on the Hasselblad.
109:15:36 Schmitt Houston, this is the LMP a couple minor things on the back-side checkout. The secondary glycol pump, when I started it, the sound and the pressure was ragged, oscillated around - 20 psi, and then stabilized. After about 15 seconds, it sounded smooth. It had a sound as if it was cavitating a little bit; but, after that, it was smooth. Over.
109:16:11 CC Copy that, Jack.
109:16:13 Evans Okay, Houston. Why don't I go ahead and get the PGA ver out of the way, and then we can get some of the - data, or would you rather get the data up first?
109:16:16 Schmitt And on step 3 on page 3-15 - -
109:16:22 Schmitt - - When I went to SUIT FAN 1, I got a MASTER ALARM - -
109:16:24 CC No, it's your choice. Why don't we go ahead and get the PGA, and I'll just sit on these pads, and could you tell me if you ever got around to playing with the squelch on the VHF?
109:16:25 Schmitt - - but all other indications were okay, and the MASTER ALARM reset.
109:16:33 CC Okay.
109:16:40 Schmitt Okay. I'm sorry. I misinterpreted the words there; I should have gotten that. Forget that one.
109:16:40 Evans Man, I did. And, let's see, we're at SQUELCH A now. I've even got it all the way down to 1, and I still don't hear them.
109:16:46 CC Roger. We concur.
109:16:56 CC Okay. You did get a satisfactory check on your side, didn't you?
109:17:00 Schmitt Okay, Geno. You need some help?
109:17:04 Evans Oh, yes.
109:17:05 CC Okay.
109:17:07 Evans I got a satisfactory - Every once in a while I can hear them now; they're cutting in and out somewhere, I don't know where.
109:17:12 CC All righty.
109:17:39 Evans Okay. SQUELCH A is set at about 4.
109:17:52 CC And, America, we'll give you a state vector if you give us ACCEPT.
109:18:01 Evans Okay. You have it.
109:18:03 CC Thank you.
109:18:48 Cernan ... what star you got, 30? Or no, what star?
109:18:54 Schmitt Loaded it? Okay. Okay, and those are the numbers, Hey, that's good. Okay. You ready to mark? What do you want first? ...
109:20:30 CC Jack, we'd like to take a look at the glycol pump pressure. Can you close the GLYCOL PUMP SECONDARY pressure breaker?
109:20:38 Schmitt Better finish this.
109:21:09 Schmitt Gordy, you want the secondary?
109:21:12 CC That's affirmative; panel 16, GLYCOL PUMP SECONDARY breaker - third row, in the middle.
109:22:20 Schmitt Okay. We've got a GLYCOL light, and the temperature is 50.
109:22:28 CC Okay. The pressure looked good there. We'd like that breaker back open. The MASTER ALARM you have is normal.
109:22:46 Schmitt Roger. Understand it.
109:24:13 Evans Houston, America. How much time to AOS, yet - LOS?
109:24:16 CC Oh, about 29 minutes.
109:24:21 Evans Oh, okay. Got a little time for the PGA ver then, I guess.
109:24:31 CC And it's your computer, anytime you want to get it, Ron.
109:24:37 Evans Okay.
109:24:46 Evans Ah ha, I got the old helmet and gloves on.
109:25:07 Evans More cables all over the place here than I know what to do with.
109:25:14 CC Well, this place looks like a pigpen - you've run the same course everyone else has, I guess.
109:25:22 Evans (Laughter) I got cables and hoses and -
109:26:41 Evans Son-of-a-muck - I hit the stick again. Now I got to unlock it.
109:26:48 Cernan Ron, keep in MIN DEADBAND ATT hold. I've got to finish the P52.
109:26:54 Evans Okay. You want me to maneuver back to attitude, Gene?
109:26:55 Cernan No, just stay where you are.
109:27:01 Evans We're out of attitude just a little bit. Well I'm MIN DEADBAND, but I maneuvered out of attitude. You want to go back to regular attitude?
109:27:02 Cernan Just stay where you are, and put it in MIN DEADBAND.
109:27:10 Cernan No! N O, no.
109:27:51 Evans Okay, Houston. ... flow return is ... SUIT FLOW valve. The other two are closed; mine is open, and I got the inner connect in between the other ones.
109:28:04 CC Sounds good.
109:28:05 Evans How's the old suit pressure? Okay. Looks like pretty good. Okay. O2 flow is lower limit. Okay. Let's go up to PRESS. Here we go. That's going up to PRESS, and it feels like it's going up.
109:28:45 Evans And terminal direct O2 on air to ... O2 FLOW HIGH.
109:28:52 Cernan Hey, Ron. This is Challenger. We're going to be off your loop for awhile, so we can finish the mark.
109:28:58 Evans Okay. Wait a minute, Jack. I'll just go to RECEIVE on the VHF. I'll just go to RECEIVE on the VHF, Jack.
109:29:28 Evans Okay. Let's see, and there's a DELTA-P of about - 6-1/2 - Now we're going to cycle suit circuit return air. Okay. It's out; it's back in. Okay. Now we can squirt a little more O2 flow in.
109:30:03 Evans Whoo hoo! - There we go. Man, oh man!
109:30:19 Evans DIRECT O2 is off.
109:30:28 Evans That's coming down. Shoot! I'm reading 4.5 in my suit. is that right?
109:30:37 Evans 5.
109:30:41 CC Looks like about 4 on our meter, Ron.
109:30:48 Evans Well, I'll be darned. The old suit gage read 4.5.
109:31:01 Evans ... that close in there. Let's say at maybe nine or something like that. That's closer to four. Can't tell for sure what it feels like. Anyhow, the O2 flow is down. It's not leaking very much. I'm leaking about 0.3. Something like that.
109:31:41 CC Okay. We're - we're showing 4.2 to 4.3 on our pressure spread, and you're cabin and suit pressure gages probably show something similar. And we show that the flow rate is down. -
109:31:54 Evans Oh, okay. That's not too bad. That's pretty close.
109:31:57 CC Yes. And the O2 flow is staying pretty good.
109:31:58 Evans ... let's go to DEPRESS on this thing, huh?
109:32:01 CC Sounds good.
109:32:03 Evans Okay; so it looks like it's sta - stable there, isn't it?
109:32:07 CC Yes, sir.
109:32:13 Evans Okay. Let's go to DEPRESS.
109:32:29 Evans And my ears are pretty good. Of you guys are okay I'm going to go to OFF. Save a little time here.
109:33:02 CC America, I don't know if I copied you correctly. You don't want to go to OFF on that SUIT TEST valve until the pressure are back down to normal. If that was what you asked.
109:33:14 Evans (Laughter)
109:33:16 Cernan Hello, Houston.
109:33:17 CC Are or you already there?
109:33:19 Evans I changed ny mind.
109:33:19 Cernan That looked to be a pretty good alignment from where I saw it. There's 07 for you.
109:33:24 CC Okay. We copy.
109:33:30 Evans Yes. My ears are popping to beat the band - I changed my mind, I'll let it go down slowly.
109:33:35 CC Okay.
109:33:38 CC Okay. And we've got about 20 minutes before LOS, so there's no hurry on those pads. I've got them standing by when you're ready, and didn't know what you - what you had in mind about working on these things. We might get - you might get started on the hatch integrity check, if you get to that point, and I can give you the pads while you're waiting for it to bleed down or whatever it turns out to be convenient.
109:34:03 CC Okay, Challenger. Torque them.
109:34:12 Evans Okay. Let's see, I guess it's about time to - Integrity check; okay.
109:34:33 CC Okay. And I guess the LM is going to be asking you for a NOUN 20 pretty soon like, here.
109:34:34 Cernan Hello, America; Challenger. We no longer need your MIN DEADBAND.
109:34:44 Evans Okay, Challenger; America here. I'll go back to CMC.
109:34:48 Cernan Okay. But I would like a NOUN 20 from you on my mark.
109:34:52 Evans Stand by. Okay, go.
109:34:58 Cernan Okay; 3, 2, 1 -
109:35:01 Cernan MARK.
109:35:03 Evans Okay; 002.15, 104.36, 359.69.
109:35:21 Evans Okay.
109:35:36 CC Okay, Challenger, we've got the NOUN 20s, both spacecraft.
109:35:46 Evans And Houston, do we want to release those docking latches before they do their hot fire? I don't think so. Do we?
109:35:54 CC I'll check. Stand by.
109:36:22 CC Challenger, Houston, we're ready anytime for the RCS pressurization. You might turn the data switch off.
109:36:22 CC You're right, Ron, we'll - we'll just hold up on that release on the latches until the hot fires are over. So, when you get your copying hand ready, why, we'll give you some pads. We'll clean that one up.
109:36:33 Cernan We just got that, and we're going.
109:36:34 CC Okay.
109:36:40 Evans Okay. Let's see.
109:36:54 Evans Reading 2 SCS. Integrity check - Okay, it didn't -
109:37:04 Cernan MASTER ARM is ON; I've got one good light - SYSTEM A.
109:37:08 CC Okeydoke.
109:37:10 Evans Okay, Houston. Let's see - where are we going to start on the pads?
109:37:13 CC Okay. And you might go to BLOCK on the computer, too.
109:37:20 Evans Okay.
109:37:20 Cernan Okay. On my mark; 3, 2, 1 -
109:37:24 Cernan MARK it. We heard it.
109:37:28 CC Okay. The first thing I'll give you is the SEP pad.
109:37:35 Evans Okay. Let's go.
109:37:35 CC And that is on page 113.
109:37:42 Evans Okay.
109:37:43 CC Okay. NOUN 33 is 110:27:55.00. Roll is 0, 0, 105 pitch, and yaw is 0.
109:38:06 Evans Okay. NOUN 33, 110:27:55.00, and roll, pitch, and yaw as depicted: 0, 105, and 0. Right?
109:38:06 CC Okay, Challenger. We saw it, and it looks good. RCS looks good.
109:38:14 Cernan Looks good onboard, Gordo.
109:38:18 CC That's affirm.
109:38:23 Evans Okay; got it.
109:38:27 CC Okay. The next thing I have for you is a P24 pad that goes on page 115.
109:38:38 Evans Okay. SUIT TEST valves in OFF now. On page 115 - Okay; got it.
109:38:47 CC Okay. It'll be 17-1; 110:58:13; T2 is 111:00:30; 01:00:01 - -
109:39:03 Cernan Okay, Houston. Verify high bit rate - and, Ron, we need you in WIDE DEADBAND ATTITUDE/HOLD.
109:39:07 Schmitt Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
109:39:10 Evans ... hold it. Okay, WIDE DEADBAND ATT/HOLD, that's what I'm on. And Amer - Houston; America, I missed T2 on.
109:39:22 CC Challenger, we verify high bit rate.
109:39:26 CC Okay. Are you ready to go back to it now?
109:39:31 Evans Okay; ready for T2.
109:39:33 CC All right, sir T2: 111:00:30; 01: - -
109:39:41 Cernan Okay. Here we go, Houston, with the cold fire check.
109:39:41 CC - - 00; 01:26; Roll 015, 297, 000; North 02. Over.
109:39:43 Evans Shoot!
109:39:44 CC Okay. All set.
109:40:05 Evans Okay. I'll read back what I have. T1 110:58:13. I missed T2. TCA is 01:00; is 01:26; Roll 15, pitch 297, and 0; North 02. I presume 17.1.
109:40:23 CC Yes, sir. And T2 time is 111:00:30.
109:40:35 Evans Okay. 111:00:30.
109:40:38 CC That's correct.
109:40:40 Evans Challenger said something every time you talked on that one.
109:40:42 Cernan Okay, Houston. PGNs RATE COMMAND (Cold Fire), AGS pulse (Cold Fire) check.
109:40:47 CC Okay; press on.
109:40:49 Evans Hey, Jack, could you go to RECEIVE only on the VHF for a little bit?
109:40:54 Schmitt Sure, Ron.
109:40:55 Evans Okay.
109:41:00 Evans And, Houston; America. You can go ahead on the next pad.
109:41:03 CC Okay. On page 113, I've got a DAP load for you.
109:41:16 Evans Okay.
109:41:18 CC Okay. The weight: 37983; plus 0.40, plus 0.91.
109:41:37 Evans Okay, CSM weight is 37983; pak to off, plus 0.40; yak to off, plus 0.91.
109:41:49 CC Okay. That's correct. And the last one comes up on page 121, and it's a LM P76.
109:41:59 Evans Ah ha; okay.
109:42:02 Schmitt All right, Houston. Step 4. AGS RATE COMMAND (Cold Fire), 4 JET SECONDARY COIL (Hot Fire) check.
109:42:04 CC Okay, NOUN 33.
109:42:06 Evans Okay, 121 - Got it.
109:42:08 CC Okay. Go. We're looking good so far.
109:42:10 CC All right, sir. 112:02:51.92; minus -
109:42:10 Schmitt Hey, Ron. We're going to have some hot fires here. We're going to have some hot fires here in a minute.
109:42:15 Evans Okay. Wait a min - Hold it. America, ... Challenger. The hot fire - you want FREE, Challenger?
109:42:25 Schmitt That's affirm. Go CMC MODE FREE.
109:42:30 Evans Challenger, America. You want FREE for the hot fire?
109:42:35 Cernan That is affirm. We want you FREE, Ron.
109:42:38 Evans Okay. Going to FREE now.
109:42:44 Evans And, Houston; America. You can try that one again.
109:42:47 CC All righty. NOUN 33 is 112:02:51.92; minus 0007.5 and all zips for Y and Z.
109:42:53 Cernan Ron, go RECEIVE ONLY.
109:43:08 Evans (Laughter). Okay, say that NOUN 33 again.
109:43:27 Evans Houston, America. We're cut out on NOUN 33 again, and I've got minus 0007.5 and X, Y, and Z are 0.
109:43:40 CC Okay. And the time, 112:02:51.92.
109:43:45 Cernan Houston, hardover looked good from here.
109:43:49 CC Okay; looked good down here.
109:43:50 Evans Okay, NOUN 33 is 112:02:51 - 112:02:51.92.
109:43:53 Schmitt All right, Houston. PGNS MINIMUM IMPULSE (Hot Fire) check.
109:43:58 CC Okay.
109:44:03 CC That's correct.
109:44:22 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We had a sticky talkback red on SYSTEM A, QUAD 4. And it went to gray with a tap.
109:44:35 CC Okay, Jack.
109:46:03 Cernan Okay - Ron, the hot fire checks are complete. You can go into WIDE DEADBAND ATT/HOLD.
109:46:11 Evans Okay, Challenger; America. ... get that far off that time either.
109:46:16 CC Challenger, those all look good here.
109:46:18 Cernan And I think we got them all.
109:46:19 Evans Okay.
109:46:21 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Understand.
109:46:49 Cernan Okay. We're on the top of 3-28, Gordo.
109:46:50 CC Roger. We're with you.
109:47:09 Evans Okay, Challenger; America.
109:47:17 Cernan Go - go ahead, Ron.
109:47:18 Evans Okay. I'm going to turn off B3 and also my roll jets, and then I'm going to undo the docking latches.
109:47:25 Schmitt Okay, you want to verify your - your transponder is OFF as well as B3?
109:47:30 Evans That's - verified TRANSPONDER is OFF.
109:47:32 Cernan Okay. And you did get the umbilicals. Right?
109:47:36 Evans Say again about umbilicals.
109:47:37 Cernan You did get the LM-to-CM umbilicals, right?
109:47:41 Cernan All I get is umbilicala. I didn't get the question.
109:47:45 Cernan Did you disconnect the LM-to-CM umbilicals? Verify.
109:47:50 Evans Verify. I have those down here.
109:47:52 Cernan Okay. Very good.
109:48:03 Evans And jet Bravo 3 is OFF.
109:48:14 CC Okay, Ron, we're about 5 minutes from LOS. And the only thing that you wouldn't be able to do following right down your checklist is to get the VHF data on and check the tape recorder at LOS. The rest of that stuff you can follow right on through, and we'll remind you on the lithium change after descent. So it looks like we're caught up again.
109:48:18 CC Challenger, Houston. We cannot completely explain the startup indications you had on the PGNS, but they are of no great concern. It looks good so far. The DAP gimbal trims are no problem. Don't bother changing them. And there will be no PIPA bias update yet, anyway. Over.
109:48:39 Cernan Okay. Understand. Was the checklist written backwards on that?
109:48:46 CC It was a Cape problem on their tape, and they had it reversed. But it's in the noise level, anyway. No problem.
109:48:55 Cernan Okay.
109:49:38 CC Challenger, Houston. You have a GO for undocking and sep.
109:49:44 Cernan Roger; understand. A GO for undocking and sep.
109:50:20 Evans Okay, number 5. One , two - and it's fully released, and the hook is off of the docking ring. Okay. Number 6 is - one, two - and it's fully released, and the hook is off of the docking ring. Okay, 7 is released, and the hook is off of the docking ring. O2 flow still okay?
109:50:59 CC Yes, sir. Looking good.
109:51:04 Evans Okay, here's number 8. Here's one, two. And the chute's fully released, and the hook is off the docking ring.
109:51:22 Evans Okay, here's number 9. One, two, and she's fully released; the hook clears the docking ring. Okay, number 10. Here's one, two - fully released, and the hook clears the docking ring. There's one ... 11. Okay, handle's free; J-hook clears the ring. I've only got one more to go. There's the first latch there's two latches ... came over. And the hook stays clear; the handle is free. And, by golly, they're all off. Hey, Challenger; America. You're hanging on those three little bitty things.
109:52:35 Cernan Okay. Fine, Ron.
109:52:37 Evans Okay. I put the old - hatch in.
109:52:38 CC Challenger, Houston. About 1 minute to LOS, and we'll see you when you come around the other side, independently.
109:52:48 Cernan Okay, Gordo; understand. I'm in step 4, RENDEZVOUS RADAR mode ... to AUTO.
109:52:49 CC Okay, Ron, we're within a minute of LOS. Your O2 flow still looks good, and the rest of the stuff that you can get on the VHF is going to be just fine. You're right on schedule now.
109:52:53 CC Roger.
109:53:00 Cernan And the radar has come out, and I'm in RADAR TEST now.
109:53:05 Evans Okay. I'll get that VHF stuff and then put the hatch in.
109:53:08 CC Jack, just a friendly reminder to do the LOS procedures on the steerable.
109:53:18 Schmitt Okay.
109:53:22 Evans Okay, we're in RECEIVE ONLY to B DATA. Hey, Challenger; America. I'm going to RECEIVE ONLY the B DATA.
109:53:38 Evans Hey, Challenger; America.
109:53:38 BEGIN LUNAR REV 12
109:53:48 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had Loss of Signal as America and Challenger pass behind the Moon on the - toward the end of the 11th Lunar Orbit. When they reappear again, in approximately 47 minutes, they will be undocked. Stationkeeping, flying along adjacent to each other. At Loss of Signal the orbit measured 61.2 nautical miles pericynthion by 12 miles even nautical - pericynthion. Velocity at that time was 5,313 feet per second. During the next frontside pass, as the Challenger continues in preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion, we'll have a checkout of the descent propulsion system. The tanks will be pressurized and telemetry readouts here on the ground will be prepared to those onboard, to make sure that system is preforming as advertised. An alignment - a realignment of the inertial measuring unit, part of the lunar module's guidance system will be run during that - also during that frontside pass. And toward the end of the 12th revolution, just prior to Loss of Signal the crew aboard Challanger will be given a GO/NO-GO for the Descent Orbit Insertion Maneuver number 2, which is at this time still scheduled for a Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 1 minute 59 seconds. There's a carton of book matches on top of the flight director console here in the Control Center which was bought by a group of flight dynamics officers on all the ships. Bill Boone, Jay Green, Jerry Bostick and others. It's a blue match cover, it says The Trench. Traditionally the trench is the front row here in the Control Center where the flight dynamics people operate. It says on the front, "The Trench, Mission Control Center, Houston." On the reverse of the match book it says, "Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Program Shuttle." Mercury, Gemini and Apollo have a check by them indicating they're complete. And at the bottom it says, "roll them out, we're ready." At 109:57, up live at next Acquisition of Signal as America and Challenger come around on the 12th revolution, this is Apollo Control.
110:39:18 PAO This is Apollo Control. 110 hours, 39 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Less than 2 minutes remaining now until America and Challenger, separated and flying a few feet apart at this time will come around the front side of the Moon on the 12th lunar orbit. Slightly over a minute now until we should start attempting to lock up on the downlink signal from America and Challenger. The two way communications from spacecraft communicator for the command-service module, Ken Mattingly, and Ron Evans aboard America will be on a separate loop as it was the last revolution. These conversations can be heard in room 161 in the Houston News Center. Early in this revolution we'll have the pressurization of the descent propulsion system and checkout of that system. Some 6 - 5 seconds from acquisition we'll stand by until Network advises the Flight Director that they do have firm lock-on. We have AOS in lunar module, let's see what we hear.
110:41:34 BEGIN LUNAR REV 12
110:41:34 Cernan Hello, Houston. ... Challenger ...? Hello, Houston. ... Challenger ...?
110:41:58 CC Hello, Challenger; Houston. You're very, very weak. Over.
110:42:04 Cernan Okay, Houston. Challenger ... checkout is complete ... and we're looking at America, the beautiful.
110:42:17 CC Okay, Geno, I understand you're undocked. But we're not reading, but about 10 percent of what you're saying. Standby ...
110:42:49 CC America, Houston; standing by.
110:42:55 Evans Okay, Houston. This is America. We're floating free out here. The Challenger looks real pretty. The residuals on the P41 were plus 1.9, minus 0.2, and 0. Undock and sep was on time.
110:43:17 CC Sounds good.
110:43:19 Schmitt Houston, this is Challenger. Won't hold on the steerable antenna yet. It looks like I'm getting oscillations in my up-link signal strength, and then it gradually drops off to zero.
110:43:35 CC Okay, Jack. We're reading you better now. Understand.
110:43:44 Cernan Okay, Gordo. If you're reading, you got the words. We are undocked. Landing radar self test is GO. We're ready to press on to the DPS throttle check, and we've been looking at America, the beautiful. It's rare form.
110:44:00 CC Okay, Geno. We've got that. It sounds good.
110:44:05 Cernan Okay, and the residuals on P47 at undocking were 0, minus 0.1, and 0.
110:44:14 CC Okay. We copy that. We'd like you to try the steerable again.
110:44:35 Schmitt Okay, Houston; we've got it.
110:44:38 CC Okay. You sound real good; loud and clear.
110:44:42 Schmitt Okay, let me give you some NOUN 20 angles, if you want them.
110:44:45 CC Go ahead. Ready to copy.
110:44:49 Schmitt The LM: plus 301.09, plus 284.53, plus 359.48; the CSM: plus three zeros .35, plus 104.67, plus 000.52; the time: 110:24:00. Over.
110:45:20 CC Okay, Jack. We got that.
110:45:25 Cernan Okay, Gordo; we're ready. DPS throttle check. I'm ready to hit ENGINE STOP.
110:45:30 CC Stand by. Okay; we're ready.
110:45:39 Cernan Okay. And the light is on. The REG light is ON.
110:45:51 CC Roger. We're showing the ENGINE ARM circuit breaker may be out. Would you check that?
110:46:17 Schmitt Okay. I'm sorry, Gordy. A little - We missed that here. Okay, we'll try it again.
110:46:30 CC America, Houston. When you have an opportunity, how about cycling the HIGH GAIN to WIDE and back to REACQ?
110:46:44 Evans Okay, Can do.
110:46:46 CC Thank you, sir.
110:47:16 CC Okay, America. How about going back to NARROW on the antenna. And could you verify what you loaded on NOUN 34? it went by so fast on the down-link, we didn't get it a chance to look at it.
110:47:21 Cernan Gordy, if the throttle test looked okay, I'll go ENGINE ARM OFF.
110:47:26 CC Okay. It looked real good. Go ahead.
110:47:43 Evans There, you got it?
110:47:52 CC Okay. That looks good.
110:47:53 Evans Does that look okay?
110:47:54 CC Yes, sir. Sure does.
110:47:58 Evans Okay. No update then, huh?
110:48:00 CC That's correct.
110:48:04 Evans Okay.
110:49:22 Cernan Okay, Gordy, the MASTER ARM is coming on.
110:49:25 CC Roger.
110:49:28 Cernan I got two good lights.
110:49:30 CC Two lights.
110:49:36 Cernan Okay; on my mark. DESCENT PROP isOL VALVE. 3, 2, 1 -
110:49:40 Cernan MARK it. We heard it.
110:49:44 CC Roger.
110:49:51 CC Okay; looks good.
110:49:52 Schmitt Gordy, there was a slight upward - Gordy, there was an upward fluctuation in pressure in the manifold when we fired that. It's back to where it was prefiring.
110:50:05 CC Okay. That's what it should have done, Jack.
110:50:24 Schmitt Okay, HELIUM PRESS, DESCENT START. 3, 2, 1 -
110:50:29 Schmitt MARK it. We got it.
110:50:43 Schmitt Okay; looks good onboard. About 240 both sides.
110:50:49 CC Okay; looks good on the ground.
110:50:59 Cernan Say, Gordy, this thing sounds a little bit like my stomach sounded a couple of days ago.
110:51:06 CC Roger that.
110:51:24 Schmitt AGS coming on to STANDBY.
110:51:42 Schmitt Okay. MASTER ALARM and AGS light.
110:52:06 Schmitt Okay, 10 ... 110:52:00 for the time on the AGS.
110:52:14 CC Roger, Jack.
110:52:47 CC Geno, we show Jack's SUIT isOL valve in SUIT DISCONNECT. Should be in SUIT FLOW. Would you check that for - for us, please?
110:52:58 Cernan Yes. He's in SUIT FLOW now.
110:53:01 CC Okay. Thank you.
110:53:04 Cernan I'll tell you - I'll tell you, this LCG sure makes a world of difference up here.
110:53:10 CC Roger.
110:53:19 Cernan Hey, America; Challenger.
110:53:31 Cernan Hey, Ron; listen. This ridge you're coming on over - just stick your hand out the hatch and grab a rock.
110:53:35 Evans Looks like it's pretty low down there.
110:53:39 Cernan Well, when you're up here looking at where you are, it even looks lower.
110:53:43 Evans (Laughter) I'll bet.
110:56:52 CC Challenger; Houston. I have a new AGS K factor for you.
110:56:58 Schmitt Stand by a second.
110:57:42 Schmitt Go with the K factor.
110:57:44 CC Okay; it's 109:59:59.94. Over.
110:57:59 Schmitt 109:59:59.94.
110:58:04 CC That's right.
110:58:06 Cernan Gordo, this is spectacular. It is absolutely spectacular looking at that command module, America, down there coming across the surface. We're just tracking him at about a 30-degree dive angle.
110:58:20 CC Sounds great.
110:58:30 Cernan Okay, babe; have a good time, and go get that landmark. Don't forget - No TEIs. See you in about 3 days.
110:59:27 CC Geno, Houston, with a couple of items.
110:59:34 Schmitt Go ahead, Gordo.
110:59:36 CC Okay. Your perilune seems to be - -
110:59:38 Cernan Hey, we got the landing site, Gordo.
110:59:42 CC Okay. I'll hold - -
110:59:42 Cernan Gordo, we got the landing site. We're coming right over the front of it. Stand by a minute. You can see the Slide. I think you can see the Great Cross.
110:59:54 CC Roger.
110:59:57 Cernan We'll get a picture of America coming right across it.
111:00:00 CC All righty.
111:00:04 Schmitt Super targeting.
111:00:06 Cernan Gosh, we've got Family Mountain; we've got - of course - the Massif; we can see the Scarp; we can see the light mantle; I've got the Great Cross, Camelot, Sherlock.
111:00:19 Schmitt Believe it or not, Houston, they're all there.
111:00:23 CC How about that.
111:00:24 Schmitt I see possible structure - possible structure in the upper part of the South Massif, little bit east of Station 2. It's subhorizontal, dipping to the southeast.
111:00:40 Cernan Houston, I can even see Poppy, right where we're going to set this baby down.
111:00:45 CC Very good.
111:00:47 Cernan As a matter of fact, I can see Rudolph. I can even see the triangle: Rudolph, Frosty, and Punk. Man, Gordo, this is absolutely spectacular.
111:01:03 CC Sure sounds like it.
111:01:09 Cernan We can watch Ron track - we can watch Ron track right on through the landmarks. I don't know what kind of results he got, but he sure had a nice smooth track from here.
111:01:25 CC Roger.
111:01:37 Schmitt Gordo, you can go ahead and update us with those words.
111:01:40 CC Okay. Your perilune is shifting west. PDI will be a little higher than nominal: 10.7 miles or 65,000 feet; should be no problem. And, from the time you first came around until we had a solid lockup on the steerable on this acquisition was about 3 minutes. We're going to try to speed that up some on the next time around. We'd like you to just keep trying the steerable until we come to you - and say, "stop trying." Over.
111:02:13 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, understand that; and apparently this time, had I let it - had I waited a little longer, it would have dropped to zero and then come up, because that's what happened when I finally got you. I'll give it more time next time.
111:02:28 CC Okay.
111:02:38 CC And, Jack, I've got lots of pads for you whenever you're ready.
111:03:37 Schmitt Okay, Gordy; go with the pads.
111:03:39 CC Okay. The first one is a P76 with a CSM circ.
111:03:49 Schmitt Go.
111:03:51 CC Okay. NOUN 33 is 111:57:30.09; NOUN 84: plus 0070.5, plus five zeros, and minus 0000.5. Go ahead.
111:04:26 Schmitt Okay. 111:57:30.09; plus 0070.5, plus all zeros, minus four zeros 5.
111:04:37 CC Okay. Good readback. Next one I have is the no PDI plus 12 abort, item Echo.
111:04:46 Schmitt Go ahead.
111:04:47 CC Okay. Echo is 113:02:00.00; Foxtrot, plus 0103.4, plus five zeros, minus 0050.0; NOUN 42: 0142.0, plus 0005.4, 0114.9; burn time is 0:48; 000, 272; 373 - -
111:05:43 Cernan Okay. Just a second. Give me a transponder, and we'll start with the radar. Jack's tied up right now.
111:05:50 CC 373 is 0182.0; AGS DELTA-Vs: plus 0103.7, plus five zeros, minus 0049.3; Golf, 113:57:00.00; Hotel, 11 - I'll start over - 115:36:45.00; and the no DOI-2 DELTA-Vx., 0096.6. Two remarks: throttle profile is 10 percent for 26 seconds, 40 percent for the rest of the burn. Over.
111:07:14 Schmitt Okay, readback. 11 - no PDI plus 12 - 113:02 all zeros; plus 0103.4, plus all zeros, minus 0050.0; 0142.0, plus three zeros 5.4, 0114.9; 0:48; all zeros, 272; 0182.0; plus 0103.7, plus all zeros, minus 0049-3; 113:57 all zeros; 115:36:45.00; 0096.6; remarks: throttle profile 10 percent for 26 seconds; 40 percent for the remainder.
111:08:06 CC Okay, that's a good readback. Item India: 112:49:52.35 - -
111:08:19 Cernan Say, Gordo.
111:08:20 CC Go ahead.
111:08:21 Cernan Gordo, Gordo. Hey, Gordo; stand by. We want to finish the radar VHF test; and when I go to P52, you can finish the PADs.
111:08:29 CC Okay.
111:08:45 Cernan Okay. We're in VHF RANGING, and I've got you on radar, Ron. We'll be quiet for a second and see if you can get a lockon.
111:09:07 Evans Ah-ha! it works! Point - 0.50 miles.
111:09:09 Cernan Okay.
111:09:16 Evans Okay, 0.50 or 0.49 miles.
111:09:34 Cernan Okay, Gordo. The VHF ranging and radar checks out very well.
111:09:40 CC Okay, sounds good. Tell me when you're ready for item India again.
111:10:02 Schmitt We cut you off, Ron.
111:10:05 Evans Okay, I'm going to turn the RANGING, OFF, then. Comm's a little better that way.
111:10:10 Schmitt Go ahead, Gordy.
111:10:11 CC Okay. India is 112:49:52.35; 11:01, plus 0002.2; attitude is 002, 108, 290; plus 56900, Juliett: 115:36:45.00; Kilo: 117:35:45.00. Go ahead.
111:11:13 IMP Okay. It's a PDI pad; 112:49:52.35; 11:01, plus three zeros 2.2; 002, 108, 290; plus 56900; Juliett, 115:36:45.00; Karen, 117:35:45.00. Go ahead.
111:11:44 CC Okay, that's a good readback. Lima is 113:14:24.91; Maytro, 119:34:30.00; and November is 114:57:19.09; And your T-2 at PDI - T-2 will be at PDI plus 24:33.
111:12:38 Schmitt 24:33?
111:12:40 CC That's affirmative.
111:12:48 Schmitt Okay, Linda is 113:14:24.91; Mary is 119:34:30.00, and Nancy is 114:57:19.09.
111:13:05 CC That's a good readback.
111:13:15 CC Okay, one thing left, Jack, is the SHe pressures on the PDI page.
111:13:28 Schmitt Go ahead.
111:13:30 CC Okay; at Tig., the pressure will be 1310; plus 1 minute, 1410; 2 minutes, 1400; 3 minutes, 1310; and 4 minutes, 1230. Over.
111:13:59 Schmitt Okay, I got those. Thank you.
111:14:01 CC Roger.
111:21:24 Evans-CM You're loud and clear.
111:24:56 Schmitt Roger, America. Have a good burn. You look just as pretty in earthlight as you do in sunlight.
111:25:35 CC We see that. Looks like a good job.
111:25:45 Schmitt Yes, but it's not an easy one, Gordo.
111:25:58 Evans - to RECEIVE only. Hey, Challenger; America.
111:26:04 Schmitt Go ahead.
111:26:05 Evans Okay, Jack, can you go to RECEIVE only on your VHF there? I've got all these pads to pick up now. I'll call you when - when I'm all through.
111:26:15 Schmitt Okay, RECEIVE only. We got your GO, Gordo?
111:26:19 CC That's affirmative, torque them.
111:27:28 CC Challenger, we need AFT OMNI and select the steerable to SLEW. And LOW bit rate.
111:28:12 CC Challenger, select FORWARD OMNI, please.
111:29:00 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, the COAS alignment's good and the DAP is retracking.
111:29:05 CC Okay, and like the rest of the spacecraft, the platform's beautiful, there's no drift compensation or PIPA bias update. Over.
111:29:17 Schmitt Beautiful. It's ... kind of like a ...
111:29:31 CC Want to give you one update, you can write it in the Timeline, page 8; the T-l time is PDI plus 17:00. Over.
111:29:51 Cernan Okay; T-1 is PDI plus 17:00, we got it.
111:29:55 CC Roger.
111:30:29 Schmitt Okay, Houston, you got P00 and DATA.
111:30:33 CC Okay.
111:31:35 Schmitt Gordo, can I start maneuvering to the AGS cal while you're getting those updates - up-links ready?
111:31:45 CC Okay, we'd like the steerable back again. Try PITCH of minus 25, and YAW of minus 72.
111:32:24 Schmitt Okay; you got the steerable.
111:32:27 CC Okay, we need HIGH bit rate.
111:32:48 CC If we start on the up-links now, we'll get that in before we go to the AGS cal attitude. Over.
111:32:57 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, I've got - I've got the Earth and the direction I have to maneuver is nothing but good for the high gain, so I'll start over slowly.
111:33:06 CC Okay.
111:35:59 CC Challenger, Houston. It's your computer. Up-data link off.
111:36:11 Schmitt Roger.
111:36:31 Schmitt Still with you.
111:36:35 Evans Okay, I got something like "yup".
111:36:52 Schmitt Say again, Ron.
111:36:54 Evans Okay, I just wanted to make sure - voice check if we still have the VHF comm.
111:36:59 Schmitt Okay, I'll have to give you another one here in a minute.
111:37:21 Schmitt Okay, how do you read?
111:37:24 Evans Okay; loud and clear. How me Jack?
111:37:33 Evans Challenger, America. Read you loud and clear. How me?
111:37:57 CC Okay, America, we show you inside of 20 minutes, saying you have a GO for circ.
111:38:06 Evans Houston, America. Roger. We'll do our best.
111:42:18 CC Challenger, Houston. You're GO for DOI-2.
111:42:24 Schmitt Thank you, Gordo, We're GO here for DOI-2.
111:45:48 Schmitt Okay, Houston, did you get the AGS cal numbers?
111:45:54 CC Challenger, that's affirmative.
111:45:59 Schmitt Okay, it all looks pretty good to me. 546 may have been a little more than specs, but it looks pretty good.
111:46:09 CC Okay, looks good here.
111:46:27 CC Jack, have you gone through an OMNI? If you have, go LOW BIT RATE.
111:46:45 Schmitt Okay, We've got you on an OMNI and LOW BIT, RA -
111:46:52 CC Okay.
111:48:04 PAO This is Apollo Control, we've had loss of signal as America and Challenger coasting along near-by each other, passed behind the Moon on revolution number 12. Some 47 minutes until they come back around again, on the 13th lunar revolution. Behind the Moon this time, the command/service module, piloted by Ron Evans, will do CSM circularization maneuver which will place the spacecraft back up into an almost circular lunar orbit, measuring 69.7 by 54.5, those are the targeted measurements of that orbit. Ignition time, again which will be behind the Moon and out of contact is Ground Elapsed Time of 111:57:28. The lunar module DOI, or Descent Orbit Insertion burn number 2 also will be behind the Moon before we reacquire the spacecraft. That is scheduled for 112 hours 2 minutes 40 seconds. It's a fairly small burn 7.6 feet per second which will lower the pericynthion of the Challenger down to 6 1/2 miles - nautical miles with apocynthion staying at 61.5 nautical miles. During the next front side pass, comes the moment of truth with powered descent, and touchdown at Taurus-Littrow landing site as Challenger lights off the big descent engine at 112 hours 49 minutes, 52 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. The ignition countdown clock in the control center is counting down to PDI some 59 minutes 17 - 16 seconds until ignition with landing shortly under 12 minutes later, depending on the amount of hover time available. The broadcast line will be brought up again just prior to acquisition of signal as America and Challenger come around on the front side again on revolution 13, and at 111 hours 51 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
112:33:34 PAO This is Apollo Control at 112 hours 33 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Coming up on acquisition of signal of both spacecraft, America and Challenger, coming from behind the moon on the 13th lunar orbit. Some 1 minute 32 seconds away from acquisition of the command module and slightly under three minutes on the lunar module, Challenger. Challenger, during this revolution will descend to the surface of the moon and land at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Ignition time currently is Ground Elapsed Time of 112 hours 49 minutes 52 seconds. During the descent to the surface the spacecraft onboard computer will be generating numbers on the display which the Lunar Module Pilot will call out to the commander and which - angles at which the commander should be able to see the landing site through a grid etched on the left hand window of the lunar module. Here, we have AOS. AOS of the command service module and the circulars - the circularization burn was good. This is Apollo Control on the air-ground 2 circuit. Command module pilot, Ron Evans, is giving the CAPCOM all of the residuals. Here comes Challenger. Back to the lunar landing sequence as the lunar module pilot reads out the angles that the commander ought to be able to see the landing site. The commander is able to run through an operation called redesignation by using a pitch hand controller to rotate the spacecraft.
112:36:13 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read Challenger?
112:36:13 CC Challenger, you're loud and clear.
112:36:13 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read Challenger on an OMNI right now?
112:37:03 CC Okay, Challenger, you're loud and clear on the OMNI. How did it go?
112:37:12 Schmitt Okay, The burn was GO. We're in a 7-mile perigee on the PGNS, and we had 0, plus 0.1 and plus 0.1 residuals.
112:37:21 CC Okay, sounds good.
112:37:25 Schmitt Ok - Okay, Gordy, I'm going to try the high gain I had you locked up once, and then I lost you. Let me try it again.
112:37:32 CC We concur. Go ahead, Jack.
112:38:01 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, that's my fault. I didn't know you were up-linking. You've got the OMNI, and I'll leave it.
112:38:07 CC Okay, we'll stay on the OMNI for the up-link.
112:38:52 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, ED BATs are 37.2, both batteries. The ascent battery ON time was 112:19:00, about 4 minutes late.
112:39:06 CC Okay, Jack. Copy.
112:39:11 CC Jack, we want BATTERY 3 OFF for preconditioning.
112:39:19 Schmitt Roger.
112:39:30 CC Challenger, we'd like you to verify that the - -
112:39:31 Schmitt And we did ..., Gordy.
112:39:33 CC ... is egress.
112:39:41 Schmitt That's verified.
112:39:44 CC Roger.
112:39:55 Schmitt And do you have a 231 update?
112:39:59 CC Stand by. Negative. No change, Jack.
112:40:14 Schmitt Roger.
112:40:15 Cernan Okay, Gordo, how do you read CDR on VOX?
112:40:18 CC CDR, you're loud and clear on VOX.
112:40:23 Schmitt Okay. How do you read the LMP on VOX?
112:40:26 CC Loud and clear, Jack.
112:40:33 Cernan Okay. Gordo, up until this time, the bird has looked beautiful - perfectly plain. All the check's have come out just as advertised.
112:40:44 CC Okay, sounds good.
112:40:48 Schmitt And we're looking at 9 minutes and 5 seconds from PDI.
112:40:55 CC Challenger, do you see a VERB 33 out of DSKY? If you do, ENTER it.
112:41:03 Schmitt Okay, it's there, and I will ENTER.
112:41:05 CC Roger.
112:41:05 Schmitt Okay, it took; and I'm showing P00.
112:41:10 CC Okay. your computer; the up-link's in.
112:41:20 Schmitt Okay, we've got a tone on the up-voice backup.
112:41:26 CC Roger.
112:41:27 Cernan VERB 47 coming in at you, Jack. Okay, hit it. Okay, I got it. 240 - wait - 231, 569, 00, that's supposed to be. Okay, 569, 00 ... 240s are the same - 569, 00.
112:42:16 Schmitt Okay.
112:42:19 Cernan Okay, 254 is plus 01944.
112:42:25 Schmitt Okay.
112:42:26 Cernan Okay, 262 is minus 00143. Okay, 400 plus 3, and I'll watch it.
112:42:41 Schmitt How's it look?
112:42:44 Schmitt It's - it's had that all the way along - a little bit of roll bias.
112:42:45 Cernan Okay. That's good. 400 plus 1.
112:42:53 Schmitt 400 plus 1 is in.
112:42:54 Cernan Okay, and we do have your needle. We do have your needle.
112:42:58 Schmitt Okay.
112:42:59 Cernan Okay, and there's VERB 83 looking at you.
112:43:03 Schmitt My CROSSPOINTERS are LOW MULT for you.
112:43:06 Cernan Okay, and there's VERB 83. Give me a 317 and a 440.
112:43:10 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to try the high gain once more. PITCH is minus - PITCH is zero and YAW plus 59.
112:43:24 Cernan Are you happy with this, Jack? Let me ... 63.
112:43:28 Schmitt Yes. Go ahead.
112:43:29 Cernan Okay.
112:43:29 Schmitt That's good.
112:43:32 Cernan Gordy, understand no NOUN 68 prior to P63 or NOUN 69, right?
112:43:38 CC That's affirmative.
112:43:44 Schmitt ... you need to ask him anything, I'll try the high gain.
112:43:46 Cernan No. Go ahead; try it.
112:43:47 Schmitt Try the high gain, Gordy.
112:43:50 CC Okay.
112:43:52 Schmitt Okay, it's locked up in AUTO.
112:43:55 CC Roger.
112:44:01 Schmitt And, Gordy, be advised that you're clipping on your first word.
112:44:07 CC Okay, Jack. We'd like you to set 410 in the AGS to all balls. Plus all balls.
112:44:19 Schmitt That's 410, 410 not 400. Check that again.
112:44:26 CC That's affirmative; 410.
112:44:33 Schmitt Thank you, Gordy.
112:44:34 Cernan You better go back and check 400 now.
112:44:38 Schmitt It's okay. I fixed it.
112:44:40 Cernan Okay.
112:44:46 Schmitt Oh, man, are we down among them, babe! Whooh! ...
112:44:49 CC Challenger, Houston. I have a PDI Tig update. It's 112:49:51.87. And NOUN 6l cross range should be a plus 2.8. Over.
112:45:10 Schmitt Okay. Say the seconds again on the PDI.
112:45:13 CC PDI seconds are 51.87. Over.
112:45:21 Schmitt Okay. And the cross range?
112:45:24 CC Cross range is - is a plus 2.8. Over.
112:45:33 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. That clock checks with - with our time out of P63. The LANDING RADAR breaker's IN, I've got altitude, velocity, power. We're coming up on 4 minutes.
112:45:48 Cernan I'll give you the final trim at 4.
112:45:49 Schmitt Okay.
112:45:51 CC Challenger, Houston. You're GO for PDI.
112:45:57 Cernan Oh, thank you, Gordy. We are GO up here for PDI; doing the final trim at 4.
112:46:16 Cernan Hello, America. Do you read Challenger?
112:46:26 Evans Yes, that's a good point, I'll go ahead and get it.
112:46:31 Cernan Hey, Jack, you can check your watch.
112:46:36 Schmitt Okay.
112:46:37 Cernan At 2 minutes, I'll get the MASTER ARM.
112:46:39 Schmitt All right.
112:46:40 Cernan 30 seconds, I'll get the ENGINE ARM; and we'll watch the PGNS tapemeter pick up average G. If you give me a GO on the ullage, I'll back up the ullage.
112:46:51 Schmitt Okay.
112:46:52 Cernan And I'll back up the START.
112:46:55 CC Challenger, should we lose the steerable, - -
112:46:56 Cernan You get the steerable.
112:46:57 CC -- go FORWARD OMNI.
112:47:01 Cernan Roger. FORWARD OMNI.
112:47:12 Schmitt ... down a little bit.
112:47:15 Cernan Okay, 02:41.
112:47:43 Cernan Okay, we picked it all up. Power still good.
112:47:47 Schmitt Okay. Coming up on 2 minutes; I'm changing over here.
112:47:50 Cernan Okay.
112:47:55 Schmitt MASTER ARM, ON - 2 minutes.
112:47:58 Cernan Okay, Houston. 2 minutes. MASTER ARM is ON. I've got two good lights.
112:48:01 CC Roger.
112:48:01 Schmitt MODE SELECT is PGNS.
112:48:04 Cernan Okay. Once again, in average G, I'll get the ENGINE ARM. You confirm the ullage, I'll get the PRO. I'll back up the ullage and get the START.
112:48:13 Schmitt Roger.
112:48:15 CC Challenger, we're going to leave BAT 3, OFF, - -
112:48:18 Schmitt ... AUTO, AUTO.
112:48:19 CC - - until after ignition. We'll call you.
112:48:24 Schmitt Roger. Yes, I should have put that on like we talked about.
112:48:45 Cernan Man, I'll tell you, we are getting close.
112:48:52 Schmitt Looking out your window is really strange. (Laughter). From over here.
112:48:56 Cernan One minute, Houston, and we're standing by. We're GO for PDI.
112:49:00 CC Roger. You're looking good here.
112:49:20 Schmitt Okay, approaching 30 seconds. Blank, DSKY.
112:49:23 Cernan DSKY blank?
112:49:27 Schmitt Average G. Got two lights.
112:49:30 Schmitt Okay, ENGINE ARM is DESCENT. I think the tapemeter drove. I'm not sure. Confirm the ullage. Standing by for ullage.
112:49:46 Schmitt Ten seconds.
112:49:49 Schmitt Fuel ullage. We've got ullage. PROCEED on the 99. It took, 2, 1, 0 -
112:49:57 Schmitt IGNITION. IGNITION, Houston. Attitude looks good.
112:50:01 Schmitt ENGINE OVERRIDE is ON, MASTER ARM is OFF. We got a DESCENT QUANTITY light ON at ignition, just prior to ignition.
112:50:07 Cernan DPC [?] tank's good, RCS is good at 15 seconds.
112:50:12 CC Roger.
112:50:13 Schmitt RCS is golden. Should be stable throttle up. Stand by there's throttle up - -
112:50:21 Cernan Throttle up on time Houston. And the computer likes it.
112:50:26 CC Roger.
112:50:26 Schmitt Still got the QUANTITY light ON.
112:50:30 Cernan Okay, attitude looks good, Jack.
112:50:32 Schmitt Okay. At 30 seconds. Should have about 108.
112:50:40 Cernan Oh, boy.
112:50:43 Schmitt AGS and PGNS are close.
112:50:46 Cernan Okay, coming up on 1 minute.
112:50:49 Schmitt One minute, you ought to have 98.
112:50:54 Cernan Okay, H-dot is high right now.
112:50:56 Schmitt MARK it, 1 minute.
112:50:58 Cernan Altitude's high.
112:50:59 CC Challenger, Houston. I have a NOUN 69 - -
112:51:01 Schmitt ... looks good, Houston.
112:51:02 CC - - plus 03400, plus 3400 feet. Over.
112:51:12 Schmitt You're looking at it.
112:51:15 Cernan Okay; 3400. I confirm.
112:51:24 CC Challenger, you're GO for ENTER.
112:51:29 Schmitt Roger. GO for ENTER 01:30. We're GO coming through 57K. Okay, the altitude's high and the H-dot is high. ... - that's right.
112:51:39 Schmitt Okay. At 1 - 2 minutes, you ought to have 89 on the ball. We're still 30 feet per second high in H-dot. But we're about 8000 feet high - -
112:51:50 CC Challenger, Houston - -
112:51:51 Schmitt - - 7000 - -
112:51:51 CC We'd like you to cycle the PQGS switch OFF and then back ON.
112:51:52 Cernan Okay, Houston. Coming up on 2 minutes.
112:52:01 Schmitt Okay. It's OFF. And it's back ON. QUANTITY light is out.
112:52:08 CC Roger. That should be good now.
112:52:10 Schmitt And, Houston, we - Okay, we have ENGINE THRUST and COMMANDED THRUST, full-scale high.
112:52:19 CC Roger.
112:52:20 Schmitt Man, that looks good.
112:52:21 Cernan Okay, babe, let's check them at 02:30.
112:52:23 Schmitt RCS looks good.
112:52:26 Cernan 02:30, I'm about 89 degrees - -
112:52:28 Schmitt Cabin looks great - -
112:52:29 Cernan - - coming through 51.5 -
112:52:30 Schmitt 89 is great. We're catching up - on our altitude. We should start dropping H-dot here a little bit. AGS and PNGS are together. AGS has us a little bit out of plane. And we're north - has us north of track.
112:52:53 CC Challenger, Houston - -
112:52:54 Schmitt Houston, we're ... up on 3 minutes, we're GO and - -
112:52:55 CC - - you're GO at 3.
112:52:55 Schmitt - - we're out of 49K.
112:52:59 Cernan Roger. Understand we're GO.
112:53:04 Schmitt Okay. At 3 minutes. 82's your ball number. We're still looking for the right altitude. So H-dot is high.
112:53:14 Cernan Okay. The day of reckoning comes at 4 minutes, Jack. Got the weight building up, looking good. Attitudes are good.
112:53:31 Schmitt Okay, at 03:30, you ought to have 79 - -
112:53:35 Cernan And it's right on.
112:53:36 Schmitt We're still a little high - about 2500 feet. H-dot is still high. Okay. The tapemeter moves in spurts and jerks, both on altitude and altitude rate.
112:53:57 Cernan Yes.
112:53:58 CC Challenger, Houston. You're GO at 4 minutes.
112:54:00 Schmitt Yes. ED BATs are 37.2.
112:54:02 CC Roger. ED BATs.
112:54:05 Schmitt ED BATs are 3 - -
112:54:06 Cernan Okay.
112:54:08 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, yaw's coming at 340.
112:54:12 CC Roger.
112:54:15 Schmitt And the radar lights are out. Beautiful.
112:54:20 CC Okay, sounds great. Both systems are GO - -
112:54:22 Schmitt You're looking at DELTA-H.
112:54:22 CC - - right on the line.
112:54:27 Schmitt Okay. You're looking at DELTA-H.
112:54:29 CC And you're GO for a VERB 57 -
112:54:35 Schmitt Okay, VERB 57 is in. Hey, Houston, is the AGS out of plane correct?
112:54:43 CC Stand by.
112:54:48 Cernan Okay, coming up on 5 minutes, Jack. Let's take a check at it. About 74 degrees.
112:54:53 Schmitt That's good.
112:54:54 Cernan 70 feet per second; we're coming down 36 - you're still ... - -
112:54:58 CC Challenger, you're GO at 5 minutes - -
112:54:59 Cernan - - down at 30 - -
112:54:59 CC - - the AGS out of plane looks okay to us.
112:55:06 Cernan Okay. GO at 5. We're out of 36.5 now. We've got the Earth right out the front window.
112:55:16 CC Challenger, Houston. BATTERY 3, ON, at your convenience.
112:55:23 Schmitt BATTERY 3 is ON.
112:55:26 PAO 53 miles to landing.
112:55:28 Cernan 05:30, Gordo. We're GO. We're out of 34K.
112:55:30 Schmitt 73, 34. We're right on altitude. The H-dot ought to start dropping off.
112:55:37 Cernan Except that we want to keep it high. We're allowed two quick looks out the window, one now and one when we pitch over.
112:55:43 Schmitt I can't see a thing except the Earth.
112:55:45 Cernan That's what I'm telling you to look at.
112:55:46 Schmitt (Laughter) Oh, there's the old Earth. Okay, Houston, coming up on 6 minutes. Six minutes, you ought to have 72 on your ball.
112:55:56 CC Challenger, you're GO at 6.
112:55:57 Cernan 72 and GO.
112:56:00 PAO 40 miles till landing.
112:56:01 Schmitt 31. Altitude's great. H-dot's great. AGS and PNGS are very close, couple feet per second difference.
112:56:07 Cernan Okay.
112:56:09 PAO 31,000 feet altitude.
112:56:10 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We went over the hump. DELTA-H just jumped.
112:56:15 CC Roger.
112:56:19 Schmitt And looks like it's back down.
112:56:22 CC Roger. Sounds good.
112:56:26 Schmitt 06:30, Geno. It looks good, babe. 72. Altitude is right on. H-dot is very close.
112:56:34 Cernan Okay, 30K, YAW to zero.
112:56:36 CC Throttle down time, 7 plus 26.
112:56:43 Schmitt 7 plus 26.
112:56:46 CC Okay.
112:56:46 Cernan Okay, we got everything - We're YAW at zero.
112:56:54 Schmitt Okay. At 7 minutes, 67's your angle, 26 - 27; that's great ... - -
112:57:00 CC Challenger, you're GO at 7 -
112:57:01 Schmitt - - H-dot's slightly high, but okay.
112:57:05 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're GO at 7, we're now at 25,000 feet. We're quite a bit out of the command module plane, but I guess we're on target. Okay, watch the throttle, now. Here it comes.
112:57:23 Schmitt Throttle down -
112:57:23 Cernan Throttle down -
112:57:24 Schmitt - at 27; computer likes it. Beautiful.
112:57:27 CC Roger.
112:57:29 Cernan Okay, 07:30, 63. Okay, 145 to pitchover, Jack.
112:57:36 Schmitt Okay, 63's your angle, about 56 now.
112:57:41 Cernan Okay, that's getting closer.
112:57:48 Schmitt H-dot and H are great. Standing by for the camera.
112:57:54 Cernan 19K, Houston . We're GO coming up on 8.
112:57:56 Schmitt Okay. The old camera's on, Gordy. Believe it or not.
112:57:59 CC How about that. You're GO at 8. Monitor fuel, 2.
112:58:04 PAO Ten miles to go.
112:58:05 Schmitt Fuel 2, 27. That's good.
112:58:11 Cernan Come on, baby.
112:58:15 PAO 18,000 feet.
112:58:15 Schmitt Okay, at 08:30, Geno.
112:58:17 Cernan Okay, I got the South Massif.
112:58:20 Schmitt Okay, update the AGS, Houston?
112:58:24 Cernan Yes.
112:58:28 CC That's affirmative; update the AGS.
112:58:36 Cernan Okay, Gordo, I've got Nansen; I've got Lara; and I've got the Scarp. Oh, man, we're level with the top of the Massifs, now.
112:58:45 CC Roger.
112:58:48 Cernan Okay, 151 - 151.0 ENTER. Okay, Jack, - -
112:58:55 CC Challenger. You're GO at 9.
112:58:55 Cernan - - pitchover is at 24; 24 is pitchover.
112:59:00 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, we're out of 11,000 at 9 -
112:59:03 Cernan Okay, stand by for pitchover. Oh, are we coming in. Oh, baby.
112:59:11 Schmitt ... through 9000.
112:59:13 Cernan Stand by for pitchover, Jack.
112:59:14 Schmitt 8000.
112:59:15 Cernan I'll need the PRO.
112:59:16 Schmitt I'll give it to you.
112:59:20 Cernan Pitchover.
112:59:21 Schmitt There it is! PROCEEDed.
112:59:22 Cernan And there it is, Houston. There's Camelot! Right on target.
112:59:24 Schmitt Wow! I see it.
112:59:27 Cernan We got them all.
112:59:28 Schmitt Forty-two degrees, 37 degrees through 5500, 38 degrees - -
112:59:34 CC Challenger, you're GO for landing.
112:59:35 Schmitt - - 5000 feet, 40 - 42 degrees through 4000, 47 now; 47 degrees through 3500; 49 degrees; 3000 feet, 53 degrees.
112:59:54 Cernan Okay, I've got Barjea; I've got Poppy; I've got the triangle.
112:59:58 Schmitt At 2500 feet, 52 degrees. The H-dot is good. At 2000, H-dot is good. Fuel is good. 1500 feet, 54 degrees, Gene. Approaching 1000, approaching 1000 feet, 57 degrees. Okay, you're through 1000, and I'm checking - radar altitude and PNGS altitudes agree. You're through 800 feet. H-dot's a little high.
113:00:32 Cernan Okay, I don't need the numbers any more.
113:00:33 Schmitt Okay, you're 31 feet per second, going down through 500; 25 feet per second through 400. That's a little high, Geno.
113:00:42 Cernan Okay.
113:00:44 Schmitt 300 feet, 15 feet per second. A little high. H-dot's a little high.
113:00:52 Cernan Okay. I've got P66.
113:00:54 Schmitt Okay; Okay, 9 feet per second, down at 200. Going down at 5. Going down at 5. Going down at 10. Cut the H-dot. The fuel's good. 110 feet. Stand by for some dust. Little forward, Gene. ... forward a little. 90 feet. Little forward velocity. 80 feet. Going down at 3. Getting a little dust. You're at 4 - 60 feet. Going down about 2. Very little dust. Very little dust. 40 feet, going down at 3.
113:01:44 Cernan Stand by for touchdown.
113:01:45 Schmitt Stand by. 25 feet, down at 2. Fuel's good. 20 feet. Going down at 2. 10 feet. 10 feet -
113:02:00 Schmitt CO - CONTACT.
113:02:04 Schmitt .. op, push. Engine stop; ENGINE ARM; PROCEED; COMMAND override, OFF; MODE CONTROL, ATT HOLD; PGNS, AUTO.
113:02:13 Cernan Okay, Houston, the Challenger has landed!
113:02:17 CC Roger, Challenger. That's super.
113:02:19 Schmitt Okay, Parker valves - Boy, you bet it is, Gordo.
113:02:28 Cernan Boy, when you said shut down, I shut down and we dropped, didn't we?
113:02:31 Schmitt Yes, sir. But we is here; man, is we here. How does that look?
113:02:36 Cernan That looks good.
113:02:36 Schmitt Pressure - pressures look great. Tank 2 is down just a little from before.
113:02:41 Cernan The ENGINE OVERRIDE is OFF ... --
113:02:42 Schmitt Manifold is great. Manifold is right on. Get - go to JETS.
113:02:46 Cernan Okay. I am JETS.
113:02:48 Schmitt Okay. That side's complete. Houston, you can tell America that Challenger is at Taurus-Littrow.
113:02:55 CC We'll do it.
113:03:00 Evans Great.
113:03:02 Cernan Ron, I had the meatball all the way.
113:03:04 Evans Beautiful.
113:03:07 Cernan Jack, are we going to have some nice boulders in this area.
113:03:09 Schmitt Okay. The old camera's off.
113:03:12 Cernan Okay.
113:03:15 Schmitt LANDING RADAR breaker, OPEN. Checking the water. And, Gordy, ascent tank 1, we started out a little low. It's still - same place. That's water.
113:03:30 CC Roger, Jack.
113:03:30 Schmitt Batteries look good.
113:03:38 Cernan Oh, man. Look at that rock out there.
113:03:42 Schmitt Absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible.
113:03:47 Cernan I think I can see the rim of Camelot.
113:03:50 CC Roger.
113:03:50 Cernan Epic moment of ray life.
113:03:51 Schmitt Where'd you land? You never let me look outside at all. Hey, you can see the boulder tracks.
113:04:01 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We're standing by for your GO. We look good - we're looking good onboard.
113:04:06 CC Okay. You're looking great here so far.
113:04:07 Schmitt There are boulders all over those massifs. God, look at that propellant. We could have gone all around and looked around.
113:04:15 Cernan We should have hovered around a little bit; gone and looked at the Scarp.
113:04:18 Schmitt No, thank you.
113:04:19 Cernan (Laughter)
113:04:19 Schmitt I like it right where we are.
113:04:21 Cernan Okay, Gordy. While you're - while you're waiting on that GO, I had to - I - I shot for a spot, around 2 o'clock from Poppy. There's a number of boulders out at 12 o'clock from Poppy, and I really think I'm probably not more than about 100 meters out in front of it - and slightly to the north. Actually, I may be a little bit closer to Trident than I expected Poppy to be. I - I think I've got Trident right out the left window. And our first cut at the mobility around here in the Rover. It ought to be super.
113:04:56 CC Okay. Sounds good.
113:05:03 Schmitt And I tell you, the massifs and Bare Mountain are two different products.
113:05:13 Cernan Do look it, don't they?
113:05:15 Schmitt Of course, they're different slopes, too.
113:05:16 Cernan I think you're looking - probably - that may be Rudolph, right there, Jack, out your window. I was looking more at those boulders and trying to stay in the spots in between them them I was - -
113:05:28 Schmitt Yes, you did great, Gene.
113:05:29 Cernan - - relationship to that crater. Man, there was practically no dust, just a little bit of a film; you had the ground, all the way to the ground.
113:05:36 Schmitt Yes. I could call touchdown on the shadow. Look at that. Really here.
113:05:43 Cernan (Laughter) Okay, Gordy. We're hanging in for your GO.
113:05:49 Schmitt It better be a GO. I'll check everything again. Let's just doublecheck.
113:05:54 Cernan Okay.
113:05:56 Schmitt That hasn't changed.
113:05:57 Cernan Okay, that's good.
113:05:58 Schmitt Those - the manifold hasn't changed. The RCS hasn't changed. Ascent water hasn't changed. The batteries haven't changed.
113:06:10 Cernan Oh, my golly.
113:06:11 Schmitt Only we have changed.
113:06:13 Cernan You know the - you can't see into Camelot, Jack; that rim is - is Camelot out in front of us.
113:06:18 Schmitt Yes.
113:06:18 Cernan You ... - -
113:06:18 CC Challenger, you'll be glad to hear you're STAY for T-l.
113:06:24 CC And, America; we have a STAY for T-l.
113:06:24 Cernan Gordy, you're a smooth talker, you know it?
113:06:26 Schmitt Very good.
113:06:28 Cernan We are STAY for T-l.
113:06:30 Schmitt Okay. You can forget all I told you about VERB 22 NOUN 46.
113:06:31 Evans Challenger - understand a STAY for T-l. Good.
113:06:34 Cernan What was that? (Laughter)
113:06:39 Schmitt Okay. Let's find out where we are. Engine stop is reset.
113:06:45 Cernan Okay. The AGS is ready for us if we need it.
113:06:47 Schmitt Okay. I need a P12 time as soon as I get 60 - -
113:06:49 Cernan Okay.
113:07:04 Cernan Okay, Gordy. You're looking at NOUN 43. Copy that down, Jack, right here.
113:07:11 CC Okay. We've got it.
113:07:13 Schmitt 20 21 and 20 21 and 30 75, and I'm going to P12. Okay. I need a P12 time from you.
113:07:30 Cernan Okay. For T-2. For T-2, the time is 113 - -
113:07:38 Schmitt Okay.
113:07:38 Cernan 14 - -
113:07:39 Schmitt 14.
113:07:41 Cernan 24.91.
113:07:44 Schmitt 4.91.
113:07:46 Cernan Yes, sir.
113:07:48 Schmitt I can't feel any difference between 1/6g and anything else right now.
113:07:50 Cernan Well, you still got your restraints on. (Laughter) Okay. 113:14:24.91. You happy with that?
113:07:57 Schmitt That looks good, sir.
113:07:59 Cernan Okay.
113:08:02 Schmitt I got to change these numbers. You didn't get an update on NOUN 76, did you? I don't think so.
113:08:13 Cernan No. No. No.
113:08:13 Schmitt Okay.
113:08:19 Cernan Okay; 5515. Hello, Gordy. How would you like me to handle R-3 of NOUN 76?
113:08:28 CC Stand by. I'll come back to you.
113:08:33 Cernan Okay. Oh, that radar performed super.
113:08:43 Schmitt How was the view on the way down, Gene? (Laughter)
113:08:45 Cernan You know, after we pitched over, I was just looking for a place to land. I'm not sure, I just didn't want to hit one of those boulders out there which would have been as easy - and look at that. Look at right in front of us. I didn't want to land there either.
113:08:58 Schmitt I see that one right in front of us.
113:08:59 Cernan You see that? ... a boulder, a hole.
113:09:00 Schmitt Where's the hole? I can't see the hole - -
113:09:00 CC Challenger, Houston. R-3, cross range, is okay as is.
113:09:08 Schmitt Okay. Okay. We're coming up - -
113:09:12 Cernan We're in posture for a T-2, Gordy.
113:09:19 CC Roger.
113:09:22 Cernan Okay. I can see the Scarp. I can see Hanover. Good thing we didn't plan to go to Hanover. (Laughter) it's steep.
113:09:34 Schmitt Look at the boulder - halfway up the hill.
113:09:35 Cernan Yes.
113:09:36 Schmitt Not halfway, just enough - -
113:09:37 Cernan Yes, the boulder tracks - they're beautiful.
113:09:39 Schmitt It's sitting right there in the end of the tracks. There are tracks all over that hillside. There's a boulder came right down to the surface there. See it?
113:09:45 Cernan Yes.
113:09:45 Schmitt That one right through that little crater -
113:09:46 Cernan Yes.
113:09:46 Schmitt - - sitting right there for us to sample. Look at it.
113:09:50 Cernan Yes, sir. I'll bet Bare Mountain and the Sculptured Hills are the same.
113:09:56 Schmitt Yes. They - Well, the slope's different. We'll have to look at it from outside. You may be right. Now I see why they call them sculptured. My god, they're so hummocky that there's shadow all over them.
113:10:07 Cernan Yes.
113:10:08 Schmitt God, there are some holes and rocks around here. Who told me this was a flat landing site?
113:10:11 Cernan It is flat. For crying out loud. What do you want, an airtight guarantee?
113:10:17 Schmitt Let's see, we got about 2 degrees left and about 5 degrees pitchup.
113:10:22 Cernan We're about what - about 100 meters from Trident?
113:10:27 Schmitt Yes - yes, less than that, I think Trident's right here.
113:10:31 Cernan Our shadow's about 100 feet, Geno, I think.
113:10:34 Schmitt Yes, we're only about - yes, less than 100 meters then. It doesn't look that long, but it ... - -
113:10:39 Cernan Yes, there are some holes I'm glad I didn't land in around here, I'll tell you.
113:10:50 Cernan Now, if you look at the massif, Jack. I don't know if you can see it over here. You see, they're almost like a series of linear boulder tracks, but they come crossways down the slope. So it looks like there may very definitely be some - some jointed - There's outcrop on top the massif, too.
113:11:05 Schmitt Oh, it sure looks like it, gray outcrop. And there's a bluish gray compared to the - the brown or tan gray of the massif side.
113:11:15 Cernan And a lot of that boulder is - a lot of that outcrop down on the bottom is boulder.
113:11:19 Schmitt Yes. Do you know what that reminds me of, way up on top - that outcrop? it reminds me of sunset where you could just get a little piece of outcrop around the corner.
113:11:20 CC And, America, I have a pan camera photo pad whenever you're ready for it. It'll go on page 129.
113:11:25 Cernan That's right.
113:11:28 Schmitt Okay. Let's see what we're doing. We got 3 minutes for T-2. Let's take another check.
113:11:33 Cernan Okay. I just looked at them.
113:11:34 Schmitt Okay. Ascent looks good.
113:11:39 Cernan Gordy, I noticed something ever since we've landed. The oxidizer quantity went from - from 7 or 8, and now it's down to 2, and the fuel has stayed constant.
113:11:52 CC Roger.
113:11:53 Cernan And the QUANTITY light came on somewhere, I believe, after we landed.
113:11:58 Schmitt Yes, it did. I noticed the QUANTITY light also. I was thinking reg light, though, when I saw it. Oh, man.
113:12:13 CC Challenger, we'll have a story on that for you later. We don't think we were really low level.
113:12:22 Cernan Okay. It doesn't make any difference now, Gordy, expect to talk about when we get home.
113:12:27 CC Roger.
113:12:30 Cernan And we're 2 minutes and counting to T-2.
113:12:34 CC Roger.
113:12:35 Schmitt We better hurry if - you're going to give - they're going to give us the GO.
113:13:04 Schmitt How about some water?
113:13:06 Cernan Yes, you can zap me.
113:13:10 Schmitt Oh, I tell you. That's something everyone's got to do once in their life. I want to - We're not going to have much time for T-2 - -
113:13:21 CC Challenger, Houston. You're STAY for T-2, and GO for the DPS vent.
113:13:29 Schmitt Okay.
113:13:29 Cernan Okay. Understand. STAY for T-2, and GO for the DPS vent. Let me get out of - Okay, we can't hack that. I'm going to get out at 12.
113:13:38 Schmitt Excuse me, Gene.
113:13:49 Cernan Okay. You can unzap that water, if you'd like. And let's go off VOX. Let's go on PTT.
113:14:27 PAO This is Apollo Control. We mark the unofficial landing time at 113 hours 1 minute, 52 seconds Ground Elapsed Time. And, from the description, the unofficial landing site is about 100 meters beyond the crater Poppy -
113:14:46 Cernan Okay. REG 1 is CLOSED, Houston; OXIDIZER FUEL VENTS coming OPEN.
113:14:49 CC Roger.
113:14:49 Cernan MASTER ARM, ON. MASTER ARM's coming ON. Okay, Gordo. I got two good lights.
113:14:57 CC Roger.
113:14:57 Cernan DESCENT VENT, FIRE. Okay -
113:15:04 Cernan MARK it. Now we did not hear anything on that one, Gordy.
113:15:09 CC Roger.
113:15:12 Cernan ... pressure's coming down, though. Pressure's coming down.
113:15:20 Schmitt Okay. MASTER ARM, OFF. Okay, we'll monitor oxidizer pressure until 20 to 40, and then OX VENT, CLOSED; fuel pressure to less than 8. FUEL VENT.
113:15:31 Cernan DESCENT QUANTITY light - REG light. Excuse me.
113:15:39 Cernan Okay. MODE CONTROL, two to ATT HOLD. Well, we just keep going, I guess.
113:15:50 Schmitt Yes. Hey, we can press on. Okay. Okay. Now wait a minute. Here we go. Let's get that. Go up here first, because I haven't selected it.
113:16:07 Schmitt Okay. ECA CONTROL is CLOSED. Three is back on.
113:16:15 Schmitt BATTERY 5 is OFF/RESET, and it's off the line.
113:16:21 Schmitt BATTERY 6, OFF/RESET, and it's off the line. INVERTER number 2 breaker is IN. INVERTER 2. Let me check the voltage. Voltage is great. Okay. Keep going.
113:16:44 Schmitt DESCENT ENGINE OVERRIDE'S OPEN. ASCENT ECA CONTROL'S OPEN. CWEA cycling, cycled; both lights are out. Okay. Cabin pressure is good. Okay.
113:17:06 Schmitt And then, A and B going to CABIN. A is to CABIN. B is to CABIN. PULL-EGRESS. RETURN is EGRESS. REPRESS going to AUTO. Stand by for a noise.
113:17:32 Schmitt There you go. It's in AUTO. Okay. Now it's your turn. Verify - Wonder where it's going? (Laughter) Out, I guess.
113:17:55 Schmitt INVERTER 2 is selected. Okay. And DECA POWER, OPEN. And guess what? Take your helmet and gloves off.
113:19:04 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. We're in 1-1. Helmets and gloves are off, DIVERTER VALVES are IV.
113:19:12 CC Okay. We're right with you.
113:19:20 Schmitt And you're looking at NOUN 20.
113:20:03 Schmitt Window shades are going close. I just - I'm using it instead of a light switch because I've got it covered up.
113:20:28 Cernan Gordy, you got NOUN 20?
113:20:30 CC That's affirmative. We copy NOUN 20.
113:20:35 Cernan Okay. Jack's going to pick up the AGS - on the right side of that page, and I'll part the antenna
113:20:42 CC Roger.
113:23:01 Cernan P20's in work. Correction, P57's in work.
113:23:14 CC Challenger, Houston. Your DPS OXIDIZER PRESSURE is 40 or less. You could close it.
113:23:23 Cernan Thank you, Gordy.
113:23:29 Cernan Gordy, while the P57 is doing its gravity work, let me say that the LNA and the landing site, from a relief point of view, I - I think, are identical. I couldn't say enough for the LNA. I actually didn't look around nearly as much as I thought I would, or as I wanted to, because I had fixation on - on a reasonable spot to land. They're not all reasonable in that there's some very subtle hummocky-like craters right in and around where we are. And there's not a - a lot of boulders laying on the surface, but there's a lot of what appear to be boulders that are covered up by some of the dark mantle. Numerous enough that you would not like to take a chance at putting a - a pad down on one of them or in one of those hummocky subtle craters. As a result, I really didn't have a chance to look all around at where I wanted to except to put the bird down where I wanted it.
113:24:38 CC Okay. We've got no complaint with that.
113:24:50 Cernan I guess the thing that probably - probably surprised me most about the site, as far as landing is concerned, is the fact that there were these - these - I hesitate to say they're outcrops but certainly they're buried massive pieces of rock, whether they're boulders or not we'll have to find out, out here in the plains area, partially covered and filleted by the dark mantle. And I expected to find a number of craters, but I guess I really didn't expect to find - to find the - the rock types around. And we're talking about anywhere from 1 to 2 meters down to - oh, 2 or 3 feet, which when they're sticking out and on the sides of some of these subtle craters look pretty menacingly. But that probably is the one thing that surprised me most.
113:25:44 CC Roger, Gene.
113:25:48 Cernan The visibility prior to pitchover was such that I could see Nansen. I could see the Scarp. I could see Lara. I could not see Camelot until after pitchover. However, once I had pitchover, if I could have froze it right there like we do in the simulator occasionally, I could have picked out everything there was to see. Even at 6000 feet, the small triangle with Frosty and Rudolph and Punk were visible to me. I had - I had Poppy from orbit, as a matter of fact, so it was easily - easy to see. Barjea was a very sharp round crater just as depicted on the LNA. The thing I really didn't get a good look at, because I didn't pay too much attention to it, was from Trident on to the south.
113:26:39 CC Roger.
113:26:40 Schmitt Gordy, this is the LMP. Let me say - Gordy, this is the LMP. Let me say that the inside of the spacecraft looked just like the simulators.
113:26:51 CC Very good, Jack.
113:27:06 Cernan Another interesting thing, Gordy. All the way through PDI prior to pitchover, Jack and I had - had the real America, the other America - right out - smack out the front window all the way down, which was pretty spectacular.
113:27:23 CC I'll bet it was. And you can consider yourself STAY for T-3.
113:27:30 Cernan Thank you, sir. You're getting smoother all the time. If you're happy with NOUN 22, I'll PRO.
113:27:40 CC Stand by 1.
113:27:46 CC You're clear to PRO.
113:28:42 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I had the angles matched on the steerable and went to SLEW, and they - it held for a few seconds and then dropped off.
113:28:54 CC Okay. It looks pretty good. You might try to peak it up just a little more.
113:29:03 Schmitt No, we're on an OMNI now.
113:29:07 CC Roger.
113:29:13 Schmitt I'll try the steerable one more time here.
113:29:23 CC Okay, you should be - -
113:29:24 Schmitt Okay. We're on the steerable, and I'm not going to touch it.
113:29:36 Schmitt It's steerable and SLEW, and I got 3.8.
113:29:42 CC Okay. That looks good to us, Jack.
113:30:05 CC Jack, we'd like you to verify the TAPE RECORDER, OFF.
113:30:13 Schmitt Yes, that's verified, Gordy.
113:30:58 Schmitt Gordy, how does the fuel vent look to you?
113:31:04 CC Okay. Looks like 8 to us. You can go ahead and close it.
113:31:07 Schmitt Anyway, it - Okay. I already did.
113:38:30 Cernan Gordy, I - I guess I'm puzzled on that one. I had the right star. You see anything we did wrong?
113:38:42 CC Stand by. We're checking.
113:39:55 CC Gene, our only guess is that you might have loaded NOUN 88 wrong. We'd like you to start over, and we'll watch you real close again.
113:40:07 Schmitt Gordy. Listen, I think we know what we did. We loaded SPRL for CRSR, and CRSR for SPRL. How would it be if we went through the P57 again and - Yes - we'll - I guess we got to do it all over. Those old numbers are no good anymore.
113:40:28 CC Okay.
113:40:33 Schmitt I - you can - I'm sure that's what we did. We loaded CRSR for SPRL, and SPRL for CRSR.
113:40:40 CC Okay. And it's our fault, too. We should have watched that.
113:41:53 CC Jack, this is Houston. We do have the pre-PDI AGS cal numbers. You won't need to read them to us.
113:42:04 Schmitt Okay.
113:42:08 Cernan Gordy, you going to want a recycle on this gravity measurement? I doubt if it'll need it.
113:42:16 CC Stand by. No, no recycle necessary this time through.
113:42:27 Cernan Okay.
113:42:34 Schmitt Gordy, ED BATs are 37-2.
113:42:51 Cernan Gordy, let me comment about the handling of the bird. After you once fly it around in orbit a little bit, you get accustomed to the thrusters, and it - it came back to me quite a bit from 10, anyway. And you get a feel for acceleration and deceleration as well as the attitude hold capability. And it really - the response, even with a heavy descent - descent stage near the surface -is phenomenal. Responded exactly in the direction I wanted, held attitude very good. And, let me tell you, the LLTV plays no small part in this landing as far as I'm concerned.
113:43:35 CC Roger, Gene.
113:43:47 Schmitt Okay. NOUN 22 again. I'll go ahead and torque them.
113:43:52 CC Okay. Go ahead.
113:44:26 PAO This is Apollo Control at 113 hours 44 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Some refined numbers on the landing site for Challenger: in degrees minutes and seconds, the latitude has been pinned down to 20 degrees 9 minutes 50.5 seconds north, longitude 30 degrees 46 minutes 19.3 seconds east, which is about 639 meters east of the designated landing point - the premission landing point. For those newsmen who have the landing site with the grid coordinates on it, that corresponds to DN.0 by 84.2. At 113:45 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
113:48:59 PAO This is Apollo Control at 113 hours, 48 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We're estimating a change of shift, if you will, Press Conference with the landing team flight director, Gerry Griffin, in the small briefing room at 3:00PM, To repeate estimated Press Conference in about 20 minutes, approximately, 18 minutes to be exact, in the small Briefing Room in Building 1. Some 42 minutes away from acquisition as the Command Module, America, comes around on revolution 14. Meanwhile on the surface, to repeat: the estimated landing site is right down the line on the Ground Track. However some 369 meters east or short of the predesignated, premission landing point.
113:50:20 Cernan Okay, Gordy. It's a little better.
113:50:26 CC Roger. Looks good.
113:50:31 Schmitt Computer is NOUN 93.
113:50:52 CC Okay. Torque it.
113:51:42 CC Challenger, Houston. We're standing by for the dumps.
113:51:44 Schmitt Okay, Gordo. I'm ready to give the E-mem - Coming at you -
113:51:49 Schmitt MARK it. It's on the way.
113:53:02 Cernan Gordy, one other thing about the landing. I saw the light, I think. And I heard Jack call it - the CONTACT light. I think I waited about a second and - and hit the stop button. She shut down immediately. And, of course, you could feel the fall. I don't really feel we fell that much, but it was quite a change in acceleration at that point.
113:53:37 CC Roger, Gene.
113:53:41 Cernan And I guess I had, from what I would guess, a foot or 2 for - per second forward on that one.
113:53:50 CC Okay. Sounds good.
113:54:12 Cernan And let me know when I can have the computer, please.
113:54:17 CC Okay. It's your computer. And I'm standing by with parking angles when you're ready to load them.
113:54:25 Cernan Okay. We'll be ready in a second.
113:55:02 Schmitt Go ahead with the angles.
113:55:05 CC Okay. These are the IMU parking angles. Plus 295.86. I see you're loading the radar. Do you want to just load these or write them down?
113:55:32 Schmitt Go ahead. I'm writing.
113:55:33 CC Okay. Y will be plus all zeros. And plus 084.l4, Over.
113:55:48 Schmitt Okay. NOUN 20 will be plus 295.86, plus all zeros, plus 084.14.
113:55:55 CC That's correct.
113:56:19 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I'm going to power down the AGS, if you're willing.
113:56:31 CC Not yet, Jack. We'd like you to read out 047 and 053 to us.
113:56:40 Schmitt Okay. You want the new ones.
113:56:50 Cernan Okay, Gordy. If you're happy with NOUN 22, I'll ENTER them.
113:56:56 CC We're happy.
113:57:00 Cernan Okay. And it just dawned on me. I'm sorry about the zero on the NOUN 69. (Laughter)
113:57:09 CC That's okay. You're forgiven.
113:57:13 Cernan I appreciate that.
113:57:27 CC Okay, Jack. We got 047 and 053.
113:57:36 Schmitt Okay. Am I GO to PULL the breakers?
113:58:02 Cernan Okay. Are you happy with NOUN 20?
113:58:19 CC Okay. We're happy with NOUN 20, and you're clear to power down the AGS.
113:58:19 Schmitt Okay.
113:59:41 Schmitt Gordy, the breakers are coming OPEN on 1-4 and 1-5
113:59:46 CC Roger.
114:01:39 PAO This is Apollo Control. To repeat, there will be a change in shift press conference with the Flight Director, Gerry Griffin, in the small briefing room in approximately 5 minutes. At 114 hours 1 minute Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
114:02:16 Cernan Gordo, we're on 1-6.
114:11:10 PAO This is Apollo control at 114 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time into the mission of Apollo 17. Commander Gene Cernan's heart rate during the descent and landing ranged from 102 average during the descent portion of the landing to 128 at actual touchdown. There is a change of shift briefing that will start momentarily in the small briefing room in building 1. We'll take down the broadcast line at this time and tape any conversation during that period and play it back at the conclusion of the briefing which starts now. This is Apollo control out.
114:11:19 CC Okay, Thank you.
114:11:37 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're at the bottom of 1-8, and I'm standing by for your lift-off times.
114:11:43 CC Okay, Jack. Lift-off time for rev 15 is 116:55:51, 16 is 118:54:28; 120:53:04; 122:51:40; 124:50:17; 126:48:53. Over.
114:12:30 Schmitt Okay. Starting with rev 15, 116:55:51; 118:54:28; 120:53:04; 122:51:40; 124:50:17; 126:48:53.
114:12:50 CC That's a good readback.
114:15:11 Cernan Gordo, the PLSS is against the hatch, and we're installing the BRA.
114:15:17 CC Roger on that.
114:28:22 CC Challenger, Houston. We've got three questions for you to help pin down your exact position, any time it's convenient. Maybe when you're taking the out-the-window pictures. Over.
114:28:36 Cernan Okay, Gordo. I think we can give it to you. Why don't you wait? We're just getting the - the mag bag out and jett bags out from behind the engine cover here, to give you an idea where we are.
114:28:48 CC Okay. No hurry at all.
114:28:54 Cernan I had it pinned down for you, until I got to about 500 feet, when I changed my mind.
114:29:03 CC Roger.
114:30:17 Cernan Gordy, we're not going any further, and we'll answer your questions here when we get some time, my best guess is 150 meters from Poppy at 1 to 2 o'clock.
114:30:34 CC Okay. We copy that.
114:30:38 Cernan And I'll bet on that one. But we'll get with you in a minute.
114:30:43 CC Okay. 150 north-northwest of Poppy.
114:30:49 Cernan Yes. Mostly west, but slightly north.
114:30:54 CC Roger.
114:31:00 Cernan I'll tell you the - we're abeam, I think, just about abeam of Trident 1. I can see it out there, but I can't really define Trident 1 from Trident 2. And the thing that is a little different is that I appear to be closer to it than I normally would have expected to be.
114:31:22 CC Okay.
114:31:27 Schmitt That's probably as close as the Navy Captain could ever guess where he is anyway.
114:31:33 CC Roger. (Laughter)
114:31:35 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're just starting our eat-period. Sorry to be a little behind, DRD readings are 17037 and LMP is 24117.
114:31:50 CC Okay, Jack. We got that.
114:31:55 CC Would you verify your BIOMED, RIGHT?
114:32:02 Schmitt Yes, that's verified. How does it look?
114:32:05 CC Looks good.
114:36:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 114 hours 36 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. During the just ended Press Conference with the off-going flight director Gerry Griffin, some four minutes of air-to-ground tape with the crew of Challenger has been accumulated, compressed somewhat from the actual real-time. That four minutes of tape will be played back and we'll rejoin the conversation with the Crew of Challenger at Taurus Littro Landing Site at the conclusion of that tape. Roll the tape.
114:41:11 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We're starting to cut into a little lunch here and, if you've got any questions, why don't you come up with them now?
114:41:21 CC Okay. We're wondering if you can give us estimate of the angular position, clock position of Rudolph. And can you line up Rudolph with a horizontal feature out beyond it?
114:41:36 CC I - I should say horizon feature - out in the distance, not horizontal.
114:41:46 Cernan Okay. I thought Rudolph was right out there at 3 o'clock. Jack's looking at it and he said, yes, that is Rudolph right at 3 o'clock out his right-hand window.
114:41:59 CC Okay.
114:42:03 Cernan I don't know if it'll mean anything to you, but the shadow of the LM, the rendezvous radar antenna is pointing about one-third of the way down from the peak of Family. And that, I know, is pretty gross. And, Gordo, I - I must be right here abeam of Trident 1. The only reason I hesitate is that I'm so close - but it's probably, well I guess it's close to 100 meters - 80 meters anyway - to where the - where the rim of Trident 1 falls off. And I am abeam of the center of Trident 1, and that's the only possible thing it could be. And that would put Poppy just about where I expected it to be.
114:43:01 CC Okay.
114:43:05 CC We just want to confirm. You're referring to Trident 1 as the easternmost part of Trident, is that right?
114:43:17 Cernan No, sir, Gordo. It's always been the westernmost part of Trident. The - the landing site was on a line between Trident 1 and Rudolph and judging from what Jack's got on his right-hand window and what I got on my left-hand window we're right there, except possibly a skosh further south on that line.
114:43:40 CC Okay, understand.
114:43:45 Schmitt And the target point that was in the PGNS was right up where we all had expected it to be about halfway between here and what we're calling the rim of Camelot. We can't see into Camelot; we can just see the rim of it. It's several - oh, at least 200 meters - 2 to 300 meters up there, I expect.
114:44:10 CC Okay, what o'clock position is the west - the nearest part of the rim of Camelot? Or maybe if it's better defined - -
114:44:21 Schmitt 12 o'clock.
114:44:23 CC - - Define the south rim. Can you see the south rim of it?
114:44:29 Cernan Yes, Gordy, but it - it blends in so well; all we're seeing is a - an undulating high as the rim. And to the best of my knowledge, we've got the south rim at - or correction, the east rim right at 12 o'clock. Hey, Gordy, right at 12 o'clock also is a boulder that's at least 3 meters and maybe 5, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you can find it. It's on a line between us and the intersection of the South Massif and the Family Moun - Mountain horizon. Just slightly left of that line or south of that line. And that boulder ought to show up on your best photography.
114:45:16 CC Okay, Jack. We'll take a look. One other question - -
114:45:21 Schmitt And it's at - it's at least - that boulder's at least 200 meters away.
114:45:29 CC Okay. Can you see the west rim of Trident, and can you give us a clock position on the west rim of West Trident?
114:45:46 Cernan Okay, Gordy. The west rim of Trident, which, by the way, is full of outcropping-looking boulders, is at 10 o'clock.
114:46:02 CC Okay, Gene - -
114:46:02 Cernan Okay, I can look back around the corner now and I can - I can see where the east - where Trident 1 rose up to its rim on the east side, and I would say we're abeam of a point - abeam of a point one-third the way from east to west up the center of Trident; that is, we're - we've covered one-third of Trident 1 and we're abeam of a point of a line that goes through the one-third point from east to west of Trident 1.
114:46:49 CC Okay, Gene; that's very clear. I think we've got you pretty well nailed down. And you're pretty close to the - the planned landing site.
114:47:02 Cernan Yes, I think it's very close to our planned landing site and I - I'm (chuckle) - I'm anxious to see where Poppy is, because I think what I said earlier is true.
114:47:13 CC Okay. That's all the questions now. Enjoy your dinner.
114:50:24 Schmitt Houston, I have calmed down, but be advised that our dinner is corn chowder.
114:50:35 CC Roger.
114:50:42 Cernan He went to captain's mast for eating that the other day.
114:56:09 Schmitt Gordy, Houston; 17. How do you read - or Challenger or whoever we are.
114:56:15 CC Whoever you are; you're loud and clear.
114:56:21 Schmitt I took the binocs and looked at some large boulders at our 12 o'clock position. They're probably on the order of a half meter to 2 meters, buried but without strong filleting. And most of them that I could see had the same mottled light-gray and medium-gray texture, and it looked like there's a lineation in it. And whatever the mottling is, it's on a frame size or fragment size of a - or a few centimeters, and it looks as if it's very uniform in that mottling; that is, there's one -one fragment size.
114:57:11 CC Okay.
114:57:14 Schmitt There are, a few near one crater out at 12 o'clock, dark-gray rock that may be glass coated. Matter of fact, one of them looks like it's right at the rim and might have been part of a projectile that made the crater.
114:57:35 CC Roger.
114:57:48 Schmitt The large boulder that I mentioned that's several meters in diameter - I'm not even sure it's a boulder - it does have a well-developed fillet. It's highly fractured. It looks like the fractures generally are north-south. At least you can't - we can't see end on into the fractures. And it's too far away to be sure, but it looks like it's mottled also, although there did appear in the bin - in the monocular to be a more heterogeneous mottling. It might be a breccia.
114:58:28 CC Okay.
114:58:32 Schmitt That boulder ought to be very close to the ALSEP site.
114:58:38 CC Roger.
114:58:47 Cernan Gordo, in reference to these boulders, everywhere I can see out of my left window and out ahead of me in referring to that boulder Jack's talking about which is just a little bit on my side at 12 o'clock, it appears that the dark mantle has filleted and, for the most part, covered - or it has covered part of or is up on top of some of the crevices and the crannies in the boulders themselves, with the exception of - Well, I'll take that back - even the very small ones. I'd say from a population point of view, boulders of the size Jack's talking about that are visible through the surface anywhere from 1 to 2 to 3 meters - a very small percentage, but when you look at them at our level, it looks like they are quite populous. I'd say there are maybe about 25 of them in view between myself and the - where the horizon falls off down away from us towards the South Massif. The area back towards Station 1, at least the other side of Trident, looks like it's more heavily strewn with some of these filleted and partially mantled large fragments.
115:00:18 CC Roger, Gene.
115:00:23 Schmitt To say that there is a boulder, as such, actually sitting on the surface, I can't - I really can't find one, unless they're along - around something very small and possibly younger craters. But I think for the most part everything is somewhat mantled.
115:00:41 CC Okay.
115:00:49 Schmitt Gordy, I think maybe the predictions of a fairly thin regolith were good. I have a crater at about - oh, 130 feet. It looks like it's not more than a meter deep. It's very fresh, has a bright halo around it, and it's very rocky in its interior and has some rocks that are at least 10 or 20 centimeters in diameter on the rim. It looks like it's penetrated into some rockier - much rockier substrate than what we're seeing on the surface. The surface itself looks like a - oh, probably 15 percent fragments greater than half a centimeter.
115:01:56 CC Okay, Jack.
115:01:57 Schmitt I don't see any general si - I don't see any general size, Gordy. I do have a crater out here that's - maybe a meter in diameter that - fairly fresh, although not bright halo - that has not penetrated to blocky material. And it looks like that the saturation crater size is very small in the area we can see; that is, there don't seem to be any old or very subdued craters - Well, let me -let me think about how to put that again. They're - it's obviously saturated with craters a few centimeters in diameter, but when you get bigger than that, there seems to be more of a - a clear distribution rather than a saturation.
115:02:57 CC Okay.
115:03:03 Schmitt Gordy, let me give you a quick far horizon. At 12 o'clock, I've got Family Mountain. It's a - it and South Massif are a replica from their plane form where I - up from where I am, except that Family Mountain is much more symmetrical and rounds off to a very more definite peak. The South Massif, in turn, has got a high plateau, a high flat peak on top. My far horizon then, at 12 o'clock, from about - to 11:30 is dominated by Family Mountain. It's - Well, I hate to use the word anorthosite without getting out of the spacecraft, but it sure is white. It sure is white, but its varied shades of white - with - sort of a - a tendency on its southern or southeastern slope to sort of be marble caked with a darker material much the same color as the mantle that we're - we've landed on. The Family Mountain disappears just about at the level of the rim of Camelot on my far horizon and just in front of it - it starts up - that's at about 11 o'clock - it just - just there is where the South Massif starts up very abruptly - I'd say - well, I'll try not to overestimate, but certainly 30 degrees, I'd say - very abruptly to a very impressive altitude. I know I was at 13,000 when I said I was at their level, but - it sure looked it from there. It - it plateaus off from about 10:30 to about 9:30, and then it starts sloping back down towards the east at about the same angle. Very symmetrical. There are several places where you can see what appear to be outcrops. I say several - about a dozen anyway, where you can see relatively large areas of outcrop on the South Massif. That outcrop is a - of a darker gray color than the white-gray of the Massif itself. The one most domin - dominant outcrop is right at the change in slope to the west, where it goes upslope and then plateaus off, and there is a definite outcrop. And you can see several boulders on all levels of the Massif that have come apparently from outcrops and I feel certain we will be able to get to some of those - that have come all the way down. South Massif, too, is a - appears to be in areas marbly caked dirty, such as if it was sprinkled with a dirty or a darker covering, and that covering is more evident as - as it slopes back here towards the - towards the east. As the far horizon now, I can see - I can see - South Massif all the way to 9 o'clock, but then behind it, there's just a little breadloaf-type dome of a much darker, much more hummocky mound back there, relatively big. It's probably, from where I stand, at least 10 percent the - the size of the Massif, the South Massif. Gray in texture. There appear to be some lineations running - well, as I'm looking at them, they're dipping down into the west at about 20 degrees, but that may be a Sun-angle problem. But they're definitely there. And then, contrasting that is - is Bare Mountain which is also much darker gray, much different than the Massif from where I stand, much more hummocky surface. It appears to be to me what I would expect Sculptured Hills to be like. One other thing about the South Massif is that - as I look at - as I look at it - at about 9:30 to 10:30, there is a little knob of the South Massif that sort of - oh flows toward - towards the east or slightly towards the northeast. That's the one that tends to be a little bit more heavily covered with the - darker dusty material - -
115:08:08 CC Challenger, Houston, over.
115:08:12 Schmitt There are. Go ahead.
115:08:13 CC Okay. We're about 12 - 13 minutes behind the timeline for starting cabin preps. And backroom is enjoying your descriptions, but we think we'd rather you press on with the preps and get ready to get out for a really good view. Over.
115:08:34 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. We're - we're doing this and eating too - We're trying to do them both at the same time, and we are pressing. Just want to say one other thing about the Massif. I can see a couple of places where craters have - have penetrated very small craters and penetrated the Massif -craters maybe a meter or 2 in size, some 5 meters, and there's a lot of rock debris around them, which tends to believe that there is very little, if any, soft covering on that Massif.
115:09:06 CC Roger.
115:09:08 Schmitt Gordy, just a couple more words about the North Massif. It looks like a good distribution of boulder tracks. Many of the boulders are accessible. They are - the tracks can be traced up, at least to midslope. That's at my 3 o'clock position. And occasionally, at that midslope position, particularly northwest of Henson, you can see abundant boulders suggestive of outcrop. That's something that we had missed seeing on the pre-mission photos. But - And it isn't as abundant as on the South Massif, but there are apparent ledge formers about midslope.
115:10:10 Cernan Yes, let's make ... I don't know ... a lot of ... No way it could be 1.
115:10:49 Cernan Give me that ... throw away.
115:11:04 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. There's also a few very bright spark - sparkles from the surface - not abundant, but a few.
115:11:18 Cernan Well, let me - I - I need these.
115:13:53 CC Challenger, Houston. I'm going to hand you over to the good Dr. Parker here. Have a good trip outside there.
115:14:01 Cernan Gordy, thank you. You do outstanding work and we sure do appreciate it, babe.
115:14:08 CC My pleasure.
115:16:18 PAO This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 16 minutes. Mission Control at presently is using these coordinates as the landing point. We will continue to try to refine that landing point further. But, as of now, we're saying the landing point is 20 degrees 9 minutes 50 seconds north, 30 degrees 46 minutes 19 seconds east. This would correspond to - on the map, for those of you who have grid maps, DM 8 and 82.7. This -
115:17:12 Cernan Bob, we'll give you a call in a minute. We just made a couple of suit adjustments.
115:17:18 CC Okay. Copy that.
115:17:25 PAO It's estimated that the lunar module, Challenger, is on the planned north south line and approximately 1 to 200 meters east of the planned landing point.
115:18:35 PAO This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 18 minutes. We want to distinguish between the targeted landing point and the planned landing point. It had been the crew's intention all along to land approximately 200 meters east or short of the targeted landing point, the point at which the computer was targeting the Challenger. So, we believe that Challenger is approximately 300 meters east of the targeted landing point, which would put it about 100 to 200 meters east of the planned landing point.
115:20:38 CC Apollo 17, Houston.
115:20:45 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
115:20:46 CC Okay, Challenger; we've just lost about 16dB on your high gain signal strength there. We're wondering if you happened to hit the switch there, has it moved, or could you give us a check on it?
115:21:02 Cernan We're nowhere near it. Stand by 1.
115:21:22 CC Okay. And, Challenger, that should be a PITCH of 21 and a YAW of minus 45.
115:21:32 Cernan Plus 21 and minus 45; Roger. Bob, about 2 minutes here.
115:21:38 CC Okay.
115:26:30 Schmitt Bob, this is Jack. On that high gain, I'm up close to 39 now, which is better than when we landed. Do you want me to do anything to it?
115:26:43 CC Stand by on that.
115:26:49 CC Leave it alone. It seems to have gone away, Jack. It may have been a ground problem.
115:26:57 CC Did you guys adjust it, Jack?
115:27:04 Schmitt Yes, Bob. We had to fix the drink bags and a couple other things.
115:27:10 CC No. Did you guys adjust the high gain antenna?
115:27:16 Schmitt No. I didn't touch it.
115:27:18 CC Okay. Copy that.
115:27:20 Cernan Buddy SLSS's in there?
115:27:23 Schmitt No. That's over there. Oh, did they? ... In there? I don't - I thought it was over on your side. Okay? Okay, that's over there. Bigger than it used to.
115:27:52 CC And, Challenger, we have your hot mike.
115:27:59 Schmitt Well, because I - -
115:29:05 CC Challenger, Houston. Over.
115:29:10 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
115:29:11 CC Okay. When you guys get to the top of page 2-5, and I assume you're down still in the - ETBs from what your comments were on the hot mike there. When you get to the top of page 2-5, we'd like you to put both DEMAND REGs to EGRESS. Over.
115:29:28 Cernan Okay, Bob. Will do. We'll give you a call as we go along.
115:29:31 CC Roger. Thank you.
115:29:36 PAO This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 30 minutes. Ron Evans in America has about 14 and a half minutes left before loss of signal on the 14th revolution. He's -
115:30:55 Cernan Hey, Bob, while I'm thinking of it, we're - we're working with one pair of scissors down here. We're going to take them out with us in the ETB. You might make a point of reminding us to bring them back.
115:31:05 CC Okay. I copy that. Never did find Ron's, huh?
115:31:12 Cernan No, sir, and I couldn't just leave him up there starving to death.
115:31:19 CC Roger on that.
115:31:25 Cernan By the way, how's he doing?
115:31:28 CC Stand by.
115:31:42 CC Challenger, Houston. Your buddy is doing great, and the sounder is also doing great, which is a surprise, I guess.
115:31:51 Cernan I'm glad to hear that.
115:31:57 Schmitt That was no surprise, Bob. We wouldn't have taken it if it wasn't going to work.
115:32:04 CC I thought about that after I said it.
115:33:10 Cernan Bob, I just turned the URINE LINE HEATER, ON.
115:33:14 CC Copy that.
115:33:27 Cernan And the physical status of the crew is excellent, by the way.
115:33:32 CC Beautiful, The Surgeon's happy.
115:34:36 Cernan Say, Bob, we're at the top of 2-5, and I forgot what it was you wanted me to do up there.
115:34:43 CC Okay. We'd like you to have DEMAND REGs, both of them, go to EGRESS, please.
115:34:49 Cernan Yes, sir. Okay, they're EGRESS now.
115:34:53 CC Okay, thank you.
115:36:34 PAO Ron Evans has just reported seeing a light flash just to the east of crater Orientale.
115:37:36 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're in the middle of the first paragraph on - at 115:15 in the time line.
115:37:44 CC Okay; copy that.
115:41:25 PAO This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 41 minutes. Neil Hutchinson who has been the Flight Director for the CSM America during this past shift will be in the MSC News Center in approximately 15 minutes for a news conference for those men who would like to discuss the CSM with him.
115:42:30 PAO This is Apollo Control. This upcoming news conference will not be carried on the Public Affairs release line. We will continue carrying the air-ground from Challenger on the lunar surface. The CSM press conference will not be carried on this PAO release line.
115:44:12 Cernan CDR's OPS ... 5800.
115:44:18 CC Okay; we copy 5800.
115:44:46 Schmitt LMP's OPS is 6000 plus.
115:44:51 CC Copy that, Jack.
115:44:57 Schmitt Okay, eng.
115:45:15 PAO This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 45 minutes. We've just had a loss of signal with America, which has now gone behind the Moon. We'll next acquire the command module at 116 hours 30 minutes. All going well with Evans in America.
115:45:31 Cernan Okay. Both regulators are reg - regulating slightly under 4.0.
115:45:40 CC Copy that, Challenger.
115:49:48 Cernan Okay, Bob. The URINE LINE HEATER is OFF and the URINE LINE BREAKER is OPEN, and we are down to applying antifog.
115:50:03 CC Okay. Copy that, Challenger.
115:51:18 PAO This is Apollo control at 115 hours 51 minutes. The crew of Challenger, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, are running approximately 20 to 25 minutes behind the timeline at present - 20 to 25 minutes behind the timeline. We'll continue to keep you updated as we go along.
115:56:44 PAO This is Apollo Control at 115 hours 56 minutes. We have an update on the location of Challenger. Coordinates 20 degrees 9 minutes 41 seconds north, 30 degrees 45 minutes 25.9 seconds east.
115:57:12 Schmitt Okay, Bob, the BRA is stowed.
115:57:17 CC Okay. Copy that, Challenger.
115:57:30 PAO Map grid coordinates DM 682.1. This location is about 80 meters south, 220 meters east of the targeted landing point.
115:58:33 PAO This location would make it very close to the planned landing point which was approximately 200 meters east of the targeted landing point.
116:00:15 Schmitt Okay. We're at "Starting PLSS donning on LMP."
116:00:20 CC Roger. Copy that.
116:00:58 PAO Donning of the Life Support System, the back pack, was scheduled for 115 hours 40 minutes, so we're about 20 minutes behind at this time.
116:10:17 Schmitt Okay, the LMP has got the RCU connected to the PLSS.
116:10:24 CC Copy that, Jack.
116:11:43 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to get on the PLSS, now.
116:11:48 CC Okay, Geno. Copy that.
116:12:34 Cernan Sublimator exhausts.
116:22:18 Cernan Okay, Bob. I've got my PLSS on. We're picking it up with verifying the powerdown configuration on the upper right-hand corner.
116:22:25 CC Roger. Copy that.
116:23:01 Cernan Circuit breakers are configured.
116:23:08 CC Houston copies.
116:25:24 Cernan Okay, I'm in VOX. VOX SENSITIVITY is MAX, A is T/R and B is RECEIVE. Okay. You can open your breaker and connect to the PLSS comm. Houston, I guess you heard that.
116:25:40 CC That's affirm. Loud and clear.
116:25:49 Cernan ... just AUDIO breaker. Your AUDIO breaker, that's all. Want some help with that?
116:26:08 Cernan Yes. Do it while you're facing that way. Just hang them up. Best time to do it. All you've got is water.
116:26:19 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're getting Jack up on PLSS comm, and we'll be picking it up - the comm check here on left-hand column of the bottom sheet.
116:26:34 CC Roger. We're following you.
116:27:00 Cernan Okay. You're on and locked. Okay, and you got the cover? Okay. Your AUDIO breaker, CLOSED. Okay, on your PLSS PTT go MAIN; that's right.
116:27:14 Cernan Okay. PLSS MODE A.
116:27:17 Schmitt A.
116:27:18 Cernan Okay; tone ON; VENT flag, P.
116:27:20 Schmitt Got a weak tone and a VENT flag, P.
116:27:24 Cernan Okay.
116:27:25 Schmitt Got a good tone right now.
116:27:25 Cernan PRESS flag, O; and O2 - -
116:27:27 Schmitt ... 0 and - -
116:27:28 Cernan - - momentarily.
116:27:29 Schmitt - - O2 still there.
116:27:31 Cernan Okay, PLSS O2 - -
116:27:32 Schmitt It's on.
116:27:33 Cernan What's your PLSS O2 pressure gauge?
116:27:37 Schmitt The O2 - -
116:27:39 Cernan Give Houston a call and give it to them.
116:27:41 Schmitt I'm reading 100 percent, Houston.
116:27:44 CC Roger, Jack. And we're reading you slightly garbled but loud.
116:27:51 Schmitt Okay. Well, you're loud and clear, Bob.
116:27:55 Cernan Okay, Jack. You got that, and I'm reading you. How you reading me?
116:27:59 Schmitt Loud and clear.
116:28:00 Cernan Okay. We will not unstow the antenna. You are a skosh garbled, but very readable.
116:28:05 Cernan Okay. Stay where you are. I'm going to get mine. Okay. AUDIO breaker is -
116:29:27 Schmitt ...
116:29:28 Cernan ...
116:29:30 Cernan B.
116:29:33 Cernan ...
116:29:38 Cernan Okay. I got a tone.
116:29:39 Schmitt VENT flag, P.
116:29:40 Cernan I got a VENT flag, P.
116:29:42 Schmitt PRESSURE flag and O2, momentarily.
116:29:44 Cernan PRESSURE flag, and I still got an O2 flag.
116:29:46 Schmitt Off with your tone.
116:29:48 Cernan Okay. The tone is gone. The O2 flag cleared.
116:29:50 Schmitt Okay. PLSS O2 PRESS quantity.
116:29:54 Cernan Okay; and I'm reading 10 percent.
116:29:58 Schmitt Okay.
116:29:59 Cernan Okay. Note crewman in MODE B, that's me, cannot hear Houston. Houston, broadcasting in the blind 100 percent on the CDR.
116:30:07 CC Roger, CDR. Houston reads you loud and clear.
116:30:13 Schmitt I read you loud and clear, Gene. ... me?
116:30:16 Cernan I'm reading you loud and clear.
116:30:17 Schmitt Okay.
116:30:17 Cernan Give me a call again.
116:30:20 Schmitt Okay. How do you read, Gene? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
116:30:23 Cernan Give me again.
116:30:23 Schmitt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
116:30:26 Cernan I think so. I can't - Okay. I'm reading you. Okay. PLSS. LMP go B.
116:30:32 Schmitt Going B.
116:30:39 Cernan Try that. B ... A. Okay. How do you read me, Jack?
116:30:47 Schmitt You're loud and clear, and I got a tone.
116:30:53 Cernan Okay. Give me a short count once.
116:30:55 Schmitt Starting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
116:30:58 Schmitt You're great.
116:30:59 Cernan Okay. I had a tone, too. I still got a PRESSURE and a VENT flag.
116:31:04 Schmitt And, Houston, how do you read the LMP?
116:31:07 CC Roger, LMP. We read you loud and clear.
116:31:11 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm reading you loud and clear, and he's not reading you in this mode. How me?
116:31:16 CC I read you loud and clear also, Gene.
116:31:20 Cernan Very, very, good. We're both going AR, now.
116:31:23 Schmitt Let's go.
116:31:24 Cernan Okay. Ought to get a tone. I didn't, but my VENT flag did clear.
116:31:30 Schmitt Here it is.
116:31:31 Cernan Tone and a VENT flag.
116:31:32 Schmitt ... my tone and - VENT flag.
116:31:35 Cernan Okay, Jack. The wheel is Houston and the blade is me. Hello, there; Houston. How are you reading CDR?
116:31:43 CC Read CDR loud and clear. And, for your information, your TM on the PLSSs looks good.
116:31:52 Cernan Okay. Let's go.
116:31:54 Schmitt How do you read, Houston? This is the LMP.
116:31:57 CC Houston reads LMP loud and clear now. You're much clearer than you were before, Jack.
116:32:03 Schmitt Very good.
116:32:05 Cernan Okay. Jack, we gave them our quantities already; so, SQUELCH, VHF B LMP, FULL DECREASE.
116:32:12 Schmitt SQUELCH B is to FULL DECREASE, huh?
116:32:15 Cernan That's affirm.
116:32:16 Schmitt Okay. It's FULL DECREASE.
116:32:18 Cernan Okay. On 60, leave that PUMP breaker CLOSED.
116:32:20 Schmitt Okay.
116:32:21 Cernan I'll - Oh, that's cold; but that's good. Okay. On 16, ECS, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
116:32:28 Schmitt Okay. It's - is that a verify?
116:32:30 Cernan That's a verify.
116:32:31 Schmitt Okay. It's CLOSED.
116:32:32 Cernan SUIT FAN DELTA-P, OPEN.
116:32:34 Schmitt Okay. DELTA-P is OPEN.
116:32:35 Cernan And SUIT FAN number 2, OPEN.
116:32:37 Schmitt 2's open.
116:32:38 Cernan Okay. And I've got SUIT FAN number 2. There's a MASTER ALARM. Okay. And I heard it run down. Okay. I don't see a - No, there's not an ECS caution until that thing runs down - about a minute or so. We'll watch for that. Okay; SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL-EGRESS.
116:32:57 Schmitt Okay. DIVERTER is PULL-EGRESS.
116:33:01 Evans CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS.
116:33:03 Schmitt TURN [sic] is EGRESS.
116:33:05 Cernan SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO.
116:33:07 Schmitt RELIEF is AUTO.
116:33:12 Cernan Okay. OPS CONNECT. You ready?
116:33:17 Schmitt Yes.
116:33:18 Cernan Okay. SUIT isOL, ACTIVATE OVERRIDE.
116:33:21 Schmitt Okay. OVERRIDE.
116:33:23 Cernan Okay. Disconnect your LM O2 hoses.
116:33:26 Schmitt Okay. LM O2 hoses are disconnected.
116:33:29 Cernan Okay. And they're stowed, right?
116:33:30 Schmitt Right.
116:33:31 Cernan Okay. Connect OPS O2 hose to PGA, blue to blue.
116:33:34 Schmitt Okay. Where is it?
116:33:35 Cernan Okay. It's sticking - right - Turn around. No, that's not right.
116:33:38 Schmitt No, that's the water.
116:33:39 Cernan Could you turn towards me a little bit? Turn to the left. There you are, because I got ... Okay. Here it comes - right here. OPS hose under it now. Right here.
116:33:50 Schmitt Here it is.
116:33:51 Cernan Let me get it. I'll get it - I'll get it under your electrical cable.
116:33:57 Schmitt Guess you're going to want a purge valve in a minute.
116:34:00 Cernan Okay. That is locked in the lock lock.
116:34:03 Schmitt Move your arm.
116:34:04 Cernan This is ... Could you do that?
116:34:06 Schmitt I will in a second.
116:34:10 Cernan Move your arm. I can't see.
116:34:19 Cernan Okay. We're right here. Okay. And I'm going to connect OPS hose to put it blue to blue, retrieve PURGE valve. Let me give you purge valve, and I'll pick that up, Jack. The cockpit's just as small as the mockup. Okay. Here you are. You verify it's in LOW, LOW.
116:34:38 Schmitt Okay. It's in LOW.
116:34:40 Cernan Slip to the right just a skosh.
116:34:41 Schmitt Yes; slipped it to the right just a skosh.
116:34:44 Cernan Oh, it's - man, that's easy.
116:34:48 Schmitt (Laughter) Whee.
116:34:50 Cernan Okay. Pin's installed. And I might be an iceberg when I get out there, but it's going to feel good.
116:35:04 Schmitt Okay. It's in.
116:35:05 Cernan Okay. My PURGE valve's LOW, locked, and the pin's in. Want some help with that? I want to take a look at it.
116:35:19 Schmitt There's the old MASTER ALARM.
116:35:21 Cernan Okay. That should be the WATER SEP.
116:35:23 Schmitt Yes.
116:35:23 Cernan It's on.
116:35:24 Schmitt Yes. It's barely on.
116:35:28 Cernan You're going to have to push my lock lock down.
116:35:30 Schmitt I'll get it.
116:35:31 Cernan I don't know why, but -
116:35:33 Schmitt Why don't you check mine, too. That's it. I'm going to have to check you anyway. Let me turn this way.
116:35:40 Cernan Okay.
116:35:56 Schmitt That's why; because it wasn't locked.
116:35:59 Cernan Is that where you want it; facing down or in? You don't want it there, do you?
116:36:02 Schmitt No, I don't want it there. Must have had it in the wrong - ... Thank you.
116:36:11 Cernan Is that where you want it?
116:36:12 Schmitt Yes.
116:36:13 Cernan Okay. It's there.
116:36:14 Schmitt Good.
116:36:14 Cernan The lock lock is down and it's verified LOW and the pin still is in. Okay. Look at mine while you're there.
116:36:26 Schmitt Okay. It's safe and in. Lock's in and lines low. Pin's in; it's good.
116:36:34 Cernan Okay. Let me get my - this thing right here. Reach that hose for me under my arm.
116:36:47 Schmitt Put it under the electrical cable.
116:36:48 Cernan Okay.
116:36:48 Schmitt I think that'll be better, isn't it?
116:36:54 Cernan Okay.
116:36:55 Schmitt ... and lock. Verify lock lock.
116:36:57 Cernan Locked.
116:36:58 Schmitt Okay.
116:36:58 Cernan And the cover is going on.
116:36:59 Schmitt Okay.
116:37:04 Schmitt Look pretty good under that
116:37:05 Cernan ...
116:37:06 Schmitt Yes. That's right.
116:37:06 Cernan Good.
116:37:09 Cernan Okay. You're covered. Okay. I think we're getting to our favorite part here. (Laughter) Okay. PURGE valves are installed on both. PGA DIVERTER VALVE; put it vertical.
116:37:21 Schmitt Okay. It's vertical.
116:37:23 Cernan Okay; commander repeat - that's done. Drink - Let's take a drink then close the descent water.
116:37:29 Schmitt Okay.
116:37:29 Cernan My ... is already prepared. And drink and position mikes.
116:37:42 Schmitt Oh, those little ... covers are next. Okay.
116:38:12 Cernan Had enough water today; they could - you could say you discovered me. I'm water on the Moon. Okay. Let's turn the descent water off, and let's stow this.
116:38:20 Schmitt Okay. WATER is going OFF. DESCENT WATER is OFF.
116:38:24 Cernan Okay. And it's - Man, is it - Okay.
116:38:33 Cernan Position your mikes.
116:38:34 Schmitt Okay; mikes are good.
116:38:36 Cernan Top of the page. Okay. Before we turn the fans on, let's make sure we've got - all I got hooked here is the water. Those cables are all stowed. They're not in your way, are they?
116:38:46 Schmitt No, not in my way.
116:38:48 Cernan Pretty good.
116:38:50 Schmitt ... though.
116:38:51 Cernan Do you want to put - put this around them?
116:38:54 Schmitt Yes.
116:38:57 Cernan That's probably a little bit better. ...
116:39:00 CC 17, Houston. Over.
116:39:05 Cernan Go ahead, Houston.
116:39:06 CC Roger. We're still seeing the commander's SUIT DISCONNECT VALVES in CONNECT.
116:39:15 Schmitt How's that?
116:39:18 CC Yes, there it goes. We got it. Thank you.
116:39:24 Cernan Okay, Bob. Okay. We got the PLSS fan on. Don't forget that's battery power. We can don our helmets, check our drink bags, don our LEVAs, protective visors, secure our tool harness. Our O2 umbilicals are already stowed.
116:39:42 Cernan CDR's under the handhold. Verify the following. Now, where we pick up our -
116:39:54 Schmitt Let's to put the helmets on, I think.
116:39:56 Cernan Okay, yes. Then we pick up our gloves.
116:39:59 Schmitt I reckon.
116:40:00 Cernan Yes, there it is. Okay. Well, let's do one at a time here.
116:40:07 Schmitt Okay, that's mine.
116:40:07 Cernan That's yours.
116:40:09 Cernan Okay. Do you want to turn your fan on for circulation?
116:40:11 Schmitt Well, I guess I better. Fan's on.
116:40:13 Cernan Now pull this out just to get it out of your way?
116:40:15 Schmitt Okay.
116:40:24 Cernan Okay. Okay. All your candy bars, and lemonade, and all that jazz are all clear. Water, I should say.
116:40:39 Schmitt That sounded good.
116:40:43 Cernan Okay. Try it. Okay. It looks good here, Jack. Okay. And what's your LEVA?
116:40:53 Schmitt ...
116:40:57 Cernan Okay. Enjoy it in there; you're going to be in there for a few hours.
116:41:03 Schmitt Can't think of any place I'd rather be right now.
116:41:05 Cernan Sounds like you're in there, too. Darn, too far back. Okay, that's better. I'm freezing my you know what off.
116:41:18 Schmitt Me, too. (Laughter)
116:41:20 Cernan Okay. Does that look lined up to you?
116:41:23 Schmitt Looks pretty good.
116:41:24 Cernan Okay. Let me - Wait a minute. Let me get this down around - Okay. That's around behind you; thermally protected back there. That's below the OPS hose.
116:41:46 Schmitt Right now, I'm hoping to get out of this warm. (Laughter)
116:41:50 Cernan Okay. You're thermally - Let me double check that. The helmet is locked. Your visor is locked. It's one thing you don't want to lose among some others. Okay. Okay. You want to give me a hand?
116:42:11 Schmitt Not particularly. (Laughter)
116:42:15 Cernan Oh, man. Where did that come from?
116:42:20 Schmitt Watch your nose, drink bag, candy bars, popcorn. Click, click, click.
116:42:34 Cernan Breathe hard back there.
116:42:35 Schmitt Want your fan?
116:42:38 Cernan Yes.
116:42:40 Schmitt Looks good.
116:42:41 Cernan Okay. I can hear the fan running. Oh, man, whew!
116:43:24 Cernan Looks good here.
116:43:25 Schmitt Yes. That's all right.
116:43:27 Cernan Steady ...
116:43:27 Schmitt New; never been used before.
116:43:31 Cernan Make sure that flap in back goes below that OPS hose.
116:43:40 Schmitt Want to put your protective visor down?
116:43:49 Cernan Yes, if you got that thing all - You got it all done?
116:43:52 Schmitt Yes.
116:43:53 Cernan You happy with it back there?
116:43:54 Schmitt Yes, sir. You're nice and protected. Okay. Good Velcro.
116:44:02 Cernan Okay. You're all covered here.
116:44:04 Schmitt Okay.
116:44:05 Cernan Not my other one is it? No.
116:44:06 Schmitt No.
116:44:08 Cernan Okay. Ohhh! I think we've got to get two harnesses here. Don LEVAs. Look at that scratch right in the middle of that thing. Okay. Don LEVAs and lower protective visor.
116:44:26 Cernan Okay. Secure harness and self doff straps.
116:44:44 Schmitt Okay. Stay where you are.
116:44:55 Schmitt Can't miss it.
116:45:06 Cernan Okay. Stow LM O2 - the LM O2. And comm. Okay. They're all stowed; everything except water, right?
116:45:17 Schmitt Okay. Verify the following: Check your helmet and visor.
116:45:21 Cernan Okay. You check me. I'll read them. Helmet and visor, aligned and locked.
116:45:26 Schmitt Okay. That's locked.
116:45:28 Cernan Okay. O2 cover is all locked. There's a ...
116:45:33 Schmitt That's locked.
116:45:36 Cernan Purge valve; everything down there.
116:45:37 Schmitt That's locked; that's locked.
116:45:41 Cernan Comm carrier.
116:45:42 Schmitt Standby. That's locked.
116:45:44 Cernan Okay. DIVERTER VALVE is vertical.
116:45:46 Schmitt Comm is that way. DIVERTER VALVE is vertical.
116:45:48 Cernan Okay. One more time. Your helmet is locked, purge valve, locked. Yes. That's locked; that's locked; that's locked. And, let me see - let me see. Sure and that's locked.
116:46:22 Schmitt Don't let anything to chance.
116:46:25 Cernan Today?
116:46:29 Schmitt And the DIVERTER VALVE is vertical.
116:46:32 Cernan Okay. Comm, you check, too.
116:46:35 Schmitt Yes, sir.
116:46:36 Cernan Okay. Verify your old white dots.
116:46:38 Schmitt Okay. Old white dots. My old white dots - Can you manage to move a little?
116:46:45 Cernan Yes, I'll move.
116:46:48 Schmitt Okay. Got it.
116:46:51 Cernan I'm going to miss Danny being out there to hand us those light PLSSs.
116:46:54 Schmitt That's right.
116:47:00 Cernan You want - Okay. I want the EVA decals, also, Jack.
116:47:06 Schmitt Yes, white dots plus decals.
116:47:09 Cernan Roger. Okay, Bob, we're turning the page.
116:47:13 CC Roger. We're right with you.
116:47:32 Cernan Okay; don EV gloves.
116:47:34 Schmitt Okay. is that it?
116:47:36 Cernan That's it. Don EV gloves. Do a little grease in here.
116:47:43 Cernan And make sure your wrist locks are locked. Glove straps adjusted and cover the wrist rings. Golly.
116:48:15 Cernan I sure missed hearing it click, but they are locked. One of them is, anyway. Hey, Jack. I verify - -
116:48:28 Schmitt (Laughter)
116:48:30 Cernan What?
116:48:35 Schmitt Guess what?
116:48:36 Cernan They don't go on any easier in one-sixth g, do they?
116:48:39 Schmitt They break just as easily, too.
116:48:42 Cernan Okay, I've got my one glove locked. One of them - one of the old fist covers.
116:48:52 Schmitt I never had that happen in training; you did.
116:48:57 Cernan It's locked - that's about as locked as it can go. Boy, I'd hate like the devil to have that pop open. Okay; that's very good. You want me to help you with one, or can you get it?
116:49:11 Schmitt Well, I don't know. I've only worked on one so far.
116:49:15 Cernan I've got a free hand before I grease it up.
116:49:17 Schmitt I broke that one.
116:49:31 Cernan I'm telling you, from the looks of that soil out there, that drill may have a job ahead of it.
116:49:35 Schmitt Yes, I didn't have a chance to mention that. I don't think the regolith is very thick, and I think you've got rocks below it.
116:49:43 Cernan You got that?
116:49:45 Schmitt Well, how does it look?
116:49:46 Cernan Let me take a look. No.
116:49:52 Schmitt Didn't make it, huh?
116:49:52 Cernan Yes, well, let me - Hold your hand up here. Hold it up here.
116:49:58 Cernan Looks good on my side. How is your side?
116:50:00 Schmitt Good over here.
116:50:01 Cernan Okay. Let me pull this down for you.
116:50:08 Schmitt Okay. Thank you.
116:50:13 Cernan Get the old other hand.
116:50:53 Cernan Okay. That's locked.
116:51:05 Schmitt And mine - other glove is locked.
116:51:08 Cernan Now for the fun in back (laughter).
116:51:16 Cernan Oh, me; oh, my.
116:51:27 Schmitt I think I got it. I think I got it.
116:51:38 Schmitt Pull it and let go. isn't that the word?
116:51:40 Cernan That's what they tell me. Want me to get it?
116:51:41 Schmitt I got mine - No, I got it.
116:51:44 Cernan Verified yours is locked?
116:51:45 Schmitt Yes, sir.
116:51:46 Cernan Okay. Both my gloves are verified locked. How does that grab you?
116:51:55 Schmitt Okay; feels good.
116:51:57 Cernan Is your air on tight enough? Checklist on tight enough?
116:52:17 Cernan That's the best I can do; I guess.
116:52:20 Schmitt Okay. Now what?
116:52:24 Cernan Wrist rings are covered. Note if PGA biting. ... No, mine's all right. Your's okay?
116:52:27 Schmitt No; it's fine.
116:52:28 Cernan Okay. LGC cold's required. We been on cold all this time, right?
116:52:31 Schmitt Yes.
116:52:32 Cernan Okay. Guess you can open that breaker, and I'll stop shivering. (Laughter)
116:52:36 Schmitt Okay.
116:52:37 Cernan And, we can disconnect the LM water hoses. Let's help each other with those, so we don't screw up the other hoses.
116:52:42 Schmitt Okay; breaker's open.
116:52:44 Cernan Okay.
116:52:45 Schmitt Let me turn around this way.
116:52:46 Cernan Okay. Go ahead and I'll -
116:52:53 Schmitt Okay. You want to get mine or you - -
116:52:55 Cernan No, I'll get yours.
116:52:56 Schmitt Okay.
116:52:57 Cernan Okay. First of all I'm going to take that off. Okay. Now let me get your other one. There it is. Okay. We did this before. Stand right there. It's locked, Jack.
116:53:28 Schmitt Okay. It is locked.
116:53:30 Cernan Get the cover on. Okay. The cover is on.
116:53:41 Schmitt Okay. Yours off? Get that in a second.
116:53:45 Cernan Okay. Yours is just laying there, too.
116:53:50 Schmitt Okay. Hang on.
116:53:50 Cernan Okay. I'll push towards you. Make sure that thing falls in the hole, because yours didn't right away.
116:54:06 Cernan Did it fall in?
116:54:09 Schmitt Yes - yes, it's in the hole.
116:54:13 Cernan Okay. Wrist cover on?
116:54:16 Schmitt Wrist cover's on.
116:54:17 Cernan And my PGA is going to start biting here if we don't get going.
116:54:23 Schmitt Yes, Okay - okay - PLSS to the - -
116:54:27 Cernan I've got to turn my oxygen on a second, Jack.
116:54:30 Schmitt Yes, so do I.
116:54:34 Schmitt That's that. There it is.
116:54:39 Cernan Okay. It's on.
116:54:46 Cernan A little hard to get it off, isn't it.
116:54:47 Schmitt Yes.
116:54:48 Cernan Okay. Mine is back off.
116:54:49 Schmitt Yes, mine is.
116:54:50 Cernan Okay. PLSS DIVERTER VALVE, MIN; verify.
116:54:56 Schmitt Okay. Mine's MIN.
116:54:57 Cernan Okay. PLSS PUMP, ON; that's to the right. PRESSURE REGs A and B, EGRESS.
116:55:06 Schmitt I think we're already at EGRESS.
116:55:08 Cernan Pump's on.
116:55:09 Schmitt We're in EGRESS.
116:55:11 Cernan Okay, my PUMP is on. I can feel it running.
116:55:13 Schmitt Keep talking.
116:55:14 Cernan Pressure integrity check. Okay. PLSS O2 ON. You ready for this?
116:55:20 Schmitt I hope so.
116:55:21 Cernan Okay. PLSS O2 ON.
116:55:23 Schmitt Mine's on.
116:55:24 Cernan PRESSURE flag and O2 flag clear, 3.1 to 3.4.
116:55:38 Schmitt Okay. I'm coming up. I know that.
116:55:45 Cernan Gee, it's 10 minutes to 6 at home.
116:55:48 Schmitt Okay. Okay. I'm still coming up.
116:55:51 Cernan Keep coming up. Just got mine on.
116:55:56 Schmitt Oh, okay. Well, I'm ahead of you then.
116:55:57 Cernan Yes. Okay. The PRESS flag will clear 37 - correction - 3.1 to 3.4.
116:56:07 Schmitt What do you want me to do when I'm pressurized?
116:56:10 Cernan We'll want to make an integrity check.
116:56:12 Schmitt Yes, but then what?
116:56:12 Cernan Can you reach those water hoses right there? By chance before you get too hard?
116:56:23 Schmitt Throw them out of the way?
116:56:25 Cernan Okay. When you get - when you get up - Okay. A PRESS flag cleared on the commander. Okay. The O2 flag did not clear. I'm at 3.8 - Okay. O2 flag cleared on the commander.
116:56:50 Schmitt Still got an O2 on the LMP.
116:56:52 Cernan Okay, you're not up yet; I suppose.
116:56:54 Schmitt No.
116:56:58 Cernan Okay. I'm going to take my PLSS O2 OFF for 1 - counting 1 minute, 57. Let me know when you're up, Jack, and I'll give you a minute hand.
116:57:09 Schmitt Okay. I'm clear.
116:57:10 Cernan Okay. You up?
116:57:11 Schmitt Yes.
116:57:12 Cernan You can turn your PLSS O2 OFF any time. Let me know when. Can you reach it? If you can't, I'll get it for you.
116:57:29 Schmitt Why don't you get it.
116:57:30 Cernan Okay. Okay.
116:57:35 Cernan MARK it.
116:57:36 Schmitt Okay.
116:57:36 Cernan You're on the 30-second mark, and I'm on the minute mark.
116:57:39 Schmitt Okay, and I'm at 3.8.
116:57:41 Cernan Okay. I'll give you a hack on it.
116:57:46 PAO Still about 20 minutes behind time.
116:57:48 Cernan Okay. I'm coming up on 45 seconds.
116:58:02 Cernan Okay. I'm 1 minute; going back on. Okay, Houston. Commander went from 3.8 to about 3.67. I'll get yours on when you need it on, Jack.
116:58:18 CC I copy that, Commander.
116:58:24 Cernan Okay. And we'll pick Jack up here in about 10 more seconds.
116:58:27 CC Okay.
116:58:31 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm turning on. Did you mark it?
116:58:34 Cernan Okay, Houston; 3.8 to 3.6.
116:58:45 Schmitt Hello, Houston; you copy the LMP?
116:58:48 CC Roger. Copy the LMP. Okay; and Challenger - -
116:58:52 Cernan Okay. Standing by for your GO for depress.
116:58:54 CC You'll be glad to know you are GO for depress.
116:58:59 Cernan Thank you, Robert. I understand we are GO for depress.
116:59:02 CC That's affirm.
116:59:03 Cernan Okay, Jack. Can you reach the front valve, or do you want me to?
116:59:07 Schmitt Well, let me turn around here.
116:59:10 Cernan Okay, on16 - first around, on 16, CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
116:59:16 Schmitt Okay; 16: CABIN REPRESS, OPEN. Circuit breaker is op - coming open.
116:59:22 Cernan Okay, and CABIN REPRESS valve, CLOSED on the panel.
116:59:26 Schmitt Okay. The valve is closed.
116:59:28 Cernan Okay. If you can't reach it, I guess I can.
116:59:31 Schmitt Okay. I just had a momentary tone.
116:59:35 Cernan So did I. I got it, too.
116:59:36 Schmitt Okay.
116:59:37 Cernan I think it was when you closed the REPRESS valve.
116:59:42 Cernan Can you reach it? If not I'll reach your overhead one.
116:59:44 Schmitt I think you better reach your overhead one.
116:59:45 Cernan Okay. Slip over to your right.
116:59:48 Schmitt Some more?
116:59:50 Cernan Let me turn here. Wait a minute, I got turned.
117:00:06 Schmitt Okay. How far down are we going to take it? 3.5, right?
117:00:10 Cernan Yes, wait a minute. I'm not there yet.
117:00:12 Schmitt Well, I just want to make sure that I'm watching.
117:00:15 Cernan Okay; now.
117:00:19 Cernan Okay, coming open. You ready? You reading the checklist?
117:00:21 Schmitt Stand by AUTO. REPRESS is CLOSED.
117:00:25 Cernan Say when.
117:00:26 Schmitt ...
117:00:28 Cernan You ready?
117:00:29 Schmitt Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
117:00:31 Cernan Okay.
117:00:32 Schmitt Got the wrong place. OPEN, then AUTO at 3.5. Okay; go ahead.
117:00:37 Cernan Okay. Here it comes. I can see daylight through it.
117:00:41 Schmitt Okay, it's coming down. Okay. That's 4 - Stand by.
117:00:47 PAO Cabin pressure is coming down now.
117:00:53 Schmitt MARK. 3.5.
117:00:54 Cernan Okay. It's off.
117:00:56 Schmitt Okay. And your cuff gauge should not be below 4.6, and mine's at 5 - mine's at 5.0.
117:01:04 Cernan One? Okay.
117:01:12 Schmitt Okay, The suit circuit is locked up at 4.5. We're at 3.5 and holding.
117:01:23 Cernan And I'm decaying.
117:01:26 Schmitt Okay. I'm below 5.
117:01:27 Cernan So am I.
117:01:28 Schmitt Verify that; okay.
117:01:32 Schmitt Okay. I'll start my watch.
117:01:37 CC Okay. We verify and we're counting.
117:01:38 Schmitt Watches started.
117:01:41 Schmitt Okay. OVERHEAD or FORWARD DUMP VALVE, OPEN.
117:01:44 Cernan Okay. Here it comes.
117:01:46 Schmitt And it's going down.
117:01:49 PAO Unofficial start of EVA 117:01:35.
117:01:52 Cernan You going to want me to put this in AUTO afterwards or not? So, I can turn around. Jack.
117:01:58 Schmitt Stand by.
117:02:02 Cernan ... open - -
117:02:02 Schmitt ... - -
117:02:03 Cernan - - leave it open.
117:02:04 Schmitt Leave it open.
117:02:04 Cernan No, we don't, because then we don't want that hatch to get closed.
117:02:11 Schmitt You got to turn around here. Oh, boy!
117:02:23 PAO Cabin press below 1 lb per square inch now.
117:02:35 Schmitt Boy, you sure get heavy at 5, don't you? Okay. Where are we? Right here, huh? What that was -
117:02:58 Cernan What's cabin, Jack.
117:03:05 Cernan Do you read, Jack?
117:03:07 CC Jack, this is Houston.
117:03:08 Cernan Wait a minute.
117:03:09 CC CDR, we're not reading the LMP either.
117:03:11 Schmitt Now, how do you read?
117:03:13 CC We read you - -
117:03:14 Cernan Now, how do you read, Jack?
117:03:15 Schmitt Okay. You're loud and clear. Okay.
117:03:18 Schmitt We got a switch in the wrong place as usual, Bob. I just hit the MODE SELECT; that's all.
117:03:25 CC Okay. We copy.
117:03:26 Schmitt Okay. Partially open the forward hatch, when we can. Okay. Can you zap over to the left as much as you can?
117:03:33 Cernan To the right, you mean?
117:03:34 Schmitt Yes.
117:03:34 Cernan Yes. To the north.
117:03:35 Schmitt To the north.
117:03:36 Cernan The north.
117:03:36 Schmitt The north. (Laughter) Okay, it's about 0.2, Gene.
117:03:44 Cernan Okay. Let me -
117:03:44 Schmitt You going to be able to get to it?
117:03:45 Cernan Yes. You bet you. I've come this far. I'm not going to miss getting that hatch open.
117:03:57 Schmitt Hey, something just flew out.
117:03:59 Cernan It's open now.
117:04:01 Schmitt Gosh, look at those trajectories (laughter).
117:04:04 Cernan Yes. Put just enough air in here, we're - Okay; it's open, babe. Okay; it is open.
117:04:12 Schmitt Good. Okay; final prep, PLSS primary H2O. I've got to figure out how to open that now.
117:04:22 Cernan Okay.
117:04:31 Cernan When you're at 5 psi, it's - We never did really train for this in the right way.
117:04:40 Schmitt Yes, we did. Okay. My water is OPEN.
117:04:47 Cernan And my water is OPEN.
117:05:02 Cernan Okay. Well, let's see, rest until cooling sufficient; 3.7 to 4.6. I'm to 4.9; coming down.
117:05:11 Schmitt Yes, I am, too. Coming down.
117:05:12 Cernan CWEA status.
117:05:14 Cernan PREAMPs and ECS. Can you see that?
117:05:17 Schmitt See a PREAMPs, and I see ECS.
117:05:19 Cernan Okay. Water SEP component light, on.
117:05:23 Schmitt Water, excuse me, water SEP. Well, the next thing it says that Gene gets out.
117:05:31 Cernan I don't see that.
117:05:34 Schmitt That's what it says on my checklist.
117:05:35 Cernan Okay. Good heavens! That means you got to get out of the way so I can open the hatch.
117:05:46 Schmitt Well, I'm going to have to turn around a little, I think, so I can help you.
117:05:49 Cernan Okay. Boy, beware of that corner.
117:05:54 Schmitt It's high pressure (laughter).
117:05:56 Cernan Yes. I tell you at 4-1/2, you're really pretty heavy.
117:05:59 Schmitt What was that that came shooting up here? A piece of bread? (Laughter) Would you believe that?
117:06:05 Cernan Yes, I'd believe it.
117:06:09 Schmitt Why is our hatch open? Somebody opened our hatch. Are you getting cooling?
117:06:14 Cernan I'm beginning to, I think.
117:06:17 Schmitt I still got a water flag. Not hot. Stand by. Okay. Well.
117:06:40 Schmitt How does the water pressures look, Houston?
117:06:46 CC Challenger, they're looking just a little bit low. We're still expecting it to build up. It's going to take a little while.
117:06:55 Cernan Okay. I'm getting down on my knees out here. How am I looking, Jack?
117:07:00 Schmitt You're just fine. I'm holding you away from the DEDA, the ... DSKY.
117:07:06 Cernan Okay. I'm going to put this visor down now, I think. How does that look to you?
117:07:17 Schmitt What?
117:07:18 Cernan How are my legs? Am I getting out?
117:07:19 Schmitt Well, I don't know. I can't see your legs.
117:07:22 Cernan Oh, okay (laughter).
117:07:24 Schmitt I think you're getting out though, because there's not as much of you in here as there used to be. Oh, hey; Gene, when I get down there, I got to fix your tool harness. Hold it.
117:07:35 Cernan Okay. Can you reach it?
117:07:36 Schmitt It's come off the bottom again.
117:07:39 Cernan Can you reach it?
117:07:39 Schmitt Well, I can't do it now, because it's come off from the bottom. I'll have to - -
117:07:43 Cernan Oh, the bottom of the PLSS, huh?
117:07:44 Schmitt Yes.
117:07:46 Cernan Okay. Well, my legs are out. Keep that hatch open.
117:07:50 Schmitt Can you squat down any further, because you're hooked on - you're making it worse. Okay.
117:08:05 Cernan How's that?
117:08:06 Schmitt Okay. Now, I think I - Be careful because you might hook it on something down there.
117:08:10 Cernan Oh, the tool harness?
117:08:11 Schmitt Yes. The back. It's loose on your back; on the back of the PLSS.
117:08:16 Cernan Oh, man, I don't like that. Okay. I'll watch it.
117:08:18 Schmitt Well, I'll fix it when I get out there.
117:08:20 Cernan Okay. I'm still reading 4.0. Houston, Commander is on the porch of Challenger.
117:08:30 CC Roger. We copy you, Commander, and your feed water pressure is looking much better - -
117:08:39 Cernan Okay. Everything else look good to you?
117:08:42 CC That's affirmative.
117:08:47 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm going to get the MESA.
117:08:50 Schmitt Okay. And I'll have an ETB ready for you.
117:08:52 Cernan Oh, man; oh, man; oh, man.
117:09:00 Schmitt Deploy MESA.
117:09:01 Cernan Okay. Here it comes.
117:09:08 Cernan There she goes, Babe.
117:09:10 Schmitt Yea, hey!
117:09:11 Cernan There she is. All the way down; it looks like. Okay. I jettisoned - Oh, you want an ETB?
117:09:20 Schmitt That's up to you.
117:09:21 Cernan Yes.
117:09:23 Schmitt You're the commander.
117:09:25 Cernan I got it. I got it. And, the pressure looks like it's started to stabilize at 3.8. I don't know whether I'm getting cooler or not, but I feel pretty good.
117:09:41 CC Okay. We copy that.
117:09:43 Schmitt How about a jett bag, too?
117:09:55 Cernan Okay. Oh, Jack, I could swing it over the - Won't be any problem. Over the strut. Okay; and the jet bag is springing free - swinging free.
117:10:15 Schmitt You mean the ETB.
117:10:16 Cernan ETB. Oh, man. This looks like a Santa Claus bag.
117:10:21 Schmitt It is.
117:10:23 Cernan Oh, boy. There it goes. The Rover looks in good shape. ETB is down there. Okay. I've got all my visors down. Jack, I wouldn't lower your gold visor until after you get on the porch, because it's plenty dark out here.
117:10:40 Schmitt Okay.
117:10:42 Cernan Okay.
117:10:42 Schmitt Tape recorder - -
117:10:43 Cernan I'm on my way.
117:10:44 Schmitt -- is off.
117:10:47 Cernan Sensitivity, max and max.
117:10:57 Cernan Okay, Houston, The Commander is about three-quarters of the way down.
117:11:10 Cernan I'm on the footpad.
117:11:13 Cernan And, Houston, as I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible. Jack, I'm out here. Oh, my golly. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, but is it bright in the Sun. Okay. We landed in a very shallow depression. That's why we've got a slight pitch-up angle. Very shallow, dinner-plate-like dish crater just about the width of the struts. How you doing, Jack?
117:12:13 Schmitt Fine. Getting the circuit breakers verified.
117:12:22 Cernan The LM looks beautiful. Oh, do we have boulder tracks coming down. Let me see exactly where we are. I think I may be just in front of Punk.
117:12:46 CC Okay. We copy that, Gene, and are the boulder tracks - -
117:12:49 Cernan I'm beginning to - -
117:12:49 CC - - to both the north and south?
117:12:53 Cernan Okay. On the North Massif, we've got very obvious boulder tracks. A couple of large boulders come within 20 or 30 feet of the - Looks like where we can get to them, but there's a couple - there's a couple I know we can get to. Well, the Sun angle is such that, what I saw on the South Massif earlier I can't see very well. But, I know there were boulder tracks over there. The - Bare Mountain - Boy, it's hard to look to the east - Bare Mountain and the Sculptured Hills have a very, very similar texture on the surface. The Sculptured Hills is like the wrinkled skin of an old, old, 100-year-old man - is probably the best way I could put it. Very, very hummocky, and - but smoothly pockmarked. I do not see any boulders up by the Sculptured Hills from here. But it's awful hard to look to the east and to the southeast.
117:14:04 CC Okay. We copy that, Gene. Have you got an LMP with you yet?
117:14:10 Cernan Well, here come his feet. Jack, let me make sure. We didn't have an awful lot of dust on landing; but I can dig my foot in 8 or 10 inches, and I know we're at least that thick. There's a small little 1-meter crater right in front of us with a whole mess of glass right in the middle. Right smack - That's right in front of the MESA, as a matter of fact. Right where I want to park the Rover. Jack, you're looking good.
117:14:39 CC Beautiful, guys; beautiful.
117:14:43 Cernan I'm going to take a quick look back. I think this is Poppy, and I can give you a real better idea where we are.
117:14:50 Schmitt Hatch is closed, barely.
117:14:52 Cernan Hey, Jack, don't lock it.
117:14:54 Schmitt I'm not going to lock it.
117:14:55 Cernan We've got to go back there. You lose the key, and we're in trouble.
117:15:02 Schmitt Oh, I'm on the porch. Who said this place was smooth?
117:15:09 Cernan Oh Boy, there's a lot of local depressions here I didn't figure existed.
117:15:17 Schmitt Hey, who's been tracking up my lunar surface?
117:15:21 Cernan Hey, Bob, I'm east of the LM now. I'm east of the LM, and the back strut of the LM is - Well, the LM straddles this crater I talked about, and that's where we get the pitch angle; the back strut is probably right down in the eastern one-third of that crater. Just a little - very subtle crater.
117:15:47 Schmitt Hey, man; you had some forward velocity.
117:15:51 Cernan That's what I wanted to have.
117:15:58 Cernan Boy, I look at some of these rocks that are filleted here, Jack, and there sure are a lot of sparklies in them. Awful lot of sparklies.
117:16:07 Schmitt You landed in a crater!
117:16:10 Cernan That's a pretty good shot.
117:16:15 Cernan Okay. I'm going to get to work in a minute, just as soon as I take a look at Trident.
117:16:18 Schmitt Why don't you come over here and let me deploy your antenna.
117:16:22 Cernan Okay. Just walk around for 1 second.
117:16:25 Schmitt (Laughter) Hey, man, put your visor down.
117:16:30 Cernan And, I'll be over there, and you can fix my tool harness. I don't like that thing loose.
117:16:36 Schmitt I don't like it loose, either. What are you doing over there? We're supposed to be working.
117:16:39 Cernan I was just going to give them a fix. All these little craters, Jack, have got glass in the bottom of them. Here's another one.
117:16:46 Schmitt There's very clear sweeping of the surface by the descent plume out, oh, about 10 meters - no, 15 meters. Come over here, and I'll fix your antenna.
117:17:11 Cernan Okay. Hey, Bob, how big is Poppy supposed to be?
117:17:15 CC Stand by. It looks on the map - -
117:17:20 Cernan I didn't hear you. You cut out.
117:17:21 CC Okay. It looks on the map like it's about 75 meters in diameter. Fairly subtle.
117:17:28 Cernan Okay. Okay, I tell you where I think I landed - oh, about 100 meters from Poppy at 10 o'clock.
117:17:40 Schmitt You think that's Poppy, huh?
117:17:41 Cernan I think so - I think - -
117:17:42 Schmitt That's an awful big hole.
117:17:43 Cernan Well, I know. I got to look axound a little more. It sure is not Trident.
117:17:48 Schmitt Bend over and I'll - -
117:17:48 Cernan It might be part of Trident.
117:17:50 Schmitt - - get your antenna. Get your antenna. Oh, a little more.
117:17:56 Cernan God, it's beautiful out here.
117:17:59 Schmitt Well, hang on.
117:18:00 Cernan Yes.
117:18:05 Cernan Okay. The immediate surf - -
117:18:07 Schmitt Not yet. Yes, go - you talk to them. I don't want you to stand up yet.
117:18:11 Cernan The surface is moderately cohesive, which holds a pretty good bootprint - very fine grain. Gene's ... looks very much like previous soils. You got her?
117:18:27 Schmitt Yes. You got a hole behind you now.
117:18:29 Cernan Well, I'll stand in it, and you can get at it better.
117:18:31 Schmitt Well, you got me right in the Sun. Can you come around this way? Ho-ho. (Laughter) I'm going to have to get upstream of you.
117:18:43 Cernan Look, you get up on the hill, and I'll get in the hole.
117:18:45 Schmitt Yes. There you go. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
117:18:48 Cernan Don't move too fast. Boy, your feet look like you just walked on the Moon, you know.
117:18:57 Schmitt Well, I tell you Gene, I think the next generation ought to accept this as a challenge.
117:19:08 Schmitt Let's see them leave footsteps like these someday. Got another - there, that'll be all right.
117:19:13 Cernan Okay. What can you do with my tool harness?
117:19:16 Schmitt I'm going to work on it; that's what I'm going to do. Whoa; hold still.
117:19:23 Cernan Okay. Boy, I tell you, looking to the east, you might just well forget it.
117:19:34 Schmitt Well, let's see. How's this thing - I'm going to have to loosen it.
117:19:38 Cernan Well, if you could just stretch it around.
117:19:40 Schmitt I can't.
117:19:41 Cernan You can't huh?
117:19:42 Schmitt But I will be in a minute.
117:19:43 Cernan Don't loosen it to the point where you can't get it back on.
117:19:50 Schmitt Okay. You're almost reconfigured.
117:19:54 Cernan Okay.
117:20:01 Schmitt Okay. Somebody tied you on wrong, too. They've got the strap reversed for the Velcro. Okay, Gene. I think that will hold.
117:20:17 Cernan Okay, and I'm going to - -
117:20:18 Schmitt If it doesn't I'll fix you again.
117:20:21 Cernan Man, there's sparklies in the soil, Jack. You can just look at it. See them all over? Very fine grained. It's sparkly, that's all. Bob, I'm going to min cooling - or, intermediate cooling.
117:20:34 CC Okay. Copy that.
117:20:37 Schmitt Boy, that sure -
117:20:39 Cernan See the soil sparkle?
117:20:42 Schmitt Yes, I think that's a little glass.
117:20:45 Cernan There's - Let's go back here and get to work, and I'll show you that crater that's got nothing but glass in the bottom.
117:20:49 Schmitt That's a vesicular rock of some kind there, Geno. It almost looks like a mono crater - pumice, but don't quote me.
117:21:02 Cernan Bob, I have to reiterate. Even the small - even the very small - the 1 and 2-inch - 3-inch fragments that are laying around here have been dusted and filleted - -
117:21:15 Schmitt Do-tu-doo.
117:21:15 Cernan - - with the dark mantle.
117:21:17 Schmitt And that sweeping by the descent stage goes all the way out there, Houston, to where we were, which was about 50 meters, I guess. Hey, man - whuh, whuh, whuh, whuh - hey these rocks - they almost have a pink - very light pinkish hue to them, and they are not - they're not obviously breccia. Now, that - that's a - like a breccia there. But this stuff is something else again.
117:21:53 Cernan Yes. I don't think there is any place you could land around here where you wouldn't have one foot, in the crater.
117:21:57 Schmitt Looks like a vesicular, very light-colored porphyry of some kind; it's about 10 or 15 percent vesicles. I'm right in front of the LM. They - Quite a few of the rocks look of that type. Sort of a pinkish hue to them. The texture is coarse, but I'm not sure how crystalline they are, yet. Okay; back to work.
117:22:27 Cernan Jack, when you put up the ETB, the - check down there below it.
117:22:32 Schmitt Oh-ho-ho (laughter).
117:22:35 Cernan Okay, let's take a look at the Rover.
117:22:37 Schmitt Let's don't forget those.
117:22:38 Cernan Yes.
117:22:39 Schmitt That's my fault; I guess.
117:22:40 Cernan Yes.
117:22:42 Schmitt Okay.
117:22:45 Cernan Oh man, I tell you, we came down at just a little forward velocity. Look at that - right there. About a foot slip on the pad. I tell you, there's craters all over here. Okay, baby. I'd sure like to think that that wheel is where it's supposed to be. It looks good to me.
117:23:07 Cernan Our next little vehicle to work.
117:23:35 Cernan Okay. Bob, so far, the Rover looks pretty good.
117:23:39 CC Roger; sounds good, Geno.
117:23:44 Cernan Hey, let me ask you. When I was behind the LM, I could look right into an area and see the bell of the ascent stage. I never realized that before, but I guess that's normal, huh?
117:23:55 Schmitt Yes. We saw it on the pad. Remember.
117:23:58 Cernan Barely.
117:24:01 Schmitt Remember when we went out there?
117:24:05 Cernan The only reason I asked, Bob, I'm sure it's normal, and it doesn't look anything's missing, it's just right - right into the Sun.
117:24:13 CC Yes. The consensus of opinion down here is that you can, also.
117:24:21 Cernan Well, that's probably the best place in the world to get a consensus of opinion from. Okay, Jack, it's about work time. I've got this Rover about ready for - your pull up there.
117:24:35 Schmitt I got a little delayed here.
117:24:37 Cernan Okay. I'm sure glad those guys made us train so hard.
117:24:50 Schmitt Okay. The MESA's up. Let me know when you're ready to deploy.
117:24:57 Cernan Okay. Babe, I am - I am ready for you. Everything I can see looks pretty good. The walking hinges, you will be glad to know, are intact. They did not drop.
117:25:14 CC Roger. That's a first.
117:25:15 Schmitt You want me to go up there and do that, huh?
117:25:18 Cernan Yes, sir. The beginning.
117:25:23 Schmitt You ready for me to deploy?
117:25:25 Cernan Okay. Let me just doublecheck. Drape, contingency, unstow aft deployment cable, verify walking hinge, forward and aft chassis parallel. They are.
117:25:34 Schmitt MESA insulation is not coming off as easy as in training.
117:25:37 Cernan Okay. Outrigger cables are taut. Looking good to me. Yes, Jack. You can go on up. Go on up.
117:25:48 Schmitt Okay.
117:25:49 Cernan I'm ready for you. God, that LM is a pretty sight. Challenger, you're a beauty.
117:25:58 Schmitt Well, let's see how good I am.
117:25:59 Cernan Don't drop that. Let me get that thing again.
117:26:07 Cernan Yes, sir. (Laughter) Yes, sir. You're pretty agile there, twinkle toes.
117:26:16 Schmitt You bet your - life I am.
117:26:19 Cernan All I asked you to do was pull that handle up there. Man, anything you grab, Jack - I just grabbed this lanyard that was in the dust - is really black.
117:26:29 Schmitt You ready?
117:26:30 Cernan Go. She fell, Houston. She's open.
117:26:33 Schmitt Okay. You've got parallel chassis; the wheels look good on this side.
117:26:39 Cernan Okay. They're good on this side. Let's get done. Let's get it out.
117:26:46 Cernan I'll wait for you to get the deploy cable. I'll tell you, Jack, this place is not locally level.
117:26:49 PAO Deploying the Rover now.
117:26:54 Schmitt You - you're right.
117:26:57 Cernan Okay. There's not - there's not many places you could put the LM down and have it be zero, zero, zero. Okay. I'm ready if you are.
117:27:10 Schmitt I don't know how much help I'm going to be.
117:27:12 Cernan Well, I'm starting; you pull. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming, baby. How's your wheels on that side? Can you see them: Mine look good.
117:27:25 Schmitt Wheels? They looked good a minute ago. I got the Sun, so I can't tell much - -
117:27:29 Cernan Okay.
117:27:37 Cernan Eeee. The only way to do it.
117:27:41 Schmitt I'm putting all my weight (laughter).
117:27:43 Cernan Okay. Wait a minute. I'm coming down now. She's going to pop here.
117:27:46 Schmitt Okay.
117:27:47 Cernan Wait a minute. Stand by.
117:27:48 Schmitt I may pull a Jim Irwin here.
117:27:50 Cernan Wait a minute. Watch out. Here she goes.
117:27:53 Schmitt Got her.
117:27:53 Cernan Okay. Beautiful, Houston. The aft chassis's out.
117:27:58 CC Roger. Beautiful.
117:27:59 Cernan Beautiful. Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait.
117:28:04 Schmitt Tried to get off the hinge there.
117:28:05 Cernan Yes, yes. She's on, though. She's all in. She's in the walking hinges. I wish you could see it. Jack, those wheels did not lock all the way up though. We ought to pull them up before we - Well, there it goes. By itself.
117:28:21 Schmitt Okay.
117:28:23 Cernan Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay. Let me pull it until the outriggers cables get slack.
117:28:30 Schmitt Okay. Walk away from it. Easier.
117:28:39 Cernan That tape up there - on the reel.
117:28:40 Schmitt Yeah, it's all -
117:28:42 Cernan It's coming.
117:28:43 Schmitt It's free reeling.
117:28:44 Cernan Yes. Let me - let me - don't pull it until I - Okay. Now I've got it.
117:28:56 Cernan Man, I'd walk and fall into that crater if I went to the end of this line.
117:29:01 Schmitt Houston, I do think we've got a different -
117:29:04 Cernan Well, we're deploying it at an angle. Okay. The outrigger cables are free, Jack.
117:29:07 Schmitt Okay. Got a different breed of rock up here. The stuff's sticking through this thin regolith - or regolith, period. I don't know whether it's thin or thick yet (singing). Okay. Mine's free.
117:29:25 Cernan Let me get this - let me get all this cable out of the way. Otherwise, I'll - is that enough of this stuff? I don't like all that over there. ...
117:29:39 Schmitt A geologist's paradise, if I ever saw one. Boy, you certainly are changing the color of that cable, sir.
117:29:48 Cernan Yes. Just tried a John Young trick.
117:29:52 Schmitt Did it work?
117:29:52 Cernan Yes. (Laughter).
117:29:54 Schmitt You're getting dirty.
117:29:55 Cernan But, I'm still getting my balance. I didn't touch the ground. Just got to get some of this cable out of here.
117:30:04 Schmitt I'm not sure my pockets are going to be accessible.
117:30:15 Cernan Man, I'll tell you, I don't know how long this line to pull the Rover out is, but -
117:30:25 Cernan Well, I'll tell you, it sure is easy to get dusty, but that's nothing new to anybody. Okay, Babe, let me get - Whee!
117:30:34 Schmitt I think it's safe to say this surface was not formed yesterday. There is a regolith; it looks classic. Area distribution of particles up to 3 or 4 centimeters, anyway. Then, you start to get maybe a selective distribution of large fragments. Got that cable?
117:30:54 Cernan Yes.
117:30:56 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to walk away with this one.
117:30:57 Cernan Okay; outrigger cable.
117:30:59 Schmitt You ready?
117:30:59 Cernan Okay. When forward wheels on surface; okay. Let me - let me pull.
117:31:09 Cernan Okay, Houston. She's continuing to come.
117:31:17 Schmitt Here's a couple of different looking rocks. One's very white; one's quite dark. But we do have a general rock type, I think, in the area - of the big boulders. Jesus, how much cable is there?
117:31:31 Cernan There's a lot of it Jack. Keep going.
117:31:33 Schmitt (Laughter)
117:31:33 Cernan You're going to be a long way away. We're not there yet. Keep going. Okay. We've got the front wheels on the surface, but keep going, I don't think you've got it up there.
117:31:50 Schmitt I never thought I'd do geology this way.
117:31:54 Cernan Okay. I think you got it. Let me see.
117:32:01 Schmitt Is it slack?
117:32:03 Cernan I'll get up there and take a look. Okay. It's slack.
117:32:12 Schmitt Longest cable in the world.
117:32:13 Cernan It's slack.
117:32:16 CC Wait till you get to the ALSEP package.
117:32:17 Cernan Okay. By golly, those wheels did lock.
117:32:20 Schmitt (Laughter) I never knew that cable was that long, Bob. Oh, a glass bottom - a glass bottom crater with a little bench. Looks like one of the Flagstaff explosion craters except for the glass in it. Right out at 12 o'clock. That's the one I was talking about, about having a bright halo. I don't know whether it's easier to walk out there or to do what I did in training - that I wouldn't do on the Moon. Somebody's going to get tangled up with this thing.
117:32:56 Cernan That's why I'd get it all under the LM somewhere. I'd - what I'd - took me 5 minutes to do and get it all out of the way. Okay, Bob, the front wheels locked in. I had to pull the rear wheels - rear wheels back to get them to lock in.
117:33:12 CC Okay. Copy that.
117:33:17 Cernan At least no one let any air out of the tires. Man, I look like I've been on the surface for a week already. Holy smoley. Okay. Pull pins on deploy cable and fittings - move LRV from LM.
117:33:31 Schmitt Wait a minute. I haven't ... the - -
117:33:32 Cernan Okay.
117:33:33 Schmitt - - my other pins. It's going to take awhile. Think we can avoid that cable?
117:33:39 Cernan Why don't you set it there, pull this pin, and then you can go back and get it; that is, it's better to use the Rover contingency tool, because - -
117:33:45 Schmitt Yes, but that's off over there on the ground now, somewhere or another.
117:33:46 Cernan Okay. Pull that pin. Until we get that saddle loose.
117:33:53 Schmitt Loose.
117:33:54 Cernan Awe Beautiful. Okay, we're going to have to move that thing - that line, Jack. You ready?
117:33:59 Schmitt I'll move it.
117:34:00 Cernan Okay. Let's find a - back over here. See that?
117:34:01 Schmitt Yes.
117:34:06 Cernan Oh, man. Face a little more east, so I don't have to run into the ... Okay, how about here?
117:34:20 Schmitt That's - You're the driver.
117:34:21 Cernan Okay; right there.
117:34:22 Schmitt You like it?
117:34:23 Cernan Like it.
117:34:24 Schmitt Okay. You got it.
117:34:26 Cernan Not yet. You got some fenders and stuff for me - -
117:34:28 Schmitt I was going to get my cable. I thought you said I could work on the cable.
117:34:30 Cernan Ohh.
117:34:31 Schmitt You're putting me farther and farther behind.
117:34:35 Cernan Oop.
117:34:35 Schmitt Don't forget your post.
117:34:37 Cernan Okay.
117:34:37 PAO The crew's right on the EVA timeline.
117:34:41 Schmitt Okay. Pull pins. I can see a little yellow ... inside.
117:34:48 Cernan Okay. The post is up.
117:34:53 Schmitt Hinge pins.
117:34:54 Cernan Okay. Yours is in, but mine is not.
117:34:57 Schmitt Well - neither's my outboard one.
117:34:59 Cernan My outboard is in, but my inboard ... not.
117:35:06 Schmitt And my outboard isn't.
117:35:08 Cernan Well.
117:35:10 Schmitt That's supposed to do it. But it didn't. Let me get the contingency tool and try and push those things closed.
117:35:18 Schmitt Okay. Be care -
117:35:30 Cernan There's a piece of glass I picked up. I'm going to set it right on the floor of the Rover. Jack, let me get that tool. We got to get those pins in, I think.
117:35:54 Cernan Bob, you got any words on the yellow pins on the rear chassis?
117:35:57 CC Roger. The best way to put those in, if you've tried bouncing the chassis, would be to push them with the contingency tool. ... I think, what you're going to do.
117:36:09 Schmitt That's affirm. Can you get that, Geno?
117:36:22 Schmitt Need some help?
117:36:26 Cernan Nope. Well, I found how to get up.
117:36:45 Schmitt Did you fall down?
117:36:45 Cernan Well, this thing was in the mud down here. We'll find out in a minute.
117:36:55 Cernan Okay, Jack. Got an out one here, huh?
117:36:59 Schmitt Yes. Let me try to push it in.
117:37:06 Cernan Okay. Yours is in.
117:37:09 Schmitt Good.
117:37:14 Cernan Can I get mine in?
117:37:19 Schmitt Want me to get it?
117:37:20 Cernan Well, yes. Can you reach it from there? it's a nice firm ... on it. Almost. A little more. Wait a minute. Let me get it - let me get it right - Okay; push. It's in. It's in.
117:37:36 Schmitt Very good. Why don't you put that between the seats ?
117:37:38 Cernan Yes, Okay. Bob, they're in.
117:37:42 CC Copy that.
117:37:46 Cernan Okay. Now where was I? I got my fender, got the post, got to get the seat.
117:37:56 Schmitt Ready?
117:37:56 Cernan I'm going to take it a little slower here in a minute.
117:37:58 Schmitt Yes.
117:38:01 Cernan Just a little bit slower in a minute.
117:38:05 Schmitt The blush is off the rose. Okay, your front pin is in. And both of mine are in.
117:38:14 Cernan Okay. ...
117:38:26 Schmitt Not quite as easy as in the training building.
117:38:29 Cernan Well, it's a case of knowing how to play in 1/6 g, is what it amounts to. Okay. Okay. I'm ready on the - that locked?
117:38:43 Schmitt Yes. It's locked.
117:38:44 Cernan Let me get the seat down. Okay. I got the console.
117:38:49 Schmitt Okay; and I got the handle.
117:38:51 Cernan Okay; mine's pulled.
117:38:52 Schmitt Mine's pulled.
117:38:53 Cernan Come on down, baby. Here it comes. Stiff, but come on.
117:38:57 Schmitt There it is.
117:38:58 Cernan Okay; make sure your T locks.
117:39:00 Schmitt I'm not - you're not all the way down yet, Gene.
117:39:01 Cernan Yes. I'm locked. There you go.
117:39:05 Schmitt Okay. Okay, I'm locked and secured. Okay.
117:39:21 Cernan Oh, Jack, I put a little piece of glass I picked up right by the Rover, here.
117:39:24 Schmitt Yes. Okay.
117:39:25 Cernan Just a little piece. I'm going to leave it right behind your footstool. It just - just sparkled at me. I had to pick it up. Okay?
117:39:31 Schmitt That's yours. Your sample for the day.
117:39:36 Cernan I doubt that. Man, I tell you, zero g is a piece of cake if you - or 1/6 g, if you'd play it right.
117:39:46 Schmitt Okay, Gene, you've got - fenders, your pin was good. I checked that. I could see mine too. Mine are okay, and you'll have to check your outside ones.
117:39:59 Cernan Okay. My two pins are good here.
117:40:01 Schmitt Yes. And mine are good.
117:40:02 Cernan This one isn't quite flush. Almost. It's good.
117:40:06 Schmitt I'm going to pull your flags. Oops, I bent that one - that one. And your attitude indicator is free.
117:40:12 PAO BTU expenditure for each crewman averaging 1,300, surgeon reports.
117:40:19 Cernan Man, look at that stuff go, will you?
117:40:19 CC And, Jack, this is Houston. We're seeing - Looks like your water temperature's getting pretty high. You might want to go to intermediate cooling or slow down or something. Looks like you're getting a little warm.
117:40:39 Cernan You hear them, Jack?
117:40:40 Schmitt Yes. I got it. Thank you, Bob.
117:40:43 Cernan Okay, Jack, get that cable, because I tripped over it coming back.
117:40:47 Schmitt Yes. I'll get it.
117:40:48 Cernan Okay. Let's see. Verify hinge pins and seal. Erect seat, seat - seatbelt. Armrest is lowered, pull T-handle, console's lowered. Tripod apex is gone both sides. Tool behind footrest; that's done. Front hinge pins are in. Erect footrest. Extend front fenders; they're down. Verify batt covers are closed. They are closed. And let's keep them clean. Man, do these gloves fit good.
117:41:21 CC Okay, and 17 you're right on schedule.
117:41:23 Cernan Okay. Thank you, Bob. Did you tell Captain America we're on the surface?
117:41:40 CC Roger. We broke the news to him awhile ago.
117:41:48 Cernan Okay, next spacecraft to powerup is going to commence right now.
117:41:59 PAO Rover test drive coming up soon. And then we'll get to television after that.
117:42:04 Schmitt Okay. That takes care of that little job.
117:42:08 Schmitt How's my cooling look now, Bob? Oops.
117:42:11 CC Roger. It's come down quite a bit. You were 86, and now it's down to 75. Looks much better. We didn't want you to sweat.
117:42:20 Schmitt Well, I'm just a hot geologist; that's all.
117:42:23 CC Or something.
117:42:43 Cernan Somebody kicked dirt all over the MESA. Let's see if there is any life - in this here baby.
117:43:06 Cernan Okay. Getting up and on.
117:43:13 Schmitt Give me a yell when you start to go, and I'll try to be sure to be there with the camera.
117:43:16 Cernan Okay.
117:43:25 Cernan Big bag is deployed.
117:43:29 CC Copy that.
117:43:44 Schmitt Well, the seat belt fits perfect.
117:43:49 Cernan Shoot. I thought I was going to get to drive. Man, I got so much dust over my visor already, I got to wipe it off. Get that lens brush; I want you to dust me off a little later, Jack.
117:44:03 Schmitt The lens brush?
117:44:05 Cernan Well, I've got to dust wy visor off with something
117:44:07 CC Roger. Don't use your glove or dust brush there.
117:44:09 Cernan Okay; when I was bringing that -
117:44:13 Schmitt No, we'll use the lens brush, Bob.
117:44:15 CC Roger.
117:44:16 Cernan Okay. Let's try to see if I can read in this Sun now. Rotate the hand controller. Let's wipe it out a couple of times to make sure we got all the the steering. She's wiped out. She goes forward and she goes reverse. She's back in forward; she's wiped out, and she's in park. Reverse is down. Okay, here we go. Stand by for life. It ought to be on this one. There's life in this here baby. Beautiful.
117:45:10 Schmitt I don't know who's responsible for packing this ETB, but I think it was me. You didn't by any chance pick up those scissors, did you?
117:45:20 Cernan No, sir.
117:45:21 Schmitt They're going to be hard to find, but I think we can do it.
117:45:25 Cernan Well, they were right down there, unless you picked them up. That's exactly where the Rover tool was, too, and I picked it up, so it's - they're probably there. I didn't see them though. Okay.
117:45:37 Schmitt Okay. I got my camera.
117:45:39 Cernan All the breakers closed except NAV.
117:45:44 Schmitt The old 4 o'clock pan.
117:45:47 Cernan Okay, Houston. Amp-hours, I'm reading 115, Amps are 0. Volts are 82 and 82. Batteries are - 95 and 110. FORWARD MOTORS are off scale low, off scale low, and REARS are off scale low, off scale low. Houston, you with us?
117:46:25 CC Roger. We copy that.
117:46:29 Cernan Okay.
117:46:35 Cernan DRIVE ENABLE, FORWARD ... time-1. Take it nice and easy. Here we go at time-2. And that is BOTH; I know that. That's SECONDARY. Okay; STEERING, go FORWARD to A - -
117:47:00 Schmitt Boy, it's hard to see in that Sun.
117:47:02 Cernan -- and REAR to D, and REAR to D. DRIVE POWER FORWARD is going to A. I didn't feel any Earth-shaking rumbles like I do in the - in the trainer, but let's see what happens.
117:47:24 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm going to find out in a minute.
117:47:31 Schmitt Okay.
117:47:34 Cernan Okay. Here we go. Okay. The runt - the fright - the front wheels turn. I can't see the rear ones.
117:47:43 Schmitt I'll verify them in a minute.
117:47:44 Cernan Okay. I can't see the rear ones, but I know the front ones turn. And it does move. Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Houston! Challenger's baby is on the roll.
117:48:01 CC Roger. Copy that. Sounds great.
117:48:06 Cernan And judging - judging from the way it's handling, I think the rear wheels are steering too.
117:48:18 CC That's a first.
117:48:20 Cernan What do you see, Jack?
117:48:24 Schmitt Well, I - you're wrong angle. Yes, they're turning.
117:48:27 Cernan How does that grab you?
117:48:28 Schmitt They're turning.
117:48:28 CC How about that?
117:48:30 Schmitt Come towards me, baby. Looks like it's moving.
117:48:38 Cernan Oh, boy. Keep moving.
117:48:50 Schmitt Don't run over me.
117:48:51 Cernan Don't worry. Man, if they don't like this.
117:48:58 Cernan How's that?
117:48:59 Schmitt Let me - Let me move back.
117:49:00 Cernan Okay. How's the time line, Bob?
117:49:09 CC As far as I can tell, you guys are right on within a minute or 2.
117:49:16 Schmitt They're just a little high for me, Geno.
117:49:18 Cernan Okay.
117:49:20 Schmitt I'm not sure I can get it without getting way away.
117:49:22 Cernan Okay. Don't worry.
117:49:24 Schmitt Somebody said it was going to be just behind the south end. (Laughter)
117:49:28 Cernan Okay. I'm going to take a little spin around here, and I'll meet you at the front end.
117:49:32 Schmitt Okay.
117:49:35 Cernan Boy, there's a lot of static, though, everytime I start driving.
117:50:10 Schmitt I know what that was over there, I think. Let me see. Whee! Okay, Houston. The basic material around the LM is just what I said, a fine-grained, medium-gray regolith-appearing material that is the standard area's population. The craters, though, bigger than about a meter in diameter, seem to - get to - rock fragments, which I haven't yet learned how to pick up.
117:51:05 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm going to give them our position here. I think I know exactly where we are now.
117:51:12 Schmitt Well, once you get them dirty, just like the boys say, it's hard to tell what they are.
117:51:19 Cernan Okay, Houston. I'm - I'm parked right next to Barjea. And we are, from Barjea, 12 o'clock - Jack, how far - oh, you can't see. You're looking, at the Sun. I guess about 150 meters due west of Barjea. And that's why we looked so close to Trident. I'm coming right up on Poppy. No question about where I am now. I've got Trident, and when I get up there - We are abeam of Trident 1, just where I said we were. I'm right at Poppy. We're about - oh, 100 meters just about due - due west of Poppy, which is almost in line with Barjea, of course, but basically, on that line, I think, between Rudolph and Trident 1. And, as I look at it in the cross section, about 100 meters - about 100 meters north of Trident 1. That's the landing point.
117:52:41 Cernan Sure get dirty fast. Jack, that is Trident right here that I - that we walked over to. (Laughing) I just got my first initiation to getting very dirty.
117:52:52 Schmitt You sure did (laughter). Where are you? Are you ready to go?
117:52:56 Cernan I'm coming right around the front now. Houston, did you get that position?
117:53:00 CC Roger. We copied that, Geno.
117:53:04 Cernan And Bob, I'm - I'm - I'm very firm of that now. I'm almost positive, unless I'm awfully mistaken about Trident. And I don't see how I could be from here. At the sacrifice of my cleanliness, Houston, the basic bright-colored rock type in the area looks very much like a cristobalite gabbros of the - I didn't see cristobalite, but it looks like the gabbros in the mare basalt sweep. The coarsegrained clinopyroxene plagioclase rocks.
117:53:48 CC Okay. We have that.
117:53:51 Cernan Okay, I'm going to park - How about along side - Am I gonna screw up that little crater with glass in it if I park there?
117:54:00 Schmitt Well, we will eventually.
117:54:03 Cernan Well, there's that one anyway. Let me park right here.
117:54:06 Schmitt I'm sure we'll find some more.
117:54:07 Cernan Yes - Jack, where you been?
117:54:12 Schmitt I fell down.
117:54:14 Cernan Okay, that's about close enough. isn't it.
117:54:16 Schmitt Yes.
117:54:17 Cernan Okay, she is locked.
117:54:18 Schmitt Here, let me get the 15-volt supply.
117:54:21 Cernan I think this camera is probably a little dirty on the lens. Okay, Houston. We're parked. No, the lens is okay. When you uncover one of those lens brushes, I want to use it on my visor. Oh, boy.
117:54:41 Cernan It just takes a little getting used to the 1/6 g, Jack.
117:54:44 Schmitt I want to put this camera over here right now, because it's pretty dirty to put back in that bag. Okay, get to work.
117:54:56 CC Roger. We copy that guys. You're about 7 minutes behind right now.
117:54:56 Cernan LRV front configure. Whoops. Hold it. Hold it.
117:55:03 Cernan What!? Okay, we'll catch up.
117:55:10 Schmitt I haven't quite learned how to pick up rocks in my hands yet, Bob, or I would of had you a sample. That's why I fell down. My day will come (singing). Oh, oh! it's an old blue traverse gravimeter.
117:55:32 Cernan Okay. On the plains of Taurus-Littrow. What a valley. I'd like to cut down here, through here, with a P-38 sometime.
117:55:45 Schmitt That'll be the day.
117:55:47 Cernan Yes, it will.
117:55:49 Schmitt Whoa there.
117:55:51 Cernan You never know.
117:55:53 Schmitt Friend of mine - -
117:55:54 Cernan Install LCRU, lock posts; I'll get that. Okay. That's the next big hooker, the LCRU.
117:56:03 Schmitt Okay, geopallet's off the LM.
117:56:06 CC Copy that.
117:56:09 Cernan You know, you just got to take it easy until you learn to work in 1/6 g.
117:56:13 Schmitt Well, I haven't learned to pick up rocks, which is a very embarrassing thing for a geologist.
117:56:18 Cernan Yes, I look like an elephant stumbling around here.
117:56:26 Cernan Careful with the LCRU. One dust cover came off. Careful with this baby. That's the real one.
117:56:44 Schmitt Boy, you sure move that Rover around when you do that.
117:56:57 Schmitt Hey, the geopallet is locked on.
117:57:02 CC Copy that.
117:57:27 Schmitt I'm getting pretty good at throwing things; already.
117:57:58 Cernan Man, that thing won't want to go on. That's because it's not in there. Put it in right, and it goes on.
117:58:07 Cernan Okay, the power cable's on to TCU, Bob.
117:58:10 CC Got that.
117:58:24 Schmitt TGE is on. 22 - oh, you just want the last ones. Okay, 07.
117:58:34 CC Okay. Copy that.
117:58:35 Schmitt 07.
117:58:42 Cernan God, the dirtiest checklist in the world. (laughter)
117:58:47 Schmitt Doesn't take long, does it? Doesn't take long.
117:59:04 Cernan Manischewitz, look at that go! Did you see that?
117:59:07 Schmitt I wish you'd be more careful.
117:59:09 Cernan What?
117:59:10 Cernan No, no, no! Not the television camera! (Laughter)
117:59:20 Schmitt Okay.
117:59:22 Cernan It's warm out here, you know?
117:59:25 Schmitt I'm certainly glad I got cool.
117:59:27 Cernan Okay, the TCU is locked in.
117:59:33 Schmitt Houston, I've seen an awful lot of rocks, as I worked here. They look just like those pyroxene gabbros that I mentioned. The pyroxene's iridescent in the bright sun. The grain size is about - oh, between - maybe the mean is 2 millimeters, with max maybe up at 3 or 4. And it looks like predominantly a pyroxene plagioclase rock - clinopyroxene, but I haven't looked at it real closely.
118:00:12 PAO Cernan mounting the television on the Rover now.
118:00:17 Cernan Okay, Jack. I set the rake on the - -
118:00:19 Schmitt Beautiful.
118:00:20 Cernan - - on the seat. I just haven't learned - I'm getting more finesse now. I think you can overwork yourself, instead of making use of the 1/6 gravity.
118:00:33 Schmitt Yes.
118:00:33 Cernan It's going to take a whole EVA to get familiar.
118:00:36 Schmitt Well, I hope it doesn't.
118:00:39 Cernan I find I'm using my arms almost as much as I ever did. I remember the last time I was on the Moon - about 2 hours ago.
118:00:52 Schmitt Okay, guess what? That old hammer goes to the gate top. The blue-handled hammer. What more could you want?
118:01:01 PAO Schmitt is loading tools onto the Rover.
118:01:11 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm getting a low gain out now.
118:01:15 CC Okay. Copy on that.
118:01:34 Schmitt ... like the Rover, huh, Geno?
118:01:35 Cernan Beautiful.
118:01:35 Schmitt I just couldn't feel it murmur when I pressed the breakers in. I could feel life in it, but - -
118:01:41 Cernan Hey, you let me down, sport. You let me down. There's a pin you didn't pull.
118:01:44 Cernan Okay, I'll let you get that; keep you honest.
118:01:49 Schmitt Not only keep me honest. There.
118:02:06 Schmitt Okay. Where am I? Okay. Gnomon's an island. Actually, up here, it's a geometric reference for photogramat - grat - photogrammetry.
118:02:22 Cernan Would you believe that the doggone antenna - here - Jack. When I bend this, pull the -
118:02:33 Schmitt Okay.
118:02:34 Cernan Pull the antenna.
118:02:35 Schmitt Rather awkward.
118:02:36 Cernan Pull the - pull the antenna. I got to open it up to get it out.
118:02:39 Schmitt Okay. Big connector, you know.
118:02:41 Cernan Yes, connector was wedged in there.
118:02:44 Schmitt Well, that's probably the way it was designed.
118:02:47 Cernan Boy, don't drop any of those connectors on the - -
118:02:50 Schmitt Look at that go.
118:02:52 Cernan - - in the dust. We'll never clean them out.
118:02:58 Schmitt Dum dee dum dum dum. (singing)
118:03:05 Cernan Good thing we're well coordinated human beings.
118:03:08 Schmitt Man, I can't believe - yes I can.
118:03:11 Cernan Okay, let's see. Do it right now.
118:03:13 Schmitt Yes, I can.
118:03:17 Cernan See that?
118:03:19 Schmitt Yes.
118:03:20 Cernan Which way are you going to put it on?
118:03:22 Schmitt Well, I thought maybe I would put it on that way, so I will put it on this way, because that's probably right.
118:03:27 Cernan If you put it on right, you're going to disappoint me.
118:03:37 Schmitt Oh, I hate to touch - touch the old gnomon. I'll do my best, to please.
118:03:48 Cernan Very bad general - -
118:03:50 Schmitt Okay, Bob the low gain is - -
118:03:51 Cernan - - will never forgive me.
118:03:52 Schmitt - - low gain is hooked up.
118:03:56 CC Okay. We copy the low gain hooked up.
118:04:03 PAO EVA has been underway an hour and 3 minutes, now.
118:04:21 Schmitt Dum da dum dum (singing) The rake - the rake is on the extension handle.
118:04:36 CC Roger, 17.
118:04:40 Schmitt My king - my kingdom for a scoop.
118:04:48 Cernan The scoop is on the extension handle. Different extension handle's of course.
118:04:54 Schmitt Go ahead Bob. Were you calling?
118:04:57 CC Roger. And your exuberance is showing up on the BTUs. You're running a little high on those.
118:05:05 Cernan Okay.
118:05:07 Schmitt Exuberance! I've never been calmer in my life ...
118:05:13 Cernan Okay, let's get - we'll take it easy, Bob. I think it's a great deal a part to just get accustomed to handling yourself in zero gravity, the only vice on the Moon.
118:05:24 CC Roger. I thought you were at 1/6 g.
118:05:29 Cernan Yes. You know where we are, whatever.
118:05:35 Schmitt Okay, old sample bag -
118:05:41 Cernan Sample containment bag, sample collection bag, or whatever. ... What is this thing called crazy (singing). Come on. Okay, that's there. Some of the simplest things in the world you forget. Okay, let's get this one right this time.
118:06:27 Schmitt You did a great job of parking, so I was standing in a hole.
118:06:32 Cernan Don't want to mess up all those good looking craters around here.
118:06:44 Schmitt Oop! Hang on there accessory staff. Accessory staff, huh? Most staffs are accessory I've learned.
118:06:54 Schmitt Okay, Bob the high gain is up and connected.
118:06:57 CC Okay. Copy that. Beautiful.
118:06:59 Schmitt And raised.
118:07:03 Cernan Okay.
118:07:03 Schmitt Cable is to staff. See if I can't get your TV camera.
118:07:08 CC We're waiting with breathless anticipation.
118:07:11 Schmitt Ah, let's keep them in - -
118:07:15 Cernan Well, how is my cooling doing? I'd like to stay on intermediate, Bob. I feel pretty comfortable. I'm not cold but I'm pleasant.
118:07:23 Schmitt Pleasant, ha! He thinks he's pleasant.
118:07:24 CC You're fine, no problem; your option, Geno.
118:07:26 Cernan Okay, I just don't want to run out of consumables about 6 or 7 hours.
118:07:36 Schmitt You're about as - Oh well. Okay. I don't think it makes any difference. You got to use the heat. Matter of fact, that's one of the little known facts of this business, Gene.
118:07:49 Cernan Okay, here we go. Coming up. I've got the TV camera in my hand, Bob. Oh man. Hey, Jack, just stop. You owe yourself 30 seconds to look up over the South Massif and look at the Earth.
118:08:06 Schmitt What? The Earth?
118:08:09 Cernan Just look up there.
118:08:10 Schmitt You seen one Earth, you've seen them all.
118:08:12 Cernan No you haven't, babe. When you begin to believe that. Come on camera, go in there ...
118:08:22 Schmitt I'll look in a minute, Gene. But I tell you, once I start this little operation, if I don't finish it, it never gets done.
118:08:31 Cernan Okay, get in there. Okay, that's in there. That's in there.
118:08:39 Cernan Camera is locked down. Okay, ..., TCU, sunshade the camera and then the cable. Okay, let me get the sunshade.
118:08:54 Schmitt Woo! That's always more of a job than it ought to be. However, SCB-3 is on the handhold.
118:09:07 Cernan I think I'm getting smarter about 1/6 g.
118:09:14 Schmitt That gate works great. Snaps in, snaps closed with the slightest flick of a coordinated wrist. Where is that camera anyway?
118:09:23 Cernan Oh, it's over here. Oh, boy. I just still barely see the scissors.
118:09:32 Schmitt I ought to get those.
118:09:35 Cernan Yes, but when we go hungry.
118:09:36 Schmitt I'm not sure I can.
118:09:37 Cernan Okay, don't. Okay, we'll - we'll get them when we get the tongs out, Jack.
118:09:40 Schmitt Yes.
118:09:40 Cernan There are some tongs in the Rover, and I'll come over and get them in a minute.
118:09:44 CC Roger, Challenger. And we refrained from mentioning that to Ron.
118:09:51 Cernan Tell him - Tell him I hope he's enjoying our scissors. Okay, Bob, the TV is connected to the TCU electrically. The sunshade is on. I've got to deploy the high gain.
118:10:09 Schmitt Okay, now, well let's see how smart you are. That was a pretty good attitude you parked at.
118:10:18 Cernan Okay, Jack is the high gain away from my antenna. Can you see?
118:10:24 Schmitt Let me turn around. Yes. You're clear.
118:10:30 Cernan Okay, it's locked. Locked. Now let me see if I can find beautiful big dot up there. I know what I'm going to have to do. I'm going to have to get the, oh, I got it right there. Might be able to peak that but I got that.
118:10:57 Schmitt You hit it, huh?
118:11:01 Cernan Put my hand over it, so I could see it.
118:11:04 Schmitt Hey, that's an interesting problem. Your seat won't stay up.
118:11:09 Cernan How about that piece of Velcro there.
118:11:11 Schmitt That's just what I'm working on there. Great minds think alike. Okay, that goes in there. The trouble is to reach it, I've got -
118:11:46 Cernan Okay, I'll bet you it says put MAG Bravo.
118:11:49 Schmitt Oh, yours is in a circle.
118:11:51 Cernan Okay, check LCRU. Deploy LCRU with antenna. Okay. Deploy the LCRU with antenna. Blanket's open 100 percent.
118:12:14 Schmitt Come on, baby, open. Ponna, it goes.
118:12:20 Cernan Oh, are those mirrors nice. I hope they stay that way for a while.
118:12:24 Schmitt They won't. John and Charlie know exactly what we're talking about. Mark my words.
118:12:37 Cernan Okay, I'm going to close the circuit breaker, Bob.
118:12:43 Cernan Okay, circuit breaker is CLOSED.
118:12:46 CC Copy that.
118:12:46 Cernan POWER switch is INTERNAL. POWER switch is INTERNAL. Okay, let me give you some - some numbers. AGC is 3 point - about 3.4; temp is about 1.8; and power is about 2.1. Okay; POWER to EXTERNAL.
118:13:18 CC We caught those, Geno.
118:13:22 Cernan Okay, POWER is EXTERNAL. MODE SWITCH is going to two FM/TV. Okay. Man, did you peak out at signal strength of 40.
118:13:34 Schmitt I can't see right now, but I think I've still got you right in the center.
118:13:40 Cernan Okay, POWER switch on to TCU. Okay, it's on to TCU. Okay, AGC and POWER. Yes sir, Bob, I'm verifying at 40. That's a good Navy term, 40 on the AGC.
118:13:59 CC Copy that.
118:14:02 Cernan And the TV is all yours.
118:14:03 PAO We've got a picture coming in.
118:14:04 CC Roger. Have you got a power reading there for us there Geno?
118:14:06 Cernan I hope. Okay, I'll give you a power reading, EXTERNAL, if you want it. I'll give you - TEMP is still about 17 and POWER is about 18 on EXTERNAL.
118:14:20 CC Hey, we have a picture, 17. We have a picture.
118:14:23 Cernan You have? Beautiful, babe. It's all yours. I hope it moves now.
118:14:29 CC It does.
118:14:30 Cernan I hope it moves. You'll find out - hey! it moves. It's alive.
118:14:36 CC And.
118:14:36 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to get SRC 1.
118:14:39 CC Okay, could we have a EMU check on you fellows when convenient?
118:14:45 Cernan Okay. Commander is 3.8 plus. I'm - I must be 80 percent and no flags and no tones.
118:14:56 CC Copy that.
118:14:58 Schmitt Okay, LMP is - LMP is about 80, let me see - 75, about 80 percent, and no flags, no tones. I've got 83 percent.
118:15:21 CC Okay, copy that. And you've sure got a lot of stuff on the Rover already.
118:15:28 Schmitt Yes, MAG Helen has just gone into the bag - into the seat.
118:15:33 CC Copy that.
118:15:39 PAO That was Jack Schmitt on the screen.
118:15:44 Schmitt MAG Cynthia is in there.
118:15:52 Cernan Okay, Bob, SRC 1 is open.
118:15:57 Schmitt Gail is in.
118:16:08 Cernan Jack, watch these SRCs. I don't like the lock on this cable very well.
118:16:11 Schmitt They never have.
118:16:24 CC Okay, and Jack. You did get that mag?.
118:16:25 Schmitt Okay.
118:16:26 CC Charlie as well?
118:16:30 Schmitt That's affirm.
118:16:31 CC Okay. And we did not copy your cuff gauge reading down here.
118:16:38 Schmitt Oh, you didn't? Well, maybe that's because I didn't give it to you. 3.9, no wonder that's so much work.
118:16:45 CC Go ahead. Copy that.
118:16:54 Cernan Okay, Bob, SRC 1 is - She sure won't stay in the MESA ...
118:17:04 Schmitt Let me try that. Okay, that will stay there.
118:17:08 Cernan Okay, Bob. It's closed. It sure doesn't seem like it wants to stay there, though. And the organic sample has been sealed.
118:17:16 CC Copy that.
118:17:16 Cernan I guess you believe we're here now, huh?
118:17:18 CC Now we believe you're here. We see you in person.
118:17:20 Cernan Okay. Bob, the - Bob, the SRC cover will not stay closed. It just slowly springs up. There's nothing I can seem to do for it. I might be able to set something, a blanket, on top or something.
118:17:35 CC Okay, stand by on that. We'll get back with you.
118:17:39 Cernan Okay. I'm putting - yes, it just flops open. I'm taking SCB 1 to the Tool Gate.
118:17:48 CC Copy that.
118:17:49 Cernan I'll get me a hammer, and I'll give you a gravimeter reading.
118:17:52 Schmitt No, you won't. Not until you're done. I'll go get the flag there. Guess what? We're here again.
118:18:04 PAO Cernan has the red band around his arm.
118:18:08 Schmitt The Buddy SLSS is on the Rover. Okay, ETB. Okay, CDR's camera film magazine I had to work on a little bit to get it to work but it's working.
118:18:29 CC Copy that.
118:18:32 Schmitt If I get that camera, you can punch the gravimeter, I think.
118:18:37 Cernan Okay. Get the camera, and I'll give them a gravimeter reading. is that all you need? Because I'll go get the flag.
118:18:44 Schmitt Okay, you'd better let that - yes, but why don't when you go - let me get some tongs, too. We need to salvage those - -
118:18:54 Cernan Okay.
118:18:55 Schmitt - - scissors.
118:19:03 Cernan Okay.
118:19:04 Schmitt Okay. Let me steady the Rover ...
118:19:07 Cernan Okay, Bob.
118:19:09 Cernan MARK: Gravimeter and the light is flashing.
118:19:13 CC Okay. We copy that.
118:19:24 Schmitt Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie. Where the coyotes howl, and the wind blows free. (Singing) Okay.
118:19:36 Cernan Okay, where am I?
118:19:38 Schmitt You're doing a gravimeter, getting the flag. I've got your camera. I'm going to salvage the scissors.
118:19:42 Cernan Okay, get the scissors, and I'll be putting the flag in. And don't no near the Rover.
118:19:49 Schmitt Don't go near the water. That reminds me of a good book. Oh boy. I can't go near the Rover.
118:20:11 Cernan Let me tell you.
118:20:12 Schmitt No, I can't go near the Rover.
118:20:14 Cernan Why don't you set them - -
118:20:15 Schmitt How about you letting me stick these in your pocket with your - -
118:20:18 Cernan No. Set them up there. Just set them in there. We'll get them when we come back in.
118:20:22 Schmitt Okay. I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
118:20:25 Cernan Just set them inside the - put them in the -
118:20:30 Schmitt I'm going to hang them here on the hook.
118:20:31 Cernan Okay, that's good.
118:20:33 Schmitt Right there.
118:20:35 Cernan Okay, Jack. How about the flag right over here in this little mound?
118:20:43 Schmitt Which mound?
118:20:43 Cernan Well, let me take a look around.
118:20:44 Schmitt How about right up there on that little high point. Right up in here where I'm going.
118:20:47 Cernan Yes. Of course, your idea of a high point might be different than mine.
118:20:52 Schmitt I meant the North Massif. (Laughter)
118:20:55 Cernan That's probably the best place in the world for the flag, is right up on the top.
118:21:00 Schmitt Okay, let me come over and help you. How about right - how about right? Well, we'll find out ...
118:21:06 PAO The flag they're deploying is the flag that has been in the mission control center here during past missions.
118:21:13 Cernan Yes. Hey, you're in the edge of the crater though, That's no test.
118:21:16 Schmitt Well, that's all right. Move right over here near your tire tracks.
118:21:19 Cernan Yes. This is a high point right here.
118:21:21 Schmitt Yes, that's good. Right there.
118:21:24 Cernan Well, that wasn't too good.
118:21:26 Schmitt Okay, let me give it a few whacks. Oh, baloney.
118:21:34 Cernan Okay. Watch your fingers. Now that wasn't too bad. Want to make sure it stands up. That's getting pretty - I can - I - well - we'll - we can probably - what we could do - I don't know how far we could drill - -
118:21:47 Schmitt Boing! I think you hit something solid with that one.
118:21:51 Cernan No, it was still going.
118:21:52 Schmitt Yes, but did you ever see it vibrate like that?
118:21:53 Cernan No, I've never put a flag up on the Moon before.
118:21:57 Schmitt What? Pull that end.
118:22:02 Cernan (Laughter) You'll have to get it down to my level. Tall guys are all alike.
118:22:08 Schmitt Wait, I'm not through.
118:22:12 Cernan Okay. How about getting it stretched out?
118:22:18 Schmitt I will. I Just can't start forward as fast as I would like to. Hate to touch it, my hands are so dirty.
118:22:36 Cernan Okay?
118:22:39 Schmitt Well, it's going to want to curl. Maybe it'll - it sort of looks like it's waving in the breeze.
118:22:46 Cernan Yes sir. How about right there?
118:22:54 Schmitt Take a couple this way, and we'll take a couple that way. How's that?
118:22:57 Cernan Oh, I ought to get - let me get over to the other side - you can get the Rover in the background.
118:22:59 Schmitt Yeah, and the LM.
118:23:04 Cernan It does wave when you do that.
118:23:09 CC We've got a beautiful picture of you guys up - down there.
118:23:15 Cernan Let me tell you, Bob. This flag is a beautiful picture. You see that?
118:23:20 Schmitt Okay, you're - it's partially covering the Rover, but I think it's a pretty good shot. How's that? Let me get the focus right.
118:23:36 Schmitt I don't know where to put it.
118:23:37 Cernan There you go. Wait a minute.
118:23:40 Schmitt It's all right I got you reaching for the flag.
118:23:43 Cernan How's that?
118:23:47 Schmitt That's very good, Gene. Let me get it in stereo.
118:23:51 Cernan Houston - -
118:23:53 Schmitt That's beautiful.
118:23:55 Cernan This has got to be one of the most proud moments of my life. I guarantee you. Let you get a close in one and we'll trade cameras. Houston, I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but this - this flag has flown in the MOCR since Apollo 11. And we very proudly deploy it on the Moon, to stay for as long as it can, in honor of all those people who have worked so hard to put us here and to put every other crew here and to make the country, United States and mankind, something different than it was.
118:24:52 CC Roger, 17 - And presuming to speak on behalf of some of those that work on the MOCR, we thank you very much.
118:25:05 Cernan Back right where you were. Step to the right. Right there.
118:25:19 Schmitt Yes, that's alright. I'll keep it down.
118:25:35 Schmitt Stay there. Get closer. I'm going to get on the other side.
118:25:46 Cernan Well, I want to get something here.
118:25:49 Schmitt What's that?
118:25:50 Cernan I want to get the Earth.
118:25:52 Schmitt Okay. Let me get over here.
118:25:54 Cernan Get around on that side.
118:25:57 Schmitt I don't - I don't think it's going - you're a little close, maybe. Get them both in focus.
118:26:10 Cernan That might do it. Try that one time, then we'll give up and get to work.
118:26:28 Schmitt Higher up a little - yes.
118:26:34 Schmitt Let me try it again, okay? I don't know, Geno, okay? Let me get over here closer to you. Okay. That might have got it.
118:26:49 Cernan Okay, very good.
118:26:51 Schmitt Okay.
118:26:53 Cernan Alright, let's do it. You think your gravimeter's ready so I can go back there?
118:27:02 CC Roger, 17. The gravimeter's ready and a couple of words here. One, I presume you found the scissors, right?
118:27:11 Schmitt Yes, sir.
118:27:12 CC Okay. Two -
118:27:12 Cernan Not Ron's, we found ours.
118:27:15 CC Roger. And the second thing is we do want the SRC closed. And if you can partially latch it, I'm not sure tha't easily done, that would be one solution. The other would be to put something on top of it to hold it closed.
118:27:31 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'll find something.
118:27:32 CC Okay, copy that. One of the brackets off the MESA would be something, or a rock that's nearby; that's another possibility.
118:27:44 Schmitt Okay. Gene, what are you going to be up to now?
118:27:48 Cernan I'm going to go get the - -
118:27:49 Schmitt ... pallet?
118:27:50 Cernan - - pallet.
118:27:51 Schmitt Okay, why don't - why don't I give the old - the old inspection here - bit. And I really ought to have my camera, shouldn't I?
118:28:02 Cernan I need a - -
118:28:03 Schmitt Yes.
118:28:04 CC Roger. That's affirmative.
118:28:04 Cernan ... on this.
118:28:06 Schmitt What would you just -
118:28:08 Cernan Well, I'll find something.
118:28:10 Schmitt I'll take the old CDR's camera. Not a bad camera to take.
118:28:16 Cernan Jack, I'm going to take the old gunny sack here, and put it over. That'll hold it down.
118:28:26 CC I presume you're talking about the big bag, Gene.
118:28:31 Cernan Yes, the big bag that was on the ladder. That's all it needs. It's just a little bit. There's just enough spring force in it. Okay, Houston. I think you've had all the good words about the LM. We have never flown a better LM. I guess that's safe enough to say. T he quads look great. The old steerables are aimed right at you. Rendezvous radar's in good shape. It's parked - looks like parallel to Z. Just about perfectly. There's no visible - I'm on the 3 o'clock position, plus Y. No visible contamination. There's a little bit of discoloration of the plume shield below the thrusters. The engine bell never touched the ground. It's about - 15 centimeters off the ground.
118:29:29 CC How's that for coming down gentle?
118:29:30 Cernan That's what you call okay number three wire, Jack.
118:29:35 Schmitt Hey, we never heard what our landing parameters were.
118:29:39 CC We'll worry about that later.
118:29:40 Cernan ... now that we're here.
118:29:41 Schmitt Oh, but they always - they always give them to us in the simulator. Hey, Bob, judging from what I see on my clock, we're not but about 5 minutes behind.
118:29:59 CC That agrees more or less with the way we read it.
118:30:04 Schmitt Gene had a little forward motion as I think you heard his call. And that shows up in the forward footpad at any rate or did. It looks like he may have hit tail first a little bit. That's embedded to the full pad depth. I see no - By George, Gene, you may have had a first. I think you stroked that thing.
118:30:32 Cernan I stroked what?
118:30:33 Schmitt The rear - the rear landing gear.
118:30:38 Cernan Well, we can measure it and find out.
118:30:40 Schmitt I'll take a picture of it.
118:30:46 Cernan May have stroked it. The Mylar, the lower orange Mylar, is folded a little bit.
118:30:53 CC Roger. There's word floating around down here about a typical Navy landing, but I'm not sure whether we believe it or not.
118:31:00 Schmitt He caught his tail hook. Say, Bob - -
118:31:03 CC That's the best way.
118:31:12 Schmitt - - Just behind the LM in that very fresh crater, I picked up an example of the kind of gabbro I was talking about. And I'll stick it in the big bag, except the big bag has disappeared.
118:31:35 Cernan Okay, I've got to give you a reading, Bob, if you're ready.
118:31:37 CC Ready.
118:31:39 Schmitt You put the big bag up - -
118:31:41 Cernan 670 003 101. That's 670 003 101.
118:31:49 CC Okay. We copy that.
118:31:52 Cernan Jack, I put that there to hold the SRC down.
118:31:56 Schmitt That's alright, I just put our sample in it. It's in the bottom of the bag. It's about 8 by 5 centimeters by 3 centimeters. Slightly tabular.
118:32:07 CC Okay. We copy that. It's in the big bag.
118:32:11 Schmitt Yes sir.
118:32:18 Cernan Okay, okay, Bob. A MARK on gravity.
118:32:22 CC Copy that.
118:32:24 Cernan And the light is flashing.
118:32:26 CC Copy that.
118:32:40 Cernan I've got to tell you, Bob. I haven't done everything there is to do in the Navy, but deploying that flag has got to be the most proud thing I'll ever do in my life. If you could see, and you could see it from where we are, I know you'd feel the same way.
118:32:57 CC Roger on that, Geno.
118:32:58 Schmitt Woo! (Laughter)
118:32:59 Cernan God, he's pretty up there. God, you're pretty up there over the South Massif. Beautiful.
118:33:07 Schmitt Hope nobody saw that.
118:33:09 Cernan Beautiful.
118:33:09 Schmitt Oh, they were watching me. (Laughter) Those finks. Okay, you weren't doing anything with this gravimeter on here, I hope.
118:33:17 Cernan No, its on the deck.
118:33:18 Schmitt Okay.
118:33:18 CC Okay, you might grab me a ... when you set it on there, Jack.
118:33:25 Schmitt Too late. Bob.
118:33:26 CC Okay.
118:33:26 Schmitt I'll get it later.
118:33:27 CC We'll get it later. No hurry.
118:33:32 Cernan Okay, now if I can figure how to get this off. You've got to educate us again.
118:33:38 Schmitt We may not remember those. Whoops.
118:33:43 Cernan Bob, the sceptre's in hand.
118:33:45 CC Roger on that.
118:33:58 Schmitt Okay. I'll give you a temperature. Let's see whether it fits. I'll bet it does.
118:34:14 PAO They're unloading the surface experiments, now.
118:34:19 Cernan Come on. Lock, baby. Okay, it's ON -
118:34:24 CC Copy that.
118:34:25 Cernan It's LOCKED.
118:34:26 CC Roger.
118:34:27 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Here's a temperature for you. Forty degrees.
118:34:35 CC Say again.
118:34:36 Schmitt 40.
118:34:37 CC Copy that.
118:34:43 Cernan Both covers. Okay, number 1 - something over here. Never did figure out what. Okay, Bob, the shade is deployed facing deep space.
118:35:07 CC Oh, Copy. Roger. Understand the cosmic rays.
118:35:14 Cernan Okay, Bob. The antenna is deployed. It's not on the post yet, but it's deployed.
118:35:44 Schmitt Oh, oh, come on. Don't get - don't get all caught on something. That's better, that's better. Okay, Bob. I think - just about got a - the sunside deployed, just as perpendicular to the Sun as I think anybody could do.
118:36:10 CC Okay. Copy that. Good enough.
118:36:15 Schmitt Okay, I don't have any pictures yet, so you might put that down as something to get later.
118:36:19 CC Yes, we'll catch that in the PAN with the next EVA or something like that.
118:36:22 Schmitt Man if that - Boy, if that antenna doesn't get some noise from outer space, I don't know what will. If they are out there, and they are I'm sure. They'll see that one. That is even weirder looking out here than it is in the high bay. Hey, Bob, before I leave the ALSEP, remind me to check the cosmic ray. I might hit it here in the process of deployment.
118:36:55 CC Okay, try not to.
118:36:57 Schmitt I got a little close.
118:36:58 CC Okay.
118:37:00 Cernan Oh, I will. Okay, the doors are open, beautifully.
118:37:19 Schmitt I don't know what talent you have for landing in holes, Cernan, but once again I'll be doing all the ALSEP work in the hole.
118:37:30 Cernan Okay.
118:37:30 CC Are you saying we should have kept the pulleys there, Jack?
118:37:37 Schmitt Okay. Yes, I need the pulleys.
118:37:40 Cernan You know, Bob, I've got a little bit of a problem here. I've got the SEP connector on. (Laughter) But it - it - it'll - it'll - it'll slide - slide down in, but the locking cover just won't go over.
118:37:58 CC Roger, Geno. Understand. It slides in far enough, you think it's aligned, huh?
118:38:05 Cernan Yes, I'm positive it's aligned. It just - it didn't appear to lock over, well not appear, it just won't lock over. I'm shoving it home. Okay, I got it.
118:38:16 CC Okay. Copy.
118:38:16 Cernan I got it. Makes everyone happier.
118:38:18 CC I'm glad we have the right solution to that one, Gene.
118:38:23 Cernan The right solution is the fact that you've got a man here doing it.
118:38:27 CC Laughter.
118:38:28 Cernan Okay. Hey, Bob. The ECA TEMP MONITOR switch is ON.
118:38:34 CC Copy that.
118:38:38 PAO Cernan working with the surface electrical properties receiver on the Rover.
118:39:03 Schmitt There's an easy way and a hard to do everything. Don't know why we don't do it the easy way. Payday. RTG is on the surface.
118:39:28 CC Copy that.
118:39:28 Schmitt Central station is ... Gene's little pitch-up makes these things slide out by themselves almost.
118:39:39 CC Better thank him next time you see him.
118:39:50 Cernan Okay. Hey, Jack, you notice there's none of those guys up there holding those hoses as we go around the LM.
118:40:02 Schmitt What do you mean? I saw one just a minute ago.
118:40:05 Cernan Okay, Bob. You want 4, 5, 6, and 7?
118:40:09 CC That's affirmative.
118:40:09 Cernan Okay, 4, 5, 6, and 7. It's coming off.
118:40:15 CC Roger on that.
118:40:19 Cernan Okay.
118:40:24 PAO That was a reference to the help they have during simulations.
118:40:38 Cernan Just took time out for a snack and a little water.
118:40:42 CC Okay.
118:40:45 Cernan Okay the - How's the TV working?
118:40:55 CC Beautiful - To coin a phrase, it's a panoramic scene of beauty.
118:41:05 Schmitt Oh, come on now, Bob.
118:41:08 Cernan Say, Bob, what do you think of the terrain?
118:41:11 CC Looks flat. Looks very flat and smooth.
118:41:19 Cernan That's why you're an astronomer.
118:41:21 Schmitt That's why you're - (laughter). Oh, well.
118:41:24 Cernan Okay, I'll give you a reading on the TGE if you're ready.
118:41:28 CC Roger, ready.
118:41:32 Cernan Oh, don't kick dust on it. Hope I can read it down here. Okay. Oh Bob. Bob, you're going to have to bear with me. When I leaned over to punch it, I hit GRAVITY instead of READ, so I guess I got to wait it out.
118:41:58 CC Okay. We'll set the timer again.
118:42:02 Cernan Okay, I'll - I should have been more - more careful. Okay. Orient pallet to the Sun. If you can see it, it's directly at the Sun so that ought to be good.
118:42:14 CC Okay, copy that.
118:42:22 Cernan The SRC doesn't have to be all the way closed does it?
118:42:25 CC No, Not all the way. Just as long as it'y most of the way closed. You can have a crack there in the top.
118:42:33 Cernan Okay, that's what it is. Man, I'll tell you. This - this thing got low all of a sudden. How are you coming, Jack?
118:42:49 Schmitt Great.
118:42:51 Cernan You get it fueled yet?
118:42:52 Schmitt Oh no. Okay, coming soon though.
118:42:56 Cernan Let me know if you have any problems with that.
118:42:59 Schmitt Oh, I will.
118:43:00 Cernan Okay. Come on bag. You're all I got. Man, I - there we go. (singing) Bob, that gravimeter went right to steady. It blinked once and went right to steady, so I don't expect it'll be too long.
118:43:24 CC Okay, I'll give you a call in a couple of minutes there. Ought to be done.
118:43:31 Cernan Okay.
118:43:32 CC And Jack. I understand you have the RTG fueled?
118:43:38 Schmitt Negative.
118:43:39 CC Okay.
118:43:40 Schmitt I'm supposed to call you when I have it fueled.
118:43:44 CC Okay.
118:43:45 Cernan Jack, do you have a - am I missing a map I should have up here?
118:43:50 Schmitt There should be two maps. They're under the seat. I put them in there so they wouldn't bounce off. I'm sorry. I forgot to tell you.
118:43:56 Cernan Okay, I got them.
118:44:03 Cernan Hello, Houston.
118:44:08 CC Hello, Challenger.
118:44:20 Schmitt I wish I could go back and make that landing about 6 or 7 times so I could take in all that I missed.
118:44:26 Cernan So do I. I might as well have stayed at the Cape. Okay. Let's see. Core bore neutron flux, and I'll get the drill and I'll go back and ...
118:44:39 CC Okay, and Geno, you know you might wander by the gravimeter. I think it might be done by now. You might just check the light and see if it's steady, or on or not.
118:44:50 Cernan Okay. I'll go by there right now, Bob.
118:45:28 Schmitt For future reference Bob, the dome removal tool doesn't - it'll turn. Shoot.
118:45:52 Cernan Okay, Bob, let's see. It's not lit. Can I take a reading?
118:45:56 CC Roger. If the light's out, give us a reading.
118:46:01 Cernan Well, let's see if I can push the right button this time. Okay, it's 670 017 201, 670 017 201. And it was about 75 percent in the shade of the Rover.
118:46:19 CC Okay. I copy that. And now we're ready for bias.
118:46:24 Cernan Now, you want - okay, a bias coming at you on the ground, correct?
118:46:28 CC Roger.
118:46:31 Cernan It's blinking - it's blinking, Bob.
118:46:33 CC Okay. Copy that.
118:46:34 Cernan I've got the core bag and the neutron flux, and -
118:46:35 Schmitt Gene, I need your hammer.
118:46:37 Cernan Okay, you need my help? Okay, coming over. What's the problem?
118:46:47 Schmitt Well, the dome removal tool never latched into the dome, but it turned it. I think it's pretty badly chewed up. I'm not sure what happened.
118:46:58 Cernan Oh, boy.
118:46:59 Schmitt So, let me have your hammer because I'm going to have to pry off the dome.
118:47:02 Cernan Can't you - -
118:47:04 Schmitt No. I - I, you see I - I've stripped it, I think. I didn't think I could do it.
118:47:12 Cernan No, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me -
118:47:14 Schmitt See, it's stripped. See, but it's open. Wait a minute. See, no wait, see? Just put your blade in there. Don't touch it. Put the blade in there and pry. It'll come, I hope.
118:47:33 Cernan Be careful. Here, let me get it once from this side. Can I -
118:47:38 Schmitt Gene, don't get so close. Move your hand - There, you got it. Nice work.
118:47:47 Cernan Okay, it's off. It's off.
118:47:50 Schmitt Nice work.
118:47:51 Cernan Whoo.
118:47:52 CC Roger. Once again we have the right solution.
118:47:57 Schmitt I'm not sure, Bob, what happened. You might ask them that if you only partially get the dome removal tool on, if you can strip the whole thing out?
118:48:08 CC Okay, we'll look at it ...
118:48:08 Schmitt It won't make much difference any more.
118:48:10 CC We'll make sure of its change on the next dome removal tool.
118:48:23 Cernan Bob, I'm just taking a breather.
118:48:25 CC Okay, we're watching you.
118:48:27 Schmitt That was a strange one, Gene. Did you see how I mangled that thing?
118:48:31 Cernan Yes.
118:48:32 Schmitt Okay, TRG is out.
118:48:34 Cernan Don't trip.
118:48:36 Schmitt Wouldn't think of it.
118:48:37 Cernan Okay, where was I? I've got to go back and get the drill, if I'm not mistaken. Yes sir, and then I'll be caught up with the TGE. Okay, Houston. The RTG is inserted. The element, that is -
118:48:55 CC Okay, We'll copy that.
118:49:02 Cernan Bob , I'll - I'll give you my word. Before we leave here, I'll make sure that the SRC is closed.
118:49:08 CC Okay. Copy that. As long as it's got only an inch or two showing there, should be no problem. That looks fine ...
118:49:17 Cernan Man, I've got to put something on it to get it down to that far.
118:49:20 CC Okay.
118:49:22 Cernan Okay.
118:49:26 Cernan Oh, that came out like a dream. Man, is this MESA low when you go - Come on, baby.
118:49:32 Schmitt SEQ bay doors are closed.
118:49:34 CC Roger. Copy that.
118:49:35 Schmitt And I'm checking out the cosmic ray. Cosmic ray looks good.
118:49:42 CC Beautiful.
118:49:46 Schmitt Oh! I snuck a queek - quick peek at the drill, and it does work. What in the world is that?
118:49:56 Cernan That's Ron.
118:49:59 Schmitt Ron?
118:50:00 Cernan That's Ron. Got his VHF on, that fink. Hey, you might tell Ron we can hear him.
118:50:11 PAO The command module is over the landing site.
118:50:16 Cernan Okay. Drill - LMP seat. With seat belt - Bob, you still with us?
118:50:26 Schmitt Okay, the ALSEP is put together in the barbell mode. And Charlie Duke, I have checked it - and it is locked.
118:50:38 Cernan Hello, there, Ron. If you read, we're reading you.
118:50:51 Cernan Well, (singing) "We're off to see the Wizard."
118:50:55 Schmitt Hey, do you need me, Gene?
118:50:57 Cernan No. I'm going to go deploy an ALSEP. Have at it.
118:51:02 Cernan First, I've got to find an ALSEP site.
118:51:05 Schmitt Don't fall into Camelot.
118:51:10 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'd like to read a TGE.
118:51:13 CC Roger. You're ready to read the TGE - we are.
118:51:19 Cernan Oh, you won't believe it.
118:51:23 Schmitt You did it again.
118:51:24 Cernan Ah - there goes a fender. Oh, shoot!
118:51:29 Schmitt Say, Bob, I'm moving down-Sun.
118:51:33 Cernan Well, I'll get that in a minute.
118:51:35 Schmitt I'm moving down-Sun, and where we've walked, we stir up darker material - just slightly, but it's darker. The same old thing, the most mature - that most regoliths have.
118:51:49 CC Okay, copy that. Have you got a bias reading there, Gene?
118:51:54 Cernan Yes, I'm giving it to you right now - 337, 454, 001 - that's 337, 454, 001
118:52:05 CC Okay, we copy that.
118:52:05 Cernan And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try - I'm going to have to - I'm going to have to try to get that fender back on.
118:52:12 CC Okay. Was it the rear fender, Geno?
118:52:16 Cernan Yes. Caught it with my hammer, and it just popped right off.
118:52:23 Cernan Bob, for future reference - it's a piece of cake putting the TGE on or off.
118:52:27 CC Okay, copy that.
118:52:35 Cernan Jack, is the tape under my seat, do you remember?
118:52:37 Schmitt Yes.
118:52:38 Cernan I may need it. Okay. Let's set my hydroxide canister to middle - I'm in MAX - MAX cooling. Man, you're romping around like a - how are you doing?
118:52:53 Schmitt Oh, fine. It's just - it's work going out here.
118:52:56 Cernan Yea, I'll bet it is. Just take it easy.
118:52:58 Schmitt I am.
118:52:59 Cernan I'm going to be a little bit behind you if I have to work on that fender, anyway.
118:53:02 CC Yes, you can walk a bit more slowly than you're walking, Jack.
118:53:04 Schmitt Okay, more and more - What's that?
118:53:09 CC I said that you can walk more slowly than you started out, anyway.
118:53:17 Schmitt Bob, texturially, same of these rocks that I believe - gabbros - have a texture not unlike a - a welded tuff. But I don't think - I know they're not. But they've got some mottled characteristics to them that I haven't yet figured out.
118:53:47 PAO Schmitt carrying the ALSEP about 100 meters east of LM.
118:54:12 Evans Yes, if it wasn't for that fender, I'd be ready to go. Makes me sort of mad.
118:54:19 PAO Gene Cernan will drive out to the ALSEP site in the Rover.
118:54:35 CC I say there, Jack, that looks like a big rock there beyond you.
118:54:42 Schmitt That's the one we were talking about. Earlier.
118:54:45 CC We believe you now.
118:54:54 Cernan Well, I've done this in training. I can't say I'm very adept at putting fenders back on. But I sure don't want to start without it.
118:55:27 Cernan Well, shoot!
118:55:43 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I think I'm going to move a little bit to the northwest of my present position in order to get a little farther away from that big rock.
118:55:55 Schmitt Okay, Jack.
118:55:56 Schmitt And to get out of the shallow depression - -
118:56:00 CC Roger.
118:56:00 Schmitt - - get out of the shallow depression that's here.
118:56:03 CC Roger. It's not so shallow. You disappeared out of sight from the last ...
118:56:10 Schmitt Well it's shallow relative to other depressions I've been in. You know, this ALSEP is almost as heavy as what we had at the Cape. Uh oh, I lost one of my blocks. Oh well, I'll - I'll get it on a rock, or I'll retrace your steps.
118:56:42 Cernan Don't worry about that. I'll be able to - there are enough rocks around. I can use it.
118:56:47 CC Copy that, Jack. And Gene, if you're having trouble with that fender and you think it might be easier with two guys, you could wait until you get out to the ALSEP site.
118:56:57 Cernan No sir, I got it on, but a little piece of the rail is cracked off. And I'm just going to put a couple of pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it - see whether we can't make sure it stays. Because I don't want to lose it. Except good old-fashioned gray tape doesn't want to stick very well.
118:57:29 Schmitt I've not seen any sign of layering in any of the craters. In their walls.
118:57:39 CC Okay. Copy that.
118:57:40 Schmitt The rocks still seem to be the pinkish-gray - the pinkish-gray gabbro out here.
118:57:56 PAO Gene Cernan taping the fender on.
118:58:04 Cernan Good old-fashioned American gray tape doesn't stick to lunar-dust-cover fenders. One more try. I think it'll stay, for an indefinite period of time, right now. Not bad for EV gloves.
118:58:37 Schmitt Do you see me, Bob?
118:58:39 CC We're watching Gene, right now. You disappeared out of sight a long while ago, Gene. Hey, you just came into sight again, Jack.
118:58:55 Cernan Hey, leave me enough room to deploy the heat flow.
118:58:57 Schmitt I'm going to, I'm looking for a place. Away from craters and rocks.
118:59:05 Schmitt That's why I didn't land up there.
118:59:13 Schmitt Okay, I think I've got a place. And I think it will also give you a spot for the neutron flux that's sheltered from the RTG.
118:59:22 CC Okay. You say you have a place like that, Jack?
118:59:28 Schmitt Well, - pretty much, I think, Bob.
118:59:32 CC Okay.
118:59:33 Schmitt Let me work on it here a little more.
118:59:36 CC Okay, and right now you're about 10 minutes behind the timeline, Jack.
118:59:48 Schmitt Okay.
118:59:48 Cernan Bob, I'm only going to spend another minute or two on the fender.
118:59:53 Schmitt We'll catch up.
119:00:00 Cernan I never thought I'd be out here doing this.
119:00:04 Schmitt Boy, I'll tell you, Geno - Okay, I'm going to go back this way. Central Station can be near a crater. It will be pretty good, that'll put the LEAM right out over there, which is probably all right. The graviometer out over there, which is probably all right. Going to put your drill holes a little too close to that rock, though. Bob, ask Mark if he's worried about rocks as much as craters.
119:00:39 CC Okay, stand by.
119:00:39 Schmitt I've got a rock about 2 meters in diameter, partially buried - that one of the probes may be near.
119:00:50 CC Stand by, and define near.
119:00:55 Schmitt Well, it could be 10 feet.
119:00:58 CC Okay.
119:01:06 Schmitt Well, I can move a little more south, I guess.
119:01:09 CC Okay. And Jack, it seems like about - if you're about 3 meters from the rock, that's no problem.
119:01:17 Schmitt Okay. Okay, this is it.
119:01:24 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:01:25 Schmitt I tell you the block - the - let's see, the Sun's south, this way. South of east. Okay. Well, shoot!
119:01:59 Cernan What's wrong?
119:02:01 Schmitt Well, it's just about impossible. Bob, it looks like the probes are going to be in a shallow depression. I'll try to improve that a little. It's not a real crater - it's just a shallow depression.
119:02:17 CC Stand by. Stand by on that, Jack, a minute. That may be okay. Okay, shallow depression's all right, Jack, don't worry about it.
119:02:23 Schmitt It's not more than a meter deep.
119:02:25 CC That's okay, Jack.
119:02:26 Schmitt Okay.
119:02:27 CC Stay there.
119:02:31 Schmitt All righty. It looks pretty good to me.
119:02:34 CC Okay. Good enough.
119:02:36 Schmitt It's just - Bob, it's really, in detail - The meter and half-meter scale relief is a little more than we can stand here for a good site. But I think - I think this will be all right.
119:02:54 CC Okay, copy that. We're ready to press on with ALSEP INTERCONNECT. And Geno, how are you doing on that fender?
119:03:02 Cernan Bob, I am done. If that fender stays on, I'm going to take a picture of it because I'd like some sort of mending award. It's not too neat, but tape and lunar dust just don't hang in there together.
119:03:18 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:03:25 Cernan Well, let's hope. Keep your fingers crossed, and I'll be more careful around the fenders.
119:03:30 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:03:35 Cernan Whoops. Bob, I'm going to do one other thing real quick here. I've got to dust my visor off.
119:03:46 Schmitt Gene, do you want me to do that?
119:03:47 Cernan No, I can do it. I'll just do it right here. Only have to do it in a couple of places right in front of me. That didn't do much good, did it. Someone should have told me that. That just really screwed it up. Okay. Bob, you might ought to be thinking of a good way to clean that visor when I get in the cabin.
119:04:15 CC Okay, we'll put someone on that.
119:04:20 Cernan Okay, LRV equipment check. Blankets are open 100 percent; TV/sunshade is on; SEP receiver/antenna - nav cable; we've got 4, 5, 6, and 7 on the charges; TGE - I've got three measurements complete, I've got the drill, the bag, and the neutron flux. The TV camera - I'm taking it away from you.
119:04:39 CC Okay. Roger.
119:04:43 Cernan Sorry about that, Ed. Okay. MODE switch is going to 1.
119:04:49 PAO We'll loose the picture while Gene Cernan drives the Rover out to the ALSEP site. Get a picture back very shortly after he's parked the Rover.
119:04:49 CC Roger.
119:04:50 Cernan Okay. MODE switch is 1. I'm ready to drive to the ALSEP site. Still want to park 60 northeast - east and north.
119:05:00 CC Okay, Geno. And before you leave the LM there, how about giving me another BAT TEMP reading. Those were a little high and we'd like to try and verify some of that stuff.
119:05:13 Cernan Boy, oh boy. Yes, I get you Bob. Boy, oh boy. You just got to be careful where you kick dust.
119:05:27 Schmitt That's right.
119:05:28 Cernan Boy! Don't do that again.
119:05:49 Cernan Yes, Bob, I thought they were a little high, too.
119:05:52 CC Roger.
119:05:58 Cernan Okay. BAT TEMPs are 100 and 120 - right now.
119:06:08 CC Okay. How about tapping the meter a little bit for us?
119:06:15 Cernan Yes, I think the meter's been tapped since we've been working on the Rover. Yes - 100 and 120.
119:06:25 CC Okay.
119:06:33 Cernan Okay. Get this baby started.
119:06:48 PAO We're 2 hours and 5 minutes into this EVA.
119:06:48 Cernan Okay. I'm going to be heading west. The low gain - is 270.
119:07:03 Cernan Okay, Jack, I'm on the way.
119:07:04 CC Okay, and Geno, we'd like to vary the parking a little bit because of this. We'd like to try and get those batteries cooled down. We'd like to have you park about 60 feet north of the Central Station.
119:07:16 Cernan Park about 50 feet from Central Station ...
119:07:17 CC And facing east and down-Sun. And then we'll open the battery covers - -
119:07:32 Cernan Okay, Bob, I can't read you, but facing east and down-Sun are not the same.
119:07:37 CC Well, approximately there.
119:07:43 Cernan Jack, you need your block? I got it right here.
119:07:45 CC Facing - -
119:07:47 Schmitt You're on the Rover, aren't you?
119:07:49 CC Facing - -
119:07:50 Cernan I got it, wait a minute.
119:07:53 CC Hey, Geno, we mean up-Sun. Sorry about that.
119:08:12 Cernan I got your block coming, Jack.
119:08:14 Schmitt Okay.
119:08:33 Cernan Boy, it doesn't take much to get those battery covers dirty.
119:08:39 CC Okay, Gene, did you copy me that we meant facing up-Sun?
119:08:49 Cernan Yes, Bob.
119:08:55 Schmitt What did you do, get ...
119:09:07 Schmitt Bob, the shorting plug meter is 90 percent scale to the right.
119:09:16 CC Okay, copy that.
119:09:21 Cernan Okay, Bob, give me that parking heading again, would you?
119:09:24 CC Okay, we'd like you to park facing the Sun. How's that for being definite.
119:09:31 Cernan Okay.
119:09:33 CC About 60 feet north of the Central Station.
119:09:37 Cernan Sixty feet north of Central Station - I can't park a little northeast? Now, okay, and you want the battery covers open?
119:09:44 CC That's affirmative, Gene. And that means you will have to dust them before you open them.
119:09:51 Cernan Yes, I guess so. Man, am I glad I didn't land up here, Jack.
119:09:56 Schmitt So am I.
119:10:03 Cernan Okay, ALSEP is connected, RTG is connected. is that where you're going to have the Central Station, huh?
119:10:10 Schmitt Well, Geno, that's the best I can do without spending a lot more time.
119:10:14 Cernan Yes.
119:10:15 Schmitt And let me - let me talk to you about it. Say, I asked them about this depression.
119:10:24 Cernan Yes.
119:10:24 Schmitt You probe's all right out in here. And if you get in the bottom of it for the - either this one, or go out there - especially in the straight line between you and me now, another depression would be good for the neutron flux. You need to be over that way - you're just a - -
119:10:44 Cernan Yes, they went - they want me to park about here where - -
119:10:47 Schmitt You need to be over here.
119:10:48 Cernan Where's Central Station, right there, huh?
119:10:51 Schmitt You need to - -
119:10:52 Cernan Yes, I've got to park in the Sun for the batteries
119:10:54 Schmitt Oh, okay.
119:10:55 CC Okay, 17, for your planning -
119:10:56 Schmitt Okay, about 60 feet northeast. How does it look behind you.
119:11:00 CC Okay, 17, for your planning, we're - we're now about 20 minutes behind the time line -
119:11:03 Schmitt That's good.
119:11:06 Cernan You're cutting out, Bob. You'll have to wait.
119:11:12 Cernan What are you, Bob?
119:11:13 CC Roger, we're about 20 minutes behind the time line, two-zero minutes.
119:11:20 Cernan Okay. Yes, I guess it could be worse considering a couple of things. Okay, about time I got those batteries. Okay, Jack, let me give you this first, so I can get to work.
119:11:39 Schmitt Oh, the block.
119:11:40 Cernan Yes.
119:11:41 Schmitt I'm sorry, I forgot you had it. Thank you.
119:12:04 Cernan Okay, where are we?
119:12:07 Cernan MARK. Sixty north heading, okay, 15 VOLT is OFF. Let me double check that while I was thinking of something. Wouldn't want this Rover to go rolling over the terrain without me. Okay, it is OFF. MODE switch, position 3. Dust TV/TCU, and the whole works, huh? There is TV REMOTE.
119:12:54 Cernan Okay, Bob. You're aligned on the high gain-
119:12:57 CC Okay, we copy that.
119:13:02 Cernan And you're in position 3.
119:13:04 CC Copy that.
119:13:05 Cernan Okay, let me get these covers dusted.
119:13:22 Cernan Well, that's a consolation. It's not as hard to get at the covers as one might think.
119:13:35 PAO We've got a black and white picture now.
119:14:07 Schmitt I'm working on the LEAM connection now, Bob.
119:14:10 CC Okay. I copy that, Jack. Understand you - -
119:14:15 Schmitt Say, it's hard to hit that garbage pile.
119:14:20 CC Roger. Understand you almost have the heat flow connector connected by now?
119:14:25 Schmitt Yes, sir.
119:14:37 Cernan I'm a little late, Jack, until I get these battery covers opened.
119:14:40 Schmitt Okay. I got the heat flow for you.
119:14:41 Cernan Okay.
119:14:48 Schmitt Well, the old LEAM connector doesn't connect, just like usual, or lock.
119:14:55 Cernan Okay. I'm not going to touch the batteries. The covers are clean, and the batteries themselves are clean. The LR - LCRU has been dusted and - -
119:15:08 Schmitt Okay.
119:15:08 Cernan - - so has the TV.
119:15:10 Schmitt It's locked. - -
119:15:11 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:15:12 Schmitt - - LEAM's locked on.
119:15:19 Cernan Okay. I'm going to use this.
119:15:46 Cernan Okay, Bob. The battery covers are in the shade.
119:15:50 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno.
119:16:06 Cernan Well, well, well, well, okay; I hope that helps. Whoo! I'm going to go to MAX for a minute here. Do you buy that?
119:16:20 CC Okay, Geno. We copy.
119:16:21 Cernan It seems hot in the valley of Taurus.
119:16:23 CC Okay.
119:16:28 Cernan Okay. Oh, man, - Whoo! Yes, I'm going back to INTERMEDIATE.
119:16:35 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:16:37 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm ready to go to work.
119:16:39 CC Good.
119:16:42 Cernan Okay. I'm going to push the gravimeter.
119:16:43 CC Roger -
119:16:44 CC MARK.
119:16:51 Cernan Okay. You have a mark.
119:16:56 CC Copy that.
119:16:56 Cernan - - it's blinking, and remember what I said, it's a piece of cake to take on and off.
119:17:00 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:17:06 Cernan Okay. This is north over here, huh? Okay, load old heat flow, 10 ... northwest. You connector connected. Carry heat flow 30. on ground, experiment up; okay. I'm going to do that Jack. Keep your eye on cables.
119:17:48 Schmitt Oh, man, all I could do is go down hill over here.
119:17:55 Cernan Jack, do you read?
119:17:56 Schmitt Yes.
119:17:56 Cernan Okay.
119:17:57 Schmitt I'm just trying to level - -
119:17:59 Cernan Are you going to move that very much?
119:18:01 Schmitt No, I'm just - I'll be working with it to try to level it. It's - that's going to be a major task.
119:18:06 Cernan Okay, there's 30 feet, I'll just - I'll get this thing squared away when I - Okay, Boyd bolt time.
119:18:18 PAO Jack Schmitt working with the lunar surface gravimeter.
119:18:24 Schmitt Ha, whee! That really went. Man, these things are just like they are at the Cape. You can feel every one of them.
119:18:43 Cernan Hey, Bob, has Ron been able to see the LM?
119:18:47 CC Stand by. I'll find out.
119:19:04 Schmitt Oh! oh!
119:19:05 CC Watch it, Jack.
119:19:08 Cernan First cable - first cable hooked. Jack, you all right?
119:19:12 Schmitt Yes. I'll straighten it up in a minute. Okay. The LSG is going out.
119:19:23 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
119:19:24 Schmitt I hope it does the things that we want it to for us.
119:19:31 PAO This is the experiment.
119:19:35 Schmitt Bob, I'm not doing too badly on keeping things clean. The - the base of the central station and - got some stuff on it, but - otherwise it's pretty good.
119:19:49 CC Okay, Jack. We appreciate your efforts, and we understand you got the LEAM connected eventually.
119:19:56 Schmitt Yes, and it locked; just took some diddling. Okay. Sun's over there. Oops, I forgot my Boyd bolts. Let's see.
119:20:08 Cernan Yes, I never drilled a hole where there's not a can.
119:20:18 Schmitt Boyd bolts are OFF. Bob, does it bother him that the base of the LSG is touch - touching soil? Because this is pretty soft.
119:21:06 Schmitt Bob, did you give me an answer?
119:21:08 CC Roger. Ron thinks he has seen it. We haven't had a confirmation on the last orbit when you were talking to him, but he thinks he saw it the previous orbit.
119:21:16 Schmitt Hey, hey, Bob. Hey, Bob.
119:21:20 CC Go.
119:21:21 Schmitt Can the LSG - the base of the LSG, be touching the soil?
119:21:25 CC Stand by on that. Roger, Jack.
119:21:31 Schmitt Well, it's very soft and it's going to be very hard to level for it.
119:21:34 CC Roger, Jack. The base can be touching the ground.
119:21:39 Schmitt Okay. It's level, aligned, the sunshield is shaded inside. The level bubble is just touching the outer circle; the one circle. And I improved that. It's perfectly centered now and I'm going to uncage. Whoops. I moved - the experiment moved. It's still pretty good level. Okay, it's uncaged; the gimbal is swinging.
119:22:26 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:22:27 Schmitt The gimbal is swinging.
119:22:28 CC Copy that. And Jack, you're still in MAX - -
119:22:30 Schmitt The bubble is back just touch - Yes, I know - -
119:22:36 CC Okay.
119:22:36 Schmitt I've been working, man.
119:22:37 CC Okay.
119:22:41 Schmitt Okay. I went to "pseudo intermediate," between minimum and intermediate. The bubble is just touching the - its circle, and the alignment - Sun alignment is good.
119:22:57 CC Roger. Copy that. Thank you.
119:23:05 Schmitt Okay, Gene. You've got some good slack here, if you can leave it that way. You shouldn't have the cable draped across anything, that's good.
119:23:13 Cernan Okay. I want to try and get this thing in there. It won't - there it is.
119:23:51 Schmitt Can I help you, Gene?
119:23:53 Cernan No. I got a little dust in this mirror, though. I'm not sure I - Bob, I got a little dust on the white surface, not on the mirror - of the heat flow. You got any recommendations?
119:24:07 CC Stand by on that, Jack - Gene. Is that the - on the heat reflector?
119:24:15 Cernan Yes. Yes, it's on the north side.
119:24:16 CC Okay. As long as it's not on the mirror, it's okay, Gene.
119:24:22 Cernan Well, let me take another look. I'll double check.
119:24:29 Schmitt Watch it. You're pulling pretty hard.
119:24:31 Cernan Yes, I'm watching - -
119:24:32 Schmitt You're pulling - -
119:24:33 Cernan I'm watching; I'm not pulling. Okay. The mirror's clean.
119:24:36 CC Okay; then, it's good enough.
119:24:37 Schmitt Give me some more slack up here, you're draped.
119:24:39 Cernan Okay.
119:24:40 Cernan Okay. Okay. That's where it's going, Jack, right there.
119:24:45 Schmitt Can you - okay.
119:24:47 Cernan How's that?
119:24:48 Schmitt That's good.
119:24:50 Cernan Got enough?
119:24:52 Schmitt This way just a little, Geno. That's good. Doesn't take much.
119:24:58 Cernan Man, we sure didn't need blocks or anything out here. There's enough soil here to level almost anything.
119:25:04 Schmitt But that's so soft, though, it's hard to get a fast level. Whoops! That's strange. I think I did something wrong.
119:25:32 Cernan What's that?
119:25:37 Schmitt Pulled the pin at the wrong time ...
119:25:40 Cernan Okay. The heat flow is level; the gnomon is good. And, Bob, I verified that that dirt is not on the mirror. It's on - on the white stuff that - that, you know, is horizontal to the surface of the box.
119:25:55 CC Okay. Copy that, Gene; that's okay.
119:25:57 Cernan The mirror - mirror's - the mirror's clean.
119:26:01 CC Roger. Thank you.
119:26:02 Cernan Okay. Okay, I'll give you a TGE reading.
119:26:09 CC Roger. We're ready.
119:26:18 Cernan Okay; 670 002 601 - 670 002 601.
119:26:28 CC Okay. We copy that.
119:26:32 Cernan Bob, was that with the camera - with the camera running?
119:26:36 CC Roger. The camera's been running all this time.
119:26:40 Cernan That's beautiful. Okay. Your temperatures are down to a hundred - and maybe a sukosh 120 under, so maybe those batteries are cooling off.
119:26:49 CC Okay; good.
119:26:55 Cernan It's sure good. I don't want to walk on that third EVA.
119:27:01 CC Roger.
119:27:03 Cernan I'm getting to like driving this machine. Okay, pull pin 2. Pin 2 always comes after - goes before pin 1.
119:27:14 Schmitt I think that's in the NASA documents now.
119:27:18 Cernan What's that?
119:27:19 Schmitt Pin 2 comes before pin 1.
119:27:21 Cernan (Laughter) Okay.
119:27:24 Schmitt Reel 3 comes before reel 1 and 2, also. I think I overdid that one.
119:27:33 CC Yes, it went clean out of sight; but by all means, watch reel 2.
119:27:42 Schmitt (Laughter) Oh, you think you're so clever. Believe it or not, Bob, I'm anchoring the geophone module.
119:27:58 CC Hey, Jack, it looks to us on the TV as though you're m - anchoring the geophone module with a flag.
119:28:06 Schmitt Yes, that's what I'm doing. I'm anchoring the geophone module with a flag.
119:28:15 Cernan Okay; one leg, two legs, three legs. And none of them - none of them -
119:28:28 Schmitt Hey, Bob, remind me to police the garbage pile.
119:28:31 CC All right.
119:28:32 Schmitt The garbage pile is turning out to be - just like every other ALSEP deployment. It's hard to control.
119:28:42 CC And I understand all your legs came out okay, Geno, or didn't come out.
119:28:45 Cernan Okay. Yes, sir; they all came out okay.
119:28:52 Schmitt Okay. LMS ring is pulled.
119:28:58 CC Copy that.
119:29:05 Schmitt Amazing. Amazing.
119:29:17 PAO Jack Schmitt working with the lunar surface profiling experiment.
119:29:27 Cernan Okay, Bob. I've got my tools of the trade right here. I'm ready to go to work. Now I put a mark in the deck - Here it is; right there.
119:29:51 Schmitt Hey, Bob, what have I forgotten? The package won't rotate.
119:29:53 CC Try rotating the UHT.
119:30:01 Schmitt No, I'm serious. Oh, rotate the UHT, huh?
119:30:08 Cernan Yes, remember that one?
119:30:09 Schmitt No - that's right. I'm sorry. I knew it, I knew it would happen.
119:30:18 Cernan Where's your garbage pile, Jack? Well, I - I can't find yours.
119:30:22 Schmitt Well, don't worry about my garbage pile. It turns out it looks very much like the ALSEP.
119:30:29 Cernan Okay. I made a mark over here that says - that says that should be about cable length.
119:30:37 Schmitt What am I doing over here? You're awfully - you're awfully close.
119:30:41 Cernan No, my - my - I'm going right in here, Jack. Right here.
119:30:48 Schmitt Okay.
119:30:49 Cernan I can move it further - -
119:30:50 Schmitt No. That's all right.
119:30:51 Cernan - - further north.
119:30:52 Schmitt No, this will be all right. I just want to keep away from you there.
119:31:06 Cernan We shall soon see how tuned we are. I'm anxious to see what's under this mantle.
119:31:15 CC So are we.
119:31:22 Cernan Well, Bob, I hope I can drill you a couple of good holes.
119:31:25 CC How about three?
119:31:27 Cernan And I know you do, too.
119:31:30 Schmitt Okay, Bob, the arrow is east/west, pointing west. The bubble is in the center. If I'm lucky, it'll stay there. I'm not - I'm more like east/northeast I'm trying to keep a little further away from Gene.
119:31:59 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:32:03 Schmitt Break seal is OPEN.
119:32:11 Cernan Okay, that was my MARK. Let me see. Double check that cable length. I'd sure hate to drill a hole that was outside of the - length of the cable.
119:32:23 Schmitt Okay, Bob, the LMS is deployed. I'm policing the site. The screen is over the port.
119:32:35 CC Copy that.
119:32:35 Schmitt I'm going to move - one big rock. What am I doing down in here?
119:32:50 Cernan What were you doing down in there?
119:32:52 Schmitt (Laughter) Okay. And, Bob - -
119:32:56 Cernan Here we go.
119:32:57 Schmitt - - Bob, there's a little bit of dust adhering to the - sides of the LMS. And a few particles less than - half a percent of the surface on the top. But, of course, you're going to clean that one off; so that's all right.
119:33:19 CC That's affirm on the top.
119:33:21 Schmitt The - the north side has about a - 10- or 15-percent dust cover.
119:33:31 CC Copy that.
119:33:32 Schmitt ...
119:33:32 CC - And, Geno, you're leaning pretty heavy forward on that drill.
119:33:39 Cernan Okay, Bob. She went in - she's going in like she's in some pretty dead stuff, and then I hit some rock here. I'll watch it - I won't lean forward. I'm not putting too much pressure on it.
119:33:52 CC Okay.
119:33:52 Cernan It sounds to me like she's chippering away through rock. May be just a little longer drilling hole than it was at the Cape.
119:34:12 PAO Cernan drilling two 8 foot holes for the heatflow experiment.
119:35:16 Cernan Bob, she's going in - but not without a little bit of resistance.
119:35:20 CC Roger. We're observing that, Geno.
119:35:23 Cernan Every once in a while - every once in a while, she breaks through a soft spot.
119:35:29 CC Good.
119:35:48 Schmitt Bob, I'll tell you, this central station's a bear - bear to get level. Well, I just got dust on it now.
119:36:17 Schmitt It's just too soft.
119:36:42 Cernan Boy, that sure was drilling in hard stuff because it took a lot to get it off.
119:37:00 CC Okay, Jack. And we could certainly stand a little bit of dust, at least on top of that central station sunshield.
119:37:08 Schmitt Yes, I guess the level's important.
119:37:12 CC Roger.
119:37:17 Cernan I can just see what John's thinking right now. That's what makes the difference. That's where you expend your energy.
119:37:36 Schmitt Bob, I don't know that I'm going to be able to do that without a lot of time. It's hanging against the south edge.
119:37:48 CC Say again there, Jack.
119:37:53 Schmitt I don't know whether I'm going to be able to level it - the central station.
119:38:07 Cernan Anything I can do, Jack?
119:38:14 Schmitt Okay. I got it off the edge.
119:38:18 CC Okay; maybe we better just leave it there.
119:38:33 Schmitt Well, I'm making it worse by getting dust on the top.
119:38:39 CC No, the dust on the top is not as important as getting it leveled, Jack. But if you get it broken off the edge, that ought to be good enough.
119:39:02 Cernan Bob, I'm riding at about 382. I've got - oh, I guess, about 80 - Well, no, there's half - I guess, 60 percent; no flags and no tones.
119:39:17 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno.
119:39:24 Schmitt Okay, Bob. It's touching the second ring; the gnomon is aligned, and I'm going to leave it alone.
119:39:31 CC Roger on that.
119:39:36 Schmitt Yes, I think I lost all the time I might have made up.
119:39:40 Cernan Hey, Bob, it's obvious that I'm going through some pretty stuff - tough stuff. Consolidated material, like rock fragments, and then it breaks through; and then it jumps for about 3 or 4 inches and then I hit some more fragments.
119:39:54 CC Roger. We're seeing that Geno. Looks interesting.
119:40:10 Schmitt Oh, me. I got too low on that one. I thought I had that gaged.
119:40:24 Cernan If you deploy that geophone, you go out of sight.
119:41:18 Cernan Bob, there would be absolutely no way of breaking this drill from that - those bores without that tool, I guarantee you that.
119:41:28 CC Okay. We copy that, Geno.
119:41:41 Cernan I think I found a way to get this off, though, with a little help. Okay, number 3 coming up.
119:41:48 CC Roger. The third and last one on this hole.
119:41:53 Cernan Yes, sir. Oh, boy. Time out.
119:42:07 CC Okay.
119:42:08 Schmitt Don't work too hard.
119:42:09 CC Roger.
119:42:13 Cernan My fender's still on, which makes me happy. I'll tell you, if you could come and sprinkle the whole area with water and get rid of some of this dust -
119:42:31 CC Okay, Geno. And can you remember if those heat flow cables are not crossed as they come out of that box?
119:42:39 Cernan Yes, sir. I very definitely made a point of not crossing them.
119:42:42 CC Okay; very good.
119:42:44 Cernan They are not - they are not crossed.
119:42:48 CC Good.
119:43:08 Schmitt (Laughter) Where do we find such men?
119:43:12 Cernan How's it coming, Jack?
119:43:15 Schmitt Oh, slow. This leveling is really throwing me behind the power curve; but I know they - they're serious about it, so - If I can keep it where it is now, I'm in like Flynn. It's perfectly centered, Even the gnomon is aligned within a shadow width.
119:43:49 Cernan Man, is that thing biting.
119:43:53 Schmitt Really working down there, huh?
119:43:54 Cernan Oh, you betcha, man. I'm in something tough down there now. Whew.
119:43:59 Schmitt Well, what - what bore are you in?
119:44:02 Cernan Number 3. If I let go of that drill and it kept running - If that drill kept running and I wasn't anchored to the ground - -
119:44:10 Schmitt (Laughter)
119:44:11 Cernan - it would throw me over a massif - in tangential turns.
119:44:29 CC Okay, Geno - -
119:44:29 Cernan I think I'm in the mother lode down there.
119:44:31 CC Gene, if its getting really tough and you're not making much progress, we'll be happy with it where it is.
119:44:38 CC Well, looks like you really - -
119:44:38 Cernan No, sir, you're going to be happy with it where it's supposed to be; and that's where it's - -
119:44:43 CC You were hiding it from us - -
119:44:43 Cernan Yes, sir.
119:44:44 CC - we couldn't tell how deep in you were.
119:44:48 Cernan I wanted to surprise you. They're going in all the way, and they're both going to work. It's a little tough looking into the Sun.
119:45:00 Schmitt Yes.
119:45:10 Cernan Oh, Manischewitz! I don't know where I picked that word up, but (chuckle) it's better than some, I guess. Now if I can use my little lean-tool here. Oh, man, that works great. That works great. Put this out of the way. Bob, I'm into the white mark; it depends on what you want to call the surface. You know, it's - I can - I can give you 6 -or give or take 6 or 8 inches.
119:46:12 CC Yes, something like that will do, Gene, I guess. You can measure it ...
119:46:17 Schmitt Gene, is the dust coming up changing color on you at all?
119:46:21 Cernan No, Jack. It isn't changing color. I can't even tell - I can't even tell where it's coming up.
119:46:31 Schmitt (Laughter)
119:46:33 Cernan I don't think it is coming up, I think I'm just pushing it aside.
119:46:35 Schmitt oqy, I'll tell you - -
119:46:36 CC I saw something come up then just then, Jack.
119:46:38 Schmitt - - the old ALSEP central station - -
119:46:41 Schmitt Yes, it deploys itself; it turns out.
119:46:44 CC Roger on that. That was - -
119:46:46 Schmitt Bob--
119:46:46 CC - - pretty amazing.
119:46:53 Schmitt Okay. When I - I finally leveled it in a bull's eye. I don't know whether you heard me or not, but it was - it was perfect. So it's okay. It's just got a fair - it's got about 20-percent dust cover on the top.
119:47:09 CC Okay.
119:47:14 Cernan Sure ... glad you've got that probe covered.
119:47:20 CC And, Jack, ALSEP says that that's okay, the 20 percent's no problem.
119:47:31 Schmitt Okay. I put a rock under the northwest corner. Oops - guess what happened. (Laughter) Just like in training, Geno.
119:47:48 Cernan What happened?
119:47:49 Schmitt The old geophone cable caught on the corner.
119:47:57 Cernan Okay. Oops, I'm not ready. That says F4B on that; that's an airplane.
119:48:26 Cernan Houston, there's no dust on the probe except that which was on my hands.
119:48:32 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:48:38 Cernan That must be solar wind.
119:48:47 Schmitt Sorry not to be more talkative, but - this is taking all the concentration I got. I'll have to push this down, I can see that. Yes, this ... doesn't hold any better here than it - did in training.
119:49:14 Cernan Oh, don't - don't lose that - Geno, don't lose that - don't lose that. Notice how you talk to yourself out here?
119:49:23 Schmitt Who, me? (Laughter)
119:49:30 Cernan Help. I says - you is getting farther and farther behind.
119:49:38 Cernan Well, I've had my one for today.
119:49:45 Schmitt Your one what?
119:49:46 Cernan Well, I just did my "whifferdill."
119:49:49 Schmitt Oh, did you fall?
119:49:50 Cernan No. It's funny how for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, isn't it?
119:49:57 Schmitt Hey, I've heard that before. Okay, Secure thermal curtains.
119:50:04 Schmitt Thermal curtains are secured.
119:50:07 CC Okay. Copy that.
119:50:14 Cernan How far behind am I, Bob?
119:50:16 CC Stand by. Roger. We're showing - Gene, just about 20 minutes; and Jack, just about 25 -between 20 and 25 minutes for both of you.
119:50:38 Cernan Okay.
119:50:44 Schmitt - How are our consumables?
119:50:47 CC Stand by.
119:50:58 Cernan Oh, if this thing isn't going to work better than that -
119:51:32 Cernan Bob, just like the book says, it's down to Papa 1; and it hooked.
119:51:36 CC How about that.
119:51:53 Cernan Oh, boy, the old fingers really suffer on these.
119:52:00 Schmitt Take it easy.
119:52:02 Cernan Okay. Now this one down to F1. Would you believe F1?
119:52:13 CC Yes, I believe you, Gene.
119:52:32 Cernan Bob, in this soil, best number I can give you is about an inch below the white spots - or Bravo 1.
119:52:41 CC Okay. Copy Bravo 1.
119:52:47 Cernan I got a - I got a better way of putting that last thermal shield on now.
119:52:57 PAO Jack Schmitt working on the ALSEP central station aligning the antenna, it looks like.
119:53:38 Cernan Okay, Bob, you're looking at it - coming out to the south, but I don't expect it'll stay that way unless I put some dirt over the cable. How does that grab you?
119:53:52 CC Stand by, Gene.
119:53:57 Cernan You like that thermal shield the way it is? Okay. That's coming out south. That's in good shape. I'm pleased with that.
119:54:05 CC Dirts okay, if you want to put it on there, Gene.
119:54:06 Cernan ... happy with it. I'm moving on.
119:54:08 CC Okay.
119:54:12 Cernan Now the thermal shield is on there, Bob. I got them all on there.
119:54:15 CC I was talking about - If you want to put some dirt on there to hold it down, that's okay.
119:54:20 Cernan Oh, okay. Well, I got it down without the dirt.
119:54:24 CC Okay. Good enough.
119:54:26 Cernan I'm just finding all sorts of good ways to make life easier out here.
119:54:36 Schmitt Stay away from the cables.
119:54:41 Cernan Bob, and I didn't forget the last measurement either.
119:54:44 CC Roger that.
119:54:49 Cernan Hey, can you see this big mound that I just walked - it's just to the north - not a mound - the depression that's just to the north of me?
119:54:58 CC Roger, 17 -
119:54:59 Cernan It's probably behind the Rover. Okay. Well, how's - how's that look for the core?
119:55:09 CC Standby.
119:55:26 CC Geno, can you give us a distance estimate to that? Does it look like it's 80 feet or so?
119:55:33 Cernan Yes.
119:55:33 CC Okay. Then that sounds good.
119:55:36 Schmitt Oh, shucks. Hey, Bob, is there any way a level bubble can fail (laughter)?
119:55:45 CC Hey, Jack, remember that's on top of those wobbly legs and - or wobbly springs there. And with the thing not being straight, you shouldn't really expect the level bubble to be level after the thing's been deployed. That happened at the Cape a couple of times, remember?
119:56:00 Schmitt Yes, but Bob, I've - I've moved this practically all the way down the full throw and it - That bubble won't move, and I can't get it to move by tilting it; and I was level. And the bubble on the top of the central station is still level.
119:56:15 CC Okay. You're talking about the level on your other one, huh? Stand by on that.
119:56:20 Schmitt The gnomon, yes - Both of them? I can't get it to move to the other side of the - fluid.
119:56:32 Cernan Keep working. That - that thing shouldn't fail.
119:56:43 Schmitt Well, I've gone full throw - That's not level.
119:56:46 Schmitt That bubble's stuck in there, somehow. In both of them. That's not even pointing close to the Earth. Okay, I'm going to have to tweak it up and let them see the signal strength - and tweak it.
119:57:03 CC Okay. Why don't you try and manually point it - try and level it and see if we - see what you can do toward getting it towards the Earth.
119:57:17 Schmitt I will, Bob. That bubble's just not working. I - I can't figure that one out.
119:57:18 CC Okay. Just go ahead and use the - -
119:57:20 Schmitt Okay. Maybe I jarred it loose here.
119:57:22 CC Okay.
119:57:26 Schmitt Okay, I think I jarred it loose.
119:57:28 CC That's another first - -
119:57:29 Schmitt Don't ask me how.
119:57:29 CC - - Okay, we won't.
119:57:47 Schmitt Okay. I got the other one loose. That's very strange. A sticky level bubble. (Laughter) Never heard of it.
119:57:58 Cernan Hey, Bob.
119:58:00 CC Go ahead, Jack - Gene.
119:58:00 Cernan If you're looking at me, what I'm talking about is this depression - is this depression in here for the core - oh, maybe 15, 20 meters out in here. Jack, what did you have in mind for the neutron flux?
119:58:13 Schmitt Either the one you're in - you're down in there, or next one over behind that rock in front of you over there.
119:58:19 Cernan Hey, I can go way over there. That's not too far probably for - -
119:58:22 Schmitt Well, either way I think is fine, Gene. But I would suggest behind the rock.
119:58:27 Cernan For a neutron flux, huh?
119:58:28 Schmitt Yes, sir; and the core.
119:58:29 Cernan Well, I wanted - I thought they wanted a core in that depression.
119:58:33 Schmitt Well, that - there's also one over there.
119:58:38 CC Okay, and - 17 - -
119:58:38 Schmitt ... a choice.
119:58:40 Cernan I'll go behind that rock; that looks good from here.
119:58:42 CC And, 17, we think you guys are in far - by far the best position to judge that - far better than we are. You know what the requirements are on shielding and - -
119:58:50 Cernan Okay.
119:58:50 CC - - greater than 50 meters - 25 meters.
119:59:00 Cernan Okay, Bob. Okay. The long - long bores in.
119:59:14 CC Okay. Copy that, Gene. Looked like that one went in fairly well.
119:59:20 Cernan Well, probably about like the other one did. Not - not too bad.
119:59:24 CC Okay.
119:59:25 Schmitt Oh, I must be getting old.
119:59:29 Cernan I expect the next two are going to be a little harder.
119:59:35 Schmitt Bob, I'm not very happy with this level. But I'll turn it on and - Have me come back a little bit later, when they've warmed up some more, and let's see what it looks like.
119:59:48 CC Okay. We'll do that. Give me a mark when you turn it on, and we'll see what kind of signals we get.
119:59:56 Schmitt Okay. The shadow gnomon is - aligned; I'm going to turn the shorting plug on.
120:00:00 CC Copy that.
120:00:05 Schmitt It's on.
120:00:06 CC Roger.
120:00:11 Schmitt And - the needle is fullscale left.
120:00:19 CC Copy that.
120:01:24 Cernan I can't believe that.
120:01:26 Schmitt What's your problem?
120:01:27 Cernan Well, that whole bore turns in the - in the ground, it's so loose. I got - and I got that - You know how those threads sometimes stick on you a little bit. I got one stuck halfway down and the whole bore is turning, so now I've got to use a wrench on it.
120:01:45 CC Okay, Jack. And we have - -
120:01:47 Schmitt Bob, I've got a - I've got a - rock about 10 feet southeast of my LEAM location. I can move - I can move a little more north and get, oh - get 15 feet from that. That okay?
120:02:11 CC How big is the rock there, Jack?
120:02:15 Schmitt Oh, it stands - it's a meter wide and stands about a third of a meter high.
120:02:22 CC About a third, and about a foot high?
120:02:24 Cernan Bob, how's that for - -
120:02:29 Schmitt A third of a meter.
120:02:31 CC Okay.
120:02:33 Cernan Bob, how's that for soil mechanics? I pulled the first bore right on out trying to get this thing on right.
120:02:40 CC Well, put it in - put it in before your hole fills up there, Geno.
120:02:45 Cernan Yes. Right now I'm interested in getting this second bore on. Now, let's see if I can get it back in. Well, not quite as far, but high enough for me to reach the - it still feels, Bob, like there's a lot of fragmental material down there.
120:03:16 CC I copy that, Geno. Good luck.
120:03:18 Cernan That was an interesting little - exercise. Well, I got the bore on right, anyway.
120:03:30 Schmitt Well, shoot.
120:03:43 CC Okay, Jack. As long as it's only 1 foot high and 10 feet away, that's satisfactory.
120:03:53 Schmitt Okay.
120:04:54 Schmitt Okay, Bob, the LEAM's deployed, aligned; and the level bubble is - just touching the inner ring.
120:05:08 CC Copy that.
120:05:13 Schmitt Hey, Bob. Did you get anything from the ALSEP yet?
120:05:14 CC Watch that cable, Jack. Roger. We started to tell you that when you had the question, and we're getting a good lockup on the data.
120:05:24 Schmitt Well, keep an eye on it, because I'm not happy with the level.
120:05:27 CC Okay. We'll get back with you on that.
120:05:29 Schmitt I'll check. ... checking.
120:05:37 PAO The LEAM is the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment.
120:05:47 Schmitt I found a way to get over cables.
120:05:50 Cernan (singing)
120:05:53 Schmitt (Laughter)
120:06:07 Cernan Oh, Manischewitz. Whew.
120:06:11 Schmitt There you go again.
120:06:12 Cernan I know. Let me get this one off and take a take a bite of candy here.
120:06:22 Schmitt I'm kind of having trouble with UHTs today. They just don't want to lock in when you get dust in there.
120:06:29 Cernan Hey, Jack. Be careful with that UHT on the heat flow because it was aligned - real good.
120:06:36 Schmitt It was what?
120:06:37 Cernan The heat flow experiment electronics, when you go over there for that UHT, was aligned.
120:06:41 Schmitt Oh, yes.
120:06:45 Cernan Bob, I'm going to take a zap of cold water.
120:06:47 CC Okay. Sounds good to me.
120:06:53 Cernan Whee. Almost looks like it's getting dark out. is it? Guess not.
120:07:03 Schmitt (Laughter) Hope not, or we is in trouble.
120:07:12 Cernan I think I may have gone the wrong way. I did. I went to MIN instead of MAX. Here it comes. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Man. Watch it. Okay, Jack. You're all right. Still deploying.
120:07:28 Schmitt Huh?
120:07:29 Cernan Still deploying. Nothing; you're all right. It's coming out a little - hard.
120:07:41 Schmitt Wouldn't you know it?
120:07:43 Cernan Okay. I'm back in MIN, Bob.
120:07:48 CC Okay. Copy that.
120:07:55 Cernan By any chance have any heat flow data yet?
120:08:01 CC No, Geno. We don't have the heat flow turned on yet.
120:08:04 Cernan All right. Oh, that's right. Okay. I think that's right. Okay. I'm about to give you your number. Oh, God darn it. (Laughter) Crank it a couple of times. Clean as a whistle. Clean as a whistle.
120:08:43 Schmitt Well, just like I thought; antenna doesn't want to go in.
120:08:55 CC Is that the number 3 section there, Geno?
120:08:58 Schmitt Yes, it's in.
120:09:01 Cernan Yes, sir, Bob.
120:09:03 CC Roger. Beautiful.
120:09:08 Cernan Well, it's the last one I've got. I guess we'll find out when I put the probe in. I think they're all in there.
120:09:22 Schmitt Okay. I'm about ready to deploy some geophones.
120:09:25 CC Okay, Jack. Did you get the antenna into that pallet okay, eventually?
120:09:32 Schmitt Yes.
120:09:33 CC Good enough.
120:09:40 Cernan Bob, I occasionally hit stuff and it - it spits this whole drill back at me. Knocks it back about a half an inch or so, and then it will bite - bite through it.
120:09:54 CC Okay.
120:10:01 Cernan My general impression is that there is an awful lot of fragments I'm busting up down there.
120:10:08 CC Okay.
120:10:33 Cernan I tell you Bob, That last 6 inches, I really came into something hard; but it's down all the way.
120:10:39 CC Beautiful, Geno.
120:10:44 Schmitt Oops, there's a heat flow probe.
120:10:46 Cernan What happened?
120:10:48 Schmitt (Laughter) I - I messed up -
120:10:50 Cernan Man, don't hit that. Give me heart failure after all that drilling.
120:10:53 Schmitt No, I just walked too close to it. I apologize for that.
120:10:56 Cernan I don't care how close you walk to it -
120:10:57 Schmitt Well, Mark does, Mark does.
120:11:02 Cernan Just don't step on it.
120:11:09 Schmitt I do that ...
120:11:21 Cernan (groan) Hey, Bob, just out of curiosity, what kind of heart rates has this drill been producing on me?
120:11:32 CC Stand by. Okay, you've been running at 120 flush, Gene, with peaks of 140 to 150 from time to time.
120:11:57 Cernan Okay.
120:12:02 CC And there goes the last heat flow hole on the Moon.
120:12:05 Cernan Oh. Yes, sir. I tell you, if you learn how to use your instruments in this 1/6g, you take your time and you get around; it's frank - phenomenal. But if you try and bend over without some help; not so phenomenal.
120:12:51 Cernan Boy, what a ride that Challenger gave us coming down. What a ride.
120:13:28 Cernan Oh, you dummy - you dummy. Jack you still with me.
120:13:42 Schmitt Yes,
120:13:43 Cernan Okay. Boy, I'm getting dropsies now. Getting dropsies.
120:13:50 Schmitt Don't push it.
120:13:52 Cernan Getting dropsies.
120:13:53 Schmitt Take a rest.
120:14:36 Cernan Unbelievable - unbelievable.
120:14:58 PAO Gene Cernan putting the second heat flow probe into place.
120:15:12 CC Okay, Geno. And the heat flow is on and looking good.
120:15:20 Cernan That's good news, Bob. Let me give you another one here. While it's dirty; I'll tell you I'm in to the bottom of the white marks, and that's - oh, about Bravo 1 again.
120:15:43 CC Okay, I copy. Papa 1, Foxtrot 1, and Bravo 1?
120:15:49 Cernan No, sir, Bob. Now the - the bore stem is in to the top of the white marks; I'm still putting the probe down.
120:15:59 CC Okay, copy that. - -
120:16:00 Cernan And the top of the white marks is about bravo 1.
120:16:03 CC Copy that.
120:16:03 Cernan About bravo 1. Okay. Here go - here goes the probe. Pick a number you'd like to hear. How about Papa 1?
120:16:25 CC How about Papa 1 there, Geno.
120:16:30 Cernan Bingo, babe, you win; and it locked in.
120:16:33 CC Roger. I think Mark won on that one, too.
120:16:35 Cernan Papa 1.
120:16:36 CC Roger. And, Jack, I gather you are probably traipsing across the landscape with a geophone about now, right?
120:16:52 Schmitt That's firm.
120:16:53 CC Okay. And let me ask you - -
120:16:55 Cernan Good gravy! You know how big that rock -
120:16:57 CC Stand by. Go ahead.
120:17:02 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
120:17:05 CC Okay. I gather - you said that the heat - the LEAM was leveled and aligned, and I gather that meant it was on the black decal on top. Do you happen to remember what number was on that?
120:17:19 Schmitt Well, I'll check it. But I think you know where that decal is.
120:17:23 CC Well, okay. Good enough.
120:17:30 Cernan Okay, Bob. The little thermal shield went to F1.
120:17:36 CC Hey, that's another bingo.
120:17:38 Cernan And it's coming out to the south. I'm coming out to the south.
120:17:43 CC Roger.
120:18:07 Cernan And the thermal shield is in place.
120:18:12 CC Roger. Copy that.
120:18:28 Cernan Well, it was until I moved it. Do I need my javelin anymore?
120:18:40 Schmitt You might.
120:18:42 Cernan Yes, I might.
120:18:42 CC One never - one never knows, Geno.
120:18:43 Cernan I think I'll save it until after - I think I'll save it until after I drill the core. Oh, me oh my.
120:18:54 Schmitt Take it easy, Geno. You sound like you're -
120:18:55 Cernan No, I'm doing fine.
120:18:57 Schmitt Okay.
120:18:58 Cernan That Sun is just bright. I ought to put those visors down, I suppose - those other visors. Okay. Let me take a look at my list and see whether I've got everything. Measured, measured; height, height; you've got all the shields; you're coming out south; verify heat flow is level and aligned - it is aligned and gnomon was good; UHT to the LRV LMP seat; and then what do I do? Let me see. Deep core prep. Jack, I'm going to leave the UHT in the heat flow in case you need it.
120:19:30 Schmitt Okay.
120:19:32 Cernan Okay. I'm going to go behind a rock over there -
120:19:35 Schmitt Now, now.
120:19:38 Cernan In that depression. Bob, you do want the core in a depression, right?
120:19:46 CC Roger. That's affirmative, Geno.
120:19:51 Cernan Okay, nobody touch my heat flow; the prettiest job I've ever done. Okay, I'm going behind a boulder over here. Bob, I've got about 385; and, I guess, about 50 percent. I can't see it too well.
120:20:17 CC I copy that, Geno.
120:20:17 Cernan And no flags and no tone; and I'm on - I'm on intermediate coolant and I feel great.
120:20:26 Schmitt Likewise; and I'm - -
120:20:26 CC Roger.
120:20:30 Schmitt - - and LMP is - LMP is 56 percent.
120:20:33 CC Okay. Copy that.
120:20:33 Schmitt What are you, Geno?
120:20:35 Cernan Well, I can't see it. The Sun was - I don't know, Jack. I can't - it was about 5 - yes, about 55 or 54.
120:20:48 Schmitt Okay.
120:20:49 Cernan Now, this ought to shield that thing from the doggone -
120:20:56 Schmitt Pressure's 385 on the LMP.
120:21:08 Schmitt Bob, one comment on - getting the geophones within a few degrees of vertical - in this undulating terrain (chuckle), I think they're pretty good; but it's not real easy to tell what vertical is.
120:21:23 CC Roger, Jack.
120:21:29 Cernan Well, this is right in line with the shallow depression; and it's right in line with the - RTG, with a rock in the middle.
120:21:39 CC Okay, Geno. As long as you're drilling behind the rocks from the RTG, that's great.
120:21:48 Cernan That's where you're going to get it. Let me see what I need. Drill, rack, core bag - drill at 1 IPS. Okay. Let's go do it right.
120:22:18 PAO Gene Cernan preparing to drill another hole - these cores will be brought back to Earth and the neutron flux experiment will be placed in that hole.
120:22:29 Cernan Okay. Let me see, I'm going to put it right in this depression. Right in it.
120:22:34 Schmitt There, get the middle of that.
120:22:36 Cernan It's a shallow one. If I go over there, I'm not shielded, Jack.
120:22:39 Schmitt No, that's good. Get in the middle. Get it in that place.
120:22:43 Cernan Right in this little - it's only about a 4-meter depression.
120:22:46 Schmitt Oh, wait a minute - oh, you're on the other side of the rock. Okay.
120:22:48 Cernan Yes, yes. Yes, I want to get back here.
120:22:52 Schmitt That's good. Oh, man, go slow.
120:23:21 PAO We're at 3 hours 21 minutes into this EVA.
120:23:35 Schmitt Bob, the - all of these big boulders around here that I've looked at, are the same - same rock type.
120:23:48 Schmitt Oh - who pulled over the geophone module?
120:23:53 Cernan Can't imagine.
120:23:57 Schmitt Okay. That sounds like the title of a book.
120:24:22 Cernan Uh oh. There it went.
120:24:25 Schmitt What happened?
120:24:26 Cernan Oh, I lost my vice. I see it. I see it.
120:24:37 Schmitt Hope I took number 1 in the right direction. Yes. Okay, number 4 will be a little hard to pick up.
120:24:47 Cernan Boy, all these little craters are filled with glass. Come on back here. I've got to chase this thing over the lunar surface.
120:24:57 Schmitt I've seen glass covers. Oh, about out towards there, I guess.
120:25:18 Schmitt As I was saying, Bob, all these big blocks that I've looked at look like the gabbroic rock that I was talking about - possibly upwards of 50-percent plagioclase rather than 30 like the mare - but an intermediate gabbro of some kind. And one big block there had very sharply defined - parallel parting planes. I think there is a foliation of minerals that parallel that parting, but I'll have to check it out.
120:26:09 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
120:26:14 Schmitt Those parting planes go over the - go through the whole boulder on the order of at least 3 meters long and outcrop.
120:26:41 PAO Jack Schmitt deploying the geophones of the lunar surface profiling experiment in a large T shape.
120:27:03 Schmitt How is it going, Gene?
120:27:05 Cernan Fine. I'm on my second stem, here - or I'm starting on it. How are you coming?
120:27:13 Schmitt Okay. I'm just about ready to - pick up - old the biggy, geophone 4.
120:27:24 Cernan (Laughter) Have a good time.
120:27:27 CC Okay. And Geno, how are you doing? We've been watching Jack traipse back and forth across the -
120:27:36 Schmitt I'm getting there, Bob. I'm trying to pit -
120:27:39 Cernan Talk about seven league boots.
120:27:43 Schmitt Put stem number 2 on.
120:27:52 CC And, Jack, how's the visibility back at the center geophone ...
120:27:59 Schmitt How's the vis?
120:28:01 CC Yes. Are you - -
120:28:02 Schmitt Not bad.
120:28:03 CC Okay. You're not having to worry about the photos yet?
120:28:08 Schmitt No, I've been checking it. Bob, my biggest problem is that the flags don't anchor.
120:28:19 CC Okay. Copy that.
120:28:25 Schmitt In general, the lines are following the contours. Whoops - whoops - whoops.
120:29:24 Cernan Well, try another one. Doggonit.
120:29:29 CC What's the problem, Geno? it won't screw on?
120:29:34 Cernan Oh, yes. It's no problem. You know, it's the same problem you always have. You get these threads - get a little side force on them and - you know, with the helmet and gloves and what have you - it's just - you can't - Sometimes they go on easy; sometimes they don't.
120:29:52 CC Copy that.
120:30:04 Cernan Okay. I got this one on now.
120:30:06 CC Roger.
120:30:28 Schmitt Boy, do I have a ball of spaghetti here. But the geophones are going in the right direction. I hope you don't have an EMI problem. Can the geophone lines cross, Bob?
120:30:41 CC Stand by on that. Okay; no problem, Jack.
120:30:58 Schmitt Okay. Hey, if you see me start to pull over that module there -
120:31:07 Cernan Hey, don't do that.
120:31:08 Schmitt No, I mean - oh, I won't hurt it. It's just that it - it stretches the other geophones tight.
120:31:17 CC Okay. Well, right now we're watching Gene.
120:31:22 Schmitt Okay. Don't worry about it. I'll watch it. The anchors are completely unsuccessful - on the module, anyway.
120:31:48 CC That looks pretty good, Geno.
120:31:53 Cernan Not too bad, Bob. The first core was awful loose. I think I could have pulled it back out with my hands.
120:32:01 CC That's not the idea.
120:33:02 Cernan Oh boy, oh boy. Speaking of boy, oh boy - are you a long way off.
120:35:06 Cernan Okay, going to stop for a second, Bob.
120:35:10 CC Okay. We've observed your problem there getting the wrench off, Geneo.
120:35:16 Cernan Well, I had to get down to get that - to get that - third - third stem aligned and get it on there. This is the easy part, but I just got myself behind the power curve for a second.
120:35:29 CC All right.
120:35:41 Schmitt How's the time, Bob?
120:35:43 CC Stand by. Okay. Presuming you're taking photos now on geophone 4. Having to finish geophone 4, Jack, you're about - right now, looks like about 15 minutes behind.
120:36:03 Schmitt Okay.
120:36:09 CC And no problem on the time line so far.
120:36:13 Cernan Darn it. You know, Bob, one of the problems is I'm working in a small crater; and it's just a little difficult to work on these slopes. Okay. It's on. I'm ready to put the drill in.
120:36:31 CC Okay, Geneo.
120:36:36 Cernan Okay. Let me get the dust out of the bit by blurping it. Oh, man; okay. How am I doing, Bob, on the time?
120:38:04 Cernan Jack, do you read me?
120:38:05 Schmitt Yes.
120:38:06 Cernan Okay, because I don't see you.
120:38:08 Schmitt I'm out by the big rock.
120:38:10 Cernan Oh, okay; I got you.
120:38:44 Cernan Man, I hope that hole doesn't collapse. I'm going to be awful disappointed. I think I could drive that heat flow flux - or heat flow - or neutron flux in, at least for one probe, without any problem. Okay, Bob, if all goes well in the next few short moments, you'll have the final - unleaded(?) - cores stem - automatic - in this area - on Apollo 17.
120:39:33 CC On a Monday evening, Roger.
120:39:38 Cernan Yes, on Monday evening. That is what it is, isn't it? Hey, who's winning the football game?
120:39:46 CC Stand by; we'll find out.
120:40:16 CC Okay; and, Jack and Gene, the score is 10 to 10 at the half.
120:40:26 Cernan Yes, that's Oakland and - and who?
120:40:29 CC Jets.
120:40:38 Cernan ... Kansas City. What am I thinking of?
120:41:32 PAO The duration of this EVA will be 6 hours and 45 minutes. The oxygen supply in the backpacks is being used at a slightly higher rate than anticipated. We are 3 hours and 40 minutes into the EVA now.
120:43:14 Cernan Hey, Bob, would you settle for about 8 inches out of the ground? it's about as low as I can get.
120:43:22 CC Okay - -
120:43:23 Schmitt I haven't heard from them recently.
120:43:24 CC Okay - Okay, Geno. We'll give you A minus for that one.
120:43:25 Cernan I know.
120:43:26 Schmitt There he is.
120:43:27 CC But it's still an A.
120:43:30 Cernan Well, I'll go lower if I could get an A plus. But I am going to accept an A minus, because I'll never get the wrench on it if I go any lower.
120:43:39 CC Roger there, Gene.
120:43:39 Cernan I'm - I'm within an inch of the white stripes. How's that?
120:43:43 CC That sounds great to me - -
120:43:44 Cernan An inch of the white stripes, Bob.
120:43:46 CC Roger. And they're worried up here that you didn't clear the flutes, Geno. You want to tell them that so they'll be happy?
120:43:52 Cernan Yes, sir. I'll tell them I did clear the flutes.
120:43:55 CC Okay. And, Jack, where are you lost on the plains.
120:44:01 Cernan Yes, I did. But if you want me to do it some more, I will.
120:44:03 CC No, if you cleared, that's sufficient. And, Jack, where are you lost on the plains of Taurus-Littrow, there?
120:44:12 Schmitt I'm over here.
120:44:16 Cernan He's 180 from where your camera - from where I am.
120:44:20 CC Okay.
120:44:21 Schmitt Right across the Rover.
120:44:22 CC Okay. Are you getting ready to take geophone photos or ALSEP photos?
120:44:28 Schmitt I'm getting ready to enable the old geophone.
120:44:32 CC Okay. I take it that means you've taken the geophone photos.
120:44:37 Schmitt Oh, yes, sir; and I forgot the gnomon (laughter).
120:44:40 CC (Laughter) Hey, Jack. How about giving me a couple of quick readings here to satisfy some people. One, was there a decal on the LEAM that you aligned it with? There's some controversy down here that there's no decal there; and the question is, if there isn't, they want a reading out of the degrees, but we keep saying that the LEAM decal - we can't prove it.
120:45:03 Schmitt I'll go prove it, Bob. I'll go by there. Stand by.
120:45:07 CC Okay.
120:45:08 Schmitt What's the other question?
120:45:09 CC And the second question is, is there a decal and was it aligned on the ... the 20-degree decal on the LSG. Was that also aligned?
120:45:20 Schmitt Yes, sir.
120:45:21 CC Okay. Copy that.
120:45:22 Schmitt The orange one.
120:45:23 CC Roger. Agree.
120:45:24 Schmitt As per drawing.
120:45:26 CC Roger, sir.
120:45:27 Schmitt As per drawing.
120:45:29 CC Roger. You don't have to prove it to me.
120:45:34 Schmitt Yes, I do.
120:45:37 Cernan Okay. Okay, Bob, I was able - -
120:45:44 CC Okay; and, Jack, how far - -
120:45:44 Cernan - - to pull the core out - -
120:45:45 CC Okay, go ahead.
120:45:46 Cernan - - with the drill. I was able to pull the core out with the drill, about 3 inches. And it's all jacking material from there out.
120:45:56 CC Okay, copy that, Geno. And we finally got some word from the Cape to prove to people that there's a decal on the LEAM, so you don't have to go back by that, Jack. Just at the right time.
120:46:06 Schmitt I already have. It's reading - it's reading 30. And here's the decal.
120:46:14 CC Okay. Copy that.
120:46:24 Schmitt Okay. I guess I'd take ALSEPs word on it.
120:46:30 Cernan Good.
120:46:40 Schmitt One more, Once more I tempt the fate of the god of the cables.
120:46:45 CC Okay; and, Jack, we're getting ready here to try and save a little bit of time. And we're saying that why don't we just take two stereo pans for the ALSEP photos. First stereo pan will be in the vicinity of the original stereo pan; and the second one, they suggested, will be to the northwest - of that original one.
120:47:11 Schmitt Northwest. Okay.
120:47:12 CC Yes, and I suggest that you go far enough so that you can see the LEAM past the central station.
120:47:18 Schmitt Yes, sir.
120:47:23 Cernan Hey, Bob, (laughter) you'll be interested to know I just put a - I just put a plug in the top of that core; and it disappeared from sight down the center - center of the core. I'll put a cap on it, too; but I want to plug it first. I want to - I want to get the rammer to plug it down.
120:47:44 Schmitt Hey, Bob, where do you want the focus on the pan to be?
120:47:47 CC Stand by on that.
120:47:49 Schmitt About 15 feet?
120:47:54 CC Stand by.
120:48:10 Cernan Where's my rammer? There it is.
120:48:17 Cernan Hey, Bob, that's strange. That plug was too small for the core.
120:48:38 CC Hey, Jack. You got a focus that's somewhat short of 7 - Well, between 74 feet and - just a little short of 74 feet?
120:48:48 Schmitt I've already taken it at 15, Bob. I think that's pretty good.
120:48:53 CC Okay; that's - Okay. We couldn't get an estimate.
120:48:59 Schmitt It's not a calibrated detent, but I don't think you need it here.
120:49:04 CC Okay.
120:49:42 Schmitt How far northwest?
120:49:48 CC Go ahead, 17.
120:49:51 Schmitt About the same - about the same position as the heat flow down-Sun - or up-Sun?
120:50:00 CC Stand by.
120:50:07 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I - I was able to - -
120:50:11 CC Yes. That sounds pretty good to me, Jack.
120:50:13 Schmitt - - to get. Bob, I ran that plug three-quarters - two-thirds of the way down the rammer, and it - it hit solid paydirt.
120:50:24 CC Okay. That sounds good.
120:50:26 Schmitt And I'll put a cap on it for you, too.
120:50:27 CC Okay. That'll make people happy. Did you copy me, Jack, that ... 6 o'clock to the - -
120:50:32 Schmitt I knew it would. And that - -
120:50:34 CC And -
120:50:41 Schmitt Roger, Bob.
120:50:46 CC And, Jack, would you confirm for the ground that you got the LSP enabled?
120:50:49 Schmitt That's cap Alfa. No, I didn't. You interrupted me. Good boy. I was on my way, and the LEAM interrupted me. I'll get it.
120:50:58 CC Roger.
120:51:02 Schmitt Keep after me.
120:51:21 PAO Gene Cernan will use a jack to get the core stems out of the -
120:51:29 Cernan Bob, that's cap Alfa - that's on the - that's on the - the core.
120:51:39 CC Say again there, Geno.
120:51:47 CC Jack, you're taking your second pan, right?
120:51:49 Cernan I'm not sure they're hearing us all the time.
120:51:56 Schmitt Yes, but the camera just stopped.
120:52:11 Cernan Oh, man!
120:52:13 CC Okay, what - -
120:52:13 Cernan Oh!
120:52:14 CC - - was your question, Geno?
120:52:18 Cernan I just said that was cap Alfa on the core. And let me tell you it's coming, but this thing is really in something. Oh.
120:52:33 Schmitt Would you believe I'm out of film, Bob?
120:52:38 CC Okay. I'm afraid I'll have to.
120:52:43 Schmitt Why didn't I look at the number?
120:52:45 CC You want to give me a frame count, Jack?
120:52:46 Schmitt Mag Alfa is empty.
120:52:48 CC Okay. Copy that.
120:52:50 Schmitt It's 158.
120:52:55 CC Copy, 158.
120:53:12 CC Okay, Jack, we're recommending magazine Hotel, and we also suggest you take the second pan, when you retake it, at 74 feet.
120:53:24 Schmitt Okay.
120:53:27 Cernan Man, it didn't feel like this stuff was that hard.
120:53:38 Schmitt What's the problem, Geno? You need some help?
120:53:40 Cernan No, nothing you can do. Just - just jacking away. See if I can get this thing out of the way. See if I can get it out, is what I'm really saying. I may be jacking the treadle down into the surface
120:54:03 Schmitt Change hands.
120:54:28 CC Okay, Jack, if you haven't put magazine Hotel on, we want to recall that amd make it magazine Golf - Gail.
120:54:38 Schmitt Well, Bob, I've already got it on.
120:54:41 CC Okay. Sorry about that.
120:54:42 Schmitt Is that okay?
120:54:44 CC Leave it on.
120:54:46 Schmitt I know what you want. You want color.
120:54:49 CC That's affirm.
120:54:50 Schmitt Well, anyway, it's black and white all...
120:54:53 Cernan Gail is not - you mean Charlie.
120:55:02 PAO That jack applies about 5 to 600 pounds of pressure.
120:55:10 Schmitt Do you want color, or do you want Charlie?
120:55:14 CC Stand - stand by, Jack, if you're still at the Rover.
120:55:20 Schmitt Well, I'm still here, but I got Hotel on.
120:55:24 CC Okay. Leave Hotel on. That's - we - we goofed. We'll just accept it.
120:55:31 Schmitt Well, okay. We don't have much time; otherwise I'd change it. I should have thought of that myself.
120:55:39 CC Well, couldn't get ... there - -
120:55:40 Cernan We got a little time because I've got a lot of jacking to do. Man!
120:55:49 Schmitt Let me - let me finish the pan and come and help you.
120:55:52 Cernan Well, there's not - not a lot you can do, Jack.
120:55:55 Schmitt I'll get the neutron flux ready.
120:55:57 Cernan Well, thanks a lot.
120:56:01 Cernan Okay. Come on, baby. I'm going to get this thing out, now that I got it.
120:56:14 CC Boy, Geno, that's what you call getting down into your work.
120:56:24 Cernan Bob, I'll save my comments until later. I hope this core is appreciated.
120:56:35 CC Roger, Gene. And I have word from the back room that it is appreciated.
120:56:41 Cernan Yes, that makes me feel warm. I'll get it. You're going to have to bear with me. Man, I don't know what it's in.
120:56:58 Schmitt I was afraid that would happen - with all those rocks.
120:57:04 Cernan Yes, but it didn't go in that hard.
120:57:08 CC Hey, Geno, how about slacking off for a minute there. You got pretty - going pretty hard.
120:57:16 Cernan Okay. One more turn, I'll get up. I've got to hit an easy spot sooner or later.
120:57:27 CC It seems that way.
120:57:34 Cernan You're right, Bob. I'm going to take a rest. You bet you. Man, I hate to say it, but I - I had that 25 percent of the way there. I can feel it ticking now. I'm going cold.
120:58:00 CC Okay.
120:58:19 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I got your pans and a couple pictures of the heat-flow probes.
120:58:28 CC Okay - -
120:58:28 Schmitt Now, let's see - -
120:58:29 CC - - okay, Gene - Jack. If you've got the two separate pans there, we're suggesting that you - in the - since the CDR is still working on the core recovery, we suggest that you sample the large boulders and loose material on top of some of the smaller large boulders in the vicinity. I would look through some sampling here while Geno's pumping on the old jack. Unless you guys see that - -
120:58:54 Schmitt You want me to help him?
120:58:55 CC Well, unless you guys - Okay. If you'd let me finish. Unless you guys think that two guys can do that better than one, I'm not sure.
120:59:04 Schmitt Gene, you want me to spell you a little?
120:59:06 Cernan Jack, I don't think there's a lot you can do. Come on over here 1 minute. Let's see if I can - -
120:59:10 Schmitt Well, I can use up some of my water.
120:59:13 Cernan Let's see if I can't get a bigger bite - you on one end, and let me stand on the treadle and we might be able to get a bigger bite. See, I can't get a very big bite. That's one of the problems.
120:59:28 CC And, Jack, could you verify we have the LMP ENABLE on ... - -
120:59:30 Cernan I just hope that jack doesn't break.
120:59:34 Schmitt No, I'll get it. I knew there was something I needed to do.
120:59:36 Cernan Get the jack end over here - other side. Let me - let me put some weight here. See if you can - see - what - what kind of bite you can get.
120:59:51 Schmitt Oh, man.
120:59:52 Cernan Yes, that's what I've been doing. See if you can get a bigger -
121:00:05 Schmitt Oh, no.
121:00:09 Cernan It's coming, though. See, just - Here, let me get my foot down there and you get - you get - jack. See, that's the key. No, I think I can -
121:00:23 Schmitt Okay. If I do it that way -
121:00:25 Cernan Get her way down there.
121:00:26 Schmitt Okay. Now try it.
121:00:28 Cernan See, we got a couple of inches there to throw. We're all right. There you go. Do that for a little bit.
121:00:34 Schmitt Okay. Let me put my foot on it.
121:00:37 Cernan Okay, ready?
121:00:37 Schmitt Yes.
121:00:38 Cernan It's got to loosen up sooner or later.
121:00:41 Schmitt Okay. That's another good one. When you're tired, I'll do that and you can do this. See, this way, I can - you can get a bigger throw. Okay. Let me know when and I'll do that.
121:00:57 Cernan Oh, that's all right.
121:01:03 Schmitt Does it feel like it's loosening up at all?
121:01:05 Cernan Yes.
121:01:07 Schmitt (Laughter)
121:01:08 Cernan Excuse me. Yes, go ahead. (Laughter) Okay, okay, okay (laughter).
121:01:18 Schmitt Stay there. Stay there. Okay, back. Thank you. Fell on my UHT, among other things. Okay. Let's try that again.
121:01:35 Cernan You want to get over here and I'll do that for a while.
121:01:36 Schmitt Oh, that's all right. I'm - I just lost my balance. Let me - can I hold there?
121:01:40 Cernan Yes. You can hold there, and I'll hold, too.
121:01:47 Schmitt That seems like a little easier.
121:01:49 Cernan Yes. That looks to me like it should be getting easy. Just hold on to me and -
121:01:53 Schmitt What was that?
121:01:53 Cernan Huh?
121:01:57 Schmitt I had a tone. It was probably a -
121:01:59 Cernan You still got it?
121:02:02 Schmitt Gone, momentary. I probably got a -
121:02:08 Cernan You get over here. Get over here, Jack.
121:02:10 Schmitt This is all right.
121:02:11 Cernan No, let me get over there.
121:02:11 Schmitt It's coming now.
121:02:19 Cernan Why don't you come over here?
121:02:22 Schmitt Come on, one more. I think we're going to get it.
121:02:26 Cernan Okay. Come on over here and hold your foot against that thing. Just hold that - that little thing down. That's the main thing. Ready?
121:02:38 Schmitt Yes, we're getting it now.
121:02:47 Cernan I need your foot on that thing. See if - -
121:02:49 Schmitt There you go. I don't know what kind of hole we're going to have.
121:02:58 Cernan Okay. Put it - get your foot down on that thing again.
121:03:04 Schmitt Wait a minute. Let me - Okay. I jacked the treadle down about 6 inches. Okay. It's loosening up a little bit. I keep saying that, don't I?
121:03:17 Cernan No. It - it didn't change while I had it there.
121:03:33 Cernan I can get it. Why don't you go get your - your pan.
121:03:35 Schmitt You got that?
121:03:35 Cernan Yes. Why don't you get your pan and your - -
121:03:37 Schmitt I've got that. I got - -
121:03:38 Cernan - - LSPE, and I'll - -
121:03:40 Schmitt I'll get that and a few samples, I guess.
121:03:41 Cernan Okay. Go ahead and do that. I can get it.
121:03:48 Cernan Whee. Let me tell you, Red Rover, let me tell you.
121:04:01 Schmitt I know whose face is smiling back there.
121:04:08 PAO Ron Evans is coming up over the crater Copernicus in his 17th revolution of the Moon. He's right on the flight plan. Everything going good. Sounder data coming in good.
121:04:10 Schmitt You don't suppose this is why we didn't have much dust from the LM, do you?
121:04:11 Cernan I think it is (laughter).
121:04:20 Schmitt (Laughter) I saw all the way to the ground during landing.
121:04:25 Cernan Yes.
121:04:26 Schmitt Okay, Houston.
121:04:29 Schmitt MARK it, enabled.
121:04:30 CC Okay, finally. Thank you.
121:04:31 Schmitt Whoops, I moved your an - your central station. I've got to realign your antenna.
121:04:38 CC Stand by, Jack. Wait a minute.
121:04:48 Schmitt Well, the gnomon's still aligned. I thought I moved it.
121:04:53 CC Okay. Well, let it be.
121:04:53 Schmitt Yes. We should have raised the flag on this thing. It looks just the same as when I left it, but I thought I moved it.
121:05:02 CC Okay, Jack.
121:05:09 Schmitt Is it okay, Bob?
121:05:17 CC Okay. Leave it alone for right now, Jack, and we'll get a reading on it.
121:05:21 Schmitt Okay.
121:05:21 CC For a minute or so. And, Jack, I guess right now, you might get some fairly rapid samples in the area, since you're probably almost ready to leave. And can you tell us what you saw there in the vicinity of the - you were giving us a description of the boulders there and plateness of the - and alignment of the crystals - the plag. You want to amplify that a little bit?
121:05:46 Schmitt Okay, then. I will as soon as I get back over there with a sample bag. Bag 10 Echo - 10 Echo - is a sample of a very large boulder that's just beyond geophone 3. Just west - just south.
121:06:06 CC Copy that, 10 Echo, and boulder east of which geophone?
121:06:13 Schmitt South of geophone 3 - southwest. And I got a few photos to docu - document the boulder. I'm not sure I documented the sample, though.
121:06:26 CC Okay, copy that.
121:06:26 Schmitt It - it's a - it's the - the same kind of rock - the same kind of rock I saw near the LM - and the gabbro - I'm beginning to lean towards 50 percent plagioclase, though.
121:06:49 CC Okay.
121:07:15 Cernan Bob, I had to remove the treadle from the hole and I'll tell you later why.
121:07:24 CC Okay, go ahead.
121:07:26 Cernan Oh, me. No, I'll tell you later why. I'm just figuring, oh me, how am I going to get all this stuff now? I'm going to lose my hole. Okay, it was right there. In our fiasco over here, we knocked everything over.
121:07:43 Schmitt Did I ruin something?
121:07:44 Cernan No, I've just got to stoop over to get things and that's a major - major - effort these days.
121:07:51 Schmitt Can I help you?
121:07:52 Cernan Nope, I got it here. I've got a delicate core in one hand, and I'm trying to get some core caps in the other. You'd be glad to know it's full, Bob. And while I'm the only one to see the bottom end right now, I'm going to tell you, it - it looks like - it looks like what I'm walking on, but it's obviously now powdery. It's obviously very - very cohesive, because it - it - The bottom of the core is not smooth, it's very jaggedy, and fragmental-like.
121:08:30 CC Okay, copy that, Geno. Very good.
121:08:35 Cernan Yes. I'm - I'm being very careful with your core here, but I've got to do a few - little housekeeping chores first.
121:08:41 CC Okay. Have you got that neutron flux over there in the vicinity, or is it still back at the Rover?
121:08:48 Cernan No, sir, I already got it.
121:08:49 CC Okay, good enough.
121:08:51 Cernan Yes, I've been looking.
121:08:52 CC And Jack, in your travels there, while you're doing some sampling, if you hap - happen to wander by in the vicinity - approximate vicinity of the double core - the deep core, you might get us a Rover sample of the soil there.
121:09:07 Schmitt Okay.
121:09:09 Cernan Bob - Bob, and - the core is filled to within a - an eighth or certainly less than a quarter of an inch from the - from the bit.
121:09:18 CC Okay. Sounds good to me. Sounds like a good - good candidate for a cap.
121:09:25 Cernan Yes, sir, and it's got Bravo on and the plug has been discarded.
121:09:29 CC Copy that.
121:09:35 Cernan Now, let me see what else I can get here, before I get too upset. I need my - my - the - the - the drill, besides performing admirably, is a tool of necessity to lean over and pick things up with. Except when you let it fall down.
121:09:54 CC Okay. And our next priority is to put the neutron flux down the hole, we hope.
121:10:06 Cernan Well, we shall see. Man, I don't even know if I can find the hole. It's in the shadow now. I guess I can see it down there. There it is. Okay. You asked, and with a little bit of luck, you shall receive.
121:10:34 Cernan Listen, I'm earning my three and a quarter a day today. Oh, boy, I don't want to lose the rammer either. Let me get that before that gets lost in the shuffle. We don't want to lose that for sure.
121:11:09 Cernan I bet you all think I'm stepping on that hole, don't you?
121:11:14 CC I don't. John doesn't, either.
121:11:25 Schmitt Bob, I see no - no clear alignment of plagioclase or pyroxene in this rock. That's the one with the parting in it. It looks as if - integrating what I've seen here and over at the big rock - the geophone rock - I - that the layering or the foliation or the parting, whichever it is, is the result of variations in vesicle concentrations. The sample 10 Echo is a sample of the more coarsely vesicular rock. I could not get one of the finer - more finely or nonvesicular fragments. But I got pictures of it.
121:12:12 CC Okay, copy that. And do you see any - any - -
121:12:15 Schmitt I'm having trouble - -
121:12:16 CC Go ahead.
121:12:20 Schmitt Go ahead.
121:12:21 CC Can you see any evidence of soil on top of some of these medium-sized boulders?
121:12:27 Schmitt There's soil. A little bit of dust in some of the holes. But I - there's not enough to sample at this point. I may find some later.
121:12:40 CC Okay, copy that. He's picking up ...
121:12:51 Schmitt Vesicle walls do not seem to be as shiny. Most of them seem to have dust in them.
121:13:02 CC Copy that.
121:13:02 Schmitt The vesicles; are not cleanly spherical - they're spherical but they have fairly rough outlines. They look as if there's been some recrystallization.
121:13:16 CC All right.
121:13:19 Cernan Bob, I will ver - verify that the lower section is on.
121:13:22 CC Okay, thank you, Geno.
121:13:37 Schmitt I picked the wrong rock to sample with a scoop, I'll tell you that.
121:13:56 Cernan Boy, I'll tell you, housekeeping is the key to the world right now.
121:13:59 CC Okay, Geno and - let's - -
121:14:01 Cernan Okay, another key to the world is one of - -
121:14:03 CC Geno, stand by. Hold it.
121:14:06 Cernan Yes.
121:14:07 CC Okay, make sure that the top of it doesn't go down through the hole, too, and disappear, either by putting it through the treadle, or if you're sure this the - or whatever.
121:14:22 Cernan Boy, Bob, that sure is a good thought. You know, I had to take the treadle off because the jack wouldn't go down and no way I could put that treadle - Well, let me turn it on first. That was a good thought. It may - it may go down that hole. That would be terrible.
121:14:39 CC How big's the hole look, Geno?
121:14:41 Cernan See, the jack wouldn't - Well, looks big enough to put this down. Let me - let me use my judgment on it. And a little ingenuity.
121:15:14 Cernan I verified the top was on, by the way.
121:15:17 CC Okay, thank you.
121:15:30 Cernan Shazam!
121:15:31 CC How about that, loud applause, loud applause.
121:15:39 Cernan See what happened, here, to that treadle, Bob? I couldn't get the jack to go down and it - it - it made the hole oblong when I - but it's all right now.
121:15:47 CC Okay; beautiful, beautiful.
121:15:48 Cernan And it ended up all right.
121:15:50 CC Okay. And why don't we get you two guys together again, now, and break down the core and press on. And we've got a little revision here to the EVA. I'll get with you in just minute on, as soon as I find out what it is.
121:16:09 Cernan Bob, I feel pretty good about that - that - that makes me feel pretty good.
121:16:16 Schmitt Bag 174 - 474, 474, soil from next to this big rock, it's the fillet. I can't get a chunk of the rock.
121:16:26 CC Copy; 174 fillet beside the big rock. And, Jack, while you coming back here to the Rover, why don't you get one more Rover sample in the vicinity of the deep drill, while you and Gene get ready to take on the core stems. And because of being a little bit behind here, what we're doing is, we're getting prepared to drop Station 1 in favor of doing Steno. Over. And I'll get with you on more details on that in a minute.
121:17:00 Schmitt Well, how far behind are we?
121:17:02 CC Stand by. You're about - between 35 and 40 minutes. And part of the problem is that we're a little short on oxygen on Gene's PLSS. It looks like it's a 6 minute and 4 - 6 hours and 45 minute EVA from that point of view, which means that we have to - we'd have to leave Station 1 too early, which is another - which is the reason to curtail Station 1 apart from just behind which is what the hooker was.
121:17:42 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm approaching the rear of the Rover. I've got the core, the cap, the wrench, and the rammer.
121:17:49 CC Okay-
121:17:59 Cernan I didn't mean to breathe up all that oxygen.
121:18:03 CC Well, there's something you can't help. Even the Surgeon agrees with me on that one. And for your thinking, Jack and Gene, what we're doing is planning on going to the west side of Steno and that boulder field that's part way out to Station 1.
121:18:25 Schmitt Okay, you want me to get a - you want to break that and I'll go get this sample, Gene.
121:18:29 Cernan Yes. I'll - I'll break this Jack; no sweat.
121:18:35 Schmitt Gene has pretty well chewed up the ground. I helped him. Do you want me to get a little ways away from it?
121:18:42 CC Stand by. I don't think we're interested in a surface sample in the last top little bit ring, it's just a - in the top - just a surface sample. Stand by 1.
121:18:59 CC Anything there in the dirt, Jack. It doesn't have to be a skim sample of any sort.
121:19:11 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm breaking down the core at the tail end of the Rover, here.
121:19:15 CC Okay, congratulations.
121:19:21 Cernan Well, don't do it yet, I haven't gotten it broken down yet. But I got it out of the ground with a little help.
121:19:48 Cernan Okay, first piece of three sections - Bob, it's full.
121:19:51 CC Okay, beautiful.
121:19:52 Cernan And I have to tell you which end I'm taking it from. I don't remember which end I've got here.
121:19:57 CC That's all right, since we got the cap and Alfa on one end and Bravo on the other end - Bravo.
121:20:07 Cernan Man! There's a cap that's going to be tough to get on. I put that on with a hammer. Oh, boy.
121:20:15 Schmitt Okay, Bob, there's a mixture of soil and rock in 475.
121:20:20 CC Okay, copy 475 -
121:20:22 Schmitt The soil came from about - the soil came from about 5 centimeters - 0 to 5 centimeters.
121:20:32 CC Okay, copy that. Beautiful.
121:20:34 Schmitt And it's about 3 meters - 3 meters - 3 meters from the hole. Well -
121:20:44 Cernan Hey, Bob, cap Charlie is opposite Alfa, that was the first 3-section.
121:20:52 CC Okay, copy that.
121:20:59 Schmitt Bob, it's about 3 meters from the hole. I got stereo before with - at 11 feet and one after at 11 feet.
121:21:08 CC Okay, copy that. And how about a frame count there, Jack.
121:21:14 Schmitt Stand by.
121:21:33 Cernan I tell you.
121:21:41 Cernan No - no, I can get it. Boy, this system works good.
121:21:55 Schmitt Okay, let me see. Let me configure the old LRV sampler, here.
121:22:23 CC Jack, when you - -
121:22:24 Cernan Oh, boy, oh, boy; oh, boy; oh, boy.
121:22:24 CC Jack, this is Houston. Over.
121:22:27 Schmitt Go ahead.
121:22:28 CC When you took those two pans off the ALSEP, was one at 15 feet and one at 20 feet?
121:22:36 Schmitt One was at focus for 15 and 74.
121:22:39 CC Okay.
121:22:40 Schmitt There's a partial pan - there's a partial pan on mag A, which was taken at 15.
121:22:47 CC Okay. Understand.
121:22:55 Cernan Okay, Bob - I can't see what it is - I guess Delta and Echo is the - the 2-section core. Delta being adjacent to the first section of 3.
121:23:12 CC Roger. Copy that, Gene.
121:23:23 Cernan Okay, baby, just go on there - nice. The last - the last one is Foxtrot. And it's on tight.
121:23:55 Cernan Ouch.
121:23:57 Schmitt Arm's tired?
121:23:58 Cernan That hurts. Oh, me; oh, my. I'm going to take a big drink of water here. We got three cores; we got the neutron flux down; and we got two heat probes, and an ALSEP. I don't care if we are 30 minutes late. Bob, did I give you the last cap?
121:24:25 CC That's okay, Gene. We don't really need it - the way they're broken down, there's no problem. The 323 stands out and the Bravo on the bit end - there's no problem there.
121:24:36 Cernan Hey -
121:24:39 Schmitt What do you need, babe? Okay, pull that off. Pull this off. Here.
121:24:45 Schmitt Rotate it 180, there.
121:24:47 Cernan No, no, no, just the - the total thing. That's good. There you go.
121:24:51 Schmitt Like that?
121:24:51 Cernan Yes.
121:24:55 CC Okay, and, 17 - -
121:24:57 Cernan Now you'll have to line it up.
121:24:58 CC Go ahead.
121:24:58 Schmitt Okay. I'll hold it. You do it.
121:25:02 Cernan I got it.
121:25:03 Schmitt Okay.
121:25:05 Cernan ... give you a reading, Bob, before you speak. Wait a minute, let me - let me get it over with. It's 670, 002, 601. That's 670, 002, 601.
121:25:21 CC Did you punch GRAV a second time? That's identical to the first one.
121:25:29 Cernan I just did to read it. That's what you want, isn't it?
121:25:32 CC Yes, is that - but you - did you punch GRAV after the first reading you gave me there at the ALSEP? Or are you just reading me the same measurements you did before?
121:25:42 Cernan Bob, I called them out every time - Bob, I'm reading it right here. Everywhere I've punched GRAV, you've got it written down somewhere.
121:25:53 CC Yes, and I didn't copy your punching GRAV, but the one - -
121:25:55 Cernan Bob, I did not - when I went back - Bob, I did not - when I went to get the treadle and the neutron flux and rammer, I did not punch GRAV.
121:26:04 CC Okay. So that's the same as the first one. Never mind, thank you. And guys - we're ready for you guys - as you go along here, to do the geo prep and press on. As I say, we'll go to Steno and come back from there and do the SEP. Over. Any questions about that? We'd also like to know if you have the gnomon, back of the Rover?
121:26:27 Cernan No, we're just - -
121:26:29 Schmitt Yes, we do.
121:26:30 Cernan Okay, lay cores in. Okay - -
121:26:32 Schmitt Can you - can you put that in that sampler tool bag, there?
121:26:36 Cernan Yes, sir. We're configuring for geology, now, Bob.
121:26:41 CC Okay, copy that.
121:26:47 Cernan Bob, right now, 10 Echo is in my suit pocket, I hope.
121:26:53 CC Okay.
121:26:57 Cernan Okay, my 20-bag dispenser is SCB 1. Let me get at them.
121:27:01 Schmitt I've got mine on.
121:27:02 Cernan Okay. Oh.
121:27:09 Schmitt This probably goes under the seat, doesn't it?
121:27:18 Cernan The camera - where the devil mine is - where the devil mine is. Excuse me. Oh, I see the gnomon.
121:27:33 Schmitt I put it there so I wouldn't forget it.
121:27:35 Cernan (Laughter) Okay, I tell you, dexterity is the key. We might leave - Look at those cover gloves.
121:27:49 Schmitt I guess we can take those off. I don't know whether we ought to or not.
121:27:51 Cernan I'm going to leave mine on for a while. I changed my mind. I want to look at my gloves before I take them off. Okay, where are we? You got your camera, obviously. This is my camera. I got the bag dispenser on it. It's not a bad day's start. Bob, is the ALSEP working good?
121:28:19 CC The last we heard, it was working great, guys. We'll check again, though.
121:28:26 Cernan Okay. You got your camera. My camera is in the floor pan. Cap dispenser, SCB to Gate 1. Let me get that. Jack?
121:28:35 Schmitt Yes?
121:28:35 Cernan You haven't been on the Rover yet. It's real easy, but it's also very easy to kick dust all over those battery covers, so don't even get on it until I put those bat covers down.
121:28:44 Schmitt Yes - Hey - I guess - I should - we ought to press on as if we're going to Station 1.
121:28:49 Cernan Yes, you've got to walk - you got to walk back to the LM anyway - I got to - we got to - -
121:28:53 CC Roger. Guys, we are going to play it per the checklist. Jack will carry the things back. Gene will get the thing aligned. We'll go out to the SEP site. And then we'll press on from there down to Steno. Over.
121:29:07 Cernan Okay, very good.
121:29:10 CC And right now -
121:29:11 Cernan Okay. Stow LMP - you want to come over here and I'll stow your PLSS?
121:29:13 CC Go ahead. Never mind.
121:29:15 Schmitt Yes.
121:29:21 Schmitt My camera's under my feet.
121:29:25 Cernan Okay, you can turn around. Oh, man, what have you been in? Hallelujah.
121:29:43 Cernan I'll keep the hammer, I'll give you this. Can you reach the rammer? it's right in front of you. On the - -
121:29:51 Schmitt Oh, yes.
121:29:52 Cernan Let me - I haven't got that cap in, yet - there it is. Okay, the caps are in. If we ever come out here again, I want to get your hammer, here ...
121:29:58 CC ... you might give us a frame count on Hotel.
121:30:05 Cernan Okay, Bob.
121:30:08 CC And we're going to hand over stations. You might get a dropout.
121:30:09 Cernan Yes, it's under the seat right now. I'm - Okay, rammer - I got the hammer. Turn around. I'll give you a SCB 2.
121:30:21 Schmitt Okay.
121:30:23 Cernan Okay. Now, guess who's watching to see how these hooks are going to work?
121:30:35 Schmitt Oh, man. Like a charm, so far.
121:30:37 Cernan Oh, except your doggone harness of off, too, Jack.
121:30:41 Schmitt Is it?
121:30:42 Cernan Yes.
121:30:42 Schmitt Okay, you've got to undo the strap - -
121:30:44 Cernan Let me - let me get at it.
121:30:46 Schmitt You got to loosen that strap and then just put her underneath, and tighten it up again.
121:30:51 Cernan This one here?
121:30:52 Schmitt The one on - the one on my right. Yes.
121:30:54 Cernan Now - let me turn around then. I got to get on your - oh, on your right. Right here.
121:30:56 Schmitt I think it is - Yes. That's where it is on yours.
121:30:59 Cernan Yes, I'd like to make sure the other side is all right, though.
121:31:01 Schmitt Oh, okay.
121:31:03 Cernan Let me - Yes, it's all right. Turn around. Let me just get it underneath.
121:31:14 Schmitt I got it so tight now, the Rover - Okay, now.
121:31:17 Cernan I got it on.
121:31:18 Schmitt Okay?
121:31:19 Cernan Okay, now, I'll get this hook. That hook's going to be a piece of cake, Jack.
121:31:33 Cernan Keep it in, and it's all on and locked.
121:31:35 Schmitt Okay, you got a SCB 2. You got the rammer. You got a cap dispenser.
121:31:39 Cernan Okay. You can secure SCB 1. Doesn't this go under your - -
121:31:42 Schmitt Not yet, I don't think. I think it stays there.
121:31:46 Cernan This does. No - -
121:31:47 Schmitt That does. Yes. That goes under the seat.
121:31:50 Cernan And this goes here.
121:31:51 Schmitt Yes.
121:31:52 Cernan Okay.
121:31:54 Schmitt Bob, the long can's going under my seat.
121:31:57 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
121:31:58 Cernan They got a handover, I think.
121:32:02 CC Handover's complete, guys.
121:32:05 Cernan Okay.
121:32:13 PAO 4 hours 30 minutes into the EVA.
121:32:13 Schmitt *** which way it unlocks, though.
121:32:14 Cernan Okay, you can pull it off.
121:32:17 Schmitt It's unlocked.
121:32:18 Cernan It's unlocked. There it is. It's usually stiff. Okay. For once, I have my camera off.
121:32:35 Cernan Did you get the heat-flow pictures, by the way?
121:32:37 Schmitt I got most of them. Not all of them. They revised the whole camera.
121:32:42 Cernan Hey, Bob, is it going to hurt to leave the UHT in the heat-flow electronics?
121:32:47 CC Stand by.
121:32:50 Schmitt Wait a minute. I ought to get that, I guess.
121:33:01 Schmitt One - tall.
121:33:05 Cernan Here, let me lean down.
121:33:08 Schmitt Two, and the hook's still hooked. Check for sure here. Those hooks weren't designed for new bags.
121:33:28 CC Okay, Jack - -
121:33:30 Schmitt Okay. I think that will ride all right.
121:33:31 Cernan Okay.
121:33:31 CC They don't want us there. If you - if one of you guys can get to it and pull it out.
121:33:37 Cernan I'll get it right now.
121:33:38 Schmitt Okay.
121:33:38 CC Thank you.
121:33:39 Schmitt Watch the alignment, as you said.
121:33:41 Cernan Yes. I sort of thought you might like it out of there. Let's stay away so I don't get a cable and I don't get dust in the mirror. The alignment is still good.
121:33:52 CC Okay.
121:33:54 Schmitt Now, if I can get it out. Okay, I'm going back to the LM.
121:34:02 Cernan Okay, Bob, the alignment's good on the heat flow, and I've got the UHT out. Jack, do you need this?
121:34:08 Schmitt You better leave - save it. Save it.
121:34:10 Cernan I'm going to leave it right here by the ALSEP.
121:34:12 Schmitt Save it. Careful.
121:34:16 Cernan Jeeminy, I just threw it right here in this little - little ditch.
121:34:19 Schmitt Yes, right. Okay, the other UHT is by the ALSEP. We probably ought to have it with us, Geno. For the sampler.
121:34:30 CC Have you got one - -
121:34:31 Cernan Well, you've got one - -
121:34:31 CC - - UHT sampler?
121:34:31 Schmitt Yes. That's all right. Keep it on the ...
121:34:36 CC Okay, we gather you're on the way back to the LM with the core stems there, Jack.
121:34:43 Schmitt Yes, sir.
121:34:44 CC Okay.
121:34:48 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to take the TV away from you and get these battery covers squared away before I put the tongs and the camera on.
121:34:57 CC Okay, Geno, and you guys have the gnomon in the little quiver, right?
121:35:04 Cernan Yes, sir. The temperatures on the batteries are 96 and 110.
121:35:08 CC Okay, thank you.
121:35:10 Cernan Can I close the covers?
121:35:11 CC Roger.
121:35:12 Cernan Can I close the covers?
121:35:13 CC Roger; Roger.
121:35:18 Cernan Hey, you're turning our voice around, Bob.
121:35:22 CC No, I said - -
121:35:23 Cernan We're getting a repeat.
121:35:24 CC I said, "Close the covers, please."
121:35:30 Cernan That's right. I heard what you said, but you're turning our voice around.
121:35:42 PAO Jack Schmitt on his way back to the lunar module.
121:35:48 Schmitt (Singing) I was strolling on the Moon one day -
121:35:54 Schmitt - in the merry, merry month of December -
121:35:54 Cernan - in the merry, merry month of December -
121:35:57 Cernan No, May.
121:35:58 Schmitt May.
121:35:59 Cernan May's the month this year.
121:35:59 Schmitt May - that's right.
121:36:01 Cernan May is the year, the month.
121:36:03 Schmitt (Singing) When much to my surprise, a pair of bonny eyes - be-doop-doo-doo - -
121:36:10 CC Sorry about that, guys, but today may be December.
121:36:12 Cernan Okay, the battery cover - -
121:36:17 Schmitt (Humming) Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee-da-dee - -
121:36:21 Cernan Okay, Bob, the battery covers are closed. I'm ready to go MODE switch 1. I guess I'll just wave goodby. You look pretty clean, so I won't touch you.
121:36:35 CC Okay, thank you.
121:36:40 Cernan Oh, man. It's even hard to move you counterclockwise. Here we go. Counterclockwise, facing aft. Okay, I'm going to go MODE switch number 1 - -
121:36:55 CC Roger. We can confirm that.
121:36:55 Cernan - - and you want me to leave those two blankets open 100 percent, right?
121:36:59 CC Roger, That's affirm.
121:37:04 Cernan Okay, now I got - now I got to mount my camera and tether my tongs.
121:37:12 PAO We'll lose TV while Gene Cernan drives the Rover to the Surface Electrical Properties site, about 100 meters east of the Lunar Module.
121:37:13 Cernan Boy, Jack, I can bare - I can't see you at all. Looking into the east is terrible. All I can tell you is that there's a LM there.
121:37:24 Cernan Okay, mount camera, tether tongs. See if my camera's going to work. Bob, I'm on - on Bravo - mag Bravo and frame count 19.
121:37:39 CC Okay; copy that, Gene.
121:37:43 PAO Jack Schmitt has carried the core stems back to the lunar module where he will pick up the transmitter for the Surface Electrical Properties experiment and carry it out to the site where it will be deployed.
121:37:57 Cernan And for EMU status, I can give you about 36 percent, no flags, 3.85, and I'm on - I'm still INTERMEDIATE cooling.
121:38:08 CC Okay. Copy that.
121:38:10 Cernan Okay, inventory. Camera, tongs, gnomon. Okay, I'm ready to get on. Ready to get on.
121:38:18 Schmitt Okay, you want us to take the - Ouch! That rock by your front porch is really a major nuisance.
121:38:32 Cernan Oh, doggone it.
121:38:35 Schmitt What's the problem?
121:38:36 Cernan Oh! Every time I get on, I get dust around. I still haven't learned how to get on yet. You'd think after three times, I'd know better. I know better, but it's - -
121:38:54 Schmitt Okay, I've got the transmitter. I'm heading west - or east. (Laughter) Heading east. Sorry about that. (Humming)
121:39:11 Cernan Okay, I'm PRIMARY. Okay, you want a nav initialise here, huh, Houston?
121:39:18 CC That's affirmative.
121:39:23 Cernan By the way, Bob, Station 6 is pretty obvious up on the hill. It's fairly high up. I don't know if we'll get to drive up there or not.
121:39:33 CC Okay. I think you can see the boulder and that's how you can tell, right?
121:39:39 Cernan Yes. And the crater. A shame not to - Well, maybe that's the wrong one. I'll have to check the map. A shame not to go to Station 1. Sure is a shame. Why don't you consider Station 1 as a possibility? Okay, Bob, let me give you some numbers.
121:40:12 CC We're ready.
121:40:13 Cernan Sun shadow is zero. I am rolled right 4 degrees. I am pitch zero. I can't be rolled right 4 degrees. That indicator can't be right. I question that. If the roll indicator's right, I might be rolled left a couple of degrees.
121:40:54 Cernan Are you happy with that, Bob? I'm - roll indicator is indicating - make it 3 degrees right - 3 degrees right.
121:41:01 CC Okay, and I copy - Okay, torque to 279 will be the heading - 279.
121:41:18 Cernan Okay.
121:41:32 Cernan Okay, the heading when I put the NAV POWER breaker IN, Bob, was 23 - 234.
121:41:40 CC Okay, I copy that. We'll torque that to 279.
121:41:47 Cernan Okay. I'm waiting for my minute and a half here.
121:41:50 CC Roger that.
121:42:07 PAO Steno is a crater about 1 kilometer south and east of the Lunar Module. Station 1 was -
121:42:20 Schmitt By the way, Bob, LMP is at 39 percent, 3.88, and no flags, no tones.
121:42:34 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
121:42:38 Schmitt I'm at the SEP site, and I found a place I think we can lay out a pretty good grid.
121:42:46 CC Okay, Jack, and when you lay it down there, we want to put it down with the gnomon side, the side you're going to face, you want to put that facing away from the Sun. We found out a thermal constraint this evening, just as the EVA started.
121:43:05 Schmitt Okay. Away from the Sun. Gnomon - you want the gnomon side or corner?
121:43:14 CC The gnomon side away from the Sun. That's those - the side with the solar panel has to be away from the Sun. The sides with the solar panel ... to be in the shade.
121:43:22 Schmitt Okay.
121:43:32 Cernan Bob, everything's working fine so far. She's zeroed ard I'm torqued. And I'm ready to press on. RESET is back OFF. Okay, Jack, here I come.
121:43:44 Schmitt Okay. You see me?
121:43:46 Cernan No, I'm facing the other way.
121:44:02 Cernan Boy, I tell you - just about all you can see in that direction is the LM. Boy, that's tough driving into the Sun!
121:44:08 Schmitt Go right to the LM, and then a little bit to your left, to the left of the LM.
121:44:17 Cernan ... Yes, I've got to go to the LM and give them a reading here.
121:44:21 Schmitt Okay.
121:44:23 CC That's affirmative, Gene.
121:44:23 Cernan You get that - that shadow up there and you're all right.
121:44:27 Cernan Say again, Bob?
121:44:28 CC That's affirmative. We want the range and bearing at the LM. I'm glad you remembered.
121:44:34 Cernan Yes, sir, I'll give it to you. I even got - Oh, oh, don't get in there. Whoo! I even got the low gain working for you. I don't know if you're using it.
121:44:52 CC I think we're using the LM right now.
121:45:01 Cernan Boy, that LM is pretty. Whoo!
121:45:17 Schmitt Bob, everything I've seen so far indicates that the so-called subfloor boulders, if we have gotten that deep, are this gabbro. I'm out here at the SEP site, and the large blocks are still the plagioclase pyroxene - -
121:45:43 Cernan Jack, let me give them a range. I'll be on my way out.
121:45:45 Schmitt Go ahead.
121:45:46 Cernan Okay, bearing 292, 0.2, and 0.2. I'm standing right in front of the MESA.
121:45:53 CC Okay. Beautiful, Geno. Thank you.
121:45:59 Cernan Okay. I'm coming, Jack.
121:46:07 Schmitt The zap pits are nice white halos, although, for the most part, the rock's too coarse to show them very well. Some of the larger ones have white halos. We may not be down to the subfloor, but - it's hard to say.
121:46:29 Cernan Hey, Bob, making 8 to 10 kilometers, and I'm barely moving.
121:46:38 Cernan Where've you got the SEP, Jack?
121:46:40 Schmitt Right out over there.
121:46:43 Cernan Okay, let me give them a bearing, distance, and range, and some numbers here. Meet you over there.
121:46:50 Schmitt Okay.
121:46:54 Cernan Oh!
121:47:03 Schmitt Bob, I did see a dense gray rock that's different than the others on my traverse out here. We'll try to find some of that, too.
121:47:12 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm reading 278, 003, and 003 at the SEP site.
121:47:23 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno. And how about giving me amp-hours and batteries just as long as you're there?
121:47:30 Cernan Yes, sir, it's coming at you. Amp-hours are 112 and 110; batteries are 9 - 92 and about 1 - about 112.
121:47:46 CC Okay, copy that, Geno.
121:47:47 Cernan Motors are all off scale low.
121:47:49 CC Yes, okay thank you.
121:47:53 Cernan NAV is going to RESET.
121:47:56 CC Say again there, Gene. You're going to go to RESET, right?
121:48:03 Cernan Yes, sir; going to RESET.
121:48:04 CC Okay. Jack, you can be getting on. You won't need a bomb, and I guess you won't need the LMP camera unless you want it. We'll be deploying the bomb at Steno.
121:48:22 Schmitt (Laughter) I thought we were playing it by the checklist, Geno. Here's the bomb.
121:48:26 Cernan Okay, give it to me.
121:48:27 Schmitt The charge.
121:48:29 Cernan I've got it.
121:48:29 CC Yes, it just happens that the station is at the place we're going to deploy the charge.
121:48:36 Schmitt Okay, well, we got it off.
121:48:38 Cernan Okay. Do you know which side of Steno he wants us to go, Jack?
121:48:41 Schmitt Not yet.
121:48:42 CC Yes. We're going - Okay, let me fill you in on the plan, guys. We're going to go to the west side of Steno, - which is where you would have driven by anyway, and the stop is - will be at the 340/1.2, which is where you've got the little Delta for EP 6, in your checklist. And we will plan on spending about 30 minutes there sampling primarily boulders.
121:49:18 Schmitt Okay, Geno, west side of Steno there.
121:49:20 Cernan Okay. I got it here. Okay - -
121:49:27 Schmitt You got a good feeling on how to head out of here?
121:49:29 Cernan Yes. I want to get around the back side - now that I'm down there, on the back side of Trident, and make sure that that's what I'm looking at, is Trident over there.
121:49:42 Schmitt Okay, let me try to get on this thing.
121:49:45 CC Okay. And, 17, just to fill you in a little bit more here. We're looking at a 6 plus 45 EVA. We've given you 15 minutes to drive to Station 1; 30 minutes at Station 1; and 15 minutes to drive back to the SEP, and then deploying the SEP for 22 minutes. And then a 40 minute closeout at 6 plus 45.
121:50:11 Cernan I'm sorry, Bob. After 30 minutes at Station 1, what did you say?
121:50:15 CC Okay. Then we're going to drive back. There's a 15-minute return to the SEP site, and then 22 minutes at the SEP site to deploy the SEP, and then return to the LM in 45 minutes for the closeout.
121:50:30 Cernan Okay. Understand.
121:50:35 Cernan Okay, you strapped in?
121:50:36 Schmitt Yes, sir.
121:50:38 Cernan Yes, we've got to start getting on this Rover facing 90 degrees to the seats, I think.
121:50:43 Schmitt I did the same thing.
121:50:44 Cernan Right through dust?
121:50:44 Schmitt Yes, we both did. I tried to knock it all off my feet.
121:50:48 Cernan Yes. That's impossible. Okay, Jack. Let's see if we can't get around - around Trident East over here.
121:50:55 Schmitt Well, I don't - I wish I didn't have this charge. If they played it by the checklist - I wasn't paying attention. Okay - -
121:51:02 Cernan We're on the move, Bob.
121:51:05 Schmitt Okay, this is Trident, isn't it? So we're starting out - ~
121:51:09 Cernan Well, it's got to be.
121:51:11 Schmitt Yes. So, you're starting out on the - You really want to hit about 29 - -
121:51:19 Cernan No, no, no.
121:51:19 Schmitt No, wait a minute. Where are we?
121:51:20 Cernan We want to go southeast.
121:51:22 Schmitt 181 - -
121:51:25 CC 17, we'll start out on the same general traverse that you've been on. It's just that we'll stop it sooner.
121:51:36 Schmitt Yes, we understand.
121:51:37 CC Okay.
121:51:37 Schmitt We're just getting our bearings, Bob.
121:51:40 Cernan This has got to be Trident East, right, right here, Jack. See that? That's got to be Trident East. That's the big one.
121:51:47 Schmitt On the right or the left?
121:51:48 Cernan On the right.
121:51:49 Schmitt Yes.
121:51:50 Cernan And we - and Poppy - and was just over about where - -
121:51:55 Schmitt Watch your -
121:51:55 Cernan Yes. I just want to get our bearings here. You can't look to the east.
121:52:00 Schmitt Okay. I've got to - That's an awful big depression over there, isn't it? Says go along this way.
121:52:14 Cernan Boy, it sure is. Whee!
121:52:20 Schmitt Watch it. Ho - ho - ho hold it, hold it, hold it!
121:52:23 Cernan Got it, got it, got it ...
121:52:29 Schmitt Boy, I tell you I've got to get out of east.
121:52:31 Cernan Stand by.
121:52:33 Schmitt Gene, I think - I'm going to head about 120 out of here.
121:52:37 Cernan Well, it's a -
121:52:40 Schmitt You've got another hole on your right here.
121:52:41 Cernan I got it.
121:52:43 Schmitt Whoa, whoa. I'm not sure what's wrong. Why don't you go left there?
121:52:48 Cernan Okay.
121:52:49 Schmitt Go left around this thing.
121:52:51 CC And, 17; Houston. For your advice, we're trying to use the low gain antenna on this traverse also. Might try and be good guys and turn it for us when you have to.
121:53:05 Schmitt Okay. Bob.
121:53:06 CC That's general reminder number 1.
121:53:14 Schmitt Gene, I think we need to head south.
121:53:18 Cernan Yes. We've got to go out here southeast. What's that big map look like in relation to Bare Mountain to you?
121:53:26 Schmitt You mean the - I'm not sure I can get to it. Okay. Okay, I won't - -
121:53:36 Cernan It calls for 116 at 0.62 - -
121:53:39 Schmitt ... near the SEP. I ended up with this charge in my hand. There's a big - What are you headed now, south pretty much?
121:53:51 Cernan Yes.
121:53:53 Schmitt I think you're getting - That must be station - that must be Emory over there. See with all the blocks in the wall?
121:54:02 Cernan Where you looking? Which way?
121:54:05 Schmitt Southeast. Way over there.
121:54:07 Cernan Yes.
121:54:08 Schmitt That may very well go - this is very easily Steno right over here. Let's - let's see, we're between the two big ones - that would be - -
121:54:14 Cernan That would be Powell.
121:54:15 Schmitt That would be Powell on the right.
121:54:17 Cernan You think?
121:54:19 Schmitt Certainly doesn't look like th LNA yet.
121:54:22 Cernan No, it sure doesn't.
121:54:24 CC How about a range and bearing, guys, I think we can help you.
121:54:29 Cernan Okay, 330, 0.3.
121:54:36 CC Okay, it sounds like you're probably just driving by the East Trident or Trident 3.
121:54:46 Schmitt You think all that right there is Trident?
121:54:49 Cernan By god, if it is, that's incredible. I - I - That's hard to believe.
121:54:53 Schmitt Well, ... - you're going to go in a hole with your right - No problem.
121:54:57 Cernan I can't see the lip too well because of the - -
121:55:00 Schmitt Well, if that's Trident -
121:55:03 CC Okay. And, Jack, if you - do you have your camera on - -
121:55:05 Schmitt Boy, I wish ...
121:55:05 CC - - If so, could you give me a frame count some time?
121:55:11 Schmitt Bob, I got my hands full with this charge.
121:55:13 CC Oh, okay, forgot about that one. Sorry about that.
121:55:14 Schmitt It's - Looks like 45.
121:55:24 CC Okay, copy that. Thank you.
121:55:34 Schmitt Boy, if that's Trident, whoo!
121:55:38 Cernan Hey, you know that is - don't you suppose that's Trident?
121:55:40 Schmitt Well, it sure looks like it, doesn't it?
121:55:42 Cernan Yes. We were quite a ways from Trident.
121:55:46 Schmitt I bet you it is.
121:55:46 Cernan If that's true, we're at 342.4. That's about right; we're half a mile - that's about right. Boy, what I was looking at Trident isn't nearly that - any where near that big.
121:55:57 Schmitt Okay, if that's true, then we want to go - -
121:55:59 Cernan Yes, sir.
121:56:01 Schmitt - - we want to go l8l.
121:56:03 Cernan Yes, sir, we're all right now. That's got to be Trident. What we were looking at before - I've got to stop and see what that is. I've got to look at those maps when we get in.
121:56:12 Schmitt Well, it's a triplet all right, with some septar between. Well, wish I could take pictures. Take a few, but - -
121:56:27 Cernan Well, let me get a few here.
121:56:28 Schmitt No. You keep pressing. We can get them coming back.
121:56:36 Schmitt Take a few, but it's not continuous. My hands are giving out. I wish I hadn't said follow the checklist. Okay, we're at 0.5 and 346. And the surface has not really changed except slightly more hummocky and rolling, because of a larger number of irregular depressions, or craters. The - boom! - the rocks at first glance from the Rover look very much like what we had around the LM. That's the big ones.
121:57:21 CC And, 17, you might be - -
121:57:21 Schmitt There are occasional - -
121:57:24 CC - - Jack, you might be expecting WATER flag and a tone in a couple of minutes, to go to AUX.
121:57:31 Schmitt Okay.
121:57:35 CC And CDR will be about 5 minutes after that.
121:57:37 Cernan I'll get stopped here in a minute, Jack - as scon as I get -
121:57:42 Schmitt Okay. I think maybe that might be Steno over there -
121:57:45 Cernan I don't think we're too far off.
121:57:48 Schmitt Okay, there' s my - I' ve got to go to AUX.
121:57:51 Cernan Can you reach it?
121:57:51 Schmitt I hope so.
121:58:09 Schmitt Okay, Houston, do you see me in AUX?
121:58:12 CC Stand by. Roger. We see you in AUX.
121:58:21 Cernan I'm going to hit some of these broadside, Jack, and then we won't get any roll angle.
121:58:30 Schmitt Okay, how far have you come?
121:58:32 Cernan I've got to go 0.7 - about another 0.7 mi - kilometers. I may be coming up on the edge of it. I don't know, I may - I'm on the right bearing. Yes. We're all right. Steno has got that dimple on the north. Boy, this is a heck of a way to start out our navigation because it's into the cross-Sun here - not cross-sun - but Sun. Now, that's got to be Powell, wouldn't you say?
121:59:00 Schmitt Yes. Must be.
121:59:04 Cernan Must be.
121:59:05 Schmitt Listen, you - -
121:59:05 Cernan Then that's Steno with all the blocks in it.
121:59:08 Schmitt Boy, an I glad we didn't land out here! Whew!
121:59:10 Cernan See this high point up here coming ahead?
121:59:13 Schmitt Yes.
121:59:13 Cernan That should give us our bearings, I hope.
121:59:15 Schmitt I can't hold that bomb any longer.
121:59:18 Cernan What are you going to do with it?
121:59:19 Schmitt I'm going to drop it at my feet.
121:59:22 Cernan Okay.
121:59:23 Schmitt Okay, it's there.
121:59:24 Cernan Keep it between your feet.
121:59:25 Schmitt It will, My hands aren't going to be any good for sampling.
121:59:32 Cernan Okay, that's Powell, huh?
121:59:47 Schmitt Yes.
121:59:53 Schmitt Okay, if that's Powell. Quite a ways over there, but I think the thing to do is get up on that little ridge there.
122:00:03 Cernan Yes. I think we may end up looking right into Steno when we get up there. Bob, we're 342.9.
122:00:13 CC Okay. Copy that.
122:00:18 CC 340 and 1. - -
122:00:19 Cernan Are you reading the low gain, by the way?
122:00:20 CC Yes. Roger. Beautiful. 340 and 1.2 is what we expect the station to be.
122:00:37 CC And it should be up on the top of a little bit of a rise. That you see coming up there. Almost to that rise. You ought to be in the vicinity of some very large boulders.
122:00:47 Cernan Houston, there's a - there are certainly a lot of big boulders - Whoops! ... Let me take a look into the Sun here. That doesn't look what I thought Steno looked like. There's no dimple there. 1.2 he said. All right. This is it over here, though, I guess.
122:01:08 CC Yes, Steno ought to be at - right at your 9 o'clock there, Gene.
122:01:17 Cernan At my 9 o'clock. Yes.
122:01:20 CC Either that or your 3 o'clock. I forgot which one it is.
122:01:22 Schmitt How do you know where we are?
122:01:28 Cernan I think, you're probably right, although it doesn't impresss me as what I saw in the LNA. How much time have we got to drive now, Bob?
122:01:35 CC Okay, stand by.
122:01:37 Cernan I think that's probably Emory up there.
122:01:42 Schmitt That's Steno, I guess.
122:01:44 CC Yes, yes, Steno - Gene and Jack, we'd like you to - If you're in the vicinity, we think you're just about there. We were planning on you leaving the SEP and getting to this place at about 4 plus 58 and we're showing about 5 plus 00 right now so you're right on time. And if you're at 340 and 1.2 in that vicinity, you must be at the station or very close to it where you can see. Over.
122:02:10 Cernan Well, it doesn't look real familiar, Bob, as far as Steno's concerned.
122:02:15 Schmitt Okay, I got - I think they can locate us if we work that block field right there.
122:02:19 Cernan Let me get my water.
122:02:21 CC Okay, on the map we're showing, Jack, that you're probably looking at, you're seeing that there's a couple of boulders at - just above - at about the - With north being 12 o'clock, there are a couple of boulders at about the 09:30 position on Steno. And then there's a couple of more at about the 9 o'clock position on Steno. And we're putting the station right in the midst of all those boulders. Over.
122:02:48 Cernan Well, Bob, I don't know. It's hard - hard to follow that that's where we are. I'm not sure. It doesn't look like what I expected Steno to look like - -
122:02:57 Schmitt No, me neither.
122:02:58 CC Okay. What's the range and bearing one more time?
122:03:03 Cernan Okay, 346, 1.1. I think it would almost be worth - I bet that's Emory up on that hill. It's got to be.
122:03:25 Schmitt Yes.
122:03:27 Cernan Okay, well, let's - -
122:03:28 Schmitt We better park in this boulder field here.
122:03:32 Cernan ... boulder field.
122:03:34 Schmitt ... Wish we could have gotten near one of the big ones, but let's do it. We're going to run out of time.
122:03:38 Cernan Yes.
122:03:39 CC That's affirmative, guys - -
122:03:40 Cernan ... big one anyway.
122:03:41 Schmitt Okay. You want me - -
122:03:41 CC - - There's no point in deviating around and spending 15 minutes trying to get to a particular spot or down to a bigger boulder. You must be in the near vicinity. If you're really worried about it, I guess you might drive a little bit to the east to the rim of the - -
122:03:53 Schmitt Okay. We got - -
122:03:54 CC - - crater, unless you're there. Over. Your judgment.
122:03:57 Schmitt No, we're okay. We got a good place.
122:04:00 CC All right.
122:04:02 Cernan Okay, I'm parked - I'm parked 180.
122:04:08 CC Roger. Stand by on that a minute.
122:04:14 Cernan You want us to get off? What do you mean?
122:04:14 CC Okay. No - -
122:04:15 Cernan What heading?
122:04:16 CC - - Okay. I was just wondering about where you were going to park. Go ahead and park 180. There was a question on whether they wanted us to park into the Sun, but don't worry.
122:04:23 Cernan Okay, I'm heading - -
122:04:25 CC 180 is a good heading.
122:04:27 Cernan Okay, I'm headed - I'm headed - I'm headed 182, 346, 1.2, 1.1, 110, 108, 100, and 118, and off scale low on all of the bo - motors.
122:04:53 CC Okay. I copy that.
122:04:55 Schmitt Bob, can we deploy - Okay. You want this charge deployed here?
122:05:12 CC That's affirmative, Jack.
122:05:14 Schmitt I'll deploy it now.
122:05:15 CC You can deploy it right now. That's good.
122:05:24 PAO That's a one-pound charge for the lunar seismic profiling experiment.
122:05:25 Schmitt Okay, the centers [?] are still on, thank goodness.
122:05:28 CC Beautiful. We'll give you the Taper of the Year award.
122:05:35 Schmitt Boy, you're going to have to give me the Dunce of the Year Award after this.
122:05:39 Cernan Pan 1, ... two -
122:05:43 Cernan MARK, SAFE.
122:05:46 Cernan Pan 3 -
122:05:47 Cernan MARK, SAFE.
122:05:51 Schmitt That will be in the pans, Geno.
122:05:54 Cernan Okay.
122:05:54 CC Okay, I copy that.
122:05:56 Schmitt Bob, you got MODE ... - -
122:05:58 CC Just to confirm that is EP-6, right?
122:06:11 CC 17, Houston. Do you read?
122:06:15 Schmitt Okay, Bob; we're about 15 meters from a 20-meter blocky rimmed crater. It's about 3 - 3 to 4 meters deep. All the blocks on the rim look like the pyroxene, plagioclase gabbro - the vesicular rocks seen at the LM. At least all that I've seen so far.
122:06:51 CC Okay. I copied that, Jack. And is this crater to the east or west?
122:07:01 Schmitt It's to the northwest of the Rover.
122:07:04 CC Okay; copy that.
122:07:06 Schmitt The vesicu - visicle popula - the vesicle population varies from about a 2 milli - a millimeter to 1 centimeter. It forms about 15 percent of the rock - 10 to 15. And I've given you grain size and - for the rocks near the LM and that goes well for this one.
122:07:36 CC Okay, I copy that, Jack. Very good.
122:07:43 Schmitt There is - the parting that I mentioned, still of somewhat unknown origin, and we'll try and get a sample along a parting plane. It's clearly evident in one of the bigger blocks.
122:08:03 Cernan Hey, Bob, just as we stopped the Rover, I went on AUX water. Do you want me to turn my primary water off - I don't have to, do I?
122:08:14 CC No, no, no need to.
122:08:19 Cernan That's what I figured. Just wanted to cover all bets. Okay, Jack. I think, I've got my housekeeping done.
122:08:29 Schmitt Okay. Hey, get your hammer. We're going to need it.
122:08:36 Cernan I've been carrying it all day, it's about time I used it. Okay.
122:08:40 Schmitt Bob, you're going to want a core at this site?
122:08:42 CC Roger. We'd like to get - number 1 priority will be some block samples, including any dirt that was on the blocks, If there is such. And then the second priority is a rake soil sample; the third priority is a double core. Then, also in there, the pans, of course, and other documented samples. But the double core is there although it is third priority.
122:09:06 Cernan Okay.
122:09:10 Schmitt Gene, do you think - Got you gnomon, huh?
122:09:11 Cernan Yes, I've got my gnomon, and I've got to give a TGE. When you said, bring a hammer, I came -
122:09:16 Schmitt I'm sorry.
122:09:17 Cernan No, no problem.
122:09:19 Schmitt Well, I shouldn't have -
122:09:20 Cernan The two go hand-in-hand. Nothing disrupts your thought patterns more than somebody saying something.
122:09:25 Schmitt Well, listen, this is my first geology stop. I guess I'm entitled to do that; Bob, you ready for a mark?
122:09:31 CC Roger.
122:09:35 Schmitt Okay.
122:09:37 Schmitt MARK it. The light's flashing.
122:09:39 CC Copy that.
122:09:44 Cernan Okay, you got one picked out?
122:09:47 Schmitt Yes, let's hit this - see if we can work on that one, it's at the edge, but it's got - we can chip at the parting plane. And that's one of the things that's come up that I think is of interest that we've got to figure out why they have that foliation in them.
122:10:01 Cernan Boy, that rock is one of the more vesicular ones I've seen around.
122:10:03 Schmitt Well, they're all about that, Gene. They're too - they're either that or mixed with that variety. In the same boulder, you'll see a - see a nonvesicular - a relatively nonvesicular. Okay, that's the - -
122:10:20 Cernan Watch your shadow.
122:10:21 Schmitt - - that's the down-Sun. Ooh. Okay, right into the Sun.
122:10:33 Cernan Okay.
122:10:34 Schmitt Right at that overlapping fracture, huh?
122:10:38 Cernan Yes.
122:10:39 Schmitt Let me get where I can maybe save the rock. If you can hook your -
122:10:43 Cernan That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try and get it right - right up on top is where I'd like to -
122:10:47 Schmitt If you hit it - if you hit it on the right side, it'll go this way, maybe. There you go. Good man.
122:10:53 Cernan Piece right there.
122:10:55 Schmitt I can get another one, too. Try another one; don't lose that one.
122:10:59 Cernan Let me get that one for you.
122:11:01 Schmitt I can get it.
122:11:02 Cernan Got it? Whoops. Can you keep it in sight here for a minute? is that it?
122:11:14 Schmitt Yes. Go ahead. Try hitting - There you go. Can you use the other end against the right side of the Rock?
122:11:32 Cernan I'm pressing.
122:11:32 Schmitt Oh.
122:11:35 Cernan It's coming.
122:11:44 Schmitt That's all right.
122:11:45 Cernan I'll get that one, wait a minute.
122:11:48 Schmitt Be careful down in there.
122:11:50 Cernan The whole thing is going to fracture off here, in a minute.
122:11:54 Schmitt That's why -
122:12:02 Cernan Trying.
122:12:04 Schmitt It's trying to fall. Don't wear your hand out. That's good, Gene.
122:12:11 Cernan Wait a minute. Let me give one more whack. The whole thing is - No, that's too tight. Let me get that other piece -
122:12:21 Schmitt Okay. Bag 476 is the rock sample with a little bit of the soil near it - with a chip - chip off the rock, and it's the - Watch it, Gene.
122:12:41 Cernan Here's your other chip. If I go down there, that thing is about 15 feet deep.
122:12:50 Schmitt Right. Got it.
122:12:56 Cernan Okay.
122:12:56 Schmitt Now, do you think you can chip off the other side of that plane, up on the edge?
122:13:02 Cernan Yes. Yes.
122:13:03 Schmitt Then we'll get the soil, and maybe just a small rock, one nonchipped.
122:13:10 Cernan Let me tell you - my hands from that drill - -
122:13:12 Schmitt Yes, I'm sure they are.
122:13:12 Cernan - - Really know I've been out here today.
122:13:20 Schmitt 476, Bob.
122:13:22 CC Copy that, Jack.
122:13:23 Schmitt It's from the southeast - southeast side of the parting plane -
122:13:29 Cernan There it is - a whole big slab, right there.
122:13:30 Schmitt Okay, very good.
122:13:31 Cernan Oh, look at those dark minerals in there. Are those dark black?
122:13:34 Schmitt Yes, they may be ilmenite or fresh pyroxene. We'll look at it. Gives the impression of pyroxene.
122:13:45 Cernan Okay, you want my bag? I tell you, if you work on any kind of slope, like this little crater - Okay, I'm going to leave it open for a minute.
122:14:02 Schmitt Okay.
122:14:04 Cernan While we get that one.
122:14:05 Schmitt I'm going to have to - you're going to have to use your tongs on that one, I think.
122:14:08 Cernan Okay. I got it.
122:14:13 CC And, 17, a reminder to factor into your thinking, this is only a 30-minute stop, and there's about 20 minutes remaining.
122:14:22 Schmitt Yes, sir. But we got to sample something.
122:14:25 Cernan Here's a big one. Get him the bag number, too.
122:14:27 Schmitt Bag 454. Okay, and the flashes are from inside of vugs and recrystallized vesicles. They looke like pyr - pyroxene flashes; they could be ilmenite.
122:14:46 Cernan I'll get my after picture.
122:14:48 Schmitt Okay; let me - and let me get in there and get some soil.
122:14:52 Cernan Okay, let's get it first.
122:14:53 Schmitt From the north side. Whoops. Okay, the bag tore around that; it's pretty jagged rock, but I think it'll hold.
122:15:00 CC Okay. Copy that.
122:15:00 Schmitt ... In yours. Okay? it's in Gene's sample collection bag. And a scoop sample. You got a bag handy, Gene?
122:15:17 Cernan Okay, bag 455, Bob. It's from the west side of the rock. It's under a slight overhang of the rock - in a shadow, anyway. Okay, that's from about 1 centimeter down - deep, 1 to 2 centimeters. And the next one is down to about 5 - 5 or 6. And it's got some chips in it.
122:15:52 Cernan That's bag 456, Bob.
122:15:55 CC Copy that.
122:16:06 Schmitt Okay. (Laughter)
122:16:08 Cernan I know. I know.
122:16:13 Schmitt Oh, shoot. 1.2 kilometers is a long way from the LM. Look at the Challenger down there. Makes you get a feel for how big this valley really is.
122:16:28 Cernan I'd rather not.
122:16:30 Schmitt Okay. I'll help you.
122:16:34 Cernan I got it.
122:16:35 Schmitt Turn around and let me help you get these in your bag.
122:16:36 Cernan I learned now. You learn of necessity out here. Okay. See if we can't fill this up for Christmas. Okay, let's - You happy there?
122:16:51 Schmitt Yes, let's - get your after -
122:16:54 Cernan Okay.
122:16:54 Schmitt And if we can, we might get just a block instead of breaking on it, and then we'll go to the rake. Let's go around to the -
122:17:04 Cernan Bob wanted a core here, too, huh?
122:17:08 Schmitt Yes, but the rake's next, as you might imagine. Geno, now this - this looks - this stuff here looks a little less vesicular. Why don't we try that one?
122:17:22 Cernan Hey, here's - ro - look at this rock, where the vesicularity changes from a hummocky vesicularity to a very fine vesicular. Look at this. Let me try and crack - get a - See that? The change?
122:17:34 Schmitt Yes, that's what I'm after; that's it.
122:17:35 Cernan Let's see if I can't crack - -
122:17:36 Schmitt That's it. That's what I saw in that other boulder.
122:17:38 Cernan Let's see if I can't crack the corner and get that contact.
122:17:41 Schmitt Yes. And get a piece of both - I think you can get - if you can reach down there.
122:17:46 Cernan See if I can't get a -
122:17:54 Schmitt That's a contact in a rock.
122:17:57 Cernan Yes.
122:17:59 CC Beautiful. And you guys - do you guys see any 2-meter blouders around there?
122:18:05 Cernan We just sampled one. ... - -
122:18:09 CC Well, if that one showed up in the photos, I wonder why those down near the ALSEP didn't show up.
122:18:18 Schmitt No, we're not where you think we are. We're not sure where we are. Gene, can you get down into that? Need some help?
122:18:28 Cernan Yes, just - give me the shovel to hold myself with. Give me a shovel.
122:18:37 CC I don't know.
122:18:42 Schmitt How about that one?
122:18:43 Cernan Yes.
122:18:44 Schmitt Get that little piece.
122:18:45 Cernan Okay, I see it. It's pretty hard. See if I can't - it's low and hard to hit.
122:18:56 Schmitt How about - how about coming around from this side?
122:18:59 Cernan Well, I got the gnomon in the wrong place really.
122:19:01 Schmitt Let me see your -
122:19:02 Cernan Can you reach it?
122:19:03 Schmitt Well, I'm going to lean on the - on the rock maybe. I got that other little piece in sight.
122:19:15 Cernan Okay, I got that piece in sight, too. Let me -
122:19:18 Schmitt Get them both with your -
122:19:19 Cernan Let me get them both right now.
122:19:22 Schmitt You can stick that in the ground if you -
122:19:25 Cernan Okay, this is a sample of the - of the more coarsely vesicular rock.
122:19:36 Schmitt You got it in your hand?
122:19:38 Evans I got them both. I think, actually, we got a sample of both sides; but I wouldn't bet on it.
122:19:46 Schmitt Okay, I just got a chunk of that side.
122:19:59 Cernan Okay, I got both of these.
122:20:01 Schmitt See that rock right over there on the little mound, just projecting out of the edge of it?
122:20:05 Cernan Where are you looking?
122:20:06 Schmitt Right over there.
122:20:06 Cernan Here?
122:20:07 Schmitt No.
122:20:08 Cernan Here?
122:20:08 Schmitt Where I'm pointing.
122:20:08 Cernan There?
122:20:09 Schmitt There you go; you just about touched it. Right there, that piece.
122:20:12 Cernan Okay, let me get these in a bag here.
122:20:25 Schmitt Well, I'll get that piece; and that's the samples from either side of the contact anyway. Can you get a bag - -
122:20:34 Cernan They're pretty small.
122:20:35 Cernan Give me a hammer, and get a bag and I'll - -
122:20:37 Schmitt You take the hammer.
122:20:38 Cernan I got these in my hand I want to put there.
122:20:40 Schmitt Okay. Bag 477 is the coarsely vesicular rock.
122:20:45 Cernan Are two of them there? I hope two of them fell in.
122:20:48 Schmitt No, I only got one.
122:20:51 Cernan Okay, here's that other one. It had to fall right here.
122:20:58 Schmitt I don't think it ever - is that - There it is; get your tongs.
122:21:02 Cernan Right here?
122:21:02 Schmitt Now you're full of dirt in the scoop; you just covered it up.
122:21:06 Cernan Got it; I got it.
122:21:08 Schmitt Here, put it in here with the dirt. That's good.
122:21:12 Cernan A little dirt never hurt anybody.
122:21:15 Schmitt Got it.
122:21:17 Cernan Okay.
122:21:18 Schmitt 477 are two chips of the - They're small, but I think they'll give you the - if there's any compositional difference.
122:21:26 Cernan But these two are the ones you saw - that right there? That's what you pointed at.
122:21:33 Schmitt Yes, I think you got it.
122:21:34 Cernan Okay. I'm going to take a - a closeup stereo on that contact.
122:21:38 Schmitt Yes, definitely.
122:21:40 CC Okay; and, Jack and Gene, when you get done with that boulder, we'd like you to move on to the - the rake soil sample, please; and that'll be a kilogram sample, please.
122:21:50 Cernan Yes, sir; we're going to. We're going to.
122:21:54 Schmitt In bag 478 is the chip from the finely - more finely vesicular rock. Both of them are coarse. It's a small chip; but it'll tell the story, I think.
122:22:10 Cernan Dust, dust, dust, dust. Here you are. I'll go ahead and get a closeup stereo - -
122:22:14 Schmitt Get a closeup, and I'll get the rake. I'll get started on the rake.
122:22:18 Cernan Okay.
122:22:23 Schmitt Gene, if you can pick up one more rock in that picture, with your tongs, let's bag it.
122:22:30 Cernan I'll get it.
122:22:33 Schmitt As you come back.
122:22:37 CC And, 17. We'd like to have you guys - -
122:22:39 Cernan Sure wish I could read this.
122:22:40 CC - - driving in 10 minutes, please.
122:22:45 Cernan Nag, nag, nag.
122:22:48 CC That's right, that's right, that's right.
122:22:49 Cernan Boy, I can't see my camera setting, it's so full of dust.
122:22:55 Schmitt Okay. I guess you want to sort of - out in nothing's land here, huh?
122:23:09 Schmitt I can bag it for you, Geno.
122:23:11 CC Roger.
122:23:13 Cernan That's all right. I want to get this closeup here.
122:23:18 Schmitt Okay, I've moved about - 5 meters - 5 to 8 meters northeast of the Rover. And - as soon as Gene gets here with the gnomon -
122:23:39 Cernan Coming, coming.
122:23:50 Schmitt Bob, I've got a - a sample that was laying next to that boulder. I did not get an after picture of it, but it's - as I was taking my closeup pictures, it - is on my side of the boulder just 4 or 5 inches, covered with the dark mantle.
122:24:08 Cernan I think we - I think we probably disturbed that one. It'll probably show up in the befores.
122:24:14 CC Okay. Copy that.
122:24:14 Schmitt Okay, we want a rake.
122:24:21 Schmitt And that's in bag 479.
122:24:26 CC Okay.
122:24:28 Schmitt Gene, let's rake - let's rake right out there.
122:24:32 Cernan Look, let's go ahead and bag that one; and I'll get the gnomon out there.
122:24:36 Schmitt Okay.
122:24:37 Cernan Bob, as you might have seen from the camera, up towards where we think Emory is you get a pretty high concentration of boulders up there.
122:24:46 CC Okay. And I think that that's where we thought we were a little bit closer to Emory than you are.
122:24:55 Cernan Well, we thought about going on up there; although - we're in a pretty good area here, too, from the standpoint of boulders.
122:25:03 CC Yes.
122:25:03 Cernan Again, I think - Face the Sun.
122:25:04 Schmitt I think for the most part, large and small, all the fragments seem to be - seem to be filleted or even mantled by the dark material.
122:25:20 Schmitt Let me get out of your way.
122:25:21 Cernan Boy, I've got to clean my camera; I can't even see. What area are you going to rake?
122:25:26 Schmitt To the - your left of the - well, ahead of the - ahead of the gnomon and to your left, there.
122:25:32 Cernan Okay, I got it.
122:25:34 CC Okay, Gene, we copy that. That's a good observation. And I also gathered that most of the rocks look pretty much the same.
122:25:43 Schmitt That's what I said.
122:25:44 Cernan Yes, except a change in vesicularity - -
122:25:49 CC Roger.
122:25:50 Cernan - - in terms of the size of vesicles, where I described one as being a more hummocky vesicular-type rock. The first time I've noticed any of the dark minerals was when we took that one big flat chip off that boulder.
122:26:06 CC Okay; copy that.
122:26:07 Cernan I didn't look at it that close to see what it was.
122:26:12 CC Copy that, guys.
122:26:16 Cernan I'm going to get a pan, Jack, while you're doing that.
122:26:18 Schmitt Okay.
122:26:19 CC Good idea, Gene.
122:26:42 Cernan Man, are there some good targets for the 500 around here. We've got to get those massifs with the 500.
122:26:57 PAO The double core will be eliminated at this stop. When it gets started back toward the -
122:27:07 CC And, 17; again, we'd like - -
122:27:09 Schmitt Bob, I'm really only penetrating - I'm only penetrating about, at the most, 3 centimeters into this area with the rake. I've picked up a very good sample of bla - of boulders but most of them were - were in that distance of the surface and projecting out of it.
122:27:30 CC Okay; I copy that.
122:27:33 Schmitt You ready, Gene?
122:27:34 Cernan A couple of more. Jack. Okay, coming at you. Bob, the pan is complete. I'll give you a frame count shortly.
122:27:46 CC Copy that, Geno.
122:27:47 Cernan There's two bags, I think.
122:27:49 Schmitt Two bags full. First bag is 457 - -
122:27:55 CC Copy that.
122:27:56 Schmitt - - 457.
122:27:57 Cernan Let me, don't let me - don't let me lose them. That's enough. Give me a couple of small ones.
122:28:06 Schmitt Okay.
122:28:07 Cernan Okay, that's good. That's good. Okay.
122:28:18 Schmitt Here, ... They are.
122:28:23 Cernan Okay, in bag 458 is the rest of the - the rake sample. They're all fragments.
122:28:33 CC Copy that. Now we need the kilogram of the soil.
122:28:39 Cernan ... Yes, sir.
122:28:41 Schmitt Okay, Bob. All the fragments, of course, are - are completely covered with - the mantle; and they are slightly - oh, maybe 20-percent vesicular. I just took a glance at them. But, for the most part, they appear to be rounded and subrounded fragments.
122:29:01 Cernan Okay. Let's get the kilogram.
122:29:15 Schmitt Okay.
122:29:20 Schmitt Oh, well, shoot. Start all over.
122:29:24 Cernan Try it again. 459 will get the kilogram, Bob.
122:29:29 CC Copy that.
122:29:37 Schmitt Get some more.
122:29:39 Cernan Okay, fill it up.
122:29:52 Schmitt Can you close it?
122:29:53 Cernan Yes, yes, I can close it.
122:29:55 Schmitt That's a good kilogram.
122:30:04 Cernan Well, I just can't even read my camera anymore. I've got to learn how to control the dust. Okay, that's in.
122:30:10 Schmitt Okay; you get the answer?
122:30:12 Cernan I tried to blow the dust off my camera - -
122:30:14 Schmitt If we could get a - I think it's going to be hard to get a double core here. We could try a single right there. Bob, we got time to get the core?
122:30:23 CC Negative. The core has been deleted. We'd like for you to get your second pan, Jack, and then we'll press on.
122:30:31 Schmitt Okay.
122:30:37 Schmitt I'll get it over here where our two sample sites are in view.
122:30:41 CC Copy that.
122:30:54 Cernan Well, now I know why I felt that we were much too close to Trident than what I thought. We weren't really too close to Trident because Trident is way out here. That makes me feel better. A guy would know if he landed 100 meters from a big set of craters like that. You know, on a landing site like this, you ought to know exactly where you are. Anyway, I landed where I wanted to. Okay, Bob, here's a reading for you.
122:31:34 CC Okay. Ready for it.
122:31:48 Cernan 670, 012, 901; 670, 012, 901.
122:31:56 CC Okay; copy that, Geno.
122:32:04 Cernan Okay, and we - no more charges to deploy back - going back, right?
122:32:07 CC No, we will deploy charge number 7 on the way back.
122:32:14 Cernan On the way back. Okay.
122:32:15 CC Roger. It will be deployed at the same location we were originally planning on deploying it, which was in the checklist there.
122:32:25 Cernan Okay. Very good, sir. We'll get at it.
122:32:38 Schmitt Okay. I'm taking your camera.
122:32:45 CC Okay. And, Jack, you got the pan or getting it?
122:32:52 Schmitt Yes, sir.
122:32:54 Cernan And, Bob, CDR is on frame count 60.
122:33:01 CC Okay.
122:33:07 Schmitt Which one? And the LMP is on 95.
122:33:14 CC Copy, 95.
122:33:18 Schmitt Okay, Gene.
122:33:20 Cernan We need EP-7, Jack.
122:33:21 Schmitt You got the gnomon?
122:33:23 Cernan Got the gnomon.
122:33:24 Schmitt And the rake and the scoop?
122:33:25 Cernan The rake and the scoop are back on. Okay, get the charge. I'll set the low gain, and we'll be - ready to do it.
122:33:35 Schmitt Bob, my impression right now is that the dark mantle may just be a - a - well, at least in here, it's indistinguishable from a regolith that might be derived from these other rocks. It seems to be a little dark for that, but that might be the answer.
122:33:56 CC Okay. We'll - -
122:33:57 Schmitt EP-7?
122:33:57 CC We're ... to do on that again tomorrow. And EP-7 is the charge, right?
122:33:58 Cernan EP-7.
122:34:08 Cernan Jack, I figured out if you - if you mount the Rover at 90 degrees, when you kick up your feet, you - you'll miss the dust.
122:34:21 Schmitt Let me hook you in before I do that.
122:34:23 Cernan Okay.
122:34:28 Schmitt Just put your seat 90 degrees to it.
122:34:31 Cernan Yes.
122:34:33 Schmitt Well, you certainly ride high.
122:34:35 Cernan Do I?
122:34:36 Schmitt Yes. I'm surprised the belt fits.
122:34:39 Cernan Yes, it fits fine. Okay. I'm in.
122:34:44 Schmitt Okay.
122:34:52 Cernan Oop -
122:34:53 Schmitt Not too good, huh?
122:34:56 Cernan Yes. We're learning. I hope my bag was closed. Yours was. Did you get it?
122:35:02 Schmitt Yes - yes. I - as a matter of fact, I did. I thought that.
122:35:07 CC Okay, we mark you underway.
122:35:09 Schmitt Hey, you ought to put that sampler d - -
122:35:12 Cernan Not yet.
122:35:13 Schmitt It's not the sampler - it's these bags with memory.
122:35:18 Cernan This thing is too high for you. You're hitting it all the time. No, we're not on our way, Bob.
122:35:23 CC Okay.
122:35:28 Cernan Okay. And you want the - charge deployed at 320.7, huh?
122:35:39 CC Roger. It will be 0.6. We'll change that to 0.6 on EP-7 but - and it will really be just wherever you cross 0.6 on the range.
122:35:53 Cernan Okay.
122:35:54 Schmitt Well, it fit once.
122:36:02 Cernan Did you twist it, Jack? 180, that took out some of your - Wait a minute - here.
122:36:08 Schmitt Which way?
122:36:09 Cernan Well, I can't see. Your left hand's in the way now. Away from you. Twist it away from you 180 degrees.
122:36:16 Schmitt Like that?
122:36:18 Cernan Yes, now the other 90. Okay, now try it.
122:36:25 Schmitt Well, let me see.
122:36:28 Cernan You got it?
122:36:29 Schmitt That should - that should do it. Okay.
122:36:36 Cernan Okay?
122:36:37 Cernan Whew. Here's your charge. I think you're learning. That's half of the first EVA. Okay, Bob, we are rolling.
122:36:47 Cernan MARK it.
122:36:47 CC Okay, copy that, Jack - Gene.
122:36:54 PAO EP7 is a half-pound charge.
122:36:55 Schmitt Okay, what was it - where did they want it deployed?
122:36:58 Cernan Six-tenths of a kilometer.
122:37:01 Schmitt Back, huh?
122:37:02 CC Roger. It'll be at a range of 0.6, guys.
122:37:08 Schmitt You've got a block right ahead of you.
122:37:11 Cernan I got it.
122:37:12 CC Okay. And remember you'll be taking photos coming back here, Jack - -
122:37:15 Schmitt Okay.
122:37:16 CC - - if you get a chance.
122:37:20 Schmitt Yes, sir. Thank you. I got a few going out, Bob, but they weren't too well spaced.
122:37:27 CC Okay. And I assume you've got the low gain antenna aligned.
122:37:32 Schmitt Yes, sir; it's aligned. Okay.
122:37:39 Cernan That's got to be Trident, Jack, because that's too big for anything else.
122:37:52 Schmitt Okay, Houston. There's - the classic raindrop pattern over this fine debris. I'd say that the surface definitely is sorted, the fine regolithic material forming one fraction and then the blocks another. The blocks are prob - those blocks are greater than a - 2 centimeters in diameter. In general, make up less than 10 percent of the surface. But there are some big ones. And it - fairly uniformly distributed. There are blocks a meter in diameter.
122:38:35 CC Copy that.
122:38:36 Cernan Hey, Jack, that big crater out there at 2 o'clock has probably got to be Sherlock. That's got to be Sherlock over there.
122:38:44 Schmitt Yes, probably. I think the only place I've really identified that we can go to is to Station 6.
122:38:50 Cernan Yes, but you can't - we've got to get on a high vantage point here one of these days.
122:38:53 Schmitt Yes.
122:38:56 Schmitt Well, I think we'll find Camelot without any problem.
122:38:58 Cernan Yes. Okay, watch. I'm going through it.
122:39:02 Schmitt Okay. No problem.
122:39:06 Cernan No, I'd rather straddle or go through those little ones.
122:39:08 Schmitt Okay, Bob, here's another crater about the same size we sampled - the last station. And it doesn't have as many blocks, but it does have blocks. And from this distance, their vesicular texture and their light color shows up very well. I suspect they're the same general kind. There's a glass-bottom crater.
122:39:28 CC Okay. You got a range and - -
122:39:29 Cernan ...
122:39:29 CC - - bearing, there, guys, please.
122:39:31 Cernan Okay, 341.8.
122:39:36 CC Copy that.
122:39:36 Cernan Did you take a picture, Jack?
122:39:36 Schmitt Yes.
122:39:37 Cernan Okay.
122:39:47 Schmitt You're pointed right at Station 6, I think, Gene.
122:39:49 Cernan I think you may be right. There's that boulder. I just want to get up here where I can ... - -
122:39:52 Schmitt Not the one on the track but the one over there to the right of that.
122:39:57 Schmitt Unless the one with the track - I'm - I've got mixed emotions which is 6.
122:40:02 Cernan That's - that's probably - look over there to the left. You see that.
122:40:07 Schmitt Yes.
122:40:09 Cernan That's Trident. Man, I'll tell you.
122:40:11 Schmitt Look at this thing. That looks like the same kind of rock except it doesn't have any vesicles.
122:40:18 Cernan There's some white stuff in that rock. Just let me take a quick pic ...
122:40:22 Cernan See that one right in front of it? Take a picture of it.
122:40:26 Schmitt Oh, you mean this one, here.
122:40:28 Cernan Oh, that's a - that's a big zap pit, isn't it? Take a picture of that?
122:40:35 Schmitt Yes, they're big zap pits. Same rock with big zap pits. I got to change the - well, ... Okay. Although there are - I think those are zap pits. It's a little hard to say.
122:40:46 Cernan Looks like a big chip out of the rock.
122:40:49 Schmitt They're white halos; it just has more of them.
122:40:51 Cernan But it's a big one; it's about an inch and a half or 2 inches across.
122:40:53 Schmitt Yes.
122:40:59 Cernan I tell you, I've got to go and get my skies and geometry squared away.
122:41:04 CC Okay, 17, how about - -
122:41:06 Cernan Did you see this one?
122:41:06 CC - - range and bearing?
122:41:07 Schmitt Yes.
122:41:11 Cernan Okay. 341.7. Bob, we're moving at about 11 clicks right now.
122:41:18 CC Copy that. Beautiful. Remember the charge goes off at 0.6.
122:41:22 Schmitt Doesn't sound like - Okay.
122:41:34 Schmitt Okay, we want to - -
122:41:36 Cernan Oh, there's the mantle - there's the white mantle Jack, look over there. Can you look to your left?
122:41:39 Schmitt Yes, it does. Yes.
122:41:41 Cernan That's the white mantle.
122:41:42 Schmitt Swing around that way.
122:41:43 Cernan Call it a slide or not, but that's the white mantle. Whoo! That's my first real good picture of it. That is something.
122:41:51 Schmitt Okay, I got some of that. Okay, how are we doing?
122:41:57 Cernan I don't want to go in that crater, that's what I don't want to do. Okay. We're at 0.6; how about 339 ...
122:42:03 Schmitt Okay. I got a couple of shots right out in there.
122:42:07 Cernan Okay. Coming right around to you.
122:42:08 Schmitt Oh, that's good. Hold that heading. Whoa. That'll be good.
122:42:13 Cernan Right here?
122:42:14 Schmitt Yes, whoa.
122:42:15 Cernan Okay. Let me get my - Okay, I got my locator.
122:42:23 Schmitt Okay, now this one we want me to get a partial pan until something's identified.
122:42:28 Cernan Okay. We'll do that. We've got to turn that way anyway.
122:42:32 Schmitt Okay, pin 1, pull, SAFE. Pin 2, pull, SAFE. Pin 3 -
122:42:42 Schmitt MARK it, pull, SAFE.
122:42:43 CC Okay. And I copy that as charge number 7.
122:42:49 Schmitt That's affirm.
122:42:54 CC Okay. And we'd like a frame number when you get done there, Jack, after you get it on the ground.
122:43:03 Schmitt Okay, stand by. Okay. I think we'll miss that.
122:43:10 Cernan Okay. Bearing is 339.6.
122:43:12 Schmitt Okay, start a - a pan around it, Gene - -
122:43:16 CC Copy that, Gene - -
122:43:17 Schmitt Okay, let me get it out - Okay, I'm going to start slowly ... Okay.
122:43:23 Cernan Going to miss it?
122:43:24 Schmitt Yes, by a lot.
122:43:28 Cernan Okay, taking your pictures?
122:43:29 Schmitt Yes, sir. Wheels cleared it by - it's got to be a lot. is my low gain dropping out?
122:43:41 Cernan How much are my wheels missing it by - going around?
122:43:44 Schmitt Lots. About a meter.
122:43:46 Cernan Okay. Okay, we're on our way. The low gain is set again.
122:43:52 Cernan Okay, we're heading on back to SEP.
122:43:54 CC Okay, and a frame count there, Jack.
122:43:55 Schmitt Okay, pan - was more - the pan was more or less complete at l46.
122:44:04 CC Copy, 146 on Hotel.
122:44:14 Schmitt Bob, you know, the more I look at this - Watch out for those babies there - at this - at this dark dust, if you will, the more it doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd expect to have been derived from the underlying bedrock. But I think you're going to have to play that game in the lab right now.
122:44:38 CC Okay, I copy that. Can you - -
122:44:40 Schmitt We'll see how it works out later.
122:44:41 CC Roger.
122:44:47 Schmitt It just seems dark and much too fine grained. You don't have the impression that you're getting the size distribution you'd expect to get by having all these blocks around.
122:45:06 CC Okay, I copy that.
122:45:06 Schmitt Definitely, I think, at least in my mind, ... population - size population - -
122:45:14 Cernan Jack, that almost looks like bedrock over exposed in there. See that?
122:45:18 Schmitt Yes, why don't you take a pass over that way. Get through there?
122:45:22 Cernan Yes, I can get through there.
122:45:24 Schmitt Do you know where you are?
122:45:25 Cernan Yes.
122:45:26 Schmitt In Trident?
122:45:27 Cernan Yes, no - no, we're not in Trident. That's awful - that's pretty steep down in there. I'd walk down there. I'm not sure I want to drive down there yet.
122:45:35 Schmitt No, I didn't mean down in there. I meant right over there.
122:45:37 Cernan Well, here's some right here too.
122:45:38 Schmitt Yes. ...
122:45:39 Cernan Take a picture of that?
122:45:39 Schmitt Yes.
122:45:41 CC And how about a range and bearing when you've stopped taking pictures?
122:45:46 Cernan Okay - -
122:45:47 CC We need a - -
122:45:47 Cernan 336.4.
122:45:50 CC 336.4. Roger.
122:45:59 Cernan Bob, I get a distinct impression that - Jack says it's going to be hard to tell whether this is regolith composed from the rock field we see around, but - I get a distinct impression - you can see that dark mantle on top of almost all the rocks. Except we have fresh glass, possibly, in the bottom of some of these small craters.
122:46:20 CC Okay.
122:46:21 Cernan Everywhere else there is actually mantle, I believe, in and around some of the crevices and in the vesicles and what have you.
122:46:30 CC Okay, I copy - -
122:46:31 Cernan It's all material though, that could be - it's material that could be knocked in there by the local impact.
122:46:43 CC Okay; but I gather you find a lot of material on top of the rocks.
122:46:49 Schmitt I think we lost them.
122:46:51 Cernan Not a lot, Bob. Not a lot. It's there, though.
122:46:54 CC Okay; copy that.
122:46:55 Cernan They're not nearly as covered with dust as they - as they get when - when you drop one. It's just a - it's really a salting or a scattering of debris in the depressions - -
122:47:09 CC Okay.
122:47:10 Cernan - - on the rock. The projections of the rock are perfectly clean.
122:47:12 CC Okay. I copy that.
122:47:14 Schmitt Yes, but most of all - most of all the craters are - have relatively ..., except where the rocks are showing the boulders on the sides, or - within the craters are evident - are subtly covered over with this mantle. You don't see any good sharp ridges - walls on some of these craters. Even the small ones.
122:47:40 CC Okay. Roger on that.
122:47:46 Cernan Man, I tell you, you could lose the rear end of this thing in a hurry, if you'd like.
122:47:49 Schmitt I think you have lost a fender. I keep getting rained on here.
122:47:53 Cernan Oh, no.
122:47:54 Schmitt Look at that rooster tail - look what's ahead of us here.
122:47:59 Cernan Yes, that's probably it. It probably didn't stay. I can see it in a shadow.
122:48:05 Schmitt Sure, look at it.
122:48:06 Cernan Oh boy, that's going to be terrible. That is really going to be bad.
122:48:13 Schmitt I didn't see it. We probably lost it. I think I know when because I just started to notice it. Bob, I'm going to state what Gene said slightly differently. There just aren't a lot of very sharp, bright craters, but there are some. All the craters seem to be pretty well formed. It isn't an extensive mantle. Matter of fact, for example, hasn't filled the base - Are we due to deploy that thing now?
122:48:43 Cernan Yes, I - want to - want to - come in at a -
122:48:47 Schmitt Hasn't filled the bottom of the craters.
122:48:49 Cernan I'm going to come in at a heading here and see if I can get on it for you.
122:48:53 Schmitt Okay, drop me off there.
122:48:57 Cernan Look at that fender. Look at the dust it's produced. Look at the LCRU.
122:49:03 Schmitt Yes, it's going to make - -
122:49:04 Cernan I don't know how to keep that thing on.
122:49:10 Schmitt Make it west.
122:49:12 Cernan Okay, I'm rolling west right now.
122:49:14 Schmitt That looks good. That looks good. Hold that heading.
122:49:19 Cernan Boy, I don't like losing that fender.
122:49:29 Schmitt We're back at the SEP, Bob. I'm starting to lay out my first track.
122:49:33 CC Roger. Copy that.
122:49:43 Schmitt How's our time, Bob?
122:49:47 Cernan Okay?
122:49:49 CC Roger. You're about 5 minutes behind on the - the arrival time at the SEP. But we're - we're - No real problems. And I assume that the range and bearing, when you got there, was about zero.
122:50:03 Schmitt Okay, get - Let me leave my camera.
122:50:07 Cernan Well, let me read it. 252, 2.5, and 0. I'm resetting.
122:50:11 CC Okay. Copy that.
122:50:12 Schmitt And the LMP frame count is 19 - 197, and it was s till turning.
122:50:19 Cernan Amp-hours are 108, 105, and batteries are 100 and 120.
122:50:27 CC Okay. Copy 100 and 120.
122:50:29 Schmitt Okay. Oh, wait a minute. I need my camera, don't I?
122:50:33 Cernan Yes, sir.
122:50:35 CC I don't think it's much good to you with a 197 there, Jack.
122:50:38 Schmitt No, I don't. I don't need my camera.
122:50:43 CC Roger on that.
122:50:44 Schmitt We're deploying it. No, you take the pictures. I don't need it. Go ahead, play it out.
122:50:51 Cernan Okay; you're right. Okay, here we go. I'm headed out.
122:50:55 Schmitt Okay, Houston. The location is in about the least cratered area I could find, between a large crater or a large depression that's about - oh, ranges from maybe 50 to 150 meters behind the LM. That's maybe - south - or east-southeast; and it's between that depression and another large depression that is really a doublet with a blocky septum between them. That's to the northeast of the LM about 200 meters; that's the start of that second depression. I think we can get a nice layout, although there'll be a general slope, I believe, towards the LM - of about a degree.
122:52:08 CC Okay, that's no real problem, Jack.
122:52:18 Cernan Jack, am I about abeam of you? I can't see.
122:52:21 Schmitt Yes.
122:52:22 Cernan Okay, I'll turn in around this crater.
122:52:29 Schmitt Hey, if you come right ... -
122:52:53 Schmitt That depression to the northeast is at least a couple hundred meters in diameter, and it's joined with one that's probably of comparable size just to the northwest of the first depression.
122:53:13 CC Okay, I copy that too, Jack.
122:53:17 Cernan Okay. How's that look, Jack?
122:53:23 Schmitt Great.
122:53:25 Cernan Far enough?
122:53:26 Schmitt Yes. Yes, come back.
122:53:33 Cernan ... we head on up to Station 2 without that fender and are we going to be full of dust.
122:53:42 Schmitt Okay, there's no special -
122:53:45 Cernan I can park 180 but -
122:54:03 Cernan Okay, Bob, I've stopped - back at the SEP.
122:54:06 CC Copy that, Gene.
122:54:14 Cernan Dropped the - One came out, Jack.
122:54:16 Schmitt Oh, yes. This thing is a lot harder to turn than it was in training.
122:54:34 Cernan Oops. Okay, that's the first two we've got to deploy. Can you bring your tongs?
122:54:39 Schmitt Yes.
122:54:40 Cernan Bob, ... do you want me to dust here? I'll dust back at the LM. We're going to deploy the SEP. God bless.
122:54:56 CC Okay. They all say to dust, Geno.
122:55:02 Cernan Okay. You're going to have to wait for me, Jack.
122:55:07 Schmitt Well, I've got antennas all over the place here.
122:55:09 Cernan Yes, as a matter of fact, you do. Stand by one second. I'll make it a quick one.
122:55:14 Schmitt That's all right. No, I can handle it, I think, here. But we're going to need your tongs to pick them up and not get them all confused. Okay, where's the - where's the shadow graph? There it is. Sun quadrant - that's the Sun quadrant.
122:55:38 Cernan For sure we lost that fender.
122:55:53 Schmitt Okay, I'll deploy number 2 and 4. And, let's see, that's number 1. This one must be number 2. It is.
122:56:34 Cernan Okay, I'm almost there, Jack. Let me run around and dust. Let me tell you, this dust isn't going to be fun tomorrow.
122:56:52 Schmitt Okay, I won't bore you with details on why you see the antenna all over the ground (laughter) but it has to do with 1/6 g.
122:57:11 CC Roger, Jack. Understand you dropped a couple of the antenna reels.
122:57:14 Schmitt You know, Bob, they're very - more accurately, I dropped three of them. Bob, you know this fine-grained dust that we're in could be ground-up pyroclastic. It might grind more easily than other things, and the blocks are just the - those blocks that have been excavated from below that pyroclastic by the larger craters and some of the smaller ones in the area.
122:57:47 Cernan MARK, gravimeter reading.
122:57:48 CC Okay; mark that. Roger, Jack. That would make a nice story, wouldn't it?
122:57:55 Schmitt ... Well, you'd think glassy pyroclastic might turn into regolith a little bit faster than some of these other things. But we'll check that one out.
122:58:12 CC Okay.
122:58:13 Cernan You want 2?
122:58:14 Schmitt Two, and you get 1. Right there.
122:58:16 CC And, Jack, did you get the reels straightened out again?
122:58:22 Schmitt Yes, they're okay.
122:58:24 CC Thank you.
122:58:25 Schmitt How can you stop a crew like this?
122:58:28 CC I don't know any way.
122:58:31 Schmitt In all modesty, I mean. Okay, Geno, I'm on my way. Pull gently on that thing because I - it's awful easy to knock it over. I had that geophone module all over the place.
122:58:47 Cernan I can't tell whether I'm pulling gently or not.
122:58:50 Schmitt Any time you feel a tug, stop.
122:58:55 PAO This antenna's being deployed in tracks that have been made by the rover.
122:59:02 CC Careful, guys.
122:59:04 Cernan At least we're pulling at the base. I better watch what I'm backing into. There's a lot of holes around here.
122:59:30 Schmitt Well, it happened, Bob. I'm glad we Velcroed those - tabs.
122:59:43 Cernan Okay, I'm at the end, Jack. Are you having -
122:59:46 Schmitt Well, I - What happened was which we thought might happen. It twisted on my - I'll be there in just a second.
122:59:58 Cernan Okay, I want f/ll at 250th and 74 feet. Well - ah, ah, ah, ah. Ah, ah, yes; you're pulling it over.
123:00:20 Schmitt I'm not. You are.
123:00:22 Cernan No, I'm not. I've got all sorts of slack in here.
123:00:25 Schmitt Okay, it's okay.
123:00:29 Cernan All right. Are you out there?
123:00:31 Schmitt Yes.
123:00:32 Cernan Okay, let me back up - a skosh and take the slack out. And I would say, offhand -Oh, boy, what have you got a - that's about as close to a 1/6th g orthogonal - at least, not orthogonal yet, but straight lined. That's it Jack, here.
123:01:05 Schmitt Stay there, and I'll take a picture.
123:01:06 Cernan I thought you did.
123:01:09 Schmitt No. Okay, I got it now.
123:01:14 Evans Hey, if you try and stick that thing in, Jack, you're going to fall over. Just set it down, and we'll stay away from it.
123:01:20 Schmitt Yes. You talked me into it.
123:01:24 Cernan That was a good idea, but - that's a good straight line.
123:01:29 Schmitt (Singing) We were strolling in the park one day - Well, we've had lots of good ideas in our time.
123:01:43 Cernan Oh, boy; the thing that makes me sick is losing that fender. I can stand a lot of things, but I sure don't like that.
123:01:57 Schmitt Okay, I get number 4, which - Where is it? is that the one on the ground?
123:02:02 Cernan It's probably the one on the ground. Got it? is that the right one?
123:02:16 Schmitt Well, 3 - No, this is yours.
123:02:19 Cernan No. Take it; doesn't make any difference.
123:02:20 Schmitt Okay, I'm deploying the - the LMP's deploying reel 3 for your photography purposes.
123:02:29 CC Roger. Copy that.
123:02:30 Schmitt Oh, - Hey, push that in.
123:02:34 Cernan Roger.
123:02:34 Schmitt Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha.
123:02:37 Cernan Serves you right.
123:02:43 Schmitt This doesn't push.
123:02:51 Cernan Okay, I'm ready to stroll.
123:03:23 Schmitt (Humming) I found a brown rock that I'm going to bring back.
123:03:31 Cernan Please do.
123:03:34 Schmitt I think it's the back side of a piece of glass, but it's brown.
123:03:39 Cernan Well, I think I'm more or less on your track. It wiggled a little bit.
123:03:45 Schmitt Well, we're - Oh, oh, oh, ooh, stop, Geno.
123:03:48 Cernan Okay, Jack, wait a minute. That looks orthagonal to me. Got your picture?
123:04:04 Schmitt Will have in a sec. Wait a minute. Every time I do something, I change the setting. Okay, I got it. I straightened the line out a little bit better after I took the picture - a few kinks in it. Now where's my brown rock? I saw it when I was driving with the Rover. I knew I'd be able to come back here because of the tracks. Looks like an old piece of bread.
123:04:40 CC Is that the one that came out of the hatch?
123:04:43 Cernan What the heck is that? Huh? Oh, it's a piece of - Well, it's a piece of glass, all right - crumbled - part of it crumbled but - I got to get that in a bag. Oh, man, is that a nice piece of glass. Just laying out there all by itself. Jack, well - you got a bag handy while I take my pan. I can't reach a bag; I got this sample in the wrong hand.
123:05:17 Schmitt I don't have a bag.
123:05:19 Cernan You don't have - well, take one off of mine and give it to me. I'll take it back to the Rover. Wa, wa, wa! Watch it; you've got a wire under your foot.
123:05:30 Schmitt Bag number 460.
123:05:34 CC Copy that. 460 has brown glass.
123:05:35 Cernan I'm halfway out on the north course - -
123:05:41 CC Sorry about that.
123:05:42 Cernan - - I'm halfway out on the north course of the - of the SEP.
123:05:48 Schmitt It's brown vesicular glass. Sort of a yellow-brown, as a matter of fact.
123:06:01 Cernan Okay, it says - take locator photo to LM. I thought I took a pan here. The LM wasn't - Okay.
123:06:18 CC Yes, the locator is really all you need; but a partial pan to show the area would be appreciated.
123:06:25 Cernan Yes, I'm here. I'm going to get a partial pan, Bob.
123:06:28 CC Okay.
123:06:33 Cernan The only reason I'm doing it is I know it would be appreciated.
123:07:00 Cernan Okay, take locator to photo LM; I got it. Bob, I'm on - if I can get where I can read it - on about 71 on my frame count; and let me give you - Boy, we got to stay out of this area, Jack. We'll pick up these cables just as sure as the devil. Oh, that fender. Boo - boo.
123:07:31 Schmitt Hey, Houston, will you look at your solar panels?
123:07:35 CC Roger. We see some solar panels.
123:07:40 Schmitt You notice how they flop up?
123:07:44 CC We noticed that, too.
123:07:45 Schmitt I think we need some gray tape.
123:07:49 Cernan Okay, 670, 010, 101; that's 670, 010, 101.
123:08:00 CC Okay, I got that one, Geno.
123:08:02 Cernan The wires have memory. Okay, let me - -
123:08:06 Schmitt I need gray tape.
123:08:07 Cernan Let me put this in your bag, and I'll get the gray tape.
123:08:09 Schmitt Okay.
123:08:15 Cernan We didn't exactly break any records collecting samples, but at least we got an ALSEP deployed. That gray tape, Jack, is not going to stick on anything with dust.
123:08:23 Schmitt I know; that's what I was thinking.
123:08:29 Cernan I've just been there with that fender.
123:08:33 Schmitt Well, let's try it. You have a -
123:08:38 Cernan I don't need the scissors. I can cut it without it. Come on. Once we - Don't back up in that wire - Just like the cover of a - of the -
123:08:54 Schmitt Got it?
123:08:58 Cernan ... that?
123:09:00 Schmitt Yes, I guess. Okay.
123:09:08 Cernan Get this side?
123:09:09 Schmitt Yes.
123:09:10 Cernan Keep from falling over. You want to take those polar - solar panels off?
123:09:14 Schmitt Let me hold on to you.
123:09:15 Cernan Okay, lean on me.
123:09:19 Cernan If not, let's take them off and hold them.
123:09:22 Schmitt No, I think it's going to be easier this way.
123:09:24 Cernan Okay, try it. I don't think they're going to be much problem the way they are, anyway.
123:09:31 Schmitt You holding?
123:09:33 Cernan Yes, go ahead and lean if you want.
123:09:43 Schmitt I don't know how long it will stay.
123:09:44 Cernan No, I don't know. Okay, there's one.
123:09:47 Schmitt Give me another one.
123:09:49 CC It's only going to stay for 2 days, guys.
123:09:51 Cernan ... pull the whole thing over.
123:09:52 Schmitt This will be a - this will be a test. If it holds - holds until we see it again -
123:10:02 Cernan ... Don't knock the whole thing over.
123:10:08 Schmitt Okay, I'm leaning on you.
123:10:10 Cernan Okay, lean.
123:10:17 Schmitt The piece of tape is so dusty - it may not work.
123:10:20 Cernan Try it somewhere. Okay, are you happy with the alignment?
123:10:28 Schmitt I was. is the gnomon the zero mark?
123:10:33 Cernan Gnomon is right up to zero mark.
123:10:35 Schmitt That's where it's supposed to be.
123:10:37 CC Beautiful guys.
123:10:38 Cernan Okay, and the level bubble is just touching the - the inner circle.
123:10:45 CC Okay, copy that. And we have the transmitter switch in STANDBY, right?
123:10:52 Cernan Bob, there's just a couple little bows around the transmitter, is that -
123:10:56 Schmitt It will be, yes.
123:10:59 Cernan Oh, those are all right - those are okay.
123:11:02 Schmitt Let's forget those.
123:11:04 Cernan Jack, looking where the LM is, if I were you, I'd just walk down.
123:11:07 Schmitt Come here, Gene.
123:11:08 Cernan What do you need?
123:11:08 Schmitt I need same support.
123:11:10 Cernan Yes; boy, that's the key around here.
123:11:12 Schmitt Everything on this SEP is coming off harder than it did in the - when we deployed it at the Cape. See that? it just lifts it. It may not be harder, but it lifts it.
123:11:27 Cernan Okay.
123:11:28 Schmitt Now, I got to reorient it.
123:11:30 Cernan Now, let me see. You're STANDBY - now let me look at it - The gnomon's right at zero.
123:11:34 Schmitt Okay, right at zero.
123:11:36 Cernan It's just the same - it settled back just the same. Zero gnomon and inner circle.
123:11:41 CC Okay; beautiful.
123:11:42 Schmitt Let's go.
123:11:44 Evans You want to walk back or ride?
123:11:46 Schmitt Let's see -
123:11:48 Cernan It's up to you but -
123:11:49 Schmitt Oh, I'll walk back.
123:11:52 Cernan Man, I hate this dust. I got to make a new fender tonight.
123:11:59 Schmitt Well, let's see, I guess I'm supposed to -
123:12:01 CC Hey, Gene, I presume that the fender that came off is the fender that came off before, right?
123:12:08 Cernan Yes, same one. My tape didn't hold; it was too dusty.
123:12:11 CC All right.
123:12:14 Cernan Okay.
123:12:16 Schmitt Hey, watch out for this antenna line I found out here.
123:12:19 Cernan Yes. Okay, travel to LM, Okay, Bob, I'm not going to change anything right now except get in and travel. All right?
123:12:32 CC That's affirm. Time to go home.
123:12:38 Schmitt How's our time, Bob?
123:12:44 CC You'll have a nominal closeout, guys, as soon as you get back. We're right about on the time that we've been figuring on for you guys to get back there on. Right now, you are 6 hours and 11 minutes into the EVA.
123:13:06 Schmitt Boy, here's a big boulder.
123:13:12 Cernan Yes, I discovered something - I learned a lot today, let me tell you.
123:13:21 Cernan Okay, you're going to lose TV because the high gain is going to be out of whack here in a minute.
123:13:39 Schmitt Okay, I got a football-size rock of this vesicular - coarsely vesicular gabbro, Bob. It's off a large 3 - to 4 meter buried boulder to the north - oh, let's say, northeast of the LM about 30 meters.
123:14:10 Schmitt Do you read, Bob?
123:14:12 CC Roger, Jack. Read you loud and clear on that one.
123:14:18 Schmitt Okay. It'll be in the big bag.
123:14:22 CC Okay, ...
123:14:23 Schmitt Undocumented, it's about - it's roughly tabular, 15 by 25 centimeters, and about 5 to 7 centimeters thick. One - one face is very flat; looks like it was off of a parting plane, which were in that rock.
123:14:48 CC Okay, and if it fits in the SRC with all the other samples, you might put it there because the SRC's going to be kind of empty.
123:14:55 Cernan Got any new parking angles for your batteries or anything?
123:15:00 CC No, it will be a heading of 013, which is hardly a change at all from the 012 in the checklist.
123:15:10 Cernan Okay, I'll buy that.
123:15:28 CC Jack, did you copy my comments about putting that thing in the SRC perhaps?
123:15:36 Schmitt Well, it was pretty big. It's in the big bag now. We can do that.
123:15:43 CC Well, I'd get*the other samples - the small ones and particularly soils in the SRC first.
123:15:51 Schmitt Okay.
123:16:01 Cernan Are you through?
123:16:02 Schmitt No, I'm going right - right about here. Now I'm done.
123:16:07 Cernan Okay.
123:16:08 Schmitt Right there.
123:16:11 Cernan Okay, Bob, 086, 0.5, 0.1, 108 - Oh - oh, 102.
123:16:28 Schmitt Stand by 1.
123:16:29 Cernan Okay, Amp-hours are at 108, 102; volts are 74 and 75 - Batteries are 108 and 123. Motors are all off scale low, all four of them.
123:16:48 CC Roger, Gene. Understand 108, 102 on the amp-hours, hub?
123:16:56 Cernan That's affirm; 108 and 102.
123:16:59 CC Okay; copy that.
123:17:03 Cernan I can't read this thing, because it's full of dust, so I've got to get off and dust it.
123:17:07 Schmitt Okay, the SEP receiver temp is 45, 45 -
123:17:12 CC Copy 45. Beautiful.
123:17:19 Schmitt You know, I think they left some Velcro off of this thing, Gene. There's no Velcro holding those flaps down.
123:17:27 Cernan Isn't there?
123:17:27 Schmitt No.
123:17:33 Cernan Okay. I've got to get the brush and dust that thing - a minute or 2.
123:17:42 Schmitt Okay, let me get the high gain.
123:18:03 Cernan I feel like taking some core tubes tomorrow.
123:18:08 CC I have a feeling you've got a couple left over, don't you?
123:18:11 Cernan Bob, you got -
123:18:13 Schmitt Yes.
123:18:14 Cernan Bob, you got the high gain?
123:18:15 CC Okay, thank you.
123:18:19 Cernan Is that - is that my bag, Jack, you got?
123:18:21 Schmitt Yes.
123:18:22 Cernan That's pretty good.
123:18:23 CC Okay, let's put all the stuff in that bag, Jack -both the stuff that's in yours and the stuff that's in Gene's.
123:18:33 Schmitt Okay. ... Samples - two samples from under the LMP's seat.
123:18:51 Cernan Put these under the seat. Clean you up here while I'm at it. Oh, man, I tell you, it's going to take us half - a dozen Sundays to dust. Look at that fender; that's terrible.
123:19:10 Schmitt Okay, you want to get my bag off?
123:19:13 Cernan Yes. If you're ready.
123:19:14 Schmitt Yes.
123:19:15 Schmitt I've got to put your - those samples in the SRC, in your bag; and we'll save this one, I guess.
123:19:23 Cernan Wait a minute. Let me clean you up.
123:19:24 Schmitt Okay.
123:19:26 Cernan Did you get me cleaned up?
123:19:27 Schmitt Yes, you've lost your - -
123:19:29 Cernan Wait a minute.
123:19:29 Schmitt - - your strap though, here.
123:19:32 Cernan Wait a minute, now, ... Okay, you get my hook back up over here.
123:19:37 Schmitt Okay, - my - turn around. Your hook's up, but I'm not sure I closed your - your other one. Take a look at it. Yes, it's all closed. Okay, you're good. There you go.
123:19:53 Cernan Okay, you're filling which bag, the -
123:19:56 Schmitt Putting them in the bag that goes into the SRC -
123:19:58 Cernan That's SRC - SCB 1.
123:20:01 CC Roger.
123:20:02 Cernan Okay; let's see, offload LM - PLSS - core cap dispenser tools. Okay, as soon as you get that, I'll take that SCB 1 from you, and I'll close the SRC 1.
123:20:17 CC Okay; and I gather you didn't have any Rover samples today, did you, Jack?
123:20:20 Cernan I've still got my tongs here. I got - -
123:20:23 Schmitt No, I have one sample bag in my pocket that has a rock in it.
123:20:28 CC We'll have to take that out when we get in the Rover, I assume.
123:20:32 Schmitt Okay. Gene, where's that - you want to put that little rock?
123:20:41 Cernan Yes, is it there?
123:20:43 Schmitt Well, what did you do with it?
123:20:44 Cernan It was on the floor on my side.
123:20:45 Schmitt Your side?
123:20:47 Cernan There it is; let me get it.
123:20:49 Schmitt We can put that in one of the core tube slots here.
123:20:58 Cernan Boy, that one fender just - just is an order of magnitude more of a dust problem. Here can you reach it?
123:21:07 Schmitt Okay, the rock that Gene picked up - early - right at the start, is in a core tube slot in the SRC 1.
123:21:16 CC Okay, I copy that.
123:21:21 Schmitt Okay. Gene, you want this one?
123:21:26 Cernan Yes, I want the full one.
123:21:28 Schmitt Yes. Latched.
123:21:33 Cernan Okay.
123:21:36 Schmitt Bob, that's almost full of samples, and I think that big rock would be - probably wouldn't fit in there.
123:21:43 CC Okay, then we'll put that in the big bag.
123:21:48 Schmitt It's in the big bag.
123:21:50 CC Good enough. And I gather there's no Rover samples today, right?
123:21:54 Cernan Okay - No Rover samples; sorry.
123:22:34 Cernan Okay, the seal is clear, like I promised I'd make it, coming over the top. Bob, the seal is clear.
123:22:53 CC Beautiful.
123:22:59 Cernan I don't know if it's beautiful, but it's clear.
123:23:03 CC It's clearly beautiful.
123:23:06 Cernan Okay, okay, that big mamou is locked. I got a lot of oxygen. I still got 22 percent.
123:23:23 Schmitt I expect our feedwater may be getting a little low.
123:23:28 Cernan I'm going to leave this right here until I take it up to you. Okay, close ... verify good seal, place in plus-Z. Okay, LRV circuit breakers: LRV LCRU power OFF. Dust - well, let me get at that dusting first.
123:23:43 Schmitt Give me a yell when you need a spell there.
123:23:45 Cernan What, dusting?
123:23:47 Schmitt Yes.
123:23:48 Cernan Well, I need a fender, that's what I need. Figure out something we can make a fender with.
123:23:55 Schmitt How about one of the others that's not as critical?
123:23:57 Cernan Yes, but I wouldn't ever take one of those off. You know, getting it - I had one to put on and it didn't stay, which is what I figured.
123:24:04 Schmitt I thought you said it was broken, though?
123:24:05 Cernan Well, it was. But these aren't supposed to come off, either, unless you break them. I broke that one. My hammer got caught underneath it. It wasn't the fender's fault.
123:24:18 Schmitt Okay, the core tube is packed.
123:24:53 Schmitt Every time I read containment bag, it fools me; I can't figure out what it is.
123:24:59 Cernan Every time what?
123:25:00 Schmitt I read containment bags.
123:25:03 Cernan (Laughter) You've been thinking of the other kind too long. You've been living in the command module too long.
123:25:23 Cernan That's a pretty good day's workout, you know. You know, I don't think we need an exercise period. We get back in there. I don't think we have to apologize to anybody. I'm sorry we didn't get out to Station 1. One of the main reasons is, I think, we could have got our navigation bearings a little bit better.
123:25:43 Schmitt Well, I'll tell you. That new ALSEP had more to it than met the eye.
123:25:52 Cernan This hole out here - you know, this is just such an easy site to find out and to identify yourself on and to land in. But, I tell you, all of a sudden there is so many local holes that I can't think big enough.
123:26:04 Schmitt Does that sound familiar?
123:26:05 Cernan Okay, Jack, ... rest of my dusting until - -
123:26:11 Schmitt Am I in your way?
123:26:11 Cernan Yes, I'd like to get over there to get the - this last battery cover. I can. That's good enough. I can get over there now. I want to make sure these things stay clean because I don't want to walk.
123:26:36 Schmitt I agree. Okay, Bob, containment bags and two cameras are stowed in the ETB.
123:26:50 CC Copy that. And don't forget the scissors, guys.
123:26:55 Schmitt Don't worry. I've got them right here.
123:26:57 CC Beautiful - don't want to go hungry.
123:27:00 Schmitt It's a good call, Bob. That's right.
123:27:03 CC And, Jack, give me your consideration - or Gene - on that question of bringing back the big bag into the cabin. The people down here are saying they want to bring it in, and then we'd end up bringing it back out in the second EVA. What do you guys think about that?
123:27:19 Schmitt That's all right; we can do that.
123:27:20 Cernan Yes, we can do that - I guess just because that rock's in there, huh?
123:27:23 Schmitt I'd like to do that - look at that rock with a hand lens.
123:27:27 CC All right; so then we'd be taking it back out in the second EVA, if you guys are agreeable to that.
123:27:34 Schmitt Yes, we'll do that, Bob.
123:27:36 CC And, Jack, do you think it'll go in the SCB?
123:27:43 Schmitt Say again.
123:27:43 CC Do you think it'll go in the SCB number 2?
123:27:50 Schmitt What would - the bock - the rock?
123:27:52 CC Yes, that's right.
123:27:57 Schmitt Well, it'll go in there. It's not that big.
123:27:59 CC Okay, why don't you put it in SCB - why don't you put it in SCB 2 and bring that in, instead. Leave SRB out, and then we'll just leave SCB 2 in forever.
123:28:11 Schmitt Okay.
123:28:14 Cernan Okay, verify SRC plus-Z pad. What are those things going over? What is that, Jack? Hey, something just hit here! What blew? Hey, what is that?
123:28:28 Schmitt Oh, your antenna - your - it's that styrofoam off the high-gain antenna package.
123:28:37 Cernan On the LM?
123:28:39 Schmitt No, the one you deployed. The Rover high-gain antenna.
123:28:43 Cernan My gosh, it blew up!
123:28:45 Schmitt Yes.
123:28:46 Cernan I thought we'd been hit by a - by a - Look at that stuff just keeps flying over the top of our heads. I thought we were the closest witnesses to a lunar meteor impact. I wonder if ... that's the same glass I picked up?
123:29:05 Schmitt Oh, I don't know.
123:29:06 CC John says it blew up on his mission too, guys.
123:29:09 Schmitt Isn't that what you thought it was? isn't that what you thought it was? Huh? I thought you were kidding.
123:29:15 Cernan No, I've never seen that before.
123:29:17 Schmitt Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that was -
123:29:19 Cernan No - you just - you just - Well, you saw that stuff coming. I didn't see that at all. Holy Smoly!
123:29:27 CC Roger, 17. And John says that it blew up on his mission, as well.
123:29:35 Cernan Okay, Bob, I guess I'm going to take the TV away from you.
123:29:43 CC Okay. And, Gene, one thing we'd like before you guys leave the Rov - One thing we'd like before you guys leave the Rover is a farely good description of what happened to the rear fender when it came off. is the damage primarily to the piece that you've lost, or is - or are the rails on the piece that's remaining fairely bad?
123:30:06 Cernan Okay.
123:30:11 Schmitt Mag - -
123:30:13 Cernan The - -
123:30:14 Schmitt - - Romeo.
123:30:18 Cernan Well, a piece of the rail on the - on the aft - aft inboard side here - the rail isn't missing - it's just a piece of the flange - the rail that fits against the fender - but that doesn't hold any part of the fender on. I don't remember what I saw on the fender - The rails look pretty good, Bob. And I had one of them completely on, and I just couldn't get the other one on. If I had known what that dust was, I would have tried an awful lot harder.
123:30:45 CC Okay, do you have any feeling that - -
123:30:47 Cernan I heard John telling me, but - -
123:30:50 CC Do you have any feeling that you could get away with putting a front fender on?
123:30:59 Cernan Well, I have done it before, but it's not easy.
123:31:05 CC Okay, as far as you can tell, so that we can look at it over night, the rear fender - the part that's remaining - looks in fairly good shape, right?
123:31:20 Cernan Let me take a good look at it. Yes, the part you need, I think, to hold that fender on -
123:31:38 Schmitt Let's see - we better take those dustbrushes up there.
123:31:41 Cernan Yes, there's enough here to hold the fender on, Bob.
123:31:45 CC Okay, we'll take a look at it here while you're sleeping.
123:31:52 Cernan Okay, let me get some breakers here. LRV breakers Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta.
123:31:58 Schmitt Hey, Bob, while you were talking, I got all the mags - Romeo, Alfa, Bravo, Charlie.
123:32:07 CC Hotel.
123:32:12 Schmitt That's on a magazine. That's on a camera.
123:32:14 CC Okay. Got you on that one; you're right.
123:32:19 Schmitt Is it not?
123:32:20 CC You're right; my fault - you've got the maps, too.
123:32:23 Schmitt Okay, I need those maps, Gene. Could you hand me the maps?
123:32:28 Cernan I don't know. Pretty good clip, splitting apart a bit, too, aren't they?
123:32:42 Schmitt Getting hot.
123:32:43 PAO That'll end the television until EVA 2 tomorrow.
123:32:47 Cernan This thing keeps falling out of your clip, in case you're interested, or I keep knocking it out.
123:32:56 Schmitt Put it - put it down, yes. Okay, I've got the maps, the 500 mag, yes - and the three - two cameras.
123:33:06 CC Okay, we'll have to get the contamination bags, too, there.
123:33:16 Cernan Huh?
123:33:18 Schmitt Say that again, Bob.
123:33:19 CC Roger. We've got the contamination bags to get, too - out of the MESA.
123:33:26 Schmitt I've got them.
123:33:27 CC Okay; copy that.
123:33:28 Schmitt Mentioned that earlier.
123:33:29 CC Sorry about that.
123:33:30 Schmitt They're in there.
123:33:33 CC Okay; and Geno, when you're brushing LCRU, we'd like the blankets left at 100 percent rather than 65 percent - we'd like them all left open; and it's been a little warm, also.
123:33:48 Cernan Okay, Bob, I've already dusted everything. And it all looks pretty good. The bay - the breakers are OPEN; the LCRU power is OFF. I'm going to - Where do you want the TV camera? Do you want it tilted down and aft?
123:34:06 CC Roger. Down and away from the Sun, like we talked about. Think that's what you mean by aft.
123:34:12 Cernan That's what I thought. Okay. It's down - yes, it's there.
123:34:18 CC Okay; can you confirm that that's 100 percent on the LCRU blanket rather than 65 percent as per the checklist?
123:34:27 Cernan Yes, sir; I sure can.
123:34:36 Cernan Okay, I'm opening all the battery covers. The batteries are not dirty. I've been dusting the covers every stop.
123:34:42 CC Okay; good.
123:34:45 Schmitt Are you through with the - are you through with the SRC?
123:34:49 Cernan Yes, I just left it there.
123:34:50 Schmitt I've got to get to the table.
123:34:51 Cernan Okay.
123:34:57 PAO Ron Evans in America, began an 8 hour rest period about 10 minutes ago.
123:35:02 Cernan Okay, the batteries look pretty good. Bob, you got - you got - The left-hand forward reflector on the batteries is about 10 percent in the shade. The others are in the Sun. is that what you want?
123:35:17 CC Stand by. Okay; that sounds right, they say.
123:35:27 Cernan Okay, the LCRU has been dusted; everything is dusted. Our blankets are open 100 percent. ... I'll recheck. Battery covers, open; LCRU blanket is open 100 percent; samples off. You got them all off, Jack?
123:35:39 Schmitt Yes.
123:35:40 Cernan And anything else? Let me look around. I got to get the TGE.
123:35:44 Schmitt Check it one more time.
123:35:47 Cernan Samples off; let's look under here. There's nothing under here. This bag is empty. Those are sample bags.
123:35:56 Schmitt Okay, we do not bring up the LM ECS canister. is that correct?
123:36:02 CC That's correct, 17.
123:36:07 Schmitt Okay.
123:36:13 CC And, Jack, confirm you have the scissors in the ETB. Roger.
123:36:15 Schmitt Just a second. (Laughter) Yes, sir. Thank you, again.
123:36:24 Cernan Okay, ... the old blanket.
123:36:30 Schmitt Okay, that pin's green; that pin's green. Both pins are green.
123:36:38 CC Copy that.
123:36:41 Cernan Boy, that's dirty.
123:36:46 Schmitt Okay. Okay, I'll take some stuff up. SCB 2, we don't have. Oh, wait a minute. What did we decide to do - -
123:37:01 CC SCB 2 for the big rock there, Jack.
123:37:03 Schmitt Put that big rock in the - Oh, okay.
123:37:10 Cernan How's our time, Bob?
123:37:13 CC No problem on time.
123:37:15 Schmitt A little in on those ... Can I sneak in and get a bag?
123:37:24 Cernan Yes.
123:37:29 PAO We're at 6 hours, 36 minutes in this EVA.
123:37:34 Schmitt See you later, Rover.
123:37:44 Cernan Okay, the SEP blankets are open; it is dusted. Okay, and I verify that the DSEA is OFF, and the power's OFF.
123:38:01 CC Copy that, Gene; thank you.
123:38:06 Cernan Okay, you want the TGE, right side of the MESA, but in the shade. Okay.
123:38:12 CC That's affirm.
123:38:20 Cernan Boy, did it get covered with dust, too.
123:38:42 Cernan Bob, no trouble with the TGE in the TV, huh?
123:38:48 CC None so we can tell. We'll get another reading here when we see it on the ground here.
123:39:01 Cernan Hey, Jack, if I set this here, we'll - Jack?
123:39:09 Schmitt What?
123:39:10 Cernan Okay, I just want to set it here so you don't knock it over.
123:39:13 Schmitt What's that?
123:39:14 Cernan The TGE, right where you left foot is.
123:39:16 Schmitt Oh, well.
123:39:17 Cernan I'm afraid we'll knock it over if I set it anywhere else.
123:39:19 Schmitt Well, stand by; I've got a lot of stuff here.
123:39:21 Cernan Okay.
123:39:25 Schmitt You should have volunteered to take the big bag in.
123:39:28 Cernan Why? You having trouble getting that thing in?
123:39:30 Schmitt Well, it's just ... Yes, I'm having trouble.
123:39:41 Cernan Well, here; let me help you.
123:39:41 Schmitt Hold this big bag, please.
123:39:44 Cernan Just don't back up if you can help it.
123:39:47 Schmitt Hold the bag. This big one, this one. No, the other one, the other one; don't.
123:39:52 Cernan I can't ...
123:39:54 Schmitt I got it. That's a big rock.
123:40:00 Cernan Want to fit there? it's long ways.
123:40:02 Schmitt Okay, there should be another one in there. is there? Feel it, squeeze it, hit it.
123:40:08 Cernan ... the box, see if there's any in there. ... yes, there is. Okay.
123:40:17 PAO America has just gone behind the Moon.
123:40:20 Schmitt Well, let's leave it. ... let's get it out. Here, pick it up. We'll get it out.
123:40:24 Cernan Hold the top.
123:40:30 Schmitt Shake it. Well, I thought there was one in there.
123:40:35 Cernan I don't think there's anything in there.
123:40:36 Schmitt I thought I put one in there.
123:40:38 Cernan Okay.
123:40:39 Schmitt Well, I guess not. If I did, it's gotten out. Okay, got away.
123:40:44 Cernan Okay, I'm going to leave the TGE right here. I'll put the TGE right side of MESA. Okay, I might give them a gravimeter reading, believe it or not. Boy, I'll tell you, the only thing bad about putting this thing on the ground - it's like everything else - you have to bend over to get at it. And you need support to get back up. Okay.
123:41:10 Cernan MARK, gravimeter.
123:41:11 CC Roger. MARK.
123:41:13 Cernan And she's flashing, Bob.
123:41:15 CC Thank you.
123:41:23 Schmitt Okay, I'm supposed to take this and the core stem bag up there.
123:41:26 Cernan I'll get it for you.
123:41:28 Schmitt Can you get the core stem bag?
123:41:29 Cernan Yes, I'll get it for you.
123:42:08 Schmitt Okay, you got a core stem bag?
123:42:11 Cernan Yes, let me give it one zap with the brush.
123:42:14 Schmitt Okay. I didn't mean to drop that, but I did.
123:42:23 Cernan Yes, we got to - we got to keep from dropping everything. I'll tell you, the big lesson today - -
123:42:29 Schmitt Dropped.
123:42:30 Cernan Dropped, I guess.
123:42:31 Schmitt The big lesson is that it's going to get dropped if your hands get tired.
123:42:33 Cernan Yes.
123:42:35 Schmitt ... come down. Got it.
123:42:46 Cernan Okay. ... me see. Okay, the TGE is reading. We got to stow our antennas and ... dusting down here. I'll make a check of what you've got up there. What have you got up there so far?
123:43:06 Schmitt Just the SRC 2 and the core stems.
123:43:10 Cernan Okay, SRC 2 and the core stems. Okay - Where's EVA pallet?
123:43:20 Schmitt It's on the MESA table.
123:43:21 Cernan Okay, that's good; that's ready. Where's ETB? That's ready to go up.
123:43:25 Schmitt Yes.
123:43:27 Cernan Okay, core stem bag, SRC 2; SRC 1 is in the - SCB 1 is in SRC 1. ... it's there. Big bag is not required. Okay, any more room up there? If not, why don't -
123:43:42 Schmitt No, I think - -
123:43:44 Cernan Why don't I dust you here.
123:43:45 Schmitt Okay. This rock you landed on here.
123:43:49 Cernan Watch your foot; you're caught in that thing.
123:43:50 Schmitt Yes.
123:43:50 Cernan Pick up your right foot. Jack, you're just going to have to get up on that ladder somewhere so I don't - don't get the dust all over this thing.
123:43:58 Schmitt Well, I've got to dust you, too.
123:44:03 Cernan Well, okay. Go ahead and get me.
123:44:06 Schmitt Yes, where's your brush?
123:44:07 Cernan Right on the hook.
123:44:10 Schmitt Right; see what I can do. Kick most of it off, I hope.
123:44:13 Cernan You have to go anywhere else, now?
123:44:15 Schmitt Just right around here; no place but right around here. Man! That's a - that's like a super-endless task.
123:44:35 Cernan Get the top of that thing if you can.
123:44:40 Schmitt Oop - oop. It landed on a slope.
123:44:44 Cernan Yes.
123:44:48 Schmitt Okay. That's good.
123:44:51 Cernan ... about the arms?
123:44:53 Schmitt Yes, hold them up and shake them, too, in case there's anything down in them?
123:44:56 Cernan Let me just - Yes.
123:45:02 Schmitt Let me get lower so you can get at me. Okay, how's that? At best, it is going to be bad but we want to get as much off as we can.
123:45:22 Cernan How about this one?
123:45:25 Schmitt Guess I can come around on the other side, if you want.
123:45:27 Cernan Yes, I can hold on better that way.
123:45:53 Schmitt Just take some of it off.
123:45:54 Cernan Yes.
123:45:55 Schmitt Hold still.
123:45:57 Cernan I'll get up on that ladder and you get a whack at my legs, best you can. And I'll kick my boots clean.
123:46:11 Schmitt That fender is really going to be a nuisance.
123:46:17 Cernan ... gone.
123:46:25 Schmitt I'm going to have to get you to bend over, too, so I - not now. Know there's a lot on the OPS.
123:46:36 Cernan I just will stow my antenna, if you're up there. ...
123:46:45 Schmitt Oh, boy. That's really putting the finishing touches on the old arms, isn't it?
123:46:49 Cernan Yes.
123:47:03 Schmitt How'd you get so dirty?
123:47:04 Cernan Wait until I show you the picture I took of you.
123:47:12 Schmitt Didn't. Okay, Gene. Most of what's left is up on your - get your antenna. Oh, you're going to go up there, first.
123:47:25 Cernan You want -
123:47:27 Schmitt Okay.
123:47:28 Cernan I don't know how you do that.
123:47:29 Schmitt Just - just really spring. You got it. Beautiful.
123:47:37 CC Okay, 17, do we copy - -
123:47:37 Schmitt Okay.
123:47:38 Cernan Better get my legs, then I'll ...
123:47:39 CC - - both antennas up?
123:47:43 Cernan No. No, sir, Bob. I'm still getting dusted. We're trying to go over this thing pretty thoroughly.
123:47:48 CC Okay.
123:48:04 Cernan Pocket is probably full of dirt.
123:48:06 Schmitt That brush does pretty good, though.
123:48:11 Cernan Want me to move, or anything now?
123:48:13 Schmitt No.
123:48:14 Cernan Okay. I'm just a mess. Course, when I do this, I get dirtier.
123:48:22 Schmitt Yes.
123:48:24 Cernan Once I get you this far, I'm just going to shove you on up that ladder and not let you get in the dust. Whoo!
123:48:57 Cernan Okay?
123:48:58 Schmitt No. You're not okay. You're awful dusty, but I don't know that I can - -
123:49:05 Cernan Okay.
123:49:05 Schmitt - - do too much more.
123:49:06 Cernan That looks pretty good. I'll walk -
123:49:07 Schmitt Hit your boots real hard when you come up.
123:49:09 Cernan Yes.
123:49:11 Cernan Okay. I've just got to stay on my feet here for a while.
123:49:17 Schmitt Want me to -
123:49:19 Cernan Stand in - stand in the pad; yes. Stay there and I'll get your back and your PLSS while I'm at it - to start with. Stoop down, if you can. Stand on the bottom of the pad - there you go.
123:49:35 Schmitt How's the old ALSEP, Bob?
123:49:39 CC It's looking great, guys.
123:49:48 Cernan Don't forget, Jack; you'll have to stow my antenna yet.
123:49:52 Schmitt Right.
123:49:54 Schmitt Okay, while I'm up here, let me get the top of your OPS and I'll stow your antenna at the same time.
123:50:00 Cernan Okay.
123:50:00 Schmitt I - You're going to have to get further down. I can't reach it.
123:50:04 Cernan That's good. I feel like I'm praying. I guess I am.
123:50:12 Schmitt Now, maybe I can get some dust off you, if you stay there. The antenna will be stowed in half of a jiff.
123:50:31 Schmitt Oh, my fingers. They do not have the dexterity that they once had.
123:50:53 Cernan Okay.
123:50:59 Schmitt Make sure you don't have anything hanging on you. Wait a minute.
123:51:07 Schmitt Okay. You can stand up. I'll work on your arms.
123:51:41 Schmitt I'll come around that side and get the other one. No, maybe I won't either. Maybe I'll get it - hold onto the ladder some. It'll give me stability, too. Okay, I'll get the backside of your arm from the other side. Let me get to around your waist here now.
123:52:14 Schmitt Getting there - kilter. Ah.
123:52:28 Schmitt Here, let me try your left arm.
123:52:47 Schmitt Okay.
123:52:48 Cernan Okay?
123:52:55 Cernan Why don't you go - up the steps.
123:52:57 Cernan Okay. You're there.
123:53:06 Cernan Oh, boy. Hallelujah. Yes, do that. That gets a lot off, Jack. Keep doing that. Keep doing that. Boy, that gets it off your shoes.
123:53:22 Schmitt Okay. Okay. Put this foot out here.
123:53:36 Cernan We're still at it, Bob.
123:53:41 CC Yes. It seemed to go a lot faster down there in the clean room at the Cape.
123:53:48 Cernan Boy, you bet you. And I know why we didn't do it. It was just as tough down there as it is here.
123:53:50 Schmitt Okay?
123:53:57 Cernan No, not yet. I want to get - the other leg. And then I want you to lean over and get my antenna.
123:54:13 Schmitt Roger. Right. I need to brush off the top, too. I'll stow your antenna first.
123:54:21 Cernan Okay, babe. That's about all I can do for you. Okay, get my antenna. Oh, I think all the dust I took off you went on me.
123:54:35 Cernan Can you reach it from there?
123:54:42 Schmitt Well, yes; I think I can. There. Oh, whew.
123:55:03 Schmitt I have 7 hours from the time I looked at my watch. That's got to be pretty close.
123:55:09 CC You guys have got 6 hours and 53 minutes and 40 seconds.
123:55:12 Schmitt Okay, Gene, you're stowed. Let me -
123:55:16 Schmitt Okay. Let me see your brush.
123:55:17 Cernan Okay. Here it is.
123:55:29 Schmitt Okay. That's the best I can do.
123:55:30 Cernan Okay. Let me get the top of this pocket.
123:55:35 Cernan Okay. Go on up; stay clean.
123:55:38 Schmitt Well - you've got - let's see -
123:55:43 Cernan I'll hand you something.
123:55:44 Schmitt You've got to bring stuff up I guess, huh?
123:55:45 Cernan Yes.
123:55:47 Schmitt Okay, Bob - I need the EVA pallet.
123:55:49 Cernan Okay, I've give you that and then I'll get to work. I've got some work I've got to do for Bob. Ah. Okay, everything on the EVA pallet?
123:55:57 Schmitt Yes. Just hand it to me and I'll start unstowing it up there.
123:56:00 Cernan Okay. Man, I forgot I had my visor up. Zowie! See if I can get back in the shade.
123:56:14 Cernan Got it?
123:56:15 Schmitt Yes.
123:56:28 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'll try giving you one at a time. LMP's got the EVA pallet. Let me give you a MESA reading, then I'll tidy - or - reading, and I'll tidy the blankets.
123:56:41 CC Okay.
123:56:45 Cernan Okay. The reading is 000, 133, 201, and I can only assume that one of us hit it. I think I've got time to give you another one.
123:56:59 CC Okay. Quickly.
123:57:04 Cernan Well, that's the way it'll be, because it's already punched.
123:57:07 Cernan MARK it.
123:57:08 CC Copy that.
123:57:13 Cernan Okay, I'm tidying up the MESA blanket. That's pretty tidy.
123:57:18 Schmitt I did that.
123:57:19 Cernan Okay, MESA blankets are tidied. Okay. Open TGE - I'll do that. Brush to ladder hook. Final transfer, Jack. I'm going to - Okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. You've got the - I'm going to - I'm going to inventory here. You got the pallet. ETB is here, and you got the corestem bag. SR - SCB-2 is there; SRC-1 is here; big bag is not required. Bob, I think we got everything. The two things on the surface yet are the ETB and the SRC and me.
123:58:04 CC Okay, we copy that. But, of course - -
123:58:05 Cernan Jack, get down a little bit more, and you've got another 2 or 3 inches.
123:58:13 Schmitt I can't get any lower, Willie, me buttons are in the way.
123:58:15 Cernan Okay. Keep going. Get your pockets over the sill - There you go. There you are - you're in. Kick off your feet if you can - kick them right there. That's good. That got a lot off. Okay, go on in. You're over to the right - Okay, there you are. You've got all the room you want now.
123:58:37 Schmitt That's not as easy as in the J-bird.
123:58:39 Cernan Okay. I think I'll give this rockbox a quick dust in here.
123:58:50 Schmitt Your hoses - we've got to have a better way to store your hoses.
123:58:53 Cernan Yes, I don't like them there either. I saw that when we went out.
123:59:03 Schmitt (Heavy breathing) Whew, boy.
123:59:09 Cernan You in?
123:59:10 Schmitt Yes.
123:59:13 Cernan Sounds like it.
123:59:19 Schmitt Oh, come on get up there.
123:59:21 Cernan Okay, Jack, coming up with the rockbox.
123:59:24 Schmitt I'm not ready.
123:59:26 Cernan Well, I've got to - I've got to -
123:59:29 Schmitt You ... put it on the porch?
123:59:31 Cernan Well, I only got one more thing to do and that's taking out there - just clean up the TGE. Okay. I've got to come up there anyway.
123:59:58 Cernan God speed the crew of Apollo 17.
124:00:03 Schmitt Who signed it? I forgot to read it.
124:00:07 Cernan I'm not going to tell you, but I like the message. Probably shouldn't tell you.
124:00:23 Cernan Okay, that ought to stay up there.
124:00:30 Cernan Okay, I can!t hand you anything in anyway. I'm going down and clean up the TGE.
124:00:36 CC Roger. It should be ready to read by now.
124:00:37 Cernan Oh! That last step down again. Okay? Bob, before - well, let me get this for you.
124:01:02 Cernan Okay, Bob, 670, 021, 501 - 670, 021, 501.
124:01:11 CC Okay. Got that, Gene.
124:01:12 Cernan And the cover is up. Cover is up, if I can keep it up. If I can keep it up. That'll keep it up. It's been dusted. And I'll get it to STANDBY.
124:01:38 CC Okay. Copy that. And did you dust the radiator?
124:01:43 Cernan Yes sir, I dusted that a little earlier. Okay, it is STANDBY, Bob. Radiator is up.
124:01:50 CC And dusted.
124:01:53 Cernan Cover is open. Okay. I'm going up to the porch. All I've got down here is ETB, and it's on the LEC.
124:02:03 Schmitt I'm ready for you.
124:02:04 Cernan Have you got anything else?
124:02:06 CC Negative.
124:02:07 Schmitt I'm ready for you up here.
124:02:11 Cernan Let's see what kind of dusting job I can do on myself.
124:02:39 Cernan Okay, Jack, come up.
124:02:40 Schmitt Okay.
124:02:46 Cernan Whee! Okay.
124:03:01 Schmitt A little higher. ...
124:03:06 Cernan I got it.
124:03:07 Schmitt Watch the seal.
124:03:09 Cernan Okay. Okay, here's an SRC.
124:03:17 Schmitt Okay, put her in here.
124:03:21 Cernan Oh, me. Well, I'll get it up for you.
124:03:23 Schmitt No. That's all right.
124:03:26 PAO Handing the rockbox into the LM.
124:03:27 Cernan Ah. I think you got the ticket right there. Ah.
124:03:32 Schmitt I'll watch that.
124:03:34 Cernan No sense making it hard. See if I can't stand this one up. Okay. Okay. There come the core tubes. Boy let's - protect that core tube. Man, that was - that was the turning point today.
124:04:13 Cernan Got it?
124:04:13 Schmitt Got it. Yes, we had a lot of turning points.
124:04:20 Cernan Do you want the LEC in there? You don't, do you?
124:04:24 CC Negative, you can leave the LEC outside.
124:04:29 Schmitt No, just the bag.
124:04:31 Cernan Where are the scissors, by the way?
124:04:32 Schmitt They're in the bag.
124:04:33 Cernan Okay. I hope they don't come out this time.
124:04:34 Schmitt Well, I stuck them down in there. I hope they don't.
124:04:38 CC Yes, Jack - -
124:04:38 Schmitt We'll have to figure out something else if they do.
124:04:39 CC - - You guys put the tools in the ETB?
124:04:44 Schmitt I think so, Bob. I'll take a peek down there. If they fell out, they'll be right on top. Okay.
124:04:56 Cernan Mama me.
124:05:01 CC Okay, Gene. And you got the SCB number 2 in and the pallet out, right?
124:05:09 Cernan Right. Here it comes, Jack. Take that. There are no scissors on the ground beneath where the ETB was. So I would say that they're probably in the ETB.
124:05:47 CC Well, good enough.
124:05:48 Schmitt Okay. You got everything, now?
124:05:49 Cernan Yes sir.
124:05:52 Schmitt Okay, let me get out of the way.
124:06:15 Cernan Okay. Whoops, that's me dusting. Well, I guess I got about - 25, 20, 15 - I guess 13 percent oxygen, 3.8. Okay, babe.
124:06:40 CC I copy that. Fifty percent oxygen, Geno - that's
124:06:41 Schmitt Come on in.
124:06:42 Cernan ... comes through that hole. No; 13 - 13 percent, I think.
124:06:49 CC One, five [sic].
124:07:02 Schmitt Okay. Put your but - put your buttons down. You're great. Now your head up. You're right against the top, right against the ... 27. Come towards me. Okay, now up.
124:07:23 Cernan Okay.
124:07:25 Schmitt Tight fit.
124:07:26 Cernan What am I caught on back there?
124:07:28 Schmitt You're just getting - you're just scraping against your PLSS.
124:07:31 Cernan Okay. I'll just bend.
124:07:32 Schmitt Watch your - - your - your pockets. Your leg pockets might be part of the problem.
124:07:36 Cernan Okay.
124:07:38 Schmitt Okay, come on in. Just hug as close as you can. Okay, you're there.
124:07:58 Schmitt Okay?
124:07:59 Cernan Yes, let me just get on my feet here. Oh - oh - Wait a minute. Got to turn one way or the other. Does this look better?
124:08:12 Schmitt Yes. I'd turn towards your right.
124:08:15 PAO We marked Cernan in at 124 hours 8 minutes. Schmitt in at 123 hours 59 minutes.
124:08:15 Cernan Well, can't do that.
124:08:20 Schmitt Try the other way. Get your PLSS back in there towards the circuit breakers. Move your right - your left arm.
124:08:26 Cernan (Laughter) Where? Okay.
124:08:31 Schmitt There.
124:08:33 Cernan Okay. Let me make sure there's nothing in that hatch.
124:08:35 Schmitt Well, there's dust. That's one thing that's in there.
124:08:37 Cernan Well - Take one quick peek.
124:08:41 Schmitt I can't - From where I stand, all I can see is dust.
124:08:45 Cernan Okay, it's clear. Did it. Now what do we do next?
124:08:49 Schmitt Pockets - your pockets.
124:08:55 Cernan Okay.
124:08:55 Schmitt Okay.
124:08:58 Schmitt Primary water, CLOSED. Forward hatch - Turn our WATER OFF.
124:09:11 Cernan Do you have to turn the PRIMARIES or just the SECONDARY, Bob?
124:09:13 Schmitt Primary.
124:09:14 CC Primary only. That's why you don't turn your PRIMARY WATER, OFF, when you go to AUT.
124:09:25 Cernan Okay. I've got them both OFF. is that all right?
124:09:27 CC That's okay, too.
124:09:31 Cernan Well, wait a minute. Got yours?
124:09:34 Schmitt No, I can't quite reach it.
124:09:35 Cernan Well, if you can roll to the left, I'll get it for you.
124:09:37 Schmitt Yes, I can.
124:09:38 Cernan Let me get - let me get back here. I've gotten bigger since I've been out there. You've got to go more. You've got to go more.
124:09:55 Schmitt Yes. There's something keeping me from going more.
124:09:58 Cernan Okay. Okay, let me see if I can't -
124:10:09 Schmitt ... to be awfully far inboard for what I - fitted it.
124:10:13 Cernan Okay. Your PRIMARY WATER is OFF.
124:10:17 Schmitt Okay. LMP's WATER is OFF.
124:10:20 Cernan Now you're going to have to move way over there, so I can get the hatch.
124:10:22 Schmitt Yes, I have to go back the way I was.
124:10:25 Cernan Back up against the circuit breakers.
124:10:27 Schmitt Yes.
124:10:30 PAO The EVA clock will continue counting until the LM is repressurized.
124:10:30 Cernan Can you see what I'm catching on, upward?
124:10:32 Schmitt Yes. You're just hitting the rail over there.
124:10:35 Cernan Okay. Now.
124:10:38 PAO It shows 7 hours and 9 minutes 14 seconds now.
124:10:42 Cernan ... I can't - Close and lock forward hatch, huh?
124:10:47 Schmitt Yes. Can you do it?
124:10:51 Cernan Yes. Can't see it. Okay.
124:10:58 Cernan Forward HATCH is CLOSED -
124:11:01 Schmitt Locked?
124:11:02 Cernan And LOCKED. Which one of those dump valves is - That one up on top. I can get that one.
124:11:08 Schmitt Okay. Take it easy.
124:11:11 Cernan Oh, whew!
124:11:13 PAO Hatch closed at 124:11.
124:11:25 Cernan It's AUTO, and it's locked.
124:11:30 Schmitt You're sure? is that locked there?
124:11:32 Cernan Yes, sir.
124:11:33 Schmitt Okay. And it is AUTO. Okay.
124:11:36 Cernan Okay.
124:11:37 Schmitt Okay, I got a tone and a - and I got an H2O flag.
124:11:42 Cernan Okay.
124:11:43 CC Roger, Jack; we saw it.
124:11:44 Cernan Okay, PLSS O2 is not less than 10 percent.
124:11:48 Schmitt Yes. Okay.
124:11:51 Cernan Okay, let's go.
124:11:53 Schmitt If we're not less, go to manual control repress. Okay. I've got to turn -
124:11:58 Cernan Okay. Let me get out of your way.
124:12:00 Schmitt Okay.
124:12:01 Cernan About as far as I can go. Okay. I'll read it to you, when you get there.
124:12:09 Schmitt I think part of our problem is - is this - slope. There's no purchase - as my Father used to say - no purchase.
124:12:19 Cernan Okay, are you ready? Are you ready?
124:12:22 Schmitt Wait a minute.
124:12:26 Cernan I need you on CABIN REPRESS, AUTO; and then on 16 I need you.
124:12:30 Schmitt Okay.
124:12:30 Cernan Okay, CABIN REPRESS, AUTO.
124:12:33 Schmitt Going AUTO.
124:12:35 Cernan Okay. ECS CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
124:12:37 Schmitt Okay. Stand by - for repress.
124:12:40 Cernan I'll try and get cabin ... master.
124:12:43 Schmitt Okay, there's the MASTER ALARM, Heck, I can't get it.
124:12:50 Cernan I'll catch it.
124:12:52 Schmitt Okay.
124:12:53 PAO Cabin pressure coming up, half a pound.
124:12:56 Cernan Cabin is coming up. ... closed at 1 psi.
124:12:58 Schmitt Okay.
124:13:01 Cernan Okay. Verify cabin pressure increasing. PRESS REG A and B to CABIN.
124:13:06 Schmitt Now?
124:13:07 Cernan Now.
124:13:09 PAO A pound and a half now.
124:13:10 Schmitt A's CABIN; B's CABIN.
124:13:11 Cernan Okay, and I want your PLSS O2, OFF - when I give you a call. That's when we get greater than 2.5.
124:13:23 Cernan Okay, now. We're at 3- Can you get it? If you can't, I'll reach it for you.
124:13:24 PAO Two and one half pounds.
124:13:29 Schmitt It's OFF.
124:13:31 Cernan Okay, CABIN warning light OFF. Verify cabin pressure stable at 4.6 - Okay, it's coming up. It's 3.6. And you use the PURGE valve to depress.
124:13:45 Schmitt What's our pressure?
124:13:47 Cernan Cabin pressure is 4. Let me just take a look here at 4.6. Okay. I'm coming down. She's coming down. Cabin's up to - Cabin's up to 5, Jack.
124:13:58 Schmitt Okay, it's 5. It shut off.
124:14:00 Cernan Okay. Okay, I'm about depressed.
124:14:03 Schmitt So am I.
124:14:04 Cernan Okay. Post-EVA configuration. White dots out and EVA decals. Okay. Checking.
124:14:13 PAO EVA clocks show the duration of 7 hours 12 minutes 13 seconds.
124:14:14 Schmitt White dot.
124:14:18 Cernan Okay. Give me a chance to turn around and look. Okay. White dots are out - out - all the white dots. Okay, they're all out here.
124:14:21 PAO It counted until the pressure reached 3-1/2 pounds in the LM.
124:14:33 Schmitt Boy, does this feel good to get soft suits. Oh, my hands. Okay, they're all out here.
124:14:38 Cernan Okay. Okay, on 16, SUIT FAN number 2, CLOSED.
124:14:44 Schmitt SUIT FAN 2, CLOSED.
124:14:47 Cernan And SUIT FAN DELTA-P, CLOSED.
124:14:48 Schmitt CLOSED.
124:14:49 Cernan ECS caution and WATER SEP component lights on [sic].
124:14:52 Schmitt Okay, ECS - I think it's on. It's hard to see it.
124:15:04 Cernan Okay. Doff your gloves. Stow on comm panel. Hallelujah! Cabin's stable, Houston. How's it look to you?
124:15:17 CC Looks good to us, 17. And I'd like you to know you had a 7-hour and 12-minute EVA, from 3.5 to 3.5.
124:15:30 Cernan Well, until I get out of this suit, I'm still EVA.
124:15:39 CC Roger.
124:15:39 Cernan Oh, doesn't that feel good. Whoo!
124:15:40 CC And I think it's a tremendous job for what we might call a "challenging" EVA.
124:15:51 Cernan Bob, that's no pun. It really was. It really was.
124:15:56 CC I know it, men. I know it.
124:16:03 Cernan I tell you, I really wish you guys could have been here with us. You worked as hard at it as we did, if not harder.
124:16:13 Schmitt Harder, I think. Until today. Oh! You don't have a tub of hot water I can soak my hands in, do you?
124:16:32 Schmitt Wait until that dust hits the sweat of your hands. Oh! I tell you.
124:16:44 Cernan Man! Okay. My gloves are off. Doff helmets with visors, lower shades, and stow in BRA. Well, I guess the first thing is to get this thing off. Boy, let me tell you.
124:17:02 CC Okay. And 17 - or Jack and Gene, I'm going to turn you over to Joe now. I'll be back in a while.
124:17:12 Cernan Okay, Bob. Thank you for a job well done.
124:17:16 CC Well, job well done on your side, guys.
124:17:31 Cernan Oh, I can't do it. ... - How about getting my glove off?
124:17:41 Schmitt Can you handle it?
124:17:43 Cernan I'm not sure.
124:17:46 Schmitt Thank you.
124:18:00 Cernan Jack, the big one's out of the way. What we really had to get out there on. Boy, look at that visor. No wonder I couldn't see.
124:18:29 Cernan Jack, do you read?
124:18:30 Schmitt Yes.
124:18:30 Cernan Okay, I thought you knocked your thing to AR - -
124:18:31 Schmitt No.
124:18:32 Cernan - - or to A or something. There's a lot of noise in the background. That's why I was wondering. Need some help?
124:18:55 Schmitt Stow the visors, huh? What is it?
124:18:59 Cernan Yes, stow them in the BRA.
124:19:02 Schmitt No, but I mean - Keep the protective visor down.
124:19:04 Cernan Keep the protective visor over it, and stow the whole thing in the BRA.
124:19:24 Cernan Verify safety on the dump valve. I guess I can do that now -
124:19:28 Schmitt Again?
124:19:29 Cernan That one's still safe. And that one's still safe.
124:19:36 Schmitt That was like gunpowder, just like the boys said.
124:19:39 Cernan Oh, it does, doesn't it?
124:19:43 Cernan Okay, DESCENT WATER valve, OPEN. Oh, boy. I ran out of water out there. I mean the drinking kind.
124:20:00 Schmitt Okay, what's next?
124:20:03 Cernan Okay, DESCENT WATER valve, OPEN.
124:20:10 Schmitt Okay. Coming OPEN.
124:20:15 Cernan Okay, and then you get your purge valve out.
124:20:18 Schmitt Not too hard ...
124:20:20 Cernan ... (Laughter)
124:20:22 Cernan (Laughter) ... If they say anything, just say, "I told you so." Okay. Remove your purge valve - -
124:20:31 Schmitt (Laughter)
124:20:32 Cernan - - and disconnect your OPS hose.
124:20:34 Schmitt Yes, sir (laughter). If I can. Okay.
124:20:42 Cernan I tell you, I haven't seen anything - Drilling those holes was a piece of cake until I couldn't get that core tube out. I thought that whole - -
124:20:49 Schmitt I'm glad there were - -
124:20:50 Cernan I thought that - -
124:20:50 Schmitt I'm glad there were two of us.
124:20:51 Cernan I thought that whole thing was going to break. It was bending about - at about (laughter)
124:20:56 Schmitt Well, next time we have to do it -
124:20:58 Cernan Yes.
124:20:59 Schmitt Let's see, OPS. That must be this one.
124:21:01 Cernan Disconnect OPS hose. Connect LM hoses - red to red, blue to blue.
124:21:04 Schmitt I don't want LM hoses yet. I'll just get on water right away.
124:21:06 Cernan Let's put -
124:21:08 Schmitt I'm going to - DIVERTER valve, horizontal.
124:21:13 Cernan SUIT isOL, both. I'm going SUIT FLOW, get some flow in this cabin. Okay.
124:21:21 Schmitt Here, you want me to get it?
124:21:24 Cernan I tell you, my hands, after working - at - picking up little things.
124:21:29 Schmitt I feel the same way. I think you had the worst of it.
124:21:33 Cernan Hey, let's keep as much dust out of those connectors as we can (laughter). Wise guy.
124:21:38 Schmitt Okay. Let's wait on these.
124:21:42 Cernan Okay, your diverter valve horizontal?
124:21:46 Schmitt Yes. And if we - -
124:21:48 Cernan Okay, and if you can get to the SUIT FLOW, you can go SUIT FLOW. In the meantime, get your FAN - your PUMP OFF.
124:21:56 Schmitt FAN's OFF. PUMP's OFF.
124:21:59 Cernan Joe, are you still reading us down there?
124:22:01 CC Loud and clear, Gene. We're following you close and - -
124:22:07 Cernan Okay. I just wanted to see whether you were there.
124:22:08 CC Roger. Following you close here.
124:22:13 Schmitt Keep us honest.
124:22:14 Cernan Okay, we're just looking at 5 psi and all the hatches are battened down, and the safeties are on. You can keep a look at the rest of it for us.
124:22:22 CC Copy that. And we're seeing the same thing -
124:22:24 Cernan Okay, disconnect your PLSS water. Now what I do, Jack, is - I was going to say put your cover on, but we're going to stow those.
124:22:32 Cernan Okay, guess we've got to go off the air for a little while. We're both going O.
124:22:38 CC Okay.
124:22:38 Cernan And we'll get on our LM comm here, shortly.
124:22:42 CC Roger. Check back in.
124:22:48 PAO This is Apollo Control at 124 hours, 23 minutes. We've completed a shift handover here in Mission Control. Our flight director Gene Krantz and his team of flight controllers are replacing the Pete Frank team. Our spacecraft communicator on this shift is Astronaut Joe Allen. And aboard Challenger on the Lunar Surface, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan, are in the process of getting the Lunar Module reconfigured, ready for their sleep period, which the flight plan calls for them to begin at 128 hours or about 3-1/2 hours from now. After they complete the reconfiguration of the Lunar Module and get the cabin more or less ship shape, they'll have an evening meal, eat period before retiring. And aboard the Command Module, we said good night to Ron Evans on the last revolution, the 18th revolution of the Moon for the CSM, and we're just about to reacquire the Command Module, now on its 19th revolution, presuming that Ron Evans will be asleep. During the EVA, Evans was primarily involved with running the lunar sounder experiment. This was one of the major activities aboard the Command Module. That experiment appeared to be functioning well, obtaining surface and sub-surface data on the lunar stratigraphic sequences and structure. We have a change of shift briefing, which will begin in a little less than 15 minutes in the News Center Briefing Room, Building 1.
124:24:43 Schmitt ... Okay, we got to do some more switching, yet.
124:24:51 Cernan Okay. Connect the - Okay. Now in - AUDIO circuit breakers CLOSED. Now, both panels, VHA - VHF A, RECEIVE; B, OFF. Okay. MODE ICS/PTT.
124:26:01 Cernan Hello, Houston. Do you read Challenger on LM comm?
124:26:05 CC Okay, Challenger. This is Houston. Reading you 5 by.
124:26:11 Cernan Okay, we're going to go ahead and charge up the - let's see, the LMP's PLSS.
124:26:26 CC We copy.
124:32:56 Schmitt Hello, Houston. The recharge on the LMP: 95 percent.
124:33:01 CC Copy that.
124:33:34 PAO This is Apollo Control at 124 hours 37 minutes. The participants for the Change of Shift Press Briefing are now on their way to the briefing room in Building 1. That conference should begin shortly. Here in Mission Control, Flight Director Gene status - or Gene Kranz rather has gotten a status from his Flight Controllers on both vehicles, both Challenger and America and both spacecraft appear to be in very good shape at this time. Aboard Challenger on the lunar surface, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt will now be involved in getting out of their space suits, getting the spacecraft cleaned up and ready for their sleep period and we expect to debrief them on the first EVA in about 15 minutes. Ron Evans now into his scheduled rest period. America in the 19th revolution of the Moon at the present time. And, during our change of shift briefing, we'll be recording any conversation with the crew on the lunar surface for playback immediately following that briefing. At 124 hours 38 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
124:39:38 Cernan Hello, Houston. It's CDR with a recharge of 93 percent.
124:39:43 CC Sounds good, Geno.
124:44:25 PAO This is Apollo Control at 124 hours 44 minutes. Our post EVA press briefing is ready to begin at this time, so we'll switch to the MSC News Center Briefing Room.
124:48:18 Schmitt Okay, Houston. OPS pressures: LMP, 6l00, and CDR, 5900.
124:48:29 CC Thank you, Jack.
124:58:01 Cernan Joe, we're changing a cartridge out in my PLSS. We've got the battery changed.
124:58:09 CC Okay, Geno; thank you.
124:58:14 Cernan You don't have a cold something or other, do you?
124:58:19 CC I'm sorry you even mentioned it.
124:58:24 Schmitt We can think about it, can't we?
124:58:28 CC Mercy, yes.
124:58:33 Schmitt Hey. Does Captain America know all about this?
124:58:39 CC Roger, Jack. He does. He's been fully advised, and his response is - he's sound asleep, now.
124:58:49 Schmitt Yes. I forgot. He was going to bed before we did today.
124:58:55 Schmitt Did he have a good day up there?
124:58:58 CC He surely did. Fine day. And I want to make the observation - as a casual bystander. It was a real pleasure to watch your EVA unfold down here.
124:59:13 Cernan Thank you, Joe. I think you are more than a casual bystander though.
125:07:23 Cernan Hey, Joe. We've got - 1 and 3 - or correction, l's replacing the 3s and 2's replacing the 4s on the PLSS.
125:07:34 CC We copy.
125:09:37 Schmitt Joe, we're in the right-hand column of 3-3 now.
125:09:42 CC Roger.
125:10:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 125 hours 10 minutes. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan aboard Challenger on the lunar surface have been involved in getting the portable life support systems recharged for tomorrow's EVA. And we're planning to debrief them on the first EVA shortly. They are then scheduled to continue getting the LM cabin configured for sleep and they have some time set aside to eat and we hope to get them into their sleep period at the time called for in the flight plan, which is a littles less than three hours from now. During the change of shift and we accumulated a small amount of taped conversation with the crew. We'll play that back now and continue to stand by live.
125:13:01 PAO That completes our tape playback. We'll stand by live now.
125:15:24 Schmitt Joe, bag - collection bag 2 is 16.
125:15:30 CC Thank you.
125:15:51 Schmitt And the SRC is 32 pounds.
125:15:58 CC Copy; 32 pounds.
125:17:03 Cernan Okay, Joe. The HEATER is ON for the dump.
125:17:10 CC Okay.
125:21:51 Cernan Okay, Joe, the circuit breakers are verified, about 11 and 16 with exception of the line heater.
125:22:08 CC Okay, copy that. Thank you very much.
125:24:09 Schmitt Okay, Houston, we're going to turn the BIOMED, OFF
125:24:15 CC Okay.
125:27:47 PAO This is Apollo Control, Gene Cernan's report that he was disconnecting his biomedical harness tells us that he and Jack Schmitt are in the process of getting out of their pressure suits, and that puts them about 25 minutes behind the Flight Plan Timeline. However, there is a fair amount of pad built into the Flight Plan during this period of time, up through the eat period and beginning with their sleep period, and we do expect to get them to bed on time. We also, earlier, got a report from them on weights - sample weights in sample collection bag number 2 and also in the sample return container, the rock box that was brought back aboard the lunar module. They reported 16 pounds for the sample collection bag, 32 pounds for the rock box. These are the gross weights, and we'll be coming up with net weights based on the estimated weight of the containers and other equipment. They are usually packing equipment stowed on the rock boxes. As soon as we have a net weight for the samples we'll be passing that along. The next activity scheduled in the Flight Plan is the EVA debriefing and we expect that that will be occuring in the next 30 to 45 minutes.
125:46:44 Schmitt Houston, Challenger. We'll both be off the air briefly here as we swing into getting our suits and LCGs off. The Commander presently has his suit off, and I'll start on mine.
125:46:44 CC Roger, Jack.
125:52:01 PAO This is Apollo Control. It now appears that the crew aboard Challenger on the lunar surface, Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan will be ready to begin the EVA debriefing in about 20 minutes. We're estimating that they'll reach that point in the Flight Plan at about 126 hours 10 minutes. And, the debriefing will run 15 to 20 minutes. Ron Evans aboard America has been asleep now for about an hour and a half. We'll be waking him up at the Ground Elapsed Time of 131 hours 20 minutes after about 8 hours of rest. America is presently in an orbit of 69.9 by 53.5 nautical miles, on the backside of the Moon in its 19th revolution, just about to cross over to the 20th revolution the beginning the 20th revolution, and we'll be reacquiring contact with that spacecraft in about 30 minutes.
126:09:43 Cernan Hello, Joe; you there?
126:09:49 CC Waiting patiently.
126:09:55 Cernan Okay, if you're keeping score on the bottom of 3-4, we're both out of our suits. And does that feel good.
126:10:03 CC Roger, Gene. Thank you.
126:10:08 Cernan Okay, I'm out of icy LCG, if you want to turn the page.
126:10:12 CC Okay, Geno, and how are your hands doing?
126:10:19 Cernan Oh, they're a little tired. On both sides, here.
126:10:28 CC Can't imagine -
126:10:30 Cernan But I think they'll pull through.
126:10:41 Cernan Do I read this that the - that the LMP sleeps on bio tonight? is that right?
126:10:53 CC Stand by. Roger; that's affirm.
126:11:02 Cernan Okay, so I can take mine off, huh? My sensors?
126:11:11 CC That's affirm, Gene.
126:11:16 Cernan Okay.
126:11:24 Cernan Well, we'll - we'll be up to the EVA debriefing time here very shortly.
126:11:32 CC Roger.
126:11:53 Cernan Joe, do you know how much time has elapsed since we initially charged our PLSS's with O2?
126:12:05 CC Geno, it's time to charge them again, if you want to.
126:12:13 Cernan Okay, I just might pick that up.
126:12:17 CC All righty.
126:12:24 Cernan We'll let you know where we are, though.
126:12:27 CC Okay.
126:13:48 Cernan Say, Joe, I guess the home front was probably listening in. Any one talk to them?
126:14:02 CC Haven't talked to them today, Geno. I haven't at least.
126:14:10 Cernan Hello, boss, how are you doing down there?
126:14:12 CC Just fine. Waiting for you guys to go to sleep so we can do the same. Had a great day up there, guys.
126:14:21 Cernan Oh, you don't have to wait for that. We're - it was super from here - it's quite an experience, Deke, and quite a challenge.
126:14:31 CC Yes, it looked beautiful from here.
126:14:39 Cernan I tell you it makes you feel - feel like you had a good day's work behind you, though.
126:14:44 CC I can believe that.
126:14:51 CC We're about to give you the rest of the day off, Gene.
126:14:59 Cernan Thank you, Joe.
126:15:25 CC Geno - While you troop are -
126:15:28 Cernan Hey, it's 3 o'clock in the - -
126:15:30 CC Go ahead.
126:15:32 Cernan Go ahead, Joe I was just going to say, it's 3 o'clock in the morning back there.
126:15:37 CC We know it.
126:15:40 CC It's 3 o'clock in the morning up there, too.
126:15:47 Cernan Yes (chuckle) and we know that too.
126:15:52 CC Troops, while you're in a listening mood up there, we're going to be coming at you with a number of items here, not too many, but the first will be some surface block data. Then we're going to read up to you a LEVA cleaning procedure which is fairly simple, a real short geology debrief, a one-line change in the Lunar Surface Checklist. And then, we've been doing some thinking down here about how to fix the fender. And it's going to involve, we think, although we'll work on it while you guys are getting some rest, it's going to involve using utility clamps, from inside your LM there, instead of tape, to fasten some sort of stiff material onto the Rover in place of the missing fender. And we'll go with either with one of your - your cue cards, or possibly with part of insulation that was the flame blanket protecting the Rover during the landing. Or perhaps part of the packing material that was between the Rover wheels, and is probably lying on the ground underneath the LM there.
126:17:16 Cernan Joe, you couldn't be reading our mind more. We were talking about that, and there is a piece of it right outside my window. I saw it after we got in here. Either that or back of a part of a data book or something - I hate like the devil to tear one of those other fenders off. And the reason tape won't stick is that everything's got a fine coating of dust, and the only way I could finally get it to stick was to put tape on it -rip the tape off - or take the tape off - which took some of the dust off and then tape would tend to hold it. But it just won't hack it up here.
126:17:48 CC Roger, Gene. That's exactly what we're thinking. And what we're going to do is run through the fix in a pressure suit a few hours from now. And if it looks like we can do it, and it won't cost you any more than say 10 minutes, we're going to have you go through with it. If it takes longer than that, we're going to go back to the drawing board and see what else we can do here.
126:18:18 Cernan Well, you know John and Charlie can tell you just had bad it is. I wouldn't have believed it - I guess I didn't believe it, or I would have worked a little harder to make sure that fender was going to stay on. But it - Man, just that short trip back from where we lost it, and we were just covered. The whole - I couldn't even read the parts of the panel on the Rover, plus all the battery covers and everything.
126:18:46 CC Roger, Gene. What we really need, I think, is some white mud flaps up there.
126:19:00 Cernan That's a little too old fashioned, Joe.
126:19:17 CC I guess we'd know wouldn't we?
126:19:26 Cernan I'm afraid so.
126:19:56 Cernan Okay, Joe.
126:19:57 Cernan MARK. I'm giving my PLSS a second charge right now.
126:20:06 CC We're watching.
126:20:09 Cernan You ... You should be getting LMP biomed.
126:20:31 Cernan And Joe, give me a hack after about 10 minutes in case I forget on that PLSS recharge.
126:20:37 CC Roger.
126:20:48 Cernan Can I do both the - I can do both the water recharge and the O2 recharge at the same time, can't I?
126:20:58 CC That's affirm.
126:21:03 Cernan Okay.
126:21:11 CC Gene, I caution not to tilt the PLSS while you're doing that.
126:21:19 Cernan Yes, good idea. Mine's in the station.
126:21:25 CC And, Gene, if - if you want to get the geology debrief out of the way anytime, just give us a whistle on that.
126:22:35 Schmitt Joe, why don't you give - give me the block data, and then we can go on that geology brief?
126:22:45 CC Okay, are you ready to copy?
126:22:53 Schmitt Go ahead.
126:23:04 CC Okay, Jack surface block data; lift-off times, T21, 128 plus 47 plus 12; T22, 130 plus 45 plus 44; T23, 132 plus 44 plus l8; T24, 134 plus 42 plus 50; T25, 136 plus 41 plus 28. Over.
126:24:00 Schmitt Okay, Joey, 21, reading in order 128:47:12; 130:45:44; 132:44:18; 134:42:50; 136:41:28. And what's the present rev?
126:24:28 CC Present rev is 20, and readback is correct.
126:25:30 Schmitt Okay, Joe, you can go ahead and fire away at the LMP.
126:25:37 CC Okay, Jack, and for the geology questions. I'm going to turn the console over to the well-known geologist of the Seifort Galaxies.
126:25:49 Schmitt Can't hack it, huh? You've all forgotten everything I taught you.
126:25:55 CC I draw my sword.
126:25:57 CC Okay, guys, you want me to address first those to Gene - those to Jack, and then address them to Gene later on, or you guys both, want to answer them at the same time?
126:26:09 Schmitt Well, we're both listening. We can answer them.
126:26:12 CC Okay, the way you asked that, I wasn't sure.
126:26:14 CC Okay. Question number 1 is - concerns the Rover mobility rates. The Rover mobility rates over the short span you drove, which is hardly representative, are slower than people had anticipated. Do you think this is due to visibility, terrain, or what? Do you think you can still hack a 7.3 or 8 kilometer minimum or average to Station 2 tomorrow?
126:26:42 Cernan The answer to that is yes, Bob. I think it's partly - partly fam, but it's also the fact that we did a lot of circling. We didn't drive in many straight lines. Trying to find, for the most part, our bearings, and tried to pick some high spots so we could look around. So I think straight-line navigation out in the area we're going is going to be easily 8 kilometers.
126:27:07 CC Okay, great. Okay. Another question here, Gene, that you should be able to answer with a simple yes or no. Was there any spillage of the material in the drill core while you were breaking it down?
126:27:27 Cernan Simple no.
126:27:27 CC Okay. And - -
126:27:28 Cernan Spillage out of it?
126:27:29 CC - - Yes, you know, when you broke the sections, did you lose much material out of it?
126:27:35 Cernan No, sir; I didn't lose any.
126:27:37 CC Okay, next simple question. When you were drilling the deep core where the neutron probe was, could you see the RTG over the rock?
126:27:50 Cernan Yes.
126:27:53 CC Okay. You have any feel for how high the rock is or how low - how deep the thing was with respect to the - with respect to the RTG? Where you down in a level that was below, even without the rocks being there?
126:28:11 Cernan Yes, I think I - yes. I was in a - in a slump. There was a ridge between us and the RTG, and I had the rock in a line of sight between it and where I put that core. And I'd say the rock was certainly near the ridge and it was - what, Jack? - I don't know was it meter to - meter high for the most part. And it sloped off, and I'd say at least a half a meter high in the line of sight from where the neutron probe is to the - to the RTG. Plus, there's a lot of undulations - I think it'll be below the line of sight, anyway.
126:28:51 CC Okay. And a somewhat more general question, here. It says - and I'll read it. We're still puzzled as to whether there is a dark mantle. Could you say something more about the dark regolith surface? There's a lot of discussion, today, about whether or not it could have been a regolith derived from the intermediate gabbro which you were sampling as boulders.
126:29:20 Cernan Bob, I - I think I don't have too much to add to what I said, near the end of the EVA, is that I do not have an intuitive feeling that the regolith has been derived from most of the boulders that we're seeing. But - because those boulders are fairly light-colored, they look like they're probably 50 percent plagioclase. The - it could be that the regolith is derived from some other material that has blanketed the area. I don't think we have that answer, yet.
126:29:55 CC Okay. I copy that.
126:29:57 Cernan Bob, the boulders - the boulders we are sampling - I think Jack, and I both feel that it's probably - we feel we sampled the subfloor because we saw on the sides of the craters where some of these boulders were exposed almost as if they were bedrock down there. In driving back from what we called Station 1, we - we could definitely see the light mantle out in the area where the potentials of a slide are.
126:30:26 CC Okay, very good. Yes, I think that the - At least, it's a going bet around here that we're sampling the subfloor when we're sampling - at least the top of the subfloor when we're sampling the intermediate gabbro there. The rocks and the boulders.
126:30:40 CC Okay. We also - -
126:30:42 Cernan Yes, the -
126:30:43 CC Go ahead.
126:30:45 Cernan Bob.
126:30:46 CC Go.
126:30:48 Schmitt It is sort of strange that we don't see a good population of fine - of finer-grained rocks. These rocks look very much like igneous rocks, but they're considerably coarser than comparable -well, they're about the grain size of some of the coarse-grain Mare basalts that tend to differentiate the crystallobalite and tridymite - but we didn't see any of the finer-grain versions. If it's an intermediate crystalline rock, we have not seen any fine-grain equivalents yet. At least not in abundance.
126:31:32 CC Okay, I copy that.
126:31:35 CC We get - we gather that there's no color change in the dark-mantle material at depth. In other words, the footprints, wheel tracks, and the rake sample, et cetera, were sort of uniform in color.
126:31:49 Schmitt No, there's no major change, but looking out the window and I think I commented on it, the disturbed regolith is darker. Oh, I don't know, maybe by 10 percent albedo, something like that, than the undisturbed surface.
126:32:14 CC Okay, I remember your commenting that when you were walking to the ALSEP, I think, Jack, in fact.
126:32:19 CC Okay, during drilling of the heat flow holes, Gene - -
126:32:21 Cernan That's right.
126:32:21 CC - - was there change in color of the cuttings as they piled up - as you went down in depth? Do you remember any of that?
126:32:36 Cernan Yes, Bob, both in the core and the heat flow holes, it really didn't - didn't seem to pile it up like you're accustomed to it at the Cape, and I guess maybe that's because I was kicking so much dust around there. But I looked specifically when I cleared flutes, and what have you, and I didn't see any difference in terms of color, texture, or anything else coming up.
126:33:03 CC Okay, copy that.
126:33:06 CC On the - outcrops you think you see in the North and South Massifs, do they appear to be linear horizontal, or subhorizontal? Can you see layers, and do you have any feel for the thickness or the attitude or the continuity of them? Can you discuss these outcrops?
126:33:28 Cernan Bob, the - going over yesterday, I thought I could see a - a structure dipping off to the southeast, apparent dip anyway, on the eastern side of the South Massif. Or northeastern side. We haven't examined them in detail because we were in a rush to get out. We'll put the binoculars on them and try to examine that question. There's nothing very obvious, any more than you can see on the photos, that the ledges were concentrated in the upper portion (cough) - excuse me - in the upper portion of the Massif's units.
126:34:07 CC Okay, copy that. Here's a short one that I'll ask Jack since he did it. Again I guess we'll have to prove this - the shade portion of the cosmic ray experiment. The question is, and I repeat - I quote - "Are you sure that the detectors, not the decals, were facing out?
126:34:32 Schmitt I am, Bob, because I said I was sure, and I called you on it.
126:34:37 CC Roger. I was sure, too, but I had to ask the question.
126:34:40 Schmitt I - I under - I know. I understand why it was asked, because I did it wrong at the Cape. But that's why - that's why I mentioned it when I deployed it.
126:34:48 CC Roger.
126:34:51 CC And ready to - Okay, and we can go and recharge the other PLSS whenever you're ready there, guys.
126:35:10 Schmitt Okay.
126:35:14 CC Okay, the next question which calls for a little bit of discussion is: The layers of lineaments that you remarked on in the Sculptured Hills, can you say anything about them?
126:35:33 Cernan Yes, Bob, I did. I think I said - and I commented, I'm not sure whether it was the Sun angle or not, but see, I was not looking at the Sculptured Hills. I was looking back at Bare Mountain, I believe. And, to me it looked like there was some organization that was dipping back to the east, somewhere between, oh, 20 and 25 degrees maybe. And it was very obvious to me but I'm a little - a little hesitant because of some of this Sun-angle stuff.
126:36:09 CC Okay, I copy that. I gather we didn't get any 500-millimeters of these lineations, that right?
126:36:16 Cernan No, but I think we will. I - they were on the western side of Bare Mountain back there, and I think I commented that I thought that Bare Mountain is probably what the Sculptured Hills look like.
126:36:32 CC Okay, I copy that. is there a scar above the light mantle material? in other words the slide, is there a scar above that on the South Massif? Can you see anything up there to indicate that it might have come off of there?
126:36:47 Cernan Nothing obvious yet, Bob.
126:36:52 CC Okay, copy that. On the way back from Station 1, you described a small crater with light material on the bottom. Can you say anything more about that crater?
126:37:13 Schmitt Bob, I don't remember saying that, or Gene doesn't either.
126:37:19 CC Okay. You talked about something that was light I don't remember - I thought it was a boulder, but the question's about a crater.
126:37:28 Schmitt You're right. You're right, there was a large zap pit in a boulder that was very white. It must have been - the crater for the zap must have been 2 centimeters diameter anyway. And it had about that, or maybe 3-centimeters worth of crushed minerals around it, that gave it a white, very bright white appearance.
126:37:51 CC Okay. Well that was indeed a small crater, so I guess the question was right.
126:38:01 CC Let me change the mode here and ask you three or four simple ALSEP questions again, to verify for various people, exactly what happened. Just to make sure that they're clear on it. When - Jack, when, you were laying out the geophone leads, you mentioned and asked me if it was all right if the geophone leads crossed one another, if there was EMI problems. And so that made people wonder whether or not it was possible the geophone positions were reversed; i.e., geophone 1 was laid out in geophone 2's direction, et cetera.
126:38:39 Schmitt No, that was just a geophone 4 problem. The geophones are in the right directions.
126:38:45 CC Okay.
126:38:45 Schmitt Geophone 4 fell out of the module and rolled under one of the other lines, or vice versa, I don't know which, and it was - it's crossing one of the other lines, geophone 1, I think.
126:38:59 CC Okay, no problem. Was the - When you went to put the LSPE antenna in the heat-flow socket, you didn't have - weren't able to do it at first, was it because of there was a lot of dust in there?
126:39:16 Schmitt No, I think it was the same old problem of that piece of - of aluminum foil, or whatever it is, going down in the socket and jamming briefly.
126:39:27 CC Okay, I copy that. Did you clear out that foil when you did it, or did you Just push it on through?
126:39:35 Schmitt I forced it.
126:39:36 CC Okay. When you taped the SEP solar cells down, did you - how much of them did you cover with tape?
126:39:47 Schmitt We taped the back.
126:39:49 CC Ah, very good thinking. And, Geno, a question for you on the Rover when you parked it. Do you have any feeling for the roll angle it was parked at the LM? The roll angle?
126:40:09 Cernan Here let me look. Bob, it's pretty flat. If I had to guess, I'd say zero. And you can bias that by a degree or so, but basically zero.
126:40:22 CC Okay, is the pitch scale still on it, or did it fall off yet?
126:40:28 Cernan No. I was going to comment on that. It's still there.
126:40:33 CC Okay, very good. Okay, when you went to Station 1A, we're calling the new Station 1, Station 1A, were the blocks there as well-filleted as those near the LM and the ALSEP? Do they all look the same?
126:40:54 Cernan Bob, they - All the boulders had filleting to a slight degree, but not an extreme amount. I think it no more than what is being caused by the redistribution of the darker, fine-grained regolith.
126:41:18 CC Okay, I copy that.
126:41:21 Schmitt Bob, if had to answer - -
126:41:23 CC Go ahead.
126:41:24 Schmitt - - if I had to answer that question, I'd say yes. Yes that the fillet - boulders are filleted over there about like they are over here. That would be my impression.
126:41:35 CC All right. is there any indication that the fillets are directional, in other words, that the fillets sire heavier on one side than the other?
126:41:47 Cernan Bob, haven't noticed that.
126:41:51 CC Okay, I copy that. Do you have the feeling that some boulders are more rounded -
126:41:55 Cernan Well that's a good - that's a good -
126:41:59 CC Roger. I agree with that.
126:42:02 Cernan That's a good re - that's a good reminder, Bob.
126:42:08 CC Okay, do have any feeling that some boulders are more rounded than others? Apparently this looked this way in some of the TV pictures.
126:42:18 Cernan Some of the big ones that are just barely exposed above the regolith looked quite well-rounded. Most of those around the craters are sub-angular. I think - I got the impression that it's just purely a function of how long the same material's been exposed; but some of the big boulders, like the one out near the geophones, is quite angular in part and quite rounded on other parts. It's quite variable.
126:42:49 CC Okay, do you want to say any more about that boulder? Did it seem to have more or less the same morphology, in addition to the variation in vesicle size that the other rocks in the vicinity of the ALSEP, and the other rocks out at Station 1 had?
126:43:08 Schmitt It's very comparable to the ones that we saw at Station 1, as a matter of fact.
126:43:13 CC Okay, I copy that.
126:43:14 Cernan Both types of rocks were there, both variations.
126:43:24 CC Do you have a feeling for where the big blocks in the LM ALSEP area came from? Do you think they were from Camelot, like I've been saying?
126:43:36 Schmitt Don't have an idea yet - I'm really not sure.
126:43:42 CC Okay, and as you drove along on the traverse from the SEP to Station 1, did the size of the small craters with blocky rims vary? in other words, what we are looking for here is the variation in the thickness of the dark mantle?
126:43:58 Schmitt I can't answer that one yet, Bob.
126:44:00 CC Okay. Let me sum up by saying, that I guess as I indicated before, our best guess is that the vesicular crystalline rock, probably gabbro, or I think you've been calling it intermediate basalt or gabbro, forms at least the upper part of the subfloor. I don't think we've been close enough to a large crater rim to say that it's a - what the deep sections of the subfloor form, but we think that this intermediate gabbro vesicular rock, at least medium-grained, perhaps coarsegrained rock, forms at least the upper layer of the subfloor. Over.
126:44:48 Schmitt Yes, Bob, I think that's pretty safe, right now. Once again, I'm surprised that it's as coarse as it is, that being the upper portion of a plains unit.
126:45:00 CC Roger.
126:45:01 Cernan Say, Bob, driving back from Station 1, driving back from Station 1, where we did some of our circling and what have you. We didn't have time to get off, but we did see down in - I don't remember whether it was in the slopes of some craters, or down on the slope itself, but I'd say several meters down below the mantle where there was what we almost agreed to, might be bedrock at least, a deeper portion of the subfloor.
126:45:36 CC Okay, well, I think we'll get to it tomorrow. I think I might just give you a clue to our thinking for tomorrow. But, I don't think we've seen, or done anything today that is going to make us change very much from the nominal station of - nominal EVA-2 plans. The fact we didn't get the station -to the EVA-1 at the large boulders at Emory is probably going to mean that Station 5 might be shifted a little bit to the boulders on Camelot. But certainly Station 5 on the subfloor and also to Station 10 have assumed a higher priority than they originally had. Other than that I, don't think we'll see an awful lot of changes to EVA-2. Over.
126:46:23 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I think that's safe. I suppose somebody's thinking about the possibility of going down to Emory. Maybe you just said that. Going down to Emory late in EVA-3.
126:46:36 CC I think at the moment they're thinking primarily they're going to Station 10, and not going to Station 1.
126:47:00 CC Okay, Jack, I've wrested control -
126:47:02 Schmitt Some of your experts might - -
126:47:03 CC Go ahead.
126:47:08 Schmitt - - some of your experts might think about what they might expect to happen to put the regolith on a bigrain pyroclastic would look like.
126:47:23 CC Okay.
126:47:24 CC We'll tell them. I'll see you tomorrow, guys.
126:47:29 Schmitt Sleep well, Bob.
126:47:30 Cernan Okay, I've just got one question, Bob, before you run off. Did the TGA perform okay, with the - with the camera on?
126:47:40 CC As far as I could tell, Geno, it did, matter of fact, I didn't see the Gravimeter people afterwards to talk to them. But as far as I could tell, it did. We had one funny reading back at the LM very early when it was on the ground, which I'm at a loss to understand right off. But, other than that everything seems to have gone very well. The readings were quite uniform, in fact, which is what makes you think they went well.
126:48:05 Cernan Okay, well, I'd like to leave it - You know it's a little change in my thinking - I'd like to leave it on the Rover if we can, although it's a piece of cake to take off. It's very difficult to lean over that bar without losing your balance and take your - your readings and what have you. So if we can leave it on it would be far better.
126:48:22 CC Roger. I was noticing that. And I also noticed the only three - three-ball reading we got was whsn it was on the ground.
126:48:32 Cernan Yes.
126:48:38 CC Gene and Jack, if you'll get Lunar Surface Checklist 3-5, I've got an easy change to read up to you.
126:48:57 Cernan Go ahead.
126:49:01 CC Okay. After the line: "Empty ETB As Follows," change the first line which reads, B&W Mag Golf in Forward RHSSC to read, B&W Mag Hotel in LCG Compartment. And then go into the next column, which begins, "Stow in ETB." Change the second line, which reads: LMP's Camera With B&W Mag Hotel to LMP's Camera With B&W Mag Golf. That's Mag G, ETB. Over.
126:49:59 Cernan Got you. Hotel, stow it; and go out with Golf.
126:50:06 CC That's got it. And I've got a LEVA-cleaning procedure which maybe you could pencil in there. It's an easy three-step procedure. And I'll go ahead and read it step-by-step here. Step number 1 is tap LEVA base to remove loose dust. Step number 2 reads: If excess dust still remains, use a towel from the LM tissue dispenser, which has been wetted with water, and gently wipe the visor from the top to the bottom; that is, in one direction. And fold this towel after each wipe to keep the contact surface clean. There's a note. "Take care not to wet the inside that is, the concave surface of the gold visor." And the last step is: Allow it to air-dry. And that's it on the LEVA cleaning.
126:51:22 Cernan Okay, Joe, we got that. The Commander's PLSS has had its final charge, and we're in the process of working on the LMPs PLSS now. I guess there's no way to verify how much water you've got in there except to go through the procedure.
126:51:45 CC That's right, Geno. And we think you fellows have earned a good meal now, and maybe you can take the rest of the day off.
126:52:01 Cernan Okay, Joe. Thank you.
126:52:37 PAO The CAPCOM during the EVA Geology debriefing was Astronaut Bob Parker, who was CAPCOM during the EVA. Joe Allen is now handling the CAPCOM duties once again.
126:54:12 PAO Ron Evans, aboard America, now in his 20th revolution of the Moon, just passed over the landing site a few minutes ago, and appears to be sleeping soundly. Ron has been asleep for about 3 hours now. And telemetry data on America shows the vehicle to be functioning normally, as are all of the scientific instruments with a couple of relatively minor exceptions, the mapping camera has not been retracted, it is somewhat slow to retract the last few times that that maneuver was performed and the camera has been left in the extended position, which is the normal operating position for the mapping camera. And we expect, as you heard CAPCOM Joe Allen advise the crew, that Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt will begin eating shortly, and we hope to get them tucked in for bed by about 128:00 hours or about 1 hour from now.
126:57:36 Schmitt Okay, Joe. Just to bring you up to date on magazines. Mag Bravo has 77 frames.
126:57:48 CC Okay.
126:57:56 Schmitt Mag Hotel has 83 frames.
126:58:03 CC Roger.
126:59:12 CC Jack, on your mag Hotel, we'd showed you all the way up to 183 at one time, on that. Did you miss the 1, this time?
126:59:32 Schmitt I may have clipped it out, Joe. 183, yes.
126:59:35 CC Okay, yes, you did clip it out, clipped it out cleanly. So thanks for verifying that.
127:02:29 Schmitt Joe, mag Romeo has 21 frames. And I took a few, random, and probably not very good 500-millimeter of the North and South Massifs - North and South Massifs.
127:02:48 CC Okay, Jack, Thank you.
127:03:02 Schmitt And, Joe, verify that you want mag Charlie substituted for Mag Bravo on the CDRs camera.
127:03:17 CC Stand by.
127:04:44 Schmitt Don't get me wrong. I think it's a good idea, Joe. Don't let everybody work all night on that one.
127:04:54 CC Jack, I think the answer to that is yes. Per the checklist, by the way. That's the way we show it in our checklist here.
127:05:05 Schmitt Roger. We just have - probably have a - about 100 frames left on Bravo, so we'll just keep track of that.
127:05:12 CC Jack, it'll go out later on - Bravo will - it's - apparently, it's kind of your backup magazine there.
127:05:31 Schmitt Okay.
127:05:37 CC The reason being, we want to start that EVA-2 with a fresh mag.
127:10:45 Schmitt Hey, Joe. Bob told us earlier, the sounder looked like it was working.
127:11:13 CC Gene and Jack, just a general comment on that. SIM bay's cooking along beautifully. We are getting lunar sounder data. It looks quite interesting. We've only got one or two annoying problems with it, nothing major, that is with the SIM bay, not with the sounder. One of them being that we have our usual mapping camera extend problem. And we've just decided to leave it extended and it will serve it right if it gets a little contaminated with an occasional dump. And, I guess there's a minor problem with one of the big antennas. It didn't pass its retract check properly, so I guess it may have to be jettisoned when we do a plane change. Otherwise, things are working beautifully. Over.
127:12:06 Schmitt That sounds great, I'm glad to hear that.
127:33:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 127 hours 33 minutes. The CSM America has just gone behind the Moon now on the 20th revolution. The spacecraft looking very good. When last we had telemetry data on it. And, Ron Evans continuing to sleep soundly. He's been asleep now for about 3-1/2 hours. On the lunar surface, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard Challenger are eating at this time, and we hope to get them to bed by about 128 hours or about 27 minutes from now.
127:43:00 Schmitt Houston, Challenger.
127:43:06 CC Go ahead.
127:43:12 Schmitt We're sort of around 27:30 in the checklist, more or less, and you want the POWER AMP and TM to high?
127:43:35 CC Ready when you are. And, troops, are you raiding the pantry up there yet?
127:43:54 Schmitt Yes sir. We've been hitting it as hard as we can. Okay, POWER AMP is going to PRIMARY and PCM to HIGH. And, while we're waiting for Gene to look at this computer, shall I do the battery management?
127:44:31 CC Jack, stand by, until we get the high bit rate, on that battery management. And, a reminder, are you recharging that PLSS number 2 there, or have you taken that off the line?
127:44:47 Schmitt No, we're - we're through with that. We caught it with 10 minutes.
127:44:57 CC Okay. We've got high bit rate now. Go ahead with battery management.
127:45:09 Schmitt Okay, we'll play it - Gene'll work the computer, and I'll work the batteries. And the ED volts are 37.2, both batteries.
127:45:21 CC Thank you.
127:45:57 Schmitt Okay, you got P00 and DATA, Joe.
127:46:08 CC Thank you.
127:47:39 Schmitt Okay, Joe, the battery management complete. How does the rest of the spacecraft look, what you can see of it?
127:47:56 CC Okay, Jackie. Copy the battery management complete, and the Challenger's looking beautiful from down here.
127:48:10 Schmitt I guess you don't have telemetry on dust yet, huh?
127:48:19 CC Negative on the dust. And the computer's yours. Sounds like you've got hay fever sensors, as far as that dust goes.
127:48:33 Schmitt It's come on pretty fast just since I came back. I think as soon as the cabin filters most of this out that is in the air, I'll be all right. But I didn't know I had lunar dust hay fever.
127:48:52 CC It's funny they don't check for that. Maybe that's the trouble with the cheap noses, Jack.
127:49:04 Schmitt Could be. I don't know why we couldn't have gone and smelled some dust in the LRL just to find out.
127:49:11 CC Goodness knows we've tried.
127:49:34 Schmitt Okay, I'll wait for your cue on the rest of it.
127:49:47 CC Okay, Jack. TELEMETRY PCM - LO, and your POWER AMP - OFF, please.
127:49:58 Schmitt Roger.
127:50:44 CC Challenger, this is Houston requesting DOWNVOICE BACKUP, and then configure your ECS for sleep at your convenience.
127:50:56 Schmitt Okay, we're working in that direction. DOWNVOICE BACKUP, now.
127:51:04 CC Okay, Jack and Gene. And, unless you've got questions, or we can help you out in some way, we'll say good night to you.
127:51:17 Cernan Good morning.
127:51:31 PAO This is Apollo Control at 127 hours 51 minutes. Cernan and Schmitt are now completing the items in their presleep checklist.
127:51:43 Cernan The reason I say that, Joe, it's going to be another 30 minutes or so anyway before we - probably more like an hour before we actually close our eyes.
127:52:04 CC Roger, Gene. You think you'll be able to use about 30 more minutes of sleep tomorrow morning? What's your wish on that?
127:52:16 Cernan Yes, I'd like to try to get the full amount. As I recall, tomorrow's a little bit flexible. If we get up 30 minutes late, it doesn't really hurt us.
127:52:28 CC Sounds like a good way to proceed. We'll give you the full 8 hours. Good night, Geno. And, you do have a time pad in there, so it shouldn't hurt a thing.
127:52:42 Cernan Yes, as long - the big object tomorrow is to get out, and get back in, and the same thing with the next day. I don't think we're really that time critical either day that we can't go an hour either way. And I think we'd prefer to have the full 8 tonight.
127:52:59 CC Roger. We couldn't agree with you more. And if there's anyway we can be helping you now, just speak up.
127:53:11 Cernan No, you've been doing - doing fine. We just got a little housecleaning we got to do that's going to take us - I expect we'll be an hour late, Joe.
127:57:54 PAO This is Apollo control at 127 hours 58 minutes. And the crew aboard Challenger on the lunar surface are now getting configured to begin their sleep period. Among the things in the checklist that they have done is to turn off the power amplifier which accounts for the somewhat noisier communications that we're getting. This is a normal presleep configuration and we don't expect to be communicating with the crew a great deal in the next hour and of course, none while they're in their sleep period. As you heard in the last exchange between CAPCOM Joe Allen and Gene Cernan, the crew will probably be getting the sleep period about one hour later than the flight plan calls for. At around 129 hours rather than the nominal flight plan time of 128 hours. We plan to allow them the full 8 hours for their rest period which means that they will be waking up just prior to 137 hours about 136 hours 55 minutes will be the wakeup time. And this would also slip the start of EVA-2 by about one hour giving us a start time for EVA-2 of 140 hours 10 minutes or about 5:03 p.m. central standard time. There is a one and a half hour pad following EVA-2 and EVA-3. This is identified in the flight plan as MCC conference and amounts to one and a half hours that can be used to make up loss time after the second EVA and third EVA. We would expect to make up the lost hour after the first EVA; however, if we are again running somewhat late after the second EVA rather and if we are running somewhat late after the second EVA we still have the hour and a half pad after the third EVA and would of course expect to be back on the nominal flight plan in time for an on time liftoff from the lunar surface. But, again, based on the one hour late beginning of the sleep time and our plans to give the crew a full eight hours of sleep. We would expect the EVA-2 to begin one hour late. At 140 hours 10 minutes or about 5:03 p.m. central standard time. We'll continue to leave the communication circuit, PAO release Line up live until it appears Cernan and Schmitt have begun their sleep period - have actually gone to sleep. We'll be reacquiring the command module in about 21 minutes. That vehicle now on it's 21st revolution around the Moon. And Ron Evans now about four hours into his scheduled eight hour sleep period. At 128 hours 2 minutes, this is Apollo control, Houston.
128:02:01 Schmitt Hey, Joe.
128:02:05 CC Go ahead.
128:02:09 Schmitt Some ambiguity in your statement. You want us to use a tissue or a towel on that visor cleaning?
128:02:23 CC Jack, they call it - they call it a towel, but it comes from the LM tissue dispenser, so I would interpret that to mean tissue.
128:02:41 Schmitt Well, you and I are thinking alike. But can you ask back there and find out?
128:02:53 CC Asking right now.
128:03:50 CC Jack, our guess was right on the cleaning of the visors there. We're to use a tissue from the LM tissue dispenser. And I've got an unrelated question for you. We're tracing water usage down here. Could you tell us, please, if you filled your drink dispensers - refilled the drink dispensers in the suit already? Over.
128:04:20 Schmitt That's affirm. We have.
128:04:42 CC Okay. Thank you.
128:04:53 Schmitt We have been drinking quite a bit of water, Joe.
128:05:02 CC Okay. Thank you.
128:07:52 Schmitt Houston; Challenger. How do you read?
128:07:58 CC You're loud and clear. Go ahead.
128:08:06 Schmitt Joe, I just took a - quick look with the hand lens at that large rock I brought in, and I'll - I don't think there's much more than 30 percent plagioclase. I'll go back - could be more of a standard basalt or gabbro. It has a fair proportion of ilmenite in it, I believe. There are some bright platelets - in the vugs or vesicles - of ilmenite. Now it could be that it's a glass - if the soil is very glassy, that it's developed the darker color from the contribution of the - of the basic minerals through the glass, particularly the iron and the titanium.
128:09:01 CC Roger, Jack. Copy that. Sounds interesting.
128:09:10 Schmitt All it means is that we don't yet know the origin of the dark mantle.
128:09:20 CC Roger.
128:09:30 Schmitt That rock - looks I may have, by accident, sampled the front side of one of the parting planes that I mentioned. Very, very sharply bounded on one side by a planar surface.
128:09:56 CC Roger, Jack. Say again. You may have sampled by accident the side - the side of what?
128:10:12 Schmitt No, I didn't. I mentioned when I sampled it, it had one very planar surface, and looking at it more closely, it looks like one of those parting planes that I talked about even earlier in the EVA.
128:10:24 CC Roger. Copy. Parting planes, thank you.
128:10:31 Schmitt It's like a parting shot.
128:10:40 CC Of which you've been known to have an overabundance, by the way.
128:10:50 Schmitt Oh, I didn't know that.
128:10:56 CC All us fast finishers do.
128:11:05 Schmitt That's right. You got to figure out what race you're in though, first, Joe.
128:11:15 CC I'm sure that Sherlock Holmes would have a suitable quotation to answer that, Jack. I just can't come up with it right now. Something like "therein, Watson, lies the problem" - -
128:11:28 Schmitt That, in itself, is a singular event.
128:11:52 Schmitt But the dog did nothing in the nighttime, Joe.
128:12:06 CC And when you've examined all possibilities and eliminated all but the very improbable ones, then the improbable one must mean the truth.
128:12:23 Schmitt I told you, he was a good geologist, one of the experts on the soils of London. Not to mention their relationship to all kinds and brands of tobacco.
128:13:07 CC Jack, maybe we better get off onto another vein. Surgeon's giving me a puzzled look over here. We may be getting in trouble.
128:13:20 Schmitt You want to talk about veins - now that's something an old ore geologist could talk about all night.
128:13:36 CC Ore geologists and cardiologists alike.
128:13:51 Schmitt Thou strikest for the jugular.
128:14:03 CC Jack, we running a contest down here to come up with a reply to that. We're getting a request, many requests, for a weather report. We've been missing your weather reports and wonder what the weather is on the Moon right now.
128:14:25 Schmitt Well, the Moon's weather is clear and sunny. It's only scattered clouds, and all of those seem to be attached to the Earth.
128:14:45 CC Except for a cloud of dust around the right rear wheel of the Rover, we've noticed.
128:14:56 Schmitt Yes, but dissipates in the morning warmth. Believe it or not, Joe, I'm going to be off the air briefly.
128:15:18 CC So far, I don't believe that.
128:15:25 Schmitt Well, if you don't get any heart beat for a little while, don't worry.
128:15:37 CC Okay.
128:54:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 128 hours 54 minutes. Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard Challenger on the lunar surface have turned off the voice subcarrier, we don't expect to hear from them any further. However, we do not believe at this time that they have begun their sleep period. Cernan reported about an hour ago that it didn't look as if would actually begin their sleep period until about 129 hours. So we expect that they are probably very close to beginning and will actually get to sleep within the next 10 or 15 minutes. Ron Evans aboard the Command Module crossed over the landing site some 10 or 15 minutes ago. America is now in it's 21st revolution of the Moon. And Evans has been sleeping soundly for nearly 5 hours. we do plan to let Cernan and Schmitt sleep a full 8 hours which means that they will be getting up about an hour later than the flight plan time which will also slip the start of EVA 2 by about 1 hour. Because of the noise on the air-to-ground line, with the lunar module operating with it's power amplifier OFF, which is the normal configuration for sleep period, we are going to take the relief line down. We'll record any conversations we get with the crew. Also, we would have a pretty good chance of getting the lines up in the event they plan to give us a call because we'll see the voice subcarrier come on first. But in any event either live or play-back we'll come up very shortly after any conversations with Challenger on the lunar surface or America in orbit around the Moon. At 128 hours and 56 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
129:30:00 PAO This is Apollo Control with 129 hours 30 minutes. About 28 minutes we had one brief transmission from Challenger on the lunar surface. Gene Cernan called to say that he and Jack Schmitt were beginning their sleep period and would see us in the morning which will be at a Ground Elapsed Time of 136 hours 55 minutes. We plan to give them the full 8 hour sleep period called for in the flight plan. Also, Ron Evans, continuing to sleep soundly aboard the orbiting command service module America, completing it's 21st revolution of the Moon. And we're about to lose radio contact with the command module as it goes behind the Moon on that revolution. Both vehicles continuing to perform normally and good solid data from both the command and service module and the lunar module. Wakeup time for Evans aboard America is 131 hours 20 minutes. 31 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston and we'll replay that very brief segment of tape from the lunar module Challenger.
131:10:00 Schmitt Joe, we're asleep. There's no need to answer. See you in the morning.
131:10:00 PAO And that was the full extent of the communications from Challenger. we do not expect to hear from them until 136 hours 55 minutes at which time we will be sending a wakeup call to them if they don't call us first. This is Mission Control Houston.
131:15:32 Evans Roberta?
131:15:32 CC Hey there, Ron. I heard some signs of life there.
131:15:32 Evans Let's see. I - got ngr DUPLEX, OFF, there so I won't talk to those guys on the surface.
131:15:32 CC TOiat's a good idea. We don't want to wake them up.
131:15:32 Evans (Laughter)
131:15:32 CC Ron, we're going to be going LOS here in about 3 minutes. Just wanted to get you up. We're letting the LMies sleep over - sleep in an extra hour this morning. Over.
131:15:32 Evans Oh, okay. I'll get my Flight Plan out here and see what I'm supposed to be doing. Probably just eating though, I think isn't it?
131:15:32 CC That's right. Get up, turn the VHF A, OFF, change your canister, and have breakfast.
131:25:49 Evans Okay. Sounds good. That's what we'll do then.
131:25:49 BEGIN LUNAR REV 23
132:23:05 CC Hello there, America. How's breakfast this morning?
132:23:05 Evans Scrambled eggs and bacon. Not bad at all.
132:23:05 CC Sounds better than what I had.
132:23:05 Evans It's really not bad. Cocoa and orange juice along with it. Even have four toasted bread cubes.
132:23:05 CC Very good.
132:23:05 Evans Hey, Gordo. Do you have any sort of - some kind of a ground truth wrap-up of the first EVA as far as the type of material they ran across down there and things like that?
132:23:05 CC Ron, I kind of personally - on and off. Let me work on a good summary, and I'll come back to you on that.
132:23:05 Evans Okay. Nothing elaborate but just - you know -
132:23:05 CC Okay. Talking about the America though, your consumables - You're 3.8 percent high on RCS quantity. On the O2, well - all the points of the three tanks have fallen between the - the two sets of lines on your graph with a total result as on 02 you're about 10 pounds below the average quantity expected. However, your trend is paralleling the lines and that's of absolutely no concern. On hydrogen, by best guess is you're probably a little bit high, total. Your Tank 1 is right on the line; Tank 2 is - oh, about 6 or 7 percent high; and Tank 3 is about 4 percent high, so you're fat on hydrogen. Over.
132:23:05 Evans That doesn't sound too bad then, does it?
132:23:05 CC No. It sounds great.
132:25:45 Evans Sounds good, I think.
132:28:56 Evans Houston, America. I can give you the old CMP's medical log, if you want to do it.
132:28:56 CC Okay, Ron. Go ahead.
132:28:56 Evans Okay. PRD is - You didn't cut out on me (laughter). My orange juice is leaking. Okay. PRD is 15038. Had about 6 hours of good sleep. Took me about an hour to get things squared away last night. Then I woke up early this morning. Didn't take any medication. And I had four cans of fluid.
132:28:56 CC Okay.
132:28:56 Evans Okay, on the menu. Did I give you day 5, meal A, yesterday or not?
132:28:56 CC I guess you did not.
132:28:56 Evans Okay. Spiced oat cereal, sausage patties, instant breakfast, coffee, and a half an ambrosia. Okay. Four frankfurters, ate the pears, chocolate pudding, grape drink, and, in addition, I had a grape punch, package of brownies, package of graham crackers, and two gingerbreads. Yes, for the bottom one there, I had turkey and gravy, and an orange beverage, and if I find my chocolate bar, I'm going to eat it today* But I didn't eat it yet. Oh, yes, and I had the vitamins yesterday too.
132:28:56 CC Okay, Ron.
132:32:09 CC Ron, if you'd like, I could give you a summary of the EVA-1. I'm just sort of editing the report put out by the back room on that.
132:32:09 Evans Sure. Go ahead, Gordo; Appreciate it.
132:32:09 CC Okay. I'll read a few selected excerpts here. The surface around the landing site is generally an undulating plain, which was somewhat rougher and had a greater abundance of blocks than was expected by the astronauts. It is saturated with small craters not exceeding a few centimeters in size but not with larger craters. Small craters commonly have glass on their floors. Boulders ranging from about 1/2 meter to 4 meters are common. All of them are partially buried or covered with the dust of the dark mantle. In one locality, a crater of about 1 meter deep pentrated the relatively fine dark surface material and excavated small blocks. Other shallower craters in this area did not fully penetrate the mantle. This fact, together with the abundance of small boulders on and near the surface, indicates that the dark mantle is relatively thin. A minor amount of dust noted upon landing suggested a thin layer of fine grain unconsolidated material. Footprints and LRV tracks left firm impressions in the fine grain material when darker material was kicked up from underneath. At the ALSEP site, the drill encountered harder material several times and definitely seem to reach harder material at about a 7-foot depth. The deep drill core apparently also bottomed in harder material. In the core, the material was noted to be cohesive, and it contained more fragments than did the surficial material. Predominant rock type between the LM and Steno Crater is medium grained, vesicular or nonvesicular basalts or gabbro. They contain about equal amounts of plagioclase and pyroxene along with less abundant opaque material. The guys took a total of - well, they took a lot of pictures. They had 229 color and 197 black-and-white during EVA-1. And they got 17 samples in addition to the deep drill core. Three were large, unbagged rocks, and the total, excluding the core, estimated to weigh about 13 kilograms so far, and they traveled about 3 kilometers in the Rover. As a summary conclusion, the observations made on the first EVA support the premission interpretation that at least the upper part of the subfloor materials consist of basaltic lava flow. The overlying dark mantle may be part of the regolith on subfloor material, but the possibility that it is an independent unit remains open and will be tested by observations on second and third EVAs. Both the dark mantle and upper sub floor units contain remarkably little foreign material between the ALSEP site and Steno with suggests comparatively young ages. Over.
132:32:09 Evans Hey, that sounds like a good report there. They -sounds like they got a lot of stuff done and also getting a lot of good information out of it already.
132:32:09 CC Yes. I think that's a safe conclusion. They're going to get a lot more today.
132:35:52 Evans Oh, you bet.
132:38:01 CC Ron, for your information, the ALSEP seems to be working pretty well. The central station and all the experiments with the exception of one are working normally. The one that's giving them trouble is the LEAM, and the data on the LEAM doesn't seem to want to sync up properly. They're thinking that one over and maybe have something for them to try to get that to - to work right. Over.
132:38:33 Evans Oh. Okay. Mighty fine.
132:51:45 CC America, Houston. I have a couple of Flight Plan updates to give you. We suggest you take them down before you start the P52, at your convenience. Just so we don't interrupt your preparation for tlie zodiacal light.
132:51:45 Evans Okay. Got mag XX from the camera, finally. Something about the zero g - it kind of pulls that crazy little cassette back out of the way, and you have a heck of a time getting the lid closed on that.
132:51:45 CC Roger.
132:51:45 Evans Okay. Ready for updates.
132:51:45 CC Okay. Your T-start time for zodiacal light, goes in there at 133:25, is 133 - -
132:51:45 Evans Okay. Have it.
132:51:45 CC -- 28:03.
132:51:45 Evans T-start, 133:28:03-
132:51:45 CC That's correct, and then flip the page over to 134:35.
132:51:45 Evans Okay.
132:51:45 CC And write in "Charge Battery A."
132:51:45 Evans Charge Batt A at 134:35-
132:53:12 CC Affirmative. At bottom of the same column, at 134:54, delete "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT." And also a couple of lines later, delete "MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, CLOSED."
132:53:12 CC That's affirmative. Above that whole sequence, we have some verifies for you. You can write this in about 134:50. Actually, you better start -start a little higher to have room. "Verify all VHF OFF for sounder pass." And here are the -the steps. "VHF AM, A and B, OFF. VHF AM, RECEIVE ONLY, OFF. VHF BEACON, OFF. And VHF RANGING, OFF." Four steps there. Over.
132:54:46 Evans Okay. We'll just verify that all VHF is OFF for sounder operations. VHF, A and B, OFF. RECEIVE, OFF. And RECEIVE ONLY, OFF. BEACON, OFF. And RANGING, OFF.
132:54:46 CC Okay. That's all you got - -
132:55:00 Evans RANGING is OFF. BEACON has been OFF. RECEIVE ONLY is ON. Okay.
132:55:00 Evans Hey, Gordy. How's the fidelity on my transmissions with the way I got the microphone set now?
132:55:00 CC Okay, Ron. You sound pretty good to me.
132:55:00 Evans Okay. I don't have this comm carrier on very tight. I just wanted to make sure I was still coming through all right.
132:55:00 CC Yes, think it's perfectly adequate.
132:55:00 Evans Okay.
132:58:22 CC Ron, we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
132:58:27 Evans HIGH GAIN to AUTO. You have it.
132:58:27 CC Thank you.
132:58:27 Evans (Cough)
132:58:27 CC Looks like another good one, Ron.
132:58:27 Evans Okay.
132:58:27 CC Was it good? Torque them up.
132:59:51 Evans ... at 133:01.
132:59:51 CC Okay.
133:05:58 CC America, Houston. Give us ACCEPT, and we give you a vector.
133:06:07 Evans Okay. You have ACCEPT.
133:08:14 CC America, Houston. It's your computer now.
133:08:14 Evans Okay. Back to BLOCK.
133:11:36 Evans Okay. I'm going to enable jets Charlie 3 and Dog 3 Disable Bravo 3 and Alfa 3.
133:11:36 CC Okay, Ron.
133:11:36 CC Ron, just for general information on your platform drift rates. Not too bad. X is minus 0.007 degrees per hour, Y - min - plus 0.002, and Z is really hard to believe. It's a minus 0.0003 degrees per hour.
133:11:36 Evans (Laughter) Hey, that's beautiful.
133:11:36 CC That's got to be some kind of record.
133:11:36 Evans Boy, I gues s.
133:11:36 CC We may just cancel all further P52s.
133:11:36 Evans (Laughter) Yes, they're kind of easy here in lunar orbit. All except that one that I didn't get done on time yesterday. By the time I got around to doing it, I was pointing right at the Moon. Roll and pitch. It was daylight, and I couldn't see any stars. Finally got to the right attitude, so that the PICAPAR would work.
133:11:36 CC Roger.
133:21:30 Evans Well, Gordo. Looks like I'll lose you right in the middle of this zodiacal light sequencer.
133:21:30 CC That's right. We aren't going to be able to be much help. I'll give you a little warning before T-start. But you're on your own after that, I guess.
133:21:30 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
133:27:31 CC Ron, you have about 30 seconds now until T-start.
133:27:31 Evans Ah, hah. Okay. 28:03, we'll start the clock.
133:27:31 CC That's affirm.
133:28:49 CC Ron, it's about time - coming up on time to start the 90-second exposure.
133:28:49 Evans Okay.
133:30:19 CC Coming up on time to close the shutter now.
133:30:19 Evans Okay.
133:30:19 CC Okay, America. We're just about LOS. See you on the other side.
133:31:43 Evans Okay, Gordo. Thank you much.
133:31:43 BEGIN LUNAR REV 24
134:17:57 Evans And out on the - on the sides of the wall, also, there's another fresh impact just south of ... I guess it's more west really.
134:17:57 CC Hello, America.
134:17:57 Evans Okay, Houston. America's here. The - the zodiacal light sequence worked real well. Oddly enough, I ended up right (laughter) on the right setting with the right times and everything. The only thing is on the 8-minute - on the 8-minute picture, for some reason, I didn't notice that the shutter shut as soon as I took it instead of 60 seconds later. So we just missed that picture altogether.
134:17:57 CC Okay, Ron. Understand.
134:17:57 Evans But the time we worked out good. It was about 2 seconds after the l4:50 - sequence. Not 2 seconds - about 1 second after the 14:50 sequence. And the Sun came up.
134:17:57 CC Okay.
134:17:57 Evans It's going to be hard to - to determine any real relief around the vicinity of Saenger right in there, because it's right at the zero phase point now.
134:17:57 CC Roger.
134:23:14 CC Ron, here's some words on what we've been seeing in the sounder and the optical recorder when you get a free moment.
134:23:14 Evans Okay. I'm just kind of looking out the window now, Gordo. Go ahead.
134:23:14 CC Okay. According to our rather crude read-out on film remaining, it looks like we're using more film than we should be in the recorder, and -it's - if you add up the amount of film used according to that telemetry compared to some times when the RECORDER has been ON and also in STANDBY, it looks like there's a possibility they jive to show that we might be pulling film through the RECORDER in - while we're in STANDBY. This is unlikely because it takes a couple of failures that we don't think are really likely at all, but we're going to try to run a little test at 134:50, during that sequence of getting set up with the VHF sounder pass.
134:23:14 CC It will just involve a couple of switch throwings by you to try to conclusively prove that this is or is not the case. Over.
134:23:14 Evans Oh, okay. Mighty fine. Sure. When you get to it there, just holler out the switches because I'll be over at the panel at that time.
134:23:14 CC Okay.
134:26:51 Evans I kind of hope our telemetry is wrong.
134:29:22 Evans How'd you like to have the PAN CAMERA POWER, ON, here?
134:29:22 CC Okay. We're ready.
134:29:35 Evans Okay. MODE is to STANDBY; PAN CAMERA POWER is coming ON.
134:29:35 Evans You know, Houston, just west of Condorcet and on the edge of - -
134:29:35 CC Okay. We need the PAN CAMERA, OFF now, and then go - -
134:31:14 Evans - - the hills down in there. Oh, okay. PAN CAMERA is OFF.
134:31:14 CC Roger. Go ahead.
134:31:14 Evans But you get the same vertical - you get the same vertical streaking that we do on the edge of Serenitatis , off in the Massif units.
134:31:14 CC Roger.
134:31:14 Evans Coming up at Picard now. Looking at it - a little bit from a distance, there's a darker albedo that goes about a half a crater in diameter from it. And then, on top of that darker albedo - it only goes out maybe a fourth of a crater diameter - there's a lighter type material - that seems to be covering it up. The lighter type material though only goes in a generally westerly - well, from the south around to the west side and then kind of from the northeast around to the northwest side, and it leaves the dark material draping down in the side of Picard on the east side of Picard.
134:31:14 CC Roger.
134:31:14 Evans It looks like it's a - fairly easy to - When you
134:31:14 go around the south to the west side, it has a light material on it. You can pretty well carry a light layer in the top portion of the wall all the way around to that - that part where it stops - where the light part stops. And then you come to a dark layer again - and then - as you continue around from the west to go on around to the north side. It's a little bit in shadow on the east side, so I can't tell for sure whether that light layer's in there or not. But starting on the south side, boing around to the west again, you can see a layer of dark - dark material, although it - there doesn't seem to be a change in the slope - in the slope or the inner wall of the crater.
134:31:14 CC Okay.
134:31:14 Evans And then just below - just below the dark layer, again a change in slope a little bit. It maintains that a slope throughout the - all the way down to the crater floor, where you get into the slump blocks. And then in the center of the crater, it looks like a maria-type film with -Yes, I'm about to lose sight of it again, but with something comparable to a central peak: in it. And I'll have to get the rest of that a little bit later on.
134:31:14 CC Roger.
134:31:14 Evans You know right west of - I think it's Yerkes or Yerkes or whatever it is - between there and Proclus, there's a real small crater I'm looking at with the binocs. And the reason it stands out is because it's a fresh - fresh crater and yet it's a dark - dark halo all the way around it.
134:31:14 CC Roger.
134:31:14 Evans And it's also dark down on the inside of it. I still don't have a feeling for the relative size of things. I'll try to get that one in the next - next pass around through here. But that's what I would call a small, maybe even in the - thousand-meter bracket. Probably somewhere in there.
134:31:14 CC Roger, Ron.
134:31:14 Evans Am I suppose to charge battery A here somewhere?
134:31:14 CC That's affirm when you get a chance. And also, you are due tc turn some switches on panel 230.
134:37:29 Evans Okay. Let's see, BATTERY VENT VALVE is s+.ill on VENT, and we're not tied together. BA1- RELAY BUS BAT A is OUT. Okay; 32 volts. Go to BAT CHARGER BAT A. About 2-1/2 - 2 - 2-1/4 amps.
134:37:29 CC Okay.
134:37:29 Evans And 34 volts on the charge.
134:37:29 CC Okay.
134:37:29 Evans This work gets interesting. After that, I got to go to 230, huh?
134:37:29 CC Right.
134:38:19 Evans Okay; let's - You want to get that lunar sounder stuff, now? Sounder's STANDBY; RECORDER is ON. RADAR is ON. RECORDER is OFF. MODE vent to VHF.
134:38:19 CC Okay; sounds good.
134:38:50 Evans And all the VH - all the VH switch - VHF/AM switches are verified, OFF.
134:38:50 CC Ron, I got one more update for the Flight Plan, unless something interesting at the window. There is no - no hurry on that update.
134:38:50 Evans Okay; let me take another look at the landing site, and then I'll get it. Okay?
134:38:50 CC Okay; fine.
134:39:57 Evans Okay, the Sun's getting a little bit higher now. And as I look at the landing site and the albejo - differences in the color in there - the color in the Maraldi Gamma is the same as in the landing site itself. And, also, it looks like the type of material that we say is essentially covering the whole area - goes on out to and includes the annulus of Serenitatis.
134:39:57 CC Roger.
134:39:57 Evans Let's see. Did I mention that - that it looks like - the flow out of Maraldi has gone on around it and down to, and almost encroaches on the Vitruvius A. But, it's breached out of the side of Maraldi. Gone around that depression and up to the side of Vitruvius A.
134:39:57 CC Roger, Ron.
134:39:57 Evans You still get that same bluish - bluish-type tint from the area in the landing site. At station number 2, on the landslide - it's going to be a pretty good - pretty good little depression there. The scarp itself - it looks like they had picked the least-slope portion to go up it. And, that's kind of between Lara - I think Lara's the one, right - the crater just to the west of the scarp.
134:39:57 CC Roger. I haven't been on all your revs. You ever had any - anything you'd call a visual on the IM?
134:42:36 Evans No, I really haven't looked that much, Gordo. See, my optics are always pointing up in the air; so I can't use the sextant. The binocs - I'm having a heck of a time holding them still enough to - to concentrate on anything very small.
134:42:36 CC Roger,
134:42:36 Evans Oh, when we're coming around the dark annulus , follow it around, by Menelaus and Tacquet, and then - it kind of changes - seems to change colors a little bit when we get up to the Sulpicius Gallus.
134:42:36 CC Roger.
134:42:36 Evans I guess the only thing you can say is that - the southern part there, in the Tacquet region, has a more of a bluish tint. And, then to me, this has more of a brownish tint to it when you get to the Sulpicius Gallus region.
134:42:36 CC Roger.
134:42:36 Evans Hey, wait a minute. I'm just now passing Menelaus now. So, it changes color right at the - Tacquet and then - at about Tacquet and Menelaus. Sulpicius Gallus is just now coming up.
134:42:36 Evans You know, I think Sun angle has got a heck of a lot to do with that, because this whole thing -in the Sulpicius Gallus region looks kind of brownish to me.
134:47:35 CC Okay.
134:47:35 Evans I'll have to check that when the Sun gets a little bit higher when I'm coming across there again.
134:47:35 CC Roger.
134:47:35 Evans Okay, Gordo. I guess I'd better get some work done here. (Laughter)
134:47:35 CC Okay. I would like you to go through all those switches as shown on the Flight Plan. And, when you finish all of those with SM/AC power OFF, I have a couple more for you.
134:47:35 Evans Okay. I forgot to turn the lights on in hare. I can't see in the dark.
134:47:35 Evans Okay, MAPPING CAMERA - is that the right time? Let's see - 49? No, wait just a second on the mapping camera, there. It takes good terminator pictures, too, doesn't it?
134:47:35 CC Ron, go ahead and turn the mapping camera off. Just a minute or 2 ago, it started acting up. We'll turn it off now and troubleshoot it later.
134:50:38 Evans Okay. The MAPPING CAMERA is OFF right now. Eight, 30 seconds.
134:50:38 Evans Okay, MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY. IMAGE MOTION is OFF.
134:50:38 Evans Okay, there we go - STANDBY. Now, IMAGE MOTION is OFF. We got a barberpole ... - a gray, okay. Now MAPPING CAMERA to OFF. LASER ALTIMETER to OFF. Okay, you want the RECORDER to ON, huh? All right. IR is going OFF. PAN CAMERA, SELF TEST is going OFF.
134:52:14 CC Wait until sunset on the next one.
134:52:14 Evans And, the o - oh, okay. I can really tell sunset because the - that EVA pole that sticks out here by window 5. Looks like it's lit up now the way the Sun's shining on it.
134:52:14 CC Roger.
134:52:14 Evans Hey, Gordo. How good is that VOX? Could you hear me chewing?
134:52:14 CC No, I can't hear you chewing. Hear you talking fine.
134:52:14 Evans Okay. That's good, then.
134:52:14 Evans That has to be sunset.
134:52:14 CC About the right time.
134:56:29 Evans Okay, V is OFF. Now, I'm gonna close the IR COVER, barberpole, gray; UV COVER, barberpole and gray. Okay, turn the old SM/AC POWER, OFF.
134:56:29 CC Okay, Ron. Now - now we want LUNAR - LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to OPERATE.
134:56:29 Evans Okay. Go to OPERATE -
134:57:15 Evans Now.
134:57:15 CC What we're doing this for is to get a readout of the film quantity.
134:57:15 Evans Gh, I see.
134:57:15 CC Okay, we got her. You go back to LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to STANDBY, now.
134:57:15 Evans Okay, LUNAR SOUNDER is in STANDBY.
134:57:15 CC Okay, that completes that test. I have a couple more additions to the Flight Plan for - for 136: 35, is the first one.
134:57:15 Evans Okay, I'm there.
134:57:15 CC Okay, 136:35, add VERB 48 (11102) (01111).
134:57:15 Evans Okay at 136: 35, VERB 48, (21102) and (01111).
134:57:15 CC Okay, that first one is three ones - 02.
134:57:15 Evans Okay, three ones - 02 and a zero, four ones.
134:57:15 CC Right. What we're doing here is making a 20-degree roll by keeping P20 going, to allow them to cal the VHF - I guess they had some unexpected noise on the VHF sounder and they want to - slip this in as another check on it. So, the next step is 136:44 and at that time put in VERB 22, NOUN 78 (plus 072.24), then VERB 58 ENTER. Then some words, "When maneuver complete, wait 20 seconds." Then, a VERB 22, NOUN 78 (plus 052.25). That's plus 052.25. And follow that with a VERB 58 ENTER. And, then one more line -you still with me?
134:57:15 Evans Yes, still with you. Got it.
134:57:15 CC Okay, at 136:47, write in "VERB 48" and we go back to (lllOl) and zero and four ones.
134:57:15 Evans Okay. At 44, we - VERB 22, NOUN 78 [sic] - that changes to 72.24 degrees. And VERB 58. Okay, then we - we're going to stay at that attitude for 20 seconds. Then change it back to plus-X forward SIM bay attitude again. And as soon as we get back, we'll change our DAP back to two tenths of a degree per second.
134:57:15 CC That's right and what this will do is stick the VHF antenna right straight down at nadir for a count.
134:57:15 Evans Okay.
134:57:15 CC Hey, at your convenience, we need AUTO and HIGH GAIN.
135:02:34 Evans You have AUTO.
135:02:34 Evans Pretty convenient when you're laying in the center couch. (Laughter)
135:02:34 Evans (Humming)
135:02:34 CC Ron, I got the morning news, if you're interested and I can watch the clock there for that DATA SYSTEM ON time. Or OFF time, rather.
135:02:34 Evans Okay, sure. Go ahead.
135:02:34 CC Okay. - -
135:02:34 Evans ... setting up the camera.
135:02:34 CC Front pages around the country; they're headlining last night's EVA, as you might expect, with photographs taken from TV monitors showing Ceman and Schmitt doing their tasks. And by the way, their TV camera is spectacularly clear and sharp. It's almost like a regular studio TV. In other news, South Vietnam's President Thieu is - -
135:05:47 Evans Outstanding.
135:05:47 CC -- is suggesting that all prisoners of war be released before Christmas. He's also asked that all Vietnamese parties be included in peace negotiations. South Vietnam and the Viet Cong are not directly represented in the secret talks now underway in Paris, Meanwhile, Henry Kissinger met for more than 4 hours, yesterday, with Hanoi representative Lee Due Tho. The two negotiators are expected to meet again this afternoon. The former President Harry Truman is still resting quietly although his condition remains serious, according to his doctors. American poet, Mark Van Doren, died at the age of 78. He was a professor of literature at Columbia and a winner of the 19^0 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. President Nixon announced, yesterday, that he wants to extend wage price control beyond the scheduled April 30 expiration. He also plans to freeze new hiring, promotions, and pay increases for executives of the Federal Government. I guess that doesn't include us. The Republican National Committee has a - -
135:06:59 Evans (Laughter) I don't think it does either.
135:06:59 CC - - a new chairman - George Bush of Houston, who is now ambassador to the United Nations. He will continue his UN post through the present session of the General Assembly. Both national political parties are now headed by Texans. I simply mention to you, Robert Strauss of Dallas became chairman of the Democratic National Committee last Saturday. And, when you see Jack again, you can tell him he has been replaced by the Nimbus 5 weather satellite which is operating in orbit after being launched from Vandenburg very early Monday morning.
135:07:41 Evans (Laughter) Outstanding.
135:07:41 CC Joe Namath - I think you might have heard the football score last night - the Oakland Raiders got to Namath and the Jets in a - in the fourth-quarter and beat them 24 to l6. Namath passed for more than 400 yards, but only scored one touchdown. And Houston weather, we've had two kinds of weather since you've left: it's been either cold and rainy, or chilly and rainy. And, it's foggy and drizzly here again today and temperatures are expected to rise to the mid 40's and go down to a low of 32 tonight. There you have it.
135:07:41 Evans Gee, whiz. I thank you.
135:07:41 CC Any time. You need to get to the DATA SYSTEM switch. And turn on the sounder at - in about a minute.
135:07:41 Evans Okay.
135:09:48 Evans Okay. DATA SYSTEM is OFF, 58, 59 - oops.
135:10:03 Evans MARK it. Okay, went to OPERATE.
135:10:03 CC Okay.
135:10:03 Evans All talkbacks are still gray.
135:10:03 CC Roger.
135:28:16 CC America, Houston. About 3 minutes to LOS. Spacecraft looks good and the sounder's filling the Moon with RF energy, just the way it's supposed to. Over.
135:28:16 Evans Hey, outstanding. Trying to consolidate all of my trash. Man, I didn't realize you had so much junk.
135:28:16 CC Roger.
136:17:22 CC Hello, America. Houston. Over.
136:17:28 Evans Hello, Houston. This is America; loud and clear.
136:17:28 CC You, too.
136:26:50 Evans Houston, America. Magazine Lima Lima will be starting with frame 54.
136:26:58 CC Okay. We copy that, Ron. The sounder still looks good, perking right away. And the mapping camera funny I mentioned earlier - we haven't nailed down exactly what it is. Most likely, we think it's just an instrumentation erroneous indication. And so, we're going to continue with the normal schedule of activities on the mapping camera, except, of course, for the deploy and retraction.
136:27:30 Evans Uh-huh. Okay. Well, hey, that - let's hope that's what it is then.
136:27:35 CC Roger.
136:29:22 Evans I'd like to change that instruct to frame 55 instead of 54. I just took a picture of the crater on the - well, I guess southwest of Crisium.
136:29:37 CC Okay, Ron - -
136:29:37 Evans - - ... different. It's got a light-color -light-colored dike or something through the central peak in the bottom of the small crater. The crater's about - oh, 30 to 50 kilometers, I guess, in diameter.
136:29:57 CC Roger.
136:30:03 Evans The small crater vest of Condorcet.
136:30:10 CC Okay.
136:33:28 Evans You know, the Crater Peirce has got that same dark halo around its crater, and it extends out - again, you can see it real well out to about a half a crater diameter. You don't see any of the light-colored ejecta on top of it though, like you do on Picard.
136:33:49 CC Okay.
136:40:30 Evans Boy, that Scarp sure looks like a flow boundary to me.
136:40:37 CC Roger. On the landing site Scarp?
136:40:41 Evans Yes. I don't know how you get it to go up the North Massif, but it sure looks like it runs that way - just from the shadows and everything.
136:42:45 Evans Gordo, does this go all the way out to Bessel? Does it cross the annulus ridge there?
136:42:56 CC It doesn't go all the way to Bessel. It stops short of Bessel. About halfway across Serenity from the Taurus-Littrow to Bessel.
136:43:08 Evans Oh, okay. Forgot to look where it stopped.
136:44:13 Evans Okay. I ended up on frame 92.
136:44:17 CC Okay. We copy that. Frame 92.
136:44:22 CC Okay. Ron, HIGH GAIN to AUTO when you get a chance.
136:46:22 Evans Okay. There's our 20 seconds or so.
136:54:04 PAO This is Apollo Control at 136:54 GET. We have now shifted over to air-ground 1 for the first wake-up call to the crew of Challenger at the landing site, Taurus-Littrow. We have dropped the Command Service Module circuit air-ground 2. Live and listening on the lunar module circuit at 136:54 this is Apollo Control.
136:55:03 CC (Music: Ride of the Valkyries)
136:56:39 CC Good morning, Challenger.
136:56:45 Schmitt Sounded like Parker has the duty. Both monumental and epic.
136:56:51 CC Jack, that's supposed to take you back to Cal Tech final's week.
136:57:02 Schmitt (Humming)
136:57:40 Schmitt How's everything look, Gordy?
136:57:42 CC Couldn't look better. How's it look to you?
136:57:51 Schmitt Well, it's nice to have rested some.
136:57:57 CC Roger. I'm sure of that.
136:58:13 Schmitt How do our consumables look today?
136:58:18 CC They look good, as expected. Right on.
136:59:11 PAO This is Apollo Control. The wakeup music this morning for Challenger was the "Ride of Valkyries" from Richard Wagoner's Opera Die Walkure. Apparently, Jack Schmitt, when he was at Cal Tech had his roommates sitting bolt upright in bed in the morning by playing this on the stereo system, and this was the appropriate choice of music for waking him up this morning. Thirty minutes from -
136:59:52 Schmitt Be through in a jiffy.
137:00:35 Schmitt Stow your sleep restraint up there. I mean, your - hammock. Either way. I'll - I'll just stuff my - I'll stuff all mine in this compartment here, if you'll just get yours in there. Otherwise, we can rearrange it. See how it looks first.
137:01:58 Schmitt Gordy, you guys held comm pretty well last night, I only remember one - one break.
137:02:05 CC Roger, Jack.
137:02:40 Schmitt Take you off biomed for a minute.
137:04:24 Schmitt We have ...
137:04:31 Schmitt Well, how about it, Gordy? Are we STAY or NO STAY for EVA-2 prep?
137:04:37 CC You're STAY. Never any doubt.
137:04:43 Schmitt Thank you, sir.
137:05:42 Schmitt Have any medication?
137:05:50 Cernan My report to ...
137:05:59 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Status report is excellent. No medication for either one of us. CDR slept 6 hours pretty good; I slept 6 hours intermittent, but generally good.
137:06:17 CC Okay, Jack.
137:06:22 Schmitt And we've eaten well, I think. The food's a little bit confused since we had our little - minor explosion in the cabin, but - I think you can just say it's good. We've had a lot to drink, a lot of juices. We ate the frankfurters. We're sharing a lot of the stuff because it's not symmetrically packed. If you want more details, it will take time.
137:07:06 Schmitt Huh? No.
137:07:13 Schmitt And, Gordy, we did not eat the corn chowder.
137:07:17 CC Okay. Roger. You did not eat the corn chowder, but most everything else on the menu. is that right?
137:07:26 Schmitt Yes, we got just about everything else. We got into - maybe mixed up two meals, but essentially - meal B and C for yesterday were eaten, except for the corn chowder.
137:07:45 CC Okay, Jack. We copy. We're wondering if you could come up with a quantitative estimate on the water you've each drunk - drunk and also your PRD readings.
137:08:23 Schmitt Stand by, Gordy. That may be difficult. ... Yes, we'll get the PRD a little bit later when we start suiting up.
137:08:37 CC Yes; okay. That'll be fine. My mistake.
137:08:43 Cernan Hey, Gordy, on this water. We saturated ourselves before we went out. I finished my drink bag out in the suit on the surface. Jack finished about better than three-quarters of his. We've had water and tea and then the juice, and we have been drinking water constantly - post-EVA. And to give you a quantity is almost impossible.
137:09:11 CC Okay; that's fine.
137:09:17 Cernan If the water is down, it's probably because we've been drinking it. And I'm ready for your lift-off pad data.
137:09:25 CC Okay. For rev 26, lift-off time is 138:40:15; 27 is 140:38:49; 142:37:22; 144:35:55; 146:34:29; 148:33:03. And the last one, rev 32, is 150:31:37 Go ahead.
137:10:29 Cernan Okay; rev 26. is that the first one, Gordy?
137:10:34 CC That's affirm.
137:10:41 Cernan Okay. Rev 26 is 138:40:15; 140:38:49; 142:37:22; 144:35:55; 146:34:29; 148:33:03; 150:31:37. And what's our present rev?
137:11:09 CC Okay, I'll have to check that myself. We're on rev 25. He's about three-quarters of the way across the front side. Coming up back side will start 26.
137:11:36 Cernan Okeydoke.
137:11:36 CC And, for your information, he's running the VHF SOUNDER, and it's working fine.
137:11:48 Cernan That's good to hear. By the way, good morning, Gordy.
137:11:52 CC Good morning, commander.
137:11:57 Cernan How does America itself look?
137:11:59 CC Just as good as ever. I added on the consumables. No problem on the spacecraft systems. Only minor funnies in the SIM bay, but even it is almost 100 percent.
137:12:20 Cernan Okay. And I guess from - I didn't hear your comment, but I guess Challenger is the same way.
137:12:26 CC That's affirm. That's the way it looks here, anyway.
137:13:16 CC Challenger, Houston. We've been working while you've been sleeping on a fix for the missing fender. John Young has been over working it out in the suit with the mockup Rover, and we have about probably 5 to 10 minutes worth of words on how do you want to go about that. Whenever you have that much time to listen - it'll be mostly listening on your part - let us know.
137:13:42 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Will do.
137:14:12 Schmitt No. Well, I did but ...
137:15:33 Schmitt Gordy, you've implied that we may be a little behind on water, is that correct?
137:15:47 CC No. That's - that's not the problem, Jack. I think our concern was more that you - that you were taking enough - enough onboard internally.
137:16:10 Schmitt Our water.
137:16:11 CC That's right, that you were drinking enough. That's what we were worried about.
137:16:20 Schmitt Okay; we'll keep pushing it.
137:17:00 Schmitt ...
137:17:34 Cernan Oh, a ...
137:18:01 Schmitt And cold scrambled eggs. ...
137:19:13 Cernan Gordy, we're going to start to eat here. Why don't you talk to us about that fender?
137:19:19 CC Okay; let me round up - John Young. He stepped out - for a second. We'll have him here in a minute. Might as well let the resident expert on fenders talk.
137:19:57 CC Okay; I'll now turn the microphone over to Captain Young.
137:20:04 CC Hey, Geno. This is John. We spent - -
137:20:10 Cernan Hello, John. How you doing?
137:20:11 CC Oh, just fine. You guys are doing a superb job; really beautiful. Hey, we spent some time on this - fender problem and worked out a pretty simple-minded procedure, which involves essentially taking four of those chronopaque pages out of your lunar surface maps, ones which are not going to be used for discussing the site, taping them together with gray tape so that you end up with a piece of paper about 15 inches by 10-1/2 inches, and then using the AOT lamp clamps, preposition them full opened, and taking them out, and taking that piece of paper out, laying it on top of the fender guide rails and - and clamping the edges of it with the AOT lamp clamps. It's simple and straightforward, and the beauty of it is you're only spending about 2 minutes in the clamping operation, and it could save you up to about 12 dusting, I think maybe. What do you think?
137:21:41 Cernan Yes, John. I - I - I think we ought to try something because you told me, but I - I guess you can't appreciate it until you see it happen yourself. That - that dust without that fender is just almost unacceptable. It - this sounds pretty good. How do you want those things taped together?
137:22:04 CC You just take four pages and allow - Well, I've got the detailed procedures here, if you're ready to copy. Over.
137:22:15 Cernan Well, no. I'm not ready to copy yet, but what do you do? Tape the four squares into a bigger square about16 by 20.
137:22:21 CC Yes. Allow about an inch of overlap, and tape both sides of them.
137:22:27 Cernan Okay.
137:22:30 CC And then you get the AOT clamps off the utility lights and open the clamp jaws to max. And you stow the clamps, and you roll up the paper - roll up the - roll up your fender shortwise and put a gray tab over that and stow it in the ETB. You got both the clamps and the paper fender in the ETB. And then when you get out to the Rover, you lay the edge of your fender over the inboard guide rail and clamp it, and then you lay the other edge of the sheet over the outboard rail and clamp it. And the only thing you're - really have to worry about is making sure that the inboard clamp is right over the shock strut so that you don't get any interference with the LRV structure when you turn the wheels.
137:23:37 Cernan Yes, that's the type of thing I was going to ask about, some of those subtle points. There - there really should be quite aways - Well, I'll look at it - but almost vertical over the hub. Right?
137:23:47 CC Yes, on the inboard one. On the inboard one. On the outboard one, if you put it a little further back aft on the wheel, it - it allows you to - it allows you to give your paper fender a little more rigidity.
137:24:10 Cernan And you just say lay them over the guide rails, so the clamps - put the clamps - so the clamps are also over the guide rails. They're not trying in linw that - the makeshift fender in the guide rails itself, huh?
137:24:27 CC No, it - Just clamp the thing right to the rails. Just allow a little overlap, and clamp that rascal right down. And I know you can tighten those clamps down so good it'll never get loose. I know - I know you can do it if I can do it.
137:24:46 Cernan Okay, John. I think I know what you're talking about, and I'd sure like to give it a stab. The only hooker is I hope that tape holds the fenders together well enough - -
137:24:59 CC Yes, they - -
137:24:59 Cernan - - the pieces together well enough.
137:25:02 CC Roger. One of the things - when you're taping the - the pages together that you want to be careful of is that you - is that you make sure and get the air bubbles out so when you get in a vacuum, it doesn't open up by itself. And maybe you can put an X across there to - to make sure that you - if you get any separation - that's it's still held together pretty good. We think the tape will work - -
137:25:31 Cernan Okay.
137:25:34 CC - - think the tape will work because back about in 13, we were using it just sort of incidentally in the thermal vacuum chamber, and it worked okay there for some reason.
137:25:48 Cernan It would seem to stick on the surface okay if I could find a dust-free spot when I put that other fender on earlier.
137:25:56 CC Yes, I agreed.
137:25:59 Cernan As far as - as far as how much of the new fender to overlap on the present fender, just make it about symmetrical with the other side, and that probably ought to give me plenty of overlap, huh?
137:26:11 CC Well, if you - are you talking about over the dovetail part of it, or are you talking about off the aft end of the - of the vehicle?
137:26:25 Cernan I'm talking about - about the present fender that's on there, the aft end of that fender. About how much overlap do you want with this makeshift fender? Just give me an idea. I think I could figure out when I get there, but I'd rather have your feelings before I do.
137:26:43 CC We think if you get it out about 4 inches past that fender - You understand what this looks like when you get it put on the fender. It just looks like sort of a roll, and you end up with a sort of a straight fender right at the back end of the - of the - of the Rover - a sort of a straight - about half a pipe straight out there. And, if you get it out 4 or 5 inches, that will keep the dust from coming back over the vehicle.
137:27:20 Cernan Yes, that's the answer I wanted. That would be about 4 or 5 inches grace.
137:27:24 CC Yes, it's just sort of like a - a horizontal fender, like on a - a old automobile.
137:27:36 Schmitt I thought I understood what he was talking about. ...
137:27:41 CC Say again, Geno.
137:27:48 Schmitt Hey, John. This is Jack. Did you say pipe there a minute ago? P-i-p-e?
137:27:56 CC Yes, but it doesn't roll up into a circle; it's sort of a - a hemisphere. I mean it's half of one.
137:28:07 Schmitt Oh, okay, I thought I was reading you until you said pipe, and then you lost me. Okay, I think I understand, too.
137:28:13 CC You know the problem I have with communications.
137:28:21 Schmitt Hey, thank you, babe. We'll give it a try. I think we can get something to work.
137:28:27 CC Okay. And we can watch you on the tube - and make recommendations if - I think you've got the idea of it. And, you know Terry Neil thought of these AOT clamps, and that's a great idea because you can - you can clamp those things - on that - that old dog tail, you can put a force on there, that - those pages - that chronopaque pages will never get loose.
137:28:58 Cernan Yes, on those other clamps we had, I was thinking about - paper clip type clamps would never hack it.
137:29:06 CC We tried that - they just don't have - they don't have the push.
137:29:13 Cernan Sounds good, babe; appreciate it.
137:29:20 CC Okay. We've got a detailed procedure here if you're - if you want to copy it; just in case.
137:29:34 Cernan Yes. Stand by 1, though.
137:29:36 CC Okay.
137:29:42 Cernan Hey, you know, after thinking and looking at the map last night, and recalling what I saw during landing and where I was planning on putting it down and everything, I still think, to the best of my knowledge, that we are about 1 or 2 o'clock, and I'll increase up to about 200 meters or so west and slightly north of Poppy.
137:30:14 CC Okay, Geno.
137:30:36 Cernan ... ahead of you ...
137:30:45 Cernan Hey, Gordie, the thing that fooled me yesterday is this depression out at - out at 9 o'clock here, which I - is greatly undersized for Trident, really isn't Trident, and I said yesterday, I didn't think how we could be that close. Well, we really aren't Trident is way out there, and I'll still hold to my 200 meters at 1 to 2 o'clock of Poppy.
137:31:09 CC Okay. We're thinking you might have, on the way to the geology stops, driven between a couple of the Trident craters then.
137:31:31 Cernan Yes, we may have coming back - I think I went all the way around to the east of the last one going out, though.
137:31:40 CC Okay.
137:31:57 Cernan If you had asked me at 3 or 4 thousand feet where we were going to land, I could have told you exactly. But, once you decide where it's going to be, then you decide where in that where it's going to be if you forget everything else around you.
137:32:10 CC Roger.
137:32:47 Cernan Besides, Gordy, when you land on a boat, all you're worried about is that the boat's there. You let the captain worry about where it is.
137:32:56 CC Roger.
137:34:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 137 hours 34 minutes. America with Ron Evans is behind the Moon. We'll acquire in 40 minutes on the 25th revolution.
137:34:50 Cernan Gordy, while we're eating, have you got a short synopsis of the news?
137:34:55 CC Yes. Sure do. Stand by 1. We'd like BIOMED, LEFT, please.
137:35:17 Cernan I don't have any sensors on, Gordy.
137:35:25 CC Okay.
137:35:30 Cernan You have to wait until I start putting my suit on.
137:35:46 CC Okay. As you might have expected, front pages around the country are headlining last night's EVA with photographs taken from TV monitors shoving you and Jack going about your tasks. And, I might add, that the TV camera is really spectacular. It couldn't have been a clearer or more beautiful picture, both for fidelity and color. In other news, South Vietnam's President Thieu has suggested that all prisoners of war be released before Christmas. He has also asked that all Vietnamese parties be included in peace negotiations. South Vietnam and the Viet Cong are now not directly represented in the secret talks now under way in Paris. Meanwhile, Kissinger met for more than 4 hours yesterday with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho. The two negotiators are expected to meet again this afternoon. The former President, Harry Truman, is still resting quietly, although his condition remains serious according to his doctors. American poet Mark van Doren died at the age of 78 - He was a professor of literature at Columbia and a winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. President Nixon announced yesterday that he wants to extend wage price controls beyond the scheduled April 30 expiration date. He also plans to freeze new hiring, promotions, and pay increases for executives of the Federal Government, which doesn't affect us, I guess. The Republican National Committee has a new chairman.
137:37:30 Cernan How about me?
137:37:31 CC George Bush of Houston, who is now Ambassador to the United Nations. He will continue his UN post through the present session of the General Assembly. Both national political parties are now headed by Texans. As you recall, Robert Strauss of Dallas became Chairman of the Democratic National Committee last Saturday. And Jack, I'm sorry to say but you've been replaced. The Nimbus 5 weather satellite is now operating after its launch from Vandenberg early Monday morning.
137:38:08 Schmitt Can it talk?
137:38:13 CC Joe Namath tried mightily to lead the Jets to the play-offs, but the Oakland Raiders grounded the Jets in the fourth quarter, 24 to 16. I think you have already heard that score. Namath passed some more than 400 yards, but he was only able - New York only scored one touchdown. And the last item concerns the Houston weather, which has been - there's been two kinds of weather since you all left us: That's cold and light rain and cold and heavy rain, and it's still doing it. Fog and drizzly rain are here now, and we're only supposed to get up to the mid-40s and probably down to 32 tonight. Over.
137:39:08 Schmitt Holy Smoly. That doesn't sound too good on the weather. I'm going to take a look, right here up the overhead window.
137:39:54 Schmitt Gordy, you're right. There's a band of clouds that comes right up the coast of Mexico. Looks like it comes ... Old Mexico and then gets very dense as it comes up into the Texas area and southeastern part of the United States with a - with a counterclockwise rotation which gets very dense down over the Atlantic, I believe, off the east coast - southern east coastal states and from about, oh, I'm guessing, maybe the center of Texas straight north, straight east. It looks like the whole country's cloudy.
137:40:36 CC Roger.
137:40:44 Schmitt Baja looks nice; west coast of Mexico looks nice.
137:40:48 CC Roger.
137:40:54 Schmitt At Taurus Littrow, the weather's great.
137:44:03 Schmitt Hey, Houston; Challenger.
137:44:06 CC Go ahead.
137:44:12 Schmitt Roger, Gordy. How's the ALSEP doing and in that light I hope you people will take as close a look as you can at the signal strength and its variation and see if you get some idea whether, when I go after the neutron flux tomorrow, if I ought to work on that antenna alignment again. I'm still a little bit concerned about it.
137:44:38 CC Okay, Jack. We'll consider that, although they've been getting good performance out of the central station, as I understand, and a couple of problems with the experiments. One was the LEAM data isn't syncing up like it should. I'll have to get a further, more complete story on that. And we're thinking that's - -
137:45:06 Schmitt I told you.
137:45:06 CC - mostly a ground software problem. The other one is the LSG isn't leveling up properly, and we'll cover this further in the pre - the planning briefing for the EVA here, but we're probably going to let you off - I mean have Geno let Jack off at the Rover - I mean at the ALSEP. Let him off the Rover at the ALSEP and take another look at the leveling on the LSG. That'll be at the end of the EVA.
137:45:48 Schmitt Roger. I may just run out there and let Gene pick me up after we - after I turn - well - while he fixes the fender maybe - We'll work that out, Gordy. I'm joking, but maybe I could go kick the LEAM - that might help it.
137:46:06 CC Let's make sure we've got all our problems solved down here before you do that.
137:46:14 Schmitt Okay, hey, Family Mountain, the northeast facing slopes, although lower has boulders and outcrops. I mean, belay the outcrop. It has boulders from local block concentrations. Looks very much like the South Massif does.
137:46:38 CC Roger
137:47:32 Cernan ... the old sinuses ...
137:48:31 Cernan I've about had it, I think.
137:48:37 Schmitt ... chocolates?
137:48:40 Cernan Huh? No, I've had two.
137:48:42 Schmitt Oh. ...
137:49:47 Cernan Hey, Gordo, we're still eating, but let me give you a few observations. That outcrop I talked about that was way at the top of the South Massif at the break in slope - at the very top of the break in slope - almost looks - it's hard to tell that it's inplace outcrop up there. It's hard to convince myself that it is. Looks like there's some very large and many, many small fragments of large - like 3 and 4-meter rocks up there and a lot of smaller fragments. I've seen that type of of thing in a number of places over the South Massif. However, I - do see - they also, they all seem to be sitting on top of the South Massif surface, but I do see one other area that it looks like there is a - it is protruding from within some sort of mantle on the South Massif. So conceivably some of that could be a place [?]. An additional impression I got is - is that at least with the monocular, that those fragments - those boulders look much more angular than what we've seen here. And, for the most part, they appear to be - if covered at all - very little by any mantle except the one I just mentioned.
137:51:19 CC Okay. Copy that.
137:51:24 Schmitt And, Gordy, through the monocular, they - in contrast to the tan gray of the South Massif, those large blocks up there look blue - very distinctly blue-gray. Not unlike Gene mentioned yesterday, anorthosite - anorthosites look in certain terrestrial environments.
137:51:49 CC Roger, Jack.
137:51:53 Cernan And, Gordy, now that I get my - my three-dimensional eyeballs working, I can look up on the scarp - out to 9 and 10 o'clock. It's practically the same color as the South Massif. It just looks to be very undulating. I see no outcrops evidenced from here in the scarp. I think I can just about see where Hole-in-the-Wall is, but it's so subtle that I can't really tell you much about it. And the local terrain, which I think is the southern rim of Camelot, just about blanks out where Hole-in-the-Wall should be - just about covers it up. But what I can see in a small little saddle to our local horizon here in front of us - I can see out there just about - oh, I'd say a 100 meters or so to the south of Hole-in-the-Wall and it just looks like a subtle undulating slope. We can't really tell too much the steepness from here.
137:52:56 CC Okay, Geno, we're - Stand by 1.
137:53:06 CC Okay. I had something for you, but we just decided to cancel the call. Although, when you do get out the prep and post card, I have one write in for you so just holler when you're - when it's handy.
137:53:24 Cernan Okay.
137:54:03 Cernan We're wrapping up our eating and drinking, here now, Gordy. We'll be ready to go in a minute.
137:54:12 CC Okay.
137:55:06 PAO This is Apollo Control, at 137 hours 55 minutes. The crew of Challenger is 1 hour behind their timeline. This is a hold over from EVA 1. We will continue to run this hour behind so unless, we get further behind during the EVA preparations, we would anticipate EVA 2 to begin around 140 hours 10 minutes elapsed time, versus the 139 hours 10 minutes in the flight plan. 140:10 would be a few minutes past 5:00PM Central Time. America is still out of range. We expect acquisition in 18 minutes.
137:57:19 Schmitt Gordy, Challenger. Could you ask somebody there in the FAO console to - where the hiking kit is - is stowed?
137:57:31 CC Okay. Will do.
138:00:00 CC Jack, take a look on the right-hand side stowage compartment there, on the forward lower corner under the LEC kit compartment.
138:00:29 Schmitt Gordy, you broke - broke up with the changeover or something. Say again.
138:00:58 CC Okay, Jack. You're right. I got caught right in the middle of a site handover. Look on the right-hand side stowage compartment, the forward lower corner, under the LEC kit compartment.
138:01:15 Schmitt Fantastic. You picked the one place I'd never look.
138:05:58 Schmitt Houston, Challenger.
138:06:00 CC Go ahead.
138:06:04 Schmitt One quick thought about the gravimeter. And. I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I'll say it. During the CF squared we asked about that bundle of wires that has contact with the gimbal - and when I deployed it, that bundle was - it still had contact with the gimbal and everybody at the CF squared said that was okay. But, you might think about it. I don't know what I could do to help if that is the problem. But that might be causing the problem here that it wouldn't cause on Earth.
138:06:39 CC Okay, Jack. I'll make sure the experts hear that.
138:06:58 Cernan Gordie, everthing okay at home today?
138:07:04 CC Yes, everything is fine here.
138:07:11 Cernan Well, thank you.
138:07:17 CC I'm not sure I copy your question precisely. Haven't talked to - to your home today, at all.
138:07:30 Cernan Okay. Don't - don't worry about it. I just thought you might have heard.
138:09:35 Cernan Well, if you hear, Gordie, just tell them they're missed.
138:09:40 CC Okay; I'll sure do that.
138:09:50 Schmitt Gordie, has anybody heard from Tucson recently?
138:09:55 CC Check on that, Jack. Just a minute.
138:10:37 Schmitt And, Gordie, if you have any updates to the EVA-2 checklist, give me a yell.
138:10:47 CC Okay. The update I do have - I think the EVA checklist changes we'll just call you real-time. But, I do have one for the prep card.
138:11:06 Schmitt Go ahead.
138:11:07 CC Okay. On the front side there, middle column, lower half at 138:45 OPS CONNECT, half-way down, it says install PURGE valve in PGA, red to red. Mark that LMP serial number 211; CDR, 208. This is to maximize the OPS operation, should you have to use it.
138:11:43 Schmitt Okay. Give me the numbers again, please.
138:11:45 CC LMP, 211; CDR, 208.
138:11:56 Schmitt I take it those are serial numbers.
138:11:58 CC That's right, the serial numbers on the purge valve.
138:13:05 CC Okay, Challenger. This is Houston. Would you like to have a little update on the EVA plans?
138:13:14 Schmitt Do you want me to take notes?
138:13:17 CC No, I don't think there are essentially any notes required. I'll make a few real-time callups to you; but, I don't think there's anything you really have to write down.
138:13:29 PAO Bob Parker is CAPCOM now.
138:13:32 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I - I realize that things were getting a little hectic yesterday. But, if we end up making any changes where I don't need to get a charge in my hands - that's an awfully good thing to call, because not only does it tire your heart - your hands out holding it, but it means you don't get as many pictures or Rover samples or anything else.
138:13:57 CC Roger. You guys are just ahead of us there. We were trying to get that up to you. Okay. No, I don't think there is anything here that really needs to be written down. I'll go through with you first, and we can talk about details and writing in, if you want to on any of them. But, I don't think there is anything that really needs to be written in. The EVA - it is going to be essentially nominal, with two minor exceptions. One is the - we've allowed about 5 minutes extra at the LM before leaving for the Rover fender fix; and, John, we'll be talking to you about that in a minute. And the second big change, is that we're also extend - allowing 5 more minutes at the end of the EVA so that we can have extra time for dusting. And I suspect that if the Rover fender fix works and we aren't getting as dirty as we did last night, then we may gain back that 5 minutes. We're also allowed - well, what we've done is we've taken the time here out of some of the tasks at Station 3 and Station 4. And along with the fact that we think you're a little bit farther east than planned - and we're allowing 4 minutes additional driving time. But again, that's all real-time, and. if we're doing well on time, we can reinstitute all those tasks, and get rid of the 5 minutes that we are allowing here, there, or elsewhere. So that's just sort of to keep in your thinking.
138:15:24 CC There is a possibility that we'll have some additional overhead at each stop, depending on what the Rover battery temperatures are when you get out this morning. If the Rover - if they're high again, then we'll have to probably park at least on some of the stops, if not all - with the up-Sun heading and dusting the battery covers and then opening them to let them cool. But, again, that will depend upon what we find on the Rover batteries when we get out this morning.
138:15:52 CC The variations that we found on the surface of the South Massif indicating a possibility of layering - I guess you saw those mostly with the monocular - and the observation of boulder tracks and the size of the Massif emphasizes the importance of sampling boulders that can be traced to sources at various elevations of the Massif. And I guess we should say that's hopefully. And we'll just have to see what happens when we get down to Station 2 on that. But, if we see boulders with tracks, I'm sure you guys remember, that they obviously will have a higher priority. Since we didn't get to Emory, and since we didn't really get to the rim of Steno itself, the question of sampling of the actual subfloor is still somewhat ambiguous although there is a large consensus opinion that says that we sampled the subfloor when we sampled that intermediate Gabbro that we sampled yesterday at both the ALSEP and Station 1. The - here is a possible alternative conclusion which says that the subfloor has not been sampled, but that these blocks that we sampled and the surface are both parts of a later flow. And, in that line, we're still looking for specific observations which will help us distinguish between whether or not the dark mantle is a - whether the dark mantle is a separate unit from the intermediate gabbro that we're seeing or, whether it's the - Stand by.
138:17:35 CC Okay. Whether or not the dark mantle is an entirely separate unit from the intermediate gabbro you were sampling yesterday or whether it just represents the top of very well churned up layer of a flow that was later than the subfloor - if you see what I'm saying there. All this says is that we're very interested, of course now - -
138:17:54 Cernan Roger, Bob.
138:17:56 CC - All this says that, we're very much more interested in Station 5, as you might expect, than we were before. And I guess, for this reason, we'll be trying to keep the timeline a little tighter than usual to guarantee that we've got some time left over at Station 5. And, we're also interested in moving perhaps - in perhaps moving Station 5 from its present location there in the southwest of Camelot over to the southeast or east or some location where we have a feeling that we've got big boulders up on the rim. This would be so we could sample, hopefully, some of the light material and some of the boulders together and get a better confirmation that the materials from deep in the subfloor unit is this intermediate gabbro, as opposed to just material from the upper part of the subfloor. It's just a matter of proving to ourselves whether or not the boulders we sampled yesterday are from deep within the subfloor, or only at the surface of the subfloor; or, perhaps, as I said, the other alternative being that the intermediate gabbro is part of the dark mantle, and we're seeing a churned-up regolith on top of it - sort of being the gaseous upper part of the flow having been broken down rather rapidly into the dark mantle. Okay, stand by a minute.
138:19:15 CC Okay. To summarize that again, reading - I guess I got ahead of myself here in the little deal they wrote up. At the present time we have two working hypotheses for the dark mantle, the gabbro - and the gabbro relationships to each other. One: the crystalline rocks that we found in the gabbro are an upper unit of the subfloor with their dark mantle cover unrelated to them in time. Key observations that they suggest here, are stratigraphy at Camelot, Station 5, and other steep craters. Especially, perhaps, the trench and sheltered spots which are unguarded - ungardened, as in plowed - for an older regolith underneath the dark mantle, if such a thing could be found. We don't think we found that yesterday. Or, look at the superposition relations between dark mantles and boulders or, the mantles - instances of the mantle on the boulders or, inversely, of small boulders on the mantle.
138:20:07 CC The second working hypothesis is that - is that the dark mantle is regolith derived from a vitreous, vesicular, flow tops of the crystalline rock flow beneath. And, it again goes to say that perhaps the re - gabbro that we sampled yesterday was indeed the late flow; and what the regolith was, was derived from the vitreous, vesicular flow tops as it were. Again, many of the same observations are called for. In particular, they'd be interested then in looking at the coarser fines as they define as from a millimeter to 20 millimeters, for some sort of transitional lithologies and textures. In other words, what do the small walnut-size rocks look like, if you can in hand specimens? If I can get more specific in terms of EVA mechanics, let me say that we'll call out in real-time the deletion of the tasks at Stations 3 and 4, if they become necessary. And what we're planning on doing is, deleting the trench in the base of the scarp at Station 3, and also, deleting the radial sample of the - on Shorty at Station 4. That's provisionally what we're planning on. And depending on how the time is going, we'll call that out real-time. We also have - The experiments remain pretty much the same: We'll deploy the charges at the same locations as we're planning in the checklist at the present time. We also don't - for your planning further ahead, we don't anticipate any significant changes in EVA-3. The charge number 5, which we were going to deploy at Emory, will not - but didn't, will not be deployed during EVA-2, but we'll deploy it on EVA-3 out at Station 10. And, what we're going to do there, is when you take the 8-pounder and put it between the seats, we'll then have the 3-pounder left over, and we'd like to put that on one of the footpads in the Sun - that's probably either the minus-Z or minus-Y footpad. And, we'll leave it there in the Sun until the start of EVA-3, in which case we'll put in the Rover underneath the LMP's seat. And, thermally, that looks okay. There is a probability that we're going to play the "return to the ALSEP" game, and we're going to do this for a couple of reasons. One, we're going to go back and look at getting some more ALSEP photos. I guess Gordy says you've got that. And, that will probably be at the end of EVA - in fact, it will certainly be, if it happens, at the end of EVA-3 when you go back to get the neutron flux probe. I might also say with regard to EVA-3 that, obviously, we're more interested in Station 10 than we were before. Another "return to the ALSEP" goodie that we're looking at - if we have the consumables today when you get back from finishing Station 5 - is that the Lunar Surface Gravimeter has been unable to level itself over the night, and they sent, you know, some thousand commands trying to get it straightened out, and they say it looks as though it's not level. And, so, we'd like Jack to go back with his practiced hand-on-bubble levels and recheck that at the end of - after Station 5 today, if there's sufficient consumables. And, we've planned for Gene to just let Jack off and let him walk back to the LM, after he gets off and looks at that. And, that's about everything we have. As I say, in summary, that the big changes are going to be extra time at the beginning, taking care of the fender extension, and the probability of extra time at the end. Although we'll have to see how well the fender works and how things go. The probability of extra time at the end to allow for dusting and the time spent on those particular activities we'll probably end up taken out of the tasks at Station 3 and Station 4. Over. Comments?
138:24:10 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We copy all that. Obviously, you're going to have to catch us in real-time on some of the details there - on the charges and the task deletion. One question, did you say we were going to delete the trench at Station 3?
138:24:28 CC Roger. The trench at the base of the Scarp, in other words, some of the stuff that you would be doing while Gene was taking the double core.
138:24:38 Schmitt What do you gain by that?
138:24:41 CC Well. No comment on that, Jack.
138:24:50 Schmitt If you haven't deleted Gene's tasks, then what am I supposed to do?
138:24:55 CC You're supposed to help Gene, I guess.
138:25:00 Schmitt Well, but that's not the way we worked it, Bob. Let's play that one in real-time.
138:25:04 CC Roger. That's why I said there's no point in marking up the checklist on that, Jack. Let me hit you with one more thing concerning the battery temps. An initial reaction down here is that the battery temps were high on deployment because of particularly unfavorable heat soaking on the way out. And the Marshall people are hopeful that they'll be back to normal this morning. However, we're obviously anxious, as I'm sure you are, to get an early reading on the battery temps - that's number 1. And number 2, just for the off chance that the meter's not working, I think we've pretty much discount that, because of the way the meter worked yesterday. But, on the off chance that the meter's not working, you might just lean over and see if the meter is reading zero before you punch in the circuit breakers, because that would give us at least a partial confirmation in that direction, that there's not something wrong with the offset. If they're reading - sitting there reading 30 to 40 degrees, then that probably says something about the offset. And, beyond that - -
138:26:00 Schmitt Ya, that's ...
138:26:02 CC Go ahead.
138:26:07 Cernan I'll look at that, Bob, what the meter has indicated in terms of a temperature change. I'll look and see if there's a bias on them at all.
138:26:13 CC Roger. We - we again also think that that's probably not too likely.
138:26:26 Schmitt Bob, I think, based on what I saw yesterday, that the chances are pretty good that all the big blocks out here in the dark mantle area will be pretty much the gabbros. By the way, I looked at that with a hand lens last night, and I don't know that you got the report, and I'm back to saying that it's probably closer to 30 - 40 percent plagioclase. It's very - it's a good gabbro, a final pyroxene gabbro, and it apparently has a fair amount of ilmenite in it. There's some bright shiny flakes within the vugs and some dark minerals in the matrix that are probably ilmenite. And one other additional possibility then, is that the mantling we're seeing here, is the - is just dark fine glass - darker than usual, because of the iron and the titanium in the rock itself. Also, the probability, I think, still has to be considered, that you're dealing with a true mantle that has been gardened enough that at least where we're seeing it now, in the first few tenths of a centimeter that it is unrecognizable as a mantling unit yet. The relationship to the large boulders is, I think, one right now, of just filleting and a small amount of covering because of the local gardening process. We haven't seen any clearly mantling relationships between the dark mantle or the surface materials here and the large boulders.
138:28:18 CC Okay. Copy that. And, we'll be anxious to see what else you find out today. And one last word for your interest; the Marshall people have decided to allow us to go to 140 degrees on this EVA with the batteries, if necessary.
138:28:36 Cernan Okay.
138:28:37 CC Okay, now. John would like to talk to you about the fender fix.
138:28:44 Schmitt Okay. Hold on for 30 seconds.
138:29:23 Cernan Hey, while John's talking to me, why don't you check my biopad out. We're going left.
138:29:29 CC Okay, fine. We'll take a check, Geno. Let me ask you one question here on the - on Jack's water - on his PLSS water cell. We're showing about 3 pounds too much water in the LM system, and we're wondering if you got the AUX tanks filled up in Jack's PLSS. Two questions. Did you - were you sure to have the AUX valve open and did you see good clear water in the sight gage with no bubbles after the fill? Over.
138:30:10 Schmitt I guess we'd have to say yes to those questions, but if you've got a question on it we can go through it again. I'd rather do that than take a chance.
138:30:19 CC Let me make sure we want to do that. While we're making sure, I checked with both homefronts and Nassau Bay and Tucson are both in good shape. Geno, Tracy upstaged you for about 30 minutes last night on local TV during her own interview there and drew everybody away from watching EVA during that time. She did very well.
138:30:47 Cernan Yes, that sort of - that sort of figures. Key, Gordo, why do you say Jack's PLSS? Did you see the water drop in the LM when we charged mine?
138:30:58 CC It was the profile of the water quantity as you were filling both PLSS's, and it was the fill - during Jack's fill that looked suspicious like just maybe 3 pounds less than there should have been flow when you were filling Jack's.
138:31:19 Cernan Yes, well, you know there - it's all - it's only ... to know whether or not you've got it filled. I sure don't want to go out there and have him just have some partial water. So let's do the conservative thing.
138:31:31 CC Okay. I'll - I'll verify that. There was some drinking water going - going out at that time, too, which muddles up the data a little bit, so we're not absolutely certain on that.
138:31:46 Schmitt Okay. We weren't drinking water while we were filling the PLSS, however.
138:31:52 Cernan Okay. You come up with what you think best on that, and I going to copy John.
138:31:57 CC Okay, Geno, I don't think you need to copy this. Sort of just - ad-lib it. With your four chronopaque maps, tape two maps and allow about a 1-inch overlap to a 15-inch by 10-1/2-inch configuration. That's an estimate. And then repeat with two other maps, and then tape both the two maps - now four maps - tape them together, and you'll end up with a sheet that's about 15 inches by 19 inches, a sheet of chronopaque. And then tape both sides of it - the overlapping edges to strengthen it. And you can further strengthen it, if you tape an "X" of tape across both sides of it. And then, on the roll up, on the long axis, and secure it with a strip of tape and put it in the ETB. And on that strip of tape you secure it with - be sure and leave a tab on the end of it so you can get it off with your gloves. And then remove clamps from both the utility light units, and open the clamp jaws to max. And then tighten the mounting bracket that you've got on it so it won't be swinging around; and stow the clamps in the ETB, You got that, Gene?
138:33:38 Cernan Yes, sir.
138:33:40 CC Okay. And then - now you've got everything you need. And it's all put together and all ready to - to be fastened to the - to the Rover. And then when you get the ETB in the seat, you unroll the chronopaque sheet and you locate the front edge with the long axis fore and aft, even with - even with the axle. And you lay the edge of the sheet over the inboard guide rail and you clamp it. And you lay the other edge of the sheet over the outboard guide rail and clamp it. And, as I said, the inboard clamp must be directly over the axle to avoid interference while steering. And tighten the clamps securely, both of them. And then while you're driving around out there by yourself, it would be good if Jack could take a look at it and see if you're getting any unusual dynamics. And at Station 2, you should inspect the fender for any unusual wear that might have been caused by this mass out there on the fender, of those clamps bouncing up and down. One thing about it, doing it in a suit, Gene, you have to push in with your leg and hold - and it's sort of a two-handed job. And I'm not sure in 1/6 g if you can position the fender, the pseudofender, on there without Jack, say, holding on to the long end behind the Rover so that won't - won't fall off. It works okay in one g for one man. But I'm not sure it's not a 2-g proposition - a two-man proposition in 1/6. Over.
138:35:29 Cernan Okay. We'll take a look at it, babe.
138:35:31 CC Okay, and you really have to bear down to get those - -
138:35:34 Cernan I just - -
138:35:35 CC - - things on a dovetail there.
138:35:39 Cernan I just want to make sure of the geometry now. We want to put the - take two of those pages and put the 10-inch sides together overlapping, right?
138:35:52 CC Yes, sir.
138:35:56 Cernan Then take two more and put the 10-inch sides together overlapping, right?
138:35:59 CC That's true.
138:36:03 Cernan And then take those two pieces you've got now and put them end to end, so you've got the long - a long fender. Sounds right to me. Sound right to you?
138:36:16 CC Well, you end up with - you end up with four - you end up with all four pieces in a big rectangle. See what I'm - you see what I'm saying, you've got a 15-inch by 19-inch sheet of paper.
138:36:39 Cernan Yes, we got it - we got it, John. And I copy the overlap and everything. If you had no overlap, I guess you'd have about 16 by 20.
138:36:47 CC That's correct. But you need to overlap, and taping both sides of it gives it more strength, which you need in that situation. You just want to make sure it's not more than an inch, or you won't have enough to cover up those dovetails.
138:37:13 Cernan Okay, babe, we're going to work on it right now.
138:37:25 CC Jack and Gene, this is Gordo again. On the PLSS charge, we're recommending you hook up Jack's according to the decal. Go right ahead and - stand by 1. Okay. Go by the decal and do the full 5-minute fill on Jack's PLSS. It'll take that long to get the AUX tanks filled up, if it was indeed empty. And maybe that's something you can start and then work on the - the paper taping. Over.
138:38:07 Cernan Okay.
138:40:30 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I started - I'm on step 4 on the decal - step 5 on the decal.
138:40:37 CC Okay, Jack. John Covington advises that the sight gage is not a certain indicator that you're filled, and so we're just going to go by time to be sure, and kind of disregard the sight gage readings as a positive indication anyway.
138:41:00 Schmitt Okay, understand that from the past, and we went exactly by time before. We'll try it again here.
138:41:06 CC Okay.
138:45:40 Cernan Okay, Gordy. is that about 5 minutes?
138:45:46 CC Stand by. See if anybody timed you here. That's affirm; 5 minutes now.
138:46:40 Schmitt Okay. Step 7 is complete.
138:46:46 CC Okay. And we did not see any water flow to speak of, so it probably was full.
138:46:59 Schmitt Yes, the condensate indications here were that it was full.
138:47:04 CC Okay that's - better to be sure.
138:47:12 Schmitt No question.
138:49:38 CC Geno, this is Houston - we want to be sure to have one look at your BIOMED before you get into the suit in case something is wrong with it. And if you go right by the checklist, we'll miss that look. So when you get to a convenient point, if you can go to LEFT and have us take a look at it, we'd appreciate it.
138:50:01 Cernan Gordy, apparently you - Okay. Stand by. I called it out. I didn't give it to you. Stand by one.
138:50:27 Cernan Okay. Now it's yours.
138:50:29 CC Okay.
138:50:45 CC Okay. That looks good, Geno. You can press on with the suiting operation, there.
138:50:53 Cernan Okay.
138:51:06 Cernan Call me the little old fender maker.
138:51:11 CC Roger.
138:52:00 Cernan S-BAND VOICE going to VOICE.
138:52:04 CC Roger.
138:58:47 CC Jack, Houston. With respect to the PLSS water fill, last thing we heard you say was doing step 7. We just want to verify that you did go ahead and do step 8, which is connect the waste management system to the PLSS AUX vent for 10 seconds. Over.
138:59:04 Schmitt Yes, that was all done, Gordy. We just got sidetracked, and I didn't call you.
138:59:08 CC Okay, Thank you.
138:59:57 PAO This is Apollo Control at 138 hours 59 minutes. America is in it's 26th revolution over the Ocean of Storms now. All going well with Ron Evans. The lunar sounder experiment being performed and Ron taking a lot of pictures.
139:02:48 PAO This is Apollo Control. Bob Overmeyer is the America CAPCOM. Stu Roosa is sitting there with him. Bob Parker will be the Challenger CAPCOM for the EVA. Gordon Fullerton has stayed over a little from his shift, getting ready to leave now. John Young is at the CAPCOM console also. Chuck Lewis is the Flight Director for America. Pete Frank the Flight Director for Challenger.
139:20:08 Cernan Okay, Gordy, Jack's coming up and I'm going off the air.
139:20:16 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. LMP is suited, and - stand by. 24128. PRD is 24128.
139:20:44 Schmitt Hello, Houston. Did you copy the LMP?
139:20:50 CC Roger. Copy. 24128.
139:20:58 CC How come you guys aren't not flight direct like I am?
139:21:22 Cernan And, Bob, 17040 is Commander.
139:21:26 CC Say that again please, Geno.
139:21:32 Cernan The last two digits are 40.
139:21:36 CC Copy that.
139:21:40 Cernan 17040 --
139:21:40 CC Thank you. Thank you.
139:21:50 PAO This is Apollo Control. We estimate that Challenger's crew is about 1 hour and 20 minutes behind the Flight Plan timeline.
139:25:42 PAO This is Apollo Control. Brigadier General Tom Stafford and Colonel Charlie Duke have joined a half dozen or so other astronauts at the CAPCOM console.
139:29:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 139 hours 29 minutes. We've had loss of signal on America. As the spacecraft has gone behind the Moon on it's 26th revolution.
139:30:56 PAO This is Apollo Control at 139 hours 30 minutes. America's orbit now 69.8 by 53.4 nautical miles. We'll reacquire America in 42 minutes.
139:31:40 Schmitt Bob, how do you read the BIOMED on the LMP?
139:31:43 CC Stand by, Jack. It looks beautiful, Jack. I think that means loud and clear.
139:32:01 CC And, Challenger, have you changed your ECS LiOH can?
139:32:20 Schmitt Bob, we did not. I guess we missed that in the checklist.
139:32:24 CC Okay. That's sort of towards the end of 3-9.
139:32:59 Schmitt Bob, I guess we're not quite there yet.
139:33:05 CC Okay . Copy that.
139:39:16 Cernan Okay, Bob. The canister's changed.
139:39:18 CC Roger. We saw that. Thank you.
139:40:25 Schmitt Okay. BIOMED's LEFT.
139:40:28 CC Okay. Copy that.
139:40:30 Cernan Bob, how do you read me?
139:40:32 CC Loud and clear, Geno.
139:40:36 Cernan Okay.
139:40:36 Schmitt Bat - battery management going.
139:40:39 CC Roger.
139:40:45 Schmitt 37.2, both batteries.
139:40:48 CC Okay, Jack. Just like always.
139:40:52 Schmitt P - PCM is HIGH.
139:41:04 Cernan Is he ready for the batteries?
139:41:07 CC Stand by. We're still picking up - trying to acquire the HIGH BIT RATE.
139:41:41 CC Okay. And, Geno, we have good data from you on the Surgeon. And we have HIGH BIT RATE.
139:41:51 Cernan Well, that's good to hear. I got good data up here.
139:42:17 CC Yes, we're GO to do the battery management now, Jack. Pick up the HIGH BIT RATE.
139:42:27 Schmitt Roger.
139:42:33 CC And a thought for the day. We're not sure if there is going to be any need for the scissors outside today. And if you guys wanted to keep from picking them up off the ground and worrying about them, you might just leave them inside if you haven't packed them already.
139:42:47 Cernan Bob, you never know. We're going to take them out with us. So just make a note that we bring them back in, would you?
139:42:52 CC Okay. I'll make a little note again.
139:42:57 Schmitt Okay. Battery's complete, and your cue on the LOW BIT RATE.
139:43:04 CC Okay. You can go LOW BIT RATE again. We've looked to us too.
139:44:50 Schmitt LMP is 6 - 6l00 on the OPS.
139:44:58 CC Copy that, Jack.
139:45:03 Cernan And about 5850 on CDR.
139:45:06 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno.
139:45:13 CC And you guys got the word about which purge valves to use?
139:45:22 Schmitt That's affirm.
139:45:47 Cernan CDR's OPS is GO.
139:45:50 Schmitt LMP - LMP is GO.
139:45:52 CC Okay. Copy that. Good.
139:52:44 Schmitt Okay. Bob, the forward hatch is unlocked.
139:52:48 CC Okay. Copy that.
139:57:52 Schmitt Bob, the LMP has his OPS on. And, would you believe the PLSS?
139:58:00 CC Say again there, Jack.
139:58:06 Schmitt The LMP's PLSS is on.
139:58:09 CC Okay. Good enough. And I bet the CDR is doing his now.
139:58:17 Schmitt You're right.
140:04:26 PAO Tbis is Apollo Control at 140 hours 4 minutes.
140:04:29 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're in the top of the right-hand column.
140:04:32 CC Okay. Copy that.
140:04:35 PAO We're now estimating EVA start at 140 hours 40 minutes. 140 hours, 40 minutes. About 5:33PM Central.
140:06:26 Cernan MAX. Okay. I'm in VOX. Okay. Going to T/R. B is RECEIVE. A, T/R; B, RECEIVE. Bob, how do you read commander on VOX?
140:06:40 CC Loud and clear, Geno.
140:06:45 Cernan Okay, Jack, Won't be able to hear you.
140:06:50 Schmitt And l6, SE AUDIO, OPEN. Okay. Connect your PLSS comm. And when you get done with that, we'll go right into the comm.
140:07:06 Cernan Yes, zap me.
140:07:42 Cernan Okay. You audio closed? Okay. Your PLSS PTT to main, right, verify? PLSS mode A?
140:07:51 Schmitt A.
140:07:52 Cernan Okay. You'll get a tone, a vent flag, a press flag, and an O2 flag.
140:07:56 Schmitt Press flag, tone, vent flag.
140:07:58 Cernan Okay. Give Houston a call, and give them your - your oxygen reading.
140:08:05 Schmitt Okay, Houston. This is the LMP with 93 percent, 93 perc -
140:08:11 CC Okay, Jack. We read you loud and garbled just like last night when the antenna was stowed.
140:08:18 Schmitt Okay. And 93 percent.
140:08:21 CC Copy the 93 percent.
140:08:24 Cernan Okay, Houston. You got 93? Okay. He got that, Jack. Okay. We'll leave the antenna in. Okay. On mine, I'm going to OPEN my AUDIO, and connect to the comm, Jack.
140:08:35 Schmitt Okay.
140:09:28 Schmitt Okay, Houston. ... on ECS. Cabin pressure may be high. I picked out a little pumping in the ECS system - in the hoses.
140:09:51 CC Roger. Stand by on that.
140:09:54 CC Okay, Challenger. We're seeing it at the WATER SEPARATOR.
140:10:01 Cernan Yes, we can see that.
140:10:02 CC You can pull the WATER SEPARATOR circuit breaker - -
140:10:04 Cernan You don't have a bleed on yours. Hit your - hit your disconnect.
140:10:10 Schmitt Okay.
140:10:13 Cernan Okay. That's better.
140:10:14 Schmitt That should do her. I think we've fixed it. I had the hoses in my storage box.
140:10:24 CC Okay. Copy that.
140:10:27 Schmitt What was the press ...?
140:10:29 Cernan Let me give them. Houston, CDR is reading - 90 - 91 percent.
140:10:38 CC Okay. Copy 91.
140:10:46 Cernan Did they get that, Jack?
140:10:47 Schmitt Yes, they got it.
140:10:48 Cernan Okay. LMP comm check - okay. You did them?
140:10:53 Schmitt Yes... - -
140:10:53 Cernan Okay. You go B, and I'll go A.
140:10:55 Schmitt Okay. Going B, Houston. LMP on B.
140:11:01 Cernan Okay. And the CDR is B. I - I'm reading loud and clear. Houston, how do you read CDR?
140:11:06 CC I read you loud and clear.
140:11:10 Cernan Okay, Let's go to AR, Jack. You'll get a tone.
140:11:12 Schmitt Okay. You're loud and clear. AR.
140:11:17 Cernan Okay.
140:11:18 Schmitt I'm AR. How do you read?
140:11:19 Cernan And I - you're loud and clear. How me?
140:11:20 Schmitt And so are you.
140:11:21 Cernan Got my tones.
140:11:22 Schmitt Yes, and I got mine, too.
140:11:25 Cernan You got an O flag and a vent flag, press flag and a - -
140:11:27 Schmitt That's affirm.
140:11:29 Cernan Okay. Houston, how do you read CDR?
140:11:31 CC Loud and clear, CDR.
140:11:36 Schmitt And how do you read the LMP?
140:11:38 CC Loud and clear.
140:11:41 CC Okay. And we have - -
140:11:41 Cernan Okay, Jack, VHF B - -
140:11:42 CC - - good PLSS data for both of you.
140:11:44 Cernan - - full decrease.
140:11:45 Schmitt SQUELCH?
140:11:46 Cernan Full decrease.
140:11:48 Schmitt Yes, that's SQUELCH. VHF B SQUELCH.
140:11:51 Cernan Okay. On l6, ECS LGC [sic] PUMP, closed. Why don't you close it again.
140:11:55 Schmitt Okay, it's closed.
140:11:56 Cernan Okay. On l6, CABIN REPRESS, closed.
140:11:59 Schmitt Repress - is closed. Hit this, too.
140:12:04 Cernan Huh? Okay.
140:12:12 Cernan Okay. CABIN REPRESS, closed. SUIT FAN DELTA-P, OPEN?
140:12:16 Schmitt Delta-P is OPEN.
140:12:19 Cernan SUIT FAN 2, OPEN?
140:12:20 Schmitt 2 is OPEN.
140:12:21 Cernan Verify ECS CAUTION and O2 - and WATER SEP lights come on in about a minute. Okay. We'll watch for it.
140:12:24 Schmitt Okay.
140:12:26 Cernan SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL, EGRESS. These are verify.
140:12:29 Schmitt Okay. That's EGRESS.
140:12:30 Cernan CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS?
140:12:32 Schmitt Okay. EGRESS, yes.
140:12:34 Cernan SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO.
140:12:36 Schmitt AUTO.
140:12:36 Cernan Okay. You're OPS connect. SUIT isOL ACTUATE OVERRIDE, SUIT DISCONNECT. Disconnect your hoses. Secure about PGA. They're stowed.
140:12:43 Schmitt That's done.
140:12:44 Cernan Connect your OPS hose PGA blue blue.
140:12:47 Schmitt OBS [sic] going to PGA, and I'll turn around and let you.
140:12:51 Cernan Okay. Make sure I get that, because it's under that connector.
140:12:57 Schmitt Okay. And you ought to get - let's see, where are we here?
140:13:00 Cernan Right here.
140:13:03 Schmitt Oh, here it is, now. MASTER ALARM and ECS light; WATER SEP light.
140:13:18 Cernan Okay. It is locked, ... is on.
140:13:23 Schmitt Okay.
140:13:24 Cernan Now, you want 211, right?
140:13:27 Schmitt Roger. 211.
140:13:28 Cernan Okay. Bob, LMP is getting purge 211.
140:13:33 Schmitt And out to the side - there you go.
140:13:35 CC Okay. We copy that. Thank you.
140:13:43 Cernan Here, I'll lock it. Okay. And you are LOW and you are in and you are locked.
140:13:49 Cernan Okay. Purge valve is in. And you're vertical.
140:13:52 Schmitt Okay. You get to do the same. Okay, get my hose?
140:13:58 Cernan Water hose.
140:13:59 Schmitt Come around behind my shoulder.
140:14:02 Cernan It won't fit in there.
140:14:11 Cernan Okay, it's in there and it's locked, vented, and the dust cover is on.
140:14:19 Schmitt Okay.
140:14:21 Cernan And now, we get to put your PURGE, in 208.
140:14:24 Schmitt Make sure it's in LOW.
140:14:26 Cernan It is, and LOW, and the pin is in. Okay. And you'd like it where? Down a little bit?
140:14:34 Schmitt No. Same place just - no, let me show you.
140:14:43 Cernan Right there?
140:14:44 Schmitt Yes.
140:14:46 Cernan Okay, there. And verify it's still in LOW and locked.
140:14:57 Schmitt Okay.
140:14:57 Cernan Okay. That's good.
140:14:58 Schmitt Let's get another zap of water here.
140:15:23 Cernan If I have any more water I'll float out there.
140:15:25 Cernan (Laughter)
140:15:26 Cernan Good Navy man.
140:15:29 Schmitt Be a good place to fill with water, you'd make a nice rec site out of this valley. You could put some cabins up on the side of the massif. Nice flat bottom, no trees. Both mags up. The fishing ought to be pretty good if you stocked it.
140:15:50 Cernan Have a bear island and a family island.
140:15:52 Schmitt (Laughter)
140:15:55 Schmitt We're going to fill up the other end though, so it doesn't drain out.
140:16:00 Cernan Looks funny like that.
140:16:01 Schmitt Lock it and turn your DESCENT WATER OFF.
140:16:13 Cernan Snaps, snaps, snaps, snaps; the whole world is held together with snaps!
140:16:19 Schmitt Okay, I've got my hand lube. You can position your mikes.
140:16:22 Cernan Water is going off.
140:16:23 Schmitt Okay.
140:16:26 Schmitt Fasten your mikes now, before we turn the fans on you'd better -
140:16:30 Schmitt Well let's just look ahead; we've got helmets ready to go - big bag position you happy with.
140:16:35 Cernan Yes, more or less a little far out, but I think -
140:16:38 Schmitt Make sure you've got the plug out.
140:16:41 Cernan Okay. Plug is out. My end's red now, but that's all you can get it out.
140:16:47 Cernan Feel a little pressure in there. You might let out.
140:16:52 Schmitt Okay. And then we'll lower our protective visor and secure tool harness and self doff straps.
140:16:59 Cernan Okay, and that's ...
140:17:00 Schmitt That's already stowed. Okay. Let's start with you first. You can turn your - let me get your ... then you can get it over your head and turn your O2 - your fan on rather.
140:17:10 Cernan Okay.
140:17:18 Schmitt Okay, you ready?
140:17:24 Cernan Okay, check all that -
140:17:26 Schmitt Wait what is this right here? Okay, now let me make sure it's in front of everything.
140:17:36 Cernan Okay.
140:17:39 Schmitt The alignment is way over here.
140:17:40 Schmitt Let me -
140:17:41 Cernan That's good. Okay. That's aligned right there.
140:17:45 Schmitt Oh, boy.
140:17:48 Cernan That will never do. With that down in there. Okay. You're still clear. Starting.
140:18:06 Cernan Manischewitz.
140:18:15 Schmitt I think it's caught on the food stick. I think you ought to open it up.
140:18:19 Cernan I think you're right.
140:18:21 Cernan Okay. Get it all the way off.
140:18:24 Schmitt Okay. Now let's try it. Looks like it's going to be much better. Getting it back.
140:18:40 Schmitt Just want to make sure that thing is on.
140:18:44 Schmitt No, not happy yet. Not happy yet.
140:19:00 Schmitt Guess what now. I tell you, I got my fingers on it all the way around.
140:19:12 Cernan Okay. Okay. It's locked. It's aligned. Better put your fan on here pretty quick.
140:19:20 Cernan Okay. Fan's on.
140:19:22 Cernan Okay, let me get you dressed up back here. If that center doesn't work, you're going to keep this thing -
140:19:29 Schmitt And I'm vertical.
140:19:33 Cernan You are vertical alright. Okay. You're covered down there. You are locked. Okay - whoo! Okay?
140:19:52 Schmitt This is my turn.
140:20:01 Cernan Let's verify all these things.
140:20:04 Schmitt Okay. Go ahead.
140:20:05 Cernan Okay. Got your comm. That's you OPS, that's your inlet, that's your oxygen or your exhaust and your purge valve.
140:20:18 Schmitt Okay.
140:20:19 Cernan And your water.
140:20:19 Schmitt Okay, let me take a look at all yours. Okay. That's locked - locked, that's locked, you're vertical. That's locked. That's locked. That's locked. Okay. Get my helmet on. The main thing is to get this stuff back over here.
140:20:49 Cernan Yes.
140:20:50 Cernan Way out.
140:21:04 Schmitt Okay. Can you grab your food stick, cause that - that hung up on mine.
140:21:13 Cernan Okay.
140:21:28 Cernan Got it. You're locked.
140:21:31 Schmitt Feels good in the back?
140:21:32 Cernan Yes. And it's locked.
140:21:42 Schmitt It's hard to see with that visor on there.
140:21:48 Cernan Okay. That's latched down. You're locked again.
140:21:54 Cernan And, she's in the engaged position here, huh?
140:21:56 Schmitt That's affirm. I'm engaged.
140:22:05 Schmitt Okay. Verify, verify, verify. Circuit breaker wiped out plus EVA decals.
140:22:16 Cernan Whoo! Can you give me a little room to turn?
140:22:19 Schmitt Yep. Go ahead.
140:22:19 Cernan Okay. White, white. Leave the pump on for a minute. You want.
140:22:34 Schmitt Yes.
140:22:39 Cernan Okay; and EVA decals, all right?
140:22:42 Schmitt Okay.
140:22:43 Schmitt You want me over here?
140:22:44 Schmitt Let me turn the page. Don our EV gloves.
140:22:49 Cernan Okay. In work.
140:23:03 CC Geno, we don't see your fan on. If you've got your helmet on, you ought to have your fan on.
140:23:10 Cernan Thank you, Bob. Good call. The royal MOCR "we". Boy, grease and lunar dust really make a nice mobile graphite material.
140:24:01 Schmitt Okay. I'm locked on the right, verified. The old gauntlet's coming on. Okay, and I've got my cover on over here. Get yours?
140:24:20 Cernan Yes, I'm getting one of them anyway.
140:24:22 Schmitt I can get the other one for you.
140:24:44 Schmitt Okay. Number 2. Okay, ... many.
140:25:00 Cernan And it's on, and locked, and locked verified.
140:25:17 Schmitt I may be learning how on these, finally. Okay. Mine's on and locked. If I can get my black band on here. I think I'm learning how, Geno. Crazy. Like a trained band putter onner. Okay. I feel pretty good. Need some help?
140:25:53 Cernan No, mine's all on. I can't figure that out. Must be easier in 1/6 g.
140:25:59 Cernan (Laughter)
140:26:02 Cernan Get my gauntlet donned. And that's dirt protecting dirt.
140:26:09 Schmitt Don't throw down a gauntlet, Gene.
140:26:13 Cernan That's dirt protecting dirt. Okay. It's all on, Jack.
140:26:17 Schmitt Okay. Where did we leave off?
140:26:19 Cernan Right up here.
140:26:20 Schmitt Okay, PGA is not biting, LCG's cold, let's leave it cold.
140:26:24 Cernan Well, I guess you've got to open it now. We've got to disconnect the water.
140:26:27 Schmitt You ready?
140:26:29 Cernan Yes.
140:26:30 Schmitt Let's do it then. (Laughter)
140:26:35 Schmitt Okay. It's disconnected.
140:26:36 Cernan Okay, and did you disconnect your -
140:26:38 Schmitt Let me come around - okay, let's turn around and let's help each other. Let's get the -
140:26:43 Cernan It's still 3 degrees. Pitch up 5 degrees.
140:26:47 Schmitt Pitch up yours - its an awful nuisance, Cernan.
140:26:49 Cernan Hold that for a minute.
140:26:50 Schmitt I don't know why you don't learn how to land one of these things.
140:26:54 Cernan Hold that for a minute - it was a pitching deck. Okay, that is in. Boy, it's in. Locked - took a lot to "in" it, though.
140:27:11 Schmitt Okay. Dust cover is covering it.
140:27:15 Cernan Okay. You know those chamber runs we had were probably some of the best training we ever did. I hate to say that, because it was some work. Push that thing on. There you go. Good. Keep trying. It was just a little sluggish. Let me verify it.
140:27:47 Schmitt Lock?
140:27:51 Cernan Yes, won't turn.
140:27:52 Cernan Oh, every time you do that, my stomach gurgles. (Laughter) Okay, let me turn around to stow.
140:28:01 Schmitt You can stow that? And mine's over here.
140:28:08 Cernan Okay. Okay. Attach our PLSS water hoses. PLSS diverter valve, MIN. Want to verify that?
140:28:21 PAO We estimate the crew may be ready for depressurization in approximately 5 minutes.
140:28:28 Schmitt And, connect PLSS water hose, verify lock, PLSS diverter valve MIN, and PLSS pump. Okay?
140:28:37 Cernan Wait a minute. I want to make sure this is out of the way when I come in.
140:29:04 Schmitt Okay. Watch my diverter MIN.
140:29:08 Cernan Watch your diverter -
140:29:10 Cernan It's MIN.
140:29:10 Schmitt It's MIN? Your pump's on and PRESS REGs A and B egress.
140:29:16 Cernan Okay. Pump's on.
140:29:20 Schmitt Man, I'm getting a little bite ...
140:29:21 Cernan Okay. The next thing is to turn your PLSS O2 on, anyway.
140:29:25 Schmitt Oh, okay.
140:29:26 Cernan Then we go to egress.
140:29:28 Schmitt Egress.
140:29:29 Cernan Egress on the REGs.
140:29:30 Schmitt The REGs are egress.
140:29:31 Cernan Okay. You ready on my mark.
140:29:33 Schmitt Wait a minute.
140:29:34 Cernan Tell me when you're ready.
140:29:35 Schmitt Find it.
140:29:43 Cernan Say when.
140:29:43 Schmitt Well, where is it? ... Okay, let's go aft.
140:29:51 Cernan Okay mark it. Get it?
140:29:55 Cernan If not, I'll get it for you.
140:29:58 Schmitt No.
140:29:59 Cernan Here. Let me get it for you.
140:30:00 Cernan Wait a minute. I didn't get it. No, there it is.
140:30:01 Schmitt Okay, I've got it.
140:30:03 Cernan Okay. We going at the same time I've got us marked.
140:30:06 Cernan Okay. PLSS O2, tone on; O2 flag. PLSS flag clear 3.1 to 4 - 3.4. CUFF gauge 3.7 to 4.0.
140:30:17 Schmitt Do you need me to watch the panel or you got it?
140:30:19 Cernan No, no sweat I've got that.
140:30:21 Schmitt Okay.
140:30:22 Cernan We'll have to get the PLSS O2 OFF. I'll get mine; I can reach yours real easy. I can get it in a minute. As soon as we get up I'll get it. Yes, I can reach it, I think, now. And we're going up to HIGH PRESSURE here when we start dumping the cabin.
140:30:48 PAO The EVA clock will start when the cabin pressure reaches three and a half pounds.
140:31:07 Cernan I've gone through 3.5 now - 3.4 really.
140:31:11 Schmitt Just off the peg here. My press flag didn't clear.
140:31:18 Cernan There's mine.
140:31:19 PAO Crew is checking suit pressurization. They have not yet started depressing the cabin.
140:31:25 Schmitt Turn mine off. Okay. Mark it. It's off.
140:31:34 Schmitt Where are you?
140:31:36 Cernan At 385.
140:31:37 Schmitt Okay, when you get up, you can turn yours off. Give me a hand, and I'll check the time.
140:31:41 Cernan Okay. Mine's off.
140:31:42 Schmitt Okay. Check your pressure.
140:31:44 Cernan 38. I went at 20, you went at 30.
140:32:00 Schmitt It looks like it's a little tighter.
140:32:03 Cernan That was the suit loop we were checking yesterday up in orbit, though.
140:32:07 Schmitt Yes, but you know we got two tenths.
140:32:10 Schmitt Yesterday, too, I did.
140:32:12 Cernan Okay, I'm coming down 20 more seconds, you got 30 more seconds.
140:32:17 Cernan I'm over about a tenth I guess.
140:32:31 Cernan Okay; 1 minute for me Houston; 8.5 to 7 - about 7.2.
140:32:39 CC Copy that, Geno.
140:32:40 Cernan Okay. That it?
140:32:41 Cernan Okay. Mark yours.
140:32:43 Schmitt Okay, And the LMP was 8 - .8 to .7.
140:32:51 CC Okay. Copy that,
140:32:52 Cernan And I'm back on. Okay, and we'd like your GO, Robert.
140:32:58 CC ... You're, you're GO for DEPRESS.
140:33:03 Cernan Okay. Jack, 16 CABIN REPRESS, OPEN and CABIN REPRESS valve, CLOSED.
140:33:09 Schmitt Okay, CABIN REPRESS. Circuit breaker first. Circuit breaker first. CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
140:33:15 Schmitt Okay. Might turn around here. Okay, it's open.
140:33:19 Schmitt Okay. And REPRESS valve closed.
140:33:22 Cernan Okay. It's going closed. And stay over there as far as you can, cause I got to get the overhead dump valve.
140:33:28 Schmitt Okay, I'm over as far as I can get. I can turn around and give you more room.
140:33:31 Cernan Yeah, turn around and you'll have to look at the CABIN.
140:33:34 Schmitt Watch yourself there. You went awful weak all of a sudden. Are you - Hello. How do you read?
140:33:41 Cernan Very weak. You better call again.
140:33:42 Schmitt Very weak?
140:33:43 Cernan Okay. My volume got tang -
140:33:44 Schmitt You got to hit your volume.
140:33:46 Cernan Okay, now.
140:33:48 Schmitt Let me get over here -
140:33:49 Cernan Wait a minute.
140:33:51 Cernan Is that enough?
140:33:51 Schmitt Yeah, your arm's in the way.
140:33:54 Cernan Okay. I can get at it now.
140:33:57 Schmitt Okay. You want to go to - you want to get that - OPEN and AUTO at 3.5. Okay, go ahead.
140:34:06 Cernan Okay. Coming down. I can see it open. There it is. That's 5, 4 1/2, 4, stand by.
140:34:20 Cernan Mark it.
140:34:22 Cernan It's off, say about 3.4. And, I go.
140:34:27 Schmitt Watch. Look at our watch. Okay?
140:34:31 Cernan And my cuff gage went up to 5 - 5.0. Good. Suit circuit's at 4.6. That's okay. And I'm decaying.
140:34:53 Cernan Are you decaying?
140:34:54 Schmitt I'm decaying.
140:34:55 Cernan Okay. We can start our watch.
140:34:59 Cernan Okay. My watch is started at 5:30, more or less.
140:35:07 Schmitt At 5:30. Yes sir. Okay. ...
140:35:11 Cernan Okay. OVERHEAD FORWARD DUMP valve, OPEN.
140:35:13 Schmitt Okay, baby!
140:35:16 Schmitt It's open all the way.
140:35:17 Cernan Okay, and pressure's coming down.
140:35:19 Schmitt Okay. I believe it.
140:35:20 Cernan I get a tone and an H2O flag, and you should pop your RELIEF, I think.
140:35:25 PAO Clock started at 140:34:49.
140:35:27 Schmitt Yes, I'm at my relief pressure now.
140:35:40 Cernan What's CABIN now?
140:35:41 Schmitt Cabin is one - a little 1.2. One.
140:36:01 Cernan I'll see if I can freshly get this hatch open.
140:36:03 Schmitt That's 0.7 still.
140:36:04 Cernan Okay.
140:36:11 Schmitt 0.5. 0.3. You got it at what - about 0.2 yesterday?
140:36:32 Cernan Why don't you move over as far to the right as you can - -
140:36:34 Schmitt Okay.
140:36:34 Cernan - - So I can bend down.
140:36:37 Schmitt Well, I think that's - -
140:36:39 Cernan Okay.
140:36:40 Schmitt That's good. I can reach it.
140:36:44 Cernan No, too much pressure on it yet.
140:36:46 Schmitt Okay. About 0.3.
140:37:04 Schmitt Okay. There's my H2O full - flag.
140:37:09 Cernan Flag.
140:37:09 Schmitt Well, in that case, let me see if I can't get the - Oh, man. No.
140:37:16 Cernan No.
140:37:17 Schmitt It's unlocked, huh?
140:37:18 Cernan Yes, I unlocked it earlier.
140:37:22 Schmitt 0.2.
140:37:28 Cernan It's unlocked. It's on again.
140:37:39 PAO America is over the landing site now.
140:37:44 Cernan Here it comes.
140:37:46 Schmitt There goes all the junk out there again. Guess that's ice.
140:37:54 Cernan Yes.
140:37:54 Schmitt Okay.
140:37:56 Cernan Probably cleaned some of the dust out, I hope.
140:37:58 Schmitt Yes, there goes a lot of junk.
140:38:01 Cernan Sure wish it would clean the dust out. But it isn't. It's cleaning everything else out.
140:38:03 Schmitt Okay, Geno. We turn our PLSS water on.
140:38:08 Cernan Okay.
140:38:10 Schmitt We can get to it.
140:38:17 Schmitt Feels like a water valve.
140:38:20 Cernan Okay. Mine's on.
140:38:23 Schmitt LMP's water's on.
140:38:26 Cernan Okay. Whew.
140:38:30 Schmitt Okay.
140:38:35 Cernan Open -
140:38:36 Schmitt We're right there.
140:38:37 Cernan What? My water flag is clear.
140:38:41 Schmitt That just means you've got feedwater pressure.
140:38:44 Cernan Okay. Open hatch. Rest until cooling sufficient; verify PGA 3.7 to 4.6. Now mine's coming through 4.8; let me stand there a second. CB status PREAMPS and ECS.
140:38:56 Schmitt Roger.
140:38:57 Cernan Water SEP component light ON?
140:38:58 Schmitt Roger.
140:38:59 Cernan Okay.
140:39:01 Schmitt I mean affirm. Get my terminology straight here.
140:39:06 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm going to start doing about a 90 here.
140:39:13 Schmitt Okay. Let me - I need to turn around as soon as you do so I can help you get under that -
140:39:37 Schmitt That's better.
140:39:37 Cernan Okay; I knocked it off. Okay. I'm out of the way now, if you can move your left leg. Okay, I got an O2 FLAG. And it's cleared. The pressure is 4.6. Okay, Houston. If you're happy - CDR is going to get out.
140:40:01 CC Roger. We're happy, Geno.
140:40:06 Cernan Okay. ...
140:40:17 Schmitt Okay. Hatch is full open.
140:40:19 Cernan Okay.
140:40:21 Schmitt And you're still - your scraping your - just a little bit. Just get your buttons down there. That's good. Okay. Oh, hey, remind me to fix your -
140:40:35 Cernan Foot straps.
140:40:37 Schmitt Your - your donning straps.
140:40:39 Cernan Okay. That is ice, by the way, Jack.
140:40:50 Cernan Whew, man, I tell you, with a stiff suit - still at 4.5. But, I am out here on the porch.
140:40:59 Schmitt Okay.
140:41:00 Cernan Oh, man. Okay, I'm out here.
140:41:02 Schmitt ... assisted you.
140:41:04 Schmitt Here comes the jett bag whenever you're ready.
140:41:06 Cernan Well, let me get - Okay. I'm all set. Man, I wish this suit would come down to 3.8. Here it comes. Okay, any time.
140:41:30 Cernan Give it a swat; there you go.
140:41:37 Schmitt Oh, the beauty of - ...
140:41:47 Cernan Okay; let me look at something here (laughter).
140:41:56 Schmitt What's that?
140:41:58 Cernan I was just turning my checklist pages.
140:41:59 Schmitt Oh. Here you go.
140:42:02 Cernan Okay. Jett bag. I need - What you got next; ETB?
140:42:05 Schmitt ETB.
140:42:05 Cernan Okay.
140:42:07 Schmitt Can you reach it?
140:42:07 Cernan Yes. Get it hooked up here.
140:42:14 Schmitt Okay. Turn the tape recorder off.
140:42:27 Schmitt Tape recorder's off.
140:42:31 Cernan Big hook, that's a legacy of Gemini 9.
140:42:34 Schmitt Mags.
140:42:42 Schmitt EVA decals. ETB is hanging.
140:43:05 Cernan That all I need?
140:43:07 Schmitt I think so. You hit your comm again.
140:43:13 Cernan No, I didn't; I'm okay.
140:43:15 Schmitt What happened to the static? Did we lose Houston?
140:43:17 CC We read you loud and clear.
140:43:19 Schmitt Hello, Houston. Oh, you must have switched to - Oh, I don't know.
140:43:26 Cernan Okay. I'm going down the ladder.
140:43:28 Schmitt All of a sudden, all the noise is gone; that's very good.
140:43:38 Cernan God speed the crew of Apollo 17. I think I'll read that every time I come down the ladder.
140:43:43 Schmitt Okay. All the circuit breakers are verified. Noise is back. Okay -
140:43:51 Cernan Okay. My visor's coming down; utility lights are off. We're not going to use the camera?
140:44:01 Schmitt Hey, I get to get out.
140:44:04 Cernan Okay, Houston. On this fine Tuesday evening, as I step out on the plains of Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17 is ready to go to work.
140:44:17 CC Roger, Geno. Good deal.
140:44:23 Cernan And the first thing I'll do is give you a TGE. Let me turn it on. And you want a reading. Okay. It's on. Bob, and the reading is 222, 262, 207; that's 222, 262, 207.
140:44:51 CC Roger. We copy that, Gene.
140:44:59 Cernan Looks good from here, Jack. Keep coming. Come on, hatch. Oh, what a nice day. (Laughter) Funny, there's not a cloud in the sky. Except in the Earth. Take it nice and easy today and get accustomed. Whee!
140:45:23 Schmitt Okay.
140:45:25 Cernan I'll be right there, Jack, to get the antenna, as soon as I turn the LCRU on.
140:45:30 Schmitt Okay. I'm on the ladder. Door is closed.
140:45:41 Cernan Okay, POWER switch is INTERNAL. I'm in MODE 3. LCRU blankets are open 100 percent. AGC is 4.0 plus, and power is about 1/8. Sensors are about 1/6 or 1/4.
140:46:03 CC Okay. And we have a good picture there, Geno. Thank you.
140:46:11 Cernan Already, huh?
140:46:12 CC Already.
140:46:14 Cernan Well, let me just tweak you up a little bit. Okay, I've got you tweaked, right in the middle.
140:46:19 CC Thank you. And, Gene, after you set both those - -
140:46:23 Cernan Okay.
140:46:24 CC - - battery covers - up front there, why don't you go back and give us that temperature reading and then put the breakers in and then give us another temperature reading on the batteries.
140:46:33 Cernan Yes sir, I'll do that. Jack, here, let's get the antennas.
140:46:47 Schmitt You want to get - you want to hang on the Rover?
140:46:49 Cernan I guess - well, okay.
140:46:50 Schmitt I think it's easier.
140:46:54 Cernan Now, I'm below, so get mine, now. I'm in a hole.
140:47:13 Schmitt Okay; you're up.
140:47:15 Cernan Okay,
140:47:39 Cernan ... get down there yet. Got to secure the flaps. Okay, you're all right.
140:47:48 Schmitt Okay, you're up.
140:47:48 Cernan Okay.
140:47:54 Schmitt Okay, POWER switch is going to STANDBY. And the temperature is 80. And I'll close the blankets.
140:48:05 CC Copy 80 on the SEP.
140:48:09 Schmitt That's affirm. You know what happened? The Velcro came unbonded. That's why those don't hold down. We probably ought to get a piece of tape on those. Because they've got to set and it's going to get dusty. The blankets - there's no Velcro left to hold the SEP blankets down, Bob.
140:48:37 CC Okay, I copy that, Jack.
140:48:42 Schmitt Do you have a reading on the gravimeter?
140:48:44 Cernan Yes, I took a reading, Jack.
140:48:44 Schmitt Okay.
140:48:44 CC It's measuring right now, Jack, we'll get it later.
140:48:47 Cernan All right.
140:48:50 Schmitt Okay. I hope I didn't hit it with some dust.
140:48:52 Cernan Hey, it is not regis - measuring, Bob - -
140:48:54 CC Oh, that's right. Sorry about that.
140:48:56 Cernan - - All I did was take a reading. I turned it on and took a reading.
140:48:58 CC Yes, you're right, you're right, and I'm wrong.
140:49:04 Cernan Okay, Bob.
140:49:06 Schmitt Hey, Bob.
140:49:06 Cernan The battery temperatures are 0 and 0.
140:49:10 CC Copy that. Okay.
140:49:14 Schmitt Bob, there's your pendulum [?].
140:49:18 CC Okay.
140:49:19 Schmitt It's not a very good one. I'll work on that.
140:49:22 PAO That's Jack Schmitt with the equipment transfer bag.
140:49:29 Schmitt Are you going to be there for a minute, Gene?
140:49:31 Cernan Just putting these batteries in. I'm done on this. Oh, you'll be glad to hear this. We got 70 on battery 1 and about 92 on battery 2.
140:49:39 CC Beautiful. Beautiful. 70 and 92. I copied.
140:49:45 Schmitt Yes sir.
140:49:47 Cernan Let me just verify this Jack, and I'll be all done.
140:49:51 Schmitt Okay. You've got it.
140:49:52 Cernan I'm all done.
140:49:53 Schmitt Okay. Okay, here's your old fender.
140:50:04 Cernan Yes, I'll work on that shortly.
140:50:12 Cernan Well, I think I'm going to INTERMEDIATE cooling to start with here.
140:50:19 Schmitt Okay. I think I will, too. Good idea.
140:50:21 Cernan One zap of cold to see If it's working. It's working, and back to INTERMEDIATE.
140:51:02 Schmitt Okay. lots of mags.
140:51:20 Schmitt Okay; mag.
140:51:26 Cernan I'll have the same problem with this SRC, I'll bet.
140:51:29 Schmitt Mag Romeo is going to go on the - the old 500 in a minute. Mag India is in there. Mag Kilo, Mag Juliet, Mag Bravo, Mag Delta.
140:52:19 Cernan Okay, Bob, the SRC organic sample has been sealed. And the SRC lid is staying almost closed, about 2 or 3 inches open; if that's fine, I'd like to leave that.
140:52:34 CC Okay. Go ahead and leave it, Gene. If it's not we'll get back with you on it.
140:52:37 Cernan Okay. I'm going to hit your gravimeter here.
140:52:45 Schmitt Polarizing filter - -
140:52:49 Cernan Torque it - -
140:52:49 Schmitt - - ... light clamps.
140:52:50 Cernan - - and the light is flashing.
140:52:52 CC Copy that.
140:52:56 Schmitt Scissors.
140:53:17 CC Okay, and Jack you can - ready to take care of it - Sarge, remember EP4 goes within the rover seat and EP5 we're going to put on one of the footpads in the sun probably wither the minus Z or the minus Y footpad, whichever is more convenient probably the minus Z is. Just as long as it is sitting in the sun that's the important thing on a footpad.
140:53:41 Schmitt Okay.
140:54:12 Cernan Boy, oh boy. Going to be a - Why won't that come out? Yes, Bob, I'm having a little trouble getting the LCRU battery out. I'll have to - I'll have to go back and use two hands.
140:54:46 CC Okay. That sounds like a familiar problem.
140:54:52 Cernan Well, you got any familiar answers?
140:54:58 CC Someone who's been there before says you just got to work it back and forth until it comes loose.
140:55:05 Cernan Okay. I can get that, Jack. I've got to - -
140:55:19 Schmitt ... hang it up?
140:55:20 Cernan Yes. I've got to work here anyway.
140:55:25 PAO The explosive in those charges is hexonitrostilbein or HNS. It's a pliable, semi-solid.
140:56:02 Schmitt Okay, Bob, it's on the minus-Z and the - One corner is facing directly into the Sun.
140:56:12 CC Okay; copy that.
140:56:17 Schmitt That was - that's EP-5.
140:56:19 CC Roger that. And I copy number 4 was put - was put between the seats.
140:56:27 Schmitt Yes, it's - a - yes, it's between the seat, or will be very soon.
140:56:31 Cernan Boy, this is ridiculous. Ridiculous.
140:56:38 Schmitt Whoops, I need that other track.
140:56:49 Cernan Well, it's nothing worth getting upset about it, but it sure makes you start out - But, you shouldn't have to this way.
140:56:56 Schmitt Come on, just don't wear your hands out now.
140:56:58 Cernan Yes.
140:56:59 CC Hey, Geno - Geno - -
140:57:00 Schmitt Need a little help?
140:57:00 Cernan No, I think I can do it, just got to wiggle - -
140:57:03 CC - - jiggle it gently and sort of let it come free there. It's a matter of it wedging itself in, of course, on the parallel rails.
140:57:10 Cernan Yes. I - I see what's happening, Bob. Still ridiculous.
140:57:49 CC Okay - -
140:57:50 Schmitt Bob, did you hear my comment about the - about the SEP receiver?
140:57:58 CC Roger. That the blankets won't stay closed. We're talking about that down here.
140:58:17 Cernan Boy; a bag of peanuts. Whew. Man in space. Without them we'd be lost.
140:58:31 Schmitt Without them we wouldn't have the LCRU and the MESA probably.
140:58:36 Cernan (Laughter) Manischewitz. Okay. Let me see what I can do for you while I'm here. Okay. LCRU battery under seat, dustbrush to LCRU. Okay. I'll go get that; then I'll get to work.
140:59:05 Schmitt Hey, Bob, what's my shadow length right now?
140:59:08 CC Stand by. I'll ask. We'll get it for you momentarily.
140:59:29 CC Okay, Jack. We've got 4.5 meters or 15 feet.
140:59:38 Schmitt 4.5 meters, huh? Hmm. 15 feet? is that how long I am on the ground? No wonder I've misjudged distance. Zap! Hello there, Houston.
140:59:59 CC Hello there. Okay, Jack. And do we have the new charge transporter on the pallet?
141:00:16 Schmitt I'll say yes, but you could have looked for yourself.
141:00:19 CC Well, we just looked away.
141:00:22 Cernan Yes, it's here. It's here, Bob.
141:00:24 CC Copy that. I won't ask if we got the LCRU battery. That one, I did see.
141:00:36 Schmitt Yes, we got it. You don't think I'd leave it here. Okay, 7.
141:00:58 Cernan Boy, this gate's working like a charm.
141:01:29 Schmitt Okay. Transfer from 5 to 7. Okay?
141:01:34 CC Okay and - -
141:01:35 Schmitt Okay. The pan's complete.
141:01:38 CC Okay, Jack. Copy that.
141:01:41 Schmitt And, Bob, those pans around here have more pictures because I'm having to be sure I get the massifs - I'm having to take extra pictures.
141:01:53 CC Okay. Copy that. And I guess we'd suggest that, if you haven't talked about it already, that you work on the fender before you do the geo prep. You don't have your cameras and bags to worry about at that point.
141:02:06 Cernan Okay. Would that be a good time for Jack to go to the ALSEP, do you think? Or do you think we both have to do this fender?
141:02:13 CC No. The ALSEP work - we're not going to do until the end of the EVA.
141:02:14 Cernan I heard John's words.
141:02:19 Cernan Okay.
141:02:19 CC And, Jack, if Gene's working there on unstowing SCB, whatever it is, 5 - yes, 5. Maybe when you put the camera down, you might want to shoot off a few 500-millimeter frames of the North and South Massifs, if they look interesting. I - I can't tell from the TV. That might be an opportune time to grab a couple.
141:02:40 Schmitt If they look interesting! If they look interesting! Wow what kind of thing is that to say?
141:03:00 CC Then, when Gene gets done configuring that SCB-5 , we'd like to get on with the fender fix. Then, we'll do the geo prep after that.
141:03:10 Cernan We'll get on with it, Bob.
141:03:19 PAO SCB is Sample Collection Bag.
141:03:40 Cernan My god, we got a lot of loose stuff in SCB-7.
141:03:50 Cernan Okay, Bob. I got three core tubes - well, wait a minute - only got one core cap dispenser. Let me get the other one. Okay. Well, it's all on wide. Okay; three core tubes, two 20-bag dispensers, one ca - that's one core cap dispenser, and a short can.
141:04:17 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno.
141:04:22 Cernan Jack - -
141:04:22 Schmitt Yes.
141:04:23 Cernan - - Are you ready to work? See this right here?
141:04:24 Schmitt Yes.
141:04:25 Cernan I'm going to put that right - there.
141:04:27 Schmitt Okay.
141:04:31 Schmitt Are you ready to work?
141:04:32 Cernan Just let me turn my page here. ... Stand by. Okay; I already got one on the gate. That didn't count.
141:05:06 Cernan Okay. Want a couple 20-bag dispensers?
141:05:11 Schmitt Well, I - Okay, - waiting for you to -
141:05:15 Cernan Well, let's get this done.
141:05:17 Schmitt You want to -
141:05:18 Cernan Here.
141:05:19 Schmitt Well, what are you doing now?
141:05:20 Cernan I was just getting this gear out now ... to work on the fender.
141:05:23 Schmitt Okay.
141:05:23 Cernan I'm not to geo prep yet.
141:05:25 Schmitt Okay.
141:05:26 Cernan Here you are.
141:05:27 Schmitt Wait a minute.
141:05:29 Cernan We'll just set these here.
141:05:32 Schmitt And there's another one.
141:05:41 Cernan Okay; SCB-7 goes under your seat.
141:05:46 Schmitt Okay. I'll get that. The camera has the - bags on it. You might - just put it there, and I'll come over and get those maps and everything.
141:06:03 Cernan Okay. That goes under your seat. Let me get 4 - Okay, we got 4 and 6. I'm going to start on a - We got SCB-4, goes to you, and SCB-6 goes on the gate yet Jack, but let's pick that up with geo prep, and let me get that fender gear. Where's the -
141:06:19 Schmitt It's in your seat pan.
141:06:20 Cernan In my seat pan? Okay.
141:06:23 Schmitt I should have put it over here. That was just where it ended up.
141:06:31 Cernan You already used the 500?
141:06:33 Schmitt No, I didn't get a chance to.
141:06:34 Cernan Okay. You might do it while I try the fender, and then you're here to help me in case I need it.
141:06:39 Schmitt No, it's all - all your stuff's right there, Gene.
141:06:41 Cernan Oh, okay. I see it. Well, let's hope it does the job.
141:07:32 Schmitt Okay, SCB-7's in my seat. And I put the return-to-LM map in there, too; it's just going to be in the way anywhere else.
141:07:43 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:07:52 Schmitt Let me check something, though. On the way to the Hole-in-the-Wall, we want to drive ...
141:08:04 CC ... notch.
141:08:08 Cernan Okay. Hope this thing gets stiff. It's just a flapper. Sure isn't stiff like I want it to be.
141:08:23 Schmitt You want me to hold it there?
141:08:24 Cernan Yes, you're going to have to, I reckon. But, that may do the job. Let's see, does it come over the - I want it about right above the axle - let me - move your hand a minute. Let me align it. Okay. Hold it right there. Let me get the -
141:08:39 Schmitt Okay.
141:08:40 Cernan Let me move it up just a little bit. Right there. Okay. Hold it right there. Let me see how much room I've got coming out. I want to turn this around. We can tape that other end, Jack. There you go.
141:08:56 Schmitt It's tending to fold a little bit -
141:08:57 Cernan I think - Yes, but the dust will be coming up from under us. Let's see.
141:09:03 Schmitt Temperature; I think is making it fold.
141:09:05 Cernan How, that'll give us plenty of room down there, that - Yes, I just don't want to interfere with the steering.
141:09:11 Schmitt You think - you think that'll stop the dust that way?
141:09:14 Cernan Well, it'll stop some of it if it stays on.
141:09:17 Schmitt Well, what I mean, it's not projecting outward at all. It's curling back under.
141:09:21 Cernan Well, when I - when I put a clamp here, and a clamp here, see what will happen?
141:09:25 Schmitt Oh, okay.
141:09:26 Schmitt Is that about how - where you want it?
141:09:46 Schmitt Lean against me, if you need to.
141:09:52 Cernan Trying to figure out - No, I've got to clamp it right in that rail; it's not much to clamp it on the inside.
141:09:58 Schmitt No. Keep the knob up. There, you got it.
141:10:02 Cernan Hold it right there. We got it all folded up on this side?
141:10:04 Schmitt Why don't you try the outside.
141:10:05 Cernan Let it go a minute. Okay.
141:10:07 Schmitt Okay. Why don't you try the outside, first? Fix it -
141:10:10 CC Inside first; probably be better, guys.
141:10:21 Schmitt Got enough overlap there.
141:10:22 Cernan No, I want a little more.
141:10:24 Schmitt Okay.
141:10:24 Cernan And, I am going to try this side because I can get my overlap over here.
141:10:34 PAO As you can see, it's only a paper fender, but the Moon is real.
141:10:36 Cernan Okay. Wow, hold it right there while I clamp it down.
141:10:56 Cernan Well, that paper isn't going to come off, and the clamp's not going to come off, I'll say that. I don't know how much we're going to get out of the fender but -
141:11:05 Schmitt Okay, that's fixed?
141:11:07 Cernan Yes.
141:11:09 Schmitt Can you fix that at all?
141:11:13 Cernan Yes.
141:11:14 Schmitt That ought to give us a little strengthening, stiffening.
141:11:17 Cernan Yes.
141:11:19 Schmitt Pretty tight.
141:11:21 Cernan Yes. Tighter for the road. I don't want to lose that. Man, that's tight. Now, let's see if I can get this one. Jack, why don't you come on this side and hold the fender down right there. Hold it right about there.
141:11:58 Schmitt Okay. You want to get it outboard a little more - I mean aft?
141:12:02 Cernan No, I want to keep it above this - this center - The - the hub here.
141:12:07 Schmitt Yes, Okay.
141:12:08 Cernan For steering purposes. See this - -
141:12:10 Schmitt Is that - is that fixed for the - well -
141:12:12 Cernan I'll take a look at it. I'm going to tighten it down so it stays, then I'm going to take a look at it. I might turn this thing down too.
141:12:18 Schmitt Yes. I was just going to suggest that.
141:12:27 Cernan Let me take a look before I get it too tight. Well, I'll tell you, that's going to help some.
141:12:32 Schmitt Yes. It may do the trick.
141:12:35 Cernan I can't see what's under this rail too well, but I know that clamp is on. It's on tight.
141:12:40 Schmitt Gene, it looks -
141:12:42 Cernan Let me move this -
141:12:43 Schmitt Move your left hand a little. Okay. Tighten that now.
141:12:47 Cernan Get this out of the way.
141:12:51 Schmitt Looks as if -
141:12:55 Cernan Let me loosen it, and get it a little straighter.
141:12:55 Schmitt Yes, I think you need to straighten it.
141:12:59 Cernan Well, I had it tight.
141:13:01 Schmitt Well, but you know you've got another piece in there so -
141:13:04 Cernan Yes, that's why it's crooked, it's over those pieces.
141:13:05 Schmitt Yes. Well, you might want to move it - if you could move it this way about a - an inch, you'd be past the ridge you got.
141:13:12 Cernan Well, I'm just taking John's word on the steering. I - I - -
141:13:15 Schmitt Okay.
141:13:15 Cernan - - keeping above the hub here.
141:13:16 Schmitt Okay, tighten her down then.
141:13:22 PAO The crew's using maps to make that fender. The clamps are from the optical alignment telescope lamp.
141:13:33 Schmitt I think that'll stay.
141:13:33 Cernan I think it'll stay.
141:13:39 Schmitt Why don't I turn this one - -
141:13:39 Cernan Okay. You won't get that any tighter.
141:13:41 Schmitt No, I mean, why don't I turn that down because it'll keep - that much less to run into. There you go.
141:13:50 Cernan No, not too close to that wheel.
141:13:54 Schmitt Okay? I think that's good.
141:13:58 Cernan Too bad we don't have one more clamp - well, one more clamp would probably interfere with the steering.
141:14:04 Schmitt I think that'll stop the rooster tail, because that' s - -
141:14:06 Cernan I think that'll stop a lot of it, Houston.
141:14:08 Schmitt - - that's swinging forward. Okay. Let's go.
141:14:09 CC Okay. It's - -
141:14:10 Cernan The maps are configured.
141:14:11 CC - - That sounds like a good attempt, men. We'll hope it works.
141:14:15 Cernan Does that look - does that look good to John, from what he did?
141:14:20 CC It looks exactly what his did, he says.
141:14:22 Schmitt That tape will keep it -
141:14:26 Cernan Yes, but he didn't run in the dust, so I guess we'll have to give it a trial run.
141:14:29 CC Roger on that.
141:14:30 Cernan That ought to help some - -
141:14:31 CC We're anxiously waiting.
141:14:33 Cernan Okay, Jack. Let's - I'm going to HIGH for a little bit. Okay. I need S - S - oh, shoot. Now I want 4.
141:14:43 Schmitt I took 8 off.
141:14:44 Cernan No, sir. I want 4 and 6. Why don't you just substitute - -
141:14:48 Schmitt Hey, I just took 8 off. Can we use 8 instead of 6?
141:14:53 Cernan Yes, we can.
141:14:54 CC Yes, I don't see there's any reason why you shouldn't be able to use that, Jack. Go ahead. We'll just mark it down.
141:14:59 Cernan Okay. Turn around, Jack. Hey, Bob, we'll use 8 instead of 4.
141:15:05 CC Okay. Understand 8 will be on the - -
141:15:06 Cernan 8 instead of 4.
141:15:07 CC - - 8 will be on the LMP.
141:15:10 Cernan That's affirm; 8 will be on the LMP.
141:15:20 CC Geno, you went to MIN instead of MAX.
141:15:25 Cernan I think you're right. I just realized that.
141:15:34 Schmitt Got it?
141:15:36 Cernan Yes, let me go to MAX here for a minute.
141:15:40 Cernan We need 6 off of there, Jack.
141:15:43 Schmitt Oh, your 5 stays back here, huh?
141:15:45 Cernan We need - we need - we need 6 to the gate.
141:15:50 Schmitt It's probably behind 4, isn't it.
141:15:53 Cernan Well - -
141:15:53 CC Well, put 4 on the gate - -
141:15:54 Cernan Yes.
141:15:54 Schmitt Probably.
141:15:55 CC - - then put 5 on the commander.
141:15:59 Cernan Yes. Okay, 4 is going on the gate and 5 on the commander.
141:16:03 Schmitt Okay, Bob, a little paperwork for you, but that's all right. Okay.
141:16:11 Cernan Now, I got to do some more stowing on you when you get that on.
141:16:20 Schmitt Okay.
141:16:24 Cernan They're in the -
141:16:31 Schmitt Where do you want me?
141:16:33 Cernan Your left side.
141:16:36 Schmitt I mean where do you - which way are you going to turn?
141:16:45 Cernan Oh, man, does that - that Velcro get tough.
141:17:02 Schmitt Here you've got a core cap dispenser.
141:17:05 Cernan Stand by; let me fix these for you while I'm here. Okay. Here's your doffing harness on this side. Don't move yet, I've got to - I've got something I've got to do to you.
141:17:17 Schmitt Okay.
141:17:20 Cernan Okay, okay. Turn around, I'll get your harness on the other side.
141:17:29 Schmitt Let me get yours too.
141:17:30 Cernan Okay. Okay, there you go. Okay, you've got a cap dispenser, you've got a rammer, and you've got - well, I guess SCB-8, if I'm not mistaken.
141:17:42 Schmitt Yes, that's all right, they got it. Okay. That's 1.
141:17:49 Cernan Okay. You can give me SCB-5 then, and -
141:17:54 Schmitt Yes. Can you move - move a little bit? There you go. Okay. There you are.
141:18:24 Cernan You got it?
141:18:25 Schmitt No - no, I'm sorry. In fact, I've got to tighten up your -
141:18:33 Cernan We've got to take a picture of that fender if it works.
141:18:36 Schmitt Wait a minute - No, if you weren't so tall - and you - you are always saying - you just invariably stand so I have to get in a hole. Okay. Now let me tighten up your whole shooting match here. It's loose again. Hang on. Okay. Between Velcro and snaps, the world could never fall apart.
141:19:10 Cernan Okay, all set?
141:19:11 Schmitt You're set.
141:19:12 Cernan Okay. I'm going to get a hammer, and then I'll get the TGE.
141:19:16 Schmitt I'm going to get my camera, and I'll go to the SEP site.
141:19:19 CC Okay. Why don't you start to the SEP site - -
141:19:20 Cernan Hey, Jack, when you start running I'll - -
141:19:21 CC - - and, also, I presume that the dustbrush is on the Rover now.
141:19:28 Cernan It is.
141:19:29 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:19:30 Cernan It is. Jack, when I drive out there why don't you watch the rear wheel.
141:19:35 Schmitt I will. Give me a yell when you start to drive.
141:19:37 Cernan Okay. Both the steering and the rooster tail - Oh, I hope it's not all zeros. Okay, Bob. 670, 017, 701; 670, 017, 701.
141:19:58 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:20:05 Cernan Okay; and the SCB is good. It's closed. It's in the shade. The rest ... I guess.
141:20:16 CC Okay. And, Jack, when you get out to the SEP site, you might give us a reading on what the solar panels look like - how they survived the night with the tape on them.
141:20:29 Schmitt I wouldn't think of not doing that. I'm curious myself.
141:20:43 Cernan Okay. The TGE is on the LRV.
141:20:48 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:20:48 Cernan Okay. I'm making an inventory. I've got the LCRU battery. Okay. We got 1, 3 and 2 and 8; LCRU blankets are open 100 percent. Battery covers are CLOSED. Dustbrush is on the LCRU. TGE is on the Rover. Jack, can you verify we got the right mags and a polar filter? Polarization.
141:21:11 Schmitt Yes sir. I verified that.
141:21:12 Cernan Okay. Very good.
141:21:13 Schmitt You better put that 500 back under the seat.
141:21:15 Cernan Yes. That's where it's going.
141:21:18 Schmitt Well, Bob, it looks like - it survived. There is a - as I stand behind the panels - the left-hand panel may be tilted at about - well, less than 5 degrees, probably about 2 or 3, but that's all. Looks pretty good right now.
141:21:38 CC Okay; beautiful. Thank you. Good fix.
141:21:43 Schmitt Okay.
141:21:44 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to take the TV from you.
141:21:46 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno.
141:21:47 Schmitt And the transmitter's going on.
141:21:50 CC Copy that, Jack.
141:21:51 Schmitt (Laughter) If I can do it without destroying it.
141:21:55 Cernan Yes. That's hard to do out there, Jack. Okay. TV camera going POSITION 1.
141:22:03 Schmitt Transmitter's on and -
141:22:08 PAO We'll loose the TV while Gene Cernan drives the rover to the surface electrical property site.
141:22:08 Schmitt ... fix the level there. Okay. The level is on the inner ring again. And - well, the gnomon has moved a little bit, but not much. But you would expect that, I guess.
141:22:23 CC Yes. Seeing the other end of the gnomon up there in the sky it's moved a little bit.
141:22:30 Schmitt Yes. That's what I said.
141:22:33 Cernan Okay. Camera, tongs, and I'll drive. West leg, heading 270.
141:22:44 PAO That site is 100 meters east of the lunar module - Jack Schmitt has just walked out there and turned on the SEP transmitter.
141:22:48 Schmitt Camera is on. Bob, I'm on. I guess 26.
141:23:04 CC Okay. Copy - -
141:23:05 Schmitt This here's frame 27, mag Charlie.
141:23:07 CC Copy that. Charlie 26 - 27.
141:23:13 Schmitt I had to relearn how to document samples, Bob. I just have. The first part of my roll will have a lot of random exposures and focuses.
141:23:26 Schmitt Okay. We're back in business. And I'm - while I'm waiting for Gene, getting a rock - it looks a little finer grained than the others we've seen in the LRV sampler, along with some soil. And that's done. Man, that's a neat sampler. Only way to fly. Okay, and that's in bag 22E. It has the stereo documentation and a locator to the LM, and it's about 2 meters from the S - from the SEP.
141:24:07 CC Okay, Jack.
141:24:08 Schmitt 22 Echo.
141:24:10 CC Roger. Copy that. Did you ever find any sign of that brown fine-grained rock you saw on the way out to the SEP yesterday?
141:24:17 Cernan Bob, let me give you some readings, so I can get going.
141:24:19 CC Okay. Go ahead, Geno.
141:24:20 Cernan Okay. Amp hours, 108, 100; volts are 68, 68; batteries are 80 and 102; and motors are all off scale low. I'm on the way. On the way, Jack.
141:24:47 Schmitt I'm waiting.
141:24:48 Cernan Oh, there you are over there, huh?
141:25:03 CC And, Jack, how's the rooster tail look on that fender?
141:25:09 Schmitt Looks like it's going backwards. I don't see any coming up over the top. Looks like a good fix.
141:25:16 CC Beautiful.
141:25:24 Cernan Okay, Jack, I got to come around - I'm going to come on this side and head west.
141:25:30 Schmitt Okay. Watch for - You got the antennas?
141:25:32 Cernan I've got one over here.
141:25:35 Schmitt Okay. I'll - give you a line on the other one.
141:25:48 PAO That rooster tail is a cloud of dust that the Rover's rear wheel throws up.
141:25:55 Cernan Okay. I'm getting close.
141:25:59 Schmitt Okay. Turn.
141:26:02 Cernan Where is it?
141:26:03 Schmitt Right here. I'm on it.
141:26:13 Cernan Okay. Okay. And I see the other one - let me parallel that line.
141:26:23 CC Low gain, Gene, please; after you get stopped.
141:26:33 Cernan I guess that's about 2 or 3 meters, huh, Jack? You can better see where it - is at.
141:26:37 Schmitt Yes, that's good, Geno.
141:26:40 Cernan Okay. Heading 270.
141:26:43 Schmitt You want to - -
141:26:43 Cernan Am I 10 meters from the transmitter?
141:26:46 Schmitt Probably not, huh? You're pretty - no, you need to go about 5 meters.
141:26:53 Cernan How far am I? See if it's okay.
141:26:54 Schmitt You're about 3 meters - 4 meters.
141:26:57 Cernan Hey, Bob, I'm 3 meters to the west of the transmitter and about 2-1/2 meters south of the line going west - -
141:27:05 CC There's no problem there, Gene.
141:27:06 Cernan - - is that okay?
141:27:06 CC Don't move. It's just they had to be less than those numbers.
141:27:11 Cernan Okay. That's where I am.
141:27:14 Schmitt I'm getting your photos.
141:27:16 Cernan Okay; and let me give them a voltage reading, and I'm still reading 68 and 68.
141:27:21 CC Okay; copy that. We don't need those, we just got them. And - -
141:27:27 Cernan I know, I just wanted to keep you honest.
141:27:27 CC - - give me the nav numbers. And give us some nav numbers.
141:27:33 Cernan Okay. 265, 0.2, and 0.1.
141:27:40 CC The - that heading - we want heading, pitch, roll, and sun dial there, Gene.
141:27:48 Cernan Okay. I'm sorry. Bob. Okay; you want a nav update here?
141:27:55 CC Nav initialized, Geno.
141:27:56 Cernan Yes, sir; you do.
141:27:57 CC Roger.
141:28:00 Cernan Yes, sir; I'm sorry.
141:28:01 CC Go to the next page.
141:28:02 Schmitt Let me - let me change my position here, just a sukosh. Let me change my position a sukosh.
141:28:07 Cernan I knew you'd - Bob, what was that last LRV sample number I gave you?
141:28:25 CC 22 Echo, 22 Echo.
141:28:31 Schmitt 23 Echo, if that followed in sequence, is another rock about - near the SEP documented in the same way.
141:28:39 CC Okay; copy that.
141:28:41 Cernan Okay, Bob. 265 - 265, 0.3, 0.1; roll is 1 right, pitch is 0, and the sun shaft device is 0. I'm heading 281 degrees.
141:28:55 CC Okay; copy that. Stand by.
141:29:02 Schmitt Okay. The recorder is ON - -
141:29:05 CC Copy that.
141:29:05 Schmitt - - and the RECEIVE POWER switch is on.
141:29:09 CC Copy that.
141:29:12 Schmitt And, I guess you're going to hand me EP-4. Get rid of this.
141:29:21 CC Okay. 282 is the preferred but that's too small to bother torquing, Gene; you're good as is. We're ready for you guys to go.
141:29:30 Cernan Okay. That looks good because I have to come left just a sukosh there to proceed parallel down the west line.
141:29:36 CC Okay. We're ready for you guys to go. We presume you have the SEP photos, Jack.
141:29:45 Schmitt Yes, I do.
141:29:46 CC Okay. And get your frame - we don't need - you can give us a frame count if you want. Remember to pick up EP-4 when you get in the Rover.
141:29:57 Schmitt Okay. We got it, and the frame count is 17.
141:30:01 CC Copy 17 for the LMP, and we need a nav reset to verify there, Gene.
141:30:08 Cernan I did nav reset; I'm reading all balls.
141:30:11 CC Okay. And did you happen to check the - -
141:30:12 Cernan And it is back off.
141:30:12 CC - - SEP temperature when you turned it on, Gene? Jack? The receiver?
141:30:20 Schmitt No. I didn't; I didn't. Doubt if it changed much since I called you.
141:30:25 CC Okay. We'll catch it at Station 2.
141:30:30 CC Okay. Low gain - -
141:30:30 Cernan Okay, Jack, we got transmitter and receiver both on, huh?
141:30:30 CC - - antenna is 240 and we're ready for you guys to leave.
141:30:34 CC Give us a mark on the leave.
141:30:38 Cernan Okay. Here you go, Jack; we need - The SEP antenna receiver - receiver, transmitter, both on, huh?
141:30:46 Schmitt Yes, sir.
141:30:47 Cernan Okay -
141:30:47 CC Okay. And, Gene, remember we want a mark when you pass the end of the antenna.
141:30:55 Cernan Okay.
141:30:57 Schmitt Can drive fairly slowly, huh?
141:30:59 Cernan Yes, until I get past the end. I got to get my heading changed about 10 degrees to parallel. We're still in the same relative position, Bob.
141:31:06 CC Okay. Very good.
141:31:07 Cernan Okay.
141:31:09 Cernan Okay. We are moving right now.
141:31:12 CC Okay. We're marking that.
141:31:14 Cernan Slowly. Okay, Stand by, Bob.
141:31:36 PAO The crew has started for Station 2 the most distant of the stations. More than 7 kilometers away.
141:31:48 Cernan MARK it,
141:31:49 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:31:54 Cernan Okay, We want to go past ... at heading 260, Jack.
141:31:56 Schmitt Well. we want to get at 080 and 0.4 and get rid of this charge.
141:32:02 Cernan Okay. ... - -
141:32:03 CC Okay. And - -
141:32:05 Schmitt Yes. I want to ... - -
141:32:06 CC - - 17 a couple of words there as you drive along. Let me give them to you early here. One, we didn't bother to change all the numbers on the checklist, but, by and large, because we think we're 200 meters east of where we were, you should probably increase all those numbers except for the explosive package numbers by about two-tenths to get the distance at which you will come across these areas. Again it's about 0.4, 0.5, and we expect to deploy EP-4. The more important number though is that it's 0.2 west of the ALSEP. As you pass the ALSEP, you might know what the range and distance are reading at that point.
141:32:42 Schmitt Okay. Range - range is the one that changes - on No, wait a minute, that -
141:32:47 Cernan I got it.
141:32:48 Schmitt I'll get it. Which is it? Range changes every half - on the half kilometer.
141:32:52 Cernan Yes.
141:32:55 Schmitt Distance.
141:32:56 CC Roger, Jack. The range is - -
141:32:58 Cernan ... go around ... ~ -
141:32:58 CC - - what changes in the middle at 0.50 meters and 150 meters.
141:33:04 Schmitt Okay. We - The fender fix is working so far.
141:33:07 CC Beautiful.
141:33:08 Cernan Let me get around your flag. There's your flag way out there, isn't it?
141:33:12 Schmitt Yes.
141:33:13 Cernan Let me get around that. Man - That's really giving the ALSEP some room.
141:33:17 Schmitt Yes. Okay, Bob. We're still seeing - the light-colored gabbroic rocks. I think the reason I said 50 percent was because in this light they look light-colored, and that's probably largely because of the zap pit halos.
141:33:32 CC Okay. I copy that, Jack.
141:33:33 Schmitt But, in the hand-lens, it looked like the standard - standard gabbro.
141:33:37 CC Okay.
141:33:37 Cernan And, Bob, I'm - I'm full out at about 11 - -
141:33:40 Schmitt Okay, you can - you can turn right, now.
141:33:41 Cernan I'm full out at about 11 clicks right now.
141:33:44 CC Beautiful.
141:33:46 Cernan Oops. ... (Laughter)
141:33:48 CC You can give me a call as you pass by the ALSEP as you get ready to deploy the charge, please.
141:33:55 Cernan Okay. We're almost due south of the ALSEP now.
141:34:00 CC Okay - -
141:34:00 Cernan ... that. I've got to work my way through here.
141:34:00 CC - - copy that. Go about 0.2 kilometers further than that.
141:34:13 Schmitt It's a little rocky out here.
141:34:14 Cernan Yes, it sure is.
141:34:16 Schmitt Every - in the area we are now - you get a distance that was -
141:34:22 Cernan Okay. We just clicked to 4. I want to move over this way just a sukosh.
141:34:25 Schmitt Yes.
141:34:27 Cernan Okay, I can - I'm just south of my geophone 2 flag now.
141:34:33 CC Okay. If you just clicked to 4, let's go to 6 then, just past the click on 6.
141:34:43 Schmitt Okay. And you want about 080?
141:34:47 Cernan Plenty good enough. I got to start heading right out here, right toward my - upper graphic - -
141:34:52 Schmitt Okay. Hole-in-the-Wall should be just to the left of the notch.
141:34:55 Cernan Yes. That's exactly where I'm heading.
141:34:58 Schmitt And I think we're coming up closer to the rim of camelot. It's starting to look like a crater now.
141:35:04 CC Okay; very good.
141:35:05 Schmitt Looking down-Sun, I see no major albedo changes except for the very fresh craters which are brighter. By a few - by a - maybe 20 percent. The surface - -
141:35:19 Cernan How are we doing.
141:35:21 Schmitt 5 -
141:35:23 Cernan Okay, Bob. Here's your charge. Pick a spot, Jack.
141:35:26 Schmitt Okay; can you swing right out over there - -
141:35:28 Cernan Yes.
141:35:28 Schmitt - - about 10 meters ahead?
141:35:30 Schmitt Okay. Give me a shallow turn.
141:35:35 Cernan How's that?
141:35:36 Schmitt Okay. And I'll set it right there on that - in that - Can you move forward, and I'll get it in that little depression.
141:35:41 Cernan Okay.
141:35:42 Schmitt You see on the other side of the rock.
141:35:43 Cernan Yes.
141:35:49 PAO This charge is one-eighth of a pound.
141:35:51 Cernan Okay, Bob; 083, 0.6, and 0.5.
141:35:57 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:36:01 Schmitt Okay. Pin 1, pulled and safe; Pin 2 is pulled and safe; Pin 3, pulled and safe. Ever stop and ask yourself what I'm doing.
141:36:17 CC I copy that, Jack - -
141:36:19 Cernan Yes (laughter).
141:36:20 CC - - if you can give us a frame count, we'd appreciate it. And I might remind you two to both check that - -
141:36:24 Cernan Don't fall over.
141:36:25 CC - - you're at MIN cooling since you've got a long drive ahead of you there.
141:36:32 Schmitt Hey, I lost my sample thing.
141:36:34 Cernan Threw it in the floor?
141:36:36 Schmitt I hope so.
141:36:44 PAO That charge due to detonate 90 hours 45 minutes after it was deployed.
141:36:48 Cernan That look good?
141:36:49 Schmitt Yes, it's going to stay.
141:36:50 Cernan Okay. Have you got anything to ... If not, I'll do a partial for you.
141:36:55 Schmitt Yes. We got to do a partial. I'd like to know where that sampler is. Well, we can do without it, I guess.
141:37:05 Cernan Yes. Sure be nice to - What did it do; come off the end?
141:37:07 Schmitt Yes, I think I can check it though.
141:37:08 Cernan Get your pan?
141:37:09 Schmitt Yes. If you go around to - to seeing that big block there by the ALSEP, then you can forget it.
141:37:17 Cernan Okay. Okay. I'll just come on around, and I'll pick up my tracks. Do you want to get that sampler? Can you see it?
141:37:24 Schmitt I think I'd better look.
141:37:28 Cernan All right. Take a look. Bob, one stop here for about 2 seconds.
141:37:33 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:37:41 Schmitt Okay. It's down there.
141:37:42 Cernan Why don't you put it on real quick and -
141:37:44 Schmitt I don't know why - it was hard to put on. Surprised it came off. Here let me - let me hold the end.
141:37:53 Cernan You got to - got them retracted?
141:37:56 Schmitt Retracted.
141:37:59 Cernan They'll retract. And let me know when.
141:38:03 Schmitt Okay. Okay. It's - it's loose.
141:38:06 Cernan Retracted. You want it - how you want it?
141:38:08 Schmitt Retract it again.
141:38:09 Cernan Okay. Retracted.
141:38:14 Schmitt No - Let go, let go - no, it's just hooking.
141:38:17 Cernan Okay. Try it - push it in once more.
141:38:19 Schmitt Okay. The best I can do. I'll just lock - I'll twist it down on there and maybe it'll hold.
141:38:26 Cernan Okay. Twist it tight. I got the rod.
141:38:38 Schmitt Okay. I'll just have to be careful. Okay. I've got it.
141:38:42 Cernan Okay. Oh - oh.
141:38:44 Schmitt I've got it.
141:38:45 Cernan Okay.
141:38:49 Schmitt You don't have to put it in - push down.
141:38:52 Cernan Okay.
141:38:59 Schmitt Okay. Okay. Let's go. Every time you pick your seatbelt up - there it is, it's untwisted now.
141:39:10 Cernan Okay?
141:39:11 Schmitt Okay.
141:39:11 Cernan All set?
141:39:13 Schmitt Just about.
141:39:17 CC Okay, Jack, a reminder. We're still seeing you in intermediate. You probably will want to go to min before you get back on.
141:39:26 Cernan He's back on now.
141:39:28 Schmitt And we're rolling.
141:39:29 CC Okay, copy. You're moving.
141:39:29 Schmitt Okay. Let's go to Hole-in-the-Wall.
141:39:32 Cernan Yes, sir.
141:39:34 CC Okay. One other thing I might mention to you guys as you're driving here, Jack, before you start talking again, is that - as you go by Camelot, you might keep an eye out for blocks along the rim there, because remember - we may be wanting to come back and move Station 5 to an area where there's blocks, unless there are blocks at the present nominal Station 5. So you might keep an eye for that and plan for the way back. A second thing a reminder, if you do stop for Rover samples or one thing or another along the way, give us a call and keep us informed, because we're timing you on the way out and the assumption is, of course, that driving time out equals drive-back time. And we're under a 63-minute limit to get you from the LM out to the Station 2 because of OPS drive back. So, keep us informed so we can keep a good tab on you.
141:40:21 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Okay. We'll keep you informed.
141:40:22 Cernan Bob, I got the thing tube-locked, and I'm averaging probably 10 to 11 clicks. It's not exactly straight-line navigation, but I think I can hold most of it.
141:40:37 CC Roger. Beautiful.
141:40:39 Schmitt Watch the crater - there you go.
141:40:42 CC And, Jack, a reminder - -
141:40:44 Schmitt I tell you, when Gene decides to turn - whoo!
141:40:47 CC And, Jack, a reminder on photos yesterday. You apparently took quite a few on the way back from Station 1 to the SEP, and we're right nominal on budget now. But, considering the fact that we didn't do much sampling if you continue to use them at the rate you did yesterday coming back from Station 1, at least as we understand it, you'll be pushing us pretty hard in the budget. Should be every 50 meters or every 100 meters.
141:41:14 Schmitt Bob, okay. And you want to hear something?
141:41:16 CC Roger. I'll listen now.
141:41:22 Schmitt Okay. The surface is not changing in terms of the detail. The surface texture of the finegrained regolith still is - has a raindrop pattern. We're more - the blocks still look very much like what we sampled yesterday around the LM. They're light colored, apparently gabbros, with zap pits - zap halos. Occasional craters show lighter colored ejectas both all the way down to - say half a meter in size. Other craters that are just as blocky as those with bright halos have no brightness associated with them. Most of the brightest craters have a little central pit in the bottom which is glass lined. The pit is maybe - a fifth of the diameter of the crater itself. It's a fairly standard thing for most of these fresher craters, is that little central pit.
141:42:26 Cernan Okay, we're just south of the rim of Camelot. There is a light mantle on the other side. Look at that crater. Whoo!
141:42:33 Schmitt We've got the ... - oh, and there's Camelot.
141:42:35 Cernan Oh, Whoo! Manischewitz. Take a couple of pictures looking at that.
141:42:39 Schmitt Okay. Can you swing a little?
141:42:40 Cernan Yes.
141:42:41 Schmitt Okay, I got them.
141:42:42 Cernan That is a 600-meter crater.
141:42:46 Schmitt Okay. I - I - -
141:42:47 Cernan And it is very likely we won't have any problem finding blocks on the rim of Camelot.
141:42:47 CC Hey, how about a bearing and range there to help us pick out the LM ... Roger. How about bearing and range to help us pick out the LM location.
141:42:54 Cernan Okay. 08, 31.2, and 1.0.
141:42:58 CC Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
141:42:59 Schmitt Bob, listen -
141:43:05 Schmitt Okay. There's a little -
141:43:08 Cernan Man, are there blocks there.
141:43:09 Schmitt Now that - that little crater in the ejecta did not - of Camelot, at least the rim of Camelot, did not bring up blocks on the rim. It may have been an old depression. Bob, there is extremely blocky area. This would - I think Station 5 was over there where that block area is. The light-colored areas on the photos are essentially - blocky. They're probably 30 percent blocks. All of them are in the - many of them are in the 2 to 3 to 4-meter size range. All of them look light colored, look like the gabbro we sampled from a distance. They have light-halo zap pits on them. I see only occasional grayer varieties, which I believe are the nonvesicular ones like we also sampled.
141:44:04 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack. Very good.
141:44:05 Schmitt But the light-colored gabbros are dominant.
141:44:08 CC Thank you.
141:44:12 Schmitt Okay. Station 5 would have been - rather than in a light-colored area would have been in a very blocky area. Station 5 is probably still very good for blocks.
141:44:24 CC Okay. Thank you.
141:44:26 Schmitt There is probably as big blocks there as anywhere on the rim that we've seen.
141:44:32 CC Copy that.
141:44:33 Schmitt Okay. We ought to be going be - really between Horatio and Camelot now.
141:44:37 Cernan No. I'm going to give them a call when we're due south of Camelot and see if they can't get a position on us.
141:44:44 Cernan Hold it, Jack.
141:44:45 Schmitt Oh, watch it.
141:44:46 Cernan Hold it; hold it.
141:44:47 Schmitt You can go around that one.
141:44:48 Cernan You bet you (laughter). Whoo! That slowed the speed up a little bit.
141:44:56 Cernan You can unwrinkle your toes now. Okay.
141:44:59 Schmitt Oh. I wasn't worried, Gene. Watch that block there; it's probably more than 14 inches. And got a fairly close look at the rock, and it is the vesicular - looks very much like the vesicular clinopyroxene gabbro.
141:45:16 CC Thank you.
141:45:17 Schmitt Now, the surface of Camelot is mantled - or the rim - is mantled with the same dark-gray material, and it has the same surface texture - a very fine raindrop pattern. The saturation crater size does not look bigger than a half a meter, if that.
141:45:34 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to give you 08l, 1.6, and 1.4. We're south of the center of Camelot.
141:45:41 CC Okay. Thank you, Gene.
141:45:43 Schmitt One crater - Okay. We ought to see Horatio here pretty quick. I think it's right up in front of us.
141:45:50 Cernan Yes, I think you're right.
141:45:56 Cernan We can definitely see the light mantle as it comes out over the valley here, and we're looking at Hole-in-the-Wall, although it's still too subtle. We're looking right at Lara, as a matter of fact.
141:46:07 Schmitt Yes. There's Lara, very clear; and Hole-in-the-Wall, you can see it.
141:46:10 Cernan Yes, yes.
141:46:13 Schmitt Yes.
141:46:13 Cernan There's Horatio way over there where those blocks are. See it?
141:46:17 Schmitt Yes, that's Horatio. We're right on course, sir. There's a little depression we didn't talk about, though, between Horatio and Camelot. But it's a depression and not a blocky crater at all. As a matter of fact, the total block population has changed out on the - once we get away from the rim of Camelot the block frequency is quite a bit smaller. It's down - maybe to only - less than 1 percent of the surface.
141:46:44 Cernan Much easier driving with the Rover. Boy, am I glad we got that fender on. Very obvious that the Rover navigation - because of the blocks and because of the smaller ... craters, and very subtle type craters are in this area.
141:47:08 Schmitt There are up to 2-meter, bright-halo, blocky craters - and that's blocky wall craters that may be incident rock rather than - I think it is rather than bedrock - in the rim area of Camelot.
141:47:31 Cernan Horatio has got to be - there's Horatio, right there.
141:47:33 Schmitt Yes. That's Horatio.
141:47:34 Cernan Let me give another mark on the southern rim of Horatio.
141:47:39 Schmitt Okay. The scarp looks very smooth from here - no obvious outcrops at this time. Don't seem to be penetrating to any bedrock in the area we're traversing now, just to the southeast of Horatio. Horatio has a blocky wall; however, the upper several tens of meters, probably, of rim look as if it's either mantled or composed of - the light-gray regolith material we've been driving on. The blocks do not come to the rim of Horatio.
141:48:25 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
141:48:26 Cernan - - know if I want to take you down there or not. Yes, Jack, hold on ... take you down there.
141:48:32 Schmitt Horatio has quite a different appearance than Camelot. It is - and that's the main one - the rims - the blocks do not get to the rim.
141:48:39 Schmitt What's your roll? (Laughter) I know it's not much, but it seems like a lot.
141:48:46 Cernan ... go around that crater.
141:48:48 Schmitt Yes. The - it looks like - if Horatio is any gage, the rim thickness of maybe, and this is a wild guess, Bob, but maybe an average of 20 or 30 meters stratigraphic thickness lies above the exposures of the subfloor; exposures being blocks in the wall. And some of those blocks, again, are several meters, if not 5 to 10 meters in diameter. And they're concentrated on the west rim that I can see. There are very few blocks on the east - excuse me, the west wall - there are very few blocks on the east, north, and south walls of Horatio.
141:49:43 CC Copy that, Jack.
141:49:45 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're on the southern rim; 078, 2.3, and 2.0.
141:49:51 Schmitt Yes. We're maybe 100 meters south of the rim. Actually, we're on the rim crest. We're 100 meters south of the break in slope into the crater.
141:50:02 Cernan There's a lot of - it's an undulating, hummocky traverse terrain in there, Jack.
141:50:07 Schmitt Yes.
141:50:07 Cernan These little craters make it bumpy; but, other than that, it's really smooth sailing.
141:50:10 Schmitt That's right. This is what I sort of expected dark mantle to look like, rather than what we landed on. Not more than 1 percent of the surface, and that - and that percentage continues right over the rim crest of Horatio down onto the wall until you hit the big blocks.
141:50:27 Cernan What's this depression? That's not - No, we're not to Bronte yet.
141:50:30 Schmitt No, I don't have any - No, we're not at Bronte.
141:50:33 CC Okay, 17. And how about an amps and a mobility - a speed reading.
141:50:41 Cernan I've been pushing aywhere from 9 to 11 clicks, and most of the time that's full out, and amperes are bouncing around 100 apiece.
141:50:55 Schmitt Hey, watch these down-Sun craters. They're hard to see.
141:50:58 Cernan I know they are. We're climbing, Jack. Because I've been full bore most of the time, and all I can get out of it is 10 clicks; and when I decelerate, she decelerates in a hurry. What's our next stop here, a sample at 3.9?
141:51:12 Schmitt A - 080/3.9.
141:51:18 Cernan Well, I'm sitting on 080 right now and 2.6. I think we've got to add a little bit to that ...
141:51:25 CC Okay. Stand by. We'll get a new correction for you guys on that shortly.
141:51:33 Schmitt Okay, Bob. The surface is not changing. We see no craters that seem to penetrate into bedrock out in here - that is with blocky rims, and that's quite a contrast to the area we sampled at Station 1A yesterday. I see - I cannot see in my field of view any blocky-rim craters. There are slight craters with - with fragmental walls and rims, but it looks like incident rock rather than the subfloor materials.
141:52:08 Cernan Jack, can you see over there to the left? I'll turn a little bit - on the - on the dark area of the South Massif where you get those - those impressed lineations. See them going from left upward to the right?
141:52:17 Schmitt Yes. I see what you mean; right.
141:52:19 Cernan That's what I saw out my window.
141:52:20 Schmitt Yes - lower left they - they go obliquely up the slope.
141:52:25 Cernan They're more like wrinkles, they're - linear wrinkles.
141:52:28 Schmitt Yes, Crenulations, you might say, in the slope that look something like those I saw from orbit - looking in the shadowed area - at the edge of the shadows. Bob, we've seen craters as much as - 20 meters, maybe 30 meters in diameter without blocky rims.
141:52:48 CC Copy that. ... Thank you.
141:52:49 Schmitt The rim block population is not much dif - The rim block population is not much different than the average for the terrain in here.
141:53:06 Cernan Boy, I'll tell you. If we can't recognize a change in that albedo when we get onto that white mantle, I'm going to be surprised.
141:53:11 Schmitt Mark my words. Okay. The light mantle is just what Gene has said, it's a - that's it, right now - there are some very bright craters in it - they stand out, bright-haloed craters scattered over it, that - seem to be quite a bit brighter than anything we have out here on the dark mantle. See those blocks over there? That's the first different colored blocks I've seen; they're sort of gray looking.
141:53:41 Cernan Where are you looking?
141:53:42 Schmitt Over to the right a little bit.
141:53:43 Cernan Darker gray, a little bit.
141:53:44 Schmitt Watch yourself here. Okay. There's a crater with a big mass of block in the bottom. It looks like there - it might be a secondary fragment from somewhere.
141:53:53 Cernan Do you want to get a photo as we go by?
141:53:54 Schmitt Yes, let's - can you swing a little bit to the right?
141:53:56 Cernan Yes.
141:54:00 Schmitt That might be worth a - How's our time for traverse, Bob? Do we have time for an LRV sample?
141:54:06 CC You're doing great, so far. We're looking for that first LRV sample at about 4.2 - that's in the light mantle, if you can do it quickly. But it's - we weren't planning on it.
141:54:17 Cernan Want one here?
141:54:18 Schmitt Yes , let's get -
141:54:18 CC Target of opportunity there, Jack.
141:54:20 Schmitt Can you get -
141:54:22 Cernan Go ahead.
141:54:23 Schmitt Okay. Swing a little bit to the right now.
141:54:25 Cernan Okay.
141:54:26 Schmitt Right up across that little ray.
141:54:28 Cernan Okay.
141:54:29 Schmitt And I'll try to get a chunk of whatever - okay, I want - keep going - keep going -
141:54:34 Cernan Look at that big ... - -
141:54:34 Schmitt Whoa, whoa, whoa.
141:54:35 Cernan Okay.
141:54:36 Schmitt Let me get the switch off.
141:54:38 Cernan 082, 3.0, and 2.6. And, Bob, I've been making - 10 to 12 clicks coming across the surface; and, as I say, for the most part, that's full bore except where I have to do some rapid changes.
141:54:55 CC Okay. And, by and large, the back room is interested in you guys pressing on to Station 2.
141:55:04 Cernan Okay, we are. Just watch the batt - or the -LCRU.
141:55:08 PAO That's 10 to 12 kilometers per hour.
141:55:12 Schmitt Okay, Gene. That's a pretty big rock in there.
141:55:15 Cernan Okay.
141:55:15 Schmitt And, Bob, I think there's -
141:55:16 Cernan Hold it. Hold it down farther - down. It's got quite a bit of dirt in it.
141:55:23 Schmitt I think this is a sam - this is a block from a linear-strewn field of very irregular and jagged rocks that are - that are southwest of the - of a crater that's 10 to 15 meters in diameter. If - if - if - it looks like the material that may have formed the crater, and you can look at some of the pictures and make up your own decision.
141:55:49 CC Okay. Copy that.
141:55:50 Schmitt Can you get it in there? Okay. You got it.
141:55:54 Cernan No, no. No, I didn't.
141:55:54 Schmitt No?
141:55:55 Cernan Okay.
141:55:56 Schmitt The bag's not open.
141:55:57 Cernan Well, okay. Yes, that's bad.
141:56:03 Schmitt Can you push it in? Pull down.
141:56:05 Cernan Okay. It's down. 26 Echo, Bob. We're on our way.
141:56:08 CC Okay. Copy that - -
141:56:09 Cernan Go ahead.
141:56:09 CC - - And, you got a frame count, Jack?
141:56:13 Schmitt Oh, yes. Let me -
141:56:16 Cernan And I did get my locator here.
141:56:17 Schmitt Okay. I got mine.
141:56:18 CC Thank you, Jack, Gene.
141:56:20 Schmitt And the frame - the frame count is 95.
141:56:27 CC Copy that.
141:56:28 Schmitt Holy cow! I'd better slow down my picture-takeing.
141:56:33 CC Roger, Jack.
141:56:36 Schmitt Okay. We're in a little area where the fragment population may be up to 3 percent. It's getting a little more like what we saw around the LM. In fact, I would say it was comparable now.
141:56:49 Cernan I'm going down this slope and up the other side, Jack.
141:56:51 Schmitt But nothing like Station 1.
141:56:53 CC Okay. Copy that. And the next planned Rover sample will be at a distance of 4.2; so, 080 and 4.2. And it will be in the light mantle if - -
141:57:04 Schmitt Okay. We got it, Bob.
141:57:04 CC - - that's the big reason for those numbers.
141:57:10 Schmitt Okay. It's in the first fall of light mantle, as I recall. is that right?
141:57:14 CC Roger; the thumbs.
141:57:18 Cernan Okay, Bob. Your heading at 260 looks like it's right on, by the way, from what I see on the skyline.
141:57:24 CC Okay. And how's the low-gain antenna holding up?
141:57:25 Schmitt Look at that ...
141:57:29 Cernan Well, I'm moving it, so I guess you're getting it.
141:57:32 CC Yes, we're getting it - just checking.
141:57:37 Schmitt Bob, I'm still - the blocks I see still seem to be the gabbro, the - except for that one sample we took, which I hope was what I thought it was -
141:57:49 Cernan Gee, it's blocky here.
141:57:50 Schmitt Let's see - -
141:57:50 Cernan Oh, that's a big crater. We got to get around here.
141:57:52 Schmitt Okay. That must be Bronte.
141:57:55 Cernan My god, is that big.
141:57:56 Schmitt That's bigger than I expected.
141:57:58 Cernan Whoo! I got to go around this thing.
141:57:59 Schmitt Yes, yes. There are some very - -
141:58:03 Cernan I got to go back here.
141:58:04 Schmitt (Noise) ... blocks, greater than the normal gabbro we've seen, that are very - have very large, egg-sized vesicles in them.
141:58:23 Schmitt Watch it - you got one on your right there - Here you go.
141:58:24 Cernan Yes. I got them.
141:58:26 Schmitt Okay. I - don't mind me, Gene.
141:58:28 Cernan No. No problem. That's all right, because some of those down-Suns are hard to see. I want to get off this slope.
141:58:34 Schmitt I wonder if I took a picture of that block field. (Laughing) I hope I did. Getting to be so automatic that I'm not sure what I'm taking any more.
141:58:43 Cernan Okay. I'm going to go through this niche between - on a high point in the saddle here.
141:58:51 Schmitt Okay. How does it figure, Bob? I think we're just north of Bronte. Does that figure?
141:58:57 CC Roger. That seems to be about where you should be on the map here. We gather you're circumnavigating a little bit. Comm's dropping out from time to time.
141:59:04 Schmitt Yes.
141:59:06 Cernan 0.8, 3.5, and 2.9; and we're on the north side of Bronte.
141:59:12 Schmitt And it looks like Bronte has penetrated the dark mantle in here. It got to subfloor, but there's not an awful lot of blocks around the rim - There are just some small ones - compared to what we saw around - Watch it.
141:59:27 Cernan Yes. Yes.
141:59:28 Schmitt What we saw around Horatio or in the walls of Horatio and around Camelot. Nothing, also, like what we saw yesterday at Station 1. Bob, that characteristic little dimple in the bottom of the craters is still with us, and it's invariably glass-lined in the fresh ones.
141:59:53 CC Okay. Very good.
141:59:55 Schmitt Now, that's not a complete lining. It just - there seems to be glass agglutinates, if you will - that's holding the fragments in the bottom of the crater together. There's one on the side of an older crater. We're back into about a 1-percent coverage. I suspect that the reason we - our block population went up there was because of Bronte.
142:00:21 Cernan An awful lot of these ... glass-lined little craters around.
142:00:23 Schmitt Yes, and you notice, Gene, what I was saying about the little dimple in the bottom?
142:00:28 Cernan Yes.
142:00:28 Schmitt Watch the fresh ones, and they all have that little dimple as if that - You see, there's one right there.
142:00:33 Cernan Yes, right there.
142:00:33 Schmitt Man, you can predict it.
142:00:38 Cernan Jack, you know, I think the white mantle is starting right over there. See on your right?
142:00:42 Schmitt Yes, that's the first -
142:00:43 Cernan The place you can really see it is where it1s reflected off the slopes of the - or the - -
142:00:47 Schmitt Yes.
142:00:47 Cernan - - Of the cliffs out there, but I think - I hate to say it, but Charlie may be right.
142:00:53 Schmitt Well, but you know, one thing that may distinguish it is the - the bright-halo craters are brighter.
142:01:00 Cernan But I can see it from here - -
142:01:01 Schmitt Yes.
142:01:01 Cernan - - On the floor of the valley here.
142:01:03 Schmitt Yes.
142:01:05 Cernan On the scarp it really shows up.
142:01:08 Schmitt Okay. Block population is unchanged; still appears to be the - when I can see large enough blocks - appears to be the gabbro, although there's not as - not as much to look at now in terms of blocks. The surface characteristics have not changed. There are no craters that we see that are bringing up clear, blocky rims. There's a - most of the fresh craters have incident rock around them. The craters are the same size. They are older and more subdued. That incident rock is apparently broken down. I suspect a small zapping breaks that down fairly quickly.
142:01:53 CC Okay, 17. Copy that. You still making about 9 to 11 kilometers'?
142:02:01 Cernan No, sir. I've been making from 10 to 12, Bob, mostly 12.
142:02:04 CC Okay. Can you give me a reading on the amps this time, Geno.
142:02:04 Cernan Okay. You're getting - Stand by. I've got a little navigating to do.
142:02:12 CC Okay; standing by.
142:02:14 Cernan Okay. I'm read - I'm reading - I'm reading 100 - bouncing - around 100 on both of them.
142:02:19 CC Okay. How about amps and not amp-hours?
142:02:19 Cernan ... up-and-down, hummocky terrain, I think with - Oh, I'm sorry.
142:02:27 Schmitt Watch your - you got a hole in front of you.
142:02:29 Cernan Yes.
142:02:30 Schmitt Oh. There you go. Spun out a little bit.
142:02:37 Cernan Here, let me get up here.
142:02:47 Schmitt Good vehicle you got here.
142:02:49 Cernan Yes. It takes a little getting used to, though.
142:02:51 Schmitt Yes.
142:02:51 Cernan I'm not sure I want to go through many of those.
142:02:53 Schmitt No.
142:02:56 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'll give you an amp reading as soon as I can. Just stand by for it.
142:03:00 CC All right. There's no hurry. No hurry.
142:03:01 Schmitt Would you believe my camera handle's coming off?
142:03:08 Cernan The terrain gets a lot more locally hummocky with some - with some well-rounded rims but very - very large-aspect-ratio craters, which you got to get around in here - in the 4 or 5-meter size.
142:03:30 Cernan Charlie, that - Charlie - I was thinking of white mantle. That's the white mantle we're coming up on right up here.
142:03:35 Schmitt Yes.
142:03:36 Cernan See that on your right?
142:03:37 Schmitt Yes.
142:03:38 Cernan That's it, there's not going to be that much difference .
142:03:41 Schmitt Oh.
142:03:46 Cernan Not going to be that much difference, but - look where you're going.
142:03:51 Schmitt I got to watch I don't lose my camera. It's - come loose.
142:03:58 Cernan See, now you can look where we're going to come up on the white mantle. It's dusted with that light - light - look at it.
142:04:04 Schmitt Yes.
142:04:05 Cernan We're only 100 meters from the light mantle.
142:04:07 Schmitt Well -
142:04:08 CC Okay. How about giving us the range and bearing when you get to it.
142:04:09 Cernan Look at - look at this crater in here. We're coming right up on it now.
142:04:11 Schmitt Yes. There certainly is a change in the general albedo, particularly in the craters. The craters are much brighter in their walls than we've seen before.
142:04:23 Cernan Yes. That's a -
142:04:25 Schmitt Although there still is a brown - a light gray dusting over the top of it in here, but it's clearly different - no question about that.
142:04:33 Cernan You can't see the contact as you cross it but we're just - we know we're coming into something lighter - You can - obviously see it.
142:04:39 Schmitt Yes. We ought to sample the rim of one of these craters when we get our LRV sample, because that's what's distinctly lighter.
142:04:45 CC How about a range and bearing, guys?
142:04:46 Cernan We're at 3.8 here, and we can sample that rim - -
142:04:50 CC Copy the 3.8.
142:04:51 Cernan 083, 4.4, 3.8, and I've been ... - -
142:04:53 Schmitt How about right over there, Geno? Can you get on the rim of that crater?
142:04:55 Cernan Right here?
142:04:56 Schmitt No, right to the right there. Right here - that light stuff. See the big crater here - -
142:05:02 Cernan Yes.
142:05:02 Schmitt - - and the light material right on the rim?
142:05:02 Cernan Yes. I can get there. But I'm going to have to not give you much of a turn because it's - -
142:05:06 Schmitt That's all right. I got the pictures. Now, if you can swing to the left a little bit and then back - whoa. Now, back right. Okay. Hope my camera stays on there.
142:05:16 Cernan You like that?
142:05:17 Schmitt Whoa. Yes. Whoa, whoa.
142:05:19 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're 083, 4.4, and 3.8; and I've been running about 20 to 25 amps, I think, on both.
142:05:28 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:05:35 Cernan We are in the light mantle. It's not a contrasting light like you might expect, or like we're looking at on the scarp as the Sun shines on it, but I don't think there's any question.
142:05:46 CC Okay. Beautiful.
142:05:46 Schmitt Yes. The craters are definite - that penetrate into it are definitely different. However, the surface texture is unchanged. There may be fewer blocks.
142:06:04 Cernan Okay; bag 27 Echo, 27 Echo.
142:06:07 CC Copy that. And frame time, Jack.
142:06:09 Cernan Hold your bag? We don't want to lose it.
142:06:12 Schmitt Stand by.
142:06:13 Cernan Hold it up.
142:06:18 Schmitt Okay. It's in there.
142:06:20 Cernan Is it in? Okay. Oops, that bag won't stay open.
142:06:23 Schmitt Yes. It will after we get a couple of samples in there. Okay; my locator.
142:06:28 Cernan And my locator.
142:06:29 Schmitt I hope I don't lose my camera.
142:06:31 Cernan I can't reach it, or I'd help you.
142:06:33 Schmitt Okay; 110.
142:06:36 CC Copy that, Jack.
142:06:41 Schmitt I guess I never - - I guess I didn't do what I wanted to do and that's get that thing really cinched down.
142:06:51 PAO We're an hour and 32 minutes into this EVA.
142:06:51 Cernan Boy, Bob, one of the remarkable things is the Sun-angle difference on that light mantle when you're looking at the slopes of the Scarp versus what we're on. I hate to use a familiar term, but my impression right here is there is more of a raindrop influence than back at the LM, or in the darker mantle.
142:07:16 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:07:17 Schmitt Yes. Might - might be.
142:07:20 Cernan I think so.
142:07:21 Schmitt I think the big thing is, though, that each one of these little craters is much light - much more lightly colored. But we're still not - there's no crater in view that does - that has a blocky rim. There's fragmental rims based on, almost certainly, incident rock, but no blocky rims.
142:07:41 Cernan You know, one of the reasons those craters look lighter is because of their Sun angle. Walls of some of these little craters - it's the same material we're driving on, I'll bet. Yes, there is incident rock right there, Jack, you're right.
142:07:52 Schmitt Yes.
142:07:56 Cernan Oh, boy.
142:07:57 Schmitt The fragment population is certainly less than 1 percent in here.
142:08:02 Cernan Yes.
142:08:02 Schmitt Right now. When I say fragments, I'm talking about rocks that are - are greater than a centimeter in grain size.
142:08:10 Cernan You know, it may be me, Bob; but it - it also seems to be a little bit more difficult to drive down-Sun in this area.
142:08:17 Schmitt Yes, I think it is brighter, Geno. I was thinking that a minute ago, but it's hard to make a - I think your normal albedo is - is greater. Here's some rocks now starting ... - -
142:08:30 Cernan And the little craters still have the central pits.
142:08:32 CC Okay. We're losing your comm a little bit, guys.
142:08:53 Cernan ... Well, a couple of them looked to me like they had some very light ... crystals in them. See that?
142:08:56 Schmitt I'm afraid those are zap pits.
142:08:57 Cernan They could be.
142:08:59 Schmitt I got - I think I've been fooled by that, too, and that's why I estimated the ... time.
142:09:05 Cernan Whoo! I just want to keep you out of those slopes, and I'll tell you, I get you in some to - -
142:09:11 Schmitt That's all right.
142:09:11 Cernan - - keeping you out of them.
142:09:16 Schmitt Okay. We're getting a little more blocks in here. Of course, we're approaching the dark mantle again. Now, you can see the difference. You got to look hard for it. But, you see those craters out in there are not white anymore.
142:09:30 Cernan I got to get around that slope.
142:09:32 Schmitt Yes. Okay, You still got Hole-in-the-Wall picked out over there, don't you?
142:09:40 Cernan Yes, I got it. I'm just - - And, I'm trying to keep comm with them as I'm turning here.
142:09:44 Schmitt Yes.
142:09:45 Cernan And, I've been keeping the thing on. I don't know if they're reading us, but I've been moving it.
142:09:49 CC Reading you loud and clear, guys.
142:09:52 Schmitt Okay. Looking up on the South Massif, we've got real good views of the block-strewn fields. There's one that - there seems to be two dominant colorations of the rocks. The light-colored ones, very - very light tan and to white, and then there are the blue-gray rocks. There's one major outcrop of blue-gray about a sixth of the way down the slope, the center of the field of view we have; and it looks very much like similar blue-gray rocks, right at the crest, the highest point from our vantage point.
142:10:35 Cernan Bob, you want another sample of the dark mantle here? Could you use that?
142:10:35 CC Okay, Gene. A range and bearing please.
142:10:38 CC Yes, we want - As soon as you get into the dark mantle - We're estimating it's something like 4.34, 4.5, somewhere in that vicinity.
142:10:48 Schmitt We're there.
142:10:49 CC Okay. We're ready for another one, then.
142:10:50 Schmitt We're there. Now, let's - If you can - Okay, right over there, and maybe I can get a rock with it; See that batch of rocks there?
142:10:58 Cernan Right here?
142:10:58 Schmitt Whoa. Yes. Swing it. Whoa, now swing back over. Little more, little more. Whoa. Little more.
142:11:05 Cernan Can you - can you reach it?
142:11:06 Schmitt Now, if you go forward.
142:11:08 Cernan Can you reach it?
142:11:09 Schmitt Hold it. Right there.
142:11:10 Cernan Okay, Bob; 082, 5.0, and 4.3.
142:11:17 CC Copy that.
142:11:22 Cernan And CDR is 3.85 and about 70 percent and no flags.
142:11:31 CC Okay. Thank you, Geno.
142:11:47 Schmitt I got it.
142:11:49 Cernan You got it? Okay?
142:11:50 Schmitt I got the rock. I got the rock, and there's some dirt in there. Maybe I'd better get a little bit more dirt.
142:11:56 Cernan Yes.
142:11:57 Schmitt You don't have any trouble getting dirt. Can you see in there? is there - -
142:12:02 Cernan Yes.
142:12:04 Schmitt - - Much soil?
142:12:05 Cernan Oh, a little bit - -
142:12:06 Schmitt Okay. I'll get - I'll get this soil.
142:12:08 Cernan Couple teasP00nsfull. Twenty-eight Echo, Bob.
142:12:11 CC Say again there, 17.
142:12:15 Cernan Twenty-eight Echo,
142:12:17 CC Copy that.
142:12:25 Cernan And that's primarily a rock fragment. Jack's getting a soil fragment - soil sample with it.
142:12:31 CC Copy.
142:12:32 Cernan Jack, look at the wrinkles over there on the North Massif.
142:12:36 Schmitt Yes, there's no question that there is apparent lineations all over these Massifs, in a variety of directions. Hey, look at how that Scarp goes up beside there. There's a distinct change in texture.
142:12:47 Cernan Okay.
142:12:49 Schmitt As a matter of fact, lineations are not present on the Scarp, that we can see, where it crosses the North Massif. There is no sign of those lineations on there.
142:13:01 Cernan Oh, man; yes. I can see what you're talking about now.
142:13:02 Schmitt Look over by Hanover.
142:13:04 Cernan It looks like the Scarp overlays the North Massif, doesn't it?
142:13:07 Schmitt Yes.
142:13:08 Cernan Okay. This last one was 29 Echo.
142:13:13 CC Okay. Copy that. And that's the soil.
142:13:15 Cernan Okay, now I need to get in that bag. That's affirm.
142:13:21 Cernan Here's another one. You're going to - don't lose those.
142:13:25 Schmitt I won't. I'll put it down.
142:13:30 Cernan Okay, Bob, we are rolling.
142:13:31 CC Copy that.
142:13:33 Schmitt And pray for me, Bob, that I don't lose my camera. Okay. Hanover is very - quite a ways up the slope. I don't think we'd have gotten to it, as we've planned, that time. But the appearance you have of the Scarp - North Massif contact is one of the Scarp being smoother textured, less cratered, and certainly less lineated. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it's, as Gene says, younger.
142:14:16 CC Okay, Jack. Copy that.
142:14:16 Cernan But that goes - it's not just the - it's not just this slope, it's the materials on the other side of the Scarp, on the west side.
142:14:32 Schmitt Okay, I'm going to have to really ease up on pictures. I forgot to give them a frame count.
142:14:36 CC Yes. We didn't get a frame count. You want to give us a frame count there, Jack?
142:14:42 Schmitt Well, Bob. The problem is I - if I - every time I take my hand off, my camera loosens up again.
142:14:51 CC Okay; I copy that. And our estimate is that if you kind of go between 50 and 100 meters between frames, We'll make it.
142:15:04 Cernan Boy, I tell you. Are those Massifs getting to look big now. Holy Smoly.
142:15:10 Schmitt That frame at the LRV sample was about 115.
142:15:15 CC Copy that.
142:15:21 Schmitt I'll tell you, that Scarp looks nice over there, too, doesn't it?
142:15:24 Cernan Yes.
142:15:26 Schmitt Okay, we're back down in our old friend, the dark mantle. And I think the zero phase point is not as bright as it was. Passing a small crater, but the block population is still way down there in about - Whoops, watch that one - 1 percent.
142:15:49 CC And, 17, for your benefit, we're showing you with very good net mobility rates here; and things looking quite good.
142:15:58 Schmitt Thank you. Gene's doing a great job.
142:16:03 Cernan I'll tell you, it takes all your time to drive, though. You look around, and you're in a hole.
142:16:13 Schmitt Okay here's another small crater - instant (?) rock, with the same little pits and a spattering of glass holding the pit materials together. None of these - none of the glass linings look very coherent, Bob. They mainly just seem to be a sprinkling of glass that's - some - helping or coating the instant rock.
142:16:44 CC Okay, I copy that, Jack.
142:16:49 PAO We're in contact with America on the 28th revolution.
142:16:55 Schmitt We still don't have - The craters at about 10 to 15 meters in diameter seem to have somewhat more blocky material in their rims. But they're not clearcut blocky rim craters. And here's one that's probably 50 meters across that has a - a fair number of blocks in the bottom. Looks like it might have just about gotten down to where the gabbro is - starts to be abundant again.
142:17:26 CC Okay's I copy on that one, Jack.
142:17:27 Cernan ... start ... 12 o'clock - 12 o'clock; and I'm going to work my way up to Hole-in-the-Wall and from there on up.
142:17:34 Schmitt I think That's good.
142:17:35 Cernan Take a long, easy turnout.
142:17:36 Schmitt Yes.
142:17:39 Cernan Got Hole-in-the-Wall, Bob. It's a very long, very subtle, very gentle slope. We'll just have to get some more words when we get there.
142:17:48 CC Okay; we're anxiously awaiting them.
142:17:52 CC How about a range and bearing while you're at it?
142:17:52 Cernan Yes. I've been taking 10 or 12 clicks most of the time.
142:17:58 Cernan Okay, ... .2, 5.6 and 4.9
142:18:03 CC Copy 4.9 on the range.
142:18:05 Cernan And about - 20 to 22 amps most of the time.
142:18:12 Schmitt Okay, we're losing a little bit of LOW GAIN there, Geno.
142:18:15 Cernan Yes.
142:18:18 Schmitt I think you need to tilt it up a little. Probably undershooting the Earth. I don't know.
142:18:23 Cernan Well, our pitch angle changes all the time. That's the problem. Bob, I have been within 10 to 20 degrees of you the whole time.
142:18:32 Schmitt Okay. Bob, we're not in light mantle, I don't think.
142:18:39 Cernan Maybe we are. I think we are, yes
142:18:41 Schmitt I think we are.
142:18:42 Cernan I think we are. According to my geology map ...
142:18:44 Schmitt I guess we are. Gosh, I was going to say the craters are white - whiter than they have been. So, we're back in it. And - -
142:18:51 Cernan I think - -
142:18:51 Schmitt - - even the phase point's brighter, too.
142:18:54 Cernan I think that place where we had those small, blocky craters was in the dark mantle. I - They're not evident here in the lighter stuff.
142:18:59 Schmitt Yes, yes.
142:19:01 Cernan Boy, is that getting big. Whoo-ee!
142:19:06 Cernan Hold on. Whoooee!
142:19:08 Schmitt Oh, boy, that really gives me a strange feeling (laughter).
142:19:12 Cernan Gives me a strange feeling too. Those are not intentional.
142:19:19 Schmitt I understand.
142:19:21 Cernan I'm not sure I've got enough guts to make them intentional. Man everything's getting to look big the closer you get. Hole-in-the-Wall looks more promising, though, Bob.
142:19:37 Schmitt Yes, I don't think that's going to be any problem.
142:19:38 Cernan Until we get up and look back. Oh, man, what a trip this is going to be. Golly.
142:19:47 Schmitt That vent cooling is just about right, isn't it.
142:19:49 Cernan No, it's just about warm for me.
142:19:51 Schmitt Yes.
142:19:54 Cernan Bob, is my PLSS cooling working all right?
142:19:58 CC Roger. It looks like it's working to us.
142:20:03 Cernan Okay.
142:20:05 Schmitt Bob, I'm not - The rock fragments look - still look like gabbro. The craters tend to have white walls and white rims, which they don't have in the dark - mantled area. The block population is way down, 1 percent or less. However, the bigger craters do have more blocks; but nowhere does that population seem get above about 5 percent. And that's on the walls and the rims of the craters, say bigger than 15 meters. There's one probably 20 meters in diameter that has some blocks on it.
142:20:46 Cernan Have you seen Nemo? I think Nemo is right over there, if I'm not mistaken. It's - I don't know.
142:20:54 Schmitt Nemo will be hard to see. But, yes, it's probably that one right in there. Or back here. There's one back here.
142:21:01 Cernan Well, it's pretty - -
142:21:02 Schmitt Yes, well. Yes, that's closer to Scarp. You're probably - it's probably right off your wing there.
142:21:08 Cernan Okay, I'm going straight ahead and then I'm going to make a left turn.
142:21:11 Schmitt Okay. We're looking at Lara - Now, Lara - I can see blocks in the northwest rim of Lara. At least, it's rugged terrain; and it looks like blocky terrain. One spot - is all I see. It looks like it may be a couple hundred meters in average diameter. On - it starts about - maybe three-quarters of the way up the wall and goes right up to the rim.
142:21:43 Cernan Hey, Bob, Hole-in-the-Wall seems to be a - -
142:21:46 Schmitt Hey, look at that. Look at that crater!!
142:21:48 Cernan Right there? Yes.
142:21:50 Schmitt That pit - that central pit goes down about half the depth of the crater, and the crater is a fresh 3-meter crater. That's - it almost was a cylindrical pit. Hey, Bob, Hole-in-the-Wall is a - is just a step - headed down to the south or southeast on the Scarp. It's a - Scarp is just about what I think we all expected it to be. It's very rolling and relatively smooth. I don't really see any outcrops exposed anywhere out here to the - to the south.
142:22:26 Schmitt No. You see, now there's Station 3 area right up there.
142:22:30 Cernan Yes.
142:22:34 Schmitt Looks like maybe that - set of - see that bright bigger crater over there to the right of Lara? That's probably a good place for Station 3.
142:22:43 Cernan Yes, way over there. Yes. Okay, we're going to find out something very shortly.
142:22:49 Schmitt It doesn't look very rocky, Gene.
142:22:51 Cernan No.
142:22:52 CC How about a bearing and range guys?
142:22:57 Cernan Bob, I'll give it to you just as soon as I make my turn. It's not too far - 100 meters -
142:23:01 Schmitt Are - are you - are you going to turn over that or go on closer - -
142:23:03 Cernan No, I'm going right up straight ahead and then go on to the inside of that place.
142:23:06 Schmitt Yes. That's more than 100 meters.
142:23:09 Cernan Yes. I'll - 08l and 5.6.
142:23:12 CC Copy that.
142:23:16 Schmitt There's the - Now the craters are getting very, very light colored - in their rims and walls.
142:23:24 Cernan You notice when we're in the light mantle looking at the scarp, at this angle, it loses some of its high albedo?
142:23:29 Schmitt Yes. Yes. I think we're getting - -
142:23:33 Cernan We've got a long depression to go around.
142:23:34 Schmitt Your eyes get used to it.
142:23:37 Cernan Okay, Jack, we got to watch it because I got to go around a long depressions. That's a crater over there.
142:23:42 Schmitt On the right, yes.
142:23:43 Cernan I don't know how - can get over there to -
142:23:44 Schmitt Well, I think - -
142:23:45 Cernan I may have to go up over there. I can't go down that hole. That one's not going to make it.
142:23:50 Schmitt What's your pitch?
142:23:51 Cernan Let's go back here. We can't get there. I'm going to go over here.
142:23:55 Schmitt What was your pitch then, Geno?
142:23:58 Cernan Oh, ... primarily. I can't go there.
142:24:01 Schmitt Yes, I think you're right.
142:24:04 Cernan We'll go up this gentle slope. See what's on top.
142:24:10 Cernan Okay. Let me get my ...
142:24:15 PAO In lunar orbit Ron Evans is right on the flight plan.
142:24:18 Schmitt We made a turn to the south a little bit at 081 and 5.7. Are you going to try to drive up there?
142:24:27 Cernan I don't think we're going to have any choice.
142:24:30 Schmitt Okay. Looks to me like right on the - just to the left of that - -
142:24:32 Cernan Yes.
142:24:32 Schmitt - - white crater is a - or even right like you're headed now and then bear off to the right.
142:24:37 Cernan Yes.
142:24:43 Cernan Find out how this climbs in a minute.
142:24:46 Schmitt Oh, I think you're all right. That - -
142:24:48 Cernan And, Bob, I'm starting up the scarp at 08l, 6.6, and 5.7.
142:24:53 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno.
142:24:54 Schmitt This is the first tongue of the scarp.
142:24:58 Cernan I don't even think the Rover knows it's going uphill. I've got about 3 - 7 or 8 amps. See what's on top here.
142:25:08 Schmitt You're making about 8 - 8 clicks.
142:25:10 Cernan And I'm full bore.
142:25:14 Schmitt (Laughter)
142:25:16 Cernan Well, I'll tell you, this Rover doesn't know it's going up the hill.
142:25:21 Schmitt Looks to me like you may be able to head just like you're going.
142:25:23 Cernan Yes. Hey, Bob, we'll make it.
142:25:25 Schmitt And get down - -
142:25:26 Cernan Yes. We will make it. ... Get my antenna adjusted.
142:25:41 Schmitt Okay. Whatever makes up the light mantle is - in - at least, the instant rock that it forms is much lighter than anything we see. Those fragments probably - are 30 percent lighter than any fragments we see on the dark mantle. And that's around the fresh craters. But it is not blocky. Bob, are you still reading?
142:26:20 CC Roger. Read you loud and clear.
142:26:23 Schmitt Okay, I just wanted to make sure my antenna's working.
142:26:26 CC Roger.
142:26:27 Cernan We're doing a little zig-zag navigation. I'm - literally came up a slope at about a heading of 240. We couldn't get through the actual turn to the south because there is a big crater right at the foot of it. So we're just making our way through some relatively local undulating slopes that get pretty steep, but it seems to be no problem.
142:26:49 Schmitt Yes, I think we're in good shape. Bob, I can't - there are not any blocks big enough to really make a statement about what the rock is. But it - it really doesn't look like gabbro anymore.
142:27:05 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:27:06 Schmitt It doesn't have that - -
142:27:06 CC And a reminder that eventually you're going to have to turn to the south a little bit to pick up -the final thing at the - Station 2.
142:27:16 Schmitt We're not on top of that scarp, yet. We're still in the Hole-in-the-Wall rim.
142:27:20 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:27:26 Schmitt Bob, as far as lineations in the soil or on the surface that are observable at this range, I don't - I don't see any. I think there may be a finer raindrop pattern on the light mantle than maybe there was out on the dark. But that's an awfully hard judgment to make.
142:27:50 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:27:55 Schmitt How you doing, Geno?
142:27:57 Cernan Doing fine, Bob. We've slowed down between about 5 to 8 - maybe 5 to 10 clicks most of the time. I'm going to head right up there, I think. Get around this crater.
142:28:07 Schmitt Pretty healthy roll you're going to have here.
142:28:09 Cernan Yes, I'm going to head more straight up the hill. Once I get up on top, I'll be alright. I'm going to head down in this hole and then up that way.
142:28:16 Schmitt Yes, I think -
142:28:16 Cernan I don't mind pitch, but I sure don't like roll.
142:28:19 Schmitt I don't either.
142:28:27 Cernan Now I'm going to head straight up - I'm going to head straight up that slope right there. Okay?
142:28:48 PAO Ron Evans performing infrared, ultraviolet, laser altimeter experiments.
142:28:52 Schmitt Bob, I still - it looks like maybe the large fragments in here are still crystalline. They have white zap pits on them. But they do not yet really resemble the gabbro.
142:29:09 CC Okay, Jack. Copy that. Give us a hack when you get up on top of the scarp there.
142:29:15 Schmitt Okay.
142:29:16 Evans Let me tell you, Bob, I've got to go cross-slope some of the time because the Rover is really working to go uphill now.
142:29:24 CC All right.
142:29:25 Cernan But we're almost there.
142:29:28 Schmitt As I look up the scarp to the west, there are some big blocks scattered around on the horizon; but, again, I would guess that we're not dealing with more than - 2 or 3 percent total coverage of blocks in here, at that.
142:29:47 Cernan Well, I think, for the most part - for the most part, we're on top ... - -
142:29:51 Schmitt Yes, we're - we're on top.
142:29:55 Cernan Bob, we're at 7.8 - correction 078, 7.2, and 6.2.
142:30:01 CC Copy that.
142:30:03 Cernan Jack, where was Nansen with respect to those tracks up there?
142:30:07 Schmitt Well, they never really had any good tracks pinned down, I don't think, on that - You'll be able to see Nansen, I think soon as you get over this hill.
142:30:15 Cernan Boy, I tell you, when we look back, that's going to be quite a sight if we can see into that Sun. We have been coming uphill. Well, I'd say this is the - this is the last straw to the top. And is she working! Come on, baby.
142:30:36 Schmitt Okay. I think you bear -
142:30:39 Cernan I'm going to try to get over along the base of the massif now.
142:30:41 Schmitt Yes. Head towards that track area there, anyway. There are a lot of boulder tracks coming down from the blue-gray rocks, Bob. We'll see whether or not we're going to get to those tracks at Nansen, or we might want to move over to the track and see if we can find the boulder that made them.
142:31:02 CC Okay; if they're in the vicinity, it might be a nice idea - -
142:31:04 Schmitt But there's no question where those tracks come from.
142:31:07 CC And we gather you're slowing down to about 5 clicks now, coming up this last rise.
142:31:14 Cernan Yes, I'm back up to about 7 to 10 now, Bob. That'a the slowdown - is because that's about all it will take.
142:31:22 Schmitt Bob, I have the impression that there is a dipping zone of blue-gray outcrops, or block concentrations up there on the Massif, that trends from the high point just beneath the Earth - cross-slope - and probably is - at least the apparent depth is - oh, I don't know, 10 or 15 degrees to the east. It looks like those outcrops may match up along that trend.
142:32:00 CC Okay.
142:32:00 Cernan Jack, I'm going to head right along this ridge because I think that's the depression we were talking about.
142:32:04 Schmitt Yes, That's Nansen down there.
142:32:06 Cernan Right - Where are you looking?
142:32:07 Schmitt I think, right below -
142:32:09 Cernan I think you're right. I think that's it. Let me get over here, and then I'll head a little bit to the south.
142:32:16 Schmitt Yes, we're a little more west, I think, than we intended to be.
142:32:19 Cernan Yes, I think you're right.
142:32:20 Schmitt Bob, 7 - Wait a minute - 7.8 and 6.5.
142:32:39 Schmitt Bob, I've had an impression, and I can't prove it yet, that we're dealing with more heterogeneous rock. Possibly there are breccias in here. But it's - it's - awfully hard to tell right now. They're very light-colored rocks - I think even lighter colored than the gabbros.
142:33:08 CC Okay. We'll soon find out.
142:33:15 Schmitt I'm afraid those - I think we can follow those tracks - the pictures, maybe, or -
142:33:23 Cernan Yes, I think we can see some of those coming down.
142:33:25 Schmitt I think the ones from the big outcrop of blue-gray rock, though, are the ones going into Nansen.
142:33:30 Cernan Bob, my best guess - let's see - 077) 7.7, 6.6 - is that we're coming up on the northern side of Nansen.
142:33:41 CC Okay. We copy that, Geneo.
142:33:45 Cernan And, let me tell you, this is quite a Rover ride.
142:33:49 CC It sure sounds like it.
142:33:55 Cernan That is quite a machine, I tell you. I think it would do a lot more than we'd let it.
142:34:06 Schmitt (Laughter) That's right. I think that big crater up there on the side is the one that you can see in the photographs, just above Station 2.
142:34:19 Cernan Yes. I think if I come up here, do a hard left turn; you unbuckle your belt, you'll roll right down into the bottom of Nansen.
142:34:25 Schmitt I'm afraid you're right. ...
142:34:26 CC Okay. And remember we're going to about 068 and about 7.4 will be Station 2. At least that's our estimate.
142:34:34 Schmitt Bob - -
142:34:35 Cernan Okay, there's Nansen over there, huh?
142:34:38 Schmitt Well, I think so.
142:34:39 Cernan Yes.
142:34:39 Schmitt I think you're right. It's got to be it. Got to be it. Yes, Bob, I think we're into a breccia population now. I think the blocks in the light mantle are largely breccias. They're mottled in their characteristics. The white zaps do not seem to be nearly as apparent. They tend to be chalky when they get hit. At least, in the large craters, the walls are chalk - chalky looking. Oh, yes. We've got boulders in Station 2.
142:35:21 Cernan Yes, they're there.
142:35:22 Schmitt Yes, sir. Boy, I tell you, if I hand on to this camera until you stop and can tighten it up, it'll be a miracle.
142:35:33 Cernan Bob, how long have we been driving?
142:35:35 CC Stand by. We estimate you've got about a kilometer and a half to go - a little over a kilometer, anyway. Stand by, we'll check on the time. You're doing great.
142:35:42 Cernan How long in - -
142:35:45 PAO We're 2 hours into the EVA.
142:35:49 Schmitt Man, this has been a trip.
142:35:51 Cernan Man, I tell you. You know, we're really up on top of this thing. Whoo!
142:35:54 CC You guys have been driving 64 minutes, and that counts the time to stop and deploy the charge and pick up the Rover samples.
142:36:04 Schmitt Hey, Bob. We're very clearly going downhill now, into the trough area that - that surrounds the Massif where - or between the mantle and the massif. But the trough is much greater in extent than just Nansen scale. It's probably a kilometer wide. I never realized that it was so - so much of a depression in here.
142:36:32 CC Okay. How about a range and bearing readout.
142:36:33 Schmitt I'm not sure we're going to be able to see the LM.
142:36:37 Cernan 074, 8.2, 6.9.
142:36:41 CC Copy that.
142:36:41 Cernan We won't be able to see the LM from down here. We'll be too low to see it. Fact is, I don't think I can see that far.
142:36:57 Schmitt The surface patterns are still the same, Bob. The main difference being that we're getting probably a gradual increase in block population, and the blocks seem to be of a different character. They - they may be breccias.
142:37:17 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:37:18 Schmitt And around the crater here that's maybe 75 meters in diameter, the - there's probably 5 percent blocks - fragments, I should say - greater than a centimeter.
142:37:33 Cernan Boy, look at all the dust around that fender. I hate to think of what it would have been like with that fender gone.
142:37:37 Schmitt Yes. There's a good-sized block, sort of blue-gray.
142:37:44 Cernan Looking up there, Jack, I ought to get some 500s looking right up that hill, but - -
142:37:47 Schmitt Well, you may want to do that way out a way, a ways.
142:37:51 Cernan It's - some of that stuff is mantled - or buried in the massif material. Some of it just seems to be laying on it, of course.
142:38:01 Schmitt Yes. Well, I think it has to do with how long it's been there. You'll tend to get the downslope movements forming uphill fillets, and that's what a lot of it looks like.
142:38:12 Cernan Most of it is uphill fillets. Most of it is pretty sharp. But my guess, from back at the LM, that those blocks on the massif were much more angular, I think is a good guess because that's what they look like to me here.
142:38:31 Schmitt And looking up into our blue-gray outcrop urea, I still have even more the impression that there's; a - a planier (?) orientation that dips off to the southeast - maybe just fracturing, but I - pretty clear up there, I think. It may - it may be shadows.
142:38:53 Cernan The LM is now 50 percent away from the massif - let's see, 50 percent of the massif height away from the massif. How's that? I think we will keep that on top.
142:39:03 Schmitt That is a high mountain.
142:39:05 Cernan Gemine Christmas!
142:39:07 Schmitt Listen, if the Earth goes behind it, we're changing Station 2. (Laughter) it'll be nip and tuck, pardon the expression. Okay. As we get closer, actually, we're out of the very - the block area. And that blocky region of 5 percent may have been just associated with that crater. I still see no lineations although - -
142:39:34 Cernan Look at these wrinkles, though, Jack - -
142:39:36 Schmitt Yes. I mean on - I was talking about the mantle.
142:39:38 Cernan Oh.
142:39:38 Schmitt But you're right about on the massif.
142:39:41 Cernan The same wrinkled lineations we saw trending - sloping uphill to the west on the eastern half of the massif are still very evident at this Sun angle.
142:39:55 CC Okay, 17; And we're estimating that you should be there within about 5 minutes to meet the walkback constraints.
142:40:03 Cernan Well, we're - Bob, we're almost ready to park.
142:40:06 CC Okay. Beautiful.
142:40:15 Schmitt Well, I wouldn't have gone so far as to say that.
142:40:17 Cernan Well -
142:40:19 Schmitt We're getting close.
142:40:22 Cernan I'll give them their 5 minutes. We'll make it by then.
142:40:26 Schmitt Bob, the boulder tracks are really just chains of small craters, for the most part.
142:40:47 CC Okay; copy that. That's interesting.
142:40:49 Cernan I don't think we can tilt that television - I don't think they can tilt the television camera high enough to see the top of the massif. Jack, we're on the edge here, but I don't know - is that that - Well, let me go up here.
142:41:09 Schmitt No, you're doing great.
142:41:11 Cernan Brazil 71, 8.9, and 7.4.
142:41:16 Schmitt See, there's Nansen off to my right now.
142:41:17 Cernan Yes, I just want to make sure that I'm not driving down a hole here, which I am, but - I don't want to drive down Nansen.
142:41:27 Schmitt No, I - you won't. The saddle - the end of Nansen is over there near those blocks. Right over there.
142:41:42 Schmitt Look at those blocks. Unfortunately, the boulder tracks - good boulder tracks are over into Nansen.
142:41:53 Cernan Going out of here very slowly.
142:41:57 Schmitt I think station - just about anywhere near the big blocks - -
142:42:02 Cernan Yes.
142:42:03 Schmitt - - would be a good Station 2.
142:42:04 Cernan That's where I'm going to put it. We could try to -
142:42:14 Schmitt Let's see.
142:42:17 Cernan Yes, that's where we're going to make Station 2; right up there.
142:42:20 Schmitt What? Straight ahead?
142:42:21 Cernan Yes.
142:42:22 Schmitt Yes. Okay.
142:42:24 Cernan Boy, you're looking right into Nansen.
142:42:27 Schmitt Yes. We're right where we wanted to be for Station 2. And it looks like a great place. Big blocks. It looks like quite a bit of variety from here. Different colors, anyway. Grays and lighter colored tans.
142:42:45 Cernan Hey, Jack, I'm going to do a 180 and park the Rover at 045.
142:42:54 Schmitt Those are two good - there's a blue-gray rock and a lighter colored tan rock.
142:42:58 Cernan See where they can look in here.
142:43:00 PAO We'll have television shortly after they've parked. Station 2 is right at the face of the South Massif.
142:43:02 Schmitt How about - Are you going to park it?
142:43:04 Cernan Right on the other side of this little crater. ... heading ...
142:43:06 CC ... heading.
142:43:07 Cernan ... 45
142:43:21 Cernan Hey, Bob. You want to hazard a guess? It is 0. ... 9.1, 7.6. Are you reading, by the way?
142:43:35 CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear.
142:43:40 Cernan Okay. Let me get undone here. Amp hours are 98, 98. Batteries are 90 and 112, and the motor forward left is OFFSCALE LOW, and right is 340. Forward rear is OFFSCALE LOW, and right is 240. I expect we've got a bad meter.
142:44:08 CC Okay. Copy that on the 340. And you want to give me the bearing one more time there, Gene. All I got was the distance at 9.1 and the heading - and the range.
142:44:21 Cernan Yes, sir. 0.1, 9-l, 7.6. We are right at Station 2.
142:44:29 Schmitt Look at Nansen.
142:44:32 CC Okay. We copy that. When you're at the station, here's a couple of things - -
142:44:34 Cernan Five minutes - -
142:44:35 CC - - we'd like for you guys to look at in the overhead. In addition to them. We'd like the TV lens to be dusted, in addition to the regular dusting. That'll take the lens brush, remember.
142:44:44 Schmitt Can you try to tighten that?
142:44:46 CC You might check the low gain antella - antenna elevation to make sure it's at 45 degrees. We'd like - we think you commented on that. And I think you're right now looking at tightening Jack's camera handle.
142:45:00 Schmitt I'll work on that, Gene. You go ahead with the other - -
142:45:02 Cernan Okay. Yes, we are at 45 degrees, Bob. Let me check it. I'll lose the comm on you a second. I've got to turn it towards me.
142:45:17 Cernan ... at 045.
142:45:24 CC And, 17. Jack, we'd like you to check the SEP for us. I suspect we'll have to turn it off and open the mirrors and dust them.
142:45:38 Schmitt Boy, when you get this picture -
142:45:50 PAO TV coming in now.
142:45:51 Cernan You got HIGH GAIN.
142:45:53 CC Roger. Thank you. We have TV.
142:46:05 CC Geno, we do not get a good bearing from you guys.
142:46:06 Cernan Oh, Manischewitz!
142:46:09 CC We might also check the LMP's camera.
142:46:10 Cernan Okay. I'll give it to you again.
142:46:15 Schmitt That's fixed. Oh, you mean for pictures?
142:46:19 CC Roger. ... - -
142:46:19 Schmitt Okay, LMP -
142:46:28 Cernan Okay, 071 - 071 is the bearing.
142:46:33 CC Okay. Copy that.
142:46:35 Schmitt 142 on LM - 142 on the LMP's camera. The temperature is 105.
142:46:48 CC Roger. Let's turn off the power and the recorder, open the blankets, and dust it.
142:46:57 Schmitt Power's off, blankets are open; and, Gene, you'll have to dust it.
142:47:06 Cernan I'll get it. I've got a lot of dusting to do here, Jack.
142:47:11 Schmitt Okay. Let's see what we've got to do.
142:47:14 CC And, Jack, I presume when I told you, you turned off the receiver, didn't you? Not just the DSEA?
142:47:21 Schmitt That's affirm. I turned off both switches.
142:47:24 CC That's what I thought. Thank you.
142:47:26 Schmitt Oh, my scoop. My scoop just came off. That's interesting. I'd better check the rake. Vibrated loose, I guess.
142:47:54 Cernan I'll get the battery covers.
142:47:55 CC Okay; and Jack, we'd like to get an EMU check on you.
142:48:01 Schmitt Stand by.
142:48:15 CC And, Jack, we'd like to go to India on the magazine for you.
142:48:29 PAO Gene Cernan in the foreground.
142:48:36 Schmitt Okay, magazine India. My goodness, we'll never get started.
142:48:42 Cernan Man, we are down in a dep- Look at where we came down, Jack.
142:48:45 PAO Jack Schmitt in the picture, now.
142:48:47 Cernan And that was just one of the hills. Got to go back up and then down some. Hey, thank you for that fix on the fender, by the way, because I'd hate to see what it would look like without it.
142:49:09 CC Okay. And John suggests that we might just check it momentarily while you're here to make sure it's still holding on good and tight. Both the clamps and the tape.
142:49:17 Cernan Yes, that's on my - that's on my list. If it stayed on through that ride it may never come off. Okay. Have you got a lens brush in there, Jack?
142:49:41 Schmitt Yes.
142:49:42 Cernan Well, hold it a minute. I've got to get this SEP. Do you want me to brush the SEP, is that what you said?
142:49:45 Schmitt Yes.
142:49:48 Cernan Do you want the covers open?
142:49:51 Schmitt They should be open and dusted.
142:49:57 Cernan Okay. The SEP is open. It's about 100 degrees.
142:50:00 Schmitt 105 ...
142:50:01 Cernan 105? Okay. And it's dusted.
142:50:11 Schmitt Here's your lens brush; if you need it.
142:50:12 Cernan Okay, thank you. That camera look all right to you? Let me get yours; lean over here, and I'll get yours. Okay. I'll get mine, too.
142:50:38 CC And, Jack, we're suggesting that you're getting a little warm - maybe intermediate might help.
142:50:44 Schmitt Bob, I feel the same way, but I want to get this camera fixed.
142:50:48 CC Okay.
142:50:50 Schmitt I mean the film changed.
142:50:51 CC Okay.
142:50:57 Cernan Can I change your oil?
142:51:01 CC Oh, thank you, Geno. It looks much better.
142:51:13 Cernan How about Any other service I can be?
142:51:18 Schmitt Okay. Okay, Houston, the number of blocks plotted on the map are not nearly enough. In the greater than 1-meter range, there are many hundred blocks on the flank of - on the massif flank of Nansen, and up around Station 2, where we are. There are only one or two blocks on the light mantle side of Nansen. It looks as if the material in the bottom of Nansen is overriding the light mantle materials of the north wall. That's just an impression. There's slightly lighter albedo than the north wall of Nansen.
142:52:12 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack. Looks fantastic up there.
142:52:16 Schmitt And I suggest that we - I suggest that we do our raking - That's right. I just told you everything you can see - fairly close to the Rover to get some of the general population of talus material coming off the massif.
142:52:44 Cernan Bob, on my mark - I've got everything - hammer, gnomon, film. Okay.
142:52:54 Cernan MARK, If you have a gravimeter measurement going.
142:52:56 CC Roger. Copy the mark.
142:53:01 Schmitt Okay, Bob. The blue-gray rocks are breccias. They're multilithic, gray matrix - matrix breccias, I guess. There are fragments in them, but it doesn't look like more than about 10 or 15 percent fragments. Some of the light - the light-colored fragments seem to have fine-grained - very finegrained dark halos around them. The zap pits do not have white halos, so I suspect they are not crystalline. They might be glass - they might be the vitric or glassy breccias. At least, the one big rock we have here.
142:53:52 CC Copy that.
142:53:53 Schmitt There's a rough, very rough, foliation in them - that - that and I'm not sure - it's shown by the elongate knobs on the surface - it looks like a fracture foliation of some kind.
142:54:11 Cernan Jack, that rock has almost got to have come down, don't you think?
142:54:12 Schmitt Oh, no question about it. I'll bet you - I'll bet you it's the same as the blue-gray rocks we see up higher. Here's some more blue-gray ones over here.
142:54:20 Cernan Let's - let's start taking - Oh, yes. Look at the size of some of these light fragments in here.
142:54:25 Schmitt Yes, but it still - I don't - it looks like they're dominantly matrix breccias. There - there are light-colored fragments, and they may be crystalline.
142:54:38 Cernan Okay -
142:54:38 Schmitt Yes, they are. They're very light colored; they look like the shattered anorthosites. They have white halos - I xhink that's what those fragments are.
142:54:52 Cernan Jack, let's get a piece of this one right here.
142:54:54 Schmitt Okay.
142:54:55 Cernan Biggest one here.
142:54:56 Schmitt Get her up. This is the blue-gray variety, Houston.
142:55:04 CC Okay. Copy on that.
142:55:11 Cernan I'm going to take that little knob off up there.
142:55:13 Schmitt Okay; well, you can sample - you can work that block over.
142:55:16 Cernan Yes.
142:55:17 Schmitt We can get several examples. We ought to sample across that layering, actually - that foliation.
142:55:24 Cernan One comment. When you look down into the bottom of Nansen, it looks like - like, I guess - which sounds obvious - that some of the debris that has rolled off of the South Massif covers up the original material there that covers the north wall of Nansen. There is a distinct difference. You've got that very wrinkled texture in the north slopes of Nansen, and you've got the South Massif - debris in the south slopes of Nansen. And the debris, of course, overlays the - the north slope. And all the rock fragments, all the boulders that have come down are all on the west side of the - of the - correction, on the south side of the slope of Nansen.
142:56:12 CC Okay; got that.
142:56:13 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I take back what I said about no halos. There are light - not very sharply light - but light halos around zap pits in the matrix. The matrix glass is dark, and it seems to have a greenish cast; but it's very dark.
142:56:32 Cernan Oh, look at that blue.
142:56:34 Schmitt Oh.
142:56:35 Cernan Look at the white fragments in there.
142:56:42 Schmitt Let me come and help you there.
142:56:43 Cernan Man, there's some boulder rolling rocks here, Jack.
142:56:46 Schmitt (Laughter) Okay, don't wreck the fillets. There's an overhang we've got to get into.
142:56:56 Schmitt Okay. 514 is the - Okay, I'll take it back. On the fresh surface, these look like fragment breccias although the fragment size is fairly small. There are dark gray framgents and the light fragments we talked about. The gray ones are very fine grained and dense, although I see flashes that indicate they may be crystalline. The light-colored fragments are as I described them earlier, I think.
142:57:27 CC Copy that.
142:57:30 Schmitt 514. ... - -
142:57:34 CC Okay; Jack. If you could tear yourself away in the middle of that sometime to give us an EMU read-out, we'd appreciate it. We haven't gotten that from you yet on the EVA.
142:57:42 Schmitt Okay. I'm - Stand by. Gene's got a rock to go. That's from up higher?
142:57:51 Cernan That's a little higher. See that shelf up there?
142:57:52 Schmitt Okay. The first rock was from about a - 514 was from a meter above the base of the rocks; 515 is from about a meter and a half.
142:58:03 Cernan Here, can I get this in your -
142:58:08 Schmitt Can you get some on either side of those two now?
142:58:11 Cernan Yes.
142:58:17 Schmitt Okay. You're open. I'll leave you open for a minute.
142:58:20 Cernan Well, okay. Just so they don't fall out. Am I in?
142:58:23 Schmitt No. Let me get this other one.
142:58:24 Cernan Okay.
142:58:30 Schmitt Okay, go ahead.
142:58:34 Cernan Let me try from back here.
142:58:37 Schmitt Of course, that's a north/south overhang.
142:58:39 Cernan Yes. That one?
142:58:42 Schmitt Yes, you're facing right into the east.
142:58:43 Cernan Yes, yes. I don't know if I can get a piece back here or not.
142:58:46 Schmitt How about right where you ... yes.
142:58:48 Cernan Right here? I can get that.
142:58:50 Schmitt Yes, that's good.
142:58:52 Cernan Oh, beautiful. Hit the gnomon.
142:58:53 Cernan Well, I'll re - -
142:58:55 Schmitt It didn't move. It just tilted it.
142:58:56 Cernan This it?
142:58:57 Schmitt Yes, that's it right there.
142:59:05 Schmitt Let me set my working tool down here.
142:59:10 Cernan Got a bag?
142:59:11 Schmitt Coming right up. Boy, that dust. Once you get it on there, you might as well forget it.
142:59:19 Schmitt 494. 494 is from a half a meter above the base of the rock.
142:59:25 CC Understand, 0.5 meters up.
142:59:25 Schmitt And these are samples from across the layering - or the - These are samples from - across the - foliation. I missed that, Bob.
142:59:38 CC Okay. Copy that now.
142:59:40 Schmitt What do you think? Can you get that - can you get that one up there?
142:59:45 Cernan Yes. I might either get that or this other piece up here. Without busting my butt.
142:59:50 Schmitt Well, don't take any chances.
142:59:50 Cernan Yes, I'm not going to. How about this one? Here's a whole big piece.
142:59:58 Schmitt Okay. That's a good - good representative fragment. Did you get it?
143:00:03 Cernan I can't reach you without my camera hitting.
143:00:05 Schmitt That's a football-size fragment. Okay, this next sample - Can you get a bag out, and we'll try to put it around it. Around the end. Bob, it's highly variable. This is a light matrix breccia; whereas the other three fragments were dark-matrix or dark-fragment breccias. The big rock is a light-matrix breccia with dark fragments, and it's the one that has the halos around the - around the light fragments. And that's in 495 barely. It's not even in it. It's just - 495 is wrapped around it.
143:00:53 Cernan It's not going to stay.
143:00:54 Schmitt It's not going to stay, is it?
143:00:56 Cernan No. Well -
143:00:58 Schmitt It's a football-size fragmental rock. Let me - Why don't you just stuff it. See if you can stuff it in there with that - with the bag down - -
143:01:09 Cernan Yes, it'll - We'll be able to identify it when we get - 495 when we get back. Okay, it'll stay.
143:01:14 Schmitt Is the bag on it now?
143:01:14 CC Okay; we copy that, Gene. And do you guys see any tracks coming down to these boulders? Do have any feeling that these - you can place these that way?
143:01:15 Cernan Well, yes, - it's ...
143:01:16 Schmitt Great.
143:01:26 Schmitt Bob, unfortunately, no. The main tracks are out into Nansen, and we - I don't think we can get over there.
143:01:32 CC Okay; that's those biggies that we see on the left, huh?
143:01:34 Schmitt But the visual resi - Yes. Coming up, I was looking; and there are no obvious tracks coming down here.
143:01:44 Cernan Watch your shadow, Jack.
143:01:44 Schmitt Yes, I'll get it. Wait a minute; that gnomon is probably not - Well, that's right; you got stereo earlier.
143:01:49 Cernan Yes, I reset it.
143:01:50 Schmitt The gnomon was moved a little between the samples.
143:01:53 CC Okay. We copy that.
143:01:54 Schmitt Do you need to take a vertical pan?
143:01:56 Cernan Yes, I've gotten it all. I'm getting it all.
143:01:58 Schmitt You getting the flight line? I'll get a flight line this way. Postsample, flight line.
143:02:15 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm on frame count 42.
143:02:18 CC Copy, 42.
143:02:22 Cernan Did you get a locator from here, Jack?
143:02:23 Schmitt Yes.
143:02:24 Cernan Okay.
143:02:32 Schmitt Okay. I got flight line on the north/south trend; Gene got east/west.
143:02:38 Cernan You going to get that sample under there?
143:02:40 Schmitt Yes, we got to get the soil.
143:02:42 Cernan There may be an overhang. And look at that frag - that rack - rock is fragmented; let's see, but it's east - it's southeast/northwest. There's a split.
143:02:54 Schmitt Yes, that one right over there is okay. You want to get - hey, did you want to get this?
143:02:58 Cernan Yes, I'll get that.
143:02:58 Schmitt This fillet?
143:02:59 Cernan You got it?
143:03:02 CC And, 17 - -
143:03:03 Schmitt This is a fillet from underneath the rock.
143:03:05 CC Roger. And an update on the rake samples when you get around to it. We'd like to get one up on the massif slope as much as you can, if you can get over to it. And then the second one down near the Rover.
143:03:18 Cernan Okay.
143:03:20 Schmitt Okay, Bob. This fillet is up underneath an overhang. I got it from about -
143:03:30 Cernan I got to get uphill from you.
143:03:34 Schmitt It's about - -
143:03:37 Cernan That's good.
143:03:39 Schmitt - - oh, a third of a meter under an overhand. And it's the upper 3 centimeters of soil.
143:03:49 Cernan And it's bag 496.
143:03:51 Schmitt Now let me get one out away from the overhand a little bit.
143:03:56 Cernan - Okay.
143:03:57 CC Okay. You think that's permanent shadow?
143:03:59 Schmitt And a one away from - - No.
143:04:02 Cernan No. It's facing east.
143:04:04 CC Okay.
143:04:06 Schmitt Okay. And a sample down to a depth of about 5 centimeters, about two-thirds of a meter from the - boulder - the south side - is in 497.
143:04:25 CC Copy that.
143:04:28 Schmitt Now let me - let me get a skim sample, Geno.
143:04:30 Cernan Okay. I've got to take a set of pictures after that, by the way. Show where they are.
143:04:41 Schmitt I can piece them into my flight line stereo.
143:04:44 Cernan Okay. They were in both of the before pictures on those rocks.
143:04:49 Schmitt Okay; about a centimeter deep - skim.
143:04:56 Cernan Careful. You're in a hole. Can you - you better come out.
143:05:00 Schmitt Yes.
143:05:07 Cernan Boy, that's hard on the hand even in 1/6 g.
143:05:10 Schmitt Okay.
143:05:12 Cernan And that was - -
143:05:15 Schmitt Okay.
143:05:17 Cernan And I didn't park that Rover in a very good spot for them to watch what's going on, I guess; but that was the heading.
143:05:22 Schmitt Oh, shoot. They're missing all of it.
143:05:24 Cernan We didn't work in the right spot; that's all.
143:05:27 CC Every now and then we get a peek at you guys. But only every now and then.
143:05:30 Cernan Okay, I - Sorry, Bob.
143:05:40 Schmitt Oh, wait a minute.
143:05:43 Cernan You know, that's the way it happens.
143:05:45 CC Give sample bag number, please.
143:05:46 Cernan Okay. It's back on.
143:05:49 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I missed that. I didn't give it to you; but I think - well the next bag I take out, you can check the num - Well, wait a minute, I'll do it for you.
143:06:02 CC No. That's okay. I suspect it's 498.
143:06:03 Schmitt I'm almost positive it was 498.
143:06:05 CC Okay. We'll put that down.
143:06:07 Schmitt Yes, I did, too.
143:06:16 Schmitt Okay, Bob, the - looking at the blocks directly down-Sun, there are - the light gray, or the gray-matrix breccias seem to be fragments, or ... anyway, within the white-matrix breccias.
143:06:41 CC Okay. I copy that.
143:06:45 Schmitt And I got a couple pictures down-Sun to show that texture.
143:06:49 CC Okay. And one thing we'd like to do would be to sample a variety of blocks, in terms of looking at differences in the blocks - from block to block.
143:06:59 Schmitt Roger. We're going to do that. We're going after a gray - I mean a lighter-colored block, now. Are you going up there?
143:07:05 Cernan Yes.
143:07:06 CC Okay, and if you're going up the massif, why don't we try and get the rake sample up there now, when you finish these rocks.
143:07:13 Cernan Hey, Jack - Jack, don't come up here unless you bring the rake. It's a long trip. No sense coming up here twice. I can go get this sample. I'd get the rake, If I were you. Don't walk back up twice.
143:07:26 Schmitt Well, I don't - I'm not sure they're going Lo gain anything by coming up to the top.
143:07:31 Cernan Okay.
143:07:33 Schmitt You're not going to gain a thing, Bob.
143:07:36 CC Stand by.
143:07:36 Schmitt You're still on the talus. You guys - Oh, well. The rims of the small craters in the talus are - are softer than the - normal terrain. My foot goes in maybe 10 centimeters where normally it only goes in a centimeter.
143:07:59 CC Okay. As long as it's above the break of the slope, Jack, we don't have to get very far up the slope.
143:08:05 Schmitt That's right.
143:08:06 CC And, Jack, if you're back at the Rover, how about giving us a grav reading when you - before you leave.
143:08:14 Schmitt Because I'm late sampling, that's why. But I'll do it, anyway.
143:08:18 CC Roger.
143:08:23 Schmitt Okay, 670 155 201; 670 155 201.
143:08:32 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack. Press on.
143:08:37 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm at another boulder up the slope here. It's - looks quite similar to the one we just sampled, except there is a lot of flake fractures on it. Non-uniform, nondirectional, but quite - quite different, at least from that other rock, in terms of the fracture patterns. The texture looks to be quite similar. Boy, I'm glad I don't have to walk to the top of this thing.
143:09:09 Schmitt Hey, look, Gene, on these rake samples, there is just no point in carrying a rake all the way up here - -
143:09:15 CC Negative, Jack, as long as you're above the break - -
143:09:16 Schmitt - - because all we needed was a break in the slope.
143:09:18 CC As long as you're above the break in the slope; that's right.
143:09:21 Schmitt Well, that's all right. It's being done; but let's watch those kind of calls please.
143:09:28 Cernan They can't appreciate the - toughness of going up this slope, though. We can; we've got to tell them that.
143:09:33 Schmitt Well, we did.
143:09:34 CC Yes, that's what we were saying. Don't go above - just at the base of the break in the slope, Jack. Don't climb all the way up there with it.
143:09:40 Schmitt Oh, relax.
143:09:42 Cernan Okay, we're all set, Bob. No problem ...
143:09:54 Schmitt We want to get away from that big rock because it's probably shedding. Hey, that's a different rock, Gene.
143:10:00 Cernan Yes. Well, it looks like the same texture, but it's got that flaky fracture pattern all over it. I'm going to get a stereo while I'm at it.
143:10:12 Schmitt Yes.
143:10:16 Cernan This ought to cover any samples I take off of that thing.
143:10:25 Schmitt I'm going to get myself a zap of cold water.
143:10:36 Cernan Man, we've got to be a million miles away from the LM.
143:10:41 Schmitt Okay, this is a crystalline rock, Houston. It's got nice white halos around the zap pits. The zap is - the zaps are not - dense black glass, but a dark greenish - very dark greenish-gray.
143:10:59 Cernan Are those halos or fragments?
143:11:01 Schmitt No, they're halos. Well, they are fragments, I think, also. But, right now, it's fairly crystalline, but it is heterogeneous. Matter of fact (laughter) there's a big fragment of a porphyry caught up in this thing, I think.
143:11:17 Cernan Did you get a locator, by any chance?
143:11:18 Schmitt I haven't done a thing.
143:11:19 Cernan Okay. Well, I want to start taking some - -
143:11:22 Schmitt Yes, we got to get some of that.
143:11:23 Cernan That's what I want. That's where I'm going right now.
143:11:26 Schmitt And there's a chunk there we can get. That's a big fragment within this crystalline rock - -
143:11:30 Cernan Take a picture of that - -
143:11:31 Schmitt - - inclusion.
143:11:33 Cernan Take a picture of that and then - and then - your locator, I'll get it.
143:11:38 Schmitt Go ahead. I've got it.
143:11:58 Schmitt Get it?
143:11:59 Cernan Yes, I've got it.
143:12:01 Schmitt Beautiful. Looks like a porphyry.
143:12:03 Cernan Boy, it does look like a crystalline rock.
143:12:04 Schmitt Looks like an anorthosite porphyry is what it looks like.
143:12:07 Cernan The ... has got the very large crystals in there. They're very - they're very reflective, elongated crystals.
143:12:17 Schmitt It's a relatively angular inclusion about - it's about a half a meter in size, and it's a square cross section. Well, it's irregular; but generally square cross section. It's in bag 516, and it looks like a - well it's a high feldspar rock. It may be an anorthositic gabbro, but it is - it does look like a porphyry.
143:12:57 Cernan There's a big chunk where I've got - I can't get it out, though; it's burled in a rock - a very - oh, half an inch elongated - I can't see whether they are colorless or not, but they are certainly reflective crystals. See that up here? See right there?
143:13:18 Schmitt Yes.
143:13:19 Cernan And then in the big rock, you've got massive things like this big - this big fragment here, that's 5 inches across.
143:13:24 Schmitt Well, it - that may be a spall point, Gene, that's a lighter color, in general, because of a zap or something.
143:13:32 Cernan Let's get the - let me get some more samples of it.
143:13:33 Schmitt Yes, we need to get some of the host rock here.
143:13:35 Cernan Okay. We'll get a piece here.
143:13:37 Schmitt Okay now, you're still sampling the one we just got. So we'll get another one.
143:13:45 Schmitt Okay. The same kind - or the contact of that rock looks very much - looks like it might be finer grained - but it's about the same - in 517. That's the contact in the - the inclusion side of the contact. Keep going after the other one, Gene, I'll get this in you - your bag.
143:14:11 Cernan Bob, you could probably see this rock if you look over this way. We're high enough.
143:14:15 CC Yes, we saw it, Geno. Quite a sight - quite a goodie.
143:14:19 Cernan Okay. Let me see if I can't get this one here. There it is.
143:14:26 Schmitt Okay. The host rock for the inclusion, which appears to be also crystalline, but may be a recrystallized rock of some kind - -
143:14:34 Cernan Can't see it too well.
143:14:35 Schmitt - - metamorphic - also looks like a high plagioclase - high feldspar, anyway. That's in bag 518 - and that was a loose frag - fairly loose but in place fragment along the fracture zone.
143:14:59 CC Okay. - -
143:14:59 Cernan Will you hold this a minute? I'm going to try to get the rest of it up there.
143:15:02 CC Okay, 17. And for your thinking in the next few minutes, you might also factor in the guestion the backroom raises about taking 10 minutes out Station 4 and adding it into this station, given the wealth of interest that seems to be occurring here. You might think about that. You never - haven't been to Station 4, so it's a little hard to judge. But if you think 10 minutes can be very profitably spent, you might as well do that.
143:15:26 Schmitt Okay, Bob, we'll think about it. This is a medium-green anorthositic gabbro, and it looks like it has some pastel-green allovane (?) crystals in it. Did you get it?
143:15:39 CC We copy that.
143:15:40 Cernan I can't get any more of it, Jack, up there. I can't reach any more.
143:15:41 Schmitt Okay, and that small chip of that is in 519. It's the same host rock, much like the previous sample.
143:15:52 Cernan There's a good sample for you.
143:15:53 Schmitt Okay. And another - chunk of the host -
143:15:59 Cernan Oops, be careful.
143:16:00 Schmitt Yes.
143:16:01 Cernan It's still there.
143:16:01 Schmitt Yes, I've got it. I need to get this - rid of this - -
143:16:07 Cernan Okay?
143:16:08 Schmitt It's in there. I haven't closed your bag yet. And we've got to get a - get one soil sample up the hill here. Oh, we didn't get the rake -
143:16:21 Cernan We ought to get a soil sample, though, up here, so - -
143:16:23 Schmitt We'll get the rake sample right over here on this slope.
143:16:24 Cernan Where did that thing go, Jack?
143:16:27 Schmitt Right here.
143:16:28 CC Okay. Was that last sample in 518, as well?
143:16:29 Cernan There it is. That's it right there.
143:16:34 Schmitt No. We haven't put it in yet.
143:16:36 CC Okay.
143:16:38 Cernan Bob, that will go in 499?
143:16:39 CC Copy that.
143:16:43 Cernan You get it?
143:16:49 Schmitt Okay. Bob, this is a fairly uniform-looking rock. It does have some - widely spaced fractures across it. It's - clearly crystalline and has crystalline Inclusions in it.
143:17:08 Cernan Hey, Jack - -
143:17:09 CC Copy that.
143:17:09 Cernan Might get the soil from around that thing.
143:17:12 Schmitt Both rocks look like they might be in the anorthositic class - -
143:17:16 Cernan Your bag is still open part way, too.
143:17:18 Schmitt - - of rocks. It's just that it - one is - has the appearance of being a por - finer grain matrix. Looks like a porphyry in - in the boulder.
143:17:29 CC Okay. And a reminder, as you photograph it, to remember that the photograph in the southwest quadrant there will be the best ones, around the corner on two sides there will be the best ones to show the structure through the whole rock.
143:17:42 Schmitt Yes, sir. On the southwest?
143:17:45 Cernan South and west.
143:17:46 CC Roger.
143:17:46 Schmitt South and west. Yes.
143:17:47 CC Roger.
143:17:48 Schmitt No, the west's in shade. No, no. You mean the -
143:17:53 CC Southwest -
143:17:53 Schmitt South and east.
143:17:54 CC Roger. The southwest face - or it faces not quite south.
143:18:02 Cernan Okay. I've got a stereo - I'll just continue my stereo around here. Hey, Jack, you can get way under there, and I know you could get soil. I don't know how long it's been shadowed, but it's been shadowed as long as this rock's been here.
143:18:13 Schmitt Okay. I'll do that.
143:18:14 Cernan Way out under there.
143:18:17 Schmitt I've got to stereo this one.
143:18:19 Cernan I've already got it.
143:18:20 Schmitt Well, I'm getting it from this way, and they like that. Did we kick any dirt in under there?
143:18:25 Cernan No. I don't - no, I don't think so. Go way down in there. Let me get a couple of after pictures. Yes, we want to get two sides of these rocks, and you can see their - their structure.
143:18:52 Schmitt I've got that, Gene.
143:18:54 Cernan Okay.
143:18:54 Schmitt I took those. I took that stereo.
143:19:01 CC Okay, and if I could remind you guys to get a pan from up there before you leave the high uphill area there. There's no point in climbing up there twice. ...
143:19:11 Cernan Yes, sir, Bob. How much time we got here now?
143:19:14 CC Stand by.
143:19:21 Schmitt Okay. You got your bag?
143:19:23 CC Okay. We got 12 or 13 minutes left at this station; unless you take that extra 10 minutes that we were offering you.
143:19:31 Cernan Let's take it, Bob.
143:19:33 Schmitt We got to get the rake.
143:19:34 Cernan Let's take it; we'll need it.
143:19:35 Schmitt Okay. Let me try again.
143:19:40 PAO That's the Earth in the picture.
143:19:41 Cernan Okay.
143:19:41 Schmitt I don't know whether I can or not.
143:19:42 Cernan Do you know how far under you're getting, by any chance?
143:19:43 Schmitt Yes. I got in a - I got under an east-west overhang about - 20 centimeters - way back - By the way, ... it goes even farther, but that's about as far as I can reach back for the sample.
143:19:57 Cernan That's enough, Jack let me -
143:20:00 CC Okay. I copy that.
143:20:01 Schmitt That's in bag 500.
143:20:03 CC And, 17, if you want to just take a minute, you might look up in the sky and notice that our camera is taking a beautiful picture of Mother Earth.
143:20:14 Cernan Isn't that pretty over - Can you see the Massif, too?
143:20:18 CC Now we're coming down to look at the massif. isn't that a beautiful picture of the Pacific there? Ed finally found it. Now we see the massif.
143:20:30 Schmitt Okay.
143:20:32 Cernan And, Bob, I took an after picture of - of where Jack just got that soil sample under the rock from; and I'm on 60.
143:20:41 CC Copy that.
143:20:42 Schmitt Are you through with the gnomon?
143:20:43 Cernan Yes.
143:20:43 Schmitt I'll set it up for the rake.
143:20:44 Cernan Okay, I'll go up there and get a pan, Jack.
143:20:46 Schmitt Okay. You get that pan - -
143:20:47 CC I - didn't get that soil bag number, Gene - or Jack.
143:20:50 Cernan We've been here - -
143:20:52 Schmitt 500 .
143:20:55 CC Copy that.
143:20:57 PAO We're 2 hours and 46 minutes into this EVA.
143:21:09 Schmitt We're on a pretty good slope, Geno.
143:21:10 Cernan You bet you. And do I know it. Hey - Bob, how long have we been at this station?
143:21:19 CC Stand by. You've been here about 40 minutes right now. Can you believe it?
143:21:27 Cernan Is that right? Is that - all ready? Jack - -
143:21:30 CC And we're going to give you that extra 10 minutes there.
143:21:33 Cernan I can't believe we've been here.
143:21:37 CC That leaves you about 20 minutes; then you'll have to be moving.
143:21:39 Cernan Boy, this pan may be looking - Okay. This pan may be looking right smack in the sides of the Massifs. Only way you can get it is to lean back - and I can't lean downhill.
143:21:56 PAO Jack Schmitt taking a rake sample.
143:22:01 CC Hey. Watch out for that crater behind you there, Geno.
143:22:07 Cernan I'm standing in the crater so I can get level.
143:22:09 CC Yes, we see that.
143:22:10 Cernan Well, I have some good pictures of Nansen, anyway, and -
143:22:30 Cernan You know, I look out there, I'm not sure I really believe it all.
143:22:36 Schmitt Bob, my down-Sun pictures on the rake were taken at f/8. I'm sorry.
143:22:41 CC Okay, copy that ... We'll take it into account.
143:22:46 Cernan This isn't an easy -
143:22:52 Schmitt Okay, I got to get out of my shadow or I can't see what I'm doing.
143:23:23 Cernan I'll be right down there to bag that rake for you.
143:23:26 Schmitt I got to get it first.
143:23:29 Cernan (Laughter) Man, I tell you; can you come downhilJ in a hurry. Going uphill is a nice job. Bob, I'd say we can meet our walkback constraints, if anyone's interested.
143:23:44 CC Okay. I expect it's all downhill from here.
143:23:49 Cernan Well, no, sir. Not exactly.
143:23:52 CC Can you guys see the LM or are you down too far to see the LM?
143:23:54 Cernan ... our walkback constraints. Oh, no. The LM is over about three rises in the Scarp before we can even see it.
143:24:02 CC Okay, I thought that might have happened.
143:24:03 Cernan You're looking - I'm not even at a lev - I'm not even at a level of the last - the last hill we came over.
143:24:12 CC Okay.
143:24:13 Cernan I don't know if you've looked up that way.
143:24:16 CC Roger. We had a feeling for that. I was just checking.
143:24:24 Cernan We can meet them, but I wouldn't stretch them.
143:24:27 CC Okay.
143:24:38 Schmitt Not many small walnut-sized fragments in here, Bob. Gotten about seven or eight.
143:24:44 CC Okay. I copy that.
143:24:56 Schmitt Gene, you got a bag?
143:24:57 Cernan Yes, sir. Right here. How you doing?
143:25:01 Schmitt My hands are getting tired.
143:25:02 Cernan Yes. Bag 501.
143:25:11 Cernan No, there aren't a lot; but that'll fill up a bag.
143:25:15 Schmitt This kilogram of sample site 2?
143:25:17 Cernan I'll have to look; I think so. I think they all are, aren't they? Practically.
143:25:22 CC And this is the one that we would like to get the kilogram of soil from, Jack.
143:25:27 Schmitt Okay. I'll use my scoop for that.
143:25:30 Cernan Bag 501.
143:25:32 CC Copy that, Gene.
143:25:39 Schmitt Okay, what do we have left here?
143:25:42 Cernan We want to get a - I got the high pan.
143:25:50 Cernan ... let me look. They want it - -
143:25:53 Schmitt I don't know how we used up all the time, but we did.
143:25:56 Cernan Okay, my pan, by the way, I got extensive vertical coverage down into Nansen, Bob.
143:26:03 CC Okay. Copy that, Gene. Thank you.
143:26:05 Schmitt ... getting to my ...
143:26:07 Cernan I don't know where the hour went that it took to drive here.
143:26:13 Schmitt Maybe time's different in space. Adventures in space and time.
143:26:19 Cernan We changed 2 hours and 40 minutes. I don't know whether that makes us older or not, but - -
143:26:26 Schmitt Ooops -
143:26:29 Cernan Awrrrrrr -
143:26:31 Schmitt Try again. I got half of it. I got three-quarters of it.
143:26:35 Cernan 502, Bob, will be the kilogram.
143:26:37 CC Copy that.
143:26:38 Schmitt And that's sample down to about 5 - about 4 centimeters - Don't get too close to the camera. Okay.
143:26:47 Cernan Oh, that's a big bag full. Want to put it in mine?
143:26:51 Schmitt It's all right. I can't feel it. You might as well -
143:26:56 Cernan How's your cooling, okay?
143:26:58 Schmitt Cooling's fine. My hands are tired.
143:27:00 Cernan Well, that's natural.
143:27:02 Schmitt Okay, ...
143:27:03 CC Okay. And guys - do you see any more different blocks up there that are worth sampling before you go on down on to the flats and sample the light mantle?
143:27:14 Schmitt We haven't had a chance to look around any more than you've heard.
143:27:17 CC Okay.
143:27:18 Cernan You want a rake and a light mantle here?
143:27:19 CC We want a rake and a light mantle. You might as well get that down by the Rover - later on and -
143:27:23 Schmitt Get an after - get an after, Gene. Gene, get an after.
143:27:27 Cernan Yes. Got it, got it, got it, got it.
143:27:31 CC Then you might look around - -
143:27:32 Schmitt I'm sorry, Bob. Go ahead.
143:27:33 CC - - ... documented samples there - up on the slope of the massif, before you move down the flatter light mantle areas by the Rover. Just do the other sampling.
143:27:42 Schmitt We - we will.
143:27:46 Cernan Okay, Bob. Jack got the befores on the rake and I got the after.
143:27:49 CC Okay; we have that.
143:27:58 Cernan Okay, Bob, here are two rocks side by side, a meter or two in diameter. And one is the anorthositic gabbro, if I can use the term; and the other is the - is that two-cycle breccia.
143:28:16 Cernan Oh, that's the way to come downhill.
143:28:19 Schmitt Just don't stub your toe.
143:28:21 Cernan Man, that's the way to come downhill.
143:28:23 Schmitt Hey, Gene.
143:28:24 Cernan Yes.
143:28:25 Schmitt Set up right there. Let's get that - let's get that big clast.
143:28:28 Cernan There's a fram - a fracture right in there I want to get near. Oh, the clast. Yes.
143:28:31 Schmitt Yes, sir.
143:28:32 Cernan Good eye, good eye.
143:28:34 Schmitt Big white clast - in the two-cy - in the gray-mat rix breccia.
143:28:39 Cernan Good eye. Man, that's a prize. Let me get this over here so I can ...
143:28:43 Schmitt I think you can even get it.
143:28:45 Cernan I can get both sides. I want to get this big - Yes, I think I can get that. I'm going to try. Oh. I can't believe the trouble I have with f-stops.
143:29:03 Schmitt Okay.
143:29:06 Cernan Now, I want to try and take this piece off first.
143:29:13 Schmitt Pretty hard, isn't it? That boulder's going to roll.
143:29:17 Cernan Man, that is hard. There's the same clast over there.
143:29:26 Schmitt Well, we get - -
143:29:28 Cernan That clast is soft.
143:29:29 Schmitt Can you use your - your blade end?
143:29:32 Cernan Yes. Yes, let me get that little piece, anyway, to start with. Got it. There's two more pieces.
143:29:42 Schmitt Okay. Before we cover them up, let's get them.
143:29:46 Cernan I got to get a sample of that mother rock.
143:29:49 Schmitt Okay, there you go.
143:29:51 Cernan The other one's right there.
143:29:55 Schmitt Okay.
143:29:56 Cernan Now, I'm going to see if I can't get a sample -
143:29:57 Schmitt Want to try to hit that one more time. I think we've got another one coming there. There's another little one.
143:30:12 Schmitt That looks almost like a rhyolite from here. I don't believe it, though.
143:30:18 Cernan No, that's not - -
143:30:19 Schmitt I think that's it. Got a bag? Okay, this is a fine-grained - but crystalline white clast - in the gray breccia; and it's mixed with soil. We had to pick up a little soil. 503.
143:30:39 Cernan I guess they're all there, aren't they?
143:30:40 Schmitt I think they are. There are three clasts, anyway - or three fragments that we got off. Chips.
143:30:47 Cernan Let me get a piece of the rock it's in. And I'm going to take a closeup stereo of that.
143:30:52 Schmitt Okay, don't get it - Okay.
143:31:07 Cernan See it?
143:31:08 Schmitt Yes. See it? You hit me with it.
143:31:13 Cernan Well - -
143:31:14 Schmitt I tried to catch it.
143:31:16 Cernan Bob, you still there?
143:31:17 CC Roger. Still there. Listening with great delight.
143:31:22 Cernan I believe ... the piece that came off there, though, Jack.
143:31:25 Schmitt I got another piece of it up here.
143:31:28 Cernan And I'd roll that downhill - -
143:31:30 Schmitt Okay, the - the host rock for that - that inclusion of white material will be in bag - What is it?
143:31:42 Cernan 504.
143:31:42 Schmitt 504. Two chips with soil. Okay.
143:31:47 PAO Heart rate is running in the 90s.
143:31:51 Cernan Getting heavy?
143:31:52 Schmitt What? The bag?
143:31:53 Cernan Yes.
143:31:53 Schmitt No. Just the scoop.
143:31:55 Cernan Just make sure they're closed so they don't - -
143:31:58 Schmitt I wore my hand out holding that camera together coming out here.
143:32:01 Cernan We're getting some samples this time. I want to get a far - an after, and I want to get a closeup stereo of that. And I'm going to get some pictures around this block, too.
143:32:10 Schmitt Okay.
143:32:12 Cernan There's an after and now I'm going to get - sort of a closeup stereo around it. That ought to do it.
143:32:21 Schmitt Hey, Bob, while he's doing that, there's a real good example of pit-bottom crater up here even on this talus slope. I'll try to take a stereo of it.
143:32:37 CC Okay, Jack, that sounds great. I guess there's always a problem of getting the in-place, glass, if you think that's appropriate at this point. Word along those lines, though, is we'd like your Rover moving in 11 minutes; so it's probably not appropriate at this time on that.
143:32:52 Schmitt Okay, there isn't any glass in this - this crater - you can see it with your TV.
143:32:55 CC Okay; copy that.
143:32:57 Schmitt It's just bigger - it's bigger than the average crater. And it still has that pit, the pit being about a third of the diameter of the - the inner diameter of the crater - third of the - make it a fourth of the rim diameter, that's easier.
143:33:16 CC Copy that.
143:33:18 Cernan Jack, can I look - can I look at that closely?
143:33:21 Schmitt Look at what?
143:33:21 Cernan Hold the rake a second. We got to be moving in how many minutes, Bob?
143:33:31 CC We'd like to have you moving in 10 minutes, which means - allow about, you know, the - the usual 3 or 4 or 5 minutes for closeout - before that time.
143:33:41 Cernan Okay, we'll get hustling.
143:33:44 Schmitt Okay, Bob. That white-colored inclusion we sampled looks like a strange -
143:33:51 Cernan Look out, Jack.
143:33:57 CC It's the old boulder-rolling trick.
143:33:59 Cernan How about getting a soil sample under there?
143:34:02 CC Don't hit the Rover.
143:34:06 Cernan Get that - get that sample under there, Jack. Under that rock.
143:34:10 Schmitt Okay. Got a bag?
143:34:12 Cernan Got a bag.
143:34:15 Schmitt The soil from right underneath the rock - down to about 4 centimeters - in 505. And I'll try to skim it here a little, too. Get the upper - centimeter.
143:34:44 Cernan Bob, this big white clast - I'm not sure there aren't - some smaller ones in some of those other big boulders. That's just an intuitive guess.
143:34:51 Schmitt Oh, there are.
143:34:51 Cernan But we never saw any as obviously big, as gross as this one. Such as this particular boulder I photographed, I had three of them other than the one we sampled. And that's 505 - and 506, in that order.
143:35:09 CC Okay; we copy that.
143:35:11 Cernan On the -
143:35:13 CC And by now, probably the best thing for you guys - -
143:35:15 Schmitt Bob, that rock - -
143:35:16 CC - - to do is to go back to the Rover and pick up the rake samples. Go ahead, Jack.
143:35:24 Schmitt That - -
143:35:26 Cernan I'll get it.
143:35:27 Schmitt Okay. That rock - that clast - white clast - I looked at it, and it has a light, pastel-green - fairly rounded crystals in a fine-grained white to light pinkish-tan matrix. And you can figure that one out. Looks like olivine and something.
143:35:53 CC Roger on that. Sounds like a rainbow.
143:35:55 Schmitt It might be a - No, it's not those - the colors aren't that distinct, Bob. I was just giving you shades.
143:36:04 CC Okay; Roger.
143:36:09 Cernan Hey, Bob, have you panned - down into Nansen and seen this rock that's - oh, 30 or 40 meters from us? To give you an idea of the kind of upslope filleting you have on some of those boulders.
143:36:21 CC Okay, We'll - -
143:36:22 Cernan It's down to your right.
143:36:23 CC Okay. We'll send Ed over there to look at it.
143:36:27 Schmitt Yes, I'll help him.
143:36:29 Cernan I don't think you got enough time.
143:36:32 CC Okay, we'd like you guys to get going on the rake sample. We'd like a handle on the rake there.
143:36:38 Schmitt Okay, We're going to - I'm going to have to move out here a ways, Geno.
143:36:44 Cernan Okay.
143:36:49 Schmitt Coming right there.
143:36:49 Cernan Right there is what I'm looking at.
143:36:51 CC Okay. We're going to check it out; thank you.
143:37:00 Cernan And there's no sense trying to get 500s up. Well - Let's see what happens.
143:37:06 CC Okay. Also, we're running out of - there's no time to get 500s either, unfortunately. We're planning on Station 4, which will be a better perspective distance anyway.
143:37:16 Schmitt Yes, I was going to say there's no sense in trying to get them up the massif; I don't think you'll see anything up there.
143:37:20 CC Okay.
143:37:25 Schmitt Gene. You getting your pan?
143:37:27 Cernan Yes. I said where do you want it?
143:37:28 Schmitt Well, right over there where there's some fragments. And you get the -
143:37:31 Cernan I'll get the before and the locator.
143:37:33 Schmitt Okay, and then I'll get the down.
143:38:07 Schmitt Okay. (Laughter) ... to take pictures.
143:38:18 Cernan Yes. Let me tell you, you just got to think an order of magnitude bigger than what you're normally are accustomed to thinking.
143:38:25 Schmitt Okay, pan's complete.
143:38:26 Cernan Okay, let's get the rake sample so we can move on. Bob, I couldn't get those 500s anyway. It would require me to pitch up too far, and there's no way I could do it.
143:38:42 CC Okay. No, we're definitely not in favor of that, Gene, at this area.
143:38:48 Cernan I know, I'm just mulling it over, but there really isn't any way I could get them.
143:38:52 CC Okay.
143:38:55 Schmitt Boy, I tell you -
143:38:56 Cernan How are your hands? Let me rake that a little bit.
143:38:57 Schmitt Well, it's all right; there just aren't any rocks. Should have brought the scoop and used the old shovel trick.
143:39:05 Cernan There's a couple, keep going. There sure aren't, are there?
143:39:17 CC Okay, do you have any feeling - do you have that hard layer underneath there like you did yesterday, when you raked at Station 1, Jack?
143:39:24 Cernan There's one under the gnomon you can get.
143:39:28 Schmitt Several I thought were rocks turned out to be clods.
143:39:30 Cernan Yes, that's what most of them are is clods. How do you get clods if it's never been wet? You're not getting any. You've had three in there ever since the last four scoops.
143:39:41 Schmitt Yes. There just aren't many.
143:39:43 Cernan 507.
143:39:45 CC Okay, copy 507, very few.
143:39:47 Cernan Three rocks. Yes, you got about four rocks - about 2 inches and smaller.
143:39:54 Schmitt And let me get the down-Sun which - -
143:39:58 CC Okay, let's just get the soil and press on. We'd like to move in 3 minutes, 3 minutes.
143:40:06 Cernan Okay, you got it?
143:40:07 Schmitt Yes.
143:40:08 Cernan Okay. Let me put this in your bag and we'll ... forget the soil.
143:40:11 Schmitt Forget the soil?
143:40:12 Cernan He wants us moving in 3 minutes. So let's go.
143:40:16 Schmitt Well -
143:40:17 CC No, get the soil, guys. Get the soil. Don't, forget the soil; get the soil.
143:40:21 Schmitt Yes, we want it.
143:40:24 Cernan I'm sorry, I thought you said to skip it.
143:40:27 Cernan Got your bag?
143:40:28 Schmitt Yes. Maybe a little messy.
143:40:32 Cernan That's all right.
143:40:44 Schmitt One-scoop-Schmitt, they call me.
143:40:46 Cernan That's good. That's bag 508.
143:40:48 CC Copy that.
143:40:53 Cernan You'll have to start putting some of these samples in my bag. You're getting a full bag for Christmas here.
143:41:00 Schmitt Is it so full we ought to change it?
143:41:01 Cernan Yes. Let's do that after we get to the next station, though.
143:41:06 Schmitt Well - okay.
143:41:08 Cernan We ought to start moving out of here.
143:41:09 Schmitt Yes, let's go.
143:41:10 Cernan Let me get one after of the area that we messed up.
143:41:26 CC Beautiful station, guys; just simply beautiful. Almost deserves a Falcon code.
143:41:34 Schmitt Man, I'll tell you. (Laughter) Falcon 109. I couldn't help that, Bob; it's just too beautiful.
143:41:48 Cernan Hey, Jack, will you look where we kicked up this stuff. There's some light - the light - well, I can't see it now, I'm looking in - -
143:41:53 Schmitt I can see. There's a light-colored fragment I think we break into.
143:41:56 Cernan Yes, we kick it up.
143:41:57 Schmitt They are light-colored clods.
143:41:59 Cernan And when I was walking uphill, I really wasn't sinking in probably more than an inch or two.
143:42:04 Schmitt Why don't you - can you - want to take this bag off of me?
143:42:06 Cernan Yes, sir.
143:42:07 Schmitt I'll get one out. We can use this one.
143:42:10 Cernan Yes. Because we want to get rolling.
143:42:15 CC Okay, 17, there's a couple of things here, while your getting undone there. There's our housekeeping to close out. Change those bags. We'd also like to get the SEP turned on, and you might read us the temperature when you turn it on. And other than that, stowing the TV and low gain antenna and you're on your way. We've taken care of the gravimeter already.
143:42:40 Cernan What do you think? Did our reading change much, Bob?
143:42:44 CC Which one?
143:42:45 Schmitt Make sure that's locked on there.
143:42:47 Cernan Yes, it is locked; make sure the cap's locked. Okay, bag 8 is on the gate, and Jack's getting bag 4.
143:42:54 CC Okay; copy that. Copy that.
143:43:02 Cernan Boy, I know my camera's going to be - -
143:43:04 CC You copy on the SEP receiver turn on and temperature?
143:43:09 Schmitt Right. You want that closed?
143:43:14 Cernan Yes.
143:43:14 Schmitt Mag.
143:43:15 Cernan We got that, Bob.
143:43:17 Schmitt It's closed.
143:43:17 Cernan Okay.
143:43:19 Schmitt Okay.
143:43:19 CC Okay. 17, take all that back, we've just had a change of heart back here. And we're not going to turn the SEP on, just cover it up. And you might give us a temperature reading as you go by; that'll help us think what to do with it.
143:43:32 Cernan It's about 98.
143:43:34 CC Copy 98, then leave them both off.
143:43:41 Cernan Okay.
143:43:43 CC 17, John and Charlie are kind of advising you to put that SC - that full SCB underneath the seat to keep - make sure the top doesn't bounce open and lose some of those rocks.
143:43:56 Cernan Well, you can't take better advice than from those who have been here.
143:43:59 CC Roger on that.
143:44:01 Cernan Their advice has been pretty good so far.
143:44:06 CC I won't pass that on to them, I think they -
143:44:19 Cernan These locks are clamming up, Jack. I can't unlock that one now.
143:44:28 Schmitt Can you lock that one?
143:44:34 Cernan They all get sticky.
143:44:38 Schmitt That one just didn't want to work any more.
143:44:42 Cernan Let me see. It isn't moving either way. This one - this one was sticky, too. Let me see.
143:44:53 Schmitt OUT's open, right?
143:44:54 Cernan Huh?
143:44:55 Schmitt OUT is open - -
143:44:56 Cernan OUT is OPEN, yes. Let me try once more if I have to - Here I got it.
143:45:03 Schmitt Okay, those are really getting dusty. I'll hit those with a dust brush next time around.
143:45:13 Cernan Charge that time up to John and Charlie!
143:45:25 Schmitt Okay. What haven't we done?
143:45:29 Cernan Okay. I got to get the camera. Okay, Bob, I'm taking your camera.
143:45:36 CC Okay, looks like it's in the right place, as long as it's turned around. Good coordination.
143:45:42 Cernan Yes, sir. Okay. We read the TGE, I'm going MODE 1.
143:45:50 CC Roger on that. Okay; we lost the picture.
143:45:52 CC And give me a call when you guys get rolling.
143:45:58 Schmitt Okay.
143:45:59 CC And we'd like frames when it's convenient on you guys.
143:46:05 PAO We'll be without a picture until the crew gets to Station 3, which is at the base of the scarp about half way from Station 2 to Station 4 which is near the crater Shorty.
143:46:05 Schmitt Okay, Bob.
143:46:16 Schmitt Okay. LMP is at hG.
143:46:20 CC Copy that.
143:46:22 Cernan And CDR, is at, if I stop long enough, 113.
143:46:30 CC Copy. 113.
143:46:35 Schmitt Oh, look at that. Boy, I tell you. Okay, Geno, why don't I follow our tracks back; well, until we get over the big hump and then we can start picking our way to 3.
143:46:58 Cernan I've got 3 pretty well spotted.
143:47:03 Schmitt Okay. Okay, low gain is set, and heading about 035 - oh, let me set this thing out of the way again. This has been giving me more trouble.
143:47:20 Cernan What's that? The hammer?
143:47:22 Schmitt Yes, the handle.
143:47:23 Cernan Oh, getting caught in there?
143:47:26 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We're ready, we're rolling. You need any readings?
143:47:33 CC No, no readings called out. And when you get going, I'll give you a little advice on what we're going to do on the way to Station 3.
143:47:42 Schmitt Well, let me tell you a few things first, Bob.
143:47:45 CC Okay, start telling me.
143:47:46 Schmitt I think those two - -
143:47:49 Cernan We're rolling!
143:47:51 Schmitt All right. Those two major kinds of blocks that we sampled there - it was about the two varieties we saw in the area, it's a long extrapolation I realize, but they do resemble in color, and I believe in texture, the blue-gray rocks and the light tan rocks up on the Massif. So I feel confident that - fairly confident that we sampled at least the two major units visible from a ditance in the South Massif.
143:48:27 CC Excellent, excellent.
143:48:30 Schmitt I think that there is some - a lot of postmission work to be done on correlating the angularity and possibly even the albedoes of the rocks we sampled with those on the Massif. We should have good - good pictures of them - of both from a distance and up close.
143:48:52 CC Okay. I'm reminding you - -
143:48:54 Schmitt So we may be able ... - -
143:48:54 CC - - That extrapolation is the nature of our art.
143:48:59 Schmitt Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. And, Bob, I'm not going to - How sun I on the film?
143:49:09 Cernan Oh, my golly! Look at that valley!
143:49:11 CC Stand by. I'll get that for you, Jack - -
143:49:13 Cernan I think there's a - -
143:49:13 CC I'm picking you up fairly well, now. And before you guys get too far, a couple of comments we want to do on the way. If - there is a Rover sample stop in your checklist, it used to be at the 073 and 6.3; it's the first thing there, halfway out to Hole-in-the-Wall. And we're now going to have that Rover sample stop at 078 and 7.0. That should be along your tracks going home. So, about 078 and 7.0, we'll have the Rover sample stop. And the gravimeter people have won today, and we're going to stop and get off the Rover and get a gravimeter reading at that location. We're taking out another stop, I'm not sure quite where. And right now, Jack, you're right on on the film says a little note in front of me.
143:50:01 Schmitt Okay. I'll take pictures, then.
143:50:04 Cernan Bcb, we're on the top, coming off the highest lobe of the scarp looking back into the valley. And it's quite a scene back there, but we still cannot see the LM. That may be it - I don't know.
143:50:17 Schmitt Hey, turn a partial pan, I know it's into the Sun. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
143:50:23 Cernan Okay. Let's take one from right here. I want - I want the whole thing.
143:50:27 Cernan You ready to start?
143:50:28 Schmitt Yes, I got it.
143:50:29 Cernan Start taking. Well, that's -
143:50:32 Cernan Take the whole thing.
143:50:33 Schmitt Go ahead.
143:50:35 Cernan Get around this crater.
143:50:36 Schmitt I got a pan down in the valley. This is just going to be right into the -
143:50:40 Cernan Yes. Don't take that one. Get it up as we come around. You get it? There we go.
143:50:44 Schmitt Okay.
143:50:45 Cernan That's the one we want. And you got the valley?
143:50:48 Schmitt Yes. Keep going. Okay. Keep turning around over there, and I'll get that scarp.
143:50:53 Cernan That's beautiful.
143:50:54 Schmitt Isn't that something? Man, you talk about a mysterious looking place. They can cut some frames - some parts of those pictures out and make a nice photograph. (Laughter) TV cameras, maps -
143:51:14 Schmitt Okay, looking at the north man - the light mantle. No more comments except that by that rake sample and just looking, there's certainly is - are fewer fragments than we saw at Station 2. The main thing that we can tell about the light mantle and when we're on it, of course, is the light-colored craters. The fresher craters all appear to be light colored. As they get older, they seem to -the albedo goes down and potentially have been dusted with material from the dark mantle or from other sites. Either that or it's just the lunar patination that we're all familiar with.
143:51:30 Cernan You know, it's a shame. They could have had TV coming down here because my heading isn't going to change much at all. The high gain could have been on the whole time.
143:52:00 Schmitt Bob, none of the craters out here in the light mantle appear to show - they've got new bedrock. Almost all of them are instant rock craters.
143:52:21 Cernan Say, Bob. Give me that bearing and range again for the - -
143:52:24 Schmitt 70 right here.
143:52:24 Cernan What is it?
143:52:24 CC 078 and 7.0
143:52:27 Cernan - - up on the hill. How about 071 and 7.0? Will that do?
143:52:34 CC Yes. I think that that will be enough to hack it.
143:52:39 Cernan Well, if not, we can go down there.
143:52:41 CC No, no, no. Stay on the road - stay on the road you're on.
143:52:48 Cernan Well, I'm not on any road, but I'm stopping here.
143:52:52 CC I thought you guys were making a road -
143:52:53 Cernan 071.
143:52:54 CC Roger.
143:52:54 Cernan Let me turn it off.
143:52:57 CC Yes, also - -
143:52:57 Schmitt ... 98 and 70.
143:53:03 CC Okay. And the Rover ... should be fairly flat for the ole gravimeter.
143:53:11 Cernan Uh oh.
143:53:12 Cernan Well - That means we have to change here.
143:53:15 Schmitt Hey, right over here to my right - -
143:53:17 Cernan Okay.
143:53:18 Schmitt Maybe it's the best we can do, but it's still going to be on a slope.
143:53:21 Cernan Well, I'll level it off on a local - -
143:53:22 Schmitt On it?
143:53:23 Cernan Yes. Go ahead. I'm on. Do you see -
143:53:27 Schmitt Yes, I see it. Right there.
143:53:28 Cernan On the rim of that crater that's builded up a little bit? Right up here. What's your - can you tell your roll? Okay, now that's about aero right there. What's your roll?
143:53:42 Schmitt Let me turn this off.
143:53:46 Cernan What's your roll indicator ...
143:53:47 Schmitt Oh zero.
143:53:48 Cernan Zero?
143:53:49 Schmitt Yes.
143:53:50 Cernan I'll punch it.
143:53:51 Schmitt You'll change it as soon as you get off.
143:53:55 Cernan Oh, it's zero.
143:53:56 Schmitt Oh, you got to get off anyway?
143:53:57 Cernan Do I have to get off for this?
143:53:58 CC Roger. Both of you get off.
143:54:00 Schmitt ... gravimeter reading.
143:54:01 Cernan Why should I have to get off?
143:54:03 CC So you don't move the ole gravimeter.
143:54:04 Schmitt Think you can hold still?
143:54:04 Cernan Yes. I'll hold still.
143:54:06 CC Negative on that, Gene.
143:54:07 Cernan Okay, Bob. Give me your sampler cause that's the other thing I have to do.
143:54:11 CC Yes. We'll get bag samples here - Rover samples, at least.
143:54:13 Cernan But you need me off to sample?
143:54:15 CC Roger. We want Jack - Gene and Jack both off.
143:54:17 Cernan Well, if you need me off; Jack, just punch it.
143:54:20 Schmitt Okay. Hold still. They don't know anything about your PLSS noise.
143:54:23 Cernan We'll get off.
143:54:24 Schmitt Ya I think ...
143:54:24 CC Gene, we'd like both of you off.
143:54:27 Schmitt 07 - 071, 9.8, and 7.0, Bob.
143:54:33 CC Got that.
143:54:50 Cernan Don't push it yet - did you?
143:54:51 Schmitt No.
143:54:59 Cernan Okay. Go ahead. Push it.
143:55:02 Schmitt Let me wait until it settles down here.
143:55:08 Cernan This thing is off tape START, isn't it? Huh?
143:55:13 Schmitt If this thing doesn't change.
143:55:14 Cernan Oh, that should be good - -
143:55:16 Schmitt Yes, it does change - vibrate a couple of times.
143:55:20 Cernan Huh?
143:55:21 Schmitt Vibrate a couple of times.
143:55:21 Cernan No, the settings.
143:55:22 Schmitt Oh, I don't know - yes, they'll change.
143:55:27 Cernan Okay. Quiet Rover. Gravity.
143:55:30 Schmitt MARK it.
143:55:31 CC Copy that.
143:55:32 Schmitt Say, Bob, I need a quick f-stop for the 500.
143:55:36 CC F-stop.
143:55:38 Schmitt It's the same - it's the same film.
143:55:40 CC Stand by.
143:55:43 Schmitt Hey, Bob, can I punch it again?
143:55:47 CC Oh yes. Go to STANDBY and then punch it again.
143:55:48 Cernan ... time out, do you? Go to STANDBY.
143:55:51 Schmitt Stand by.
143:55:52 Cernan Stand by, Jack.
143:55:54 PAO Ron Evans in America is on his 29th lunar revolution. We'll be acquiring him in 14 minutes. In addition to the experiments that he's been performing he's been doing a considerable amount of visual science descriptions. Ron is on his flight plan.
143:55:54 Cernan Okay.
143:55:54 Schmitt MARK it.
143:55:54 CC Copy that.
143:56:10 CC Okay. And, Geno, f-stop for the 500 millimeter should be the same as - for the 70.
143:56:17 Cernan Okay.
143:56:37 CC And, Jack, I presume you're getting some Rover samples here off the Rover.
143:56:58 Schmitt Bag 30 Easy.
143:57:04 CC Copy. 30 Easy. Are you guys finding much in the way of rocks here?
143:57:16 Cernan I'm looking. I can get you some instant rock out of a small pit crater - pit bottom crater.
143:57:26 Schmitt Bob, up to frame count 36 is the outcrop on the - or boulders at the top of the South Massif.
143:57:36 CC Okay.
143:57:44 Schmitt Bag 31 Easy. Instant rock out of a 2-meter pit bottom crater - off the inner wall.
143:57:56 CC Copy that.
143:57:56 Schmitt Well, let's make it 30 centimeters down from the rim.
143:58:03 CC Okay.
143:58:28 CC Okay, and 17, we've got about 30 seconds left for that gravimeter reading. You want to be finishing up the task and getting back toward the Rover.
143:58:44 Cernan Okay.
143:58:50 Schmitt Okay, Bob. And through frame count 57 are the North Massif and - from part of the western portions to part of the eastern portions.
143:59:01 CC Okay, now; and what was that frame count?
143:59:13 CC Okay. Copy the 57, there.
143:59:17 Cernan Here's something different - here's a little - -
143:59:26 PAO EVA time 3 hours 24 minutes.
143:59:31 CC Hey, guys, we're ready for the gravimeter reading. And we'd like a frame count from you, Jack. I guess if you'd prefer - -
143:59:36 Schmitt A chunk of yellow - yellow-brown rock that apparently has several spots behind it, probably indicating direction from which it came - Oh, no, what is that? That's a reflection (laughter). That really fooled me. A reflection off the mylar (laughter). Crazy. Well, what the heck, I'll sample it anyway.
144:00:08 Cernan Okay. Let me get my antenna set so - it's not quite - -
144:00:12 Schmitt Is it through reading?
144:00:14 Cernan Yes, it's through reading. I'll - Probably read it better by now, Bob. I've got Family Mountain and some of the hills way up to the right of Family Mountain. I'm at 67 on the - on the - 500 and I'll give you the reading on the gravimeter.
144:00:32 CC Okay. Copy. 67 on Family Mountain.
144:00:36 Cernan Did you get the other words on the 500?
144:00:39 CC Roger. Copied them all.
144:00:44 Cernan Well, you were reading at probably a 90-degree low-gain angle.
144:00:48 CC Roger. We've been reading them on the LM also.
144:00:49 Schmitt Thirty-two Easy is another - just small - another small fragment.
144:00:54 CC You know what I need?
144:00:56 Cernan Okay, 670, 123, 501 - 670, 123 501.
144:01:02 CC Okay. Copy that, Geno. And we're ready for you guys to go on at your earliest convenience.
144:01:08 Cernan Do you want me to load the LRV sampler?
144:01:11 Schmitt Go ahead. Yes.
144:01:30 CC And, Jack, is that your last LRV sample bag?
144:01:35 Schmitt I only had one left, but it's loaded now.
144:01:38 CC Okay.
144:01:47 Cernan You did get the reading, right, Bob?
144:01:49 CC Roger. Got the reading.
144:01:54 Cernan Okay. We're buttoning up.
144:01:56 CC Okay. And if you've got something - If you don't have one left for that sample at Hole-in-the-Wall, Jack, we'd like you to get a new set of sample bags .
144:02:06 Schmitt We've got it.
144:02:06 CC Okay. Got it. And still understand that 32 Echo was your last sample.
144:02:16 Schmitt Thirty-two Echo. Got three here.
144:02:19 CC Okay.
144:02:20 Cernan Oh, oh.
144:02:22 Schmitt Okay?
144:02:24 Cernan Yes.
144:02:25 Schmitt Need some help?
144:02:27 Cernan No. I've got the Rover.
144:02:30 Schmitt Was that me?
144:02:30 Cernan No.
144:02:34 Cernan That was interesting. Bob, about 2 inches below the surface here, you ran into that very - that blue-gray material down there and it just - it's in little clods, and it breaks apart in your hands.
144:02:51 Schmitt Yes, that's right.
144:02:52 Cernan Did you get some of that in your Rover sample?
144:02:54 Schmitt No, but I got it out of that instant rock crater.
144:02:58 Cernan Just grab a quick Rover sample and we'll take off.
144:02:59 Schmitt That's why - that was a pretty interesting (laughter) episode.
144:03:06 Cernan Yes. Well, you know, we haven't been trenching like we should or we would have - -
144:03:11 Schmitt ... really those trenches - those craters are giving us the same information. That there's a light-colored material underneath.
144:03:24 CC Okay. 175 we're ready for you guys to move on and we'd like to eliminate the Rover sample at Hole-in-the-Wall.
144:03:36 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're getting on now.
144:03:39 CC Copy that.
144:03:43 Cernan We got on a minute ago (laughter)
144:03:48 CC And, do I understand that these Rover samples, Jack, are in your pockets?
144:03:55 Schmitt No. They're in the bag on the Rover.
144:03:58 CC Okay.
144:03:59 Schmitt 40 Yankee.
144:04:01 CC Copy that.
144:04:04 Schmitt That's light-colored soil from a depth of about - it's mixed with a little of the upper surface, but mostly light-colored soil from a depth of about 15 centimeters.
144:04:20 Cernan Wonder what would I do for an encore?
144:04:28 Schmitt It looks like the light mantle in here is covered with dark to a depth of about 5 or 10 centimeters.
144:04:42 Cernan You might want to go MIN, Jack, on your diverter.
144:04:45 Schmitt Right now, I'm sort of warm.
144:04:47 Cernan Okay. When we start driving, you might want to go.
144:04:48 Schmitt I'm going to zap myself with a cold. I can do it on here.
144:04:55 Cernan Did you take any pictures at all while you were there?
144:04:57 Schmitt Oh, yes. I didn't take a pan. Why don't you turn right to a -
144:05:03 Cernan Okay, Bob. If you read, we're rolling.
144:05:08 CC Okay. Mark that.
144:05:09 Cernan Making a right-hand turn for a pan.
144:05:10 Schmitt Left. Let me see where we're going. I guess ... again. You know, a little more and that hole would have been in the way. We left some of our litter.
144:05:32 Cernan Not a complete pan but it will show the location.
144:05:40 Schmitt Okay. LMP frame count 80.
144:05:44 CC Copy that; 80.
144:05:46 Schmitt Okay. Geno, you're heading for a spot that's about 080/5.5, approximately. And -
144:05:54 Schmitt Okay.
144:05:55 CC Yes, you guys following ... form or not?
144:05:57 Schmitt Do you have an update?
144:05:59 Cernan No.
144:06:01 CC Okay; and - Roger. The Hole-in-the-Wall should be at about 080 or maybe 5.7. And we're not going to stop and get a Rover sample at Hole-in-the-Wall.
144:06:14 Cernan What about Station 3?
144:06:17 Cernan Okay, that sounds reasonable because it's just nothing but lots of rolling terrain.
144:06:25 Schmitt Okay. Bob, I - I think we have a good sample of only partially contaminated light mantle in that last Rover sample that Gene accidentally discovered was right under our feet. It's almost certainly the light-colored material that's the crater - we've been talking about in the walls of the craters. And, as a matter of fact, that instant rock sample I took was light-colored and probably represents the same stuff, indurated slightly.
144:06:57 Cernan Light-colored mantle has that bluish tint that you saw in those rocks.
144:07:00 Schmitt Yes.
144:07:03 Schmitt I still don't think there's anything. We ought to - we ought to get a core in this light mantle sometime; and probably Station 3 is going to be the place. I hope that's still in the agenda.
144:07:19 CC Roger. It's still in the agenda.
144:07:23 Cernan Say, Bob, can you update tne mileage on Station 3?
144:07:28 CC Okay, you want mileage to it or do you want the range and bearing at it?
144:07:34 Cernan Well, range and bearing at it.
144:07:37 CC Okay. Stand by.
144:07:41 Cernan The Hole-in-the-Wall is fairly nebulous.
144:07:44 CC Okay, we're going to say about 089 and 6.1 for Station 3.
144:07:52 Cernan Okay.
144:08:01 CC Do you want to hear another range and bearing right now?
144:08:01 Cernan Do you get the feeling that we're the only ones out here, Jack? Looking around - 073, 10.3, 6.6.
144:08:10 CC Copy that.
144:08:16 Schmitt Bob, I have a feeling that whatever darkens the - Ooh, there's a beautiful little glass-lined crater, pit bottom crater - whatever darkens the light mantle is not a - a one-time-only mantling of darker material. It's something that happens over a period of time, continually, because craters of all sizes and apparent degradation are dark - darkened and there are lighter craters that are light to varying degrees, there seems to be a continuing - continuum of albedo change.
144:09:08 Cernan You know that little crater on the side of the North Massif that we're thinking about going to doesn't look nearly as light-colored or haloed as it does in pictures, does it?
144:09:20 Schmitt You mean - Yes - no.
144:09:32 Cernan Now, let's see where we are, I don't want to run into that big crater at the foot of the - -
144:09:38 Schmitt I think you're almost to the rim.
144:09:40 Cernan Yes, I want to go down here if I can. My tracks are over there to the left, I haven't crossed them yet.
144:09:45 Schmitt 073, 6.3.
144:09:49 CC Copy that.
144:09:52 Schmitt LMP frame count is 86.
144:09:58 CC Copy 86.
144:10:09 Schmitt Boy, that's a sight, isn't it?
144:10:12 Cernan That's spectacular.
144:10:13 Schmitt I don't know why something that's all approximately the same hue should -
144:10:20 Cernan The lack of color has got to contribute to the inability to judge distance.
144:10:26 Schmitt See the lobes coming out - looks like lobes out from the Scarp. The Scarp rather being a line in there on the, on the plain, appear to be lobes. I got a couple of shots of that. Whereas when it gets up on the Massif, it's a fairly continuous curve; although it does appear to be younger, at least - at least there's less relief on it for the first few kilometers of that bend there.
144:11:02 Cernan We're going to have to go down like the way we came because there's that big crater down at the bottom, I'm afraid.
144:11:06 CC Yes, I think we agree with that suggestion, too.
144:11:14 Schmitt Bob, the Scarp, so-called Scarp, impresses me as less of a scarp than a series of - of lobes which roughly have a north-south trend. And we've been driving over various hummocks within those lobes.
144:11:43 CC Okay, copy that.
144:11:48 Cernan I think we made a gross mistake in not trying to let them get TV, my heading hasn't changed much at all here. They would have a spectacular view. Look at it out in that valley, Jack.
144:11:58 Schmitt Yes.
144:12:01 Cernan Good lord. I still don't know where the LM is - I see it, I think. The shadow or blob - that's the only sharp shadow out there right in the - because you sure can't make out the craters from here, can you? Okay, hold on. Over the hill and down the rale. Man, I tell you, this machine is fantastic.
144:12:35 Schmitt Yes; Watch it. (Laughter)
144:12:38 Cernan Quite a machine.
144:12:39 Schmitt Likes to spin when you turn going down hill.
144:12:42 Cernan Quite a machine.
144:12:47 Schmitt But - I think you've got something right ahead of you. Here -
144:12:50 Cernan I got it.
144:12:51 Schmitt See the instant rock.
144:12:52 Cernan I got it. You know, the crater doesn't look nearly as bad from here, but it sure is deep when you get up there. We'll just - I'll meander around it over next to this next little lobe then I'll head down that next one - the first lobe we came up - and then along it.
144:13:06 Schmitt Okay, there's Lara, and I think we can see station - Watch it, watch it, watch it.
144:13:17 Cernan Okay, I'm going through it slow.
144:13:25 Schmitt Beautiful. (laughter) I figured we'd buckle the LCRU with that one.
144:13:32 Cernan I'll bet they can watch this road. My heart rate just dictates the kind of terrain we're going over.
144:13:44 Schmitt Okay - Houston, we're navigating and not talking. Sorry. But the light mantle is a fair - is a uniform surface and I think you've heard just about everything we've had to say so far.
144:14:05 CC Roger. Your conun's great and you guys are doing good work.
144:14:08 Schmitt The fragment population is not - the fragment population hasn't changed, nor has the crater population, as near as I can tell. I hope the LRV photos will give you more details than that. Okay, Gene, do you have the target over there, that set of - -
144:14:29 Cernan Yes. Yes, I got to get over to this next knoll and I'm going to be off the Scarp. We're about three-quarters of the way down.
144:14:39 PAO Heart rates while on the Rover are in the 80s.
144:14:40 Cernan Isn't that sharp shadow out there the LM? See it way out there? Almost under the Sun. It's got to be. It's the only sharp shadow out there. Right under the Sun, straight down there.
144:14:54 Schmitt Probably.
144:14:55 Cernan Okay, I'm going to try to make it down this. Hold on.
144:14:59 Schmitt This is what?
144:15:00 Cernan This is the one we climbed up.
144:15:02 Schmitt Oh, there's Nemo over there to my right.
144:15:03 Cernan Yes, sir. This is the one we climbed up. Would you believe that?
144:15:06 Schmitt Well, I don't know.
144:15:07 Cernan Yes, I would.
144:15:10 Schmitt The problem is if there is any crater on the side - -
144:15:13 Cernan I don't want to give it the roll, are you - -
144:15:17 Schmitt I think you're all right.
144:15:19 Cernan We're all right. I don't know, that's got, - -
144:15:22 Schmitt Keep your speed down because if you have to turn, it doesn't like it on a downhill slope.
144:15:27 Cernan Man, that's got to be a - pitch-angle's pegged, I don't know what that means. Okay. Right on time - -
144:15:42 Schmitt ... scarp.
144:15:45 CC You guys cut each other out but I take it that means you're at the edge of the Scarp.
144:15:51 Schmitt We're off.
144:15:51 Cernan We're off, we came down.
144:15:53 CC Roger. You're down the Scarp.
144:15:54 Cernan Hey, will you look at the hill we came down same way we went up?
144:15:57 Schmitt No. I'd rather not.
144:16:01 Cernan Oh, I don't know, I'm impressed.
144:16:04 Cernan Okay, now where we got to go. 345 roughly. And we want to go to 087/6.1 - -
144:16:10 Schmitt Okay, you're - I think you're headed right - right for where we want.
144:16:14 Cernan Yes.
144:16:14 Schmitt It's that bright - see that bright crater? You can just start to see Station 3 over there now.
144:16:19 Cernan Okay, navigation says I've got more than 9 degrees - I should be increasing range. Bob, we're at 079, 11.5, and 5.7.
144:16:25 CC Okay, beautiful, guys. Really going smooth.
144:16:28 Cernan And I'm headed - and I'm headed northwest.
144:16:33 CC Roger. In fact, we understand it's been going so smooth down here that they haven't even spilled any coffee in the SPAN room yet this mission.
144:16:44 Cernan Morrison must not be on duty. I'm glad we don't have any sitting on the LCRU.
144:16:54 Schmitt Right over there is Station 3, I think.
144:16:58 Cernan Oh, actually, I guess - I guess they would want it - is there - I can just start to see two craters - -
144:17:07 Schmitt You know what the problem is?
144:17:08 Cernan - - and they're closer to Lara.
144:17:09 Schmitt I got a full planar view of the high gain and I can't see a thing out there.
144:17:14 Cernan That's right.
144:17:15 Schmitt Full planar view. All I can do is see underneath it.
144:17:18 Cernan Well I - going to take it broadside. See, I can't see a lot of craters now that I'm out in front. Oh, I guess I can see most.
144:17:30 Schmitt Here's a nice sharp little hole; look at that. Bob, the texture of the light mantle - surface texture - is really no different on the Scarp, on its flank, or out here to the east of the Scarp. Fragment population, crater population, everything looking about the same. If there is such a thing as a light mantle, it seems to be uniform across the Scarp.
144:18:00 CC Okay, I copy that, Jack.
144:18:02 Schmitt Here are your tracks - Hey! We crossed somebody's tracks - well, we sure did ... we made a loop.
144:18:08 CC Hope they look like yours.
144:18:13 Cernan That was at 081/5.7.
144:18:17 CC Okay, copy 081/5.7. Do they look like your tracks?
144:18:23 Schmitt Well, here's another set.
144:18:25 Cernan Yes, this is where we went to the big crater and I came southeast in order to get around it, remember? We saw that hole?
144:18:31 Schmitt Yes.
144:18:35 Cernan Look at that big turn I made, ha ha! That was a quick change of mind when we came over that ridge.
144:18:43 Schmitt Yes, sir.
144:18:45 Cernan Okay, we're still headed northwest, Bob.
144:18:52 Schmitt Here - I -
144:18:52 Cernan Okay, Bob, I guess one thing we don't have a handle on yet is what are the - I think we sampled them - once in a Rover sample, but what are the fragments out here mixed with the light mantle?
144:19:09 CC Okay, I copy that.
144:19:10 Schmitt I think I got one at our last - our last gravimeter stop, a small one, and I guess there's one other Rover sample, but - Station 3, we probably ought to make sure we get a representative suite of those fragments.
144:19:23 CC Roger. Agree to that.
144:19:27 Cernan Hey, Bob, how long have we been out?
144:19:30 CC Say there again, Gene? How long have you been out?
144:19:34 Cernan How long have we been out?
144:19:35 CC 3 plus 45.
144:19:42 Cernan Thank you.
144:19:46 Schmitt We're at 083/5.7. Well, it certainly doesn't look like the geology of Norway, but it certainly is interesting.
144:20:02 Cernan That must be Lara right there, huh?
144:20:03 Schmitt Yes.
144:20:03 Cernan On the left. You can see the blocks on the other side of her.
144:20:06 Schmitt That's right. I told them about those earlier. That's the only no - I think, Gene, you want to bear a little bit - Hold on - a little bit to the left. See those two craters, two bright craters, that are just this side of Lara?
144:20:20 Cernan Now - well - I'm not -
144:20:21 Schmitt You're pointed right - almost right at them, now.
144:20:23 Cernan Okay, I can barely see them now through that high gain.
144:20:25 Schmitt Okay.
144:20:26 Cernan But I can see - I know where we're going now.
144:20:27 Schmitt Those are the two I think they wanted us to be at, and I think that's a good choice if we can get up there.
144:20:32 Cernan I want to get some 500s the way that scarp flows up on top of - well, it looks like it flows up on top of the North Massif. Now if may look like the North Massif may drape material down upon it. Look at that.
144:20:46 Schmitt Well.
144:20:49 Cernan Not really. The texture is so different. It just doesn't look like as old a surface, but definitely different.
144:20:55 Schmitt Yes.
144:21:03 Schmitt Wish they had never said anything about pictures, because I've tended to not take enough - to do better.
144:21:06 CC Okay, but, Jack, you're doing quite well in the picture department - you're not getting too far behind or ahead. Copy that, Gene?
144:21:14 Schmitt No, but I mean I'm not getting the coverage I've - I'm not sure I'm getting the coverage I should.
144:21:18 CC Okayl. Okay. We'll look at the frame count when you get to Station 3.
144:21:24 Schmitt Oops, oops! Oh, there's another big crater with a pit in it.
144:21:34 Cernan What was it, 17-1/2 or l8 clicks we hit coming down the Scarp, Jack?
144:21:39 Schmitt I don't know (laughter).
144:21:45 Cernan I'm in MIN cooling now.
144:21:55 Cernan Oh, look at that - wait until you get over and look, at that South Massif. is that -
144:22:04 Schmitt Well, I don't know where we're going to get a good - Well, let's see. You know, that big block up there might be worth going to.
144:22:15 Cernan 087 at 5.9. I think that's the best station we1w got right here.
144:22:19 Schmitt Well - -
144:22:20 Cernan Let's see what's over on your right. Let's see if we can get at that scarp over there.
144:22:24 Schmitt I've sort of lost track - -
144:22:26 Cernan We're about there.
144:22:27 CC I think we expected you guys to be a little bit farther north. We were getting a heading of 080 for the bearing which really kind of says you said you were going a bit farther north than this.
144:22:39 Cernan Well, there's that first crater, there, Jack.
144:22:41 Schmitt 080?
144:22:42 CC Roger. 080 is where we think -
144:22:44 Schmitt All of a sudden I've lost track.
144:22:47 CC Stand by.
144:22:49 Schmitt There's nothing wrong with that except that -
144:22:51 Schmitt Hey, I think we ought to go back to that big block.
144:22:53 Cernan Heading 080 is - heading north is not going to - -
144:22:57 CC Roger. I just realized that, Geno.
144:22:58 Cernan I'm 087 now.
144:22:59 CC Yes, I realize that, Gene; my mistake. Somebody's got a wrong thing down here. That's the Hole-in-the-Wall. My mistake.
144:23:08 Schmitt Gene, I think - I think we need to go - go back there a little bit.
144:23:14 Cernan Yes, we're at 087/6.0. I think that's probably about right. Why don't we stop here?
144:23:17 CC Okay, 17, that's a great stop. That was my mistake, I was reading the Hole-in-the-Wall coordinate.
144:23:25 Cernan All right, Bob, we've got some boulders over here that are in the light mantle.
144:23:31 CC Okay, now, let me brief you on Station 3. It's going to be a very brief station to make up for the - -
144:23:36 Cernan We can see a little bit down into Lara now too.
144:23:38 CC Okay, it will be a brief station to make up for the time we added on at the - first of all, remember we want to get the nav update. Let me go into a heading, of 270 more or less and give us the nav read-out so we can start that here.
144:23:59 Cernan Can you get where you want from here?
144:24:00 Schmitt No, this is no good. I wanted to get a high spot.
144:24:06 Cernan Yes, let's - let me park down here, Jack.
144:24:10 Schmitt Well, you should have stayed up there. This is good right here.
144:24:16 Cernan It's not going to be very level for the gravimeter.
144:24:16 CC Okay, Gene, and remember, we want to first head for the west so we can get the nav update.
144:24:26 Cernan We'll park right out here and we can work those blocks right up behind us. Okay, you want a nav update here?
144:24:32 CC Roger. That's affirm.
144:24:33 Schmitt You need to get your antenna.
144:24:39 Cernan Why don't you get off, Jack. Oh, I was looking at the wrong ... oh, no, I'm not. Okay. I'll get a nav update. Get off and look around. I'll give them a nav update, Jack, and we'll press on.
144:25:02 Cernan Yes, sir, you're right, Bob. Hey, get your -
144:25:06 Schmitt I will.
144:25:20 Cernan Okay?
144:25:22 Schmitt Go ahead.
144:25:22 Cernan What do you need? Take your scoop or whatever you need.
144:25:25 Schmitt Oh, you're going to move?
144:25:26 Cernan Yes. I want to give them a nav update real quick.
144:25:27 Schmitt Oh, I'm sorry, I -
144:25:31 CC Okay. And, Jack, ... for you. We're going to want you to do some document sampling on your own. I'll get with you guys on the rest of the station plan shortly. Go ahead, Gene, we're ready.
144:25:47 Schmitt Okay, I ought to get the gnomon, I guess.
144:25:50 Cernan Okay, let me find a level spot; I'll come back towards you.
144:25:54 Schmitt I'll get it. There is no.
144:26:00 Cernan Well, okay, if you got any -
144:26:01 Schmitt No, go ahead, make your park.
144:26:04 Cernan Yes, I'm looking for a level spot, but my god, there sure aren't very many.
144:26:09 Schmitt That's probably pretty good.
144:26:14 Cernan It will be in a minute.
144:26:14 CC It doesn't have to be all that level, Jack - Gene.
144:26:28 Cernan Okay, 087 and 12.6, 6.0.
144:26:31 Schmitt I got your gnomon.
144:26:33 Cernan Sun shadow is zero. Pitch - if I can get it over to read it. Pitch is - pitch is zero. Roll is zero. About - about 1 left, Bob?
144:26:58 CC Okay, copy. And how about that - -
144:27:01 Cernan About 1 left.
144:27:02 CC And how about heading?
144:27:05 Cernan Heading is 282.
144:27:08 CC Okay, go ahead and park. We'll give you an update when you get done.
144:27:10 Cernan What else do you need?
144:27:12 CC That's all we need. Go ahead and park on your 045. We'll give you an update when you are done.
144:27:23 Cernan Jack, is one coming right there?
144:27:28 Schmitt Looks like a pretty good location - -
144:27:30 Cernan Okay.
144:27:31 Schmitt - to sample the rim materials of this crater.
144:27:37 Cernan Bob, I'm at the south, let's say the east-southeast rim of a - oh, 30-meter crater in the light mantle, of course; up on the Scarp and maybe 300 - 200 meters from the rim of Lara in a northeast direction.
144:28:11 CC Okay, I copy that.
144:28:12 Cernan It's body shows up as a bright crater - a bright crater on your map. There's only about a half a centimeter of gray cover over very white material that forms the rim.
144:28:27 CC Okay. And, Gene, give me a call when you get parked and I'll give you an update on what we want to do.
144:28:37 Cernan Okay, I am parked.
144:28:39 CC Okay, good. We'll take the Rover read-out first.
144:28:45 Cernan Okay. 087, 12.7, 6.0; 105 and 100. On the battery temps 100, 120. The rear motors are off scale low and the forward motors are 0 and 240.
144:29:03 CC Okay, we copy that. Understand that 240 now instead of a 340. And what was your heading, 045?
144:29:12 Cernan Heading is 043.
144:29:14 CC Okay. We copy that.
144:29:15 Cernan Hey Bob, did I ever give you a - if I ever gave you a motor temperature of 340, that figure was erroneous.
144:29:22 CC Okay; Roger. And what we'd like you to do, Gene, is we'd like you to get the CSVC by yourself, that will essentially be your sole task at this station. We'd like Jack can do some solo sampling and we'd like to get one pan and the gravimeter, and then we'll leave this station. We're going to absorb some of the time we spent with the extra gravimeter reading and some of the time we absorbed at Station 2 in the longer stay time in sampling at Station 3. That's our plan. So it will be CDR for the CSVC for the long cans, excuse me, and LMP for solo sampling and then a pan by Jack, I presume, and then the gravimeter and then leave. And, Jack, you might check your film. We aren't quite sure where you are right now, before you get too far from the Rover.
144:30:17 Cernan Okay, Bob.
144:30:35 PAO TV coming in now.
144:30:47 Cernan Bob, you got any - any preference up in this area where do you want that long can?
144:30:55 CC Negative. That's something that was sort of near the scarp, but you're parked so near the scarp and that something, remember we do it in solo, we only did it with the Rover, so you'd have to stay right there beside the Rover and do it. No expectations of doing otherwise.
144:31:09 Cernan Well, that's what I figured.
144:31:10 Schmitt Gene.
144:31:12 Cernan Yes, I think you're in good shape. Yes, I don't have any other choice. Matter of fact, if there is a scarp, and if it is a fault, I'm right - right on it because the projection of it would be uphill a little bit.
144:31:22 Cernan Yes, I'll be right on the side of it. I'm parked on the side of it if it exists.
144:31:26 CC Okay, and, Jack, what's your frame count?
144:31:35 Schmitt Well, 1 - 122.
144:31:44 CC Okay, copy. You ... Go ahead, Gene.
144:31:45 Cernan Bob, I've dug the trench and the -
144:31:51 Schmitt What do you need, Gene?
144:31:52 Cernan Oh, yes. Bob, I've dug a trench in the side of this crater. I've got down-Sun pictures of it. There's quite a marbling of light and dark soil or fine grain material. It looks as if there's a uniform, about 3-centimeter layer of light material over that marbled light and dark. O n the very top surface, there's a half centimeter of light gray, and when I say dark, I mean a medium gray.
144:32:35 CC Okay, copy that. Sounds like a great sample site.
144:32:40 Cernan Okay, I'm going to start sampling the soils, and then I'll get you the fragments.
144:32:45 CC Okay, I presume that we'll at least have the single upper core which we can use to sample of that stuff in the soil, and rem -
144:32:58 Cernan Oh, that's - there's no guarantee that this is a crater rim.
144:33:02 CC Okay. And, Gene, are you still near the Rover?
144:33:09 Cernan Yes, I am.
144:33:10 CC Okay, we'd like to get the SEP blankets opened, Gene, and dusted if they're dirty, so they can cool some more.
144:33:20 Cernan Oh, boy.
144:33:21 CC Yes.
144:33:23 Cernan Okay, now I can't give you the gravimeter reading while I'm working on the Rover, so I'll have to time it when I get away from it.
144:33:31 CC Okay. Roger on that. I think you'll be pounding on the hammer for a long while while you can take the Rover - gravimeter reading.
144:33:39 Cernan Yes. Well, we'll see. Let me get your brush back.
144:33:53 Schmitt Okay, bag 520 has a skin sample of the upper light-gray soil. Don't know where I'm going to put these things, I've got to come down and get a bag.
144:34:13 Schmitt Have you punched the gravim - No.
144:34:14 Cernan No, I can't punch it until I get out of here.
144:34:29 Schmitt These switches are on OFF, STANDBY, right?
144:34:33 Cernan They should be.
144:34:33 Schmitt Okay, that's where they are and the temperature is 100, about 104 and - -
144:34:38 Cernan No, they should be OFF. isn't it OFF?
144:34:39 Schmitt No, it was STANDBY.
144:34:42 Cernan No, push it OFF.
144:34:43 CC Okay, it doesn't matter whether it's STANDBY; it won't be heating at that temperature anyway, but put it OFF.
144:34:49 Cernan Okay. It might have gotten hit when I changed the blanket there. Now I have to go to INTERMEDIATE cooling here.
144:35:09 Schmitt Zap me with a cold. Imagine those PLSS got charged okay last night. ...
144:35:27 CC Yep, 17, those PLSSs look great.
144:35:32 Cernan Okay, back to INTERMEDIATE. How's Ron doing?
144:35:36 CC They're both looking - Stand by, I thought he said both fine. Ron's doing great, too. He's sitting here busily - -
144:35:42 Cernan No, no.
144:35:44 CC Go ahead.
144:35:46 Cernan I mean Captain America.
144:35:49 CC Yes, I'm just inquiring of Bob. I think he's doing great. He's just passed a little bit north of you a couple of minutes ago and took some pictures of you.
144:36:22 Schmitt Okay. I do my work around the LMP seat here.
144:36:31 Cernan That's lock. That must be unlock.
144:36:35 Schmitt Okay, unlock. Brake is off. Four is coming in. Okay, Bob, the upper - the upper 5 centimeter - 3 centimeters mixed with that upper half centimeter, is the next sample.
144:37:14 CC Copy that.
144:37:22 Cernan Okay, Bob, I guess I'm going to go pound away and, Jack, I'm going to hit the gravimeter.
144:37:29 Schmitt Okay.
144:37:34 Cernan Okay -
144:37:34 Cernan MARK it.
144:37:36 CC Copy that.
144:37:39 Cernan And 521 is the sample bag.
144:37:45 CC Copy that.
144:38:02 Cernan Well, the first core has gone down pretty good, Bob.
144:38:05 CC Okay, great.
144:38:08 Schmitt Oh, you're not going - you won't have any problem in here coring.
144:38:17 Cernan Oh, man, I tell you, I wish I was putting a drill hole in here. Looks pretty nice.
144:38:25 PAO Each of these drive tubes is 16 inches long.
144:38:35 Schmitt Okay, Bob. The next sample is mostly the medium gray fraction of the marbling. It's mixed, though.
144:39:22 Schmitt That's in bag 522.
144:39:39 CC Copy that, Jack.
144:39:42 Schmitt Okay, I think I got it. I think I got it, Bob.
144:39:45 CC Okay.
144:39:50 CC And, Jack, when you get done with this trench you might hit one - two of those blocks there, but then we'd - since we're really trying to cut this station down to a minimum, after that you'd probably get - better get to the pan.
144:40:07 Cernan Bob, what do you think, can I read a gravimeter?
144:40:09 CC Yes, if it's not flashing - -
144:40:12 Cernan The light's out.
144:40:13 CC Yes, it should be just done.
144:40:19 Cernan 670, 049, 701; 670, 049, 701.
144:40:26 CC Okay, I copy that.
144:40:29 Schmitt Bob, the - the white marble in the - the white fraction in the marble zone in 523.
144:40:39 CC Copy that.
144:40:46 Cernan Bob, I forgot to give you the core numbers, but I will.
144:40:50 CC Okay. And don't forget to put your little note in the long can there.
144:41:00 Cernan Oh, I'll get the note in there. I'll get it in there. Nobody will ever know.
144:41:30 PAO Gene Cernan extracting the drive tube.
144:41:43 Cernan Okay, Bob, our 524 is what I think is a blue-gray rock probably the breccia. It's got a little dust cover.
144:41:53 CC Copy that.
144:41:54 Cernan From just off the rim of this little crater.
144:42:02 CC Okay, copy that. It's a blue-gray rock, it's not part of the trench, right? You finish with the trench?
144:42:09 Cernan Yes. If you see, Bob, it's full. See that?
144:42:14 CC Roger. We see a long thing in your hand there, Gene.
144:42:30 Schmitt Well, I didn't think that was supposed to happen.
144:42:36 Cernan And I'd know, Jack? Shoot! Thought I had them on the Rover.
144:42:43 Schmitt What?
144:42:44 Cernan Oh, the core cap covers. I'll get them.
144:42:46 Schmitt No, you got some there in that little ca - in that little pocket.
144:42:50 Cernan Yes, but there are so many bags in here, I can't get at them.
144:42:52 Schmitt No, I mean the pocket on the Rover, on the bag. Remember?
144:42:57 Cernan No, they're not. I took them out and put them on you.
144:42:59 Schmitt Oh, okay.
144:43:00 Cernan The rest of them are in this bag. I'll come and get them.
144:43:09 Cernan See, the other - this other - but I don't want to get into your seat. We got those bags pi - packed in there like gangbusters. How are you doing there by yourself?
144:43:17 Schmitt Well, it's hard.
144:43:19 Cernan Your hook came off. If you wait a minute, I'll hook it on this bag. See. See.
144:43:29 Schmitt I never - I didn't think the sample bag could come off the camera. But they can.
144:43:37 Cernan Yes. Doggone it.
144:43:40 Schmitt What's your problem?
144:43:43 Cernan Just as well fix this bag now. Let me get this bag - it's going to come off at the bottom if we don't. It's going to come off again. I don't think the harness is tight enough now.
144:44:00 Schmitt Want to tighten the harness?
144:44:04 Cernan Yes, I got to, Jack.
144:44:05 Schmitt Okay.
144:44:06 Cernan Let me get your harness - I might just as well do it, so it's right. If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing right. Now, let me try getting that bag back on. No, don't bend over, I can't get down there.
144:44:30 Schmitt Okay.
144:44:31 Cernan You're plenty short enough.
144:44:33 Schmitt Thanks - thanks a lot. (Laughter)
144:44:35 Cernan This bag now, that hook - or something changed the geometry.
144:44:41 CC Okay, don't worry about it too much, guys; I'm sure the bag will stay on without the hook.
144:44:48 Cernan Yes, it will; the conclusion I just came to.
144:44:50 Schmitt You through?
144:44:51 Cernan Yes, go ahead.
144:45:05 PAO EVA time 4 hours 10 minutes.
144:45:42 Schmitt Okay, Bob, what I know is a blue-gray breccia is in bag 525.
144:45:51 CC Okay, copy that. And, Jack, you just skipping up - scooping up little rocks along the ... here - in your little xenolith mode? Go ahead, Gene.
144:46:07 Schmitt Yes, ... you read my mind. I do want to get one of these light-colored rocks, though.
144:46:18 CC Go ahead, Gene.
144:46:22 Cernan Bob, the - when I broke the cores apart, there's just a lot of dried clods and - and the bottom core's full, the top core about - oh, I got to look - it's dark down there, but about an inch -inch and a half of the core is just - just zero g to 1/6 g'd itself right out.
144:46:48 CC Okay, we copy that. I guess we still just cover it, and see what we got. Might just again trying compacting it after that's through; after you're done with the lower core.
144:47:00 Cernan Yes. I'll do that.
144:47:26 CC And, Geno, how about - -
144:47:27 Schmitt Bag 526.
144:47:30 CC Copy; 526.
144:47:32 Cernan Okay, in a long can - I'll give it to you; wait a minute.
144:47:37 Schmitt And that may have been a piece of gabbro. But again, I can't be completely sure.
144:47:43 CC Copy that. Go ahead, Gene.
144:47:47 Schmitt It's either that or anorthositic gabbro we saw up on the front. Up on the massif.
144:47:56 CC Okay.
144:47:57 Cernan And my bags aren't staying on my camera worth a darn.
144:48:00 Cernan Forty-six, Bob, is going into the long can.
144:48:03 CC Copy that.
144:48:20 Schmitt Boy, another exercise in dexterity. Okay, LMP has gone to INTERMEDIATE.
144:48:40 Cernan And, by the way, I'm at about 49 percent and 3.85 and INTERMEDIATE cooling and no flags.
144:48:47 CC Okay, copy that, Geno. Have you got a number for the upper core when you done - I guess you're probably putting the other one in the long can, aren't you, right now.
144:48:56 Cernan Yes, yes, yes; that's right.
144:49:00 CC And somewhere here along the line, Jack, I guess maybe when you get those, you ought to stop and take the pan.
144:49:09 Schmitt Okay, Bob.
144:49:11 Cernan Okay, Bob, the long can is sealed and I guess nobody knows what's in it but me.
144:49:17 CC No one ever will, probably.
144:49:22 Cernan I may not - I may not even tell. It does not - none of the material in this core, in either the top section or the bottom section, look unlike that - that stuff just beneath the surface that we sampled at that special stop back there. It's a bluish-gray, and it tends to clod and break up in your hand. And that's core 31 - the number is 31.
144:49:51 CC Okay. Copy. Thirty-one on the ...
144:50:00 Cernan Oh, man. Bob, you've got better than - oh, you've got two-thirds of a core after I packed it down a little bit.
144:50:24 CC Okay, thank you, Geno. Copy that.
144:50:31 Schmitt Okay, that little set of 4 samples is in 527, barely.
144:50:39 CC Okay, we hope it was worth the effort.
144:50:44 Schmitt Oh, it's all worth the effort; it just hurts.
144:50:48 CC Okay. We're ready now for your pan and don't forget your scoop.
144:50:54 Schmitt I won't - Ahh! - You don't mind a little dirt here and there, do you, gang?
144:51:18 CC No.
144:51:30 PAO Jack Schmitt having a few problems.
144:51:49 Schmitt Oh, dadgummit. Well - -
144:51:56 CC Hey, Gene, would you help - would you go over and help Twinkletoes, please?
144:52:03 Schmitt I tell you - you fix that camera bracket so the bags stay on and I'll be a lot better off.
144:52:08 CC Roger.
144:52:09 Cernan Want some help, Jack? I'll be there.
144:52:10 Schmitt No, I don't need any help.
144:52:12 Cernan Okay.
144:52:13 CC Hey, Jack, you might worry about whether - you might worry about whether your camera lens is dirty or clean, Jack. I don't know what you do about it.
144:52:21 Schmitt I'm very worried about that.
144:52:22 CC I don't know what you do about it, but you might worry about it.
144:52:24 Schmitt I don't have a thing to do - it's clean.
144:52:39 Cernan Well, I'll be a son of a gun.
144:52:41 Schmitt What's your problem?
144:52:42 Cernan (Chuckle) can't get this thing locked on.
144:52:45 Schmitt What the - -
144:52:46 Cernan The rake!
144:52:47 Schmitt The rake?
144:52:49 Cernan Yes. That should lock. I turn that like that - there it comes.
144:52:55 CC Jack, have you ever started your pan, so we get an EMU check from you?
144:53:03 Schmitt Well, it's about 50 percent. About 385.
144:53:08 CC Okay, copy that.
144:53:09 Schmitt And no flags. ... Come on. Get back in there.
144:53:37 PAO Jack Schmitt taking a 360 degree panorama now with the camera.
144:53:43 Cernan Okay, that's all put away. That goes back on your back. I'll get it.
144:53:51 CC Why don't you go over and - over towards Jack, Gene, and then the two of you can pick up the scoop and the bag together and get back towards the Rover after that?
144:54:04 Cernan Yes, I'm cleaning up this seat here - I'll do that I think I can hack it.
144:54:09 CC And then, at that point, we're ready for you guys ... and, at that point, we're ready for you guys to leave.
144:54:16 Cernan Whew - Okay. Jack, I've got the rammer I've got to put on you. I'll just leave it on your seat right now?
144:54:32 Schmitt Okay.
144:54:36 CC We're watching you, Jack.
144:54:41 Schmitt What's that?
144:54:42 CC I said we're watching you, but don't let that inhibit you.
144:54:48 Schmitt I don't - Bob, I don't let anything inhibit me - and I don't stay mad very long.
144:54:56 CC That was very good.
144:55:04 Schmitt (Laughter) Well, there's an easy way to do everything. The question is can you hang on to it once you've done it?
144:55:22 Cernan Let me get those, Jack. Don't get down there. Let me get those.
144:55:27 Schmitt Where are you? They don't stay on my camera anymore.
144:55:33 Cernan Well, we'll fix it.
144:55:35 Schmitt There's no reason why they shouldn't, according to this. But there are a lot - -
144:55:39 Cernan Okay, Those - the samples from that - Oh - I need - I gotta go up there - Wait! Take an after - cross-Sun, from over to the north of the gnomon.
144:55:49 Schmitt You didn't get an after, huh?
144:55:50 Cernan No.
144:55:51 Schmitt How come you're cleaning up the Rover?
144:55:52 Cernan Oh, I got it - I'll get it.
144:55:54 Cernan If you'll mount this thing.
144:55:56 Schmitt Just set it there. Just set it there. I'll take four deep breaths.
144:56:02 Cernan Bob, what else do you want us to do here?
144:56:04 CC Nothing. Get on the Rover and leave. Get the heck out.
144:56:06 CC Don't forget the gnomon.
144:56:08 Schmitt Okay. No, we're going back to get that after - and we won't forget it.
144:56:19 Cernan I think you might be able to decipher this station, Bob.
144:56:26 CC That's the general idea. And be advised that the switchboard here at MSC has been lit up by calls from the Houston Ballet Foundation requesting your services for next season.
144:56:39 Cernan I should hope so. Well, we can't use that one. The right-hand gate lock is - -
144:56:51 Schmitt How's that?
144:56:52 Cernan - nonfunctional and the left one is almost nonfunctional.
144:56:59 CC Okay.
144:57:06 Schmitt We - once you get it open, you can't get it locked. I'll dust them if I get a chance, but it's locked on the left side.
144:57:13 CC Okay, well, we'll keep those bags under your feet, anyway.
144:57:15 Schmitt Here, I'll work on it.
144:57:16 CC I think the samples are safer under there, anyway.
144:57:21 Cernan We don't have any room. ... we can take bag 7 out.
144:57:26 Cernan That one is locked - in good shape.
144:57:28 Cernan Let's press on. We got the reading? Let me put the rammer on your back and see if we can't get this on your camera.
144:57:47 Schmitt Are we going to run the SEP this time?
144:57:49 Cernan I don't know; he hasn't said anything. I expect he will.
144:57:51 CC No, we will not turn the SEP on, Jack. You might cover it with a blanket as well as you can. And how about a temperature reading before you leave, when you do that?
144:58:01 Cernan It's 100.
144:58:03 CC Copy that, 100, and understand both switches are OFF and the covers are closed.
144:58:07 Cernan Okay. Well, the covers are closed now. They weren't.
144:58:12 CC Okay. Roger. That's what I mean.
144:58:15 Cernan Okay. Turn - turn the other way, left. I think it might just put you there.
144:58:21 Schmitt Well, I don't know why it isn't staying on, but it certainly isn't.
144:58:24 Schmitt ... Move over there.
144:58:24 Cernan Okay.
144:58:27 Schmitt Is that the same one? I may have bent it.
144:58:32 Cernan I think you did now.
144:58:33 Schmitt Yes. I just bent that, didn't I?
144:58:39 Cernan Yes, that's not going to stay on. Yes, you bent it (laughter) very well.
144:58:45 Schmitt ... how I did that.
144:58:46 Cernan I don't know ... You'll lose these bags.
144:58:50 Schmitt Okay, well, We'll - -
144:58:51 Cernan I got bags.
144:58:52 Schmitt We'll revise our procedures.
144:58:54 Cernan I got bags.
144:58:55 Schmitt I guess I bent my camera mounting brack - point, the camera point.
144:59:03 Cernan Turn around.
144:59:08 Schmitt We may have to - think about a fix there.
144:59:13 Cernan We might be able to fix that in the cockpit.
144:59:14 Schmitt Yes.
144:59:16 CC Okay - -
144:59:16 Schmitt Okay, are we all through, have you got - -
144:59:18 CC - - worry about that right, when you get back in.
144:59:19 PAO Jack Schmitt waving.
144:59:31 Schmitt Okay. Okay, where are we here?
144:59:33 Cernan I'll get on.
144:59:35 Schmitt Okay. Oh, I guess I need to get another film mag, huh?
144:59:39 CC Okay, how about the frame counts on both you guys before you start?
144:59:46 Schmitt 152 on the LMP -
144:59:51 CC We suggest magaline - magazine Juliett, please.
144:59:57 Cernan (Laughter) Okay, we'll get magaline Julieing. The CDR's on 118.
145:00:05 CC Okay, copy that, Geno.
145:00:11 Schmitt Fire fire, two frames. You know, I'd enjoy this if it weren't so much fun.
145:00:21 Cernan Okay, you going to change your mag.
145:00:23 Schmitt Yes.
145:00:24 Cernan Shoot a 500 while you're doing that. (Laughter)
145:00:27 Schmitt Listen to me - -
145:00:28 Schmitt Yes.
145:00:28 Cernan Look at my thumb.
145:00:29 Schmitt I know.
145:00:30 CC 17, we'd really like the - -
145:00:31 Schmitt Any time you want to do something, though.
145:00:33 CC - - we'd like to press on as quickly as possible.
145:00:36 Cernan I got it.
145:00:37 Schmitt Got it?
145:00:38 Cernan Got it.
145:00:38 CC In case you didn't get.
145:00:39 Cernan Take a portion of the scarp over there you can see.
145:00:42 CC 17, do you copy? Houston.
145:00:47 Cernan What?
145:00:48 CC We'd like to press on - -
145:00:49 Cernan What?
145:00:49 CC - - as soon as possible, please.
145:00:52 Cernan Yes, we are, Bob, but - but he's got to change his mag.
145:00:58 CC Roger.
145:00:59 Cernan I'm going to stand here and look around.
145:01:01 CC Okay.
145:01:10 Schmitt Okay, I'm picking up with mag - or with frame 56 and I'm going to try to get a little bit of where the scarp overlaps the North Massif. I can't see much of it. All I could get was three frames of that. Now I'm picking up the South Massif.
145:01:45 PAO Jack Schmitt, changing the film magazine in his camera.
145:02:30 Cernan Okay, how are you coming, Jack?
145:02:32 Schmitt Okay. Oh, I ought to put that in there so you've got room for your camera.
145:02:39 CC You got a final frame count there, Gene?
145:02:46 Schmitt Okay, I'm all set.
145:02:55 Schmitt Okay, Bob. When I finished with South Massif, I was on 94 and I took - now I'm on 99 - I took five more pictures back over to the northeast.
145:03:07 CC We copy that. And we assume you guys are ready to go by now.
145:03:13 Cernan And, Bob, they were all with the lens - Yes, sir - they were all with the lens cap off.
145:03:22 CC Splendid.
145:03:30 Schmitt Okay.
145:03:32 CC Okay. And, Jack, what's the headings say? And we'll - -
145:03:34 Schmitt Why don't you fix that high gain so you can see?
145:03:36 CC We'll - we'll get the reading we need for the nav update. Do you think you can give us the heading right now?
145:03:45 Schmitt Okay, heading is 41 - I think. I'm at a little bit of an angle. Better let Gene do it for you.
145:03:56 CC Okay. We're waiting.
145:03:57 Schmitt I got some - Gee, I've got some parallax. I think it's 41, though.
145:04:05 Cernan What you looking at?
145:04:06 Schmitt The headings.
145:04:07 Cernan 43 - 043 is what I gave them earlier.
145:04:12 CC Yes, we were wondering if it drifted while you were there, because we're going to give you now a - -
145:04:15 Cernan Bob, let me - -
145:04:16 CC - - going to give you one to update it if it has drifted at all.
145:04:20 Cernan Okay, it did drift, 041 is a good number.
145:04:23 CC Okay. Stand by.
145:04:29 PAO We'll get a picture back at Station 4 which is the crater, Shorty.
145:04:33 CC Okay. That's fine. No torque necessary, Geno.
145:04:36 Schmitt I'm strapped.
145:04:39 Cernan You liked the drift, huh?
145:04:41 CC Great.
145:04:42 Cernan Okay, I'll - Dadgummit.
145:04:46 PAO Estimated driving time 16 minutes.
145:04:46 Schmitt What's wrong? Oh, the hammer?
145:04:47 Cernan Yes. Every time. Okay, let's go.
145:04:48 Cernan All right, sport. I'm going to head -
145:04:55 Schmitt We didn't really do all the things we wanted do, but I think we did everything we could.
145:04:58 CC We did everything we wanted to ... time line ...
145:04:59 Schmitt Okay, let's get ready to roll.
145:05:00 Cernan Flight line stereo.
145:05:04 Cernan Okay, Bob - Oh -
145:05:07 Schmitt You got the TGE ... on and the low gain is 060.
145:05:11 Cernan You get the gnomon in?
145:05:13 Schmitt Didn't you get it?
145:05:15 Cernan Wait a minute.
145:05:15 Cernan You took the after. It's not sitting out there.
145:05:18 Schmitt No, I thought I handed - didn't you stick it -
145:05:20 Cernan Yes, I stuck it in. I got it. Okay. We can look back (laughter).
145:05:31 Cernan ... Bob.
145:05:35 Schmitt I sure thought I handed it to you, Geno.
145:05:36 Cernan You did, and I put it in.
145:05:39 Schmitt Okay, that's good. Okay, whoo-boy, rest the old hands.
145:06:01 CC Okay, we've recommendations for MINIMUM for you. Gene - Jack.
145:06:03 Schmitt ... ejecta. It's double.
145:06:09 Cernan I think I am in MINIMUM.
145:06:11 CC Jack, ... - Jack.
145:06:11 Cernan I am already.
145:06:12 Schmitt Yes, I'll go to MINIMUM. Yes, I will.
145:06:21 CC And give us a mark rolling, please.
145:06:26 Cernan Yes, Bob, I gave you one. We've been rolling for about 30 seconds.
145:06:29 CC Copy that.
145:06:30 Cernan We're at 087 - 087 and 5.9 on that range.
145:06:36 CC Copy that.
145:06:40 CC And the drive to Station 4 will be nominal and we'll get a Rover sample at about 094/5.1 but it will be the track as indicated on the map and the cuff checklist.
145:06:57 Schmitt Okay. Going to Shorty.
145:07:08 Cernan Okay.
145:07:10 Schmitt On our way.
145:07:11 Schmitt You got your checklist there?
145:07:12 Cernan Yes, I got it in front of me.
145:07:14 Schmitt Okay.
145:07:15 Cernan And, we're heading - heading is 069, around - Well, up - I got it -
145:07:20 Schmitt Yes, that's pretty close.
145:07:22 Cernan I know we're next to that band but I know where we're going, next is 094/5.1 is what I want for that sample.
145:07:29 Schmitt Yeah. Zero what?
145:07:32 Cernan I think he said 094/5.1.
145:07:34 Schmitt He meant - 052 is what's nominal. What's the sample again, Bob?
145:07:39 CC 5.1; 094/5.1.
145:07:51 Schmitt Oh, okay, that's the heading.
145:07:53 Cernan All right. You got 09451.
145:07:55 Schmitt Yes, got it.
145:08:02 Cernan Just drive by this big rock. Want to look at it. Can't see it. I can't see when that off LCRU shines into my eyes.
145:08:22 Schmitt Looks like one of the gray breccias.
145:08:24 Cernan Big 3-meter - 3 to 4-meter block out here all by itself on the light mantle - I got some pictures it was at 088/5.6.
145:08:37 CC Okay, copy that.
145:08:38 Schmitt And it looked like a gray breccia, I'm not sure though, all I could see was the surface texture, and it had the modular or elongate modular texture that those breccias had up on the South Massif.
145:08:54 CC Okay, copy that, Jack.
145:08:57 Cernan Where are you, Shorty? And the battery temperatures are 100 and 130.
145:09:08 CC Copy that.
145:09:11 Schmitt Okay, Bob, as far as any of the things we talked about trying to see at the surface, dynamics or a variation of the light mantle, I think you've heard it all, there isn't much to say about the dynamics right now. I have a feeling that the surfaces are old enough that all those kind of detailed relationships have been obscured. Filleting (?) is just about the same all over here, it varies, but there are no systeraatics that I've seen.
145:09:47 CC Okay, copy that. Do we ever see a Rover flag come up when you've got high temperatures there on the battery - have you seen the flag up yet?
145:09:55 Cernan No, you didn't. No, you did not, you did not.
145:09:58 CC Okay, that may be telling us something, we hope. Press on.
145:10:07 PAO And Ron Evans in America are about 13-1/2 minutes away from loss of signal on the twenty- ninth lunar revolution. Ron will be getting his evening meal within a few minutes, and in about an hour and a half will begin his rest period.
145:10:15 Schmitt Okay. LMP is in MINIMUM.
145:10:20 CC Copy that, thank you.
145:10:24 Schmitt Okay. Ought to cut left up here a little bit.
145:10:28 Cernan Yes, I think so. Ooh!
145:10:34 Schmitt Don't - Keep her going.
145:10:37 Cernan (Laughter)
145:10:39 Schmitt Good lord! Was that a - ... aspect ratio of that little thing.
145:10:41 Schmitt Yes, that's what they call a pit crater. Can you swing a little bit and let me get that fragment crater - see that one on your left there?
145:10:56 Cernan Quite a scene up here. Got your pictures? Pictures?
145:11:07 Schmitt Yes, I got them.
145:11:08 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're at 090/5.3 for a quick Rover sample of a very, very fragmental crater. The ejecta is about 50-percent small angular fragments much different than we have seen before in terms of the type of patterns.
145:11:28 CC Okay, copy.
145:11:28 Cernan Okay, and that's in bag 41 Yankee.
145:11:40 Cernan And we're on our way.
145:11:42 CC Great.
145:11:47 Cernan Get your picture, Jack?
145:11:48 Schmitt Yes. LMP frame count is 15.
145:11:56 CC Copy that.
145:11:57 Cernan About a 30-second stop. Okay, 094 - I'm 090, 5.3 now, Bob. We're heading toward your stop.
145:12:04 CC Okay, 090, 5.3.
145:12:06 Schmitt See Shorty out there yet?
145:12:07 Cernan Well, I -
145:12:18 Schmitt Bob, I couldn't tell whether that was just - it looked like that that might have been a crater that had got to bedrock. There may have been a high point, or let's say a thin point in the light mantle, and it got down to bedrock. But I can't - it's the most blocky-rimmed crater we've seen for a long time.
145:12:37 Cernan Yes. All these others are nowhere near that - look at that.
145:12:40 Schmitt No. It was about 15 meters in diameter.
145:12:54 Schmitt Bob, there - there are no obvious lineations, at the scale we can observe, on the light mantle. I think the pan photography and the metric stuff may be what you'll have to use for any directional trends out in here. Depending on what we decide the origin is.
145:13:30 Schmitt Bob, are you still reading?
145:13:32 CC Roger. We're still reading you, Jack.
145:13:37 Cernan Okay. Are you reading us through the LM or through the low gain?
145:13:40 CC As far as I can tell, we're reading you through the low gain. It's been working just great tonight, Geno.
145:13:47 Cernan Okay, that's great - -
145:13:49 Schmitt Tonight?
145:13:49 Cernan - - because I just scraped bottom on the LCRU. If it's still working, I'm glad to hear that.
145:13:55 Cernan Okay, we're 093 and 5.2. We're almost there.
145:14:01 Schmitt Going to be right on the rim of that crater.
145:14:09 CC Okay. And, 17, the word from the backroom is - with that last Rover sample you got, we'd like to go straight to Station 4 - and we won't get the one here at 094 and 5.3 - 5.l, excuse me.
145:14:26 Schmitt Bob, I thought the purpose was to sample the light mantle?
145:14:31 CC I - We talked to them about that, but they - -
145:14:33 Schmitt We didn't sample light mantle at that last one.
145:14:35 CC - - I agree. I talked to them about that. But they are so anxious to get to Station 4, I guess they don't want to do it.
145:14:44 Schmitt Well, how about it, Gene? A little real time -
145:14:47 Cernan I think we got to, right here.
145:14:48 Schmitt I think we got to.
145:14:49 Cernan 094, 5.1. You got your picture?
145:14:53 Schmitt Yes. Okay, that's good enough.
145:14:55 Cernan You happy?
145:14:56 Schmitt We'll get the sample - anyway.
145:14:59 Cernan Okay. 094, 5.1.
145:15:01 CC Copy that.
145:15:03 Cernan That's good, Jack, Sample is in 42 Yankee.
145:15:10 CC Copy that.
145:15:14 Cernan And we are rolling. And give me a bearing and a range to Station 4.
145:15:22 CC Roger. It will be bearing of 100 and range of 4.6.
145:15:29 Cernan Okay. We're now at 5.0 - 094 and 5.0.
145:15:35 Schmitt LMP frame count is 25.
145:15:39 Cernan Was that 100, 4.6?
145:15:42 CC Roger, Gene.
145:16:11 Schmitt Houston, there aren't very many rocks that just sit on the surface. All of them seem to - to be slightly buried to moderately buried. That one looked like it might be vesicular. There's a trench - linear set of craters.
145:16:44 Cernan Hold it, babe. We got to do a little detouring.
145:16:49 Schmitt Okay, what we're looking for is 101 - -
145:16:54 Cernan Yes. 100, 4.6, I'll detour. I'll just get down this slope. I don't see Shorty though, do you?
145:17:02 Schmitt Wait a minute, is that it? is that it out there straight ahead?
145:17:11 Cernan Well, let me get down this slope.
145:17:12 Schmitt Something's dark out there. I think that's it.
145:17:14 Cernan The - the dark - it might be right over there to the left a little bit?
145:17:18 Schmitt Your left, yes.
145:17:18 Cernan Yes, right over there. I think I can cut it right across there. That's going to be about the right place.
145:17:22 Schmitt Seems a little far from here - but - maybe not.
145:17:41 Schmitt Oh, I forgot to take pictures again. Trying to shade my eyes. That Scarp certainly is spectacular going up there by Hanover, isn't it?
145:17:55 Cernan It just rolls over the side, doesn't it?
145:17:57 Schmitt Yes.
145:18:00 Schmitt I don't know what else we can say about it, though (chuckle). Okay, we're getting a good view of the North Massif, and the cross-hatched lineaments that Gene has talked about are over there, also. They seem to be a set that - that plunge about, oh, 30 degrees to the east and another set that plunge about the same to the west. Plus the boulder tracks, which we see occasionally over there. And there are areas - boulder fields up on the Massif itself, such as we saw on the South Massif. As a matter of fact, it looks like there's one just above where we may - where Station 6 may be. Straight ahead of us there, Geno.
145:19:01 Cernan Uh-hmm.
145:19:02 Schmitt About bearing O60 from our present position, which is 098 and 4.8.
145:19:26 Cernan If I change that heading, that LCRU comes right in on me.
145:19:33 Schmitt I don't see any - anything like layering up there. Although the upper boundary of those boulder fields on the North Massif, and, as a matter of fact, on the South Massif - -
145:19:49 Cernan That's Shorty straight ahead of us, I think. Yes, yes, that's got to be it.
145:19:54 Schmitt - - all tend to have a linear boundary. That's the upper portion of the field; the lower portion is strung out downslope. That looks like it might be Shorty. Yes.
145:20:08 Cernan We're at 9 - 099, 4.7, Bob.
145:20:11 CC Okay, great. Sounds like you're just about there.
145:20:17 Cernan Yes, I think we got it in front of us.
145:20:18 CC Okay.
145:20:27 Schmitt Bob, looking at the Sculptured Hills, I think Gene's comments the other day about Bare Mountain would apply. There's a small relief - or small amplitude hummockiness to the surface. It's formed by cross-hatch of - Let's say the slope I'm looking at is sort of west-facing slope. So on the other side of Wessex Cleft, it's formed by lineaments going - plunging about 10 degrees to the north and about 10 degrees to the south. And the combination gives some hummocks that are quite distinct.
145:21:14 Cernan Well, you know it's hard to see a blanket here, but that's got to be Shorty right there.
145:21:19 Schmitt Okay - -
145:21:20 Cernan It's the only large - real large -
145:21:21 Schmitt We want to park. I don't think we'll see a blanket down - -
145:21:24 Cernan I don't either.
145:21:27 Schmitt It - Well, I think - At least we're going to see where the break in slope is for the rim. My goodness.
145:21:35 Cernan Oh, look at the boulders sitting on that rim.
145:21:38 Schmitt It's different.
145:21:40 Cernan It is darker.
145:21:41 Schmitt Let's go over there.
145:21:42 Cernan No question. We're at 101, 4.5-
145:21:48 CC Copy that.
145:21:51 Cernan Okay - -
145:21:51 CC Let us know when you stop and where you're - -
145:21:53 Cernan Which rim do you want to park on?
145:21:54 Schmitt Well, I think we ought to park over here near that big boulder.
145:21:58 Cernan Yes - yes, if I can get up there. I think I can.
145:22:01 Schmitt You can swing in, you know, and just park parallel to the - Of course, that will put them looking back. What - Can you park any direction?
145:22:10 Cernan Well, yes, but 045 gives me a good - Let me - I'll work on it.
145:22:14 Schmitt Okay.
145:22:15 Cernan Let me get up there slowly. I'll put them on this low saddle here. 045 will give them a good heading.
145:22:23 Schmitt Shorty is a crater, the size of which you know. It's obviously darker rimmed, although the fragment population for most of the blanket does not seem too different than the light mantle. But inside - Whoo, whoo, whoo!
145:22:38 Cernan Man, are you going to get a picture now.
145:22:40 Schmitt Oh, yes.
145:22:42 CC We can hardly wait.
145:22:43 Cernan That's about as far as I want to take it.
145:22:46 CC Okay. And when you stop and get off, give me word and I'll read you up some revised plans for Station 4.
145:22:57 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're heading 041; bearing is 102; distance, 5.1; and 4.4 on the range. Amp-hours are 92, 90, 102, and 128 on the batteries. Off-scale low on the fronts, and off-scale low on the rears.
145:23:23 CC Copy that. And did I understand 4.2 on the range, Gene?
145:23:32 Cernan Yes sir!
145:23:33 CC Okay. Copy that.
145:23:35 Cernan I don't know whether you're wrong, or we are, but - -
145:23:39 CC Sounds like an interesting crater, in any case.
145:23:40 Cernan - - this is an impressive one.
145:23:43 Schmitt Wait until you see the bottom of it.
145:23:45 CC Okay.
145:23:48 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Shorty is clearly a darker rimmed crater. The inner wall is quite blocky over - but except for the western portion of it, which is less blocky than the others. The floor is hummocky, as we thought it was in the photograph. The central peak, if you will, or central mound, is very blocky and jagged. And the impression I have of the other mounds in the bottom is that they may - they look like Scarp masses that may have come off the side.
145:24:38 CC Okay; copy that and - -
145:24:40 Schmitt That's just what they look like. I'm not sure that - They have a - they have a bench appearance.
145:24:46 CC - - Okay, and the primary priority - number 1 and 2 priorities - at this station will be samples from the crater rim and the pan from the crater rim. Over.
145:24:59 Schmitt Okay, we've got a large boulder of very intensely fractured rock, right on the rim, right near the Rover. It looks like - it looks like a finely vesicular version of our clinopyroxene gabbro. It's obviously crystalline and has generally that same appearance. There is, in one spot here, some inclusions of a darker gray rock also intensely fractured. The fracture systems, I think, will show up well in the flight line stereo.
145:25:49 Cernan Bob, do you have TV?
145:25:51 CC Roger. We have TV, and you might brush the lens for us before you run away.
145:25:57 Cernan Yes, I'll get it. I've got to get my battery covers cleaned.
145:26:02 Schmitt Okay, I'm going to take a pan while I'm waiting for you.
145:26:04 CC And we're going to want the SEP opened and dusted as well here so we'll be - switches turned off.
145:26:15 Cernan Ooo-kaay. Ooo-kaay.
145:26:22 Schmitt Oh, hey - Wait a minute - -
145:26:27 Cernan What?
145:26:29 Schmitt - - Where are the reflections? I've been fooled once. There is orange soil!
145:26:32 Cernan Well, don't move it until I see it.
145:26:35 Schmitt It's all over! Orange!
145:26:39 Cernan Don't move it until I see it.
145:26:40 Schmitt I stirred it up with my feet.
145:26:42 Cernan Hey, it is! I can see it from here!
145:26:44 Schmitt It's orange!
145:26:46 Cernan Wait a minute, let me put my visor up. It's still orange!
145:26:48 Schmitt Sure it is! Crazy! Orange! I've got to dig a trench, Houston.
145:26:59 CC Copy that, I guess we'd better work fast.
145:27:00 Cernan Hey, he's not - he's not going out of his wits. It really is.
145:27:07 CC Is it the same color as cheese?
145:27:08 Cernan Temperature on the SEP is about 100 and - temperature on the SEP's about 102.
145:27:15 Schmitt It's almost the same color as the LMP decal on my camera.
145:27:22 CC Okay. Copy that.
145:27:23 Cernan That is orange, Jack!
145:27:34 Cernan Boy, this brush is getting harder to get on and off too. But I sure don't want to lose it. Man, I may start putting that under my seat. Well, zap me with a little cold water. Okay, the SEP has been dusted. I think I gave you 102 or something like that.
145:28:16 Schmitt Fantastic, sports fans. It's trench time. You can see this in your color television, I'll bet you.
145:28:26 Cernan How can there be orange soil on the Moon?
145:28:33 Cernan Jack, that is really orange. It's been oxidized. Go around and get the lunar sounder over here.
145:28:41 Schmitt It looks just like a - an oxidized desert soil, that's exactly right.
145:28:48 PAO Total stay time here 30 minutes.
145:28:51 Cernan Well, I'm going to clean their glasses so they don't - so they know we're - Can you wait a minute on that - on that pan you're taking?
145:28:57 Schmitt I already took it.
145:28:59 Cernan No, I mean the television camera. I'll put you back where I had you.
145:29:11 Cernan Wow, I'll let you put your - right where you finished your pan.
145:29:17 Schmitt You know - that orange - that orange is along a line, Geno, along the rim crest -
145:29:28 Cernan To follow - what? Circum - circumferential?
145:29:31 Schmitt Yes. Man, if there ever was a (chuckle) - I'm not going to say it. But if there ever was something that looked like a fumarole alteration, this is it.
145:29:40 Cernan Okay, let me give you a gravimeter - -
145:29:43 Cernan MARK it.
145:29:44 CC Okay, mark the gravimeter.
145:29:45 Cernan And she is flashing. Oh, never mind, Bob. I'm going to go to STANDBY. I've got to get my gnomon.
145:29:59 Schmitt Hey, I think we hit one of those things we've got to reconsider on, Houston.
145:30:08 CC Yes. The problem is we're looking at PLSS constraints right now, as luck would have it, of course.
145:30:15 Cernan MARK it. Gravimeter.
145:30:17 CC Roger. Copy that.
145:30:22 Cernan What's wrong with the TV? Aren't you watching it?
145:30:29 CC It seems to have died slowly there.
145:30:33 PAO We're having tilt problems with the TV.
145:30:37 Cernan Well, stand by. Now, I'm going to give you another STANDBY and another MARK.
145:30:48 CC Okay.
145:30:56 Cernan STANDBY, ON, and -
145:31:01 Cernan MARK it.
145:31:02 CC Copy that.
145:31:05 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I've trenched across the trend of the yellow - or the orange. There is light gray material on either side.
145:31:18 Cernan Oh, man, that's incredible.
145:31:20 Schmitt Say, Gene, we're going to have to - -
145:31:22 Cernan That's incredible.
145:31:22 Schmitt You need to get a down-Sun color - -
145:31:25 Cernan That's incredible.
145:31:26 Schmitt - - as well as - I'll get my black-and-white.
145:31:29 Cernan I'll get it.
145:31:46 Schmitt We also got to get that rock up there - that's - -
145:31:49 Cernan Yes, we'll get that. Okay, let's start sampling that trench. We've got to get - that's - -
145:31:55 Schmitt Okay.
145:31:56 Cernan - - That's phenomenal. Look at where the contact between the gray and the -
145:31:58 Schmitt Yes. Right, and it's on both sides - -
145:32:00 Cernan Before you disturb it, let me just get a couple of closeups of that.
145:32:03 Schmitt Hey, can you get a down-Sun? I think your color will be best down-Sun.
145:32:06 Cernan Okay.
145:32:07 Schmitt Go to f/ll. Get a little closer, Geno, if you think you're minimum.
145:32:16 Schmitt Come up. There you go.
145:32:22 Cernan Let me get one more. Hey, you want any of this bagged in a - in the can, Bob? Canned in the bag - or whatever it is?
145:32:33 CC Stand by. They're debating that right now.
145:32:36 Cernan Are they?
145:32:38 CC Roger. Let's get the short can for some of that and - -
145:32:40 Schmitt Okay, the color is - -
145:32:43 Cernan Okay let us get the - let us sample it first, then we'll get it.
145:32:54 Schmitt It's quite - it's - it's indurated.
145:33:02 Schmitt Aah - Go back and get that one.
145:33:06 Cernan Go get a new chunk.
145:33:07 Schmitt I'll go get a new chunk.
145:33:07 Cernan Give me that, and get a new one. Give me that. Get some more.
145:33:11 Schmitt I'm going to slow down here.
145:33:12 Cernan Yes, just take it easy.
145:33:15 Schmitt I can't see into this.
145:33:16 Cernan I can't see when your shadow is there.
145:33:18 Schmitt Can you get around on the other side?
145:33:19 Cernan Yes.
145:33:20 Schmitt Because I can't see to sample.
145:33:32 Schmitt Oh. Well. Yes, that's it.
145:33:44 Cernan See if you can get a sample right across that contact too.
145:33:46 Schmitt I will. Okay, bag that one.
145:33:49 Cernan Bag 509 has got the - the orange material from, oh, about 2 to 3 inches down.
145:34:03 CC Copy that.
145:34:16 CC Okay, we're suggesting INTERMEDIATE for you, Jack.
145:34:25 Schmitt Okay, the light gray, which is on either side - we sample the - the - Want me to get some more?
145:34:38 Cernan Yes, a little more.
145:34:43 Schmitt It's - all of this is getting mixed a little bit with a - about a half-centimeter thick light-gray or a medium-gray covering over the whole area.
145:34:56 Cernan Bob, the gray material that is adjacent to the red material is in at 5 - how would I say 510.
145:35:05 CC Copy that.
145:35:06 Cernan I had it, and I can't see it now.
145:35:08 Schmitt And the LMP is INTERMEDIATE.
145:35:09 CC Copy that.
145:35:10 Cernan 510, Bob.
145:35:11 CC Copy that.
145:35:12 Cernan And that - and that orange band is about a meter wide, I think.
145:35:16 Schmitt About a meter.
145:35:17 Cernan You can't get to the end of it - bottom of it though, can you?
145:35:19 Schmitt I haven't been able to yet.
145:35:22 CC Okay.
145:35:22 Schmitt Just to be sure, why don't we sample this side of it, too?
145:35:26 Cernan Then I'm going to go get the can.
145:35:29 Schmitt Okay - one.
145:35:32 Cernan If I can remember where we put it. Bob, where did we put the small can?
145:35:34 Schmitt It's in the - it's in bag 7 under my seat.
145:35:37 Cernan Okay. That's good. 511 has the gray from the other side of the orange band. And the other side happens to be the crater side.
145:35:49 Schmitt That's right. North side.
145:35:55 Cernan Okay. Why don't you look around a minute, and I'll get that can.
145:35:58 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to see - see if this goes on down here as a zone.
145:36:14 Cernan It looks like it's - ellipsoidal area if my footprints are any indication.
145:36:18 CC 17, Houston. We'd like to get the double core here instead of the small can. - Double core, please, instead of the small can.
145:36:27 Cernan Okay.
145:36:28 Schmitt Did you want it in the orange?
145:36:31 CC Roger. That affirm. We can put cores in gray soil all the time.
145:36:39 Schmitt Well, it's a vertical stratigraphy. Do you want to go sideways a little with it? Or you just want to get it as deep as you can, huh?
145:36:52 CC I expect we want to get - let's go as deep as we can in the orange, please, there, Jack. And the one problem at this station, Jack, is not that - -
145:36:58 Schmitt All right.
145:36:59 CC - - we can ... decide priorities between this station or any other station. It's the fact that we're running up against the walkback constraints here in just a very few minutes, about 20 minutes.
145:37:12 Schmitt Okay.
145:37:15 Cernan Okay, Bob, and the bottom will be 44, and the top will be 35.
145:37:22 CC Copy that. And after the core, we'd like for you to go over and sample some of that - some of the big rocks there on the rim, if you could very quickly. That'll be the next order of priority after that.
145:37:41 Schmitt We will.
145:37:41 Cernan Yes, sir.
145:37:41 CC And I'm not sure whether your pan will look down into the crater or not, Jack. But if it didn't, we'd like to get another one from there. Hey, there's the crater.
145:37:49 Cernan It did. Yes - yes - look into it yourself and - and then, I'll also get you a stereo pan before we leave. I can do that.
145:37:58 CC Roger. That's some crater.
145:38:03 Schmitt Got your hammer?
145:38:04 Cernan Yes. I've practiced too long on taking stereo pans of craters, without getting one here.
145:38:11 Schmitt I got mine from right - just right down there, Gene. So -
145:38:17 Cernan What is that right there?
145:38:19 Schmitt What?
145:38:21 Cernan That right there.
145:38:22 Schmitt I don't see - Oh, it's a piece of glass, probably.
145:38:27 Cernan Boy, it sure is.
145:38:29 Schmitt Hey, how about right up here?
145:38:42 Schmitt You know that - we were almost - we just about got (laugh) to the upper edge of this little ellipsoid zone. I think we're going to have to - we've messed up most of it. Let's try right over here.
145:39:00 Cernan I've got a little piece of glass in my pocket.
145:39:03 Schmitt Bob, the upper portion of the core is going to be a little bit disturbed, because we've walked around the area so much.
145:39:11 CC Okay. Copy that.
145:39:16 Cernan There was a little piece of black glass - -
145:39:20 Schmitt You may want to get up here - -
145:39:21 Cernan - - solid black glass.
145:39:22 Schmitt Okay. That - did you get a - hold it, and I'll get a shot.
145:39:26 Cernan Take your picture. That's about as far as I could shove it in.
145:39:33 CC Okay. And, 17, while you're doing that, was the gray mantle over the top of this, or was this showing all the way through to the surface?
145:39:43 Schmitt No, it was over the top. It was about a half a centimeter over the top.
145:39:46 CC Copy that.
145:39:48 Schmitt He's getting about - about 3 centimeters a whack.
145:39:52 CC Very good.
145:39:54 Cernan I'll tell you, it's a lot harder going in than that double core was back there. It's pretty hard.
145:39:59 Schmitt It acts like it's inherently cohesive. It breaks up in angular fragments.
145:40:06 CC Copy that.
145:40:07 Schmitt An essential portion of the zone is - actually has a crimson hue, or red hue. Outside of that it's orange. And outside of that, it's gray.
145:40:20 Cernan Wait a minute, Jack.
145:40:21 Schmitt That's all right, take it easy. I'd offer to hit it, but I don't think I can, my hands are so tired.
145:40:30 Cernan I'm going up to max here for just a minute or 2.
145:40:34 CC Copy that.
145:40:34 Cernan Okay, let me hit some more. Ready?
145:40:37 Schmitt Yes, go ahead.
145:40:39 Cernan Watch it - I'm afraid. Jack, it's stable enough. Why don't you get out of the way? I'm afraid if I leave go of this thing, you'll get it in the head.
145:40:43 Schmitt Okay. Have at it. He's still getting a centimeter a whack, P00r guy. Let's see. I didn't get a locator, I better get a locator. Oh, it's in the - No, it isn't.
145:41:05 Cernan The only thing I question is our ability to get it out. Man, that's really hit bottom.
145:41:18 Schmitt Has it?
145:41:19 Cernan Yes.
145:41:20 Schmitt Okay, do I have core tubes on me now? I mean caps?
145:41:22 Cernan Yes.
145:41:23 Schmitt Caps.
145:41:24 Cernan Yes, sir.
145:41:26 Schmitt And the rammer.
145:41:27 Cernan Yes.
145:41:27 Schmitt Okay - only -
145:41:29 Cernan That's all the way down. But, I really - -
145:41:31 Schmitt That's it. Thanks, Geno.
145:41:32 Cernan - - I really wonder about getting it out.
145:41:33 Schmitt Well, we'll give it the old college try.
145:41:35 Cernan Yes, we ought to be good at getting cores out by now.
145:41:37 Schmitt It'll come out.
145:41:39 Cernan Whew - Okay.
145:41:41 Schmitt It wouldn't dare not come out - wait a minute - -
145:41:45 Cernan Is there enough to hold on to?
145:41:46 Schmitt Whoops - Which side you got?
145:41:49 Cernan I was just getting this out for you. Let me - I can get this side better.
145:41:52 Schmitt Okay.
145:41:55 Cernan Ready?
145:41:56 Schmitt Okay.
145:41:56 Cernan Go. Okay, pull slowly. Slowly so I can cap it all right. Let me get a cap.
145:42:01 Schmitt Okay.
145:42:02 Cernan Okay. Hold it - hold it - let me get a cap.
145:42:04 Schmitt ... get the cap.
145:42:06 Cernan Okay. Now, wait a minute.
145:42:09 Schmitt Are you ready?
145:42:10 Cernan Okay, very slow. Even the core tube is red!
145:42:14 Schmitt Look at that!
145:42:15 Cernan Even the core is red! The bottom one's black - black and orange, and the top one's gray and orange!
145:42:22 Schmitt The fact is, the bottom of the core is very black compared to anything we've seen.
145:42:27 Cernan Hey, we must have gone through the red soil because it's filled, but it's filled with a black material.
145:42:32 Schmitt Let me see, Gene.
145:42:33 Cernan Dark gray, almost a very very fine grained - -
145:42:36 Schmitt That might be a magnet - magnetite.
145:42:39 CC Fantastic.
145:42:39 Cernan ... I got it.
145:42:40 CC Fantastic.
145:42:41 Schmitt Go ahead.
145:42:42 Cernan Okay.
145:42:45 Cernan But it, it, it -
145:42:47 Schmitt Let me - god, it is black isn't it?
145:42:50 Cernan Yes. I've got to get it so I can get the - Boy, it is black and is it contrasted to that orange stuff. Very black. Well, not very black. It's a good dark gray. Very dark bluish gray.
145:43:04 Schmitt Yes - contrast.
145:43:05 Cernan Okay, turn that thing so I can push this cap a little bit. Just turn -
145:43:08 Schmitt Which way?
145:43:08 Cernan Either way. Just turn the whole tube.
145:43:10 Schmitt Oh, okay.
145:43:11 Cernan It's just easier to turn the tube than my hand - -
145:43:13 Schmitt (Laughter)
145:43:13 Cernan - - some more. I don't want this cap to come off. Okay. I'm going to INTERMEDIATE cooling. Okay. Now you don't have any caps, so let's take this back to the Rover.
145:43:25 Schmitt Where's the hole?
145:43:26 Cernan Why don't you take a picture of the hole, while you've got a camera there?
145:43:30 Schmitt Be careful with that.
145:43:31 Cernan Yes.
145:43:32 CC The caps are in SCB-7. They're under the LMP seat.
145:43:35 Schmitt Well, the hole's most - the hole's mostly in shadow.
145:43:41 CC And, 17 - -
145:43:43 Cernan Yes, I got them Bob.
145:43:44 CC - - And, 17, so you're at a spot - we'd like - We have to be leaving here - not like - we have to be here in 14 minutes on the move because of walkback constraints. And we'd like to get a quick sample of the basalt up there on the rim, and Gene's stereo pan, and then press on. And I emphasize that the walkback constraint we're up against in 14 minutes - 13 now.
145:44:08 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I'll get a sample - I'll doc - I'll sample it by hand. But it'll be documented. And I'll get it in a bag in a minute since I don't have any.
145:44:18 Cernan Come back this way when you do. I need that rammer again.
145:44:22 Schmitt Oh, okay. Well, I better come there first, I guess.
145:44:26 Cernan Well, I don't need it right this second - -
145:44:28 Schmitt Okay.
145:44:28 CC Why don't you leave the core there Gene, and you can take the stereo pan while Jack's getting that sample. And then you can get together and ram the core home.
145:44:40 Cernan Okay. Bob, the bottom of the upper core is also dark.
145:44:46 CC Copy that. Sounds a little thin.
145:45:14 Cernan And, like you might expect, the top of the bottom core is dark, too.
145:45:18 CC How about that.
145:45:18 Cernan ... It - if I ever saw a classic alteration halo around a volcanic crater, this is it. It's ellipsoidal. It appears to be zoned. There's one sample we didn't get. We didn't get the more yellowy stuff, we got the center portion -
145:45:44 Cernan Let me get those caps, Jack. What's - That's what's holding it. Holding it from coming out.
145:45:57 Schmitt Steal a bag.
145:45:58 Cernan Okay.
145:46:09 Schmitt Okay, the - I got it. Basalt is in bag 512.
145:46:20 CC Copy that.
145:46:37 Schmitt I'm getting in your bag here Gene. Got it. Okay.
145:46:52 Cernan Jack, our lock is on the outside here, so we ought to watch this gauge.
145:46:58 Schmitt What happened?
145:46:59 Cernan Not going to worry about it. This lock is on the outside of that lever lock - out there. You'll see what I mean when you look at the lock. Okay, I'm going to go get my pan.
145:47:13 Schmitt Okay.
145:47:15 Cernan The cores are not rammed yet. You want to ram them while you're here?
145:47:18 Schmitt What did you do with my extension handle? Oh, it's -
145:47:20 Cernan Here. And If you want to ram them - -
145:47:22 Schmitt Okay.
145:47:23 Cernan - - there you are. They're not rammed.
145:47:24 Schmitt I'll get them.
145:47:30 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going several meters around to the east and towards the south to get this pan.
145:47:38 CC Copy that.
145:47:42 Cernan And I - I'm going upslope. I'm circum - I'm - on the circum - Oh, you know, on the rim. And I'm up. Oh, that ought to be a beautiful shot, if I could see what my settings are.
145:47:57 Schmitt Okay, the lower core is chucky-jam full. I don't think I've budged that thing.
145:48:07 CC Okay. Copy that.
145:48:22 CC Okay, and, Jack, I copied - aside from three trench samples, I copied one single rock - one single bag of basalt samples. is that correct?
145:48:34 Schmitt That's right. 512.
145:48:36 CC Copy that.
145:48:36 Cernan Hey, Bob, from where I am, about 100 meters around the west side of the rim of this crater, the mantle on the inside of the rim turns from this gray material we've been sampling - sampling in here, to a very dark gray material. And there's a lot of orange stuff that goes down - radially down into the - into the pit of the crater.
145:49:03 CC Okay. Copy that. Outstanding.
145:49:09 Schmitt Hey, Bob, those cores didn't feel like they - the follower went down at all.
145:49:15 CC Okay.
145:49:16 Schmitt Shouldn't it have gone a little bit?
145:49:18 CC Not necessarily, if it's pretty compact stuff. You were having a hard time getting it in.
145:49:25 Schmitt Well, I thought there was a little space up there, but maybe I just didn't feel it.
145:49:29 CC Hot very much - -
145:49:30 Schmitt I don't think there's much danger of them coming apart.
145:49:32 CC Okay. Great.
145:49:37 Cernan I got to take a couple of more pictures at that contact slope over there. I know - you can't see it from where you are, Jack, but I guess we got to leave. Otherwise it would be nice to sample that dark stuff up on top.
145:49:47 CC We need you guys rolling in 7 minutes.
145:49:53 Cernan We can get a sP00l - oh, I bet I'm out of film! Well, I got them all anyway, Bob. I'm at 162. I'm out of film. That stuff - and you're looking at me with the camera - that stuff is up toward that boulder, around that - about as far away from that boulder on the other side as we are on this side. And we want a hack at that boulder, too. Jack, let's see if we can't get that boulder, anyway.
145:50:25 Cernan But I don't have any film.
145:50:27 CC Guys, we don't have that much time.
145:50:32 Cernan I know, Bob, I know. There's a lot of little pieces - not a lot - but enough that I've seen five or six of them. Little pieces of obsidian-like glass. I got one in my pocket. Unbagged. Undocumented. This boulder that you were looking at with the TV. I'm going to take a sample undocumented.
145:50:59 Schmitt I got it! I got it!
145:51:00 Cernan Oh, you got it?
145:51:01 Schmitt Yes.
145:51:01 CC Yes.
145:51:02 Schmitt Let's go.
145:51:03 Cernan I'm sorry, I didn't know you got that. Bag 461 has another sample of the - of basalt that I picked up right near where we dug the trench.
145:51:20 CC Copy 561 [sic].
145:51:22 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to give you something with the - I'm going to give you something with the TV. I want to show you where that dar - dark material starts.
145:51:33 Schmitt Hold still, now.
145:51:33 Cernan As you - okay. As you look at the inner rim as it goes down (cough) to the right - you see a lot of boulders - a lot of rocks that are protruding out. Where that rock pattern thins out, just beyond that, is an orange - a visible orange radial pattern, and then beyond that is a definite change in albedo where you get the gray material, and a definite change in the number of - of rocks on the slope.
145:52:07 CC Gene, Roger.
145:52:09 Cernan And that particular - -
145:52:10 CC Copy that.
145:52:10 Cernan - - material can - -
145:52:11 CC And if - -
145:52:11 Cernan - - and that particular material - that par - Let me finish, Bob! That particular rim material there continues around to the due north, and then there's a drastic change again where you see the - the inner rim completely terraced with this boulder fill.
145:52:34 CC Okay, copy that, Gene - -
145:52:35 Cernan And I can't bet on it, but I can see it - -
145:52:35 CC - - and you can talk about it when you get home.
145:52:40 Cernan Okay. As long as you're happy, I am.
145:52:42 Schmitt Wait, Gene. Wait, wait, wait.
145:52:44 Cernan I got to get the film changed, Jack - -
145:52:46 CC All right, Gene, change the film at the next - -
145:52:47 Cernan - - ...
145:52:48 Schmitt Okay.
145:52:48 CC - - station. We can save time that way.
145:52:52 Cernan All right.
145:52:53 CC And we would like the SEP turned on before you leave -
145:52:55 Cernan We did that.
145:52:55 CC - - and we'd like EP number 1 taken, Jack, so you can deploy that at Victory.
145:53:00 Schmitt Okay. Okay. I'll get - I'll get your scoop for you. Have you been leaving it cocked like that?
145:53:10 Cernan Yes, Of course, we haven't been taking any SEP measurements, and I don't know what difference it makes.
145:53:32 Schmitt Okay, everything is locked on, I guess - How are you reading, Bob?
145:53:38 CC We've been reading you loud and - -
145:53:39 Cernan It's 70, 012, 501; 670, 012, 501.
145:53:46 CC Okay, we copy that, Geno, and -
145:53:49 Cernan Okay, got the -
145:53:51 CC Charge number 1 and - -
145:53:52 Schmitt We got the gnomon, we got the rake - -
145:53:53 CC - - we need the SEP on - -
145:53:59 Cernan SEP on, Jack? I'll get charge number 1 for you.
145:54:00 Schmitt Okay. I'll get the SEP on.
145:54:02 Cernan I'll just hand it to you.
145:54:03 CC And what's your frame count, Gene - Jack?
145:54:05 SC Charge number 1.
145:54:06 Schmitt Okay, power - power's on, recorder's on, the temperature is 112.
145:54:17 CC I copy that.
145:54:26 Schmitt Can you get it, Geno?
145:54:27 Cernan Yes.
145:54:33 Cernan You get in - I'll hand it to you.
145:54:35 Schmitt Okay,
145:54:36 Cernan And then I'll offer to get the TV.
145:54:38 CC And, Jack, what's your frame count, please?
145:54:43 Schmitt Wait, Bob, I can give you that on the Rover.
145:54:45 CC Okay. I thought you were on there.
145:54:47 Cernan Okay, camera MODE switch is 1. Camera's going AFT - camera's going AFT. Well, I guess that's the breaks of life. Low gain on SEP when I get on, I'll give you - this when you're ready. First thing I got to do, Bob, is change film at the next station.
145:55:17 CC That's affirm.
145:55:21 Schmitt And, Bob, LMP is at 75.
145:55:25 CC Say again, there, Jack, I - I missed that.
145:55:29 Schmitt 75.
145:55:31 CC Copy that. Thank you.
145:55:36 Cernan I must be getting fatter, you know it.
145:55:39 Schmitt Fatter?
145:55:41 Cernan Well -
145:55:43 Schmitt Depends on how you get in. Where's your hammer?
145:55:46 Cernan Okay, we got a flag on the Rover.
145:55:49 Schmitt Your hammer's caught again.
145:55:51 Cernan That's all right. We got a flag on the Rover, and I'm reading 136 on battery number 2.
145:55:59 CC Say again on that one, Gene.
145:56:03 Cernan I'm reading 136 - make that 132 on battery number 2, and we did get a flag.
145:56:10 CC Copy that.
145:56:15 Cernan Okay, Jack, I'm going to make a very sharp right turn here because I do not want to go down that hill. Okay. We're moving, Houston.
145:56:27 CC Roger. You're moving exactly 37 seconds early.
145:56:35 Cernan Early? I could have got - gotten that dark mantle on the side of that crater. That's all it would have taken me.
145:56:42 Schmitt So you saw a radial orange, huh?
145:56:44 Cernan Yes, it was radial, Jack. You could see it very - It'll be in the pictures. Oh, man, I can't drive into that heading. Let me get my - -
145:56:52 Schmitt That was on the inside of the crater?
145:56:54 Cernan On the inside rim of the crater.
145:56:56 Schmitt Yes, that's where the surface ... keeps slumping off so it's exposed, probably.
145:57:02 CC Quite a station, men. We thought - -
145:57:03 Cernan I'm going to get my ... Okay. I'm MIN.
145:57:03 CC - - Station 2 was a good station.
145:57:11 Cernan Okay, I'm MIN. Man, I'll tell you, that - that heading is going to put us right - Okay, Bob, give me a - Dang - wait a minute.
145:57:22 CC The heading you should be generally taking - -
145:57:23 Cernan Where we at?
145:57:23 CC - - toward Victory is 090, Gene.
145:57:29 Cernan Okay, can you give me a bearing and range at Victory?
145:57:32 CC Okay. Stand by.
145:57:34 Schmitt Did you get the TGE read?
145:57:36 Cernan Yes, I did - I get it read. They got everything, that station - but not everything I'd like to give them.
145:57:42 CC Okay, it's going to be - -
145:57:43 Cernan Houston - -
145:57:43 CC - - 105 and 3.1.
145:57:47 Cernan Okay. Man, I tell you that LCRU is terrible, when it lashes into you.
145:57:55 Schmitt Well, you can always zigzag.
145:57:57 Cernan Yes, that's what I've got to do. I've got to tack into that Sun.
145:58:09 PAO Station 5 is at the crater Camelot.
145:58:10 Schmitt I got it.
145:58:11 Cernan Okay. We got to go to Victory.
145:58:12 Schmitt Houston, I don't know what exa - I didn't have time to really think at that station but that could - I think based on having found the alte - If I hadn't seen that alteration, and all I'd seen is the - is the fractured block on the rim, I might have - which looked like the stuff in the bottom - I might have said it was just another impact. But having all the color changes and everything, I think we might have to consider that it could be a volcanic vent.
145:58:48 CC Roger. It surely was different, anyway.
145:58:50 Schmitt I'm not sure how we - I'm not sure how we prove it. We didn't have time to prove it.
145:58:58 CC We noticed. I guess that's the breaks of the game, sometimes.
145:59:03 Cernan Hey, Bob, I forgot your numbers at - I forgot your numbers at Victory. How about giving them to me, again?
145:59:09 CC Okay. 105, 3.1. And it'll be a heading of 090 - -
145:59:15 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
145:59:15 CC - - that's the general heading in that direction.
145:59:20 Cernan Okay. 105, 3.1.
145:59:24 CC I guess we always have Station 9 to look forward to, guys. That may be the same thing - We'll probably be out of time when we get to that one, too.
145:59:37 PAO A six pound explosive charge will be deployed near Victory on the way to Camelot and Station 5. This is the largest of the charges for the lunar seismic profiling experiment.
145:59:38 Cernan Nobody likes a pessimist.
146:00:11 Cernan Hey, Bob - I note on those radiators - I have been dusting the covers at every stop, whether that's any help or not.
146:00:19 CC Okay; we copy that.
146:00:27 Cernan Okay, sports fans. We're still about on the - well, I think we moved - yes, we moved - we moved out into the Tortilla Flat area, I guess. Not very flat.
146:00:43 CC That's affirmative.
146:00:51 Cernan Those kind I can go through - I can see them coming. 102, 3.8. And where's Victory?
146:01:01 CC Dead ahead.
146:01:02 Cernan Boy, Victory is going to be subtle, I'll tell you. Bob, how long we been out?
146:01:12 CC Stand by. 5 plus 26, 5 plus 26.
146:01:16 Schmitt Hey - hey, Bob, I recommend that if we ever do this again they let me get off and pick the charge off when we want to deploy it. It really adds to the fatigue of the hands.
146:01:36 CC I tell you - -
146:01:37 Cernan Couldn't you just hook it onto your fingers?
146:01:38 CC We - we copy that, Jack. And Charlie's got a big smile on his face here.
146:01:50 Schmitt Mark my words. There's Victory over there, I bet. See that's the long edge.
146:01:57 Cernan Yes, yes. I can't see over there, but - -
146:01:59 Schmitt Okay.
146:01:59 Cernan - - got too much Sun in my eyes.
146:02:02 Schmitt That's the right way to go. That'll be about it, too.
146:02:09 PAO Charlie is Charlie Duke the backup LMP.
146:02:10 Cernan Man, I haven't seen - I don't think I've really seen the LM, except ... - -
146:02:13 Schmitt ... big rock in front of you.
146:02:14 Cernan I got it.
146:02:15 Schmitt Okay. Well, you can't tell much about the countryside going into the Sun, can you?
146:02:23 Cernan Put your upper visor down. That's what - that'll give you a whole different perspective.
146:02:28 Schmitt It doesn't vise very well. It's stuck.
146:02:43 Cernan That's got to be Victory over there, Jack.
146:02:45 Schmitt Yes.
146:03:02 Cernan We're at 103, 3.4.
146:03:06 CC Copy that.
146:03:12 Cernan That is Victory.
146:03:16 Schmitt We're still seeing the pit-bottom glass - the glass-lined, pit-bottomed craters. How's that?
146:03:30 CC Otherwise known as - -
146:03:30 Cernan That's geology-ese if I ever heard it.
146:03:31 CC -- the GLPBC.
146:03:36 Schmitt Took you a while, didn't it?
146:03:42 CC It's 11 o'clock down here, guys.
146:03:48 Cernan It's 11 o'clock up here, too, Bob. There's a square boulder - look at that one!
146:03:56 Schmitt Yes, it's square all right - or at least one side of it is.
146:03:59 Cernan No, three sides of it are square. It just fractured that way - that's by accident, looking at it. So how do we get over here?
146:04:06 Schmitt Go left, probably. And along the rim.
146:04:08 Cernan Yes, that's where I'm going to go. Hold on.
146:04:12 Schmitt I'm holding. Oh man! If Charlie is smiling because my hands are tired, why did he let you give me - get the charge off? Fine backup crew we got.
146:04:40 CC You guys didn't really mean to say that, did you?
146:04:46 Cernan 106, 3.2. We're approaching the rim of Victory.
146:04:58 Schmitt And the LMP frame count is somewhere around 7 - well, 85, maybe.
146:05:04 Cernan That's Victory; look at it go to the left and look at it go to the right. That's Victory; we're right on the ridge.
146:05:08 Schmitt Yes. Yes.
146:05:09 CC Okay; and we're picking - -
146:05:10 Cernan We're at 106, 3. - -
146:05:10 CC - - on a Rover ..., you guys - Copy that.
146:05:15 Cernan 1 - 106, 3.2.
146:05:19 Schmitt Okay, let's see.
146:05:21 Cernan Tell me where you want that thing and we'll get a pan around it.
146:05:23 Schmitt Okay, let's - I tell you what - you see right ahead of you -
146:05:25 Cernan Yes.
146:05:25 Schmitt There's - it's - looks like a place you could spin a profile on.
146:05:30 Cernan Yes, I could do it - right up in here.
146:05:32 Schmitt And deploy the charge. Tell me where you're going.
146:05:36 Cernan I'm going, right here; you could put it in that hole. No, you don't want to do that.
146:05:40 Schmitt That's all right.
146:05:41 Cernan Just pick a spot and take your photos.
146:05:43 Schmitt Okay, I've got them. Now, go just beyond there. Little bit more. That's good.
146:05:52 Cernan Okay. Okay, Bob, we're at 106, 3.2.
146:05:57 CC Copy that.
146:06:03 Schmitt Okay, pull - pin 1 is pulled and safe. Pin 2 is pulled and safe, and - Boy, these are stiff this time around. Push it in - try again.
146:06:24 Cernan That's a - that's a big black box. Don't pull it too hard.
146:06:32 Schmitt Stand by on pin 3, gang.
146:06:34 CC Copying that. Remember to push it all the way back in, Jack, and start from scratch.
146:06:39 Schmitt I did - I did - I did. I remembered - I remembered.
146:06:42 CC Good, good, good.
146:06:45 Schmitt But now I can't get to the -
146:06:53 Cernan Your hands are tired. Let me try it once.
146:06:55 Schmitt No, it's - it's not that. It's just - it's coming. Got it.
146:07:00 Schmitt Pin 3 is out and safe.
146:07:02 CC Copy that.
146:07:07 Schmitt And look at the orange flag. Zowie!
146:07:11 CC That's what you guys were sampling at Station 4, I bet.
146:07:17 Cernan Huh? Yes - it's about that orange, only a little - not quite as bright. Same - same shade. Okay. Okay, let me turn my switch on. Hey, Bob - -
146:07:26 PAO The crew's about 12 minutes behind the EVA timeline.
146:07:29 Schmitt Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me get that out a little more.
146:07:31 Cernan Bob, there's no question but what that we're at Victory.
146:07:36 CC Say again there, 17-
146:07:37 Cernan It's the first crater that looked like I thought it would.
146:07:40 CC Okay.
146:07:42 Cernan Okay. You ready?
146:07:45 Schmitt Let me change my setting here.
146:07:48 Cernan Okay. Okay.
146:07:50 Schmitt Good.
146:07:51 Cernan Okay, let's get a nice Rover pan here.
146:07:55 Schmitt Okay, turn the other way first.
146:07:57 Cernan Yes.
146:08:01 Schmitt Take her slow.
146:08:02 CC And we'll get a Rover sample here before you guys leave, too, after the circular pan.
146:08:09 Schmitt We will.
146:08:13 Cernan Low enough?
146:08:14 Schmitt Yes.
146:08:20 Schmitt Look at the light mantle over there.
146:08:23 Cernan You can sure see it now, can't you now?
146:08:24 Schmitt Yes.
146:08:39 Cernan Getting your - your setting changed fast enough?
146:08:41 Schmitt I got it; yes.
146:08:47 Cernan Okay. Okay, let's get our Rover sample.
146:08:50 Schmitt Okay.
146:09:00 Cernan And the Rover sample will be from the same locality. Boy, it's just a couple of meters from the charge, isn't it?
146:09:11 Schmitt Yes. I hope I didn't put too much soil in there for you. Wait a minute.
146:09:19 Cernan Okay.
146:09:22 Schmitt Rover sample works just as advertised.
146:09:25 CC Copy that.
146:09:26 Schmitt Not bad. That - bag 43 Yankee.
146:09:33 CC Copy; 43 Yankee. And how about a frame count after - right now, Gene - Jack.
146:09:39 Schmitt I will. Stand by. You're jumping the gun occasionally but not very often. 106.
146:09:52 CC Copy - -
146:09:52 Cernan ..., Jack. Okay?
146:09:53 CC - - 106.
146:09:56 Schmitt Okay. I guess we're ready to leave here, huh?
146:09:58 Cernan Well, if they don't want us to stop here, I guess we leave.
146:10:01 CC Roger. We're ready for you guys to leave there - -
146:10:02 Schmitt So, there's nothing else here now.
146:10:03 CC - - and we're pressing on tovard Station 5.
146:10:06 Cernan Okay -
146:10:08 Schmitt Gene?
146:10:10 Cernan Okay, and I want to go about 120.
146:10:12 Schmitt Gene.
146:10:12 Cernan Yes?
146:10:12 Schmitt Gene, when you - can you swing out there and give me one look down east - or north into Victory?
146:10:18 Cernan Yes, I can do that, we can - I've got to go by that way anyway.
146:10:22 Schmitt North. Well, you know, just swing it - point north so I can look in there.
146:10:26 Cernan Yes.
146:10:27 Schmitt I never got a good look at it. Well, it's a - it's a series of three craters. There's some boulders on the - on the Talus slope of the easternmost - eastern slope of the west - eastern slope of the southernmost crater, the one we're closest to.
146:10:48 Cernan Now how does that look to you?
146:10:52 Schmitt Well, it looks like - and see, there's the other - I don't know what it looks like. The northwest end of the V has a white block - white blocks on it - boulders - on the inner wall and right at the rim. And the northeast end of the V looks like it has somewhat darker rocks.
146:11:14 Cernan Yes.
146:11:15 Schmitt Part of that is shadowed, but I think they are darker. And they look like about the same as down here near the tip of the V on this - -
146:11:23 Cernan Got to be careful on that one, because there's one sloping away and one sloping towards us.
146:11:26 Schmitt Yes, I know. I've qualified it.
146:11:29 Cernan Okay; we are rolling, by the way. And we're at 106 and - Well, we're still 3.1.
146:11:37 CC Yes. Copy that. Thank you.
146:11:42 Schmitt In the rim itself though, Victory is - is not blocky. There a little - there is an - some increase in fragment size, but that seems to be the result of some craters in the rim that have gotten below the debris that's covering it. I'd say that Victory's somewhat like Horatio in that it has blocky inner walls but essentially a normal block population on the rim.
146:12:10 CC Okay. And we've got a Rover sample going toward Station 5 at about 103 and 2.5.
146:12:22 Schmitt Okay. 103 and 2.5.
146:12:25 CC Roger. And that'll be just a grid sample.
146:12:33 Schmitt They're - none of them just grid samples, Bob (laughter).
146:12:42 Cernan You see, you can't tell how deep they are until you get up to them.
146:12:44 Schmitt Yes.
146:12:44 Cernan That one I could have gone through.
146:12:45 Schmitt Yes. Okay; Station 5 is Camelot. Good old Camelot. (Humming)
146:13:24 Cernan Look at the size of that one. That's another one of those -
146:13:26 Schmitt Yes.
146:13:27 Cernan ... - there's another one on the right. Lookit.
146:13:29 Schmitt Some of them have -
146:13:31 Cernan Well, that one doesn't have any fragments in the bottom of it.
146:13:33 Schmitt No.
146:13:34 Cernan It looks like someone walked across it.
146:13:35 Schmitt Yes.
146:13:35 Cernan I think that there's quite a variability in the thickness of the dark mantle in here. Did you - I for - I didn't notice us crossing the - that one tongue of light mantle.
146:13:45 Cernan No, I didn't either.
146:13:46 Schmitt I - we obviously did - -
146:13:48 Cernan I think we did.
146:13:49 Schmitt Right at Victory, but it didn't show up.
146:13:50 Cernan Looking into the Sun, you can't tell any difference anyway. However, I tell you, I certainly get the impression there is a mantle. I would say that -
146:14:04 Schmitt Oh, I think so. I don't know what it is, but the dark mantle exists. They're just - the craters - these craters are just too big not to have thrown up blocks. And they're either subdued by the mantle or they haven't penetrated it.
146:14:31 Cernan And a lot of - and these blocks - -
146:14:31 Schmitt And I think you probably have both. Excuse me, Gene.
146:14:35 Cernan And I - I'd say they've been subdued by the mantle. That - that really imposes an impression on me.
146:14:40 Schmitt Yes. There are those that appear that way, like Horatio, for example, or the big ones. But others, I think, are too young. They just don't penetrate. Particularly those that are big and have bright halos.
146:14:50 Cernan Well, now - yes, but the only ones that look fresh and not enough to penetrate are these little cnes with the glass in them.
146:14:55 Schmitt Well, there's been some big - big fresh ones. We'll - we'll look for one.
146:14:59 Cernan Now there's one with glass in it, probably.
146:15:02 Schmitt Yes. I think that one - that's one - -
146:15:03 Cernan And without any blocks on it. That - that may not have penetrated.
146:15:05 Schmitt Yes. Yes, that just has the - mostly the shock-indurated rock - ... rock.
146:15:12 Cernan We're coming up to 103 at 2.6 now, so we need a sample up here.
146:15:19 Schmitt Okay.
146:15:20 Cernan Okay. 103, 2.5, anywhere.
146:15:23 CC Roger. That's affirm.
146:15:24 Cernan Okay, let me - good. Let me slowly go to the right here.
146:15:28 Schmitt Okay. Right out in that little inner-crater area, right out in there is good. If you let me guide you a little, I might get a rock sample. Whoa, whoa, whoa - well, that wasn't quite enough.
146:15:40 Cernan Okay. Pick a point.
146:15:43 Schmitt Move - move ahead about - yes, right. Just - no, that's good. Straight ahead. Straight ahead. Good, good, good, good, good, good, whoa! Now we'll give it a try.
146:15:54 Cernan Okay, 103, 2.5.
146:15:58 CC Copy that.
146:15:59 Cernan And that battery is still at about 132.
146:16:01 CC Okay. Copy that. We're allowed to go to 140, tonight.
146:16:10 Cernan I don't expect we'll make it. I think we'll get done before that. Save that for tomorrow. I'll tell you those batteries deserve any temperature they want today, after going - going up that - -
146:16:22 Schmitt That's - that's the soil.
146:16:25 Cernan - - that Scarp.
146:16:26 Schmitt Okay. The soil is in 44 Yankee.
146:16:30 CC Copy; 44 Yankee.
146:16:44 Schmitt That block's too big. I can't get it. Too big. Okay.
146:16:49 Cernan Get your picture?
146:16:51 Schmitt No. Okay, got mine.
146:17:01 Cernan Okay. What's the - well, we'll find Camelot.
146:17:03 Schmitt And the - 125's the LMP frame count.
146:17:08 CC Copy that. And just press on the same heading you've been carrying there, Gene, and that will get you to Camelot.
146:17:17 Cernan We want the southwestern edge, huh?
146:17:20 Schmitt Do you want to go where Station 5 is, Bob?
146:17:23 CC That's my understanding, Jack. So press on towards there unless I tell you otherwise.
146:17:29 Schmitt Well, but you were talking about changing Station 5. I think Station 5 is a pretty good spot.
146:17:35 CC Roger. And I think that's where we want to go - I'm just trying to verify that. You can go in that direction, though. I'll get with you if it's not.
146:17:43 Schmitt Okay. It's probably the most concentrated boulder field on Camelot.
146:17:49 CC Okay. You know where it is, and we think it's about 092 and 1.6.
146:17:57 Cernan 092 and 1.6. You know this country - -
146:17:59 CC Roger. But you know where it is, so you'll find it when you get there.
146:18:02 Cernan - - is rug - is undu - it's different.
146:18:10 Schmitt Wonder where Horatio is?
146:18:13 Cernan Well, we're going to run into something in a minute if it's - it's probably right over that rim on the right, Jack. Right off your right hand at 2 o'clock.
146:18:21 Schmitt Right. I guess so.
146:18:23 Cernan You know, it doesn't have boulders on it. It should be over there. That should be it right over that rim. You know, I see why Al and Ed had trouble walking up Cone Crater. You - you could stand right on the edge of the rim of a crater and not know it's there.
146:18:36 Schmitt Yes.
146:18:47 Cernan Man, that was spectacular. It's color on the Moon!
146:18:50 Schmitt Whooo!
146:18:51 Cernan It was really orange! Can you see that color on the television?
146:18:57 Schmitt No answer.
146:19:00 Cernan I'll bet they couldn't.
146:19:03 CC No, we couldn't see it, Gene. ... guys - -
146:19:05 Cernan Look at the - look at the Sculptured Hills. Okay. I'm sure glad I went up to take that second pan to see that stuff go radially down into the center of the crater at that contact.
146:19:15 Schmitt Yes, that's good.
146:19:17 Cernan Hope that comes out.
146:19:19 Schmitt Doesn't make any difference, it's there - comes out or not. Okay. Sculptured - -
146:19:27 Cernan Okay. Look at - look at up - up the cleft over there. You can see definite change in albedo now between the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills. Lookit, right at - right up the - the valley. Well, you can't see it - let me -
146:19:38 Schmitt (Laughing) You're right.
146:19:39 Cernan You got - you got to see this. See that?
146:19:46 Schmitt Yes. There - but, again, that may be your photometrous effects.
146:19:49 Cernan Yes, one's an upslope and one's a downslope.
146:19:51 Schmitt Yes. Yes. Just about right, but it's supposed to be darker in the - in the cleft you know.
146:20:04 Schmitt Well, I guess ... I've been on - LMP's back to MINIMUM.
146:20:11 CC Roger. Thank you.
146:20:16 Cernan Oh, whoop, whoop, whoop! I wish I had a movie picture of us driving.
146:20:24 Schmitt You're doing it - you're doing the driving.
146:20:27 Cernan Who's going to - -
146:20:28 Schmitt Who you plan on taking it?
146:20:30 Cernan - - ... century. You're doing - Well, there must be somebody out there.
146:20:38 Schmitt Bob, the fragment population - We're at 099, 2.0 - is still about the 1-percent category of - And it's hard to tell, going into the Sun, what kind of blocks you're dealing with. But - my - my guess is most - well, more than a guess - most of them look like they're slightly vesicular. And, in that regard, resemble the gabbros.
146:21:18 CC Okay, copy that.
146:21:19 Schmitt Many - there are - now there is some that - there's a class of boulders that is flat topped and fairly well rounded that is just about completely buried. Only the - the - oh, not more than 5 centimeters of it projects above the surface. We've seen those off and on, both days. Remember, Geno?
146:21:43 Cernan Yes.
146:21:44 Schmitt And they seem to be quite distinct. At least you notice them. Now, whether it's just a continuation of the mantling, I don't know. But - the - most other boulders - the big ones seem to be - project above the surface more than just that 5 or 10 centimeters.
146:22:09 Cernan I tell you, the Sculptured Hills just have that wrinkled old-face feeling.
146:22:12 Schmitt Yes. There are blocks over there though , aren't there?
146:22:17 Cernan There's blocks, but I don't see any concentrated outcrops - -
146:22:19 Schmitt No.
146:22:19 Cernan - - or concentrated masses of blocks up on the slope anywhere - -
146:22:22 Schmitt Possibly - -
146:22:22 Cernan - - like you did on the Massif.
146:22:23 Schmitt Possibly due - -
146:22:25 Cernan Oh. Do you think that's Camelot or not?
146:22:27 Schmitt I think that might be Camelot.
146:22:28 Cernan Look at that.
146:22:29 Schmitt Nice shot.
146:22:31 Cernan Look at that. Right on the southeastern - -
146:22:34 Schmitt Now, wait a minute.
146:22:35 Cernan - - southwestern rim.
146:22:36 Schmitt Yes, yes.
146:22:37 Cernan Yes, because Horatio's got to be on our right. Well, wait a minute, doggone it.
146:22:40 Schmitt It's not Horatio, is it?
146:22:42 Cernan Well, we're at 094, 1.7.
146:22:46 CC Stand by.
146:22:52 Schmitt No, I think, that's Camelot. Horatio didn't - -
146:22:54 Cernan That's too - that's too - -
146:22:54 Schmitt - - have blocks that far up the rim.
146:22:55 Cernan - - let me - yes, let me look - look at the bottom I'll tell you. I remember.
146:22:59 Schmitt Yes. ... These blocks -
146:23:03 Cernan Yes, I remember. Yes, that's it, Bob. We're coming right up at Station 5 - Right at it.
146:23:08 CC Okay.
146:23:12 Schmitt Only way to fly. Okay. You want to park up on the rim so they can have a good panorama?
146:23:21 Cernan Sure. I'd like to get a little on the other side of those blocks, if I can.
146:23:26 Schmitt Yes, you better. Then they can look with the Sun on them.
146:23:29 Cernan Yes.
146:23:29 Schmitt Because, otherwise, they can't see that other rim over there.
146:23:36 PAO We've said goodnight to Ron Evans.
146:23:37 Cernan Same heading. So, I'll be all right, there. Yes. I'll get to the other side. Then they can look at these blocks and those across the way. I got to go around this block field, though.
146:23:51 Schmitt I should hope so. ... seeing Druid.
146:24:02 Cernan Then you really - There's Horatio back there. I can see Horatio now. Okay?
146:24:07 Schmitt Looks just like it did before.
146:24:09 Cernan So, we came right where we were supposed to.
146:24:12 Schmitt All the blocks look very much the same in the wall of Horatio.
146:24:17 Cernan There's a path through -
146:24:18 Schmitt Watch it. Watch it.
146:24:22 Cernan Okay. Well, that's a test.
146:24:25 Schmitt That was a good one.
146:24:26 Cernan That was a good test. Didn't let any air out of that tire, did it?
146:24:31 Schmitt No, I don't think so.
146:24:34 Cernan Talk about a block field!
146:24:38 PAO America in its 30 revolution, coming up in the vicinity of the landing site, now.
146:24:40 Schmitt I think my guess of 30 percent was reasonably good before. I - Where are you going to park. Right over there?
146:24:45 Cernan I'll park right over here, so that they can look in it.
146:24:47 Schmitt Okay.
146:24:51 Cernan Okay. Yes. I got to head 045, so I head right into those blocks.
146:25:08 Schmitt Oh, you still got to turn, remember?
146:25:10 Cernan Yes, that's why I want to leave myself a little room over there.
146:25:13 Schmitt Woah.
146:25:14 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're stopped. 086 and 1.4.
146:25:20 CC Okay.
146:25:26 Schmitt Not very level for the gravimeter. What's their limit?
146:25:32 Cernan I don't know, but it's taken a couple better than this.
146:25:39 Schmitt Hey, I got to change film.
146:25:43 Cernan Let me get things going here.
146:25:44 PAO We're at 5 hours, 50 minutes. We want to leave Station 5 at 6 hours, 15 minutes.
146:25:46 Schmitt I think I can get by this station without it.
146:25:49 Cernan How's our time, Bob?
146:25:50 CC Stand by. We're talking about that now. You've got - Stand by. You've got 25 minutes at this station, guys. We've given you somewhat of an extension here. You're using up some of it back at the LM, but we've given you - I've given you somewhat of an extension. You've got 25 minutes at this station. The primary priority will be subfloor documented samples, and then subfloor rake soil. As you can imagine.
146:26:21 Schmitt Okay.
146:26:21 CC As you get off, we'd also like to open the SEP and again get back to COOL.
146:26:30 Cernan Okay. You wanted to turn it OFF.
146:26:34 CC That's affirm - -
146:26:34 Cernan Turn it off.
146:26:35 CC - - Turn it OFF, open, dust - -
146:26:36 Cernan You want it off?
146:26:36 CC - - the same thing we've been doing to it all aft - all evening.
146:26:42 Schmitt Well, it's midday here, Bob.
146:26:50 Cernan Leave it open and I'll dust it, Jack.
146:26:52 Schmitt Okay. Oh, the temperature - they'd like to know.
146:26:59 Cernan Temperature is still about 112.
146:27:02 CC Copy that.
146:27:04 Cernan You know, the thing I - you know the thing I dread most? About closeout?
146:27:10 Schmitt What's that?
146:27:10 Cernan Is dusting you.
146:27:11 Schmitt Yes, I'm not going to be able to do much today, I don't think.
146:27:14 Cernan Well, you know, we don't have nearly as much dust on - because yesterday we were wallowing around in it. Today, we're -
146:27:19 Schmitt Who? Me!
146:27:21 CC Okay, and Gene, if you're not off the Rover, how about the rest of the Rover readouts?
146:27:27 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm off, but I'll get them for you. I'm sorry. I look at them, and they all look good to me. And it - you know. I keep forgetting to give them to you.
146:27:39 Schmitt Bob, I have 135 frames. I think I can finish the station, don't you?
146:27:45 CC Yes, probably.
146:28:06 Cernan You know that SEP isn't get much - well, it's getting a little on it, but those mirrors don't clean off as nice as the - as the LCRU mirrors.
146:28:26 Schmitt Okay, Bob. This looks just like our old friend, the pyroxene gabbro with the shiny ilmenite platelets in the vugs and partially recrystallized vesicles. The textural variations are planar, and they're primarily - or subplanar in the concentrations of vesicles.
146:29:08 Cernan Jack, I'm going to put this brush under my - my seat. It's just getting too hard to get off that place up there.
146:29:13 Schmitt Okay.
146:29:16 Cernan Bob, what magazine?
146:29:19 CC Magazine Delta.
146:29:23 Schmitt Wa - watch yourself through here, Geno.
146:29:25 Cernan Yes. Delta, huh?
146:29:28 CC That's affirm.
146:29:30 Schmitt Okay. Delta - Bravo. There's Delta. Boy, this is certainly a uni - subfloor, as we mapped it. It's certainly a uniform - uniform rock type. I'll tell you. The only variation - are those gray zones which are - just seem to be either finer or the absence of vesicles. Boy, I'm nose to nose with a piece of it right now.
146:30:15 Cernan Say, Bob, where can I get a new set of bags?
146:30:19 CC Okay, you want - The new bags, they'll be under Jack's seat.
146:30:22 Schmitt There's some under - Under my seat, there's some, Geno.
146:30:26 Cernan Okay. Just loose?
146:30:28 Schmitt Yes.
146:30:35 Schmitt Here I am, folks, in the middle of a boulder field. Just minding my own business. There - I don't know whether I mentioned it. The texture - mineral texture - is - appears to be subophitic to - sort of like - like a good diabase, although a little coarser. But it's unquestionably organized with that variation in vesicle concentration.
146:31:30 Cernan Starting on frame 4, Bob.
146:31:32 CC Copy that, Gene.
146:31:40 Cernan Jack, I've got to get new bags. I've only got one left, and you don't have any, I don't believe.
146:31:44 Schmitt I don't have any.
146:31:50 Schmitt Bob, there - I have the impression that these blocks are buried up here. That the mantle does exist, even on Camelot. There are a few blocks that are lying out on the - looks like they're lying more less on the surface, but you might - you can attribute those to - to craters that have disrupted the block field.
146:32:21 CC Okay; good observation, Jack.
146:32:22 Schmitt The big ones seem to be projecting out of the - the big ones seem to be projecting out of the mantle.
146:32:31 CC Okay. Do you see any such mantle on - -
146:32:32 Schmitt Although I can't see how the mantle in here could -
146:32:36 CC - - on top of them?
146:32:38 Schmitt It's not as - No, I don't. What's there seems to be what could have been knocked up there.
146:32:47 CC Okay. Understand.
146:32:49 Schmitt I see a place where - I see a place where I think we can skim some off the top of a rock, which I think we probably ought to do.
146:32:57 CC Okay.
146:32:57 Schmitt But it - I don't have the impression of draping, so much as I have just of burial. And I have a feeling that the zap-pitting process just has cleaned these boulders off, of anything that may have been on top of them, in excess of what's around them, right now.
146:33:21 CC Okay, you're talking about - -
146:33:21 Schmitt Also, like Horatio, the - Go ahead.
146:33:27 CC You're talking about mantle - blocks - then mantle - and then cleaned off by zap pits, in other words.
146:33:35 Schmitt That's right. Most of the rocks seem - that seems to be what has happened all over the Moon that we've looked at. But the rocks are always cleaner than the - than the surface, of course. The - the far rim of Camelot - you can see - fact is, everywhere but where we are and on the rim near the LM -the - there seems - the rim seems to be completely covered or, at least, the blocks don't show through. They show up in the wall but not at the rim. That's much like Horatio, but not to the extreme that we saw at Horatio. I'd say, at Camelot, the mantle is - oh, maybe - at the most - the rim thickness, if that's mantle, is on the order of a half of what we saw at Horatio.
146:34:33 CC Okay. Copy that.
146:34:34 Schmitt The pan should let you measure that - Well, we didn't get a pan at Horatio, but we got some Rover shots of it. But you may be able to come - quantify that a little bit.
146:34:45 CC Okay.
146:34:52 Schmitt How coming, Geno?
146:34:53 Cernan Oh, I've got new bags. I've got new mags. I've got everything cleaned up and -
146:34:57 Cernan MARK, gravimeter.
146:34:59 CC Copy. Mark that.
146:35:00 Schmitt Here's a - here's a nicely structured rock that we probably ought to work on here. Structured again in the vesicle concentrations. And then I think we ought to try to get - right over there, we can get mantle.
146:35:18 Cernan Hey, I'll tell you what impresses me about some of these rocks. There's a lot of - they may be zap pits - I guess you looked at them closer than I did, but there sure is a lot of - lot of lineation in some of that white - white material, Jack.
146:35:30 Schmitt But at what scale?
146:35:32 Cernan Well, on a - on a - on a - on a visual-obvious scale.
146:35:37 Schmitt Well, I mean the - Okay.
146:35:40 Cernan I'll show you. If you don't - Let me see if it's up here.
146:35:46 Schmitt The crystal grains are - seem to be linear, but they are more or less random. is that what you mean?
146:35:53 Cernan No, they're linear, though. I can't - -
146:35:55 Schmitt Yes.
146:35:56 Cernan - - can't be really linear and random. There's some rocks here that are - -
146:35:58 Schmitt No, I mean - -
146:35:59 Cernan - - that are highly vesicular and there's others that are not.
146:36:01 Schmitt That's right.
146:36:02 CC Okay, and a reminder, 17 - -
146:36:04 Schmitt Gene, if this is what you mean, it's - -
146:36:05 CC - - you guys, that the primary priority is the blocks and then a rake soil of the - of the white subfloor soil there. And you've only got 15 minutes before we want you driving back to the LM. Over.
146:36:19 Schmitt Okay. We'll get to work.
146:36:22 Cernan Okay - -
146:36:23 Schmitt Let's sample this.
146:36:24 Cernan Okay.
146:36:25 Schmitt Let me get these two first and then we'll go get that one, because there's two different kinds here - at least apparent kinds.
146:36:29 Cernan Okay.
146:36:30 Schmitt One's a relatively new fracture.
146:36:32 Cernan Well.
146:36:32 Schmitt Boy, I tell you, watch when you back up. ... you already - -
146:36:34 Cernan ... told you.
146:36:35 Schmitt - - learned that.
146:36:40 Cernan I've already cycled film.
146:36:41 Schmitt We need to sample the structures, though, in this thing. We haven't really done that.
146:36:45 Cernan We'll try and get a around-the-corner - -
146:36:48 Schmitt And we've got to get - -
146:36:49 Cernan - - picture.
146:36:49 Schmitt We need to get that stuff on the mantle, too. I mean on the blocks.
146:36:56 Cernan Yes. Okay, we want to get an around-the-corner picture of one of those big ones, too. See if we can get the structure of it. Okay, you get your picture?
146:37:03 Schmitt Yes.
146:37:17 Cernan Here's a piece right here.
146:37:19 Schmitt Okay, can you hand me a bag, or I'll pick it up with a scoop, whichever you prefer.
146:37:27 Cernan Get the bag? Let's see if we can fix your bag thing tonight.
146:37:40 Schmitt Okay, I got it. Okay, that looks like our - our old friend, the gabbro, all right.
146:37:59 Cernan That for a piece.
146:38:00 Schmitt 462 is Gene's fairly freshly fractured rock. Okay, you can put it in the bag.
146:38:17 Schmitt Okay.
146:38:17 Cernan Okay, here's another one right here. That one.
146:38:21 Schmitt Yes.
146:38:23 Cernan I can't squeeze these things anymore. Here you go. Got a bag?
146:38:27 Schmitt Not yet.
146:38:30 Cernan Okay. You in there?
146:38:50 Schmitt Okay, 463 is another of the same variety. Wish we'd started on that structured rock because we're going to run out of time. Let's go over there and get at least one off of it.
146:39:10 Cernan Yes, we'll get it.
146:39:10 Schmitt Get the after. Whoops - Got it?
146:39:23 Cernan Got it.
146:39:45 Schmitt Okay, why don't we -
146:39:48 Cernan What did you have picked out?
146:39:49 Schmitt This - this - this in here with the layering in it.
146:39:54 CC Okay, guys - -
146:39:55 Schmitt I'll get a - -
146:39:55 CC - - looks like you'll be going in about 10 minutes.
146:39:57 Schmitt - - a flight line photo. Yes.
146:40:06 Schmitt Why don't you get a flight line -
146:40:08 Cernan I'm going to get that from here.
146:40:10 Schmitt Sort of northeast. How you going to go?
146:40:13 Cernan I'll come around from this end and go around to that side.
146:40:15 Schmitt Okay, I'll go perpendicular to you more or less.
146:40:51 Schmitt Boy, that one right behind you is just vesicular, by comparison, to a high degree - like three times as much.
146:41:01 Cernan Oh, I hope those bags weren't in the way of every one of those pictures. Okay. Boy, I tell you there ought to be a lot of permanent shaded samples in here, Jack.
146:41:24 Schmitt Okay, I got the down-Sun. Man! That's a hard Moon.
146:41:37 Cernan Just a little piece but that's - see -
146:41:40 Schmitt How about this chunk down there, Gene?
146:41:42 Cernan Where you looking?
146:41:43 Schmitt That'd -
146:41:44 Cernan I don't think that'll - that plate - piece?
146:41:46 Schmitt Yes.
146:41:46 Cernan I don't think that'll come off very easy.
146:41:49 Schmitt Let's see here.
146:41:49 Cernan I'll try - here try it - you're over there. You know I've worn the RTV off that hammer already.
146:41:56 Schmitt Yes, I saw that.
146:41:59 CC Roger, 17. Copy that.
146:42:00 Cernan There you go, beautiful call. Beautiful call. Beautiful call.
146:42:07 Schmitt That's why - -
146:42:08 Cernan I wore the RTV - -
146:42:09 Schmitt That comes from 15 years as a trained - trained hammer bearer.
146:42:15 Cernan By golly, your geology training did come in handy. You learned where to hit rocks.
146:42:18 Cernan Bob, 3 - well - 464. It won't all to in there, but -
146:42:34 Schmitt That's all right, you can wrap it around it.
146:42:39 Cernan I get it - no, I get it, babe. It's in there.
146:42:42 Schmitt Okay.
146:42:48 CC Okay - -
146:42:49 Cernan Okay, let's - -
146:42:50 CC - - Jack, and now - -
146:42:52 Cernan Bob, what do you - can we - -
146:42:52 CC - - if you could get that rake soil and maybe also get the soil off the top of one of those boulders that you thought you saw.
146:43:01 Schmitt Yes. Whew. I've got to have Gene with me since my - can't carry sample bag, you know.
146:43:09 CC Roger.
146:43:09 Schmitt I probably can if I'm careful; but I keep dropping them.
146:43:12 Cernan These rocks here have an awful lot - a much greater density of the white - white minerals in them, or crystals, than I've ever seen before, Jack. Where did we see these kind before?
146:43:24 Schmitt Well, you know, when I looked at them right at first, that's what I thought - but I think that the zap pits are making the white stand out more. They're fooling you a little bit.
146:43:33 Cernan They might.
146:43:34 Schmitt Because when I looked it with the hand lens, it looked like a fairly normal gabbro - like some of those that have crystallized with the mare basalt.
146:43:41 Cernan Where are you? You ready to take them -
146:43:43 Schmitt I'm back over here. What I want is a sample of this soil off one of these rocks.
146:43:47 Cernan Okay, let's get that now and then let's get the rake sample.
146:43:52 Schmitt But it looks to me like it's soil that's been thrown up there rather than - This rock is about 3 meters in diameter and it - but it's one of the flat surfaced rocks. It only stands about - at the most - one-third of a meter high.
146:44:19 CC Copy that.
146:44:26 Schmitt But we can get up about a meter from the - the soil/rock interface and get soil off the rock, I think.
146:44:44 Cernan Okay. See what you can do.
146:44:49 Schmitt Whoops, oh, yes; I got some soil.
146:44:52 Cernan Don't kick up anything new.
146:44:53 Schmitt No, that's all right.
146:44:54 Cernan 455 is that bag number, Bob.
146:44:56 CC Copy that.
146:44:57 Schmitt Okay, this is soil from a half a meter in. It's about a centimeter deep and a half a meter in.
146:45:17 Cernan Let's take that chip there that's lying on top with the next scoop.
146:45:20 Schmitt No, I'm going to - -
146:45:21 Cernan Let's take the soil on that. No. I was taking - No. Okay, take that one then. Well, that's another bag. Put this - before you pick that one up, pick that little chip up -
146:45:28 Schmitt Well - I don't - I don't want to get the chips. I want the soil. Either that or a coherent rock.
146:45:33 Cernan Okay, there you go.
146:45:34 Schmitt I think we better leave it at that.
146:45:39 Cernan Okay, 465. Pick that other one up and I'll bag it real quick.
146:45:41 CC Copy that.
146:45:46 Cernan That's the soil from on top the rock. And we're taking a piece of the rock itself, which looks pretty much like the other one, Bob. It might be a little bit more vesicular.
146:45:56 CC Okay, and that'll be in 466, right?
146:46:02 Cernan You're right again. Here we are and I'll be able to grab it with my hand. Put this away.
146:46:13 Schmitt Okay.
146:46:19 Schmitt Okay, the soil came from a half a meter in from the soil boundary. We need to get a - let me get over here and try to get a - one bag of soil that's away from the boulder. I'm going to get my after while I'm here.
146:46:35 CC Okay, 17 - -
146:46:37 Schmitt Could you - could you - -
146:46:37 CC Roger. And the present time, we drop the rake soil, we'd just like to get the kilogram of soil somewhere between the boulders - as open as you can.
146:46:48 Cernan My scoop in that?
146:46:50 Schmitt It will be. ... Okay, it is now.
146:46:57 Cernan Oh, you want a kilogram?
146:46:59 CC Roger.
146:47:00 Cernan From between the boulders?
146:47:06 CC Roger. That'll replace the rake soil sample we were going to get. And we'd like you moving in 3 minutes.
146:47:08 Cernan Okay.
146:47:10 Schmitt Let's do it right here.
146:47:12 Cernan Yes, right there. Let me -
146:47:13 Schmitt Oh, okay.
146:47:18 Cernan This'll go - this will be a matched pair with our soil sample, too.
146:47:25 CC Roger.
146:47:27 Cernan Okay, bag 467 is where your kilogram is coming from.
146:47:31 CC Roger.
146:47:45 Cernan Another scoopful.
146:47:46 Schmitt Yes.
146:47:47 Cernan That's - I'm sampling down to about 5 centimeters.
146:47:51 CC Copy.
146:47:58 Schmitt Get your hand down, please. I'm coming down to you.
146:48:02 Cernan Oh, okay.
146:48:08 Schmitt Okay.
146:48:08 Cernan That's full. That's 467.
146:48:13 Schmitt Pinch her down tighter or that will leak out.
146:48:24 Cernan Now let me get your big bag tight. Okay, let me try to get a - Jack, you got a shot of where my scoop was, didn't you?
146:48:35 Schmitt Yes. Let me get an after of it, though.
146:48:37 Cernan Okay.
146:48:39 Schmitt Okay, Houston, we sampled about 3 meters southwest of the gnomon that was set up for the top of boulder soil sample. So it's a match pair, really, in that regard.
146:49:00 Cernan Don't forget your gnomon.
146:49:02 Schmitt I'm not.
146:49:03 Schmitt Now I need to get a pan - are you in a pan?
146:49:05 Cernan I'm - I've already started it.
146:49:06 Schmitt Okay, I'll go over near the Rover and get one.
146:50:00 Schmitt Okay, I got the gnomon.
146:50:02 Cernan When do you want us to leave, Bob?
146:50:18 Cernan Jack, do you read me?
146:50:19 Schmitt Yes.
146:50:21 Cernan Hello, Houston.
146:50:22 CC Hello, 17. Loud and clear. We'd like you to leave immediately, if not sooner.
146:50:38 Cernan Hippity-hoppity, hippity-hoppity, hippity-hopping over hill and dale. (Singing) Hippity-hopping along. Okay, by golly, this time goes fast.
146:51:09 CC That's affirm. Okay, and when you leave here - -
146:51:11 Cernan Where did it go?
146:51:12 CC - - 17, remember that we want to pick up - -
146:51:14 Cernan I'm giving you readings.
146:51:14 CC - - EP number 8. Roger. We're ready.
146:51:19 Schmitt Go.
146:51:19 Cernan 06 - 070, 031, and 401. 670, 031, and, 401.
146:51:29 CC Copy that. And when we leave we want to take EP number 8 with us, guys. We'd like the SEP turned back ON and the blankets closed. Okay, Jack, I guess that's your option, you may - -
146:51:46 Schmitt Let me ...
146:51:47 CC - - stop and take the charge off when you get to the distance or, if it's only a short one, you might like carrying it in your lap.
146:51:54 Cernan Jack, I can hold it in my left arm on the seat.
146:51:56 Schmitt No, I'll get it. I'll get it.
146:51:58 Cernan Okay, you want the SEP ON?
146:51:59 CC That's affirm.
146:52:03 Schmitt Okay, both DSEA and the other switch.
146:52:09 PAO Explosive package number 8 is a quarter pound charge.
146:52:10 Cernan You want the blankets open?
146:52:11 CC No, closed.
146:52:14 Cernan Closed. Well, closed is - What happened to the Velcro on that other side? I thought they mounted that thing, so that - -
146:52:24 Schmitt It came off, Gene. It stuck to the Velcro.
146:52:26 Cernan That thing they ... it. Okay, you got the TG. We'll get EP-8. The camera's gone.
146:52:37 Schmitt We made a mistake earlier and it's too late to rectify it in carrying these charges.
146:52:43 Cernan Oh, I don't know - -
146:52:44 CC Negative, Jack.
146:52:45 Schmitt We did. I wouldn't want - -
146:52:46 CC If you don't have it off, we could stop and get off and get it, if you want to? Bur this is a short distance. You might want to carry this one.
146:52:58 Schmitt That's right, that's right. I say the mistake was made earlier. There's no problem now.
146:53:02 Cernan Okay, traverse to LM, low gain 100.
146:53:05 Schmitt Did you turn this on?
146:53:06 Cernan It's all on, all squared away.
146:53:07 Schmitt Okay.
146:53:08 Cernan Push that thing down and it'll stay. ... Well, sometimes it will. Okay.
146:53:15 CC And how about a frame callout before you get back on, guys.
146:53:18 Cernan Got it.
146:53:22 Schmitt Yes, I need some new - Do you want me to get it here?
146:53:31 Cernan CDR's at 50.
146:53:33 CC Copy that.
146:53:34 Schmitt 170.
146:53:36 CC Copy 170.
146:53:37 Schmitt LMP's 170.
146:53:38 CC And, Jack, it'd be my opinion, since you're just going back over the same path, that you came up this morning, it's probably not necessary.
146:53:49 Schmitt Okay, I'll use it until it runs out.
146:53:50 CC Okay.
146:53:51 Cernan I am out of film anyway.
146:53:52 Schmitt But when you leave me at - Okay.
146:53:56 CC Yes, We'll let - We'll let Gene take some of the photos near the bomb, on near charge, ...
146:54:06 Cernan Just jump up again and get your bomb. Yes, there you go. You got to come this way quite a bit.
146:54:13 Schmitt Yes. Up this slope.
146:54:17 Cernan This seat is rising with you, for some reason. There it is, I guess. You're all right.
146:54:35 Cernan Up closer to you.
146:54:42 Schmitt Okay.
146:54:44 Cernan Okay.
146:54:45 Schmitt Let's go.
146:55:16 Cernan Okay, the switch is coming ON.
146:55:26 Cernan Okay, traverse to LM: 12 minutes, 085/1.4. That's - Man, that says 086/1.4 to the LM, and my checklist 085/1.4. We must have landed where they wanted us to.
146:55:41 Schmitt Just about.
146:55:43 Cernan Hey, Bob.
146:55:44 CC Roger.
146:55:44 Cernan You know where we landed yet?
146:55:47 CC Well, we think so. We've been transsecting ... positions tonight.
146:55:51 Cernan It must be - -
146:55:57 Schmitt It must be pretty close.
146:55:59 Cernan You bet your life. I'm reading 085/1.4, and that's what my checklist says.
146:56:04 CC Roger.
146:56:12 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I guess my impression and it's purely pure interpretation right at this stage - that Camelot is mantled by whatever has formed the dark mantle.
146:56:27 CC Copy that.
146:56:32 Schmitt It does not seem to be mantled to the degree that Horatio is.
146:56:36 CC Okay, copy that, too.
146:56:52 CC And give us a mark when you're going.
146:56:56 Cernan Oh, I'm sorry, Bob - -
146:56:58 CC And we don't have - -
146:56:59 Cernan And we've been going about - a minute.
146:57:00 CC Okay, copy that. And we don't have battery temperatures there, if you could quickly give them to us.
146:57:08 Cernan Okay, I never did give you that. It's 110 and 136.
146:57:14 CC Copy that, good enough. Thank you.
146:57:19 Cernan Never did get that for you.
146:57:22 CC That's okay.
146:57:23 Schmitt But I tell you, the inner wall of Camelot is - the inner wall of Camelot to the east is certainly blocky.
146:57:33 CC Well, there were a few blocks where you guys were, too.
146:57:35 Cernan ... mantle, too, Jack. Yes, well, I don't know, you could see the outer wall, too. It's - Hey, here's some Rover tracks.
146:57:46 Schmitt Hey, somebody's been here before.
146:57:51 CC Okay, and, 17, what we're looking for is deploying charge number 082 and 0.4 on the range.
146:58:06 Schmitt Okay.
146:58:07 Cernan Okay, we're at 083 and 1.1. We're just about abeam the eastern rim of Camelot. And there's Challenger.
146:58:19 Schmitt Hey, hello, Challenger. You can even see the ALSEP.
146:58:26 Cernan I think I'll go this way. (Laughter)
146:58:40 Schmitt Gee, it seems like a short day. (Laughter)
146:58:44 Cernan Well, I'll tell you, the time went fast.
146:58:48 Schmitt Okay, you've heard about this country. Hey, looking over there, though, there's no - we're about - oh, 50 meters from boulders at - in Camelot. And their appearance from this distance is the same as what we sampled at 5. I think we've pretty well identified the subfloor, Bob.
146:59:10 CC Okay, sounds like we have and sounds like from the very deepest - even from the bottom of Camelot - it looks like it's about the same.
146:59:20 Schmitt It sure does. I can't say I understand it. But that's the way it appears right now.
146:59:29 CC You can't say what, Jack? Okay, understand that.
146:59:34 Schmitt I can't say that I understand.
146:59:38 CC Copy.
146:59:39 Schmitt Whatever filled this valley - it certainly was different than the Massif. I think we've proved that. And it, presumably, at least everything I see indicates that it was an igneous extrusion of some kind. Either that, or we're - the whole valley's been tilted and we're looking at a - some strange cross section, planar more or less - relative to the other mountains, of a crystalline body that was formed at depth. But I don't think that's likely.
147:00:21 CC Okay.
147:00:28 Cernan Man, we've covered 19.3 kilometers, Jack.
147:00:31 Schmitt Is that what we planned to cover?
147:00:32 CC That's outstanding.
147:00:33 Cernan I don't know. What did we plan to cover, Bob?
147:00:36 CC Stand by. But we've been everywhere we've planned to go, so, we must have gone just about as far as we've planned to go.
147:00:43 Schmitt Yes, but it1s a straight line. I don't know what the wander factor was, but I'm sure it was pretty high.
147:00:50 CC 17.6, they're telling me. So we went a little bit out of our way.
147:00:58 Cernan Well, it's all mileage.
147:01:00 Schmitt 0.7 and what was the bearing? 08 - 083?
147:01:05 Cernan 082, I think, but we want 1.4.
147:01:08 CC 0.4 - 0.4, guys.
147:01:14 Cernan Oh, 0.4.
147:01:17 Schmitt Yes, that's the range.
147:01:18 Cernan Yes, that's what I said, 0.4.
147:01:20 Schmitt But you want - you want to bear north, don't you, a - little?
147:01:22 Cernan Yes, I want - what'd you say, 082, didn't you, Bob?
147:01:24 CC That's affirm. That'll be close enough. It's probably be right on your tracks there.
147:01:28 Cernan Okay. Well, I don't make a habit of following myself. I like to cover new ground.
147:01:35 CC Okay, copy that.
147:01:36 Schmitt Watch out for that new ground there looks like in the - look at the italian flag.
147:01:41 Cernan Hey, there is one there. I saw the box before I saw the flag. No, I didn't, I saw the flag first, I've got to admit it.
147:01:50 Schmitt Come on now.
147:01:51 Cernan I got to admit it, I saw the flag first.
147:01:53 Schmitt The boss said you saw the flag first.
147:01:56 Cernan I'm 082 and I'm 0.5. I'll just head right in towards the LM. Man, I want to stay away from ALSEP, I see the big boulders, so I'll - -
147:02:04 Schmitt Okay.
147:02:05 Cernan I'm going to go around - -
147:02:05 Schmitt 0.5. Okay, you'll have to swing right after we deploy, probably.
147:02:10 Cernan Yes. Whee.
147:02:25 Cernan Did we ever get any glass out of the bottom of those craters?
147:02:26 Schmitt No, we haven't, we've got to try to do that before we leave. There haven't been any good - -
147:02:32 CC Sometime you'll have time to do that, I guess, guys. I'm not sure when - -
147:02:40 Schmitt Four.
147:02:41 Schmitt Okay.
147:02:42 Cernan Okay, 08, well, she just went to 1. Okay, 081/0.4.
147:02:47 Schmitt Okay, let's put it in that little depression there. See right ahead of us to the right?
147:02:52 Cernan Okay.
147:02:53 Schmitt Can you - -
147:02:54 Cernan Got your pictures?
147:02:55 Schmitt I'm getting them.
147:02:58 Cernan Okay.
147:02:59 Schmitt Now just swing into that depression and I'll put it there. Beautiful. Okay. Oh, whoo.
147:03:10 Schmitt Okay, charge number 8.
147:03:13 Cernan You didn't get a picture to the LM then, did you?
147:03:14 Schmitt Yes, I did. I got several of them.
147:03:17 Cernan Well, we don't have to take any more, do we?
147:03:19 Schmitt No.
147:03:22 Schmitt Okay, antenna is deployed. Pin 1 is pulled and SAFE. And, let me check that. It's dusty. Yes, it's SAFE. Pin 2 is pulled and SAFE. Pin 3, pulled and SAFE.
147:03:41 CC Copy that.
147:03:42 Schmitt I guess as long as it didn't go off, it's safe.
147:03:46 Cernan Ooh, don't bang it. (Laughter) I don't care what they say, that's a charge.
147:03:56 Cernan You're having great luck with those.
147:04:00 Schmitt You're right.
147:04:01 Cernan Okay, the LM was in the - approach shot, I believe, let me -
147:04:07 Schmitt Go ahead and turn around - -
147:04:08 Cernan Yes, I got to go around anyway.
147:04:11 Schmitt This was I can get a running shot of ... - right in the middle of it - let me get you - get them both in it.
147:04:19 Schmitt Okay, I ran out of film, too.
147:04:21 Cernan Oh, boy.
147:04:21 Schmitt Now that's pretty veil located.
147:04:23 Cernan Where is it?
147:04:23 Schmitt When you come around, take a picture of the LM on your camera.
147:04:26 Cernan I will. I'll take it right out the front looking right at the thing.
147:04:28 Schmitt Yes, and give them a frame count. At about a 56 -
147:04:39 Cernan Fifty-six.
147:04:41 Schmitt Bob, I've got the locator of the charge and the LM all in the same order here, and I'm one more than what I just gave you. I can't look at it now.
147:04:50 CC Okay, one more than what you gave me at Station 5, understand.
147:04:53 Schmitt ..., Bob. You want me to go to the gravimeter now.
147:05:00 CC Roger. And if you guys will start out, we'll drive you by the ALSEP, Gene - Jack, and if you'll get out at the ALSEP, we'll have you take a look at the surface gravimeter and Gene can press on home to the LM.
147:05:19 Schmitt Okay.
147:05:19 Cernan Jack, I'm going to drive you in this way, and then I'll drive all the way back around that one geophone.
147:05:24 Schmitt Okay. Shall I - -
147:05:26 CC While you're to the north, you could drive in toward the heat flow, towards that big rock, if you can see that.
147:05:33 Cernan Yes, well, okay; that's as good as anything.
147:05:36 Cernan Bob, you want me to get some ALSEP pictures?
147:05:41 CC Negative.
147:05:47 CC Okay, and Jack, you can stand by - -
147:05:47 Schmitt Okay. I got a flag.
147:05:48 CC - - for a feedwater dump very shortly. Okay, FEEDWATER, go to AUX, please.
147:05:52 Schmitt I just got it.
147:05:59 Cernan Man, look at that mess of cables. I hope that thing's working, Bob.
147:06:04 CC Every - Well, a lot of it's working, we've just got to try and see if we can't level this thing tonight. When you get off there, Jack, I'll talk to you a bit about procedures for that. And in the meanwhile, it's my understanding - -
147:06:16 Schmitt Okay; that's good, Gene - -
147:06:17 CC - - that the second UHT is not in the immediate vicinity, where it's accessible, is that right?
147:06:23 Cernan No, it is, I can get it.
147:06:24 CC Okay; if you can - -
147:06:25 Cernan Okay, and watch my heat flow over there, don't trip over them.
147:06:36 Schmitt Okay, I'm going to take a pair of tongs - -
147:06:38 Cernan Do you have any film at all?
147:06:40 Schmitt No, I want your camera.
147:06:41 Cernan You want my camera?
147:06:52 CC Okay, Jack, you won't need - we aren't planning on taking the ALSEP photos right now.
147:07:00 Schmitt Okay.
147:07:04 CC Okay. And, Jack, we're not sure you went to AUX on your water yet.
147:07:10 Schmitt I thought I did.
147:07:13 CC Okay, it's coming up, now, we see it coming, Jack, don't worry.
147:07:15 Schmitt Gene, can you - Okay.
147:07:21 Cernan You got what you want?
147:07:23 Schmitt Let me take the set of tongs in case I drop something.
147:07:25 Cernan Can you reach them?
147:07:26 Schmitt Yes.
147:07:37 Cernan You got everything you need?
147:07:38 Schmitt Yes.
147:07:39 Cernan Okay, Jack's got my camera and tongs, and I'm on my way.
147:07:44 CC Okay, copy that.
147:07:46 Schmitt Okay, I got a tone again, Bob. I got a tone again.
147:07:50 CC Okay, what's it say? Probably just your water -... been building up - -
147:07:54 Schmitt I can't - I can't read my gages. Want me to take - -
147:08:07 Cernan Well, we better take a look. Okay, I'm coming over there.
147:08:11 Cernan I just - I think I just got my water tone, Bob.
147:08:14 CC Okay, that's right, also.
147:08:18 Schmitt Okay, AUX water's ON. We got our tones - our tones yesterday. Can you see anything?
147:08:26 Cernan Well, not unless - Let me see, let me brush your - Bend over. You don't have a brush to brush off. Okay, no flags.
147:08:35 Schmitt Hey, wait a minute.
147:08:37 Cernan Okay. You got no -
147:08:38 Schmitt Huh?
147:08:38 Cernan You got no flags.
147:08:40 Schmitt Okay.
147:08:40 CC You look good to us, Jack.
147:08:41 Cernan Once more - a good look.
147:08:42 CC Jack, you look good to us.
147:08:44 Cernan No flags. All right, no flags, Jack.
147:08:47 CC Okay, and, Gene, I think you need to GO AUX - -
147:08:49 Cernan Okay.
147:08:50 CC - - if you didn't.
147:08:53 Cernan Yes, I just did, Bob, and my water flag cleared.
147:08:57 CC Okay, copy that - -
147:08:57 Cernan No, it didn't - not yet.
147:08:59 CC Yes, it's probably still coming up.
147:09:00 Cernan Okay, Jack, just be careful of the cables.
147:09:08 Schmitt Okay, you want me to get a UHT, huh?
147:09:10 Cernan It's right over there by the - -
147:09:11 Schmitt Yes, I know where it is - -
147:09:13 CC If it's quite close, but if it's not, don't bother, I think we can probably try this by hand.
147:09:20 Cernan No, it's there, Bob; he'll get it.
147:09:21 CC Okay.
147:09:26 Cernan You got a heading for me at the Rover, is 017 good?
147:09:32 CC 018 - 018.
147:09:36 Cernan Okay.
147:09:37 Schmitt You don't want me to kick the LEAM yet, huh?
147:09:41 CC Negative.
147:09:54 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I've got a UHT.
147:09:57 CC Okay, when you go back to the LSG, Jack, we first of all would like a reading of where the bubble is in the circle, whether it's in the center. And what we're going to have to have, unfortunately, is to have the bubble centered in the inner circle because the - this is, apparently, a requirement, even though we didn't train to it, apparently it's something that came up, and it's going to have to be within the inner circle of the bubble. The first thing we need to do is, when you go up there, is to see whether the bubble is in the center of the circle.
147:10:39 Schmitt Okay, Bob. That bubble is centered.
147:10:47 CC Okay. Okay, the next thing we want you to do is put the UHT in the socket there, and move the - -
147:10:53 Schmitt Hey, Bob.
147:10:53 CC - - LSG from side to side - -
147:10:54 Schmitt Bob - -
147:10:55 CC - - do not pick it up. Okay, go ahead, Jack.
147:11:00 Schmitt I did not have to touch it, it is centered.
147:11:02 CC Okay, but now they're worried that it's stuck like your gimbal thing was last night and, also, the thing is that maybe - we maybe - something's hung up inside, and by moving it we can jostle it free. They do not want it picked up, but they'd like to have UHT put in there and sort of have the instrument rocked from side to side to again see the bubble moves. And once that is done, to then press it down into the ground and again realign it and put the bubble within the inner circle. Over. They would also like to see if the gimbal is free.
147:11:33 Schmitt How much do you want me to - how much do you want me to rock it? How far should I let the bubble travel?
147:11:43 CC Basically, we just want to see it move. You - you go up to the outer circle, that's - that's plenty. And again, you ...
147:11:56 Schmitt There's only one circle. Okay.
147:11:58 CC Oh, I mean the outer rim, the - the rim of it.
147:12:04 Schmitt Okay, I did that. It's still centered and gimbal is swinging.
147:12:09 CC Okay, we copy the gimbal is swinging and we copy you moved the bubble out to the edge of the bubble level and come back into the inner circle.
147:12:18 Schmitt That's right.
147:12:23 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm reading 089, 20.1, 002, 92, 88. Volts are 65 and 66. Batteries are 1 - 14 and 138. Rear motors are off scale low. Forward left is off scale low and right is 210 degrees.
147:12:56 CC Copy that. What's the first battery temperature there, Gene?
147:13:01 Cernan First battery temperature is ll4.
147:13:05 CC Okay, Jack. They apparently don't believe you when you said you aligned it last night and they're concerned the shade is not on 20 degrees. Copy 114 on that battery temperature, Gene.
147:13:14 Cernan It is on - it's on 20, Bob.
147:13:18 CC Okay. In that case, I guess you're free to come home.
147:13:26 Schmitt Well, what is basically the problem with it?
147:13:29 CC They haven't been able to level it for some reason, and they were afraid that the thing wasn't leveled. They were hoping also maybe by moving it that you might jostle it a bit and it would come to level, but I think we'll just have to think about it some more. The first presumption - the easiest solution was to have it unlevel, which case we could fix it this way. But I guess that's not the case. We'll have to see what happens overnight. Give us a chance to follow the tradition of coming back to the ALSEP tomorrow.
147:13:58 Schmitt Well, do you want me to change it's posi - it's level a little bit - put it off level a little and see if you can work it.
147:14:05 CC I don't think so, Jack. That doesn't sound very good to me - -
147:14:11 Schmitt Well, it might be air in the level bubble or something.
147:14:11 CC Why don't you just leave it there if it's centered with the level bubble within the inner - within the inner circle there. That's the requirements as far as we can tell, and we'll just have to leave it overnight again. And why don't you come on back to the LM.
147:14:41 CC Okay, Gene, are you at the Rover?
147:14:44 Cernan Okay. Yes, sir. I'm parked.
147:14:47 CC Okay - -
147:14:48 Cernan Gave you my readings.
147:14:48 CC Okay. You gave me my - your readings and when you get done, let me know, because the first thing we want to do is work on the SEP a little bit.
147:15:00 Cernan Okay. Stand by. Got TV. Okay. What do you want to do to the SEP?
147:15:19 CC Okay, Geno. When you go back to the SEP now, and let's do this first and get it out of the way, it'll - you can probably do this anyway while Jack's coming home. When you opened the blankets, remember that at the back of the SEP there was a piece of Velcro on the case and a piece of Velcro just above the - just inside the rear hinge on the covers, and this is what you sort of peel back when you go to remove the back end there so you can get the DSEA out. You remember that piece of tape there?
147:15:48 Cernan Yes. That came off.
147:15:49 CC Okay.
147:15:50 Cernan That came off.
147:15:51 CC Okay. This is on the side away from you as you stand facing it. Right?
147:15:58 Schmitt Oh, no. That's the side - Go ahead, Gene, I'm sorry.
147:16:02 Cernan Okay, go ahead.
147:16:03 CC Okay. Gene, I'm - if you stand facing it, in the back away from you is this - there's a strip of Velcro on the case and there's another strip of Velcro on the blanket itself and this is the Velcro you have to tear off or to unhook, as it were, when you come to tear the blankets down to get the DSEA off. Remember that piece?
147:16:26 Cernan Yes, but that's on the - yes, that's on the side away from me. I'm on the LMPs side and that's on the other side.
147:16:31 CC Right. That's on the other side of the top. And what we're interested in, number 1, is that piece of Velcro still mated or when you open the blankets to cool it, does that Velcro come open? Over.
147:16:49 Cernan Well, that's the Velcro that's so full of dust it comes open, Bob.
147:16:51 CC Okay, and so what happens - -
147:16:53 Cernan Trying to stay - it's hooked - it'll stay.
147:16:57 CC Okay. Well, the feeling - -
147:16:58 Cernan I don't know if you can see that but it's - Well, you can't depend -
147:17:04 CC Okay, well, feeling is that - -
147:17:05 Cernan Bob, I swung the covers and - they will stay open about 150 degrees.
147:17:16 CC I - Stand by on that. What you're saying is that the cover actually stands up a little bit in space.
147:17:27 Cernan Now, if you want the cover open, I can open it and normally it should swing 180 degrees parallel with the top of the SEP.
147:17:35 CC Okay, but does that Velcro in back stay mated? - -
147:17:36 Cernan Well, the Velcro holds - the way that we've been opening it - it holds. Yes, it's being mated but it - but it and probably it holds the covers open 150 degrees.
147:17:49 CC No. That's okay. What we're - talk - what the concern originally was was that when this - -
147:17:52 Cernan The Velcro - -
147:17:52 CC - - happened, the front light was getting down in the back there and warming up the back of the SEP. That's apparently not the case. Over.
147:18:02 Cernan No, that's not the case. The Velcro that came off is the Velcro that helps the - keeps the covers closed.
147:18:08 CC Okay. We were concerned about both pieces of Velcro since the one had come off.
147:18:15 Cernan No. The other one is still on and it still holds in the back part of the SEP where the DSEA is in the shade.
147:18:22 CC Okay. I copy that. Okay. While we're talking about this and I'll get back with you, turn the DSEA and the receiver both to OFF, please. And read me a temperature, please.
147:18:36 Cernan 112 degrees.
147:18:37 CC Copy that. And I mark them both off, right?
147:18:44 Cernan Yes.
147:18:49 Cernan Bob, I just dusted it as clean as it'll get.
147:18:51 CC Okay. Thank you.
147:19:45 Schmitt Hey, Bob.
147:19:47 CC Go ahead.
147:19:47 Schmitt I cheated on you.
147:19:49 CC I was sure you would. What did you do?
147:19:52 Schmitt I just sampled the glass in the bottom of a crater. I documented it by shooting the LM across the crater at infinity and then shooting the crater with stereo at 11 feet and in that cross-Sun pair at 7; and then I sampled it.
147:20:13 CC Okay.
147:20:14 Schmitt Then I took a cross-Sun pair at 7 after.
147:20:17 CC I guess - I guess now gnomon is a LM.
147:20:20 Schmitt It's very fragile. That's right. It's very fragile, and I double bagged it. I don't know whether we can keep it or not.
147:20:30 CC Okay. We'll hope.
147:20:30 Cernan You may think about how to preserve it.
147:20:32 CC Okay.
147:20:42 Schmitt While you're thinking, I'll put it on my floor pan, I guess. Okay. What do I have to do here?
147:20:50 Cernan Get this bag off me to start.
147:20:51 Schmitt Get that bag off you to start with.
147:20:54 Cernan Be careful of that sample there.
147:21:01 Cernan Those are the cleanest battery covers in existence on a Rover right now, I tell you. Oh, you don't believe me - look at that.
147:21:10 Schmitt What?
147:21:10 Cernan They don't believe me.
147:21:13 Schmitt Excuse me. Move forward just a little. And I'll get your bag. Here you go.
147:21:21 Cernan Now you're stuck down there, aren't you? No you're not. Seems like you - I may be going nuts talking to that moving machine over there.
147:21:35 Schmitt Boy, I - we don't need any hooks; I'll tell you.
147:21:37 Cernan I know it.
147:21:38 Schmitt Can you stoop just a little bit.
147:21:40 Cernan Yes, all that stuff is getting - There, it's fixed.
147:21:42 Schmitt Get your hook back.
147:21:44 Cernan Okay. I hook my harness back up so I don't forget that.
147:21:49 Schmitt Velcro's closed. Okay. You know as you look at those little sparklies in the soil we're walking on and they change colors on you - -
147:21:59 Cernan Yes.
147:22:00 Schmitt - - Greens and purples, iridescent. Iridescent sparklies.
147:22:05 Cernan Okay. I'll come over, and I'll unload.your stuff.
147:22:07 Schmitt Okay. Now, we got more samples than we've got sense - I think. Let's see here - you got - you're taking care of the SEP.
147:22:21 Cernan Yes, don't - that's all right. Okay. Hey Bob, the battery covers - or the covers are open on the SEP, rather.
147:22:27 CC Roger. Copy that.
147:22:32 Cernan Oh, why did I do that?
147:22:34 Schmitt Hey, Bob, you think that glass sample would be better off in the SRC?
147:22:40 CC We're still talking about that.
147:22:45 Cernan Wait a minute. Your core cap assembly is empty. Up and away it goes. And that's all closed. Check your bag. Okay. Now, Bob, you've got to tell us which one of these you want in the SCB and which one you want just taken in, because we got our numbers sill confused.
147:23:17 CC Okay. Go ahead. What we would like to do here are the closeouts, guys. Let me read this to you first of all. In the SRC, we'd like the following stuff along with - let's see - Stand by.
147:23:44 Cernan Is this 9 or 6?
147:23:45 CC Okay, guys. We're going to follow an Apollo 16 mode and put stuff in loose, because they'd like to segregate stuff in the following way. We'd like to put the long can and four core tubes in the SRC. I guess it's going to take a long - going to take a while just carrying stuff back and forth. But they'd probably like to get this in, because it's the volatile stuff. They'd like to get the long can and three core tubes in the SRC number 1. And then we'd like to get all the SCB-4 samples in the same SRC. Over.
147:24:23 Schmitt Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
147:24:24 Cernan Yes. You want - -
147:24:25 Schmitt Okay.
147:24:25 Cernan - - Three - three - three plus the long can; that's four cores all together.
147:24:29 CC Right. Put those in the SRC -
147:24:30 Cernan All samples from 4.
147:24:32 CC All the samples from SCB-4.
147:24:34 Cernan Okay.
147:24:37 Schmitt These are 4. You want to get the core tubes in first, though.
147:24:39 Cernan Yes. I want to put these in. If you'd give me the - Yes, I only got two hands. I'll come back by the time you pick them out.
147:24:55 CC Okay, and then - 17, do you guys remember where the trench samples - the three trench soil samples - which bag those were put in - from the Station 4? Over.
147:25:12 Cernan Yes, let's see. I'm the only one who had bags, so I bagged them and put them in whatever bag Jack had. I think.
147:25:19 Schmitt Yes.
147:25:19 CC Okay, then that'll be SCB-4, so we'd like those in SCB-4. And that - those are the ones that will go in the rock box and that's in agreement with what we want to do.
147:25:31 Cernan Okay, give me those other two cores, if you've got them, Jack.
147:25:34 Schmitt Okay.
147:25:35 Cernan Long can.
147:25:53 Schmitt The long can. Here's a - oh. Got it? it's slippery.
147:25:59 Cernan Yes, and we need one more core.
147:26:02 Schmitt One more core.
147:26:04 Cernan Okay. That right now? Three core tubes and a long can?
147:26:08 Cernan Yes, got them all.
147:26:09 CC And then - Roger that. And then SCB-4 - all the samples in SCB-4. We won't bother to try and sort them out, and then beyond that we'll fill them up with samples from SCB-5. Over.
147:26:25 Cernan Which one's that? That's 5. Let me get 4, first.
147:26:27 Schmitt Here, hold this. I'll get it.
147:26:28 Cernan Well, it's on the gate right there, just hanging. I just put it there.
147:26:35 Cernan Four is the one I had on there at Shorty? Or you had on at Shorty? Yes. You had it on. I don't know, but they should have that logged. That's - I don't remember who had it on.
147:26:50 Schmitt Well, now wait a minute. I - I took the trench. You held the bags, and I put them in you.
147:26:55 Cernan You put them on me. Did I have 4 on at Shorty?
147:26:56 CC Yes.
147:26:56 Schmitt That's what they said.
147:26:59 CC That's affirm. That's why we want SCB-4 put in the - or dumped into the thing. But it's a dirty bag, so we just want to dump the samples in.
147:27:09 Cernan Okay.
147:27:11 Schmitt Okay. And you want 5 to fill it up. Okay, Bob -
147:27:28 CC Okay. And, Jack, it probably would protect the glass a bit better if you put it in the SRC gently with the other rocks there. But particularly if you don't fill the SRC too full. But, again, We'll be putting SCB samples in there to more or less flesh it out if there's not too many SCB-4 samples.
147:27:55 Schmitt Leave a space for a sample, I guess, Gene.
147:28:00 Cernan Well, you'd better give it to me. There's not much space, it's going fast. You really - -
147:28:05 Schmitt Well, can you leave one -
147:28:09 Cernan Where is the sample?
147:28:10 Schmitt Well, it's over here.
147:28:11 Cernan I'll get it.
147:28:13 Schmitt No, I'll bring it to you. I just - There's some way to -
147:28:22 Cernan Just set it in there. ... I'll be delicate with it. Take this bag back. Okay. It's in the right-hand back corner of the SRC.
147:28:38 CC Okay. Copy that.
147:28:41 Schmitt You're just about full - you - you got some left in there?
147:28:44 Cernan I got some small ones and some big ones, too.
147:28:47 Schmitt Don't fill it too full.
147:28:49 Cernan No. Hey, we got some big rock samples.
147:28:57 Cernan Okay, Bob. SCB-6 and SC - wait a minute - what's in 6?
147:29:02 CC Six - probably nothing. But tell us - -
147:29:03 Cernan No, there's samples in 6.
147:29:04 CC Okay. You should also have SCB-8 under your seat with samples in it.
147:29:09 Cernan This is what I sampled at - -
147:29:12 CC At Station 3, maybe.
147:29:14 Cernan Six has the samples from - from - Yes.
147:29:21 CC Okay. Let's take up SCB-8 - -
147:29:23 Cernan We have more samples today than Carter - -
147:29:25 CC And let's take up SCB-6 with a ... and why don't you dump out the Rover samples into SCB-6?
147:29:36 Schmitt Well, one reason not to take 6 is I don't know if I can get it off.
147:29:42 CC Okay. And let's save SCB-4 because I think you may need that tomorrow.
147:29:54 Cernan Four is on the rack, empty.
147:29:56 CC Okay. How about SCB-5? is that only partially emptied, or is it totally emptied?
147:30:03 Cernan Oh, it's about half full, Bob.
147:30:04 CC Okay. We'll take that up with us.
147:30:08 Cernan Bob - Bob, I've already - Let me tell you what I've done. I've got SCB-8 full.
147:30:18 CC Okay. Copy that.
147:30:19 Cernan Let's take it up.
147:30:20 CC Roger. On that.
147:30:27 Cernan It's got Rover samples in it.
147:30:29 CC Okay.
147:30:31 Cernan But I can't get them all. They won't all be in there.
147:30:34 CC Okay, 8.
147:30:38 Cernan Okay. Bob, the seal was clean. It was clear, and I got - I got your four cores - three cores, plus a long can. I got Jack's glass. I got SCB-4 and a couple of samples out of SCB-5.
147:30:56 CC Copy that. Sounds great.
147:31:03 Cernan Okay. Now where was I? You got me all out of whack, here.
147:31:09 CC That's affirm.
147:31:09 Cernan Core cap dispenser - Okay, you're clean cosmic ray is done. SCB-5, yes, okay. Now, Jack, we've got SCB-5 that's half full. What have you got over there?
147:31:18 Schmitt Bring it over here, and I'll put it into 6. Six is half - is a little more than half full.
147:31:27 Cernan Well, this is a little less than half full.
147:31:28 Schmitt Okay.
147:31:29 Cernan That ought to make one full bag. Hey, these are big rocks so they'll come out easy. Where's that big, big rock we got? That's in one of those bags, too. Picked up a big rock - here let me see if I can't dump it. How's that for a lunar dump, huh?
147:31:55 Schmitt Perfect.
147:32:01 Cernan I want to see if I can't dust - did you lock this one over here? - No.
147:32:04 Schmitt Hey, don't lock those - -
147:32:05 Cernan No, I'm going to see if I can dust them and make them work easier.
147:32:07 Schmitt Boy, I'll tell you - I really had to pull. I pulled harder than I like to in a pressure suit.
147:32:12 Cernan See if I can -
147:32:16 Cernan Okay, Bob. SCB-8 and 6 are going up.
147:32:22 CC Okay, and I understand 5 will be - -
147:32:24 Cernan ... go up.
147:32:24 CC - - on the gate.
147:32:28 Cernan Yes, sir, Bob. It'll be there.
147:32:31 Schmitt And 7 under the LMPs seat.
147:32:33 Cernan 4 and 5 sill be on the gate. You know, here's a problem for you tonight. You got any way of freeing up these gate hinges that lock the bags on? They're - I'm dusting them, but they're not going to lock - any of them. They're frozen tight, just about.
147:32:51 CC Okay. Copy that. We'll talk about it.
147:32:53 Cernan If you do get them locked - if you do - if you do get them locked, you may never get them off.
147:32:59 CC Okay. We'll give them something to work on overnight.
147:33:04 Cernan Okay, I'm - I'm dusting them right now. But - I still can't free them up.
147:33:13 Schmitt Man those are heavy bags.
147:33:13 CC Jack, have you got the top of the bag closed?
147:33:20 Schmitt Yes, what do you need?
147:33:22 CC Okay. No. John thought maybe you were still open. We were worried.
147:33:28 Schmitt Oh, no, I latched them. I'll check them again before I go up.
147:33:31 CC Okay, and we got no FSRs underneath the seat. We understand. Roger.
147:33:38 Schmitt No, if - I just checked and it's - it's all - they're all in the bags. And the Rover sample bag is empty.
147:33:52 CC Copy that.
147:33:53 Schmitt Not nothing left.
147:33:55 Cernan Bob, Bob, neither one of these bag latchers are going to latch on the back. I dusted them, but - -
147:34:02 CC Okay.
147:34:02 Cernan - - They're not going to work. I can't free them up -
147:34:05 CC We'll talk about it tonight - -
147:34:06 Schmitt We'll use the seat.
147:34:06 CC - - Don't worry about it now.
147:34:09 Cernan Yes, we can probably - we can probably use the seat. We've got a little more room than we had. Okay. Let me get something else done.
147:34:17 Schmitt I wonder if I ought to take a sample bag holder up there to see if I can fix that, to see if it fixes.
147:34:24 CC Roger, Jack. I'd suggest that.
147:34:25 Schmitt Probably ought to, huh?
147:34:30 Cernan Okay. Receiver's been dusted and blankets are open; power is OFF and OFF. Okay. I'm going to take the TGE off now, or dust it and then take it off, and then just leave it there. Hey, congratulate Jose on that fender will you, because I think he just saved us an awful lot of problems. He and whoever else worked on it.
147:34:56 CC He mumbled something very humbly about a thousand guys.
147:35:03 Cernan Well, tell him - tell him that's going to be my bring home present to him - a picture of his fender.
147:35:13 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Unused gear, which you have an inventory on is in the - under the LMPs seat.
147:35:35 Schmitt Okay. Where am I?
147:35:39 Cernan I'm bringing the TGE over here, but I'm not pushing it yet.
147:35:43 CC Okay. Copy that.
147:35:44 Schmitt Cosmic ray's deployed. Man, I got the sorest hands in the world, right now.
147:35:57 CC How about on the Moon?
147:35:59 Cernan (Singing) Nothing's in the big bag, is it?
147:36:04 Schmitt I just can't compete with you astronomers.
147:36:07 CC Just keep trying.
147:36:08 Cernan Nothing's in the bag, is it? Big bag?
147:36:12 Schmitt Nothing's in the big bag.
147:36:14 Cernan Okay.
147:36:16 Schmitt Unless there's one rock that disappeared yesterday I don't know what happened to it.
147:36:21 Schmitt Hey, we forgot the polarizing filter work.
147:36:24 Cernan No, I saw it on the checklist, and I mentioned it to Bob, and he didn't come back with anything. And there was -
147:36:32 Cernan Okay. I guess I'm going to go ahead and - -
147:36:35 Schmitt Put those in the - under that seat, please.
147:36:37 Cernan Yes, there's only one left.
147:36:40 Schmitt One? No, there's three or four - -
147:36:42 Cernan There's three left.
147:36:42 Schmitt Just put them under there. Who knows, we may need them at the rate we're going.
147:36:46 CC Okay. And, Jack, while you're unloading there - -
147:36:49 Cernan Dust TV before I pull those breakers.
147:36:50 CC - - on the 500 millimeter, you might squeeze off a few shots of the North and South Massif there, if there's any lineations visible.
147:37:02 Schmitt Okay. I'm - I'll give it a try. Why, are we ahead of time?
147:37:09 CC No, we're working right on time.
147:37:13 Schmitt Okay.
147:37:14 Cernan Why don't you give it to me while you're packing the ETB, Jack; I'll do it.
147:37:17 Schmitt Am I - am I behind you, now?
147:37:18 Cernan Yes, I - I just - I'm going to start inventorying the Rover and pulling the breakers so -
147:37:24 PAO We're at 7 hours 2 minutes and anticipate ending the EVA at 7 hours 30 minutes.
147:37:30 Cernan Man, we are so far off nominal on what bags. (Laughter) I sort of didn't think - The checklist is going to have to be updated, I guess.
147:37:40 CC Totally.
147:37:54 Schmitt Oh, I should call - mag Charlie.
147:37:58 CC Copy that.
147:37:58 Schmitt Mag Kilo.
147:38:00 CC Copy.
147:38:01 Schmitt Mag Bravo.
147:38:10 PAO That's Gene Cernan using the camera with the 500 millimeter lens.
147:38:17 Schmitt Mag Golf.
147:38:21 Schmitt Mag India.
147:38:23 CC Copy all those. And tell Gene that we can confirm that his lens cover's off.
147:38:36 Schmitt Okay. Confirm that your lens cover's off. The scissors are in.
147:38:41 CC Copy that.
147:38:47 Schmitt Lens brushes.
147:38:52 Cernan I hope that's at the right setting. It is (laughter).
147:38:57 Schmitt Hey, try f/5.6 directly down-Sun or up-Sun at that Sculptured Hills there in the - in the distance. See where I mean?
147:39:19 Cernan Yes I get it.
147:39:21 Schmitt Okay, Bob. What else do I need Here? Let's see. 500, mag R, need mag R - as soon as you're through.
147:39:31 CC Yes. I think we've got enough of those now, Gene. You got the maps?
147:39:40 Schmitt Yes, got them.
147:39:47 Cernan Some of these won't overlap, Bob, because I'm hurrying.
147:39:49 Schmitt Don't - Don't smear them.
147:39:50 CC Don't - Don't hurry and smear them.
147:39:52 Cernan They're not smeared, but I just didn't overlap some of them.
147:39:55 Cernan Okay. Everyone agrees to that. Don't hurry and smear them (laughter). I'll get those others, Jack, tomorrow.
147:40:03 CC Okey. You got the maps in there, too, Jack?
147:40:05 Cernan Frame count, Bob, is -
147:40:08 Schmitt Yes.
147:40:10 Cernan Frame count is 152 on the 500.
147:40:12 CC Copy that.
147:40:15 Cernan (Laughter)
147:40:16 Schmitt Let go of it. There.
147:40:18 Cernan Okay.
147:40:19 Schmitt Dynamic. Did you cycle it twice?
147:40:22 Cernan No, I'll cycle it twice.
147:40:24 CC Do you have the maps there, Jack?
147:40:25 Cernan Okay. I guess I'll go in and pull some Rover breakers.
147:40:29 CC Okay. And - Roger. Copy that.
147:40:35 Cernan Oh, boy - Oh, boy. Pulling - pulling breakers is not going to be much fun.
147:40:43 Schmitt You want me to - you want the scissors or something?
147:40:46 Cernan No. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
147:40:59 Schmitt Mag Romeo.
147:41:02 CC Copy that. You got the maps, Jack?
147:41:05 Schmitt No. (Laughter) You ask me that one more time partner, and I'm going to get mad at you.
147:41:15 Cernan Oh, I got - What have you got over there - you got the scissors?
147:41:22 Schmitt Yes, you want them?
147:41:24 Cernan I got three or four breakers. Let me try this other one one more time. Okay. I got it - with the old fingers.
147:41:35 CC Okay. Copy that. All four of them out, Gene.
147:41:37 Cernan Okay; Alfa, Bravo. Yes, sir. Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta are OPEN. I'll get the LCRU power.
147:41:46 CC Okay. And, Gene, when you leave the camera, a reminder to face it away from the Sun and tilt it down.
147:41:58 Cernan Okay.
147:42:06 CC Hey, Gene. That's not quite away from the Sun. Really it ought to be, you know, down-Sun.
147:42:12 Cernan ...
147:42:18 PAO And that will end the TV until EVA 3 tomorrow.
147:42:26 Cernan Bob, are you reading?
147:42:28 CC Roger. Loud and clear.
147:42:34 Schmitt I read you, Gene.
147:42:35 Cernan Yes. See, I just turned LCRU power off; they got to go through the LM.
147:42:39 CC That's right.
147:42:42 Cernan Bob, do you read?
147:42:43 CC Loud and clear.
147:42:50 Schmitt Is this gravimeter working?
147:42:52 Cernan No, it's not. I didn't push it yet. Hello, Houston, come on - in other words, I'll turn this power back on.
147:42:59 CC Read you loud and clear, Gene. Do you read Houston?
147:43:00 Cernan Well, let me turn it on and talk to them.
147:43:02 CC We read you loud and clear, Gene.
147:43:07 Cernan Well, I just turned the LCRU back on. Are you reading us through the 124, now?
147:43:11 CC Yes, we came through the LM that time.
147:43:16 Cernan Okay. I'm turning it off and the - and the camera is pointed down and it's pointed effectively to the west - down-Sun.
147:43:23 CC Okay. Copy that. Very good. Thank you.
147:43:24 Cernan LCRU POWER'S going OFF. Okay, LCRU POWER is OFF. Battery covers - open battery covers. They're all dusted already.
147:43:44 CC Roger that. Roger. They're reading us. 17, you read Houston?
147:43:58 Cernan Uh-ooh, I got to - got to work on one battery.
147:44:10 CC 17, you read Houston?
147:44:21 CC 17, you read Houston? Over.
147:44:30 Cernan Hey, Bob - -
147:44:32 CC Roger, 17. Do you read?
147:44:35 Cernan Still there? Well, they're supposed to be going through the LM ...
147:44:43 CC 17, do you read Houston?
147:44:44 Schmitt Got something fouled up. Maybe we got the switches wrong, or something, up there. ... think so, though.
147:44:53 Cernan No.
147:44:55 Schmitt They talked to us first.
147:44:57 Cernan Let me give them a call.
147:45:04 CC 17, do you read. Houston? Over.
147:45:05 Cernan Bob, you want to try again. We're on the LCRU. Yes, we read you, but I'm on the LCRU again. We're not reading you through the LM.
147:45:12 CC Yes, I don't understand that. Stand by. Press on with the rest of the closeout.
147:45:18 Cernan Well, I'll leave you on the LCRU, here. And we're pressing on. Okay. For the first time, I've got to dust the center battery cover. All the others are good.
147:45:27 CC Okay. Roger, 17. Do you read Houston now?
147:45:33 Cernan Well, yes, but I'm on the LCRU. I don't know.
147:45:36 CC No, now they say we're going back to the LM again. Press on with the closeout.
147:45:41 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm going to go turn the LCRU POWER, OFF. And for the first time, I've got to dust the center radiator on the batteries.
147:45:52 CC Okay. Copy that.
147:45:52 Cernan ... until this time, they've all been real clean.
147:45:55 CC Copy that.
147:45:59 Cernan Okay. Give me a short count. And in the interim I'm going to turn the LCRU POWER, OFF.
147:46:03 CC Okay. Roger. 1-2-3, 3-2-1. Okay, Houston, or 17, do you read Houston? Over.
147:46:10 Cernan Okay. We've got you.
147:46:12 CC Okay; very good.
147:46:18 Cernan Yes. We got you, Bob.
147:46:20 CC Okay. We've got about 20 minutes before we have to be inside the LM there, fellows. Let's hustle on.
147:46:29 Cernan Oh, I think we'll just sort of take it easy, Bob. Okay. The MESA's tidied.
147:46:37 CC Thank you.
147:46:37 Schmitt I've got the canisters; pins are green.
147:46:41 CC Copy that.
147:46:42 Schmitt The LM canister's in the pocket.
147:46:44 CC Very good.
147:46:46 Schmitt And, let's see. I think I'm ready to dust. Could I help you?
147:46:51 Cernan No, I'm leaving here right now.
147:46:53 CC Okay. And, Gene, as you go by, how about giving us the SEP temperature readings.
147:46:54 Cernan ... I got to take these bags up. Oh, me. I will.
147:47:49 CC 17, Houston. It's awfully quiet.
147:47:55 Cernan Okay, Bob. Here's your reading. About 100 and - about 108 to 10 degrees.
147:48:05 CC Okay. Copy that. Okay. We'll leave it there, as is, overnight. Thank you.
147:48:14 Cernan And I'll give it one good little smack with the brush. And it's as clean as it'll ever come.
147:48:20 CC Okay. Thank you.
147:48:27 Cernan Jack, you might just as well go cold water. There's no more use for it now, if you're warm.
147:48:31 Schmitt No, I'm not warm I'm just - want to hand me that other SCB there.
147:48:40 Cernan Oh, man! (Laughter). Oh, the - The cover's open on this one.
147:48:45 Schmitt You wonder why it's hard to get up the ladder.
147:48:48 Cernan Don't hold it by the cover.
147:48:49 Schmitt What do I want these tongs on for?
147:48:51 Cernan Give them to me. I'll take them out.
147:48:53 Schmitt Just noticed them.
147:48:56 Cernan Don't want them.
147:48:59 Schmitt Okay. Thank you.
147:49:01 Cernan Don't take it by the cover. The cover's going to come open. Take it by this.
147:49:04 Schmitt Wait a minute.
147:49:06 Cernan Got it?
147:49:06 Schmitt I got it.
147:49:07 Cernan Okay.
147:49:11 Cernan Probably got tongs on for the same reason I've got them on.
147:49:51 CC And, 17, we're ready for a grav measurement.
147:49:57 Cernan Yes, sir, Bob. Just cleaning up the Rover. Getting our tongs out of the way.
147:50:02 CC Okay.
147:50:04 Cernan And for your information - for your information, at this heading, the - the western-most battery cover, like I talked about yesterday, is just starting to cover the - just started to cover the radiators.
147:50:20 CC Okay; cover that - copy that.
147:50:28 Cernan (Humming) You know, I think another good day's work.
147:50:32 Schmitt Yes. Okay. I dusted all that. I just knocked as hard as I could, on my feet, several - several times.
147:50:44 Cernan What you're going to say is you want me to brush you, huh? Well, let me keep this out of the way so it doesn't get dusty.
147:50:49 Schmitt Okay.
147:51:00 Cernan Wonder if our bouncing around that gravimeter is going to disturb it like this.
147:51:05 Schmitt Shouldn't.
147:51:07 Cernan Got to do - well - -
147:51:08 Schmitt ... Want me down.
147:51:08 Cernan You got to do me first.
147:51:09 Schmitt Yes. Plink.
147:51:12 Cernan You're not nearly as dusty as you were yesterday; you're just dirty, that's all.
147:51:16 Schmitt Well.
147:51:16 Cernan 1 think I can get everything off my shoes by banging, if you'll just get ny arms. I didn't really fall in much today, except maybe my left arm. But - -
147:51:26 Schmitt I tell you, we saw some of the things I think we saw today. We both fell in (laughter).
147:51:30 Cernan Don't. Oh!
147:51:33 Schmitt What? I hurt you?
147:51:35 Cernan Yes, you're hitting.
147:51:36 Schmitt Well, you're right. Sorry. I don't have much control (laughter).
147:51:41 Cernan (Laughter) I know it. That's the way mine feel. That's dirty. There.
147:51:55 Schmitt I'm glad they can't see this.
147:52:04 Cernan Oh, I stand out here and I look at that flag, and I look at the Rover, and I look at those massifs. It's still hard to believe.
147:52:11 Schmitt What did we deserve to do - do to deserve being out here, huh?
147:52:22 Cernan Okay. That's not very good. Let me get your - some - your PLSS, here. Keep - go forward just a little. ... There you go.
147:52:32 Schmitt I think your sharp turns are - Hey, that fender is - is really a classic. One might say it's a - a Young fender; just put it on.
147:52:49 Cernan Do we need, do we really need those clamps? clamps?
147:52:52 Schmitt No. No.
147:52:54 Cernan I can't think of anything we need them for. That - that light - but you can tie that light somewhere - -
147:52:58 Schmitt We don't - well -
147:52:59 Cernan I might bring one back.
147:53:01 Schmitt Yes. We ought to leave one in tribute - Dr. Young.
147:53:16 Cernan Oh, that orange soil was something.
147:53:19 Schmitt Huh?
147:53:19 Cernan And the way it went radially down that - down that crater. Let me turn, and then take another look, and then I'll - then you get up there.
147:53:27 Schmitt You got quite a bit around your hoses here.
147:53:29 Cernan My hoses?
147:53:31 Schmitt Okay, and I don't know what I can do about it, Geno.
147:53:35 Cernan Oh, just give it a swap ...
147:53:37 Schmitt Well, I got it the best I could. Let me get the top of your LCRU there.
147:53:41 Cernan Mine's pretty good.
147:53:43 Schmitt ... RCU.
147:53:44 Cernan Yes, mine's good. Okay. Let me get to your front
147:53:47 Schmitt No, I didn't get your other arm here.
147:53:48 Cernan Oh, okay.
147:53:50 Schmitt I don't know that I can.
147:53:52 Cernan It's the inside arm. I don't have anything on it.
147:53:54 Schmitt No, that's right. You don't. It isn't - it's about the same.
147:53:57 Cernan When you fall out - you fall out on your other arm.
147:53:59 Schmitt I've got - there is some on that leg there.
147:54:01 Cernan Okay.
147:54:06 Schmitt Don't know what I'm going to do about it. I think we're Just going to have to make do.
147:54:18 Cernan Let me see what I can do with you. Just look at me.
147:54:23 Schmitt What is this rock, right here, by the pad.
147:54:25 Cernan I don't know - I. Did I just turn your comm? Do you still hear me?
147:54:29 Schmitt Yes. I've just been intending to mention that several times. Anybody that lands on a rock ought to have their head examined.
147:54:38 Cernan Put their ladder - Boy, where have you been again today?
147:54:42 Schmitt Oh, I played some games there around Station 3. I'm sorry.
147:54:49 Cernan Boy, oh, boy!
147:54:50 Schmitt Wasn't intentional.
147:54:51 Cernan Whoo - But I - lot of your turns - -
147:54:53 Cernan Hold your arm up. Hold your arm up.
147:54:54 Schmitt Lot of your turns threw dust - -
147:54:59 Cernan Yes, I noticed that (chuckle).
147:55:00 Schmitt - - on me.
147:55:02 Cernan God dang that rock! If I was strong enough, I'd move it. Hey, I am strong enough. That's one we ought to bring home.
147:55:10 Schmitt Well, if we can't fill up the LM with anything else.
147:55:12 Cernan That's about the size of the S - SRC. Stand up on the pad. Oh, shoot! First time that's happened.
147:55:28 Schmitt Here, hold on to me.
147:55:47 Cernan You know, by rights, that should happen more. I want to get around back and then I want you to get up on the ladder some. Oh, man, let me get the back of your PLSS. What did you bump against? I guess that's from the Rover seat.
147:56:02 Schmitt I think it is.
147:56:03 Cernan No, I mean you got a couple abrasions right on through the - -
147:56:06 Schmitt So do you. I wasn't going to mention them.
147:56:10 Cernan Well, these are only a pin-hole thick, but - -
147:56:19 Schmitt All I can say is it's better than walking.
147:56:21 Cernan Oh, man, I'll tell you, we covered over 20 kilometers today, babe. You like to walk up and down those hills and ditches at 20 kilometers? Okay. Can you - turn towards me? I want to get the front of your legs one time (laughter). Come back.
147:56:43 CC Okay. And, 17, Houston - how's the dusting coming?
147:56:45 Schmitt Man, you've had your day of dusting, haven't you?
147:56:50 Cernan Well, we're almost there. I'm going to send the LMP in in about a minute.
147:56:57 CC Okay. We're getting to a point where we need to be inside in less than 10 minutes, with the thing closed up.
147:56:59 Cernan Oh, I tell you, I've ... more hours ... dustbrush - -
147:57:06 Cernan Yes, sir. We're on our way, Bob. That takes care of it. Knock your feet off, Jack. Knock your feet off on the ladder.
147:57:14 Schmitt Okay.
147:57:15 CC And don't forget the antennas, guys.
147:57:17 Schmitt Okay. I need the pallet.
147:57:20 Cernan Oh, Bob, you're a beauty. How did you think of that?
147:57:24 CC John suggested it.
147:57:29 Cernan John who? (Laughter) He strikes again. You'd broke yours off sure, because I wouldn't have seen it as you went up unless I took inventory with my book, which I'll do here in a minute. Open battery covers, taken care of; dusted LCRU; blankets open 100 percent. They've been open 100 percent all day.
147:57:54 Schmitt Okay.
147:57:59 Schmitt If I can just get up here. Oh, shoot. I forgot a snap up there.
147:58:03 Cernan Now, let's make sure we got all of those. I don't want to get hung up on anything.
147:58:06 Schmitt Yes. I mean I forgot to put the antenna under the snap - under the other thing.
147:58:25 Cernan ... get the snap.
147:58:35 Cernan Okay. Get it.
147:58:55 Schmitt Okay. You're set.
147:58:57 Cernan Okay. Go on up, Jack, and I'm going to read the gravimeter.
147:59:00 Schmitt I need that pallet before I go.
147:59:03 Cernan Okay.
147:59:06 CC Okay, and, Gene, we don't think you've punched the grav reading yet.
147:59:12 Cernan Yes - Yes, I did, Bob. I'm going to read it for you in a minute.
147:59:16 CC Okay.
147:59:17 Schmitt Okay.
147:59:25 Cernan The reading is 670, 023, 501; that's 670, 023, 501.
147:59:34 CC Okay. We got that. Go to STANDBY. Open the cover and dust the radiator if it needs it. Or dust the radiator, period.
147:59:47 Cernan It's dusted already - it's dusted already, I took care of that. And I'm in STANDBY.
147:59:51 CC Okay. Copy that.
147:59:53 Cernan Okay. Final check - LRV. Blankets open 100; battery covers, open; samples off. We checked under both seats. Equipment stowed. Okay. You're all clean to go in. Okay. Dust SEP, blankets open; verify POWER, OFF; RECORDER, OFF; TGE, that's read, that's where I dusted. Tidy the MESA blankets - they're okay. Okay, and I've got this box to bring up when I go. Okay, let's see - Oh, man, that's bright - no PLSS antenna, brush the ladder hook, EVA pallet to LMP - you got it - the pins are green and reading, STANDBY, open TGE thermal cover lid and dust - that's done. Final check; we got the pallet, ETB is on the hook, you inventoried the S-IVBs [sic], Mr. Parker, and I guess you're happy we got them all.
148:00:52 CC Roger.
148:00:52 Cernan SRC-2 is in my hand. The big bag is not required.
148:00:55 CC Roger that. And we're ready to call you all in as you go through the hatch.
148:01:00 Cernan Okay. Jack's going in with the -
148:01:05 Cernan Okay, Jack's halfway through it now, and I'm going on up the ladder.
148:01:08 CC Okay. Copy that.
148:01:16 Cernan Oh, my; oh me. How you coming?
148:01:23 Schmitt Just about there.
148:01:28 Cernan Oh, that's a nice one-handed first step. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17. I'm going to keep reading that. I like that message. How's Captain America, speaking of Apollo 17.
148:01:49 CC Captain America is sound asleep - just about to come around to AOS. We think he's sound asleep.
148:01:56 Cernan Hey, how does that always happen? That happened yesterday.
148:02:09 CC He got up before noon this morning, too.
148:02:15 Cernan Oh, okay. Just take it easy, Jack, it'll - here you go - -
148:02:29 Schmitt Pip pin didn't work.
148:02:32 Cernan Lot of things don't work when your hands get tired; that's the problem. Wasn't a bad day. How long we been out, Bob. Of course, we're still out.
148:02:41 CC 7 plus 27, so far.
148:02:46 Cernan 7 plus 27?
148:02:48 CC How does that grab you?
148:02:52 CC But we're getting anxious to get you in and get the hatch closed.
148:02:58 Schmitt Well, we understand that.
148:02:59 Cernan Jack's unloading the pallet and as soon as it comes out, I'll shove this stuff in, and we'll be gone.
148:03:12 Schmitt Just takes a certain amount of time.
148:03:14 CC Okay, Gene. Are the three SCBs inside the hatch already?
148:03:23 Cernan No - Bob, I don't think any of them are inside. Let's see I've got - -
148:03:27 Schmitt No.
148:03:27 Cernan - - I've got 8 here and 6 here and - and we emptied the contents of 4 into the - -
148:03:37 CC Roger.
148:03:38 Cernan - - SRC, and we emptied the contents of 5 into one of these other two bags. So we've only got two of them here, plus the SRC.
148:03:44 CC Roger that.
148:03:45 Cernan Five went into 6.
148:03:47 CC Roger that.
148:03:51 Cernan And we've got two of them hanging on the tail of the Rover. And I don't know what it is under Jack's seat right now.
148:03:55 Schmitt Seven is under my seat.
148:03:56 CC We copy that. Don't worry about it.
148:04:04 Schmitt One more battery, Geno, and it's yours.
148:04:06 Cernan Okay.
148:04:15 Schmitt You always used to stand and watch me do this, anyway.
148:04:22 Cernan Yes, but we had some long EVAs at the Cape, but -
148:04:30 Schmitt There you go.
148:04:32 Cernan Okay. Just be careful of the - let me get up there a little farther. Careful of that hatch. Getting to look like a regular garbage dump down there.
148:04:46 Schmitt Okay. Ready?
148:04:49 Cernan Sorry, babe.
148:04:57 Schmitt It's all right.
148:05:02 Cernan Now, this one's going to come open if we're not careful. Let me see if I've got one more step to go up. No I think that's the last one. I'll just hold it here until you get it. I could shove that in if I push it with the SRC. Jack, the cap'll came open. Be careful.
148:05:28 Schmitt Okay. We got big silver box.
148:05:42 Cernan Can you push on that a little bit?
148:05:44 Schmitt Yes.
148:05:46 Cernan Okay.
148:06:11 Cernan Okay. Okay, Bob, you've got the two SR - two SCBs -
148:06:19 Schmitt I'll push it in.
148:06:20 Cernan - - SRC, and there goes the ETB.
148:06:24 CC Copy that. Now how about a CDR?
148:06:28 Cernan There's only one thing left - that's right, that's the only thing left out here.
148:06:34 Schmitt Are you on a checklist?
148:06:35 Cernan No, I'm not even on my checklist, but I guess - Yes, I am, it says INGRESS. Let me knock some more dust off.
148:06:47 Schmitt Okay. Let me get behind the door.
148:06:51 Cernan Well, I'm going to take what dust I got in with me. Oh!
148:07:12 Schmitt There you go. Keep your buttons close. You're good. Beautiful. Just float in. Hanging up a little on the purse, but that's all right. There you go.
148:07:44 Cernan Oh!
148:07:47 Schmitt That's my arm I'm getting in the way, there - Let me get out of the way -
148:07:50 Cernan Let me just check that seal before we close that. Okay. Can you get your arm off?
148:08:00 Schmitt Okay.
148:08:02 Cernan There's no big rocks in it, that I can see. Lots of dust on the floor.
148:08:09 Schmitt Yes, I think it's okay. Okay, the hatch is partially closed - -
148:08:15 Cernan Let me get it. I think it says to lock it, doesn't it?
148:08:17 Schmitt Well, we're supposed to close our water first.
148:08:19 Cernan Okay, FORWARD HATCH, CLOSE and LOCK; dump valves both AUTO, okay; confirm our water CLOSED. Let me see if I can't get my ... here.
148:08:30 Schmitt Here, why don't I get yours and you get mine.
148:08:33 Cernan Okay. I just got mine. And if you'll turn, I'll get yours. You'll have to - your PLSS - your right arm high; pick it up high.
148:08:47 Schmitt Oh, wait a minute.
148:08:48 Cernan No, I can't reach you, Jack, unless you turn -
148:08:50 Schmitt Don't move yet; don't turn around.
148:08:51 Cernan Okay.
148:08:52 Schmitt Move over to the corner.
148:08:59 Cernan Okay. ... sure I got the right ones. Far right, far left, secure oxygen. Okay. Your water's OFF.
148:09:13 Schmitt Okay. Water's OFF.
148:09:17 Cernan Now, stay there and I'll lock the hatch.
148:09:19 Schmitt I've got to get into position to do the other good things. You go ahead.
148:09:25 Cernan Am I - Do you have enough room or do I need to turn? No, let me get down there. Now, why can't -
148:09:41 Schmitt Okay. Let me turn back; get out of your way. Got it?
148:09:47 Cernan Okay. Hatch is closed and locked.
148:09:50 CC Okay. And remember, I think it's the overhead valve that you have to position to OPEN.
148:09:58 Schmitt That's right.
148:09:58 Cernan Yes, you'll have to move over, Jack, so I can reach it.
148:10:03 CC And you ought to verify both, I guess.
148:10:06 Cernan You're going to have to wait, then.
148:10:09 Schmitt Can you reach it now?
148:10:11 Cernan Okay. No, you got to - got to swing left - -
148:10:14 Schmitt Well, I'll have to -
148:10:16 Cernan - - Right.
148:10:16 Schmitt I'll have to turn around, then. How's that? Any better?
148:10:27 Cernan No, you've got to - Okay.
148:10:28 Schmitt Gene, for some reason I can't put my PLSS toward you.
148:10:31 Cernan No, you can't. Just face front, if you can, and move as far forward as you can.
148:10:34 Schmitt Well, if I get my - I'm going to have to go all the way around, I guess.
148:10:39 Cernan Well, just -
148:10:40 Schmitt Look, I've got to get the PLSS against the circuit breaker -
148:10:42 Cernan Wait. I've got you just where I want you. Now stay right there, and shift your weight as far to the right as you can.
148:10:49 Cernan Okay, it's AUTO - -
148:10:50 Schmitt Okay.
148:10:51 Cernan - - and it's - and it's locked. Okay?
148:10:58 Schmitt All right.
148:10:59 Cernan Now, CABIN REPRESS - AUTO. Can't get it. I'll have to turn left, here.
148:11:08 Schmitt Huh?
148:11:09 Cernan Okay. Let me turn left.
148:11:10 Schmitt No, I can get it.
148:11:11 Cernan Okay. CABIN REPRESS, AUTO.
148:11:14 Schmitt AUTO.
148:11:15 Cernan And at 16, CABIN REPRESS breaker, CLOSED.
148:11:19 Schmitt CLOSED.
148:11:19 Cernan MASTER ALARM and CABIN warning lights. Cabin's coming up, Bob, 0.5.
148:11:24 CC Copy that.
148:11:32 Schmitt I've still got 15 percent oxygen.
148:11:37 Cernan Okay. Cabin pressure's increasing - go PRESSURE REGs A and B, CABIN.
148:11:48 Schmitt A CABIN.
148:11:49 Cernan Okay. And you PLSS O2 OFF at cabin greater 2.5. It's there now. And you're probably getting talked to.
148:12:08 Cernan Mine's OFF.
148:12:09 Schmitt Mine's OFF.
148:12:10 Cernan Okay, cabin's up to 3.5, cabin's up to 4.0.
148:12:27 Cernan Okay. Next thing, Jack, you can start verifying your white dots are out.
148:12:31 Schmitt Okay.
148:12:31 PAO We mark the end of EVA at 148 hours 12 minutes 10 seconds. Total EVA duration 7 hours 37 minutes, 22 seconds.
148:12:32 Cernan And you can lose your PURGE valve to depress , if you have to.
148:12:35 Schmitt Well, I don't think I have to. Okay; white dots.
148:12:40 Cernan Wait a minute. White dot's plus for you, EVA decals
148:12:47 Schmitt Okay, I'm good here, here, here.
148:12:57 CC And, 17, congratulations. That was two EVAs and a half.
148:13:07 Cernan Thank you Robert, but until I get my helmet and gloves off, I won't say anything.
148:13:13 Cernan Okay, Jack. On 16, ECS SUIT FAN 2 CLOSED.
148:13:16 Schmitt CLOSED.
148:13:17 Cernan SUIT FAN DELTA-P, CLOSED.
148:13:18 Schmitt CLOSED.
148:13:19 Cernan Okay. MASTER ALARM just came on. Okay. And the HEATERS, MESA, OPEN. You can OPEN your MESA HEATERS. We're getting a MASTER ALARM, Houston. I don't know why.
148:13:33 Schmitt I think that's the - -
148:13:34 Cernan You did get SUIT FAN number 2?
148:13:35 Schmitt -- got the SUIT - SUIT FAN DELTA-P ...
148:13:37 Cernan Okay. You've got SUIT FAN number 2 and me - and DELTA-P. Okay. - -
148:13:42 Schmitt MESA is OPEN.
148:13:43 Cernan Okay. ECS cau - That's why it came on. ECS CAUTION WATER SEP light - component light should go out after that fan comes up. You can doff your glove.
148:13:50 CC Roger. We think that's what happened.
148:13:51 Cernan Okay.
148:13:52 Schmitt Oooh.
148:14:08 Cernan Well, I never thought I'd wear my EV cover gloves through two EVAs.
148:14:15 Schmitt Oh, I forgot all about them.
148:14:16 Cernan No, I didn't. I thought about taking them off until I started chipping those boulders. And I'm glad I wore them.
148:14:23 Schmitt Yes, I think it's a good idea.
148:14:25 Cernan As hard as it is on your hands, mine - these cover gloves are just ripped to a nub. Glad it's not my gloves.
148:14:45 Schmitt I might consider taking them off tomorrow.
148:14:51 CC Roger, 17. You talking about your cover gloves?
148:14:57 Cernan Yes. We're still wearing them, Bob. And, I swore I'd take them off after the drill, but I used a bit of real-time common sense.
148:15:06 CC Okay.
148:15:06 Schmitt Okay. Gloves are off. LMP's gloves are off. Need some help?
148:15:16 Cernan ... Yes. I think you just about - -
148:15:23 Schmitt No, you went the other way.
148:15:24 Cernan Did I go the wrong way? Yes, I did.
148:15:35 Schmitt What's wrong with that one?
148:15:37 Cernan I don't know.
148:15:38 Schmitt Shouldn't have done that.
148:15:41 Cernan Hey - you - Let me get this.
148:15:45 Cernan My hand!
148:15:47 Schmitt Yes, I'm sorry.
148:15:49 Cernan Well, you get that one, and I'll get these two. Get that one.
148:15:54 Cernan I'll get this one.
148:16:06 Schmitt I'll take that off. (Laughter) Hold this thing. Okay. Let me try that one, now.
148:16:44 Cernan It wants to go.
148:16:49 Schmitt Let me try that. Yes, that one ... off. Got it?
148:16:54 Cernan Yes.
148:16:56 Schmitt It's usually easier when you do it yourself. The angle's wrong.
148:17:00 Cernan Oh, boy. It's starting to get a little stiff. Oh, they came off. Wow, they came off. Oh, ho, ho, ho. Okay. Doff helmets, with visors. Here I'll get yours for you. Turn my way, if you can.
148:17:29 Schmitt Yes. Do the - I know how you feel.
148:17:34 Cernan I don't know how they're so wet. I don't know whether it's - they're just soaking wet.
148:17:52 Cernan Everything is just twice as hard.
148:17:58 Schmitt Now comes the old hay fever, again. That went up and that went down.
148:18:07 Cernan Stow in BRA. Let's get mine off though.
148:18:22 Schmitt ... now that these things are off.
148:18:27 Cernan Oh, man. Does that smell, doesn't it? You sure can pick that up.
148:18:30 Schmitt Okay. You got yours?
148:18:31 Cernan I've got mine.
148:18:36 Cernan Okay, Bob. Now (laughter) helmets and gloves are off.
148:18:43 Schmitt Pressure looks good, still.
148:19:05 Cernan Hello, Houston. Do you read?
148:19:07 CC Roger, 17. Read you loud and clear, Challenger.
148:19:14 Cernan Very good, Robert. The helmets and gloves are off.
148:19:17 CC Absolutely outstanding crew, there.
148:19:19 Cernan Why don't you go home and get some sleep, Bob?
148:19:20 CC Absolutely outstanding. I can't say more than that. And I mean it from the bottom of my heart or the bottom of my soul or something, my conscience.
148:19:29 Schmitt Thank you, Bob. Well, it's all ours.
148:19:35 Cernan Bob, it's all your good training and help - -
148:19:38 CC 777 plus 37, from 3.5 to 3.5.
148:19:47 Schmitt As mission scientists, you're totally responsible.
148:19:49 CC And the backup crew says that you are even better than outstanding.
148:19:52 Schmitt Remember, it's in your contract (laughter). Well, thank you. We enjoyed it. Oh boy.
148:20:03 CC Hey, I'll turn you over to Little Joe, here, while I go talk to some people.
148:20:09 Schmitt Thanks again, Bob. We - -
148:20:09 CC We've got a 9 and 1/2 hour EVA scheduled for you tomorrow. We're planning to spend 2 and 1/2 hours extra over there at Station 4.
148:20:16 Cernan (Laughter) I hope those gloves that you've got packed in the back have got something in them. (Laughter) Oh, let's read the checklist. See if we can go to bed on time tonight.
148:20:33 Schmitt Oh, man.
148:20:34 CC Okay. That might be a change.
148:20:35 Schmitt I feel better them I did last night, as a matter of fact.
148:20:37 Cernan Do you?
148:20:37 CC I'm turning you over - I'm going to turn you over to Joe.
148:20:41 Schmitt That didn't do very much good.
148:20:42 CC See you guys tomorrow.
148:20:43 Cernan Okay. Verify safety on dump valve. Yes.
148:20:46 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Get some sleep, huh?
148:20:48 Cernan Yes, I verified them both.
148:20:49 Schmitt Sorry to be touchy, occasionally.
148:20:51 Cernan DESCENT WATER valve, OPEN.
148:20:55 Schmitt Okay. WATER valve's OPEN.
148:21:01 Cernan Okay. Then you can take your purge valve off.
148:21:09 Cernan There's a little dust in that tonight. Little stiffer. ... again. Remove purge valves, stow in purse. Disconnect OPS hoses.
148:21:21 Schmitt Oh, man. That is dusty.
148:21:23 Cernan Yes, let's - let me disconnect yours; you disconnect mine. It's easier with the - the - -
148:21:29 Schmitt I think I can get - What did you say?
148:21:31 Cernan - - OPS hoses.
148:21:32 Schmitt Oh, yes.
148:21:33 Cernan Or whatever it said.
148:21:34 Cernan Yes.
148:21:35 Schmitt Disconnect - disconnect OPS hose. is that what it said?
148:21:42 Cernan Yes.
148:21:47 Cernan Man - maneuver my fingers in here a little bit better.
148:21:54 Schmitt They are all showing a little bit ... stickiness. Mine were in this in pairs. (Laughter)
148:22:00 Cernan Well, just everything's, you know, harder to -
148:22:03 Schmitt Yes.
148:22:04 Schmitt Okay. There, you're disconnected.
148:22:05 Cernan PGA diverter valve, horizontal.
148:22:08 Schmitt Okay. Horizontal.
148:22:13 Cernan And SUIT ISOL, both to SUIT FLOW.
148:22:16 Schmitt All right - -
148:22:16 Cernan We don't have the IM hoses on. So don't - Put mine to SUIT FLOW to get some air in here.
148:22:23 Schmitt Yes. ... In the dust.
148:22:30 Cernan PLSS pump, off, and fan, off.
148:22:33 Schmitt Okay.
148:22:35 Cernan Man, that's hot. Feel that.
148:22:39 Schmitt Out in the Sun.
148:22:41 Cernan Yes.
148:22:43 Schmitt Pump's off. Fan's off.
148:22:45 Cernan Okay. Oh - Disconnect PLSS H2O from PGA. Okay.
148:22:53 Schmitt And connect LM water. That's what we want.
148:22:57 Schmitt ... the ... and ... flags.
148:23:01 Cernan Yes, and LM water - water hose, here.
148:23:09 Schmitt I'm sorry that's so complex, there.
148:23:11 Cernan Oh, that's perfectly fine.
148:23:12 Schmitt But it was easier to start.
148:23:14 Cernan It had to be. Smells like someone's been firing a carbine in here.
148:23:22 Cernan I'm just standing here pushing that - -
148:23:24 Schmitt I will ...
148:23:25 Cernan - - hot breaker - When you get it.
148:23:29 Cernan Hey, little Joe? Are you there?
148:23:36 CC 17, this is Houston. And - -
148:23:39 Cernan Little Joe, are you there?
148:23:40 CC Roger. How do you read Houston? Over.
148:23:45 Cernan Joe, we're reading you loud and clear. We're - the left-hand column and we're both going PLSS mode to O and we'll be off the air for a skosh.
148:23:53 CC Roger, Geno. I've been following you real close, and you two are mighty smooth. Boy, was that nice today.
148:24:01 Schmitt ... feel how hot that is.
148:24:04 Cernan Yes, the whole thing.
148:24:41 PAO Astronaut Joe Allen has come on to relieve Astronaut, Bob Parker, at CAPCOM. We're in the midst of a shift handover here in Mission Control. Flight Director, Gene Kranz and his team relieving the Pete Frank team. We anticipate the change of shift press briefing will begin at about 1:30 AM in the MSC News Center briefing room.
148:27:45 Schmitt Okay, Joe. LMP's PLSS is getting O2.
148:27:49 CC Thank you.
148:31:24 PAO This is Apollo Control at 148 hours 31 minutes. The participants have left for the news center. And we anticipate the change of shift press briefing will begin in the next 5 or 10 minutes in Building 1. At present time the CSM, with Ron Evans aboard sleeping, is passing over the landing site. That second EVA ended at 148 hours 12 minutes 10 seconds with a total duration of 7 hours 37 minutes 22 seconds. And at present time the LM crew is in the process of getting the - getting out of their suits. They'll begin doing that shortly and then getting the LM cabin reconfigured and ready for their sleep period. And in the control center, tonight, while the crew is asleep, we'll be making plans for the third 7 hour EVA scheduled for tomorrow.
148:31:45 Schmitt Joe, O2 is off.
148:31:46 CC Roger.
148:33:00 Cernan Hey, Joe? This is Gene.
148:33:04 CC Go ahead.
148:33:08 Cernan Hey, Challenger has been holding at about 5.5 ever since we got in here. Are you all happy with that?
148:33:21 CC Looks good to us, Geno. We have been watching it and everyone is happy down here.
148:33:30 Cernan Okay. Well, this morning, when we were getting ready, we saw it at 5.5 and part of that has been at 5.0 all of the time. Just so we are not venting anything, that's all.
148:34:05 CC Geno, we hear you on that and we'll - we'll be watching it.
148:34:19 Cernan Joe, we're about 2 minutes into the CDR's O2 charge.
148:34:26 CC Thank you.
148:35:51 Schmitt Joe, LMP has 96 percent on his gauge.
148:35:58 CC Thank you, Jack. We copy that.
148:36:56 CC Geno, with regard to your observation made to us a few moments ago, I guess we will ask for the CABIN RETURN to the AUTO position and your SUIT DIVERTER valve to CABIN, please. We are about 0.2 of a psi from CABIN RELIEF. Over.
148:37:20 Cernan Okay, we're getting that now.
148:38:00 Cernan Joe, CDR is reading 94 percent on the O2 charge.
148:38:06 CC Thank you.
148:41:19 PAO This is Apollo Control at 148 hours 41 minutes. The Change of Shift Press Conference is ready to begin at this time, we'll take down the live air-to-ground release lines, record any conversation with the crew for play back following the press conference.
148:41:52 PAO This is Apollo Control at 149 hours 11 minutes. During the change of shift press briefing the major activity aboard Challenger on the lunar surface and here in mission control has been to get the spacecraft in the proper configuration for the crew to begin their eight hour sleep period. The crew reported and we confirmed through telemetry here on the ground that the spacecraft cabin pressure had come up just a little bit above what we would normally expect - normally runs around 5 pounds per square inch. And we're seeing a pressure of about 3/4 of a pound higher than that about 5.73 pounds per square inch. This is not particularly unusual. we'did see a pressure rise following rep ressurization after the first EVA where the cabin pressure came up somewhat above normal. The pressure relief valve in the cabin would operate at about 5.83 pounds per square inch. In the taped conversations with the crew that we obtained during the change of shift briefing, you'll hear some conversation about the cabin pressure and some instructions to the crew to have them looking for any sources in the cabin that might be putting extra oxygen into the cabin such as the PLSS fill valves that might not have been closed fully or something like that. At this point the cabin pressure has stabilized it looks like and we've found nothing amiss. We'll replay the tape conversation for you and then standby live.
148:44:47 Schmitt Okay, Joe. LMP's OPS pressure is 6300.
148:44:53 CC Thank you.
148:47:57 Cernan Commander's OPS pressure is 6100.
148:48:01 CC Copy, 6100.
148:49:02 Schmitt Say, Joe, our cabin pressure is riding even higher, now. About 5.7.
148:49:10 CC We copy that.
148:49:14 Schmitt Joe, Joe, we had the commander's hoses stowed, but in SUIT FLOW. That might have done it. is that right?
148:49:24 CC Sounds very plausible, Jack. We'll look at it a little more here.
148:53:14 CC Challenger, this is Houston. Requesting you move demand REGs A and B to EGRESS, please.
148:53:28 Schmitt They're EGRESS.
148:53:31 CC Okay.
148:53:41 CC 17, Houston. We noted down here that your SUIT DIVERTERS went to EGRESS and we want the demand REGs to the EGRESS position, please.
148:53:55 Schmitt That's right, but the SUIT GAS DIVERTER extends when you go to EGRESS.
148:54:01 CC You're right, again.
148:57:04 Schmitt Houston, do you figure we're relieving?
148:57:09 CC Jack, we don't think so. It looks like you're pretty steady at between 5.5 and 5.6. We're watching it very closely, however.
148:57:19 Schmitt Okay, you know when we had that problem this morning, I hope I didn't - the backflow did not hurt something when I had the LMP's hoses stowed in the isol valve and SUIT FLOW.
148:57:43 CC Jack, just for your information, we saw about the same thing last night. The only difference was the pressure didn't climb quite so high. So, we think whatever it is, it really doesn't involve the problem - small problem you had this morning.
148:58:04 Schmitt Okay, Joe.
148:59:35 Cernan Okay, Joe. We got the commander's PLSS back in the recharge station. We got a new battery in it, odd numbers, and a new - and a new canister in it and we are working on - on Jack's right now.
148:59:55 CC Okay, Gene. Sounds good.
149:02:44 CC 17, Houston.
149:02:49 Schmitt Go ahead, Joe.
149:02:52 CC We are still watching your cabin pressure down here. Could you check for us, please, if the PLSS fill valve is securely closed?
149:03:05 Schmitt Yes, it was closed.
149:03:08 CC Okay.
149:03:10 Schmitt Joe, do you want me to check out the regulator?
149:03:44 CC Stand by.
149:03:45 Schmitt Houston, Challenger. Do you want me to check the - Okay. ED BATs are 37.2.
149:03:54 CC Copy that.
149:03:58 Schmitt PCM's going HIGH.
149:04:03 Schmitt Let me know when you're ready for the battery management.
149:04:06 CC Roger.
149:05:31 CC 17, Houston. Stand by on the battery management for a few minutes, please. And, in the meantime, could you check the low pressure PLSS fill valve, closed, please? Over.
149:05:48 Schmitt Joe, I checked that. It's closed.
149:05:53 CC Thank you.
149:05:58 Cernan Houston, Challenger.
149:06:01 CC Go ahead.
149:06:05 Cernan Yes, your - does you telemetry and our gauge come off the same telemetry on that? Same transducer?
149:06:15 CC That's affirm. It does. And, Challenger, we've got a communications problem at one of the sites and are going to ask you to go to panel 12 and turn the POWER AMPLIFIER to PRIMARY, please.
149:08:27 Schmitt Okay, it's PRIMARY.
149:08:45 CC And, Challenger, we're ready for battery management, at your convenience.
149:08:52 Schmitt Okay, stand by.
149:12:03 Cernan Hey, Joe.
149:12:04 CC Go ahead.
149:12:08 Cernan Okay, this is Geno. I just dug a rock out of my pocket. You - no one back there probably remembers, but when we were at Shorty, fumbling around, trying to get everything done, I said there was a piece of very shiny black glasslike-looking material that reminded me of - of obsidian. Well, it's not. It looks like a very fine-grained gray rock. But, it's a fractured piece and it looks like it - I've picked up fractures of about three or four vesicle faces on it. The vesicle faces are very shiny and that's what reflected and caught my eye. I think the unique part about it is - Jack may want to tell you something else about it - the unique part about it is - I picked it up at Shorty. Undocumented, halfway between the Rover and where we were sampling that orange stuff. And it will be in bag 12 Echo.
149:13:06 CC Okay, Geno. Copy, 12 Echo. And, I was assured by the folks here when I came in - -
149:13:12 Cernan That'll go in it.
149:13:13 CC - - that - that you did indeed have shiny sample of some kind in your pocket and would probably find it later on. So, we called that one. Could you turn OFF the POWER AMPLIFIER - -
149:13:26 Cernan Okay, we'll put in it in SCB-8.
149:13:28 CC Okay, go ahead.
149:13:33 Cernan Okay, it's off and we will put that rock in that sample bag and put in SCB-8.
149:13:39 Schmitt Joe, this - rock looks very much like 12008, 12008. It's a fine-grained, coarsely - very coarsely vesicular gray rock - probably basaltic.
149:13:57 CC Okay, Jack. Real fine. We'll - want LOW BIT RATE, POWER AMPLIFIER, OFF, and LOW BIT RATE and we can maybe label that one 17008. How does that sound?
149:14:13 Cernan No, you got to label Gene-rock. I was going to tell you those other things, but I thought I'd let Jack.
149:14:19 CC Okay, thank you.
149:14:25 Schmitt The vesicles, if I may project the size of them, probably were up to 4 or 5 centimeters in diameter. They're irregular in shape, but they're clearly vesicles and it looks like they are lined with either glass or very fine-grained crystals. They're very shiny.
149:14:47 CC Roger.
149:14:52 Cernan And for our next act -
149:14:55 CC Jack, we're going to ask for your next act that you check for us both PLSS valves OFF and both OPS valves OFF. Over.
149:16:51 Schmitt Joe, they're both verified OFF.
149:16:57 CC Okay, Jack. We understand that all four valves are verified OFF.
149:17:05 Schmitt That's affirm, Joe.
149:17:10 CC Okay, thank you. I'm sure that you realize that we're still showing that pressure increasing very, very slowly and are pretty well convinced that nothing is leaking in from the outside. So, we are looking around on the inside here.
149:17:28 Cernan Joe, is our oxygen consumption abnormal at this point?
149:17:33 CC No, not al all, Geno. Everything looks pretty normal, except this - this slow creep in the cabin pressure.
149:17:44 Schmitt Well, the - I guess the possibility is a creeping REG or a transducer, is that right?
149:17:50 CC Yes, either that or it may be we're just watching some of the effects of the thermal shock that your tanks took when - from the repress itself. We're not worried about it at all, but we are still watching it.
149:18:08 Schmitt Joe, you might make a note that my two SEP area samples went into bag 8 also.
149:18:19 CC Roger, Jack. That's noted.
149:18:23 Cernan Joe, got seme numbers, if you'd like them?
149:18:27 CC Go ahead.
149:18:32 Cernan SRC is 41.5. Bag 6 is 24, bag 8 is 35.
149:18:42 CC Copy, 41.5 and 24 in bag 6; 35 for bag 8.
149:18:52 Cernan That's it.
149:18:55 Cernan Joe, how many samples did we get today?
149:18:57 CC Stand by.
149:19:02 Cernan Don't start a big investigation. I was just curious.
149:19:08 CC Let me ask around, Gene. We will see in a minute.
149:19:14 CC 17, we think you have 54 samples from this EVA, plus some cores.
149:19:25 Cernan Thank you, Joe. Just curious.
149:19:29 CC That's not half bad.
149:21:56 Cernan And, Joe, we're on 5-5 and I am going to start doffing.
149:22:03 CC Okay, Geno. Copy 5-5, and before you get started there, would you put both demand REGs to CLOSED, please? As we continue to watch this pressure.
149:22:17 Cernan Okay, Joe. Demand REG A, going CLOSED. Demand REG B going CLOSED.
149:22:29 CC Thank you. And we verify them both CLOSED.
149:25:21 PAO This is Apollo Control, that completes our tape playback. We're standing by live now. And the LM Cabin pressure reading at this time 5.77 pounds per square inch. There's no particular concern over the higher than normal cabin pressure. However, it is something we don't understand at the present time. Now, there are a limited number of sources of oxygen that can be getting into the cabin to raise the pressure. And, as Joe Allen mentioned to the crew, there's not much chance that anything is leaking in from the outside. We've been systematically checking 1 by 1 the potential sources of the oxygen flow into the cabin. And at some point, if all of the potential sources are eliminated, we begin to reach the conclusion that perhaps the sensor is at fault. However, at this point, it's not possible to say what the - what the cause of the slightly higher than normal LM cabin and pressure is.
149:27:54 CC 17, this is Houston. We'd like SUIT DIVERTER back to CABIN, please?
149:28:06 Cernan CABIN.
149:28:10 CC Okay.
149:31:47 CC Gene and Jack, you'll be interested to hear that the cabin PRES is dropping down, very slowly now. So, we think we have a tiny leak in one of the cabin regulators, one of the demand regulators, and we'll run a check after you get squared away there a little better.
149:32:16 Cernan Okay, Joe. We'll be at your beck and call.
149:32:27 CC I'll only smile at that.
149:33:29 PAO The demand regulators, which Joe Allen was describing to the crew and suggesting that they might be the source of the small oxygen leak into the cabin, are used to control the flow of oxygen from the storage tanks in the lunar module to the cabin. The procedure that we're going to follow here is to let the cabin pressure continue to drop. It's come down from 5. - from a high of 5.81 pounds per square inch to 5.73 and we're going to let it get down a little closer to 5 pounds and then run some checks to determine which of the two regulators is leaking. The procedure after this was determined - after this is determined would be to simply use the good regulator and turn off the regulator which has the small leak.
149:47:54 Cernan Houston, Challenger.
149:47:57 CC Go ahead.
149:48:02 Cernan Joe, we're going to air out the suits. We're going to go to SUIT FLOW on the Commander's ISOL valve now.
149:48:13 CC All righty.
149:48:19 Cernan Say again.
149:48:24 CC That sounds good.
149:49:26 PAO This is Apollo Control. The crew aboard Challenger, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, running about 2 hours behind in their presleep preparations at this time. And, we do expect to give them a full 8 hour rest period, which would mean that we will have a slip in the start of EVA 3, probably somewhere between an hour and 2 hours. We won't be able to pin that exact start time down until sometime after the crew has gotten to sleep, and we see how their sleep period is working out, but again 1 to 2 hours delay in the start of EVA 3 looks likely at this time.
149:57:04 Schmitt Joe, I guess you guys are tired of looking at ny heart beat. So, I'm gonna turn the BIOMED off as I get out of my suit.
149:57:14 CC Okay, Jack.
149:57:52 Cernan Hey, Joe. This is Geno. How do you read me?
149:57:54 CC Geno, you're 5 by.
149:57:59 Cernan Okay, we're going to get Jack out of his suit. I'll be - I'll be monitoring.
149:58:07 CC Roger. From the way the two of you worked today, I'd think you could just about turn him upside down and pour him out.
149:58:34 Cernan Yes, if he'd fit through that little hole in the end of his wrist.
149:58:45 Schmitt Joe, the day they can pour me out of anything, they'll call me slim. Talk to you later.
149:58:53 CC Okay. Among other things.
149:58:59 Cernan Remember those nice white suits?
149:59:10 CC The Clean Room will never be the same again.
149:59:17 Cernan You'd never believe it.
150:18:36 CC Challenger, this is Houston.
150:18:42 Cernan Go ahead, Houston. Challenger here.
150:18:44 CC Geno, we're going to start to investigate which of your demand regulators is leaking and we're going to ask you to put DEMAND REG Alfa to CABIN now. And, as we watch, it, please do not make any urine dumps. Over.
150:19:04 Cernan Okay, we will not make any urine dumps and we'll go to CABIN now. Okay, Alfa's in CABIN. And we'll be ready for your debriefing here in about 5 minutes.
150:19:24 CC Okay, Geno. And, it's going to be a short one.
150:20:23 PAO This is Apollo Control at 150 hours 20 minutes. We're looking at a LM cabin pressure now of between 5.61 and 5.65 and you heard CAPCOM, Joe Allen, instruct the crew to turn back on one of the cabin oxygen regulators which supplies O2 to the cabin from the storage tanks. REG A is the one that's online right now. We'll watch the cabin pressure and see if it begins to rise again, and if so, we would conclude that Regulator A has a small leak. However, if nothing happens we'll then turn Regulator A off and turn REG - Regulator B on, and watch it to see if the cabin pressure begin to go up with that regulator. The LM Environmental Systems Officer made one point to Flight Director, Gene Kranz, and that is that very very small amounts of additional gas in the cabin will show up in our telemetry readings. Now, we're talking ab out tenths to hundreths of a pound per square inch of pressure and there are a number of possible things at the end of an EVA that could contribute to this kind of a pressure rise, such things as moisture in the suits when the suits are removed, evaporating carbon dioxoide, or the temperature rise - small temperature rises in the cabin due to the heat stored in the rocks brought in. All of these things could have contributed to causing the pressure rise that we saw and it may well turn out that neither of the regulators has any problem. In the event that there is a small leak in one of the two regulators the Lunar Module functions perfectly well, the cabin atmosphere would be maintained perfectly well with one regulator and the procedure would be to simply shut down the regulator that was leaking. It, of course, could be brought back online if needed and would perform it's function. And it still appears that we are approximately 2 hours behind in getting the crew ready for their sleep period. We have a clock in the control center counting down to our best estimate at this time as to when the sleep period will begin and it now shows 2 hours 36 minutes.
150:27:18 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're going DOWNVOICE BACKUP.
150:27:23 CC Stand by on that.
150:27:30 Schmitt And okay, we are ready for your EVA-2 debriefing.
150:27:49 CC Okay, 17. To begin with, we want you to delete that step going to DOWNVOICE BACKUP. And I've got a surface block data to read up to you. A few minor changes in your Lunar Surface Checklist. And a couple of very quick questions for the debriefing when you're ready. Over.
150:28:18 Schmitt Go ahead, in the stated order.
150:28:25 CC Roger. Moving right along now to the surface block data. Lift-off times, T-33, 152 plus 30 plus 01; T-34, 154 plus 28 plus 33; T-35, 156 plus 27 plus 05; T-36, 158 plus 25 plus 37; T-37, 160 plus 24 plus 09. Over.
150:29:28 Schmitt Okay, Joe. Starting with 33: 152:30:01, 154:28:33, 156:27:05, 158:25:37, 160:24:09. And what's our present rev?
150:29:54 CC Rev 32, Jack.
150:30:08 Cernan Hey, Joe, for pantry purposes, what day is this?
150:30:20 CC We've checked around the room here and the consensus is that it's Wednesday morning. Over.
150:30:32 Cernan Oh, okay. I really wanted to know whether it was irridated [sic] ham or frankfurter morning, and I guess we can work that out.
150:30:55 CC Roger, Gene. Apparently, the Surgeon is happy with either of those days. And we want you to turn to - right now, to 5-7 in the checklist and perform that - one particular step at 150 hours, which will prevent the computer clock from overflowing. And that's the "PROCEED, VERB 37 ENTER, 06 ENTER, PROCEED" step. We'll stand by for that. Give us a mark as you start it. Over.
150:31:35 Cernan Okay, we're starting.
150:31:37 Cernan PRO. PROCEED, VERB 37 ENTER - VERB 30 -
150:32:01 Cernan Okay, Joe. You don't want me to go on the VERB 90 - You're not going to give us an update, huh?
150:32:08 CC No update required. That was just to prevent an overflow. And then I'm ready for the quick changes in the Lunar Surface Checklist when you are.
150:32:46 Schmitt Okay, Joe, go ahead.
150:32:52 CC Okay. Begin by putting the demand REG Bravo to CABIN position and leave the demand REG Alfa in the - in the CABIN position where it now is. And I'll continue on with the changes in the checklist here. Page 5-6, left-hand side, where it reads "Configure ETB." The - the fourth line down that starts out "Four B&W mags," they should read, "Hotel, India, Juliet, and Romeo in LCG compartment." Then going up to the right-hand side under "Stow in ETB," change the line "One B&W mag Romeo" to read "One B&W mag Kilo." Over.
150:34:19 Schmitt Okay, Joe. I changed the mags in the "Empty" from Kilo to Romeo and the mag in "Stow" from Romeo to Kilo.
150:34:34 CC Okay, that sounds like the thing to do. And a note on your demand regulators. We're showing that the demand regulator Alfa is - has good integrity and we're now in the process of checking the demand regulator Bravo. I've got a couple of fairly quick questions here when you're ready for those.
150:34:58 Cernan Okay, Joe. Go ahead with your questions, and integrity is certainly what we need around here, right?
150:35:15 CC Okay. Jack, a question for you to begin with. Is your gold visor sticking halfway down? Apparently, that's based on a discussion earlier. Over.
150:35:41 Cernan Yes. Apparently his visor is sticking.
150:35:43 Cernan Which one? The gold visor? No, he said his sunshade is sticking halfway down, but his gold visor's not.
150:35:51 CC Okay, that answers the question. We couldn't tell from the TV whether it was the visor or the sunshade. That's fine. We also heard some discussion about possible wear in the seats of the suits when you were dusting each other off. We want to know if you could see the - any hint of the aluminum layers showing through in the suits. Over.
150:36:17 Cernan No, Joe. Not to worry. It's just a few scars on the PLSS thermal blanket in back where you probably rub the seat when you get in. Nothing on the suits.
150:36:28 CC Okay, Geno. Now two real quick geology questions that will help us do the planning for your EVA tomorrow. The first one has to do with Station 4. And you called out some material on the rim there -the crater at Station 4 - which looked like bedded spatter. And we're wondering if that resembled things that - that you'd seen in Hawaii? Over.
150:37:04 Schmitt Hey, Joe, I think they misheard. I think I may have said shattered and you might of said - thought spattered. No, I didn't - neither one of us intended to leave that impression. The rock - the big rock we sampled was - looked like shattered - intensely shattered gabbro, such as we've had around the LM. The rocks, probably more significantly, that Gene - one of which Gene picked up was a fine-grained vesicular basalt - corsely vesicular basalts. And we didn't have any time to really examine the interrelationships of those rock types there, but those were the two fragment types we saw.
150:37:50 CC Okay, Jack. That's quite clear to us now. Also a question about Station 4 - -
150:37:57 Schmitt Joe - Joe.
150:37:58 CC Okay, go ahead.
150:38:05 Schmitt The bottom of that crater, now, had material that was extremely disorganized in its aspect and, really, we didn't have time to examine it in detail in order to decide why it was disorganized. It did not necessarily look like the boulder that we sampled at the rim.
150:38:36 CC Okay, Jack. Understand that. A question about the boulder you sampled at the rim. Would you compare the basalt in this boulder to - which I - which you may have called a gabbro, I'm not sure - in any case the basalt - to samples which you collected at Camelot and at ALSEP. Over.
150:39:03 Schmitt Well, ny impression was that they were the same rock types.
150:39:07 CC Okay, that's our impression, too. Thank you. That's - that's it for us on the questions. And for information, we're showing your cabin pressure is holding fairly steady even with both those demand regs on.
150:39:28 Cernan Okay. Keep watching it for us, would you, and let us know. I expect one of them is probably leaking pretty slow.
150:39:35 CC You have no - no worry about that, Gene. We're looking at it real close.
150:39:45 Cernan How's - how's America looking to you?
150:39:49 CC It is just as clean as a whistle.
150:40:01 Cernan It may not be when we get back there, judging from the looks - looks of us. That's good to hear, though. It's a good bird. So is this one.
150:40:23 Schmitt Joe, is there any - You got any more debriefing questions?
150:40:28 CC Negative, Jack. And we're interested that you move right along so we can get you - get you turned in there and get some rest.
150:40:39 Schmitt We're moving. We're eating now, and we're - we're - we feel the same way, I think.
150:41:12 CC Troops, enjoy your meal there. And at your convenience, you can go ahead with the feedwater recharge. We want you to hold off on the oxygen recharge until we watch these regs for about another 10 minutes. And give us a mark if you do start the water recharge, please. Over.
150:41:36 Cernan Okay.
150:41:46 CC And if there are any ways we can cut corners on the time here, it'll be helping us, because we're still looking at - at being down a couple of hours nearly.
150:42:02 Cernan Okay, Joe. We're working at it as fast as we can. Best place in the world to make it up is tomorrow night.
150:42:20 CC Right, Geno, and we - actually, we're going to pick up a good one shortly, because we're coming up to a pad in the time line. So, as long as we don't waste too much time, we're doing pretty well.
150:42:35 Cernan Okay; be assured we're not. There's just a certain amount of housekeeping we have to do. But, very seriously, day after tomorrow is a very short day, and I think we ought to look at making up any time. I'm a hold-faster on sleep periods but tomorrow is the one that I think is flexible.
150:42:57 CC Roger. We hear you.
150:46:12 Schmitt Hey, Joe. This is Jack. We're eating here. Won't be too long at it, but if you've got any significant news or anything, why don't you give it to us?
150:46:47 CC Jack, I don't know if it's significant news, but at least I know you will be interested. Both your demand regs look good now. We show no evidence of a leak there and it may have been that just recycling them reseated them and solved whatever problem we had. You can go ahead with the O2 recharge on the PLSS and the water recharge at your convenience. And let me poll the room here for other news items. Over.
150:48:21 Cernan Okay, Joe, we're starting an O2 charge of the CDR's PLSS, 10 minutes.
150:48:27 CC Okay.
150:53:30 CC Challenger, this is Houston.
150:53:37 Schmitt Go ahead, Joe.
150:53:42 CC Roger. This is a news report to eat by. I'll combine an orbital science report with a sports report, an unusual combination here. I'll start out with a sports report on Monday night football, which you may not have heard yet. Joe Namath tried mightily to lead the New York Jets into the American Football League playoffs, but the Oakland Raiders grounded the Jets in a fourth quarter 24 to 16 blitz. Namath passed for more than 400 yards but, in spite of it, New York scored only one touchdown. Moving along to the successes of Captain America, I'll run down different items in the SIM bay here, beginning with the UV spectrometer. In general, the data has been excellent. We're getting indications that the hydrogen atmosphere of the Moon is much less than expected. In fact, I don't think we're detecting any, but rather setting a limit on the amount of hydrogen around the Moon. There was an Aerobee launch - or an attempt at an Aerobee launch - from White Sands on Monday to calibrate solar UV radiation, but this launch failed because an instrument viewing port in the rocket failed to open. A second launch - let's see - was scheduled, I think, for today, and I don't know whether that was successful or not, I guess it'll be launched later today. The infrared scanning radiometer is performing beautifully. Indications are that subsolar-point surface temperatures are higher than we've detected from our Earth-based observations before. We're seeing many thermal anomolies, particularly in Procellarum and in the Procellarum area west of Copernicus. And we're seeing also a few unusual cold spots, which apparently are indicating areas of very fine soil with a few or no blocks in and on the soil. The lunar sounder data is beautiful, and the power monitor signals we find correlate with the surface features. And the HF data indicates to us that we are detecting a variety of layers in the mare areas.
150:56:53 Schmitt Joe, this is Jack. Do you know where specifically they're seeing the hot spots west of Copernicus?
150:57:04 CC Jack, I don't have it on the page in front of me here. We're going to check into it and I'll get back to you in a second.
150:58:45 CC Jack, this is Houston. With regard to your questions on the hot spots, apparently they've not yet indexed the - these warmer sources that they're detecting to the CSM ephemeris, and - and so they don't know exactly what they correspond to as far as the surface features themselves go. So I can't help you on that right now.
150:59:18 Schmitt Okay, Joe. Just curious.
151:01:05 CC And, Jack, TELMU handed me some numbers which I think you will be interested in. From the EVA-2 EMU summary, the elapsed EVA time was 7 hours plus 37 minutes plus 22 seconds for a new outdoor record under international rules. The rest of the sheet looks free from problems in a comforting way. Let's see, average metabolic rates - for you, Geno, 855; and, Jack, you're running at around 920, And that, relative to premission averages of around 850. And you have a grand total EVA time now of l4 hours 49 minutes and 35 seconds.
151:02:20 Schmitt Very interesting numbers, Joe. Do you have any idea how the metabolic rate compared to yesterday?
151:02:27 CC Good question. Let me ask on that one. Yesterday you were running at 1045 and 1090. So you're down considerably from your work rates of yesterday, which is good news. Maybe you're learning how to do it more easily or something like that.
151:03:00 Cernan Yes, but we spent a lot of time riding today and a lot of time working yesterday.
151:03:05 CC That's true. But I guess that's not taken into consideration of the average here. It's certainly true. We can ask for the metabolic rate of the Rover. I bet that is pretty impressive for today.
151:03:20 Cernan Well, don't - don't get me wrong. Driving that Rover is ... But I'll tell you, it keeps your attention.
151:03:31 CC I'm sure it does.
151:03:32 Schmitt It keeps the passenger's attention, too.
151:03:35 CC I'm sure it does. We noted some comments when you were rolling along today - and reading between the lines from time to time.
151:03:59 Cernan Actually, Joe, for good long spans on the run up to Station 2, except when we had to pick our way up the Hole-in-the-Wall, I was running full bore at anywheres from, I guess, what'd I say, 10 to 12 to 15 clicks. I didn't hit 15 going up very much.. Coming down I did, but it's - it's really a "stand by for turn and watch where you're going" type of run. Because the small craters, - of course, are the ones that can really jolt you. But the trouble is, you can't - you can never see what's just over the next ridge, and the next ridge may be 20 meters away, and you just can't see it until you're there, and you don't know whether its a dish crater or pit crater.
151:04:57 CC Roger, Gene. We copy that.
151:05:01 Schmitt Joe, that des -
151:05:02 CC Go ahead.
151:05:05 Schmitt That description - that description fits the geology up in there, because we weren't seeing blocky rimmed craters and otherwise you would have been able to tell more easily about the old versus new craters, which would be the ones you could either go through or not go through, respectively.
151:05:25 CC Roger.
151:05:35 Cernan That's a super machine to drive though, Joe, I'll tell you. If you had enough time you could really learn to - to take it all the way. But you don't really do that, just the second time around.
151:05:54 CC Geno, was it spraying dirt at you today? Could you - did you notice that you still missed the real fender and that the patch fender wasn't quite doing what - what maybe it could?
151:06:11 Cernan No, sir, I don't think we missed it at all.
151:06:17 Schmitt Fact is, we're recommending a design change, Joe.
151:06:27 CC That'll be for next year's models.
151:06:33 Cernan That's right.
151:10:21 Schmitt Hey, Joe. is it all right to use the waste management system?
151:10:28 CC Roger. We're happy with those demand regs now. And you can proceed on with that and including all the - the - the PLSS recharges that you'll need to do as well.
151:13:23 Schmitt Joe, we're filling my PLSS with water now. You might check on the water quantity.
151:13:30 CC Roger. Thank you.
151:23:12 Cernan Joe, that should take care of my PLSS for tonight.
151:23:18 CC Okay, Gene. Thank you. Out of curiosity, have you packed, or are you packing the ETB now?
151:23:28 Cernan Yes. Jack's doing it right now.
151:23:30 CC Okay; we've got a last minute change. We show that you - your mag Bravo is at about 77 frames, and we'd like for you to leave it in the ETB - it is already in the ETB - and take it out with you tomorrow. We can shoot up the remaining frames if we run out of film, otherwise.
151:23:56 Cernan Okay; fine. That goes along with our thinking.
151:24:28 CC Geno, apparently you made some comment earlier in the day about being bothered by comm noise during your egress from Challenger. Did that go away right away, or did it just cease to bother you, or what - what was the story on that?
151:24:50 Cernan I don't remember; so, it must have gone away, because the comm was great.
151:24:57 CC Okay; that's what we kind of assumed.
151:25:24 Cernan Okay; we're charging Jack's PLSS with oxygen.
151:25:34 CC Sounds good.
151:39:44 Cernan Houston, Challenger. The O2 is complete on - O2 FILL is complete on the LMPs PLSS, and we're working on the water.
151:39:57 CC Roger.
151:42:19 CC Challenger, for your information, we're coming up on comm handover in about a minute and a half.
151:42:31 Cernan Okay.
151:46:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 151 hours 46 minutes. Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan appear to be completing the last few items on their checklist before getting to sleep. We hope to get them to bed within an hour or maybe even a bit less, which would put them about an hour behind the nominal flight plan. Ron Evans aboard America is now in his 33rd revolution of the Moon. That spacecraft currently in an orbit 69.3 by 53.6 nautical miles. Evans began an 8 hour sleep period at 146 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, which is right on the flight plan. And he's scheduled to end that sleep period at 154 hours 40 minutes. The pan camera - mapping camera, and laser altimeter in the CSM scientific instrument module bay, have been turned off. The infrared scanning radiometer - the ulraviolet spectrometer are both in the operating mode during the sleep period. And data indicates nominal performance for both.
151:47:33 Cernan Hello, Houston; Challenger. The LMPs PLSS is charged.
151:47:39 CC We copy it.
151:47:56 Cernan Joe, how's the weather got down there? Any better?
151:48:01 CC Geno, the weather is better. We were really socked in yesterday. That front's moved on through the Houston area, and it is cold and clear tonight, I suspect. It's been a while since we've been out, but they are calling for it to go down right near freezing.
151:48:28 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
152:16:12 Schmitt Hey, Joe; Challenger.
152:16:17 CC Go ahead.
152:16:23 Schmitt They succeeded in leveling the gravimeter, yet?
152:16:33 CC Jack, we'll check it, update our information on that, my understanding at the moment is that they've not, but - but they're thinking that the unit's just too cold and they're in the process of warming it up by dumping heat into it by running some of the equipment around it and in it, and they've by no means given up - given up hope for that unit.
152:17:04 Schmitt I figure that means that my fooling around with it didn't help them.
152:17:09 CC Apparently, it - it didn't do too much for them, but what it did do was convince them that it's probably somehow locked up because its temperature's not right yet. And they're not worrying about whether it's level or not level now. They're - they're confident that it's been set up okay, and now they're just biding their time to bring that temperature up. We'll get some more words to you sometime tomorrow on it as you make your traditional visit to the site again - ALSEP site again, probably. How are you coming along with your sleep prep?
152:17:47 Cernan We're just about there, Joe. We picked up some time somewhere in here. Couldn't be much more than 1 hour behind.
152:17:58 CC No, that's just about right. You're looking pretty good on that.
152:18:04 CC If you get to sleep in the next 5 minutes, you're 1 hour behind.
152:18:11 Cernan Yes, sir; we're - I'm putting ny hammock up now, as a matter of fact.
152:18:18 Schmitt What are you doing up so late?
152:18:25 CC Well, somebody's got to sit up and keep you guys honest. I think we're getting more sleep down here than you are.
152:18:47 Cernan ... bother me.
152:18:49 CC I might add that not only do we have to stay up late; we have to get up mighty early to keep you honest, too.
152:19:00 Schmitt Okay; you going to let us sleep 8 hours or what?
152:19:05 CC That's affirm, Jack. We're - we're looking good on the time, and we're - Not only will you get, we hope, 8 hours of good sleep, but you'll have a full EVA tomorrow. So, it's not costing us anything there.
152:19:25 Schmitt Sounds great, Joe. I - I fully expect it won't be much longer now.
152:19:51 CC And, Gene, just for rough planning purposes, we'll start to figure your sleep period starting around 152:30. And We'll be looking at your getting up around 8 hours from that time.
152:20:14 Cernan Okay, Joe; I'll buy that.
152:20:23 CC Might add, also, that there are a lot of us looking forward to that third EVA tomorrow. It's going to be the last one on the lunar surface for some time.
152:20:40 Cernan I tell you, if it's anywhere near what the first two were like, we're looking forward to it, also.
152:21:03 CC Gene and Jack, we're still marveling at the beautiful television pictures that we're getting from your TV camera there. It's fun, in fact, to watch the - the tracks that you're leaving behind in - in the - the lunar soil, both footprints and Rover tracks. And some of us are down here now reflecting on what sort of mark or track will someday disturb the tracks that you leave behind there tomorrow.
152:21:43 Cernan That's an interesting thought, Joe, but I think we all know that somewhere, someday, someone will be here to disturb those tracks.
152:21:56 CC No doubt about it, Geno.
152:21:57 Schmitt Don't be too pessimistic, Joe. I think it's going to happen.
152:22:03 CC Oh, there's no doubt about that. But it's fun to think about what sort of - of device will ultimately disturb your tracks.
152:22:17 Schmitt Well that device may look something like your little boy.
152:22:23 CC Boy, he'd make short work of them.
152:22:36 Schmitt Joe, I'll tell you it's also a pretty philosophical thought to think that you're riding around out here on what is really undisturbed - undisturbed everything, you know. If there was someone here, way back when sometime, they didn't leave much - much sign of their whereabouts, but that's an interesting thought, too, as you drive around and all of a sudden cross your own Rover tracks and figure out those are the only ones that have maybe ever been here.
152:23:11 CC Very true.
152:23:13 Schmitt And with that, I'm rolling out my hammock.
152:24:14 Schmitt Okay, Joe. I'm waving goodnight to you. I'm rolling up my overhead window cover.
152:24:28 CC Okay, Gene and Jack. We'll say good night to you from down here, unless there's some other way can help you.
152:24:43 Schmitt No, sir. If there is, we'll give you a call, though.
152:24:56 CC Just want to end by saying what a terrific job you did today, and really looking forward to tomorrow. Have a good 8-hours rest.
152:25:10 Schmitt Thank you, Joe. Tomorrow we answer all the unanswered questions. Right?
152:25:20 CC If not more.
152:26:06 PAO This is Apollo Control at 152 hours 26 minutes. The goodnights with the crew aboard Challenger were exchanged at 152 hours 25 minutes, and we plan to give them a full 8 hour sleep period which puts wakeup at 160 hours 25 minutes. That presumably would move the start time for the EVA 3 back 1 hour. We'll be getting conformation on that shortly. And both the CSM and the Lunar Module continuing to perform almost perfectly as planned. Based on the telemetry that we're getting here on the ground and at this moment our large scribing plotter display in front of mission control, shows the Command Module, America, to be passing almost directly over Challenger on the lunar surface in the Valley of Taurus Mountains. America now on its 33 revolution of the Moon. And Ron Evans well into his scheduled 8 hour sleep period. Evans is right on the planned time for sleep. Sleeping right on the - on the flight plan times. During the sleep period we'll have the air-to-ground lines down. Normally that circuit gets rather noisy after the crew has gone to sleep - configured the lunar module to sleep. The power amplifier is turned off, the transmitter output power of the Lunar Module decreased from about 18 watts down to about 1 watt and that accounts for the noise that we frequently have on that circuit during sleep periods. For that reason, we will have the circuit down configured to record any conversations with the crew for subsequent playback. At 152 hours 29 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
152:26:16 Schmitt ...
153:27:08 PAO This is Apollo Control at 153 hours 27 minutes. We have heard nothing from the crew aboard Challenger on the lunar surface, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, for the past hour since we said goodnight to them. And we now have a little less than 7 hours until their scheduled wakeup time. We plan to wake them up at a GET time of 160 hours 25 minutes which would be 8 hours after we said goodnight to them. Ron Evans aboard the Command Module, America, is about to begin his 34th revolution of the Moon, and on this revolution we'll be sending Ron a wakeup call. Wakeup for him is 154:40, 154 hours 40 minutes. It'll be about 35 minutes before we regain radio contact with the CSM as it comes back around the eastern limb of the Moon on its 34th revolution. Both vehicles continuing in very good shape. One minor problem appeared to crop up with the Lunar Module following the repressurization after the 2nd EVA. The cabin pressure went up to about 5.8 pounds per square inch. This is about 8 tenths of a pound above what we think of as the normal LM cabin pressure. However, it is not unusual to see the cabin pressure spike up a bit on repressurization and then drop back down. However, this rise was getting fairly close to the pressure of which the cabin relief valves would open and relieve the pressure. One consideration when the pressure goes up in this manner is that perhaps one of the several sources of oxygen in the LM cabin might be leaking. Such things as the portable life support system fill valves or the portable life support system itself, or one of the oxygen purge systems, or even the the main regulator valves that control the flow of oxygen from the LM supply tanks in the cabin. After isolating these possible sources one at a time, and still watching the pressure rise gradually, we elected to shut down both of the oxygen regulator valves and see what happened to the pressure, keeping a flow of oxygen through the cabin to remove carbon dioxide buildup, and on shutting down both regulators, the pressure did, in fact, begin to drop. The assumption at that time was that possibly one of the regulators was leaking slightly, allowing a small amount of oxygen above the needs of the crew and for replenishment, to flow into the cabin. And as the pressure dropped back down, we brought one regulator at a time online. However, the pressure continued to fall back to its normal level of about 5 pounds per square inch even with both regulators on. So, at this point, the assumption is that nothing is the matter. There are a couple of possible explanations for the rise in cabin pressure. One is - one explanation is that one of the regulators was, in fact, leaking, and when they were recycled and reseated, the seal held properly and the regulators are now performing properly. The other possibility is that moisture from the suit circuits - the temperature rise caused by bringing things from outside the LM into the lunar cabin - rocks and other equipment that had been exposed to the Sun on the lunar surface - causing an increase in water vapor, carbon dioxide, and the slight rise in the cabin temperature, which would, in turn, bump the pressure up. Those are probably the most likely possibilities. In any event, the situation as it now stands is that the LM cabin's pressure is at 4.9 pounds per square inch, which is within the normal range, and there's no indication of any leakage either through the regulators or through the other sources of oxygen. It appears that everything is functioning normally. During this shift in Mission Control, Flight Director, Gene Kranz has his flight control team reviewing the situation for liftoff. This team of flight controllers will be in charge of the lunar liftoff, and they are considering such things as the ideal time to conduct the plane change maneuver with the Command Module, to put it in the proper orbit for subsequent rendezvous with the lunar module; also, looking at LM weights and performance characteristics, assuring that all that data is in proper form for the liftoff which we expect will occur at the flight plan time. EVA 3 will be, it looks like now, delayed 1 hour from the published flight plan time. This reflects the late sleep time for the crew, the fact that they began their rest period one hour late. And we expect this will translate to a one hour late start for EVA 3, and the EVA is planned for a full 7 hours duration. At 153 hours 33 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
154:35:09 PAO This is Apolio Control at 154 hours, 35 minutes. We're about 5 minutes away from putting in a call to Ron Evans aboard Amarlca, now on its 34th revolution of the Moon. Ron, completing an 8 hour sleep period, and flight surgeon reports he has been sleeping soundly during virtually all of that sleep period. And Ron Evans, right on the Flight Plan. The command module performing very well. During the sleep period, the pan camera, the mapping camera, and the laser altimeter back in the scientific instrument module bay have been turned off. We have been gathering data from the infrared scanning radiometer and the ultra violet spectrometer. And the telemetry data that we have received indicates that they're performing normally. For Ron Evans - or for rather for Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard the Lunar Module Challenger, they now have about 5 hours 53 minute remaining in a scheduled 8 hour sleep period, and the surgeon reports that Gene Cernan who is wearing the biomedical sensors during sleep period is sleeping soundly at this time, so the lunar module crew also appears to be getting well into their rest period. We show America in an orbit at the present time with a high point or apocynthion of 69 and 1/2 nautical miles and a low point or pericynthlon of 53.4. No signs of activity, aboard the Command Module at this point. We'll stand by for the wake up call to Ron Evans.
154:40:23 CC Good morning America, how are you?
154:41:17 Evans Hey, Houston. This is the Command Module Pilot of the United States spaceship America, and we're ready to participate in another day's activity.
154:41:28 CC Glad to hear it, Ron. Good morning.
154:41:33 Evans Good morning.
154:41:52 Evans I slept with my lightweight headset on last night so didn't have to have that cap on. Is the fidelity of this thing any good, at all?
154:42:02 CC Pretty good, Ron. Pretty good. And as you start your morning's activities, you can be aware that we were watching the spacecraft through the night, and as Flight puts it, everything is swinging.
154:42:21 Evans Outstanding. That's what we like.
154:46:26 Evans Hey, it's still dark outside.
154:46:35 CC We start work early around here.
154:46:41 Evans Well, I guess.
154:52:34 Evans Hey, Houston; America.
154:52:39 CC Go ahead.
154:52:44 Evans Joe, I'd just be kind of curious how the old heart rate compares to those sleep tests that we did - preflight? Is it about the same when I'm soundly asleep or is it lower or what, you know?
154:53:04 CC Stand by, Ron, and I'll ask the men on my left.
154:53:11 Evans Okay. You know, maybe they'll have that information.
154:53:14 CC Roger. They think maybe 5 minutes. And we'll be back to you.
154:53:21 Evans Okay. No problem. Curiosity more than anything.
154:54:08 Evans I didn't get quite as much sleep last night. I took a bath and changed my underwear, and all those good ... things, you know. Probably only got - oh, maybe 7 hours at the most. Probably closer to 6-1/2 of good sleep.
154:54:30 CC Roger.
154:54:35 Evans And I'll give you the rest of that in just a jiffy when I get it squared away.
154:54:39 CC Okay.
154:58:21 CC America, this is Houston.
154:58:26 Evans Go ahead.
154:58:30 CC Roger, Ron. Apparently in your preflight database, they show you with a rate of in the low 60s or high 50s, that's a sleeping rate. And we're showing you now, during your sleep periods, of heart rates of about 10 beats lower per minute. And with heart rates that show less variation than the preflight data shows.
154:59:11 Evans Ah ha, okay. Well, thank you much. The heart does slow down a little bit up here, then.
154:59:17 CC Apparently so - they assured me however, that it would not be approaching zero. So you can relax there.
154:59:27 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
154:59:38 CC And, Ron, in the meantime, Gordo's arrived here and - I'll turn the console over to him. Be talking to you later perhaps.
154:59:51 Evans Okay, Joe. Hey, we thank you much. Appreciate it.
154:59:54 CC Enjoyed it. Have a good day; and we'll all be watching you close.
154:59:59 Evans Okay.
155:01:13 Evans Okay, Houston; America. Here's my medical log.
155:01:20 CC Okay, Ron. Good morning and go ahead.
155:01:22 Evans I just noticed ... day off (laughter). Okay, Gordo. Glad to have you aboard with us. Okay. PRD, 15041; and the sleep, I mentioned, probably about 6-1/2 or 7 good hours. I took a Seconal last night, and I had four cans of fluid.
155:01:52 CC Okay.
155:02:13 Evans Okay, here's the old chow for day 6.
155:02:19 CC Okay.
155:02:22 Evans Scrambled eggs, bacon squares, peaches, cinnamon toasted bread cubes, orange juice, cocoa with potassium, and a vitamin pill. Okay. Lobster bisque, all the peanut butter, all the jelly, three pieces of bread, citrus beverage, a tea, a chocolate bar, and a package of pecans. And I had a beef steak, butterscotch pudding, and an orange drink.
155:03:17 CC Okay, got that.
155:03:18 Evans I think that was it. Hey, today I get sausage, grits, fruit coctail, orange beverage, and coffee.
155:03:44 CC Roger.
155:04:10 Evans And, Gordo, if you have one of these preflight, not preflight - but, what do you call it -geology summarys of EVA-2, like you had yesterday. I thought that was great.
155:04:24 CC Okay, Ron. I just picked it up. Let me read it over and then I'll give you a summary.
155:04:32 Evans Oh, okay. Sure; no problem.
155:08:40 CC Hello, Ron. I'll give you a little summary here of the EVA. It's going to be a little rambling, because I haven't had time to organize it, but it was a very interesting night last night on that second EVA.
155:08:55 Evans Sure. No problem. Go ahead.
155:08:58 CC Traverse lay over terrain of extraordinary geologic diversity and yielded a far greater variety of information than ever obtained on any other lunar traverse. Systematic descriptions and samples of four of the six main units of the area, massifs, subfloor, the light mantle, and the dark mantle were obtained. In addition, detailed descriptions were given of a variety of craters, including exciting discoveries that the crater Shorty, and descriptions of the Lee-Lincoln Scarp and lineaments in the hilly terrain. The South Massif is composed of two main varieties of breccia; blue-gray and tan-gray blocks of both varieties were abundant at station 2 up on Nansen. I won't go into the geologic details on those breccias. But, they then found samples of the subfloor unit exposed as blocks in the ejecta around larger craters that had been partly buried by the dark mantle. Stand by.
155:10:16 CC Okay. They are going to take the antenna away from us, Ron. I'll have to finish this next time around. Spacecraft's looking good, we'll see you in about 45 minutes or so.
155:10:31 Evans Okay. Mighty fine Gordo. Thank you.
155:11:23 PAO This is Apollo Control at 155 hours 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Even though there are some 4 mirutes and 25 seconds remaining to actual disappearance of the spacecraft America behind the Moon, the network has taken down the uplink to the spacecraft so, for all practical purposes, we have had loss of signal to Ron Evans aboard spacecraft America. We'll see him again in about 48 minutes. Meanwhile the crew of lunar module Challenger is still asleep at Taurus-Littrow. To reiterate the new wake-up time for the Challenger crew it's Ground Elapsed Time of 160 hours 25 minutes with the start of EVA 3 coming at 163:40, which is approximately 1 hour later than the Flight Plan. Current orbit measurements of spacecraft America: 69.6 by 53.5 nautical miles. As the spacecraft disappeared behind the Moon, the velocity in orbit was 5372 feet per second. The Gold Team of Flight Directors or Flight Controllers settling in for a fairly short day shift ending at 2:00 p.m., just after the surface crew has been wakened. Gerry Griffin in charge of the LM or Lunar Module flight controllers and the CSM group headed up by Neil Hutchinson. At 155:13 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
156:00:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 156 hours Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Coming up on acquisition of signal in about 50 seconds the Command Module, America, coming around on her 35th lunar orbit. Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, awake at this time, should be completing his breakfast and ready for a days work in lunar orbital science. Meanwhile the crew of Challenger on the lunar surface still asleep. About 4 1/2 hours until they're awakened for the third and final EVA of this mission and of the Apollo program. Waiting for confirmation in about 5 seconds or perhaps a few more seconds that network has indeed locked onto the signal from spacecraft, America. We do have acquisition. Let's join the air-ground 2 circuit for any conversation during this 35th front-side pass.
156:03:10 Evans Houston, this is America. I see you tried to come in there.
156:03:15 CC Yes, Ron. You're loud and clear.
156:03:22 Evans Okay. I'm just finishing up my fruit cocktail.
156:03:27 CC Okay. While you're munching there, let me give you a few status reports here. First of all, your RCS is hooking right along there 4 percent above the Flight Plan line; however, we have some plans for that 4 percent, which I'll go over with you later. On the oxygen, you've gained a little on it, since I was last on anyway. O2 tank 1 is a little low, but it's balanced by tank 3 being a - a little high, and tank 2 is right on the redline, so I think they all balance out to be about on the redline on the Flight Plan line. And they all three balance out to be right on the Flight Plan line, as close as I can tell. On hydrogen, you're probably up about 4 percent in tank 1, and the other two are right on the line, so you are in good shape there, still.
156:04:31 Evans Very good.
156:04:41 CC Okay, while you're - I've got some words on - on your orbit here, which won't require anything - writing down anything - but for some reason you're missing the mascons or something, and your orbit's not degrading like we expected it to. It's not degrading down into a circular orbit. It's - I think it's staying just about the way it was, and so we're looking ahead to a plane change, and we're - we're thinking about an extra maneuver prior to plane change - about 1 hour prior to plane change on the back side. There was some discussion here about what to call that maneuver. Somebody wanted to call it a HAM, Height Adjustment Maneuver, and someone else said, well that one's already used in the rendezvous sequence. Maybe we ought to make it "bacon". And even "lox" was was suggested, considering the FDOs objected to "bacon" because of his religion. So the "lox" was eliminated because we already used that for the S-IVB.
156:06:05 Evans How about "mascon adjust?"
156:06:10 CC Anyway, what the maneuver's going to be - whatever we call it - is about 11 foot per second RCS burn, 1 hour prior to plane change so that'll be on the back side. And, that'll just about use up your RCS overage and put you back on the Flight Plan line. That will adjust the height when you get around to the plane change, and then the plane change will be a little bigger than originally planned, showing about 365 feet per second, SPS, of course. And, looking at the consumables, that will put you down right - right on the rescue red-line on SPS, so we're still in good shape - consumable-wise. Further tracking will refine this, of course, so we'll have updates on the plan. Any questions on that? Over.
156:07:13 Evans No, it sounds like you all thought it out. I appreciate your letting me know about that. I think - Is the timeline worked out good enough in there to work in a P41? I guess it does - an hour before, huh?
156:07:25 CC Yes, well - we'll make it. I haven't looked at it myself, but we are - FAO has - and I haven't heard exactly what needs to be changed, if anything. Okay, on the SIM bay. Basically there's nothing new to report. And all the people down here appreciate your timely operation of the SIM bay, and it's responsible for really maximizing the data return. In general, we're pretty happy. The problems that we're have - having with it are ones that have already been mentioned to you. On the - on the HF antenna retract problem that we have, if we have it, here's the plan. We're - Well, first of all, the consensus on that is that we really think the antennas are retracting okay. That it's a malfunction in the limit switch that drives the talkback that's really the problem. But we have devised an alternate method, utilizing timing and stall current, and actually the signature of the motor stall current down here in the data, to determine proper retraction. And just prior to 168 hours in the Flight Plan, you're supposed to retract those antennas, and we're going to check the data at that time, and say "yes" or "no"; they are retracting or they aren't. If they don't, then the alternate plan we'll swing into at that time is to reschedule the HF targets that are now scheduled on rev 55. Reschedule them and do them on rev 42. After which, we'll try one more time to retract the antennas, and if it still looks like they indeed are not retracting - I guess it's just the one that's in question - then we'll go ahead and jettison them at that time. And we'll still have gotten most of the - of the at least - priority HF targets with that alternate plan. Over.
156:09:42 Evans Yes, that sounds like - sounds like a good plan to me.
156:09:46 CC Okay, we got one request from EECOM here. Can you turn the H2 tank 2 FANs, OFF, please?
156:10:01 Evans H2 tank 2 FANs are OFF now.
156:10:04 CC Okay. And when you get between courses on breakfast there, I have some pencil work for you in the way of Flight Plan updates. Not too much, really.
156:10:31 Evans Okay. Contrary to the way I eat breakfast on the ground, I always end up leaving my orange juice to last. I guess that's because you like to eat the hot things first.
156:10:44 CC Roger.
156:10:46 Evans What I'm saying is the only thing I've got left to eat is orange juice, and I'm ready to copy.
156:10:51 CC Okay, 156:22 - which is coming up here - like to, at that time, verify all Command Module VHP off. It's now 11 after - You have to terminate the jet-on monitor and then get the sounder operating. I can break this off at any time if you think we're pressing that. Just interrupt me. At 156:50, lunar sounder pad. T-start is 156:51:05, and T-spot is 156:56:09. Over.
156:11:47 Evans Okay. T-start, 156:51:05, 156:56:09.
156:11:53 CC That's good. Flip the page - flip two pages and copy the next sounder pad, which is for 158:40. T-start is 158:49:35 and stop time is 158 - -
156:12:13 Evans Wait a minute; wait a minute. I'm not with you.
156:12:15 CC Oh, okay.
156:12:20 Evans Okay. I got it (chuckle).
156:12:22 CC Okay. T-start - -
156:12:23 Evans Go ahead, now, very sorry.
156:12:24 CC - - 158:49:35, and stop is 158:54:38.
156:12:41 Evans Okay. Start 158:49:35, 158:54:38.
156:12:47 CC Okay, that's correct. Now at - that same page - 158:13, after "PAN CAMERA - ON," add a line that says, "V/H OVERRIDE - HIGH ALTITUDE."
156:13:14 Evans Okay, at 158:13, "V/H OVERRIDE to HIGH ALTITUDE."
156:13:19 CC Okay, and at 158 - -
156:13:20 Evans I think it's still in HIGH ALTITUDE from yesterday. Yes, it is.
156:13:24 CC Okay. 158:21 is another, "Verify all Command Module VHF, OFF."
156:13:47 Evans Okay, 158:21, "Verify all VHF, OFF," and I know what that means.
156:13:52 CC Okay, and the next two are easy. Next page, at 159:01. Just draw a line through "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT", and at 159:05 - -
156:14:06 Evans Okay, I got it.
156:14:06 CC - - draw a line through "MAPPING CAMERA LASER ALTIM - LASER ALTIMETER COVER, CLOSED."
156:14:15 Evans Okay, got it.
156:14:17 CC Okay, I think we're caught up. We're ready for HIGH GAIN, AUTO.
156:14:25 Evans Okay, I'll go back and see where we are in the old Flight Plan. Okay, you have AUTO.
156:14:33 CC Okay.
156:14:53 Evans Okay. I don't think this lightweight headset is quite as good as the - the other one, and I'm going to change as soon as I get a chance here.
156:15:01 CC Okay.
156:15:02 Evans Okay, VHF A is OFF, B is OFF, RECEIVE ONLY, B DATA is OFF, BEACON is OFF, RANGING is OFF. That's all (chuckle).
156:15:14 CC Okay.
156:15:26 Evans I was looking at - Aitken when they came that side. Aitken is almost right in the terminator, right now. So when they come up on terminator photos there - The only thing is that, even though it was down in the shadow, down in the bottom of the crater, I could still see the bottom of the craters ... when they come around there for the near-terminator photography. I'm going to open the camera up and take a picture down in the shadow itself and see if that works.
156:16:01 CC Okeydoke.
156:16:02 Evans And there was quite a bit of backlight - quite a bit of backlight reflection from the northeastern side of it and also the eastern side of it, I guess. Funny, down in the eastern rim - -
156:16:18 CC Ron, if you give us ACCEPT, we'll give you a vector while you got it.
156:16:18 Evans - - the only way I can describe it - Okay. You have ACCEPT.
156:16:27 CC Roger.
156:16:31 Evans And the DSKY is clear. With the shadow effect on the eastern - I guess the east and southeastern interior rim of the crater, it reminds me a lot of some eroded hills. Like if you've got a valley that maybe has a 20-foot - it's bigger than that - but say you got a 20-foot drop on the thing where it's been - just rain erosion down the side and it kind of washes little - little valleys down it here and there. And it leaves mounds and humps in between that haven't eroded away yet. And that's the way the side of that crater works. And then the other side of it, the northeastern rim of it and the interior rim, looks just like a - one of the massif units. That is, it's a very fine texture, no real erosional processes, just a smooth, gentle - gentle slope.
156:17:52 CC Roger.
156:18:08 CC Okay, Ron; it's your computer. Go gack to BLOCK.
156:18:14 Evans Okay, we're in BLOCK.
156:19:44 Evans You know that Skylab drink bag has really been a pretty good deal because you can use the nipple that's on the end of that thing and use it for all of the beverage packages. And that way, you don't have to cup open the end of it and let it drip out all over the place.
156:20:07 CC Hey, I'll pass that along to the Skylab - -
156:20:07 Evans - - you can use the nipple.
156:20:26 Evans I'm not sure if they have any of our beverage packs or not. I think they are all packaged in these expandable little things we're using for water - water cans.
156:20:37 CC I see.
156:22:12 Evans Hey, Gordo, what day is this?
156:22:16 CC Out of sync there myself. It's Wednesday. It's about 9:15 in the morning, Wednesday.
156:22:28 Evans Ah ha! Thank you. I guess I could have figured it - up, but -
156:22:41 CC That's why we're here. Answer important questions.
156:22:47 Evans (Laughter) That's right.
156:22:50 Evans Hey, getting ready for LUNAR SOUNDER to STANDBY. That's a "verify."
156:23:01 CC Roger.
156:23:10 Evans And RECORDER is - RADAR is ON. RECORDER is OFF, not heaters. I see the old MODE is still in VHF. Ah ha! I get to control the spacecraft again. ... Takes about five minimum impulse blips to get -a tenth of a degree per second.
156:24:05 CC Roger.
156:28:17 Evans The dark annulus around Serenitatis - As you look north - the dark variation there, and I'm kind of looking back - looking a little bit backwards now - but that dark has no continuity with the ridge at all. Goes right down the middle of the ridges. As you look directly east of Littrow - east - I mean directly west of Littrow, the wrinkle ridge is there, and then there's - it comes out, and you have the light tan, tannish, tannish - there's a dark, I guess - you call it a dark tannish-gray. And then you get out to the light tan of the Mare Serenitatis, itself.
156:29:18 CC Okay, Ron.
156:33:09 Evans You know, I'm looking almost directly into the Sun and you can still see a topographic expression - topographic high, around the rilles in the Tacquet area, and also the grayness has disappeared out of that - out of the dark material, and it's just - looking into the Sun now - it looks more of a tan - a darker tan than the Serenitatis area. And you can all see - also see the topographic rise to it now - I'm looking quite a ways away from it and looking down on it.
156:33:50 CC Roger.
156:34:24 Evans You know, that's kind of funny now, looking back at Sulpicius Gallus and just to the north of that, there's a crater that's about - well, it's right at the end of those rilles that go north from Sulpicius Gallus. And you can really see the ejecta blanket. The ejecta blanket looks very dark, around it now in this Sun. Now you look out across the Mare Serenitatis now and you're getting toward the sunset, looking back into the Sun, and the color is disappearing all except in that one spot. Now that must be a - either a fresh ejecta - and you lose the brightness of it or something - or either that or it's dark. It's sure a dark - it's a dark ejecta blanket around it. The blanket itself goes out maybe two or three crater diameters, and it looks like it has kind of a ray-type pattern to it. I'll mark that crater. I don't even know if it has got a name or not, but I'll mark it on my map.
156:35:29 CC Okay.
156:35:36 Evans I got a ding. Let's see. It must be time to do something.
156:35:39 CC Yes, it's time to turn the recorder on.
156:35:44 Evans RECORDER, ON. RECORDER'S ON.
156:35:51 CC Okay.
156:37:05 Evans Just - I don't know where I am right now, I'll be honest with you. I just looked out window 3, and I'm right on the terminator. And, let's see, I'm going west, so we've got some arcuate - There's kind of a - little bit of a mare area down there. Okay, I think it is. And you can see lava tongues sticking out through there. And lava flow fronts with the high side on the east side because you got a shadow all the way along the front. And they're about - in the one area - you might consider a scalloped area - an ejecta scallop. Coming out of that one area you can see a crazy lava flow coming out from it.
156:38:11 CC Roger on that.
156:38:13 Evans At least the flow -
156:39:08 Evans Hey, those are Apennines I'm just going over, aren't they?
156:39:11 CC That's right. That's what they ought to be. We need the IR, OFF.
156:39:20 Evans You look back out across Seren - Okay.
156:39:25 CC We need the IR COVER, CLOSED, please.
156:39:27 Evans Say again, Gordo.
156:39:29 CC We want the IR COVER, CLOSED. Right away.
156:39:35 Evans Okay, it's going CLOSED. Okay, it's CLOSED. How about the UV?
156:39:55 Evans IR COVER is CLOSED.
156:40:06 Evans I was just going to say, looking back across Serenitatis into the Sun now, there must be Bessel that has an ejecta pattern out there. When you look at the ejecta patterns into the Sun, they all look black with respect to the mare. I think it must be a shadow effect or something that you get off of the - the raised ejecta that comes up across it.
156:40:39 CC Roger.
156:42:43 CC Hey, Ron, that frantic call there was because the Sun had started to get in the IR and hadn't really thought that would happen, but started to see it get in there. But you caught it in time; the cover saved it.
156:43:00 Evans Okay. Real good. I figured that's probably what it was.
156:43:10 CC And you can go ahead with the rest of the steps in there with the UV off after sunset.
156:43:23 Evans Okay. MAPPING CAMERA is going OFF. COVER's CLOSED on the IR so then we'll turn it off. PAN CAMERA, SELF TEST, OFF. And let's see, I don't see the Sun shining up a light out there. It must be sunset. Couldn't be yet, though. Yes, it sure enough is, though. Okay, UV's going OFF. You want the IR COVERs back OPEN just to keep things straight here?
156:44:41 CC Stand by on that.
156:44:48 Evans They're just - I - next time we use the IR, let's just remember to open the cover.
156:45:03 CC Okay. Just open it up the next time we use it, which is in about 15 minutes. We'll - we'll remind you on that if you forget.
156:45:15 Evans Oh, okay. That's right. Okay. That's right, these are just short sounder passes now, aren't they?
156:45:24 CC That's right.
156:45:45 CC Ron, I can finish up my description of the last night's EVA if you like, since nothing to look at now. I'm watching the clock on the sounder start for you.
156:45:59 Evans Okay; hey, appreciate it.
156:46:02 CC Okay, think I left off, or was cut off there without mentioning two varieties of breccia in the South Massif they found. Blue-gray and tan-gray and, without going into the geological details, those are the two types they found up there at Nansen. The subfloor unit was exposed as blocks and ejecta around larger craters had been partly buried by dark mantle. And craters apparently had penetrated thin parts of the light mantle. Especially good samples were obtained from the rim of Camelot where the same textural characteristics which are banding caused by variations in vesicle concentration, coarse-grain size, and mineralogic features, as reported in EVA-1, were found. So apparently this unit is quite uniform over the distances that they have covered so far in the traverses. The prominent east-facing scarp, crossing the valley floor from north to south about 5 kilometers west of the LM, was traversed twice near the crater Lara, near Hole-in-the-Wall, although Hole-in-the-Wall appeared to be pretty subtle. No change in the surface characteristics or lithology of the mantle was discernible where the astronauts traversed the Scarp. Outcrops of boulders were observed farther to the north where the northward extension of the Scarp crosses the face of the North Massif, it forms a notably smooth and relatively young-appearing surface. Elsewhere, the surface of the North Massif is prominently furrowed and textured, and the crew described it as a cross-hatched pattern on the surface that they could see with one set of lineaments dipping eastward and the other westward at about 30 degrees. Some of the most interesting observations made during the EVA were related to craters. Many small craters within the dark mantle have glass-coated central pits. Jack called them dimples. Some of the pits are nearly cylindrical and maybe half again as deep as the crater itself. Other small craters occurring in both the dark and light mantle have bright halos, but these halos appear to be noticeably brighter on the light-colored material. This bright material is not blocky or fragmental ejecta derived from a subfloor layer, but rather appears to consist of "instant rock" or soil breccia which has been partly consolidated by the impact shock itself. The most interesting eureka during the EVA was at station 4, Shorty Crater, where Jack found some bright red or orange, he described it, orange dirt within the gray to dark-gray rim material. The colored banding is circumferential to the crater and resembled alteration halos, which occur around many terrestrial volcanic vents. So you can see why the geologists are excited on that one. The morphology of Shorty, however, is similar in some respects - -
156:49:22 Evans You bet you.
156:49:22 CC - - impact craters have definitive interpretation of its origin may depend on sample analysis. And I got about a minute and a half to start the sounder. You might be close to 02:30 there, if you aren't. They took a total of about 850 pictures. They've taken a total of 1270, would you believe, pictures ... on the lunar surface. Including about 150 with the 500-millimeter camera, mostly of the North, South, East Massifs, and Family Mountain. They got 56 samples, two double cores, probably about 36 kilograms worth, and they traveled a total distance of 20 kilometers. Over.
156:50:22 Evans Okay, sounds like a good summary. They're finding all kinds of things up there. Which is the reason you explore, I guess, to find - to see what you can find.
156:50:34 CC Yes, they - they were really in their element last night. About 30 seconds to T-start time. I'll let you call it yourself, though.
156:50:43 Evans Okay. I'll get it.
156:51:06 Evans DATA SYSTEMS are OFF. OPERATE, 05.
156:51:13 CC Okay.
156:51:34 Evans Hope this thing's in Reiner Gamma. Then you can find some sort of a topographic expression, to that light-colored material around there. It looks to me like there is - right around the Reiner Gamma itself anyhow.
156:51:53 CC Roger.
156:52:04 Evans Maybe the lunar sounder will collaborate my moonlight investigations here - or earthlight investigations, I'm sorry.
156:52:13 CC (Laughter)
156:52:30 Evans While we're waiting here - I decided - decided to sleep last night without being tied down or anything. So I slept in the old - What do you call them in the Navy? -
156:52:48 CC Hammocks, I think.
156:52:49 Evans Well, anyhow, sleeper strings, we call them up here. Yes, sleeping bags - or some kind of sack. And the last 2 or 3 nights, what I'd do is put the lap belt on loosely. And you know, it just kind of keeps you from rolling all over the cockpit. Then last night, I didn't put it on at all and stayed in the sack. And I really didn't go too far anyhow. One time I woke up and I was crossways in the couch up here. And then when I woke up this morning my feet were up in the tunnel, and my head was kind of still in the center couch, more or less. So you really don't roam around too much that way anyhow, even if you aren't tied down. And you can get the "huggy pillow" effect by being inside that sack and laying your head on the outside of the sack. It just about fits me, except that if I stretch my feet out - then I get a little bit of a pull. Little bit of a pull - on it and it feels like a huggy pillow that way.
156:54:10 CC Kind of a security blanket effect, huh?
156:54:15 Evans (Laughter) Yes, right. That was the biggest problem the first 2 or 3 days here - what do you do with your head when you go to sleep. I'm used to sleeping with a pillow. And I'm used to sleeping on my side. And it's amazing the psychological effect that you can get from - for me it's hard to go to sleep just laying on my back. So you can turn on your side and you go right to sleep (laughter). What's your side and what's your back - I don't know, but anyhow, it works.
156:54:54 CC That's got to be psychological.
156:54:59 Evans (Laughter) It sure is.
156:56:10 Evans 5, 6, 7, 8 -
156:56:14 Evans MARK it. LUNAR SOUNDER to STANDBY.
156:56:17 CC Okay.
156:57:17 Evans Okay. RECORDER is going OFF. ... the heaters.
156:57:21 CC Roger.
156:57:27 Evans DATA SYSTEMs coming ON.
156:57:44 Evans Okay. SM/AC POWER is ON.
156:58:41 Evans I guess we need to open the old door. IR, OFF, barberpole, gray bar. I get to mess with the old optics again.
156:59:23 CC We're getting some of that, Ron. Sounds like the mike might have slipped away from your mouth, though.
156:59:33 Evans Okay. That's a good point - let me change my headsets here. Anyhow, I went right through the Flight Plan with all that stuff.
156:59:43 CC Okay, and - -
156:59:43 Evans ... got the IR COVER, OPEN.
156:59:48 CC Okay. Great memory there.
157:01:18 CC Ron, if you like while you're getting ready for the 52, I can summarize the news real rapidly. There wasn't a whole lot.
157:01:28 Evans Okay. Sure, go ahead, I've got a different headset now. Is that okay?
157:01:32 CC Yes, you're loud and clear. Former President Truman is still hanging in there. His heartbeat and breathing became unstable yesterday, but then improved again. Of course, the big headlines were about the discovery of the orange dirt at Shorty Crater. And there was a picture of Jan, John, and Jaime in the paper, watching the EVA on TV. The only thing new on the peace talks is that Kissinger will probably be coming back to the United States today and there's a rumor, the French press said that the compromise is in the work on the withdrawal of the North Vietnamese troops from the south. The Rockets lost - the Aeros, the hockey team, won last night. They beat the Alberta Oilers. The Rockets lost to Buffalo. And the weather finally cleared out. The cold front cleared out the wet stuff and last night I think was the first time since you guys launched that we've had a look at the Moon, so we had a direct look at you last night. It's just high cirrus and sunny this morning when I came to work. Over.
157:02:52 Evans Hey, thanks for the news and I guess those three guys that went up to the Moon - you know, they probably cleared that weather up there in Houston.
157:03:01 CC It sure took you awhile though.
157:03:07 Evans (Laughter) Right.
157:04:35 Evans Okay, 14 is Canopus again, the same ones I had last night I think. That's Canopus. Canopus looks about as bright as Sirius, but not quite.
157:05:12 CC Roger.
157:05:20 Evans My sextant - is good and everything like that, but you just can't quite get the reticle in focus.
157:05:33 CC Roger.
157:05:36 Evans It's kind of the way they said it was going to be.
157:06:10 CC Okay, Ron. We copy those. Clear to torque them.
157:06:16 Evans Okay, let's see; we'll torque at - oh, make it 06:30.
157:06:23 CC All righty.
157:07:03 CC Ron, we've got still about 5 or 6 minutes until LOS, but in case we drop off on your maneuvering there - just want to tell you that everything's looking good. In fact, the IR is pumping out good data, so with that fantastic teamwork, we saved it back there, and we'll see you next time around.
157:07:27 Evans Hey, okay. Sounds good, there's little old Aldebaran in there. Saturn still must be out of the - There it goes into the -
157:08:56 Evans (Humming) Okay, got to align the old GDC here. (Humming)
157:14:50 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of control from the spacecraft America, going behind the Moon, nearing the end of the 35th lunar orbit. That orbit measuring, at this time, 69.5 nautical miles by 53.6. There is a plan under consideration now for a small trim maneuver just prior to plane change maneuver. Some 12 feet per second with the RCS thrusters to tune up the orbit a little bit. This currently appears to be around 181 hours 33 minutes, with the plane change approximately an hour later. Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans continuing to operate the scientific instrument module experiments in the service module of his spacecraft. All systems apparently operating nominally. Three hours 13 minutes remaining until crew of Challenger is awakened at Taurus-Littrow landing site. And at 157:16 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
158:00:23 PAO This is Ap - this is Apollo Control. We've acquired the command module, America coming around on the 36th rev. He's on a bad omni antenna at the moment, just barely readable, but we'll stand by here until the communications improve and Gordo Fullerton can continue the two-way communication.
158:02:10 CC Hello there, America. We hear your scratchy-sounding OMNI.
158:02:17 Evans (Laughter) Probably so.
158:02:25 CC You're readable but noisy.
158:02:33 Evans You're cutting in and out on the OMNI. I thought I couldn't get you.
158:02:39 CC Roger.
158:02:48 Evans Looks like we get the high gain here pretty quick. ...
158:02:53 CC Roger.
158:07:30 Evans ...
158:08:51 Evans Okay, Houston this is America. We probably have pretty good comm now, huh?
158:08:57 CC Yes, Ron. We're getting you now, and you sound good.
158:09:07 Evans Okay. I don't have any observations to report from the back side. About time for blue bag number 4. Somebody has got to develop a better mouse trap.
158:09:23 CC Roger on that.
158:12:08 Evans Okay, the old PAN CAMERA'S in STANDBY.
158:12:16 CC Roger, Ron.
158:12:18 Evans Power's coming - power's coming on and V/H is the HIGH ALTITUDE.
158:12:29 CC Okay.
158:12:42 CC Okay, Ron, we're ready for SELF TEST.
158:12:48 Evans Okay, going to SELF TEST -
158:12:51 Evans Now. Barber pole.
158:12:57 CC Roger.
158:15:56 Evans Okay, by the way, mag Lima Lima is empty. 165 frames showing there. Started mag Mike Mike with frame number 95. Finished the orbital science at 142. Took the crazy camera at f/5.6 at 1/125. When I got ready to change to f/5.6 at 1/250, I looked at the crazy thing and it was setting at f/ll. Maybe those first frames in there, maybe they can develop them a little different or something and still bring - get them to come out.
158:17:00 CC Okay, Ron. We got that.
158:17:09 Evans I think what happens is I must have been holding the thing by the lens or something or I burnped the - the f-stop thing somehow.
158:17:28 CC Ron, we're ready for PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF. And did you go to HEATERS after you set the SELF TEST switch to SELF TEST, when we started this?
158:17:43 Evans No, I just went back to to OFF. Was I supposed to go to HEATERS?
158:17:53 CC Okay, we'd like it in HEATERS, now.
158:17:59 Evans Okay, it's going to HEATERS. Now it's spring-loaded to OFF, and I just left it there. Okay, going to HEATERS, and now it's going to - power is OFF.
158:18:09 CC Okay.
158:18:13 Evans Okay, let's see. Are we ready for Lunar Sounder? Need a clock down here by panel 230 (laugh). Not really. I can look back and see the LEB one. Okay, it's about time. Okay. LUNAR SOUNDER's verified in STANDBY. The RECORDER is going ON. RADAR is going ON. And the RECORDER is OFF, not the heaters. If antenna 1, verify they're out, eh? EXTEND. No barber pole. Back to OFF. Number 2 EXTEND. No barber pole. Back to OFF. Okay, MODE is going to HF and let me take a look at - Alfa is OFF; Bravo is OFF; B DATA is OFF; BEACON is OFF; RANGING is OFF. Okay, let's see. Two, two. 250 lens.
158:20:28 Evans Okay, 5.6 ... fifth and infinity. Mag QQ.
158:20:47 Evans Mike goes in the temporary stowage bag; QQ goes on with 104 frames.
158:21:14 Evans That's going to be window 3.
158:21:57 Evans Somebody had - had his nose up against window 3, here Got to wipe it off. Boy, these windows have really been great though. They haven't - you know - don't have any coatings or anything like that on them.
158:22:18 CC Roger, on that.
158:23:05 Evans I'll be darned. I'll bet that's a little micro-meteorite pit in window 3. Right in the middle of it. It looks like two of them out there. It's about - much smaller than a 1/32 - 1/64 - 1/64 in diameter probably.
158:23:31 CC Gotcha.
158:23:31 Evans It's a little, round - Doesn't seem to have any - It's just a pit, you know.
158:23:46 CC Ron, you said that was window 3?
158:23:52 Evans Window 3, yes.
158:23:54 CC Okay.
158:25:55 Evans Oh, it scared me for a minute there. I was configuring for terminator photos, and I looked on the near-side terminator, and I didn't see any. It's on the far side.
158:26:08 CC Yes, Stu and I were looking at the same thing. We're just about a - 30 seconds ahead of you.
158:26:15 Evans (Laughter) Okay. One's of Aitkin on the far side. Okay. Aitken and Ibn Hyan [sic], I think, or something like that. Debber [?], Ibn Hyan [sic].
158:27:08 Evans You know, going to come across - come across the Tacquet area again, and there doesn't seem to be any - it - there's a bright crater - a recent crater in the annulus - in that dark annulus, in the southern part of Serenitatis, it shows up again as that kind of a blue-gray brightness, as opposed - as opposed to the tannish - tannish brightness of the - of the bright craters in Serenitatis. There's still is no apparent wrinkle ridge - there's no color tone or differentiation in the winkle-ridge area, in this part of it. The only differentiation, and - It looks like - South of Tacquet you get the same color tone variation occurs on over into Tranquillitatis. When you get to the Tacquet area, from Tacquet up to Miller or something - I wish I could remember the name of that crazy crater.
158:28:28 CC How about Menelaus.
158:28:33 Evans Menelaus. That's it. Yes. From Tacquet up to Menelaus now, the - that's got to be a buildup of material and it's more on the tan side than it is on the - more of a dark tan than it is to the tannish-gray. So it's a different type of material than - than on the annulus down below the crater, Tacquet.
158:29:08 CC Okay, Ron. You're saying this is sort of a annular plateau, then, that stretches across between Tacquet and Menelaus?
158:29:19 Evans Yes, it is. It's an annular plateau in there, and the plateau is got to have been coming from those rilles down - that are down in there.
158:29:34 CC Okay, do those - Maybe you've already said this - do those wrinkle ridges cross the color boundaries?
158:29:45 Evans No, I can't find the wrinkle ridge that crosses the color boundary. The wrinkle ridges are out in Serenitatis itself, and there is no color boundary on the western edge of Serenitatis. It's all the same.
158:30:05 CC Okay. Those sound like supergood observations, Ron.
158:30:06 Evans Passing over - Sulpic - and - I'm just passing over Sulpicius Gallus, now. And just beyond Sulpicius Gallus - Sulpicius Gallus is out in the Mare Tranquillitatis, itself, and it looks like you could - it's either a talus slope - you know, you got a gentle slope of the - of the massif coming down and then it changes slope a little bit, and the - it looks like you have finer-grained material. And that might be what we have at one time or another called the high-water mark, but I kind of believe that's just a talus change in the slope. As you go on down there in the fine-grained material, somehow developing down there in the bottom. But as soon as you cross that area - we're going west now from Sulpicius Gallus - again we've got kind of the same tannish - a dark tan material that essentially covers the highland - this highland-type of an area here. It's a hummocky-type material. There are a few rilles just north of Sulpicius Gallus; those rilles, again, have - have the dark tan material on it. About the same as the tan - same color tones that you pick up from Tacquet to Mele - Meleneis [sic].
158:31:55 CC Okay sounds great. Keep talking, we'll cue you as the Flight Plan events come up.
158:32:04 Evans Okay. D - D-Caldera is sure fascinating. I'll try and take a quick look with the binocs on that one. - binoca and I can't find it there. There it is.
158:32:56 Evans I hope the pictures will kind of confirm a little bit of a - of a topographic rise around the D-Caldera, just a slight one, and it's about half the width of the - if you - As you look at the "D" it's a half a width of the "D", not the height, but the width. And it seems to be a raised, kind of a raised, flat rim around it. The color of the raised bumps down in the D-Caldera are the same as the surrounding material, around there. The de - the bumps that are raised up are smooth looking and the depression for it has to be a caldera, I guess, or at least, the part of the depression, anyhow, is a light bluish gray; I'll call it that way, very light bluish gray.
158:34:15 CC Hey, Ron I'm not suggesting you do, because it's probably trouble to find. Have you tried the color wheel, comparing it on any of this stuff?
158:34:27 Evans (Laughter) No, I haven't. Let me try. That's a good idea, though. I'll try that and see what I can come up with on that thing.
158:34:36 CC Well, don't don't go to a lot of trouble. I never got around to it, but you might - you might peg down some of these colors a little better. Particularly when you were talking last night about - on the back side - -
158:34:48 Evans That's a good point.
158:34:48 CC - on one of those passes about the green.
158:34:54 Evans Yes.
158:34:55 CC Okay, you're about 7 seconds away from where we're wanting the recorder on, Ron. Any time here's fine.
158:35:05 Evans Okay, RECORDER - let's see -
158:35:10 Evans Is ON. Verify RADAR is ON, remove HF, okay.
158:36:33 Evans You know, to me, the Moon's got a lot more color than I'd been led to believe. I kind of had the impression that everything was the same color. That's far from being true.
158:36:53 CC Okay.
158:37:11 CC I guess, maybe we could say, perhaps, color is in the eye of the beholder.
158:37:20 Evans I think there is a considerable amount of truth to that.
158:38:28 Evans (Whistling)
158:38:54 CC Okay, Ron. We'll take the MAPPING CAMERA, OFF, now.
158:39:00 Evans Okay, the old MAPPER is going OFF.
158:39:47 CC Ron, you're clear to go to STANDBY on the MAPPING CAMERA.
158:39:53 Evans Okay, MAPPER's going to STANDBY. MOTION is up, barberpole. CAMERA is OFF. PAN CAMERA SELF TEST, OFF. Okay, turn the old SM/AC POWER, OFF, again. SERVICE MODULE AC POWER is OFF.
158:43:40 Evans (Whistling)
158:43:52 Evans Okay, must be sunset. IR is coming -
158:44:00 Evans OFF. ... OFF. Okay, I'm going to go to plus-X Plus 52.25. There is an UP-LINK. VERB 58 ENTER. Ah, l41. That's pretty close. 228.
158:45:07 Evans Ah - plus 66641. ENTER, there at 48 07. ... at 49 35. That's about right.
158:48:10 CC Ron, about a minute and a half to T-start, now.
158:48:16 Evans Okay. Cue release, ENTER.
158:48:35 Evans OMNI Bravo.
158:48:59 Evans Power OFF. Okay, data systems - -
158:49:05 CC Okay, 30 seconds to T-start.
158:49:08 Evans - ... five. Okay, at 40 minutes - Okay. I got the HIGH GAIN, OFF. Got my finger on the DATA SYSTEMS. Okay. DATA SYSTEMS are going OFF; OPERATE at 49:35. OPERATE. 54:38. Give me a call on that, Gordo. I'm going to look out the window here for a bit.
158:50:02 CC Sure will, Ron.
158:50:04 Evans A minute before that or so.
158:50:13 Evans I had the lights up. I may not be light adapted.
158:50:55 Evans Sure is ...
158:51:52 Evans I was trying to think if there was anything else I could add to the Reiner Gamma observation there. I'm right over that - the light albedo of that type of material that goes perpendicular between Reiner and Reiner Gamma. It's kind of a crooked type - Well, you know, it goes for a little ways, and then it breaks off into a dark-albedo-type stuff; and then breaks off in another direction a little bit. So, it doesn't look like a straight ray at all.
158:52:27 CC Roger.
158:52:31 Evans You know - you can see crater holes, and this type of thing. You look right down on Reiner now, you've sure got that dark annulus - the lighter-albedo-type stuff is essentially in the middle of it. And the annulus is - let's see, maybe 30 kilometers wide by twice as long - that's a relative size, anyhow - by twice as long, and that's the dark ann - dark area. And then around that, the light albedo stuff is about half of the width, and it's lighter on the outside than it is on the inside. The inside is not quite as light as the - I'd call it the rim, I guess. It's very hard to see any - -
158:53:33 CC Okay.
158:53:33 Evans - - great, great, great topographic expression to it, though. The reason I say that is because it kind of blends in with everything, whereas if you look at a crater, out here in the middle of the mare, or a hill, you get a brighter - part of it's brighter than the surrounding territory. You can actually see the demarcation. So that's the way you get your depth perception out of it.
158:54:05 CC Okay, about 30 seconds now until T-stop.
158:54:12 Evans Okay. T-stop is 54:38 and we'll go to STANDBY at that time. Tape switch. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; STANDBY.
158:54:49 CC Okay. I'll give you a call in a minute.
158:54:54 Evans Okay.
158:55:39 CC Okay, Ron. It's been a minute.
158:55:48 Evans Okay. RECORDER is OFF - not HEATERS. RADAR is OFF. DATA SYSTEM goes back ON. HIGH GAIN ANTENNA POWER to ON. And we're about minus 44, I guess. And select the old HIGH GAIN. There we go. REACQ ... AUTO. ... in NARROW. INCO's going to do some commanding. ... goes. Tape motion is going. Continue on here to the SM/AC POWER. Okay. SM/AC POWER is ON.
158:57:04 Evans MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY. IR ... CAMERA SELF TEST ... ... is ON. H2 PURGE LINE HEATER. Do a hydrogen purge, here, shortly, I guess.
158:57:43 Evans Well - Leave that cover open there, and let the Mendall Mendall get some data for a while; or Dr. Low, or whoever happens to be there. And I'll step ahead and sample the old BUSS.
158:58:21 CC Okay.
158:59:23 Evans (Singing).
158:59:59 Evans Houston, America. You might tell the medics not to pay any attention to those sample numbers on those busses. Pay attention to the GET time, because when you take them out of the buss storage bag, the right one never comes out. So I don't think it makes any difference, Just pay attention to the GET time.
159:00:25 CC Okay, Ron. I'll pass that along.
159:01:15 Evans (Singing).
159:01:39 Evans Where are the guys on the Challenger? Are they going to go out the regular time, or are they getting a little extra sleep period here or something?
159:01:48 CC I think we're letting them sleep in again today. They're getting up 1 hour later than the Flight Plan shows; however, there's enough pad downstream that we're planning on ascent at the scheduled time.
159:02:15 Evans Okay.
159:03:12 Evans (Humming and whistling)
159:05:19 Evans (Humming)
159:06:20 Evans I think I'll ... the STOWAGE VENT, ON, just for a little bit.
159:06:37 Evans (Whistling)
159:06:42 CC America, Houston. We've got a couple of - couple of items of general information, as you come up on AOS here - LOS. The - we want to remind you to CLOSE the IR - -
159:07:55 Evans Okay.
159:07:55 CC - - and UV COVERS, before you do any dumps. After LOS, you'll have to - -
159:08:02 Evans Okay. Will do.
159:08:02 CC - - reconfigure the comm.
159:08:06 CC And suggest you wait on the dumps, as per the Flight Plan, until after the photos. And, we estimate the waste water dump will take 10 minutes. Over.
159:08:20 Evans About 10 minutes on the waste water. Okay.
159:08:35 Evans Okay. Let's see - must be ... LOW BIT RATE. Okay, LOW BIT RATE, with DATA SYSTEMS, so no DSE voice. I'll write everything down.
159:11:28 Evans Okay, ... hoses and stuff all tucked down there.
159:13:08 CC Just about LOS, Ron. See you later.
159:13:13 Evans Okay, Gordo. Thank you much.
159:13:13 BEGIN LUNAR REV 37
159:13:26 PAO This is Apollo Control at 159 hours 13 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. We've had loss of signal, as Ron Evans, flying the spacecraft America, passed behind the Moon nearing the end of revolution number 36. An hour and 16 minutes until Cernan and Schmitt, aboard Challenger are awakened for the third - for preparations for the third Moon Walk. America, now in an orbit measuring 69.1 by 53.7 nautical miles. We'll come back up at next frontside pass by the spacecraft America in about 48 minutes, and switch over to the wakeup call to the Challenger partway through that 37th revolution. At 159:14 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
159:57:13 PAO This is Apollo Control at 159 hours 57 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Less than 1 minute away now as the command module America, Ron Evans doing his orbital science tasks and orbital photography. As he comes around on revolution number 37; less than a half hour until the wake up call is made to the crew of Challenger on the lunar surface. At that time, we'll switch over to the air/ground 1 circuit and eavesdrop on the conversation between Cernan / Schmitt - Cernan and Schmitt and the CAPCOM here in mission control. We should have acquisition of signal from command module America. We'll come up with that line now.
159:59:15 Evans (Humming)
159:59:22 Evans Well, I've got AOS with you. Okay. ... HEATERs OFF. (Singing) ...
159:59:47 CC Hello, America. Are you there?
159:59:52 Evans Okay. We got REACQ and NARROW now.
159:59:56 CC Okay. You're loud and clear.
160:00:34 CC Ron, when it's convenient - -
160:00:35 Evans Okay. I just finished mag - -
160:00:36 CC - - I have a couple of updates to the Flight Plan - -
160:00:40 Evans Okay. Go ahead.
160:00:43 CC Okay. On your present page, there - the UV solar atmosphere pad, at 160:38.
160:00:53 Evans Ah-ha. I have it.
160:00:57 CC Okay. It's T-start of l60:41:22; T-stop is l6l:26:47. And the remark that goes with that -you don't need to write this down - but the T-start time is biased 10 seconds prior to when we really think sunset will occur. If you see, visually - Okay, my mistake, it's 10 seconds after sunset. But if you see sunset visually, you can go ahead and proceed with UV cover open as soon as you see it. But we'd like you to close the UV cover exactly on the T-stop time as written. Over.
160:01:59 Evans Okay. Let's see. I'm with you. We'll make sure it gets closed at 61:26:47, but we can open it as soon as sunset comes, okay? Even though we haven't started pitching yet.
160:02:23 CC That's correct, and do you want to read back the start time?
160:02:30 Evans My start time is l60:41:22. Is that correct?
160:02:34 CC That's correct; 41:22.
160:02:39 Evans Okay.
160:02:43 CC Okay. Go to l6l:34.
160:02:56 Evans l6l:34, okay.
160:02:58 CC Okay, and the old standard "MAP CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, OPEN" cross that out. A couple lines below, at 36, cross out "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND" and then turn the page - -
160:03:16 Evans I got them.
160:03:21 CC In fact, turn two pages to 163:31.
160:03:31 Evans 31, okay,
160:03:32 CC At 163:31, write in "verify all command module VHF, OFF."
160:03:52 Evans 63:31, verily all VHF, OFF, okay?
160:03:57 CC Okay. That completes it.
160:04:07 Evans Goody, I've got a zodiacal light coming up there sometime; blue filter, no less. Oh, I started to say, when I was coming across Aitken - Of course Aitken itself was down in the shadow, and the Sun was really shining on window 3. I took the first one at f/5.6 and a 1/15. the second one 56, 5.6, I mean, at a - at a 1/30; and a third one at a 1/60; and then a fourth one at a 1/25; and the fifth and sixth ones I took off to the north - looking off to the north - out of window 4.
160:05:12 CC Okay.
160:05:13 Evans And they were 5.6 at 1/125. I kind of doubt if - It might work, but there's sure a lot of glare on the window. If it can get through that glare, well then we've got it made.
160:05:28 CC Roger.
160:07:10 Evans Oh, the other thing I was going to tell you was that magazine Quebec Quebec - I finished that one on 114.
160:07:18 CC Okay.
160:07:20 Evans On that pass there.
160:07:31 Evans I don't know who took my water jug, but it's gone.
160:08:16 Evans Okay. Overboard drain is purged enough, I guess, I'll turn that off.
160:08:37 Evans That big filter on here - here. I always leave the hose and everything disconnected and stick it back behind this rock bag. I'm afraid I'll kick it, break it off. You know - you know those rock bags. I unzip those and blow the air out of them every night, wake up the next morning, and they're full of air again; just like two big balloons down there.
160:09:08 CC How about that.
160:09:13 Evans (Laughter) I don't know ...
160:09:19 CC You can use one for the pillow you've been missing.
160:09:25 Evans (Laughter) Yes, that's an idea. I could use that.
160:10:23 Evans And, Houston; America. If FAO's got his finger on the next magazine - next Hasselblad mag, I'm going to use - save me looking it up, here.
160:10:39 CC Okay. I'll ask him.
160:11:09 CC Ron, I - You're scheduled to use Mike Mike next.
160:11:11 Evans There's the water - Go ahead. Mike Mike. Okay. Thank you.
160:11:23 Evans Did you hear me sucking all the bubbles out of the - out of my teeth?
160:11:38 CC No, we've missed that pleasure.
160:11:44 Evans Good. Didn't want this VOX to be too good.
160:12:52 Evans Okay. We go to P00 in about 2 minutes.
160:14:09 Evans Zero phase is going to go right over Proclus, I mean Picard this time. Just as that darkness disappears there, if I can still see the change in the color on it.
160:14:26 CC Okay, Ron. You can put the HIGH GAIN to AUTO next chance you get and FAO advises there's no more optional film left on Mike Mike. Everything that's left on Mike Mike is scheduled up. Over.
160:14:44 Evans Okay. I'll buy that. You know you could even - as zero phase went right across Picard there, you could still see the - the darkness on the west - let's see east - on the east from 9 o'clock around to 6 o'clock, if north is zero.
160:15:10 CC Roger.
160:15:15 Evans And. if north is zero as you look at the crater, then over about 1 o'clock there's some kind of a fault area in the side of the rim, and that's another spot where the dark material drapes down into the rim and also out on the outer - outside - outside of the rim. And then you have that same type of impression at about 11 o'clock. You've got a black streak going dcwn inside the rim, and then it widens out, going out toward a little crater out there, on the outside of the rim.
160:16:03 CC Okay,- -
160:16:05 Schmitt Now, let's see - -
160:16:05 CC - - you're scheduled to get a VERB 49 going now.
160:16:11 Evans Thank you. Okay. Pitch is plus 120.55 ENTER, plus 341.00 ENTER, and a plus ENTER for 0 yaw 622. Press on. 50 18. CMC caged. Proceed.
160:17:18 Evans Okay; let's see. We're in AUTO, so we can ...teen. 26 on the dial.
160:18:34 Evans Okay, we'll change 07 to 8 plus 9 - 1 -
160:18:56 Evans ... VENTS OPEN. ... waste water dump. Must have been some stuff that's just frozen on the - the dump or something and then when the - when the jets fired too - that kicked it loose.
160:19:31 CC Roger.
160:19:37 Evans Maybe that's the particles of combustion - burning.
160:20:12 Evans Minus 0.05 - degrees per - half a degree dead band.
160:20:29 Evans Five up - Got zero, zero. Stay there ...
160:23:13 CC Ron, this is Houston. Check NOUN 79 again. We think you might have loaded R1 and R2 negative. That's the way it locked down here, anyway.
160:23:26 Evans Okay, I'll check that.
160:24:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 160 hours 24 minutes switching now to Air-Ground 1 for the initial wake up call to the crew of Challenger, asleep at this time on Taurus-Littrow. Command module America still has some 47 minutes remaining in this frontside pass. We'll stand by for the wakeup call which should be beamed up in about a half a minute or so. (Texas Aggies Fight Song)
160:26:34 Cernan I want you to say it first.
160:26:40 CC Hello there, Challenger. The Gold Team Flight Director picked out the morning's selection, and he said that if can find some maroon dirt, today, instead of orange, you'll probably get a lot more cooperation out of him.
160:27:02 Cernan I figured the Gold Team might do that. You know, I've woke up to a lot of pleasant thoughts, but never to an Aggie before.
160:27:14 Cernan Hey, Gordo, don't forget I'm a gold - I'm a Boilermaker.
160:27:22 CC Roger.
160:27:27 Cernan I feel like one right now. Tell the Gold Team Flight Director we'll find about - just about anything he wants today.
160:27:42 CC Okay; I'll do that. The Challenger looks as good as ever. No problems at all through the night.
160:27:52 Cernan That's outstanding. How's America?
160:27:55 CC It's in the same shape. Just clicking along. Ron's been up for a few hours now and really gathering up the data.
160:28:06 Cernan Outstanding, Gordo,
160:28:20 CC Challenger, the name of the game today is to stay with the - the EVA prep timeline. We're not going to talk much to you - We'd like - except to bug you a little and stay on your back to keep with the timeline, if at all possible - We'd like to get out on time. Over.
160:28:42 Cernan Okay, Gordo. That's been our motive all along, and we will stay with it. As of right now, - we're 1 hour behind. is that correct?
160:28:52 CC That's affinnative. Although, if you stay on the normal timeline, that's fine with us. We don't need to gain any, but we just don't want to lose any - from where we're starting now.
160:29:06 Cernan Yes. Understand. Understand.
160:29:16 Schmitt Good. How are you this morning?
160:30:03 PAO This is Apollo Control. The reference to Aggie has to do with the fact that the Flight Director, Gold Team Flight Director, Gerry Griffin is an alumnus of Texas A & M University. The wake-up music this morning was the Aggie war hymn, E Plurib us Gig-Um, and Gerry proceeded to gig the crew with his own brand of music.
160:34:52 Cernan Houston, Challenger.
160:34:53 CC Go ahead, Challenger.
160:35:03 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Crew status is good, in case you hadn't noticed. And again I'm not going to - We haven't kept an itemized accounting of the food - burning up blanks on the paper to do that. But we have ate - have eaten, pardon me - We have eaten just about everything in the various meals. I guess the shrimp was the only thing we didn't really eat. And we've been drinking a lot of water and all the juices and tea and stuff, so I think we're in pretty good shape there. The commander had a Seconal last night, and he slept 3 good and 3 intermittent hours. LMP had no medication and had 6 good hours of sleep. If you've got some lift-off time data, well, I'll copy it.
160:36:02 CC That's affirm. Okay; start with - for rev 38. Time is 162:22:52. Rev 39 is 164:21:24; 166:19:55; 168:18:27; 170:16:59; 172:15:31. That should have been rev 43, and read back starting with rev 38.
160:37:05 Cernan Okay; rev 38: 162:22:52; 164:21:24; 166:19:55; 168:18:27; 170:16:59; 172:15:31. And what is our present rev?
160:37:24 CC That's a good question. Let's see here. We're working on rev 37. Ron just went by you about 10 minutes ago on rev 37.
160:37:56 Cernan Okay.
160:41:31 Cernan Gordy, we're pressing on, but if you've got any good words, like news and what have you, where we are, we'd appreciate it.
160:41:39 CC Okay. There hasn't been a lot of news, but I'll read you what we've got. President - former President Truman is still holding on. His heartbeat, breathing, and temperature all became unstable yesterday, but then he improved again. A Methodist minister in Kansas City said, "He's a rugged guy who's hanging in there and he's going to make it." The headlines were full of reports of the find of orange dirt and the rest of your adventures yesterday. Internationally, the U.S. and North Vietnam held intensified secret peace talks, and Henry Kissinger prepared to return to Washington probably this afternoon, I understand, after a final session with Le Duc Tho. The French press said a compromise was in the works on the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from the South. The Houston Rockets lost to Buffalo up in Buffalo last night, but the hockey team, the Aeros, took a 6 to 4 win over the Alberta Oilers. In - Really, that's about it on the news, except maybe for the weather, which finally broke. The cold front cleared out the drizzly rain last night, and for the first time since you've launched - that I can remember anyway - we've been able to look up and see the Moon, directly. It's a pretty sight as always. That's not much of a report, but that's about all we have. Over.
160:43:33 Cernan Okay; thank you. What's the date today?
160:43:37 CC It's Wednesday - let's see - Wednesday, the 13th of December.
160:43:47 Cernan Thank you.
160:43:48 CC Right now, it's about 01:35 in the afternoon.
160:44:00 Cernan Okay; just take a quick peek up there. I can't really see too much of the North American continent. South America looks pretty good. And it might be my eyeballs rather than the - the clouds up there, but it looks like most of the clouds are up into the north-central part of the southwestern or southeastern United States.
160:44:24 CC I have a satellite picture here, and that's about the way it looks.
160:44:33 Cernan Well, it's sunny and pleasant on the valley of Taurus-Littrow. And, Gordo, what is our Sun angle going out today?
160:44:52 CC I'll get you an answer on that. Couple of questions. First of all, the Surgeon would like a biomed right. And they were wondering how your hands feel this morning?
160:45:08 Cernan Hands are in good shape, Gordo. No problem.
160:45:13 CC Okay; that sounds good. Sun is getting up there about 33 degrees now.
160:46:20 Cernan Okay; we'll go a biomed left, and both PLSSs have been topped off.
160:46:38 Cernan Gordy, the LMP isn't hooked up right now. He will be shortly. So stand by on the biomed.
160:46:44 CC Okay. Say, I have a few words on the Command Module trajectory that might be of interest, although it doesn't affect your procedures any.
160:47:02 Cernan Go ahead.
160:47:04 CC Okay. The com - the command module orbit somehow is missing all the mascons. It's not de -degrading into a circular like we thought it would. It's just staying where it was, about a 70 by 50. And so what we're planning on is an extra little maneuver about 1 hour prior to the normal plane change, which will lower the Command Module altitude at the plane change mode to - to 60. This will be about a 11 feet per second RCS burn. And then Ron will do the plane change at the normal time, but it'll be little bigger than - that we had planned. I think the last half was about 365 feet per second for plane change. And we've checked the consumables. That puts the RCS right on the preflight line. He's been running about 4 or 5 percent above it. That will use up that pad there, put him back to nor - nominal on RCS, and on the SPS, that puts you right down on the CSM rescue redline; so, really no problem. In good shape, consumablewise. Over.
160:48:36 Cernan Okay. Sounds like a good rendezvous posture.
161:21:31 Schmitt Okay, Houston. You got any updates to the EVA cuff checklist?
161:21:31 CC No, I don't think there is, Jack. Although I do have a wri - write-in for the Lunar Surface Checklist, and one that you really don't need to write in on the prep card. Over.
161:21:31 Schmitt Go ahead.
161:21:31 CC Okay. Page 5-10 on the Lunar Surface Checklist. The reason for this change is to prevent cabin pressure from increasing. It got up to 5-7 yesterday. And it also - will also prevent water sep spindown like happened yesterday, if you happen to have the hose - the return hose blocked against the wall outlet there. The change is to write in on the upper left corner of 5-10, just prior to "SUIT isOL, ACTUATOR OVERRIDE (SUIT DISCONNECT)." Write in "PRESSURE REGS A and B to EGRESS." And then down five lines, where it says "CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS," change it to "CABIN GAS RETURN, AUTO." Verify. Over.
161:21:31 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. At the top of the page, "REGS A and B to EGRESS," and then five lines down, "CABIN GAS, RETURN, AUTO. Verify."
161:21:31 CC That's right. And the only other change I have is - has to do with matching - just like yesterday, - matching the purge valve to the OPS to maximize the OPS capability. And we can just call you when you get to that point. It's - Or if you want to write it down, you need 211, and Geno needs 208.
161:21:31 Schmitt Okay. We've got that.
161:21:31 CC Okay. That's all.
161:21:31 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I guess we play the cuff checklist just as planned, with the exception of the bag numbers which have changed, the collection bag numbers. I have more or less repaired the -sample bag holder on my camera. It's taped on there pretty well with good tape, believe it or not, off the fruit bag. I - I don't know that we have any other outstanding hardware problems. I think in terms of sampling, Gene and I will try
161:21:31 to shift the emphasis in the mantle area to fragments that are different from the gabbros that we've sampled fairly well, I think, up to now, that presumably are subfloor materials. You might pass that word on and see if they agree with us.
161:21:31 CC Okay, Jack. We copy that. And, Jack, if you guys are at a convenient place, sit and listen while you're doing some of your stuff. Let me read up the planning for EVA 3 and the summary of what we think we have so far.
161:21:31 Schmitt Go ahead.
161:25:26 CC Okay. I'll read here from this thing just verbatim. It says, "EVA 3 continues to follow essentially the nominal premission plan. Main objectives continue to be the North Massif; Station 6, J; Sculptured Hills; and Van Serg Crater. In view of the extensive observations of the dark mantle and main - and plains subfloor unit on EVA 1 and 2, particularly there before Station 5, the relatively - the relative priority of Station 10 is reduced, so that Station 10 becomes a flexible station as time allotment is a reserve, possibly providing more time at the earlier station, if desired. However, mantle and block sampling at Station 10 are still important objectives. Block pack constraints are not nearly as tight as they were yesterday, guys, and so we can be more flexible in reshuffling station times if we need. We probably won't be coming up against option walkbacks like we did at Station 4. Closeout time at the LM has been increased by 20 minutes to make the closeout less rushed and to allow for potential ALSEP troubleshooting. It is currently planned to take this time from Station 6, 7*"
161:26:27 CC But if 6/7 requires more time when we get there,we can borrow it from one of the other stations; I guess, in particular, station 10, probably. As the initial activity then, we are going to have to take explosive package 5 with us, and we'll stick it under the LMP seat, and I'll remind you in real time when we get down on the ground on that one. And number 5, 3 pound, will be deployed at station 10, and again I'll remind you about that in real time, so don't - you don't have to bother to write it in on your checklist. Planned traverse proceeds as normal. We're expecting to spend about an hour and 20 minutes at stations 6 and 7, and the suggestion is that we may end up wanting to spend that totally at the split boulder at station 6, hut, of course, the option still exists to visit more than one place and sample other boulders if it seems feasible and attractive and desirable. They are suggesting additional 500-millimeter photographs, especially if it seems that we can use those to document tracks and sources of docu - of the sampled boulders; for instance, at stations 6 and 7. We are continuing to hold the nominal 47 minutes at station 8 - that is, 8A, and we still think that's as good a place as any to sample the Sculptured Hills. Station 9 is still nominal 30 minutes, but in view of the similarities to the in - to station 4, we're anticipating a possible desirability to remove time from station 10 to enlarge station 9, but that will have to be a real-time decision, based upon what we find at station 9. Station 47 - station 10 continues nominal. We're still interested in sampling the blocks and also interested in - in trenching to try and see - if we can say something about the dark mantle - light area relationship and, perhaps, the nominal coring. We're going to - we're going to deploy EP 5 there; and, other than that, they're basically the same. If we have the time during that closeout, and you'll know if we have enlarged the closeout somewhat, of the LM, based on our experience the last two nights, particularly for dusting; but also, if time permits, in that time we might try and get the - use up the extra double core, if there is one, in the dark mantle near the IM or do some trenching near the IM. But that's only if time permits at the very end, depending upon how the consumables run out. They want to call attention to two particular things here. One, since you guys really haven't gotten any very big rocks so far, they're recommending, they say here, and I quote: "The value of large individual samples has been demonstrated. We recommend that several football-sized samples of a uniform igneous rock be collected at Station 9 or 10." I'll pass that on as that. Another point of interest is the 1- to 20- millimeter size section of the regolith, the dark mantle, the lithology. Then, any observations or collections you can make pertinent to that would be of interest in trying to determine the relationship of the dark mantle to the subfloor units of gabbro underneath. Two short questions which I'll ask, which I hope - hope you can answer in just a very few words. One of them is a yes and no answer. One, we - they can't find the geophone photos specifically called out in the transcript. There is probably a little bit of garble at that point, and the people in the back room will be very happy if you could say once and for all, Jack, that, yes, you did get the geophone photos. Over.
161:30:03 Schmitt Yes.
161:30:03 CC Roger. And the second one concerns the 1/4-pound charge which we deployed on the way in last night. Two questions on that. It appears to us from your voice transcript that we weren't fast enough on it at the time that that may be deployed closer to the ALSEP than the one you deployed on the way out. And we'd like an impression on that. And, number 2, you mentioned that you placed it in a depression. We'd like some feeling for that depression in terms of how much of a danger that bomb - charge might play to the AISEP when i t i'oc-j off. If it's in a depression of any sort, thcy'ri' probably pretty well protecting the ALSEP. Any comment on those two questions? Over.
161:30:47 Cernan Well, the second one. It's not in a major depression. But it is a - maybe a - it's a little ditch, maybe a third of a meter deep. I imagine it will help a little bit. That's why we picked it. Just a second.
161:30:47 Schmitt I'm not sure we understand your first question very much.
161:30:47 CC Okay. We have a feeling that when you - -
161:30:47 Cernan Bob, don't you have the mileages?
161:30:47 CC Roger. But there's again some confusion on that.
161:30:47 Cernan Can't you - can't you pinpoint that?
161:30:47 CC Yes, and those mileages also seem to indicate that we had that callout. Remember, you drove back by and you said you saw the flag, and then you said you actually saw the charge inself first. And it was some time after that you said you deployed the charge. And we have the opinion from both that and the mileage that you probably deployed the second charge closer to the ALSEP than the first one. Do you have a - any sort of a feel for that?
161:31:43 Cernan Oh, yes. I remember saying that, but that's when I did a big 360, and Jack was out of film. And I just lined up to take that picture with him up in the background. And when I said, hey, I saw the charge first. I was really - Don't take that comment too strong.
161:31:43 CC Okay. Copy that.
161:31:43 Cernan As far as position of it, Bob, I - I - we're looking for them out there now. As a matter of fact, we can't see them from here.
161:31:43 CC Okay. We'll let it go at that. And that's all the questions and comments we have on today's traverse. We'll have a few real-time things on the surface, which I won't bother you with. A possible fix to the surface electrical properties and a possible trip back to the surface gravimeter, which is still having its problems. But I'll talk with you guys in real time on those when you pet on the surface, rather than bothering you with them now.
161:31:43 Cernan Hey, Bob. How far should that last charge be from the ALSEP?
161:31:43 CC They want it about 300 to 400 meters.
161:31:43 CC And, Gene, you ... 0.2 for range when - -
161:31:43 Cernan Bob, I ... - -
161:31:43 CC - - ... got back to the LM. And I guess the question would be, Did you ever go through zero on the way back to the LM? If you are at 0. -if you were at 0.2, and we think 9 - 092 was the bearing, then the LM is right where we thought it was, and we were just a little confused by our distances. Just doesn't quite - they don't quite hold together.
161:31:43 Cernan No, I don't think I ever went through zero, because I initiated at the SEP.
161:31:43 CC Okay.
161:31:43 Cernan And, no, I didn't go through zero.
161:31:43 CC Okay.
161:31:43 Cernan I'm positive.
161:31:43 CC We copy that. Okay. We'll work on that.
161:31:43 Cernan Is this something to think - Yes, this is something to think about. It's not that far out there. You know, if there is any question about that damaging the ALSEP, it - it's Jur,t hard for us to recall how close they were. And we sort of thought you had them pinpointed for us. But, if you want it 3 to 400 meters, you might think about a late ... - -
161:31:43 CC No. We thought about that. We don't - we don't want to do that. No, we don't want to do that. So we'll take care of it. Don't worry about it now. That's all we have. Press on with the prep.
161:31:43 Schmitt Bob, I can - Hey, Bob; this is Jack. I can see the charge with the binocular. It's out almost behind a rock that's between us and the LM, but I can see it. I (laughter) - I mean, a rock between it and the LM. I can't give you any idea, though, how far it is.
161:31:43 CC Okay.
161:34:54 Schmitt No, it's the one off to the left. It's the ... -Hey, Bob. Let me say again, I think we ought to emphasize the exotic looking fragments on the dark mantle. And we ought to try to make sure that we look at a variety of rocks from the North Massif. I think we saw the major rock types on the South Massif yesterday, but we really didn't spend a lot of time ranging along the front there to verify that completely. The other comment on the 1- to 20-millimeter size fraction. There isn't an awful lot of that in the dark mantle. That's one of the striking things about it.
161:34:54 CC Okay. Copy that. And we'll talk - -
161:34:54 Schmitt But we'll keep our eyes open.
161:34:54 CC - - I'll talk with the back room about stations 6 and 7* We'll get with you on that when you get there. And press on.
161:37:38 Schmitt Houston, Challenger. I was BIOMED, RIGHT, there for about 10 minutes, in case you're curious.
161:37:38 CC Okay, Jack. And it looked good.
161:37:38 Cernan Okay, Bob. I've got them both. And the last one we deployed, which I think is the eastern one -easternmost one, is definitely farther out than the first one we deployed. And you know, at this distance, it's awful hard by looking at Jack's geophones. What1s your - I got to give you at least 300 meters, Bob.
161:37:38 CC Okay, Geno. Bob's in the back room. I'm sure they're listening, and we got that'.
161:37:38 Cernan Yes, I - I've got both of them with the monocular now. And the - the second one, the last one we deployed, is quite a bit farther out than the first one.
161:37:38 CC Okay. I think that's what they want to hear.
161:37:38 Cernan Gordo, I guess it's half again or maybe even twice as far away as - as the first we deployed. So we're going to forget it.
161:37:38 CC Okay, Geno. That sounds good.
161:37:38 Schmitt And, Gordo, ITm going off the air also here for about 10 minutes. It'll speed things up a little bit.
161:37:38 CC Okay. Fine.
161:52:50 Cernan Houston, Challenger. CDR's now back on.
161:52:50 CC Okay, CDR. You're loud and clear.
162:07:42 Schmitt Okay, Houston. This is the LMP from Challenger. How do you read?
162:07:42 CC Jack, you are loud and clear.
162:25:58 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I'm ready for battery management, and the ED BATs are 37-2 And I'm going to POWER AMP, PRIMARY, and PM [sic], HIGH.
162:25:58 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read Challenger?
162:25:58 CC Okay. We have high bit rate now. You're GO on the batt ery management.
162:25:58 Schmitt Okay.
162:28:13 CC Okay. We've got that. We're ready for POWER AMP, OFF, and PCM, LOW.
162:29:48 Cernan Bob, CDRs PDR - PRD is 17043. 17043.
162:29:48 CC Copy that, Gene.
162:30:44 Schmitt And Jack's is 24138.
162:30:44 CC Roger. Copy that.
162:33:36 Schmitt Okay, Houston. CDRs OPS is 5900; LMPs is 6l00.
162:33:36 CC Okay. Copy that. Very good.
162:40:58 Schmitt Gordy, the forward hatch is unlocked.
162:40:58 CC Copy that.
162:40:58 Cernan I'm sorry, Bob.
162:49:31 Cernan Bob, CDR is starting on with the PLSS donning.
162:49:31 CC We copy that, Geno. And we copy the forward hatch unlocked, right?
162:49:31 Cernan Yes. Sure did.
162:53:36 CC Challenger, Houston. We've lost down-links with you guys. We've got a very weak signal. You might check your configuration up there, please.
162:53:36 CC Challenger, Houston in the blind. We've lost down-links with you. Please check your comm con-fi gurat ion. Over.
162:54:06 Schmitt Roger, Bob. We're checking.
162:54:06 CC Okay, Challenger. We have you back loud and clear.
162:54:06 Schmitt Okay, Houston. That's - Okay. It looks like I might have hit the YAW knob on the steerable with the PLSS.
162:54:06 CC Okay. Copy that.
162:55:11 CC Okay. And, Jack, if you want to check those again for numbers, it's PITCH of 14 and YAW of 8, 08.
162:55:29 Schmitt Bob, that doesn't jive with what my needles say. I've got a 20 and - and 50.
162:55:29 CC Leave them there. We'll check with you.
162:55:29 Schmitt That's minus 50.
162:58:20 CC And, Jack, this is Houston. What's your SIGNAL STRENGTH meter reading there on your high gain, next time you get around to it?
162:58:20 Schmitt We're at 3.8. It's not quite as good as it was. We had about 3-9j I think.
162:58:20 CC Okay. Ed thinks maybe you want a side ..., and he's suggesting a PITCH of l4 - l4 - and a YAW of plus 8. Over.
162:58:46 Schmitt Okay. I'll try it.
162:58:46 CC Okay, we noticed that. Let's just leave her there, please. Go to SLEW, please.
162:58:46 Cernan VOX SENS at MAX. A T/R, and B is RECEIVED. On l6, your breaker open and connect to PLSS comm. Okay, connect the PLSS comm and then put your breaker in.
162:58:46 Schmitt ...
162:58:46 Cernan Okay. Your PLSS comm - AUDIO breaker, CLOSED. Okay, PLSS PTT MAIN right, verify, and go MODE A.
162:58:46 Schmitt Okay.
162:58:46 Cernan Okay, I got you. You'll get the tones on, vent flag, press flag, and 0 flag.
162:58:46 Schmitt Okay.
162:58:46 Cernan Call Houston and give them your O2 reading.
162:58:46 Schmitt Okay, Houston. This is the LMP on MODE A and my oxygen is 94.
163:04:43 CC Copy that, Jack, you're loud and clear.
163:04:43 Schmitt Okay. I'm getting a little bit of a squeal on the initiation of my transmission.
163:04:43 Cernan Yes. I hear that too, but it's - it's loud and clear here. Okay, I'm going mine open.
163:04:43 CC And LMP PLSS data looks good down here.
163:04:43 Cernan Yes. There's the tone. There's a press flag and a vent flag.
163:04:43 Schmitt And you're - -
163:04:43 Cernan And Og.
163:04:43 Schmitt ... you're loud and clear.
163:04:43 Cernan Okay. Okay, I cannot hear Houston but, Houston, this is CDR with 91 percent.
163:04:43 CC Roger, CDR and LMP. We read the CDR loud and clear. We have good LMP medical data.
163:04:43 Schmitt Okay, you're loud and clear and they got good data on. me.
163:04:43 Cernan (Stay, you go B and I'll go A.
163:04:43 Schmitt Okay, going to B.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, how do you read me?
163:06:50 Schmitt You're loud and clear. Houston, this is the LMP in Bravo. How do you read?
163:06:50 CC Roger- We read the LMP loud and clear.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, Bob. And how me?
163:06:50 CC Read you loud and clear also, Gene. And we have good aedical data on you, Gene.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, Jack, let's go AR.
163:06:50 Schmitt Okay, going to AR.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, Houston, how do you read CDR?
163:06:50 CC Loud and clear on AR.
163:06:50 Schmitt And the LMP?
163:06:50 CC Also loud and clear on AR.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, Jack, SQUELCH VHF B, full decrease.
163:06:50 Schmitt Decrease.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay. At l6, our LCG PUMP is CLOSED. At 16, CABIN REPRESS CLOSED, verify.
163:06:50 Schmitt It's verified.
163:06:50 Cernan SUIT FAN DELTA-P, OPEN, and SUIT FAN number 2, OPENED.
163:06:50 Schmitt OPEN and OPEN.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, we should get a light in about 1 minute. Stand by for that. Okay, SUIT GAS DIVERTER to PULL - these are "verify" - PULL-EGRESS.
163:06:50 Schmitt Okay, PULL-EGRESS.
163:06:50 Cernan CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS.
163:06:50 Schmitt Okay, Houston. You want us to go by the checklist now on the ECS system?
163:06:50 CC Stand by. Roger. As per the checklist.
163:06:50 Schmitt Say again. You didn't come through.
163:06:50 CC Roger. As per the checklist.
163:06:50 Schmitt Okay, EGRESS on CABIN GAS RETURN.
163:06:50 Cernan Okay, that's SUIT GAS DIVERTER, EGRESS, CABIN GAS RETURN - EGRESS.
163:06:50 Schmitt EGRESS and EGRESS.
163:06:50 Cernan And SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF - AUTO.
163:06:50 Schmitt AUTO.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay, OPS connect - you're first, SUIT isOLATION, ACTUATOR OVERRIDE, and SUIT DISCONNECT.
163:08:07 Schmitt Okay, that's done.
163:08:07 Cernan Your hoses are stowed?
163:08:07 Schmitt They're stowed.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay, connect your OPS hose, a#d I'll get you a number 211.
163:08:07 Schmitt Let me turn around so I don't - -
163:08:07 Cernan Okay.
163:08:07 That'll do it. Keep poking this water hose here.
163:08:07 Cernan 211 is yours.
163:08:07 Schmitt 2Q8 is mine.
163:08:07 Okay, the pin is in. It's elosed, you're in LOW FLOW,
163:08:07 Schmitt Relieve it or not, it still works.
163:08:07 Cernan Yoy want any mope?
163:08:07 Schmitt Yes, I do.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay, are you through with it?
163:08:07 Schmitt ... I think so, *** Right now. ...
163:08:07 Cernan I can get down there, if you can't, Jack.
163:08:07 Schmitt ... I can reach it. I got it, I can reach it.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay, let's get your OPS hose. OPS hose. OPS hose, it's way down here. That's your water hose. Hire's yoiJF CfBS hose. Now, let's get the dust cove?* pn it. OPS hose is going in. I verified its locked and the lock - lock is in. Cover is up, a#4 we'll take another look at them. Okay. Okay, ve got the MASTER ALARMs.
163:08:07 Schmitt ... 3 amps. Sluggish one.
163:08:07 Cernan But it's i$ and it's lock - and locked, and you're on - the 5- that's high* That's low. You're on LOW FLOW, Pin is ip afld everything's locked. Okay,
163:08:07 Schmitt *** ... valve closed, locked. That's all those. Install purge valve. DIVERTER VALVE - VERTICAL.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay. Okay, you want it on VERTICAL, Pick up my OPS hose.
163:08:07 Schmitt It's your OPS hose time.
163:08:07 Cernan Where's the top? I'll put yours on top.
163:08:07 Schmitt That's fine. It's as good as anything.
163:08:07 Cernan I'm not sure it makes any difference. Okay, over and locked, and dust cover, verify.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay. And the comm?
163:08:07 Schmitt No, you wanted a 211.
163:08:07 Cernan No. I wanted 208. I want 208 and you want 211.
163:08:07 Schmitt No. I'm sorry. That's what I copied down.
163:08:07 CC Roger. 211 for the LMP
163:08:07 Cernan Verify that, will you, Bob?
163:08:07 CC 211 for the LMP.
163:08:07 Schmitt That's right. That1s - -
163:08:07 Cernan Okay. That's what he's got.
163:08:07 Schmitt Somehow I copied the wrong one.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay, give me 206.
163:08:07 Schmitt Same thing we had yesterday.
163:08:07 Cernan Well, I think I'd remember from yesterday, and that's what I thought Gordy said. Okay. That's in, locked, verified.
163:08:07 Schmitt On LOW?
163:08:07 Cernan On I)W and the pin's in. Okay.
163:08:07 Schmitt *** check this one. Good, ...
163:08:07 Cernan Okay.
163:08:07 Schmitt All right.
163:08:07 Cernan Okay. We just had our drink. You can turn drink -DESCENT WATER, OFF,
163:08:07 Schmitt Okay, DESCENT WATER is OFF.
163:08:07 Cernan And my hand loop is all prepared. You get the scissors and the ETB. I think we finished up with that.
163:08:07 Schmitt They're in there.
163:12:05 Cernan Okay. Position mikes.
163:12:05 Schmitt Okay.
163:12:05 Cernan Okay. Here we go again, let's take a look at it. PLSS FAN will come ON. Don helmets and LEVAs. Drink "bag, position. Lower LEVA protective visor, and secure tool harness strap, and we'll verify the following - let's verify the following, then we'll go ahead and put your PLSS FAN ON, and get your helmet, and you can put mine on.
163:12:05 Schmitt Okay, going through one more time. ... connector and it's locked. And your OPS is locked, covered. You don't have water yet.
163:12:41 Schmitt Exhaust is locked, covered. Inlet is locked, covered. Purge is locked and LOW.
163:12:52 Cernan Okay.
163:12:52 Schmitt And vertical our DIVERTER VALVE.
163:12:54 Cernan That's right. Okay, let me take a check. Comm is locked and covered. OPS is locked - and covered. PLSS exhaust is locked and covered. Inlet is locked and covered. You're vertical. Purge valve is locked and low. Okay, let me get your helmet here.
163:13:26 Schmitt Let's look at one thing here, Geno.
163:13:28 Cernan Let me put this up here. Get it out of the way, because that's half the battle.
163:13:35 Schmitt You want to look in.
163:13:38 Cernan That - that shade; then you can check it.
163:13:43 Schmitt That's what my ... like. They're all stiff. Mine - mine is a little stiff too, it'll come, if you pull. If need be, I can pull it down for you.
163:13:51 Cernan Yes. Okay.
163:13:55 Schmitt I can get that one up and out of the way.
163:13:58 Cernan Okay. As soon as I get this overhead, you can put your PLSS fan on.
163:14:04 Schmitt Okay, now, let's watch out for all your paraphernalia there. Can you pull - that - pull that stuff away from there? Okay.
163:14:46 Cernan Well - ... Let me - let me undo this.
163:14:57 Schmitt ... problem?
163:14:59 Cernan I just want to make sure I get my fingers on this thing, and make sure it's locked. Can't get it on. Do it. There, that got it. Okay, that should have it. Get your fan here on in a minute. Okay, you got your fan on?
163:15:35 Schmitt FAN's ON.
163:15:36 Cernan Good. Okay, I want to verify it right now. Your helmet is locked. It's aligned. It's aligned. It's locked. Flaps are down in back. Your LEVA is locked. Your fan's on, right?
163:16:00 Schmitt Uh huh.
163:16:02 Cernan Okay, let's pick mine up.
163:16:06 Schmitt Okay.
163:16:41 Schmitt Okay, you ready?
163:16:42 Cernan Uh huh.
163:16:53 Schmitt You can feel that rim all the way around. Wait a minute.
163:16:57 Cernan What?
163:16:58 Schmitt Well, let me - you just ...
163:17:18 CC And, Geno, we don't see your fan on yet.
163:17:23 Cernan It - it'll come on, Bob.
163:17:25 Schmitt There, it's locked.
163:17:26 Cernan Okay, are the engage marks marked.
163:17:28 Schmitt Well, they are now.
163:17:30 Cernan Okay.
163:17:31 Schmitt That's in alignment only.
163:17:33 Cernan Okay, Bob, my FAN's ON. It is locked? Look good to you?
163:17:37 Schmitt It's locked.
163:17:37 Cernan Good. Okay.
163:17:40 PAO This is Apollo Control at 163 hours 17 minutes. We've picked up about 10 minutes on the timeline. Now estimate EVA starting at - in elapsed time of 163 hours 30 minutes, approximately 4:23 Central Standard Time.
163:17:45 Cernan Get the LEVAs locked. The curtain down and back?
163:18:02 Schmitt Yes. Velcro - Okay. Looks good. Okay, where are we here? Verify white dots plus EVA decals and then - you can don your gloves.
163:18:07 Cernan Okay.
163:18:09 Schmitt Okay. Why don't you turn that way and let me turn this way?
163:18:14 Cernan Okay, Jack, I'm going to turn these lights off.
163:18:16 Schmitt Okay.
163:18:16 Cernan We don't need those.
163:18:19 Schmitt Okay. EVA decals, white dots.
163:18:25 Cernan Okay, URINE LINE HEATER's going to come off, and the breaker is OUT. Okay.
163:18:37 Schmitt Okay, I'm ready, except for TC pump - LCG pump.
163:18:43 Cernan Okay, leave it on. We can don our gloves now.
163:18:45 Schmitt Okay.
163:19:51 Schmitt Okay, right glove's LOCKED and verified. Okay, and the wrist cover is on there. On. ... Air is very dirty. Boy, do I need a shave. (Laughter) Okay. I got all mine down.
163:20:38 Cernan You all set?
163:20:39 Schmitt Well, I got my left hand. Got the left hand. Now, let's see what I can do with the right hand. Almost tempted to take those cover gloves off today.
163:20:57 Cernan I might take a look at that, too. I hate to argue with success, but I need that dexterity today. Bob, I don't know if you caught it yesterday - a little interesting facet of the whole 2-EVA exercise was the fact that I've already worn -
163:21:41 CC Gene, you dropped out there right in the middle.
163:21:55 CC Challenger, Houston. We - you dropped out there.
163:22:17 Cernan Okay, Bob. How do you read now?
163:22:19 CC Loud and clear, Gene.
163:22:23 Cernan Okay, I hit the VOX switch on my audio panel.
163:22:25 Schmitt You did?
163:22:33 Cernan Yes, when I picked up my glove. Okay, Bob, the only thing I said - little point of interest, I wore the RTV off the - not all of it - but right through the bare metal on the hammer - someday - some time in the previous 2 days. No problem; it just interests me.
163:22:49 CC Okay, copy that. And copy that you still have you cover gloves on today, right?
163:22:55 Cernan Yes, sir. I'll tell you, we have become very respectful of the dust.
163:23:00 CC Copy that.
163:23:02 Schmitt Oh, yes, cover gloves, yes - We've also got the - we've also got the wrist dust - dust covers on, too.
163:23:08 CC Roger. Strike a blow for Mason jar rings.
163:23:11 Schmitt What's left of the - and what's left of the cover gloves.
163:23:17 Cernan Okay, Jack, you're on?
163:23:18 Schmitt I'm on.
163:23:18 Cernan And locked?
163:23:20 Schmitt And locked.
163:23:20 Cernan Well, I just - I got my thing on - I want to make sure I'm locked again. Yes, I am. I took it off again. Well, I was. Talking and you just do things - Okay. Don EV gloves. Cover, okay. PGA biting? No. Okay. LCG cold as required, and LCG PUMP, OPEN. I guess you can open it.
163:23:45 Schmitt Yes, and disconnect the LM - -
163:23:47 Cernan Okay. LCG pump, water hose. And I got a tone but that's because I turned my oxygen on briefly. Okay. Okay, PUMP's OPEN. Turn around here and help you.
163:24:01 Schmitt You can - you can take the water off.
163:24:03 Cernan Water's off.
163:24:04 Schmitt Are the pumps off?
163:24:07 Cernan Okay, your water's off. ... that there for a minute. Okay, hang on. Okay, you're in and locked. ... over nicely. Okay?
163:24:30 Schmitt Okay.
163:24:35 Cernan You're off. I'll lay that there. Where's your water? Here it is way over here.
163:24:57 Cernan Hold on. Okay, I'm locked and your cover's on. I got to zap my PGA. Wait a minute, I'm biting here.
163:25:17 Schmitt Okay.
163:25:19 Cernan Let me try and stow this. Okay.
163:25:35 Schmitt Okay, verify your PLSS is - WATER'S MIN when you get a chance.
163:25:41 Cernan Okay, that's verified. Did that a minute ago.
163:25:44 Schmitt And mine's verified and your pump on.
163:25:49 Cernan Okay, PUMP's going ON.
163:25:54 Schmitt Mine ON. PRESSURE REG A, B, to EGRESS.
163:25:57 Cernan Okay, they are EGRESS.
163:26:00 Schmitt Okay, pressure integrity check. Ready?
163:26:06 Cernan Let me ...
163:26:08 Schmitt Okay.
163:26:15 Cernan Awful lot of line there, isn't there?
163:26:17 Schmitt Um hmm.
163:26:21 Cernan - exactly what to do with it. ... Okay.
163:26:33 Schmitt All right. You happy?
163:26:35 Cernan Yes.
163:26:35 Schmitt PRESSURE REGs A, B, to EGRESS.
163:26:37 Schmitt They are EGRESS.
163:26:38 Cernan Okay; Put your PLSS O2 water - No.
163:26:44 Schmitt ON, now. MARK it.
163:26:46 Cernan PLSS O2 ON.
163:26:47 Schmitt PLSS O2 ON.
163:26:48 Cernan Right?
163:26:49 Schmitt Okay, it's on.
163:26:50 Cernan Okay, and mines on. We'll wait till it builds us up. Press flag should clear at 3.1 to 3.4, O2 flag you're clear at 3.7 of 4.0.
163:27:17 Schmitt Okay, I'm coming up. Hope the old suit integrity is just as good as it has been.
163:27:32 Schmitt I don't see why not.
163:27:51 Cernan Coming up?
163:27:52 Schmitt Yes.
163:27:59 Schmitt About 3.5 now.
163:28:04 Cernan Yes, me too. Okay, let me know when you are up.
163:28:12 Schmitt I think I'm up; I'm 3.8.
163:28:13 Cernan Okay, let's see if we can't get these -
163:28:23 Cernan I can't get yours.
163:28:24 Schmitt I can't -
163:28:26 Cernan Okay, mine's OFF.
163:28:27 Schmitt Mine's OFF -
163:28:28 Cernan MARK it.
163:28:31 Schmitt We want to decay for 1 minute.
163:28:32 Cernan Okay, I started at 3.83.
163:28:34 Schmitt Okay. That's about exactly where I was. Another 45 seconds to go.
163:28:43 Cernan Okay. So far, it looks as tight as it was yesterday.
163:29:04 Schmitt Another 30 seconds. Maybe lunar dust is a good sealant.
163:29:27 Cernan Houston, CDR ... at 3.82 to 2.70.
163:29:32 Schmitt 2.70? 3.70.
163:29:34 Cernan 3.70.
163:29:35 CC Understand 3.70.
163:29:35 Schmitt Okay, LMP was - LMP was - .83 to .70.
163:29:48 Cernan Okay, Jack. You can get your O2 on.
163:29:51 Schmitt It's on.
163:29:52 Cernan Okay. Can you move to the left a little bit - to your left? I got to get in front here.
163:29:56 CC Okay, you're GO from here -
163:29:57 Cernan Okay, let me turn this over.
163:29:59 CC 17, you copy - ...
163:30:00 Cernan Okay, stand by. Okay, ... what time we have to turn the checklist over? Okay, we've got a GO for depress, On l6, CABIN REPRESS, OPEN, and CABIN REPRESS valve, CLOSED.
163:30:15 Schmitt Okay.
163:30:15 Cernan The breaker open and the valve closed.
163:30:18 Schmitt Okay, stand by, Can you give me a little room -
163:30:22 Cernan Let me - Okay, how's that?
163:30:24 Schmitt Okay, Okay, REPRESS is OPEN.
163:30:31 Cernan Okay, now, why don't you face the wall over there and move in as close and I'll get the overhead valve.
163:30:36 Schmitt Wait a minute, I've got to close the REPRESS valve. You got it all right. Okay, it's CLOSED and I'll get where I was yesterday.
163:30:46 Cernan Okay.
163:30:47 Schmitt How's that?
163:30:54 Cernan We'll find out in a minute.
163:30:57 Schmitt Okay. I've got to get my PLSS.
163:31:01 Cernan Can you get it?
163:31:05 Schmitt Well, can't ... I can turn with my back to the wall and you might have a little more -
163:31:15 Cernan Well, I think - I feel like I'm hooked on something. Wait. I can't turn either way - stay where you are. There - Okay.
163:31:34 Cernan Okay, the safety - Oh, boy, I'm glad I'm not an inch shorter. Okay, coming down, Jack. You ready?
163:31:43 Schmitt Go ahead, to 3.5.
163:31:46 Cernan Okay, it's OPEN.
163:31:47 Schmitt Okay, 4.5, 4, Stand by.
163:31:52 Schmitt MARK.
163:31:54 Cernan AUTO.
163:31:54 Schmitt Okay, at 3.5.
163:31:57 Cernan Can you read - the checklist?
163:31:59 Schmitt Okay, I can. Okay. OPEN, AUTO 3.5 cuff checklist - cuff gage does not drop below 4.6, it hasn't.
163:32:11 Cernan Mine's good.
163:32:13 Schmitt ... you put your hand down. I can't read it.
163:32:14 Cernan Okay.
163:32:15 Schmitt Cabin is holding at 3.5. And suit circuit's locked up at 4.5 and PGA is decaying greater than 4.5 - 4.6, okay.
163:32:34 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm starting my watch.
163:32:39 CC We're GO.
163:32:41 Schmitt Okay. You can go to - go to OPEN.
163:32:48 Cernan Okay, it's OPEN.
163:32:48 PAO EVA start time, 163 hours, 32 minutes, 36 seconds.
163:32:49 Schmitt Okay, and pressure is gone up. And the next step is, when you oen, open the forward hatch.
163:32:58 Cernan Okay, my suit's relieving.
163:33:04 Schmitt Down to almost 1.5 now.
163:33:17 Schmitt ... psi. Okay, my relief valve just seated at 5.3.
163:33:36 Cernan Okay, where are we?
163:33:37 Schmitt We're at 0.5.
163:33:40 Cernan I guess the next thing is to open the hatch, huh?
163:33:42 Schmitt Yep.
163:33:48 Cernan I've got to get down ... 5 ... here before I can turn too well and open the hatch. I'm going to let it come down a little bit this time so I don't get down there unnecessarily.
163:33:57 Schmitt Yes. It's got a ways to go yet.
163:34:10 Schmitt About 0.3 now.
163:34:34 Schmitt 0.2.
163:34:34 Cernan I've got a tone and it's water tone. Okay, I'm going to go after that hatch. Can you slip to the right as far as you can? Got it.
163:34:57 Schmitt Got to hold it until the pressure decreases. All sorts of junk going out there.
163:35:12 Cernan Okay, now. Okay. It's partially open.
163:35:16 Schmitt Okay, get your water if you can.
163:35:21 CC Okay, Jack. We'd like you to close REG A, please.
163:35:27 Schmitt Oh, close REG A, huh?
163:35:31 CC That's affirm.
163:35:32 Schmitt Okay, stand by. That's not an easy task.
163:35:45 Schmitt REG A is CLOSED. Gene, can you get my water?
163:35:49 Cernan Yes.
163:36:08 Schmitt Did you get in there?
163:36:12 Cernan Okay, it's OPEN.
163:36:13 Schmitt Okay. LMP's WATER is OPEN. You got yours.
163:36:15 Cernan Yes, I got mine. Excuse me. Well, let's see.
163:36:23 Schmitt Okay, you got it open, so I need to turn around. See if I can back in and out of the way of the door.
163:36:29 Cernan Say, Rob - Bob, what did you see in REG A?
163:36:34 CC Stand by, Gene. We're seeing high suit pressures, stand by.
163:36:40 Schmitt High suit pressure?
163:36:44 CC Okay, and about your - -
163:36:45 Cernan ... Yes, I'm seeing about your -
163:36:46 CC Challenger, Gene, you're GO to go out, and once you get out, maybe Jack can turn around and work on those a bit better. We're seeing, I guess, the suit loop's a little high in pressure.
163:36:55 Schmitt Okay.
163:36:58 Cernan Okay, I'm looking at 4 - at about 4.7 on the suit loop right now.
163:37:03 CC Okay; we copy that,
163:37:04 Cernan Okay, Jack, You're a - there you go.
163:37:20 Schmitt I'll get it.
163:37:29 Cernan Okay, turn.
163:37:44 PAO This is Apollo Control. The reference is to the suit loop in the Lunar Module - not to the pressure suits themselves.
163:37:52 Cernan Okay. What does it look like to you?
163:37:56 Schmitt Well, you're - you're doing great; keep down. Just a little hangup on the DSKY.
163:38:04 Cernan I need to get my arm down there.
163:38:06 Schmitt Okay, you need to go to your left a little to clear the purse and your harness. There we go.
163:38:17 Cernan Jack, you see this? This is one of those cards that - -
163:38:20 Schmitt Yes, I saw that, Gene -
163:38:22 Cernan I'll put it right there.
163:38:24 Schmitt ... Can you come forward just a little?
163:38:27 Cernan Forward?
163:38:29 Schmitt That clip got away. Come towards - in the cabin - there.
163:38:34 Cernan Okay?
163:38:34 Schmitt Wait a minute. Okay, I got it. Okay, you're in good shape.
163:38:48 Cernan Okay, I'm on the porch. Whew - I'm still at 4.3.
163:38:57 CC Roger. on that.
163:38:57 Cernan Okay, I'm on the porch, Bob.
163:38:58 CC Copy that.
163:38:59 Schmitt Okay, what do you want? What can I do for you, Bob?
163:39:04 CC Stand by Jack. We'll get a word to you in one minute.
163:39:11 Cernan Okay, Jack, in that - Well, I guess that'll wait. Get my LEC ready for you. Okay. And everything looks normal on me, right now. Let me get the pressure down a little bit.
163:39:42 Cernan Things norm, except a part of my nose itches I can't get to.
163:39:49 Schmitt I'll give you the jett bag anyway, Geno, while they're thinking. I guess that's part of - R&D. Oh, yes, the jett bag.
163:40:03 Cernan Santa Claus' bag again.
163:40:04 CC Okay, Jack. We'd like to have you stay in just a minute or so longer. We're trying to keep track here of the suit circuit pressure and see if it stabilizes or starts to drop. The one reg which has been intermittently leaking - we still haven't isolated it. And we think we've got it shut off, but we're still watching it. So bear with us just a minute or so.
163:40:26 Schmitt I'm bearing, Bob.
163:40:28 Cernan Hey, what else - -
163:40:29 Schmitt I thought you isolated it last night. Okay. Let me give you the ETB.
163:40:35 Cernan Yes. Give me that and I'll be on my way - working on the TGE. Okay, got it.
163:40:47 CC Okay, Jack, and how about taking the SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF valve - cycle it just to OPEN and then back to AUTO.
163:41:00 Schmitt Okay, Bob, stand by.
163:41:07 Schmitt SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF going OPEN, then AUTO. That's done.
163:41:16 CC Okay, we'll watch it for a minute here and let you know.
163:41:23 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm going down the ladder.
163:41:25 CC Roger, Geno.
163:41:40 Cernan Well, still there, Jack. "Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."
163:41:46 Schmitt Good.
163:41:48 CC Amen there, Gene. Amen.
163:41:52 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm on the pad. And it's about 4:30, a Wednesday afternoon, as I step out on to the plains of Taurus-Littrow, beautiful valley. The first thing I'll do is I'll turn the TGE on, and I'll give you a reading.
163:42:12 CC Okay; we're ready.
163:42:14 Cernan And I'm very much interested - very much interested in my Rover batteries.
163:42:18 CC And, Jack, you're GO for exit and looks like we've got it taken care of.
163:42:26 Schmitt Okay, and I'm checking the circuit breakers.
163:42:40 Cernan It's on and reads - Bob, it reads 222, 262, 207; 222, 262, 207.
163:42:52 CC Okay, I copy that, Geno.
163:43:03 Schmitt Okay, get the visor down, Geno.
163:43:07 Cernan Get the visor down - Holy Smoly. Think it'd be better to leave it up. Beautiful out here today, Bob. We can look to the east for a change - a little bit, anyway.
163:43:21 CC Okay, copy that, Gene.
163:43:22 Cernan A higher Sun angle. Okay, I'll get the LCRU battery changed out.
163:43:31 CC Okay. And as you walk by there, if you walk by in the right side of the Rover, how about giving us a SEP temperature read-out, please.
163:43:48 Cernan SEP temperature is 103 degrees.
163:43:53 CC Copy, 103.
163:43:55 Cernan 103, and the mirror is still clean.
163:43:57 CC Copy that.
163:44:04 Cernan Well, let's see if I can change this little baby now. Supposed to be simple. Bob, we have no use for the old battery, right?
163:44:22 CC That's affirm.
163:44:50 Schmitt Okay. I'm on the porch and the hatch is CLOSED.
163:45:02 Cernan Oh, don't step into that.
163:45:06 Schmitt Are you talking to me or you?
163:45:07 Cernan I'm talking to me.
163:45:36 Schmitt Okay, that sounds familiar and looks familiar - the old plain. The valley of the Taurus-Littrow.
163:45:51 Schmitt You want to get your antenna?
163:45:53 Cernan Yes, let me get that -
163:45:53 Schmitt I'll come over there.
163:45:55 Cernan I'll get the TV on. I've already got the battery changed.
163:46:15 Schmitt There's the Earth right in the middle of the antenna. Okay, verify MODE 3 - I am in MODE 3; LCRU blankets are open 100 percent, battery covers I'm closing, the battery - let me close it. Yes, you can probably get my antenna.
163:46:33 Schmitt Wait a minute. Let me set this down.
163:46:34 Cernan Yes, okay.
163:46:44 Schmitt Okay, stay there.
163:46:48 Cernan I was just try - I'm trying to.
163:46:56 Schmitt Okay.
163:47:10 Schmitt Okay, your antenna's up. Wait a minute. Come here and I'll snap the snap.
163:47:18 Cernan Okay.
163:47:33 Schmitt Didn't mean to do that.
163:47:34 Cernan That's all right. I can't get close enough to you.
163:47:36 Schmitt Here you are.
163:47:39 Cernan Lean a little more. Antenna's up. Let me get the snap.
163:47:52 CC And, IT, if you guys are interested, your shadows will be 8 feet long tonight.
163:48:01 Schmitt How many meters is that, Bob?
163:48:04 Cernan I'll draw it out - I'll step it out for you. You can measure it. (Laughter)
163:48:08 Schmitt Well, I don't know. Should I take my gloves off? I mean my cover gloves.
163:48:13 Cernan Why don't you leave them on for a while and see where we're going. See what the boulder field looks like up there.
163:48:17 Schmitt Well, I know what it's going to look like.
163:48:20 Cernan No, you don't.
163:48:21 Schmitt The point is my hands will be much better off without them.
163:48:23 Cernan Take them off, then. Okay, battery covers are closed and tight. High gain is already oriented. Oh, they've even got TV, I guess.
163:48:49 CC That's affirm.
163:48:55 CC And, Geno, when you push the Rover circuit breakers in, how about giving us a battery temperature reading on the Rover bats.
163:49:01 Cernan Tell them what my batteries are reading if I can.
163:49:04 Schmitt Well, let me see if I can do something else while I'm waiting.
163:49:06 Cernan No, I'm done, Jack.
163:49:12 Schmitt I'll get the old SEP receiver.
163:49:14 Cernan Well, Bob, the - battery 1 is 95 degrees and the - battery 2 is reading zero. So we got a gage failure. No, it's not reading zero; it's off scale low.
163:49:36 CC Okay, read that - copy that. That's a real cooldown, isn't it? Okay, Jack, if you're going to worry about the SEP, stand by and don't do the SEP until after you worry with the ETB, and we'll get to you on that. When you get the ETB to the seat, I'll talk to you about it.
163:49:52 Schmitt Okay, it's - 1 - 1 - 102 is the temperature.
163:49:57 CC Okay; copy that.
163:49:59 Cernan Okay, Bob. Mark.
163:50:01 CC MARK.
163:50:03 Cernan MARK gravimeter; it's flashing.
163:50:05 CC Copy that.
163:50:11 Cernan Okay, we'll take the big bag. I hope we can keep it on.
163:50:19 Schmitt ...
163:50:19 CC Okay. A couple of things on that, Geno. You might try tapping the thing to see if that loosens the dust. There's also the hook business on the inside of the pallet that you could hook it on. Caution: if you open the pallet, be careful not to knock the clamps off the fender. But you can also reach over the pallet to put the big bag on.
163:50:44 Cernan Okay, Bob. We - I brushed it and tapped it yesterday, I'm not sure we're going to have much luck with them.
163:50:49 CC Say again there, Gene.
163:50:54 Cernan I brushed them and tapped them yesterday.
163:50:57 CC Okay; copy that. You might want to put the big bag on the inside of the pallet there, if you can't operate them.
163:51:05 Cernan Okay.
163:51:10 Schmitt Okay, mag Kilo goes on the 500; is that correct?
163:51:15 CC That's affirm.
163:51:21 Schmitt Okay, I've got Mary and Franny and Nancy - and Donna - and Bobby and - -
163:51:43 Cernan Jack, I'm also going to keep this in there.
163:51:47 Schmitt - - Karen.
163:51:47 Cernan Because it's too hard to get off the front end. We'll find a place for that in there.
163:51:54 Schmitt Well, okay.
163:51:56 Cernan It's just too hard to get off the front end. Okay, let's see. Big bag to gate, dustbrush to - Let me get that big bag on the inside of the gate if I can. Inside the gate or the pallet, Bob?
163:52:09 CC Inside the pallet. My - My fault there.
163:52:12 Schmitt That - that's - the pallet, the pallet -
163:52:16 Cernan Yes.
163:52:16 CC And if you open the pallet, be careful of the clamp. Probably, if it's feasible, we suggest you reach across in front of the pallet - reach across the pallet to do it. Instead of opening it because of the clamp on the fender.
163:52:33 Cernan It's not feasible. It's not feasible to do that. I got to open it, plus our hook is - overcenter. Let me get something to work on that with. You know, Bob, how that pallet locking hook can - can be out of the little C-shaped - release in there? it is.
163:53:00 CC Oh, boy.
163:53:04 Cernan I noticed that yesterday.
163:53:16 CC Jack. When you get done with the ETB, then you might save the gray tape out. We're going to use a little bit of that on the SEP when you get done.
163:53:45 Schmitt When are you going to do that?
163:53:48 CC We'll turn the - -
163:53:50 Schmitt What am I supposed to do, stand - well -
163:53:51 CC We'll turn both switches on when you're out at the SEP transmitter.
163:53:56 Schmitt Well, the tape is in the CDRs seat, and it'll still be there.
163:54:00 CC No, we'd like to take the tape from the CDRs seat and use it on the SEP, right now.
163:54:07 Schmitt Okay. You want me to do it or Gene to do it?
163:54:14 CC Why don't you do it since the tape is there. No, let's - let's let Gene do it. Doesn't really matter. Whoever wants to.
163:54:26 Schmitt Okay, We'll get it.
163:54:29 Cernan Okay, Bob, the big bag is on the inside of the - of the pallet.
163:54:41 CC Okay; we copy that.
163:54:43 Schmitt Why won't it close?
163:54:48 Cernan The - And I know why. This is a ... that's on the way, Jack. Get rid of this thing. We don't need it anyway. Okay, opening and closing of the pallets didn't interfere at all with those fenders.
163:55:14 CC Okay; copy that.
163:55:16 Schmitt These aren't clamped down - Now the tape.
163:55:20 Cernan Okay. The big bag is on the inside, though.
163:55:25 Schmitt Yes, but it's - also in the way. Okay, I got it.
163:55:28 Cernan Sure is. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Don't close it.
163:55:31 Schmitt Want me to get out of the way?
163:55:32 Cernan I'll open it. See, it drags over that locking device. Okay, let me just see what we got to do here. Okay. Big bag, dustbrush, SCB-7 to gate, mount 20-bag dispenser on commander's camera, 20-bag dispenser to the LMP, core cap dispenser to the gate.
163:56:11 CC Okay. And, Jack, are you going out to take the pan now?
163:56:17 Schmitt Well, as soon as I finish up here.
163:56:20 CC Okay.
163:56:20 Schmitt I'll do that.
163:56:21 CC And after you take the pan, we'd like you to retrieve the cosmic ray experiment. They're expecting a little solar storm, and before the rain gets on the cosmic ray experiment, they'd like to retrieve it. We'll leave it in the ETB during the traverse.
163:56:40 Schmitt Okay, after the pan. All right.
163:56:42 CC Roger. It will just be a nominal retrieval and we'll put it in the ETB. Copy the gate.
163:56:50 Schmitt Okay.
163:57:03 Cernan Okay.
163:57:25 Cernan Okay, SCB-7 - 20-bag dispenser goes on my camera when it gets back. Short can under the LMP's seat. Okay. Jack, I'll just go ahead and mount some of these bags on your camera while I'm here.
163:57:45 Schmitt Okay. Thank you.
163:57:58 CC Okay. And, Gene, if you got time there with the camera, why don't we - when you get done with the camera, how about getting some gray tape and we'll put you to work on SEP for about a minute.
163:58:12 Cernan The SEP receiver?
163:58:13 CC That's affirm. And if you get - -
163:58:18 Cernan Stand by. Let me finish with SCB-7 here.
163:58:20 CC Okay. And did you get Jack's camera fixed last night? I didn't hear.
163:58:25 Cernan Yes, we did. Okay, there is already one on the gate. Leave that one there. Okay, SCB-7 to gate, 20-bag dispenser on commander's - camera, we'll do it when I get back - 20 bags on the LMPs camera, core cap dispenser to gate - there's one there, there's one under the seat - short cans under the LMP's seat. Okay, I got to put that cap dispenser on him, I got to get my rammer, hammer - Hey, Bob, what bag do you want on the LMP? Do we ave 8 here?
163:59:13 CC Stand by. I think 8 went in, either 4 or 6. No, excuse me; either 5 or 4.
163:59:23 Cernan Okay. We'll put either 4 or 5 on there. Okay. I'll have to wait until he gets back. What do you want? Or let me give you TGE reading and get that out of the way and then I'll work on your SEP.
163:59:33 CC Okay; copy that.
163:59:47 Cernan Okay. 670, 027, 001; that's 670, 027, 001.
163:59:57 CC Okay; copy that, Gene. Thank you.
164:00:16 Cernan Fender wrinkled up in the Sun a little bit last night.
164:00:19 Schmitt Okay -
164:00:20 Schmitt MARK it. The cosmic ray is terminated.
164:00:24 CC Copy that.
164:00:27 Schmitt And, Bob, I took two 5-foot stereopairs of the configuration.
164:00:34 CC Copy. And we'll stick it in the ETB and just hang it there.
164:00:43 Schmitt Yes. And in case you're wondering, and so you don't confuse it with a rock, it's in bag 106.
164:00:53 CC Copy that.
164:00:57 Cernan Okay. What do you want done to the SEP?
164:01:01 CC Okay. Take some gray tape over to the receiver, Gene. And with reference to the fact that the - there is some Velcro missing on the front there which hold the covers down, we'd like to tape the two covers together - on the - in the middle there - you know, where the two - two sides overlap in the middle of the box. Tape those two together. A short piece about an inch long should do it if they are clean.
164:01:27 Cernan Well, I doubt if the tape will stick because it doesn't on dust, but I mlight be able to go over it with one piece to clean it and another piece to tape it.
164:01:34 CC Okay. And the question beyond that, is there Velcro to hold one of those flaps down or not?
164:01:42 Cernan No.
164:01:44 CC Okay, so both pieces - the Velcro is missing from both flaps, I take it.
164:01:50 Cernan Yes.
164:01:50 Schmitt Bob, what happened was that the tape that held the lower Velcro on there apparently came loose, and it stuck to the upper Velcro.
164:02:00 CC Okay. I understand that. In that case, we'd like to take a piece of tape and tape the cover down to keep it closed when it's not - when it's supposed to be closed. The feeling is that if the cover flaps partly open, you may get specular reflection off the inside of the Mylar down onto the mirrors causing it to heat up during the drive when it's supposed to be closed.
164:02:24 Cernan Okay, we'll give it a try.
164:02:25 CC Okay; thank you. And, Jack, if you're done you might go rescue EP number 5 from the footpad, and we'll put it under the LMP's seat.
164:02:45 Schmitt Well, be a lot of other things under there. Okay. I'll rescue it; we'll see where the best place to put it is.
164:02:52 CC Okay.
164:02:53 Schmitt Hey, I got - I got bags on you - I got bags on your camera, Geno.
164:02:58 Cernan Okay; thank you.
164:03:06 Schmitt Okay, we're going to put those two bags on the rear there on your PLSSs?
164:03:12 CC One of them will go - -
164:03:13 Cernan ... those two on.
164:03:15 Schmitt Okay.
164:03:15 CC The one under LMPs seat will go on the CDR, the one with all the stuff in it.
164:03:22 Cernan Yes, I got core tubes in 7 here, Jack. We'll put either one of those - -
164:03:25 Schmitt Okay. So I can't put the charge under my seat.
164:03:31 CC That's affirm, I think, Jack, once you get SCB-7 out of there.
164:03:36 Schmitt Yes, I feel like a kid stuck in taffy.
164:04:02 Schmitt Sure is strange not to see some fine-grained rocks out here. Seen a couple but certainly not very many.
164:04:09 CC Copy that.
164:04:19 Schmitt That rock that you picked up at - What are you doing up there? Okay.
164:04:32 Cernan Bob, that'll hold it down. I hope it solves the problem.
164:04:36 CC Roger. And so does Dr. Strangelove.
164:04:48 PAO The storm reference is a minor solar flare which represents no danger to the crew, but could affect the very sensitive cosmic ray experiment.
164:04:59 Schmitt Okay.
164:04:59 Cernan Well, probably not any more than we would like to see it solved.
164:05:06 Schmitt Bob - Nothing. Gene, your bag's going to have two lowers and one upper.
164:05:20 CC Did you re-sort things there, Jack?
164:05:25 Schmitt What's that?
164:05:26 CC Did you re-sort things in SCB-7? I was told - -
164:05:28 Schmitt I said I got - Bob, I - Go ahead.
164:05:41 CC Okay. Our understanding was there were two uppers and one lower in bag 7, and two lowers under the LMP seat. Did you re-sort things there?
164:05:51 Schmitt Do you want - how do you want them?
164:05:52 CC It doesn't matter to us. I just wanted to make sure that we know what you are so we don't let you get away too far with two uppers and a lower. Two lowers and an upper is certainly better than two uppers and a lower. As long as we know what it is.
164:06:06 Schmitt Okay. It's two lowers and an upper.
164:06:08 CC Got that.
164:06:10 Schmitt Two lowers and an upper. Man, I'm confused.
164:06:13 Cernan Okay. When you're ready, I'll configure you.
164:06:15 Schmitt Okay, here, let me - let me get this on you first since I got - -
164:06:18 Cernan Okay.
164:06:22 Schmitt And I'm going to ask you to turn a - 180 degrees because you're up on a hill. I'll never be able to do it.
164:06:30 Cernan How's that? I'm down in a hole now.
164:06:32 Schmitt That's beautiful.
164:06:58 PAO Jack Schmitt attaching traverse equipment to Gene Cernan's backpack.
164:06:59 Schmitt Okay, ... Can't get this fixed.
164:07:08 Schmitt Tallest man on the Moon right now. Okay, that's done.
164:07:13 Cernan Okay?
164:07:14 Schmitt Just a second. Let me close the cover. Not a very good cover. Okay.
164:07:20 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to put SCB-4 on Jack.
164:07:29 Schmitt Go ahead.
164:07:30 CC Say again there, Gene. SCB-6? SCB-4; copy.
164:07:36 Cernan SC - SCB-4 will go on Jack. Okay, Jack, I got to get these PLSS straps too. Did you get mine?
164:07:44 Schmitt No.
164:07:45 Cernan Those harness release straps?
164:07:47 Schmitt Oh, no. Let's do that. I saw them as you go out, and then I forget about them.
164:07:50 Cernan Yes. Okay, yours is on over here. Probably a better time to do them, anyway, rather than when we go out. Okay, let me get the bag. I'll get the other one when I configure your other side. Okay, you're on. Okay, want to get my PLSS straps? Then I'll be cleaned up, and then I finish your other side.
164:08:31 Schmitt Let me get the other one. Warmer out here today. ... treatment on the hands. Okay.
164:08:47 Cernan Okay, stay right where you are so I can get this.
164:08:52 PAO EVA time, 36 minutes.
164:09:13 Cernan Okay, Now come over here, and I'll get you a core cap dispenser, which I left here. Okay, you got SCB-4, you got the cap, you got the rammer, I'll take the hammer. You got the - That's all you need. TGE is on the LRV. Okay, what transport what charge you got there, Jack?
164:09:45 Schmitt Five is under my seat.
164:09:47 Cernan Five, okay, You got 5 there, we got 2 and 3 on the Rover, LCRU blankets are open 100 percent, battery covers are closed. I want to - Push that battery cover over there down just to make sure it goea down.
164:10:02 Schmitt The warning flag is up ...
164:10:04 Cernan It's probably that - Already, huh? Yes. ... down on there.
164:10:08 Schmitt Rover - Rover warning was up.
164:10:12 Cernan Get one right there.
164:10:13 Schmitt It's down.
164:10:14 Cernan I'll take a look at that gage again, but the gage on the high battery looked like it may have failed. Okay, LCRU blankets are open, battery covers are closed and pushed closed, dust LCRU -
164:10:28 Schmitt I'm going to the SEP.
164:10:29 CC Okay, Jack.
164:10:29 Cernan Wait a minute before you do. You got a second? Just come over here by the left front wheel. I know you got a second. Just a little bit closer to the left front wheel, towards me. Oh, that's good, anywhere in there. Wait a minute.
164:11:08 Cernan Can you do that likewise? Or can you hold it with that other camera? It's already set at 30.
164:11:18 Schmitt Okay.
164:11:19 Cernan And you might want to take a couple - -
164:11:49 CC 17, Houston. We think somebody lost their comm thre. Jack, it's probably Gene going to zero.
164:12:02 Schmitt You read us, Bob?
164:12:03 CC Roger. Read you now.
164:12:07 Schmitt Bob, do you read Gene?
164:12:10 CC Reading you, Jack. I haven't heard Gene yet.
164:12:15 Schmitt Well, Gene's calling you.
164:12:18 CC You read me.
164:12:19 Cernan How do you read me, Bob?
164:12:19 CC Okay, read you now.
164:12:24 Cernan Okay, I didn't do anything. I Just jiggled my MODE switch here. Okay, we got 2 and 3 on the EPs, plus one under Jack's seat. LCRU blankets are opened 100 percent; battery covers are closed; dustbrush. I've got; TGE, I've got; mags and polarization filter is taken care of; and I'm ready to traverse to the SEP.
164:12:45 CC Roger. We understand TGE stowed and you're taken care of in the comm. And you might give us a Rover read-out either now or when you get to the SEP.
164:12:56 Cernan Okay; we'll see which is convenient.
164:12:58 CC Yes. SEP is probably more convenient while you're sitting there waiting for the nav to warm up or initialize - waiting for us to give you the readings.
164:13:09 Cernan Okay, taking your TV. MODE switch is 1.
164:13:27 Schmitt Hey, Bob, are you watching LMP?
164:13:30 Cernan Not anymore he isn't. I took the TV.
164:13:33 Schmitt Okay.
164:13:37 Cernan Bob, you still read?
164:13:39 CC Roger. Read you loud and clear. We're now watching the LMP.
164:13:44 Cernan Okay, I just wondered because I just took the TV. I just want to make sure we got comm here.
164:13:49 CC Yes. We're reading you in MODE 1.
164:13:53 Cernan And, for your information, we both got our cover gloves off.
164:14:00 CC Copy that.
164:14:07 Cernan Okay, that's in, that's in, that's in. Should have dusted my checklist on the Rover. I can't read down there.
164:14:15 Schmitt Bob, the old tape fix on the SEP's still working.
164:14:18 CC Beautiful.
164:14:20 Schmitt There's a little - both mirrors have a little angular displacement but not more than 5 degrees.
164:14:31 CC Sounds like that's the' least of the SEP's problem, but we have hope.
164:15:00 Schmitt Okay, you're going to be over there, huh? I'm over here.
164:15:11 Cernan I don't believe this.
164:15:13 Schmitt What's the problem?
164:15:14 Cernan Oh, nothing. That roll indicator isn't worth a dingdong ... roll 10 degrees.
164:15:19 Cernan Okay. Roll zero, pitch is zero; heading is 291; distance, 001; range, 000; amps hours are 90 and 85; volts are 65, 65; Sun shadow device, by the way, is 0.
164:15:45 CC Copy that.
164:15:45 Cernan Batteries are 100 and off scale low, and motors are all off scale low.
164:15:55 CC Okay, and, Gene, we'd like to torque to 287, 287.
164:16:04 Cernan Okay; in work. Let's see, 287. That's a heading from Dodge City to Tindall. Okay, 27 28, 287 right on the money.
164:16:20 CC Copy that, Geno. And - -
164:16:22 Schmitt Bob, 45 - 45 Yankee is a sample - sample from near the SEP.
164:16:39 Cernan Boy, I tell you, Jack. That was all cut out.
164:16:46 Schmitt Oh, well. I got the sample anyway.
164:16:50 CC We copied 45 Yankee near the SEP. That's all we have. If you give us a frame count when you get done, and give us an approximate location for the Rover, at least crosswise from the Y, we'd appreciate it. And we also need SEP receiver power and DSEA both on. And we'd like the cover taped back -taped down when you get done, Jack.
164:17:21 Cernan Okay, Jack, keep me honest on those rilles.
164:17:25 Schmitt Okay, you're okay now. Let me get over on the rille. I don't afee -
164:17:32 Cernan See me?
164:17:33 Schmitt Come on. You're good.
164:17:34 Cernan Oh, there's the SEP. Wait - did I miss this other rille?
164:17:37 Schmitt Yes. There's the - I'm on the antenna.
164:17:43 Cernan What about the one coming west?
164:17:44 Schmitt That's what I - No, you're okay on the one west - you're way away from it.
164:17:48 Cernan Okay. Going to look back.
164:17:56 Schmitt You want to look - head towards the SEP. You're okay.
164:18:00 Cernan Oh, I see it now. Okay.
164:18:01 Schmitt Head towards it and then turn - then make your turn.
164:18:03 Cernan I see it. I'll go over to it.
164:18:05 Schmitt Matter of fact, turn on these tracks.
164:18:06 Cernan Yes. I'm in good shape. I see it. I see it.
164:18:15 Schmitt Bob, that 45 Yankee was a fine-grained basalt, I think. One of the few around here. That's why I picked it up.
164:18:27 CC Copy that.
164:18:35 Schmitt Okay, you stopped?
164:18:37 Cernan I'm stopped and I'm ready to go. I'm 2 meters to the west of the north line.
164:18:44 CC Copy that.
164:18:47 Cernan And I guess I'm certainly within 5 meters of the transmitter.
164:18:51 CC Okay, we'll get that in the photos. And Gene, how's the low gain located - oriented?
164:19:03 Cernan It's oriented 355 and my heading is 352.
164:19:08 CC Okay, copy that.
164:19:14 Cernan Okay, you want the receiver on - -
164:19:19 CC Roger. Both - -
164:19:19 Cernan - - and taped down again, huh?
164:19:20 Schmitt Yes, ... put ...
164:19:20 CC Roger. Both the receiver and the recorder on, both switches on and then tape the cover down.
164:19:31 Schmitt Okay, good luck.
164:19:36 Cernan I don't know if that tape is going to hold. Okay, ON and ON. Okay, it's taped down more or less.
164:19:53 CC Thank you.
164:19:55 Schmitt And then I guess I'm supposed to get on, huh?
164:19:57 CC Roger on that.
164:19:58 Cernan Okay, Bob, the NAV RESET has been - NAV RESET is now OFF and I'm all zeroed up.
164:20:07 CC Okay. Copy that. And we're ready for you guys to roll.
164:20:15 Cernan Okay, what's the first range and bearing to the Rover sample, past Jones?
164:20:22 CC Okay, it will be 185 and 1.5 on the range.
164:20:31 Cernan Okay, 185 and 1.5. 185 and 1-1/2. Okay.
164:20:42 Schmitt Excuse me, Gene.
164:20:44 Cernan No problem.
164:20:52 Schmitt Well, shoot. I've forgotten how.
164:21:01 Cernan Boy, that Challenger looks pretty from here, you know it.
164:21:04 Schmitt Yes. Okay, I'm on.
164:21:12 Cernan Okay.
164:21:13 Schmitt Did I want a chart?
164:21:14 Cernan No.
164:21:15 CC No charts, Jack; no charts.
164:21:16 Schmitt Okay.
164:21:19 Cernan Got it. Got it; 185 and 1.5 and I'm going to head on at about 012. We ought to go right through Jones. Oh, baby - Jones.
164:21:27 CC Okay, and, Gene, remember the driving fairly slow - or fairly well controlled the first 300 meters, and a mark at the end of the antenna.
164:21:39 Cernan Watch that, Jack, watch that antenna lean - -
164:21:41 Schmitt Uh-oh. Keep going.
164:21:50 Cernan Look like to you?
164:21:51 Schmitt Okay so far; keep going.
164:21:54 Cernan Okay, let's do that again - -
164:21:55 Schmitt Yes.
164:21:56 Cernan - - but a little different. I'll pick up that same spot, I can see right where I was.
164:22:08 CC Okay. Give us another mark when you start up on that side.
164:22:13 Cernan Okay. We'll give you a hack, Bob.
164:22:19 Schmitt Okay. You're a little - -
164:22:28 Cernan Yes, I'm right on the track. Same tracks exactly.
164:22:31 Schmitt Well, okay.
164:22:32 Cernan That's exactly - I just came right over. Okay, we're starting Bob -
164:22:35 Cernan MARK it.
164:22:36 CC Copy that.
164:22:42 PAO The crew is on the way to Station 6 at the base of the North Massif. Station 7 is nearby to the east of Station 6.
164:22:54 Cernan We can't go too far in this heading. We've got a big hole up here.
164:22:58 CC Okay.
164:22:59 Cernan Like a big one.
164:23:02 Schmitt Wonder if that's Rudolph?
164:23:07 PAO Station 6 is at the foot of what's believed to be a long boulder trail up the North Massif.
164:23:08 Schmitt Well, let's see, this is east - looks awf - it's a double crater but it's much bigger than I thought Rudolph would be.
164:23:14 CC No, if you're where you think you are, you're beyond - you're east of Rudolph quite a ways.
164:23:25 Cernan Hey, I think you ought to know where we are by now, Bob.
164:23:28 CC Roger that.
164:23:28 Schmitt Maybe that's Lewis and Clark.
164:23:32 CC After you give me a mark there, we'll give you - I'll talk to you about it.
164:23:38 Cernan I'm sorry, Bob. I guess you - you didn't hear it. I - we're passed the end of the antenna and we're headed south or north - northeast.
164:23:47 CC Okay, I - -
164:23:48 Cernan That screw you up?
164:23:48 CC Did you give me a mark when you started or a mark when you passed the antenna?
164:23:54 Cernan I gave you a mark when I started and it took about 20 seconds to get to the end.
164:24:00 CC Okay, copy that.
164:24:04 Cernan Is that good enough or do you want me to go back?
164:24:06 CC No. No. Press on. And, Jack, if you look at your contour map there, we think you are located right now at approximately where the P in SEP is, Just below the P in Poppy. In which case you're probably driving through that little crater that's just to the northeast there.
164:24:25 Schmitt Okay.
164:24:27 CC That's probably the one you came upon.
164:24:31 Cernan Not very little, though.
164:24:38 PAO Distance to Station 6 is 3.3 kilometers.
164:24:40 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Boy, I wish I could see a little bit better.
164:24:45 PAO Estimated driving time 28 minutes.
164:24:56 Schmitt The major boulders still look like the - the pyroxene gabbro. Surface texture has not changed. There is a - there is a granule population, now that I look at it more closely, with the shadows. But I have a feeling that most of those are - they look like they're just small, very small clods. That should show up in some of the bulk samples we've taken. It is remarkable to me the - only a small number of fine-grain rocks. There's one at about halfway between the SEP and the LM that I'd like to pick up, it's a fairly good sized one. Maybe we can get it when we get back. It looks like a fine-grained basalt. I may have sampled one in 45 Yankee there.
164:25:55 Cernan Well, I tell you, it's not exactly the greatest place to navigate through.
164:25:59 Schmitt I think you ought to bear left, don't you?
164:26:01 Cernan Yes. That's where I'm going here. I just want to get across this mounted boulders.
164:26:05 Schmitt There's still - there's a crater we're just passing at 207.4, about 20 meters in diameter, with the pyroxene gabbro blocks on the rim, few of them. It's not an exceptionally blocky rim crater, but we are in an area where the block population is up to about 5 percent in contrast to most of the area we traversed yesterday.
164:26:36 Cernan I tell you, going is a little bit rough; there's a population of blocks as Jack said and there is an awful lot of small craters.
164:26:45 Schmitt Yes, I was just going to add that the frequency of craters in the 10-meter size range is quite a bit higher than we were used to yesterday. Oops, there's one.
164:27:02 Cernan Yes.
164:27:03 Schmitt Snuck up on you. And they all - although not exceptionally blocky rim - they all have a slightly, maybe 2 or 3 or 5 percent more blocks in their walls and on their rim than do the - does the normal terrain.
164:27:26 CC Roger, Jack. Copy that.
164:27:29 Schmitt Still no - still no obvious structure within the dark mantling material itself.
164:27:38 Cernan Bob, you said 185/1.5?
164:27:41 CC That's affirm.
164:27:43 Schmitt What do you want? For the Rover?
164:27:46 Cernan Yes, for a sample.
164:27:48 Schmitt Oh, they changed it on us. Okay. Okay - there's - still seeing the little pit-bottom craters with the glass in them. I've forgotten the acronym already, Bob, I'm sorry. And you asked me for an LMP frame count awhile back and I believe it was 5. That was at the SEP.
164:28:18 CC That was after the SEP photos, right?
164:28:23 Schmitt That's affirm. Negative; that was before the SEP photos.
164:28:33 CC Copy that.
164:28:38 Schmitt Okay, Bob, looking up at the North Massif, we see the scattered, strewn field of boulders, that generally seem to start from a - more or less, from a line of large boulders, which might indicate some structure. And those lines are roughly horizontal across the face that we're looking at. The boulder tracks are irregular in shape, obviously downhill, but you'll see in the pictures that they - that they are curved in places, but they're all - that I see - tend to be aggregates of little craters - where the boulder was obviously tumbling and bouncing a little bit. We're out in population of fragments now in the immediate area at 1 - is that 188?
164:29:50 Cernan 188/0.9.
164:29:52 Schmitt It's generally about 1 percent between craters. But at the crater rims, it's up to about 5 percent.
164:30:00 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack. And how far down the North Massif - -
164:30:02 Schmitt And these craters - -
164:30:03 CC - - is the line of boulders?
164:30:09 Schmitt Oh, there are several of them, Bob. What I'm talking about is about 100-meter-long lines where the boulder trains initiate. And they are - there's one about - looks like about halfway - maybe two-thirds of the way down in perspective. Another one that's probably about halfway - they're just sort of scattered around on the Massif.
164:30:34 Schmitt I think we're getting close to - No, we couldn't be.
164:30:38 Cernan I've got to move over here a little.
164:30:40 Schmitt That must be Jones.
164:30:42 Cernan Where are you looking?
164:30:43 Schmitt Off to the right.
164:30:44 Cernan Yes, our heading that they're sending us down here, it really should put us to west of Jones. So that's about right. A lot of static in the background today.
164:30:55 CC Yes, I think we are talking to you guys through the LM right now, and how about a speed reading?
164:31:03 Cernan Okay. We're at 12 clicks and we're FULL BORE.
164:31:07 CC Copy that.
164:31:20 Schmitt Okay.
164:31:21 Cernan 187/1.1.
164:31:26 CC Copy that.
164:31:35 Schmitt Bob, I wish I could give you more on that structure in there, but I think those lines of boulder sources are about all we can see right now. Talked about the lineaments yesterday and they're not nearly as obvious today in the higher Sun. Looking up Wessex Cleft - even with the Sun in the flat area there, it looks darker than where - than the North Massif side. But again, the Sun angle may be fooling us but I recall it was darker on the photos. The old man wrinkled face on the - -
164:32:16 Cernan Sculptured Hills.
164:32:17 Schmitt - - Sculptured Hills, though, is evident as soon as you come out of the Wessex Cleft.
164:32:21 Cernan Yes.
164:32:22 Schmitt And it looks like there are boulders up on the side of the Sculptured Hills except that they aren't nearly as big as those on the North Massif. The areas where the boulder sources look like their made up of fine - boulders no bigger than a meter maybe whereas the North Massif boulders are up to several meters. Those boulder sources all seem to be up within a third of the height of the Sculptured Hills just south - or just east of the Massif - of the Wessex Cleft. There's a boulder track that crosses slope. See that Geno?
164:33:05 Cernan Yes - yes. I sure do now.
164:33:07 Schmitt It looks like it goes, rather than perpendicular contours, it probably is crossing them in a fairly straight line on an angle of 60 degrees, maybe.
164:33:18 Cernan Back to the east.
164:33:19 Schmitt Yes, to the east. That one may be fairly near - -
164:33:24 Cernan Jack, see that big boulder with that big track - it looks like it's an elongated rolled-up boulder. Look at that.
164:33:29 Schmitt Yes, it does. Looks like it's - may be broken now.
164:33:33 Cernan Okay. Here we are - 1.5 and 185.
164:33:37 CC Okay; copy that.
164:33:38 Schmitt Okay, is this a Rover sample?
164:33:40 Cernan A Rover sample.
164:33:40 Schmitt Okay - -
164:33:41 Cernan Tell me where you want it.
164:33:42 Schmitt - - see that little pit right over there about 30 feet ahead.
164:33:45 Cernan Yes, I think so.
164:33:46 Schmitt Okay, I've got two pictures there.
164:33:55 Cernan How's that?
164:33:57 Schmitt That's great. Okay, this is soil sample - Hey, Geno.
164:34:17 Cernan Okay, and I just took a locator; and CDR is on frame 41.
164:34:22 Schmitt Got it?
164:34:24 Cernan Oh, not yet.
164:34:25 CC Copy that.
164:34:26 Cernan Right now. Bag 40 - 46 Yankee.
164:34:31 CC Copy that.
164:34:40 Cernan Your bag open?
164:34:41 Schmitt Yes.
164:34:41 Cernan Okay, it's in.
164:34:44 Schmitt We ought to tape that bead down if we can remember it next stop. It's in the way of - it's sticking up.
164:34:54 Cernan Okay, I'll get it. That thing came down - came off that piece of Velcro. I'll get it when I get. back.
164:34:59 Schmitt Okay. And LMP's frame count is 35.
164:35:10 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'd like a - bearing and range.
164:35:14 CC Okay. Bearing and range for the large block, just beyond - let's see, it's just beyond the crater Henry. The large clock there near the break of the slope, which is our next aiming point. The bearing and range there is 188 and 2.8.
164:35:32 Cernan 188 and 2.8. Roger.
164:35:35 CC Okay. And, Jack, do you - what do you see in the way of boulders coming down the base of the Sculptured Hills, in terms of sampling opportunities of Station 8 and in terms of any boulder tracks that we might - might lead down to boulders that might just possibly be accessible at Station 8.
164:35:53 Schmitt Watch it, Gene. Boulder tracks are not obvious on Sculptured Hills at all. It looks like there are fragments over there that would have had their sources higher up the slope. I think we can get boulders there.
164:36:10 CC Okay; copy that. We'll see - -
164:36:12 Cernan We'll have to get a little closer, Bob.
164:36:14 CC We'll find out in a couple of hours.
164:36:18 Schmitt Yes, I will give you a reading on that before long. I wouldn't eliminate Station 8 for the world - or the Moon, whatever's available today.
164:36:28 Cernan Bob, what did you say? 188/2 point something.
164:36:31 CC 2.8.
164:36:35 Cernan Okay, thank you. See that big boulder, Jack, with those tracks?
164:36:39 Schmitt Yes, it looks like -
164:36:40 Cernan That's funny looking boulder.
164:36:41 Schmitt It looks like it may have stopped rolling because it broke up.
164:36:45 Cernan Looks broken to me now.
164:36:52 Cernan Boy, they've got the low gain right on. But, I tell you, we still got static.
164:36:56 Schmitt I don't have any, Gene. You may - -
164:36:57 Cernan Well, I sure do.
164:37:01 Schmitt ... Okay, you've got yourself in some holes here. You've never - I've read you all along, though, so there's no problem. Okay, there's a big crater. I haven't recognized Jones yet. Looks like you're getting up on the rim of Henry here.
164:37:27 Cernan Yes - no, Henry should be to - I'm well - should be well west of Henry, I think. I wouldn't be surprised if Henry isn't right over that little rise on the right.
164:37:38 Schmitt Bob, the surface structure hasn't changed texture. We're on a little bit of a rise in here now and still about 1 percent of the surface - -
164:37:47 Cernan There's Henry right there, Jack.
164:37:49 Schmitt There's Henry.
164:37:50 CC Okay, how about a range and bearing.
164:37:51 Schmitt I thought you were close to Henry.
164:37:53 Cernan Yes. 188/1.8.
164:37:57 Schmitt And we're just southwest of Henry.
164:38:03 CC Okay. Copy that.
164:38:03 Schmitt On the rim. Oh, Prince Henry the Navigator.
164:38:09 Cernan Watch that foot.
164:38:12 Schmitt It's called a wheel, I think. And Henry looks much like Horatio did. Has boulders on its inner wall - not as many. They look light colored - a light albedo gabbroic appearance. There may be some right down there, though, that are fine grained; they look a little grayer.
164:38:33 Cernan Jack, there's our target - there's - either one of - that's one right down there on - on ... break in slope.
164:38:38 Schmitt See the one we've got over there has a boulder track. That's the one, that's cross-slope.
164:38:43 Cernan Yes, if we could get up high - -
164:38:44 Schmitt Can we get up there?
164:38:45 Cernan We'll see.
164:38:46 Cernan That's the one - That's Station 6, and that was the - the turning boulder.
164:38:51 Cernan Yes, that's it.
164:38:52 Schmitt The one right there.
164:38:54 Cernan Station 6 - we can probably get up there.
164:38:56 Schmitt I think we can; it doesn't look too bad. At the break in slope, right now, doesn't show anything obvious, except that's where the boulders start.
164:39:07 CC Okay, we hope that's fairly obvious.
164:39:09 Schmitt And on up the hill you have ... -
164:39:18 Schmitt But as I was saying, Henry just looks like somewhat more mantled Horatio (laughter). Getting to be ridiculous.
164:39:27 Cernan Say, Bob, I'm navigating - headed northwest now - to get around the western rim of Henry.
164:39:33 CC Okay.
164:39:34 Schmitt Okay; And on that west rim, we've got about 10 or - 10 percent boulder cover.
164:39:42 CC Okay; And a reminder, Jack, to keep taking your Rover photos.
164:39:48 Schmitt Yes, sir. And when I - By boulder, I generally mean fragment, Bob, in this case. When I say 10 percent, I'm looking at stuff greater than about a centimeter in diameter. I'll try to say fragment from now on and be more precise. Okay; Here's a little area where there's - This part of Henry - this is the one part of the rim of Henry I see that has fairly large fragments, or boulders, on them up to 2 or 3 meters. But, again, they all appear to be buried. There are very few, except small ones, sitting out on the surface.
164:40:32 Cernan And, you know, the fragment population out here only goes out to maybe 200 meters, I expect.
164:40:39 Schmitt Okay. Now this concentration of boulders is because of a 50-meter crater in the rim of Henry.
164:40:46 CC Okay, say that sounds like a lot ... - -
164:40:47 Schmitt I think that was one that we -
164:40:50 Cernan Take a picture in here, Jack.
164:40:51 Schmitt No. Locke, I can see -
164:40:56 Cernan I'm getting a picture.
164:40:58 Schmitt Okay. Locke's right ahead of us -
164:40:59 Cernan Yes.
164:41:00 Schmitt This is one on the - about 50 meters right on the rim crest of Henry, almost due - the west rim - due west rim. Now Locke is just ahead of us. It also has boulders in its walls but has relatively few on the rim.
164:41:17 CC Okay. Copy that.
164:41:18 Schmitt Characteristic of both Henry, Locke, and Horatio is a re - essentially no change in the average frequency of boulders on the rim. The increase comes in the walls.
164:41:34 Cernan We're at 184/2.3. We're just about between Henry and - -
164:41:42 Schmitt Locke.
164:41:42 Cernan Locke. Yes; right between them.
164:41:44 CC Okay. I copy that. And you guys are heading for that big boulder, which must be just dead ahead of you there, about half a kilometer.
164:41:53 Schmitt Well, we're - Gene's sort of headed for Station 6 now.
164:41:56 Cernan I'm going to take a tour around that boulder and get a case on it.
164:41:59 Schmitt Okay. Go ahead.
164:42:00 CC Yes. That would be a good mark to give us a range and bearing on, since that's a pretty good straight point.
164:42:07 Cernan Yes, we are.
164:42:09 Schmitt Bob, the boulder concentrations in the wall of Henry have their upslope start at about - oh, I would guess an average of 30 meters down from the rim crest. The rim crest of Henry is not very well defined, but it's there. And they - from that initiation of boulders, they stream down the slope to the break in - in slope down at the floor. Still no obvious change in the dark mantle, as we're just to the east of Locke now. There's some - there's a 30-meter crater, fairly subdued b ut still quite deep - subdued rim, again, it looks as if it were mantled, that - has no significant increase in blocks on its rim. That crater, in any other place, would have been a very blocky-rim crater. It has - it's maybe 30 meters and - by 5 meters deep. Man, that is a big rock up there. Turning Point Rock is a split rock - has a - looks like a northwest-southeast overhang, with another block just this side of it - just to the south of that overhang. It's a pyramid shape in cross section - triangular shape in cross section. And it looks like it is pretty well fractured, although not pervasively like the rock at Shorty was.
164:44:04 Cernan Okay, Jack, I know I can get up to that - to Station 6.
164:44:08 Schmitt Yes.
164:44:08 Cernan I might drive up there.
164:44:09 Schmitt Yes. Now, Bob, Station 6 rock - one of them - is from that boulder track that runs obliquely across the contours.
164:44:18 CC Okay. I copy that, Jack. Sounds like good news.
164:44:23 Schmitt And there's - the pictures ought to be able to - the pictures ought to pin down its - at least the end of the boulder track pretty well.
164:44:31 Cernan Boy, this is a big rock, Jack. Whew.
164:44:34 Schmitt As I recall - as I saw it, the boulder tracks stopped about halfway up the slope of the North Massif. That is a big rock.
164:44:41 Cernan We're at Turning Point Rock. And it looks like it's - I don't know if it's mantled on top, but it's certainly filleted. There's a - a lot of the dark mantle up and on some of the shallower slopes of the boulder. And it's on a little mound itself, as if much of it might be covered up.
164:44:56 Schmitt Yes. Okay. It looks like a breccia from here.
164:45:01 Cernan Can you get a sample of it right here? You see these little chips?
164:45:04 Schmitt Yes, I probably can.
164:45:07 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm 3 meters from Turning Point Rock on the east side, and I'm reading l86 and 2.8.
164:45:15 CC Roger. Copy that. Sensational.
164:45:20 Schmitt Okay. You got to - can you drive up - -
164:45:23 Cernan Yes.
164:45:24 Schmitt - - to the - right there, let's see - no, I can get them. The thing is, I don't know what it is.
164:45:30 Cernan Well, but ... it's part of these fragments around here. I guess Turning Point Rock is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, - 6 meters high anyway. It's a - Well, I'd say it's a very rough subrounded type of rock - by the face - let me get this, Jack. Okay. There are two fragments in that sample.
164:45:59 Cernan 47 Yankee.
164:46:01 Schmitt Plus some dirt. And it's about 4 meters from the - Turning Point Rock on the north side.
164:46:15 CC Okay. Copy that. And presume you got some good photos of the rock.
164:46:21 Schmitt Yes, I got a couple. I hope they're good.
164:46:26 Cernan Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do here, real quick.
164:46:28 Schmitt And my locator is - -
164:46:30 Cernan I'm going to do a - -
164:46:31 Schmitt - - 5, 6.
164:46:32 Schmitt Copy that.
164:46:34 Cernan Jack, let me spin around this little crater here to the left.
164:46:36 Schmitt Bob, it looks - it's very coarsely vesicular; but, at first glance, it did not look like the pyroxene gabbro - although the rock - that rock does. I - It looks like it might be fragmental, although I'm suspicious that I'm looking at zap pits. That'd be a - Oh, yes - Getting them. I got them. Pick one. That's a nice view.
164:47:09 Cernan And we're on a little rise looking at this boulder. That's incredible.
164:47:15 Cernan Okay. We're on the roll, Bob.
164:47:17 CC Copy that.
164:47:18 Cernan You know that -
164:47:21 Schmitt Bob, my guess is, right now, is that Turning Point Rock is a big piece of subfloor gabbro.
164:47:30 CC Okay. I gather you changed your opinion.
164:47:32 Schmitt What looked like fragments is just - yes, what looked like fragments is just big spalls - spalls of where the zap pits have cleaned off the rock.
164:47:49 CC Okay. I copy that. And, guys, you might be happy to know that we think we've finally found the LM, because we were calling that for 188 and 2.8, and you got there at 186 and 2.8.
164:48:04 Schmitt That's not bad. Okay - -
164:48:11 Cernan It's a split one up there, Jack. I've had ray eye on it. There's some big boulders down here.
164:48:24 Schmitt Got it. I sort of lost track of Station 6.
164:48:31 Cernan No, I got it. I've had my eye on that boulder. You can't see the track from here. I'll bet you can. I can see it now. We'll see it - we'll be looking right up it - looking right up the old boulder track. Man, I tell you, this navigating through here is not -
164:48:54 Schmitt Okay. We're in a region where the really - the general fragment population's no different. We're up on the - off the break in slope, although you wouldn't notice it - but we are quite a ways. And - but the fragment population is not much different than that on the plains. The big difference is that there are these scattered blocks that are from a meter to probably 10 meters - no, 5 meters in diameter. Hard to say, maybe 8.
164:49:24 Cernan See that track coming down? We'll be looking right up that track.
164:49:26 Schmitt Yes, yes, you got it. I didn't realize you were that far upslope.
164:49:29 Cernan Yes, we're way upslope.
164:49:30 Schmitt Yes. Hit it.
164:49:31 Cernan Not very uncomfortable for me on this side. (Laughter) How do you feel?
164:49:35 Schmitt Oh, I feel fine. I just - until I looked down there and saw the slope we're on.
164:49:38 Cernan Yes, I know it.
164:49:42 Schmitt And I can't see any obvious change in albedo, like we could see with the light mantle yesterday. You - you - You got a - don't - There you got a nice nice nice place. Oh, oh, you don't want to go over that way.
164:49:58 Cernan Yes, I can make it. I want to park right - -
164:50:01 CC And 17, we want you to park at a heading of 107. We're going to open the battery covers and let them cool at this station. So a heading of 107.
164:50:14 Cernan 107, huh? Okay. I'll get it up here.
164:50:19 Schmitt Hey, that's going to be moderately level right there.
164:50:21 Cernan Yes.
164:50:23 Schmitt Trouble is, they're looking into the shady side of the block.
164:50:27 Cernan Well, if I park on the other side, they won't be able to - I can go right upslope a little bit.
164:50:31 Schmitt That's all right. We can work in there. No, that's all right.
164:50:34 Cernan Yes, I can't go up there. Let me just - This is going to have to be good. I can't go up there.
164:50:46 Schmitt I think you're all right.
164:50:48 Cernan That's not very level, but - -
164:50:50 Schmitt Oh, not too - not too hard. Watch that turn.
164:50:56 Cernan That's not very level, but we're not going to get much more level than that.
164:50:59 Schmitt No, that's good.
164:51:01 Cernan Let me - they wanted 107. That's the best I can do. That's not very level for the gravimeter, but - Let me see if I can get comm. Hey, Bob, how do you read?
164:51:19 CC Loud and clear, 17. How do you read?
164:51:24 Cernan Okay. We're parked on a heading of 107. Are you happy with that?
164:51:30 CC Roger. Sounds great.
164:51:30 Schmitt (Laughter) You parked on a slope, too.
164:51:32 Cernan There's no level - there's no level spots to park, here, though.
164:51:38 Schmitt You want me - some help getting off?
164:51:40 Cernan I've got to go uphill.
164:51:42 Schmitt I just about ended up down at the bottom of the hill.
164:51:45 Cernan Okay; 192/3.8, 3.1; 88 and 80; 108 and 0 on the batteries. The forward motors are 220 and about 270, and the rears are 0 - off scale low and 220.
164:52:13 Schmitt You want me to block the wheels? (Laughter) You got the brake on, I hope.
164:52:19 Cernan You betcha. I don't know if I can lean uphill or not. (Laughter) I can't. Holy Smoley. Boy, are we on a slope!
164:52:34 Schmitt You okay?
164:52:36 Cernan Yes, Let me get this thing set again.
164:52:38 Schmitt I don't think you can ...
164:52:39 Cernan Boy, are we on a slope!
164:52:43 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to stay out from between the rocks. It's a beautiful east-west split rock. It's even got a north overhang that we can work with. And let me see what it is. We're right at Station 6. You wouldn't believe it.
164:53:07 Cernan I would. Oh, man, what a slope!
164:53:10 Schmitt And this boulder's got its own little track, right up the hill, cross contoured. It's a chain of craters track, and it looks like it stops ... where it started. It starts in, what looks to be, a lighter colored linear zone - trying to give you perspective; it's probably only about a third of the way up the North Massif. Bob, are you reading this?
164:53:45 CC Read you loud and clear; and we got a picture.
164:53:50 Cernan Oh, man, I tell you, are we parked on a slope! I don't know whether your TGE's going to hack it.
164:53:58 CC Okay. It'll pick up to 15 degrees.
164:53:59 Cernan Bob, this is a - Well, it is going to have it.
164:54:06 Schmitt It's a coarsely vesicular, crystalline rock - finely crystalline. Looks like a - probably an anorthositic gabbro - trying to see the zap pits, for glass color, I don't have a good one yet.
164:54:32 Cernan Say, Bob, you want both the recorder and the - and the other switch off?
164:54:37 CC Roger. Both of those off, and ...
164:54:44 Cernan Oh, man, it is hard to get around here.
164:54:49 Schmitt Bob, it looks like the glass is fairly light colored. It's not white. Well no - it's black. It's anorthositic gabbro, rather than gabbroic anorthosite, I think. Yes, that's black glass in the pits.
164:55:12 CC Okay. And, Gene, did you happen to notice the ... on the stuff when you dusted it?
164:55:18 Cernan I didn't dust it yet.
164:55:20 CC Copy that.
164:55:21 Schmitt Bob, some of the vesicles are - they're flattened. All of them are flattened. There's a strong foliation of vesicles in the rock. Most of them are flattened, and they are up to 15 or 20 centimeters in diameter and about 5 to 6 centimeters thick - or wide.
164:55:51 CC Outstanding.
164:55:56 Schmitt And there's some beautiful north overhangs all around the block. Well, (laughter) on the north side of the block.
164:56:05 CC Okay. That's the best place - that north overhang; and I guess that means one of you guys might grab the SEC - the small can - before you leave the Rover.
164:56:16 Cernan Okay, Bob. It's going to take me awhile to dust. I tell you - -
164:56:19 Schmitt Okay - -
164:56:20 Cernan Hard to get around here.
164:56:21 CC Roger.
164:56:22 Schmitt Bob, now let's get it straight. You w - let's get it straight, you want the north overhang sample in the SEC - or the short can?
164:56:39 CC Miracle of miracles. They don't want the short can. I'm not sure I understand that, Jack, but they don't want the short can here, they say, I guess they're looking for volcanic today.
164:56:51 Schmitt Okay, we'll put them in bags. Oh, man -
164:56:52 CC They're looking for volcanic today, Jack.
164:56:57 Schmitt Oh, they are, huh? We found those yesterday.
164:57:00 CC Well, they're hoping again at Station 9.
164:57:05 Schmitt This is - Now, that foliation I mentioned does not go all the way through the rock. There are variations in texture. One zone was strongly foliated. There's another - it almost looks like a large - it is - a large inclusion of nonvesicular rock within the vesicular rock. There may be some autobrecciation involved in the formation of this thing. It really looks mineralogically like the light-colored samples from the South Massif. But I - I tell you, that's only because it's light colored, and I - I can't give you anymore than that right now, until we get a fresh surface.
164:57:59 Cernan 110 degrees on the SEP and you want the tape - the cover closed, right?
164:58:03 CC Cover open, please. Cover open. Both off.
164:58:09 Cernan Okay. Cover's open.
164:58:12 CC Okay. And did you get the batteries - -
164:58:14 Cernan Oh, my golly.
164:58:15 CC - the LRV battery covers open. We didn't copy that, Gene.
164:58:20 Cernan No, I didn't copy that you wanted them open. I just got 107. I was about to ask you that.
164:58:25 CC Okay. We'd like them open. And, Jack, while I'm interrupting everybody here, how about a frame count, if convenient.
164:58:32 PAO That's Jack Schmitt at the rock.
164:58:37 Schmitt Oh, shoot! Bob. I gave you one at the rock. It's now 68.
164:58:42 CC Okay. Copy that.
164:58:48 Cernan Man, I never - (Laughter) You can't believe how tough it is getting around this Rover, on this slope.
164:58:58 Schmitt I think I'll - -
164:58:59 Cernan Man, that - I think we're probably pitch 20 and roll 20.
164:59:09 Schmitt I think I'll get over here and get a pan while we're ... sample.
164:59:15 Cernan Oh, I got to dust those radiators. I can't leave them like that. I tell you, this is not a very good place to dust them, though. Let me try one time. Oh, boy.
164:59:31 Schmitt Be careful, Geno. Need some help?
164:59:34 Cernan No. I need a little finesse, though. It's one thing to reach over - here and do this on level ground. I don't know if I can do that without falling on the battery.
164:59:55 Schmitt Well, I found a place to stand where I can take a pan.
165:00:00 Cernan Bob, I'm going to have to give you a good battery brushing at the next site. I can't get - I get half of them, but I can't get the other half. It's too slopey.
165:00:14 PAO EVA time 2 hours and 15 minutes.
165:00:14 CC Okay. We copy that.
165:00:18 Cernan But the covers are open. What are you working on, Jack?
165:00:26 Schmitt I'm taking a pan.
165:00:28 Cernan Very good. I'm coming right now. I bet you a dollar to doughnuts that you don't get a TGE reading.
165:00:34 CC Yes, Gene. If you're - if it's easy enough to take it off, why don't you take it off the Rover; and we'll try and level it in the stuff.
165:00:45 Cernan Oh, come on. (Laughter) I'm not sure there's any place to put it on the ground level.
165:00:53 Schmitt No, you have to dig a place.
165:00:57 Cernan Yes, I'll do it. Okay. It's coming off. Well, I'll set it right up here.
165:01:12 Schmitt It's going to fall down the hill. You'd better stomp off a good place.
165:01:18 PAO Jack Schmitt shooting panoramic photography.
165:01:25 Cernan Yes. That looks level to me. Can you see it from there?
165:01:28 Schmitt Well, I can see it.
165:01:29 Cernan I mean, does it - -
165:01:31 Schmitt I don't know. I have no perspective anymore.
165:01:33 Cernan I don't either.
165:01:34 Cernan MARK. Gravity.
165:01:36 CC Copy the mark - -
165:01:38 Cernan It's flashing. Okay; now let me get to work. Okay ... My fender got a little kinked here, which isn't going to help us.
165:01:55 CC Hey, Jack. And we see your gold visor's up. You may want to put it down out here in the Sun.
165:02:04 Schmitt Well, I think I might - I can't see with it down; it's scratched. Bob, I'll use it.
165:02:11 Cernan I think I can monitor that one.
165:02:13 Schmitt Hey, I'm standing on a boulder track. How does that make you feel?
165:02:19 Cernan That makes me feel like I'm coming over to do some sampling. Think how it would have been if you were standing there before that boulder came by.
165:02:33 Schmitt I'd rather not think about it.
165:02:35 Cernan Okay, let's go. You got a spot picked while you're here?
165:02:39 Schmitt Well, the big thing is, let's get those - let's get the boulder and then get in that east-west split. Bob, I got an undocumented sample from the middle of the boulder track.
165:02:58 CC Copy that. Soil sample?
165:03:00 Cernan Whew!
165:03:02 Schmitt Soil sample. Gene, if you hit them off in there, it's going to be awful hard to find them, that's the problem.
165:03:15 Cernan Did you pick a spot - a good spot while you were over here?
165:03:19 Schmitt No, I didn't. I just was looking at it. I think we need to get in the light, though.
165:03:23 Cernan Well I - I can see with my gold visor.
165:03:26 Schmitt Let me put a sample in your bag.
165:03:28 Cernan Okay. Go ahead.
165:03:29 Schmitt It's bag - shoot - it's 534.
165:03:39 Cernan This boulder looks fairly uniform from top to bottom.
165:03:42 Schmitt We've got to get a reference sample out - this soil.
165:03:45 Cernan Let's get where we can get that 90-degree picture, too; so we want to get on the - really ought to get on the Sun side. Let me get that slab right there, though, to start with. I can get that one off. Well, there's no - let's go over on the Sun side because we can't really photograph it.
165:03:59 Schmitt Okay. I got to get out of here first.
165:04:02 Cernan Let's go through the split.
165:04:04 Schmitt Well, okay. Be careful, though. Why don't we sample the split first so we don't - -
165:04:13 Cernan Look at that overhang. Man, I tell you, if you can get your shovel down there, you'd have a ball.
165:04:17 Schmitt Yes, let's sample in the split first so that we don't get it too messed up. And then we can sample some of this stuff. Not - we want this overhang over here, Geno - the north facing one.
165:04:30 Cernan Right here.
165:04:31 Schmitt Yes. I got to get - sneak by over there. Whoops! Don't shuffle too much dirt in there.
165:04:38 Cernan Okay. You by me so I can set the gnomon down.
165:04:40 Schmitt Not quite. Don't think I can make it - without hitting you. I can't.
165:04:45 Cernan Okay. Now try it.
165:04:48 Schmitt Okay.
165:04:53 Cernan Ready?
165:04:54 Schmitt Okay.
165:04:55 Cernan Let me set the gnomon down - -
165:04:56 Schmitt Set it down just outside the shadow here. Right - Whoa - right there. That's good. There's still some clean ground there. Okay.
165:05:04 Cernan Okay. I can get back far enough to take these pictures. I want to go get a stereo pan around the comer anyway. Let's see if I can't start here with about 5.6. I'm so close.
165:05:20 Schmitt Okay, I'll get a -
165:05:23 Cernan I must have a boulder ...
165:05:24 Schmitt I'll get it. Let me - -
165:05:26 Cernan - I'm going to go around the cor - I got it now.
165:05:36 Schmitt Okay. You got a bag?
165:05:37 Cernan All set.
165:05:40 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to get the shadowed material.
165:05:49 Cernan It's in bag 312, Bob.
165:05:51 CC Copy 312.
165:05:55 Schmitt And it's - it's from - I think you saw where I got it. It's about a half a meter back of the limit of the overhang. Put it down. Put it down.
165:06:05 Cernan Okay. Can you reach it?
165:06:07 Schmitt I will in a minute. You can turn it a little bit towards me. Okay; 312. And the soil outside the overhang will be next.
165:06:34 Cernan Okay. Go get it.
165:06:41 Schmitt And the first one is from the upper 2 centimeters.
165:06:49 Cernan Bag 313.
165:06:51 CC Copy 313.
165:06:57 Schmitt And the second one is from probably down - from 2 centimeters down to about 8.
165:07:08 CC Copy that.
165:07:14 Schmitt Bob, it looks like the fragment just to the - or the boulder just to the south of us has some inclusions in it - light-colored inclusions.
165:07:26 Cernan Bag 472 on that.
165:07:29 CC Copy 472 on that. You mean the south half of the split boulder?
165:07:35 Schmitt Yes. I haven't seen inclusions in the other half.
165:07:42 Cernan Okay? Okay. Now we need boulder stuff.
165:07:45 Schmitt You happy with that, Houston? Let's get - you got your hammer?
165:07:52 CC Yes, we're happy with that ...
165:08:04 Schmitt That's a little hard, huh? I think - -
165:08:09 Cernan I've got to find a corner I can get at.
165:08:11 Schmitt Yes.
165:08:13 Cernan Let me get an after picture down in this hole.
165:08:16 Schmitt Oh, that's right. You almost stepped on the - I forgot the after, too.
165:08:30 Schmitt Hey, there are chips up here on top. Also, that's been spalled off.
165:08:36 Cernan Yes.
165:08:36 Schmitt We can get some of those, but - -
165:08:37 Cernan Looks like somebody's been chipping up there.
165:08:39 Schmitt Looks like there's been a geologist here before us.
165:08:42 Cernan Let me get the gnomon. I think I can get some of these pieces over here. I want to get that 90-degree angular flight line around this boulder, too.
165:08:52 Schmitt Bob, the more I look at this thing - here's the piece that fell off. Here's the piece that was knocked off up there.
165:08:58 Cernan Yes.
165:08:59 Schmitt Look at that.
165:09:01 Cernan We ought to bring a big piece of that home. That's obvious it's obvious - -
165:09:03 Schmitt How about this one up here? Take your picture. I think we can just lift that off. See that?
165:09:10 Cernan Stand by.
165:09:16 Schmitt I'd better get - -
165:09:18 Cernan I'll get a locator from here.
165:09:20 Schmitt Okay. I was going to get my down-Sun, but I'm afraid I'll -
165:09:26 Cernan You may be down-Sun if you do.
165:09:27 Schmitt Yes, we'll get some. You get it?
165:09:32 Cernan Yes, will it come off?
165:09:33 Schmitt Let me see. Yes.
165:09:38 Cernan Yes. Just throw it in my bag. It's broken, but it's in place. That's a nice, big piece, too. It's about the size of a - -
165:09:46 Schmitt Why don't you put it in mine. I can't get a thing in it.
165:09:49 Cernan Okay. Got it?
165:09:52 Schmitt Yes, I got it.
165:09:54 Cernan Don't move.
165:09:56 Schmitt Okay, Bob, there's a big spall lying on the ground here that has been knocked off up there, from right on top of the boulder. And, I tell you, the more I look at this - the south half of this boulder, the more heterogeneous in texture it looks. It looks as if it may be either a recrystallized breccia of some kind, or you had a gabbroic anorthosite - magma catch up an awful lot of inclusions. I guess I prefer the latter explanation because of the extreme vesicularity of the rock.
165:10:36 CC Okay; very interesting.
165:10:41 Schmitt Now, some of the - a few of the inclusions are - well, they're all subrounded to rounded, and a few - and a few of them are very light colored. I'm going to try -
165:10:53 Cernan I'm coming around the corner ...
165:10:55 Schmitt Are you going to do it now? Okay. Well, you know, I ought to get one shot back here with a black and white. I'll get this half-black and white.
165:11:02 Cernan Okay, if we could get -
165:11:05 Schmitt I think we ought to pick up a piece of that spall there by the gnomon -
165:11:09 Cernan I can break it off.
165:11:11 Schmitt There's one right by the gnomon we can just pick up. It's a finer-grained vesicular rock than - wait - where - oh, geez.
165:11:20 Cernan Oh, oh, oh, oh -
165:11:23 Schmitt I thought I was going to get this half.
165:11:24 Cernan Okay. I don't care. I've started down, Jack.
165:11:28 Schmitt Well, they like to have some of it in black and white, you know.
165:11:33 Cernan I'll get that rock.
165:11:41 Schmitt I forgot to look at the objectives for this station. I hope we're meeting them.
165:11:47 Cernan Well, we want to get 500s of that boulder track. I know I want to get that.
165:11:56 Schmitt Okay. A piece of that spalled rock that was sitting by the gnomon - Ooh, watch out gnomon. How about that? - is in - bag 535.
165:12:18 Cernan You got one in there already?
165:12:20 Schmitt Yes.
165:12:21 CC Okay. We copy that one, Jack.
165:12:23 Cernan You won't be able to reach - you won't be able to reach my bag.
165:12:26 Schmitt No, but you can put it in mine. Can you reach it?
165:12:36 Cernan Looking at it.
165:12:38 Schmitt Bob, one of the light-colored inclusions looks like it may be anorthositic - gabbroic anorthosite - let me get my terms straight. The host rock has dark enough zap pits that it's probably gab - anorthositic gabbro, if I didn't say that. Some of the light-colored inclusions have slightly lighter colored glass, and they may be the gabbroic anorthosite.
165:13:13 CC Okay, I copy that, Jack.
165:13:14 Schmitt ... like like like this one and that one.
165:13:17 Cernan Some of those inclusions get to be bigger than the size of a baseball. There's one here and a couple up there.
165:13:22 Schmitt Let be borrow your hammer.
165:13:23 Cernan Yes. Jack, try a little higher. See that one right on the - right there. Right -
165:13:43 Cernan Yes, that's a hard rock.
165:13:49 Schmitt Yes, that's a hard rock. You might be able to do it; I can't.
165:13:53 Cernan I can't get down there. Okay, we need some of the soil outside the shadow here.
165:14:01 Schmitt Yes. How about over where your bag went? Let's move around here - I think there is some - oops! Get on this slope over here. Okay. How about out over here? Are we supposed to get a - Where are we here?
165:14:24 Cernan I don't know. I'd like to get - When you face uphill, your camera faces down.
165:14:32 Schmitt We want to get a rake on the rim of that little crater down there, I guess.
165:14:37 CC Okay, 17. Roger. You were asking about objectives. Of course the primary objective is docu - documented samples of the blocks; and then, also, we'd like to get some of the rake and soil samples out in the surface, namely, the rim crater there, if that's available. And one of the things, of course, we're looking for is the variety of rocks here, if there's more than just the one boulder. You can sample the boulder for a while, but we would be interested in seeing if there is more than just the single type of rock. Probably, also, samples from both sides - both halves of the rock. What we said this morning in terms of combining Stations 6 and 7 to an hour and 20 minutes -
165:15:19 Schmitt Come on up here, Geno.
165:15:20 Cernan Okay.
165:15:21 Schmitt If you can.
165:15:22 CC And so it's sort of your option as to how much time you spend here and how much you go on to Station 7 and spend. If you feel that it's worthwhile, we could spend essentially all that hour and 20 minutes at this station. But if we did that, we'd like to get a fair variety of blocks, if they're available.
165:15:39 Schmitt Okay. Geno, we sampled some of the light colored group - as a matter of fact, this block looks different.
165:15:45 Cernan Well, so does that big one - -
165:15:47 Schmitt It's grayer.
165:15:47 Cernan That's why I've been photographing it.
165:15:49 Schmitt See, what it is, I think - it's a blue-gray. It's a big blue-gray rock - itself is crystalline, I believe. The inclusions are much more sharply defined, and it's nonvesicular; and it's included, or at least it's in contact with the very vesicular anorthositic gabbro - right up there. See that?
165:16:14 Cernan Yes, the whole big one. I just ...
165:16:16 Schmitt Did you get some pictures of it?
165:16:17 Cernan As I bounced around there, I took pictures of it.
165:16:18 Schmitt Okay. Look, we can get some of that light-colored stuff in there, along with the blue-gray.
165:16:22 Cernan We ought to get as big a piece of that inclusion as we can. There's - -
165:16:25 Schmitt See it up in there.
165:16:26 Cernan Yes. I think we're out of line of sight with them. We're behind a boulder.
165:16:32 Schmitt Yes, sorry about that. But - -
165:16:34 CC We can hear you loud and clear. We're just looking at rocks right now.
165:16:41 Cernan Okay, Bob, the boulder dcwnslope is more of a light-gray vesicular boulder. The one Jack just talked about with some of the larger white inclusions is less vesicular, and it's a - more of blue-gray rock. And if I don't fall on my tail here, I'll get -
165:17:03 Schmitt The locator is of Henry.
165:17:06 CC Copy that.
165:17:11 Cernan Okay, let me try and get up there. Henry? We must be high enough to see something. I haven't even looked back.
165:17:24 Schmitt Let me get a closeup before you start pounding.
165:17:29 Cernan No, I might go from this angle too. That will give them something a little different up in there too, Jack.
165:17:45 Schmitt Yes.
165:17:47 Cernan We ought to try and sample that. Okay. Let's get the -
165:17:51 Schmitt You want me to get my scoop under there? Probably won't fall out.
165:17:58 Cernan Okay. Get as many of these pieces as we can. I don't know how many are going to come out.
165:18:20 Schmitt (Laughter)
165:18:20 Cernan Outstanding! Outstanding! This whole thing will come out here in a minute.
165:18:27 Schmitt I'll watch it. I'll watch it. Got it?
165:18:30 Cernan Move your arm up or down. Okay. I got it in case we don't get another one.
165:18:55 Cernan Hey, we're getting good at that.
165:18:57 Schmitt Yes. Can't hold that much longer.
165:19:01 Cernan Yes. Let me get up on this - up here.
165:19:05 Schmitt Why don't we get a - get a bag out. Let me put these in a bag.
165:19:07 Cernan That's why I'm getting up here so I can - -
165:19:09 Schmitt Oh, okay.
165:19:09 Cernan So I can get my balance. Bob, 556 is one of the light-colored inclusions in the blue-gray rock.
165:19:20 Schmitt It's chips.
165:19:20 Cernan Chips of it.
165:19:23 CC Okay. Copy that.
165:19:25 Schmitt I think we lost that other one. That's good enough.
165:19:27 Cernan I got it; I know where it is.
165:19:29 Schmitt That's all right. It's not a lot of sample, but it's representative, I think. It looks a lot like that sugary rock I sampled yesterday, doesn't it? Found in the - that we sampled in the - -
165:19:44 Cernan Yes, it's pretty easy to break up; it's really not very coherent at all.
165:19:47 Schmitt You know, I thought last night, Bob, that I should use the word aplitic for a texture that we saw in that inclusion yesterday on the South Massif.
165:19:55 Cernan If I could keep from falling on my tail.
165:19:58 Schmitt Can you get a - -
165:19:59 Cernan I want to - -
165:20:08 Schmitt Okay, you going to get some of that?
165:20:09 Cernan Yes, that's a different kind; that's a more beat up inclusion of some sort. Oh, there's a nice piece coming out. Oh, wait a minute - don't lose it.
165:20:24 Schmitt I got it. I've got it.
165:20:25 Cernan Got it.
165:20:26 Schmitt Okay.
165:20:29 Cernan Okay. We have another inclusion that, on the surface, has a more reddish-brown texture. Interior looks pretty much the same; it's a very light gray.
165:20:42 Schmitt This looks like a piece of breccia. Looks like a fragment briccia that got caught up in this thing.
165:20:49 Cernan Yes, well, the whole thing is obviously a breccia. I'd sure like to get that - -
165:20:52 Schmitt Well, I'd say - I'm not sure; it's obviously a breccia. I think it may - may be an igneous rock with breccia inclusions.
165:20:59 Cernan Well, okay, but -
165:21:00 Schmitt Which is sort of in the same class.
165:21:02 Cernan Sort of makes a breccia - -
165:21:04 Schmitt Well - -
165:21:04 Cernan - - out of the big rock.
165:21:06 Schmitt Okay.
165:21:06 Cernan Except you can - -
165:21:07 Schmitt I can't get in there, Geno, you'll have to.
165:21:08 Cernan Okay.
165:21:09 Schmitt No way -
165:21:09 Cernan Let me -
165:21:11 Schmitt Watch it. Hold still - opps. I think it's easier for you.
165:21:21 Cernan Did I give them a number on that? - No.
165:21:23 CC Negative.
165:21:25 Cernan It's - 5 - 536.
165:21:31 Schmitt Squash it - cramp it a little bit, if you can; a little more.
165:21:38 Cernan Did you get that 536, Bob?
165:21:40 CC Roger. 536 for the last one.
165:21:43 Cernan Let's get a - -
165:21:44 CC And -
165:21:44 Cernan Okay. Let's go get the host rock here.
165:21:47 Schmitt How about that - How about that - whew - how about that piece?
165:21:53 Cernan How about this one, with the inclusions here. Maybe I can get this one.
165:21:56 Schmitt Okay.
165:21:58 CC Okay; and, 17, we'd like -
165:22:01 Schmitt That may have been a little optimistic.
165:22:05 CC Do you guys have a feeling that the two halves of the big boulder are different rocks? Or is it the same rock split?
165:22:13 Schmitt No, they're - they're two - they were all one boulder, I think. They are just two major rock types in the - whatever they came from. And I tried to describe that to you. We have the contact in the central boulder. They're really three big boulders. The central boulder had the contact between the light-gray rocks - or the blue-gray rocks and the vesicular anorthositic gabbro.
165:22:41 CC Okay. And you guys have that pretty well photodocumented, right?
165:22:46 Schmitt Yes, it's in pretty good shape. We're working on it still.
165:22:49 CC Okay. Copy that.
165:22:53 Schmitt Try going on the side there, Geno.
165:22:56 Cernan Just went from the side, Jack.
165:22:58 Schmitt That's enough. You got a piece of the - -
165:23:01 Cernan ... host rock.
165:23:03 Schmitt I think you can get this one up here, can't you?
165:23:04 Cernan I wanted that one cause it had that inclusion wrapped in it. Let me go to high here for a minute. Which one are you talking about? This one here?
165:23:21 Schmitt Yes, I just - it's about to come. Oh - oh - oh, okay. I've got it. I've got it.
165:23:42 Cernan Okay.
165:23:43 Schmitt ... bag.
165:23:44 Cernan They're both host rocks; we can put them in the same bag.
165:23:46 Schmitt No, let's don't. No, they're different places. 537, is a chip of the blue-gray rock; and the host - the blue-gray host rock - and let me get that other one.
165:24:12 Schmitt Oh -
165:24:14 Cernan Oh - Be careful -
165:24:23 Cernan Pick the rock up while you're there. It's right at your hand.
165:24:25 Schmitt I will.
165:24:39 Schmitt Okay.
165:24:42 Cernan ... hammer somewhere.
165:24:47 Schmitt Okay. And 538 is another sample of that material - a little dustier.
165:24:55 CC Okay. We copy that.
165:24:58 Schmitt That's the blue-gray - that's the blue-gray Bob, with the inclusions in it. Now the blue-gray, the more you looked at it, it looks like a - -
165:25:06 Cernan Give me your left - your right hand.
165:25:07 Schmitt Huh?
165:25:08 Cernan Give me your right hand. Turn it over. Turn it over. Turn it over.
165:25:14 Schmitt Well, I did. How do you want it over?
165:25:15 Cernan You kept turning it over in the same direction. Like that, so I can fix that. Okay. Now give me your bag, and I'll get it in there.
165:25:26 Schmitt It - the blue-gray rock, on closer examination, looks like a partially recrystallized fragment breccia. It's very hard.
165:25:41 Cernan And I'm going to - -
165:25:43 Schmitt Are you going to get the afters in there?
165:25:44 Cernan Yes, I'll get them. I want to do a little bit better documentation on this thing. Bob?
165:25:48 Schmitt I'm going to go over and look at that contact.
165:25:49 Cernan I got a few closeup stereos of the inclusion that we tried to sample, and I'm going to see if I can't give you a little ... stereo around thia thing - if I can stay on my feet.
165:26:32 Cernan Do you read me, Jack, okay?
165:26:33 Schmitt Yes, I hear you.
165:26:34 CC And, Houston reads you loud and clear, also.
165:26:45 Cernan You can see where we've been pounding on this rock. We didn't succeed in getting samples everywhere. And I'm giving you a 90-degree corner.
165:27:00 Schmitt Bob, it looks to me like there are inclusions of blue-gray in the gabbro - in the anorthositic gabbro.
165:27:10 CC Positively outstanding.
165:27:11 Cernan Are you saying you think this whole big - You think this whole big blue-gray thing is an inclusion?
165:27:18 Schmitt Yes, sir. And there's some little ones over here.
165:27:20 Cernan Yeah, but then within the blue-gray, we've got all these other fragment.
165:27:23 Schmitt Well, that's right. It's just several generations of activity; and it looks like the gabbor though, picked up the fragmental breccia as inclusions. Bob, I'd - it really looks that way right now. There's a - -
165:27:46 CC Okay, Charlie is here mumbling something about it looking just like house rock.
165:27:54 Schmitt It's very crystalline. I'll tell you, it's not a breccia - not like house rock. Not to take anything away from house rock, though.
165:28:02 Cernan Hey, Bob, there's a lot of mantling on a very shallow slope of a fracture here on one of the upslope rocks. I would assume it's just part of the ... it picked up as its rolled down. But if it's worth sampling, you might think about it.
165:28:32 CC Okay, Gene, if you can get that fairly readily, why don't you - You can perhaps just scoop it up with the bag.
165:28:39 Cernan That's exactly what I can do.
165:28:42 CC If you can get up to the rock there.
165:28:43 Cernan And it will be in my - it will be in my flight line stereo, and it's going to be bag 557. And I'll take an after and show you where it came from.
165:28:56 CC Okay. Copy that.
165:28:56 Cernan This is the easist part of the rock in the world to work. Man, here's a big - here's a big white clast. There's one on top about a foot and a half across, and here's one - must be 2 feet across - 3 feet. And that's in the blue-gray.
165:29:17 Cernan Feel like a kid playing in a sandbox.
165:29:29 Schmitt Well, Bob, I think I've done the best I can. I would - I'd say that they're pretty clearly inclusions of blue-gray in the anorthositic gabbro here near the contact.
165:29:44 CC Okay. And Gene, your bag is hanging by one hook there. Be careful, if you can - or LMP - -
165:29:52 Cernan Okay. I gave you 557, I believe. Didn't I?
165:29:56 CC Roger. We have that one. And whoever is giving us 557 - -
165:30:00 Cernan Okay, I'll have Jack fix by bag.
165:30:02 CC Yes.
165:30:07 Schmitt Okay, Bob, by accident - I didn't think I could do it but I got a sample of the inclusions. And it's in bag 539.
165:30:20 Cernan Hey, Jack, that's your bag that's hanging by one hook. Let me go get it.
165:30:24 Schmitt Oh, they're talking to me, huh?
165:30:25 Cernan Yes, because I didn't - -
165:30:26 CC Yes.
165:30:27 Cernan I didn't think they could see me. I'm way up on top.
165:30:34 Schmitt And it's blue-gray with light colored - -
165:30:39 Cernan Put these in my bag.
165:30:40 Schmitt - - inclusions in it.
165:30:41 Cernan All right.
165:30:41 Schmitt But the whole thing seems to be pretty well altered, or metamorphosed - compared to the major rock we sampled - to the other blue-gray rock.
165:30:55 Schmitt This bag is terrible. I can't - it won't latch.
165:31:00 Cernan Man, there's a dark hole in there.
165:31:01 Schmitt Don't let me - I'm not -
165:31:12 Cernan Here's another bag to put in there before you go.
165:31:14 Schmitt Oh, okay. It won't latch.
165:31:21 Cernan Well - -
165:31:22 Schmitt Not at this angle.
165:31:27 Cernan Put the thumb on one side, and I'll - -
165:31:28 Schmitt It's dead or something. There, that's pretty good.
165:31:31 Cernan Now let me fix your bag.
165:31:40 CC And, 17 - -
165:31:40 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I think that inclusion will give you an example of what - -
165:31:50 Cernan That'll stay on.
165:31:50 Schmitt - what this thing - what the anorthositic gabbro did to the blue-gray breccia.
165:31:58 CC Okay. We copy that. And we're ready for you guys to leave this rock and press on and either get the rake soil and cores near that crater down below the rock just a shade, or else go on to some other different variety rocks in the area.
165:32:20 Schmitt Well, I tell you, going down to that crater is not a problem. Getting back up is.
165:32:29 CC Okay, well, find a decent area to get the rake soil from a couple of cores.
165:32:31 Schmitt Tell you what, Gene, I could go down there and start a rake, and you could come down there.
165:32:35 Cernan Okay. I - Yes, I don't think you ought to try and walk back up, Jack. Let me get a pan from right here where I got this sample.
165:32:41 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to come over and - I'll go get the rake and get the - -
165:32:44 CC 17, it's not that vital to get to that crater. We just need a good place for a rake soil and a double - a single core.
165:32:50 Schmitt ... Get uphill a little bit, if you can, for the pan, so that you don't - so you see my other pan station.
165:33:00 Cernan Where was it?
165:33:01 Schmitt It was over there in that crater, just uphill from the Rover.
165:33:04 Cernan I'm going up there.
165:33:06 CC Hey, and, 17, we aren't all that gung ho about that particular crater, if it's that much of a Job to get down to it and back up. Just - we just need a decent place for a rake soil sample and a single core.
165:33:19 Schmitt Okay.
165:33:20 Cernan Bob, we don't move around from here too much. I tell you, these slopes are something else.
165:33:24 CC Yes. We agree with that, from what we see on the television. So use your judgement, and get them where it's the best place
165:33:32 Cernan Well, you might take a look at me walking up. But I don't think I can get to the top. I just got to get a place I can get a pan from, right here. Right in this little hole. Okay, now I left the gnomon down there.
165:33:52 Schmitt Okay. I'll have to go get it. I think they're set up right here near the Rover.
165:33:58 Cernan I think I'll go and save some water, back on INTERMEDIATE. Okay.
165:34:03 CC Copy that.
165:34:05 Cernan Hope my lens is clean. Bob, from up here, the light mantle is not evident until you see the anglular reflection up on the scarp. Very thin-like patches might be evident out on the valley, but not nearly as pronounced as I might have thought from this altitude.
165:34:53 Cernan Oh, and there's Challenger. Holy Smoley. You know, Jack, when we finish with Station 8, we will have covered this whole valley from corner to corner.
165:35:18 Schmitt That was the idea.
165:35:19 Cernan Yes, but I didn't think we'd ever really quite get to that far corner. Not 2, but this other one. And we're going to make it.
165:35:30 Schmitt Bob, that blue-gray rock near the contact with the anorthositic gabbro does get some vesicles in it. I think they'll show up in Gene's pictures.
165:35:51 CC Okay. We have that too, Jack.
165:35:57 Cernan Okay. I just ran out of film at 160. And I'm about two pictures short of the pan, and they're upslope. I think I can cover most of that with the 500.
165:36:19 CC Okay, Gene. You got to go to the Rover and change your mag now.
165:36:24 Cernan Well, Jack's going to need some help from me.
165:36:28 CC Okay. Let me know when you - -
165:36:30 Schmitt I'm starting to rake.
165:36:32 CC Let me know when you get to the Rover to change the mags after you get done with that, and I'll tell you what mag to change.
165:36:34 Cernan Jack, if you got - -
165:36:39 CC But press on and help Jack with those first.
165:36:39 Cernan Jack, if you got enough film, I'll just come and help you.
165:36:42 Schmitt Okay.
165:36:54 Schmitt Okay?
165:36:54 Cernan Yes. Remind me to dust my camera, too, will you?
165:37:02 Schmitt Don't forget to dust your camera.
165:37:04 CC Okay. We'll keep track of that for you, Gene.
165:37:07 PAO Gene Cernan took that tumble.
165:37:09 Cernan Okay. Did you get any before pictures?
165:37:12 Schmitt I'm getting them now.
165:37:13 Cernan Okay.
165:37:15 Schmitt (Laughter) it ain't easy, McGee.
165:37:17 Cernan Man, I tell you, these slopes are great. I wouldn't mind being up on top coming down; but - hey, that boulder track is quite a trench.
165:37:25 Schmitt Yes, sir.
165:37:27 Cernan That thing must be a meter or 2 deep, huh?
165:37:29 Schmitt Okay; the big rake. Well, I think I'll try - -
165:37:36 Cernan Wouldn't it be easier to rake downhill.
165:37:37 Schmitt It would, but the stuff wouldn't stay in.
165:37:40 Cernan (Laughter)
165:37:42 Schmitt Right?
165:37:43 Cernan Well, I don't know.
165:37:44 Schmitt It's a thought.
165:37:50 Cernan Make sure you get that one by the - -
165:37:52 Schmitt Yes, I will.
165:38:10 Schmitt We're not really supposed to be selective about raking.
165:38:14 Cernan Well, you're not; you're just covering the area.
165:38:18 Schmitt That's why I set up there.
165:38:34 Cernan A selective sample is better than no sample at all. Let me put some in there.
165:38:41 Schmitt Okay.
165:38:47 Cernan Bag 558.
165:38:51 CC Copy 558.
165:38:56 Cernan Bob, most of them are -
165:38:57 Schmitt Let me go another couple of flights.
165:38:58 Cernan Okay. There's one a couple of inches. Most of them are an inch or so or smaller. They're angular to subrounded fragments. Some of them look like inclusions. As a matter of fact, the ones that are broken open look like some of the light-colored inclusions we saw in the big boulder. The others are too dust covered to say anything about.
165:39:17 Schmitt A couple of them look fairly coarsely crystalline. Okay. Put these in there.
165:39:26 Cernan Big deal. Now we ended up with three more.
165:39:32 Schmitt Okay. Let me get an after, such as it is. Oh, we want the -
165:39:38 Cernan They want the soil here.
165:39:39 Schmitt Soil - that's right.
165:39:41 CC That's affirm.
165:39:46 Schmitt Okay. You want to put that in?
165:39:47 Cernan Yes, I'd better put it in before I - Okay. Let's try for the soil. 559's the soil.
165:40:03 CC Okay. Copy that. And, 17, our present plans from the back room are that we'd like to get the single core, the 500 millimeter shots - and, I guess, maybe one could do one, and one could do the other - and then we'd like to press on and do a short Station 7, unless you think you've got a fair variety of rocks here. The feeling is to do that ... variety of rocks.
165:40:24 Schmitt Yes.
165:40:24 Cernan Little more, little more, little more.
165:40:31 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'll get the core and let Jack get the 500. 559 is the kilogram of soil. I think we've pretty much covered the general, variety we've seen here. I think we've seen most of them in that boulder.
165:40:43 CC Okay. And so we'd like to go on to Station 7, then, when you get the 500 and the core, in hopes of finding a variation of boulders along the front.
165:41:03 Cernan Okay. Let me know when you get it. Okay. The after. Okay, why don't you get the 500, and I'll get the core.
165:41:14 Schmitt And the LMP's on 120.
165:41:16 CC Copy 120 there. And, Gene, if you want to change, we recommended magazine Foxtrot or Fran, as the case may be.
165:41:24 Cernan Okay. Will try Foxtrot - Franny. Don't forget to get that boulder track.
165:41:30 CC And while you're at it, Gene, you might remember to dust your camera when you're leaning over the seat.
165:41:38 Schmitt Let me look at your camera.
165:41:49 Cernan Oh, man, if this Rover wasn't here, we'd roll downhill.
165:41:52 Schmitt Hey, Bob, I think we could use an upper here if you want to save the lowers.
165:41:58 Cernan I think so, too.
165:41:59 Schmitt Whichever you want. Do you want your - -
165:42:01 Cernan No, I'll get it. Why don't you get your 500, and I'll - -
165:42:03 Schmitt Okay. But do you want a core? Watch the fender.
165:42:06 Cernan The core's in there, isn't it?
165:42:07 Schmitt Well there's some under my seat if you want to use those.
165:42:09 Cernan I'll use those.
165:42:10 CC Stand by, Jack. We have three lowers and two uppers, so we'd just as soon use the extra lower here in the single core. That'll give us two uppers and two lowers left - -
165:42:19 Schmitt Okay.
165:42:19 CC - - for doubles.
165:42:23 Schmitt There should be a lower in there, Geno.
165:42:25 Cernan Yes, Bob, any special place you want that? Just out here on the slope?
165:42:29 CC That's affirm.
165:42:29 Schmitt Should have put the gnomon up. Well -
165:42:30 CC Just out there on the slope. I guess if you saw a crater you might look at that, but primarily we're looking at the crater.
165:42:36 Cernan You don't have any ... I'll get it. I'll get it, Jack. Don't worry. Okay. We have a couple of dents in our fen - in our wheels. That's better than having a flat tire.
165:43:22 Cernan Did he say in a crater?
165:43:30 Schmitt I'm not sure what he said. Thinking - How do - how do I get this doggone -
165:43:39 Cernan This turn to come off?
165:43:43 Schmitt You got to unlock it.
165:43:45 Cernan Yes, it is unlocked.
165:43:46 Schmitt Okay. Now push down and turn.
165:43:49 Cernan Okay. I got it.
165:43:52 Schmitt How am I going to see up there to shoot this thing?
165:43:56 Cernan Well, why don't you lean against the rock? Go over there and lean against it.
165:44:01 Schmitt Well, I have to do something. I was trying to get so I could lean against the Rover, but that ain't going to work.
165:44:08 Cernan The Rover isn't steady enough for you to lean against.
165:44:11 Schmitt Well, it's steady enough. There's just no place to lean.
165:44:14 CC Okay. And, Jack, and if you'll listen for a minute, I'll tell you some possible 500-millimeter targets the people have in mind. One, the LM, if you can see it from there. Two, Nansen, if you can see it from there. Three, Lara; and four, Shorty. In other words, I guess they're talking about looking along your traverse from yesterday. It would be mostly the back shots, apparently. And then, also, the South Massif, and I don't know what you can get of boulder tracks leading up the North Massif. And most of those will be looking downhill towards the LM, stations 2, 3, and 4. Over. Nansen, Lara, and Shorty.
165:44:53 Schmitt I got you, Bob.
165:44:55 Cernan Yes, the LM is visible by the way.
165:45:32 Schmitt Okay. I got a set of the - the - what looks like the outcrop from which the boulder came.
165:46:16 Schmitt I'm afraid they're moved a little bit.
165:46:32 Schmitt Oh, I can't - That's it. I got a few pictures looking up the boulder track and then off to the right - to the left a little bit - and one off to the right. And I think - I'm not sure how well they overlap; that's just an awful hard shot.
165:46:53 CC Okay; good on that. And if you're done with that, have you got a frame count - or you're still taking them, I guess, it looks like.
165:47:05 Schmitt Yes.
165:47:14 Cernan Okay, my camera is clean. Magazine Foxtrot - is on about frame 2, and I cycled through it. And I've got the core all set, and I'm going to go get it. And I didn't hear where you said to put it, Bob.
165:47:38 CC Anywhere.
165:47:43 Cernan Oh, man, you're easy.
165:47:46 CC And did you get your camera - -
165:47:47 Cernan Anywhere. Not the bottom of a small crater, huh?
165:47:54 CC Any place. And did you get your camera dusted?
165:47:57 Cernan Yes. I got it all dusted and the mag's changed.
165:48:04 CC Good.
165:48:05 Cernan It's 448.
165:48:08 CC Copy that.
165:48:11 Cernan Okay. I'll even get you a picture of it.
165:48:21 Cernan Oh me. Oh my.
165:48:25 PAO EVA time 2 hours and 15 minutes.
165:48:50 Cernan Oh me. Oh my. Can you get the LM from there?
165:48:53 Schmitt Yes.
165:48:56 Cernan That core went in very easy, Bob. I pushed it in about a quarter of the way. And about another five or six whacks, and it's in all the way.
165:49:30 Cernan Okay. Come on out now, baby.
165:49:37 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Shorty, and Station 3, and Station 2, and what else.
165:49:52 CC And any sort of outcrop you see in the South Massif.
165:49:59 Schmitt I thought we shot those.
165:50:01 CC Okay. If you got those, fine.
165:50:05 Schmitt No, I mean the other day.
165:50:08 CC Well - -
165:50:08 Schmitt I'll try again.
165:50:09 CC Stereo is stereo is stereo, I guess.
165:50:10 Schmitt Okay, and I got you a little soil me - Well, but it's not stereo; it's right along the same line. Little soil mechanics of the hole, which stayed intact; very nice and round.
165:50:22 CC Okay. We copy that.
165:50:27 Schmitt Okay. Oh, man.
165:50:38 Cernan Yes, sir, we got a couple of dented tires.
165:50:43 Schmitt Okay, hands have had it.
165:50:46 CC Okay; good enough.
165:50:46 Schmitt You aren't going to get anything else out of me if I keep taking pictures.
165:50:49 CC And, Gene, what's a dented tire?
165:50:55 Cernan A dented tire is a little - oh, a little golfball size or smaller indentation in the mesh. How does that sound to you? Doesn't hurt anything.
165:51:07 CC That sounds like a dented tire; that's how it sounds.
165:51:09 Schmitt Frame 31, Bob.
165:51:10 CC Cappy - copy frame 31.
165:51:12 Cernan That's sort of like what it is.
165:51:19 Schmitt Okay. LMP was what? 120? I guess we can get to the next station with that.
165:51:25 CC Yes, Roger.
165:51:26 Cernan Yes, I got a brand new mag out.
165:51:27 CC And we'd like to get you guys rolling as soon as feasible there.
165:51:33 Schmitt Yes, sir. It's our policy.
165:51:36 Cernan Okay. I'll need your rammer, so if you'll just turn right.
165:51:44 Schmitt Good timing. Pin's out; core tube is safe. In full.
165:51:57 Cernan I knew it was. Okay. You take this and put this under your seat, if you want, Jack. And I'll get the TGE. Oh, let me put your shovel back on for you. I'll get it.
165:52:14 Schmitt Get that?
165:52:14 Cernan Yes.
165:52:29 Schmitt Don't lose that. Boy, if you do -
165:52:32 Schmitt Okay. Did you give them the number?
165:52:34 Cernan Yes, they got the number.
165:52:35 Schmitt Under the LMP's seat.
165:52:35 CC Roger. We got it. Copy that - under the LMP's seat.
165:52:41 Schmitt (Laughter) I'm sneaking up on the TGE.
165:52:46 Cernan You need some help?
165:52:47 Schmitt No. No, I was - just sneaking up, that's all.
165:52:51 Cernan ... let you lean on me.
165:52:52 Schmitt No, I got it.
165:52:56 Cernan 670, 109, 801; 670, 109, 801.
165:53:05 CC Okay. We copy that.
165:53:13 Schmitt I wish we - the one thing I didn't do. While you're doing that -
165:53:25 Cernan ...
165:53:27 Schmitt Didn't get pictures of those foliated vesicles. I don't think the ones you had were in that kind of rock.
165:53:40 Cernan I don't want to lose that thing, so I guess - -
165:53:43 CC Okay, 17, when you get back on here, we don't need any charges, and we'll leave the sets turned off.
165:53:54 Schmitt I'm not sure. Did you turn it off, Gene?
165:53:56 Cernan Yes, I turned it off. I turned it off. Okay. Let me see. We want to move on to 7 here. Rake, talus, documented core, you got your stereos, we got two pans, TGE, camera. Okay, we're going to head east and look for Station 7 - block variation, contact change, and get a different sample of rocks. Okay, I sure want to get one or two of those nice ones in the big bag while you're over there.
165:54:31 CC Okay - -
165:54:31 Schmitt Open the gate, and I'll bring one.
165:54:32 CC - - Seven - Okay. And let me know when you get ready to get back on the Rover there, 17.
165:54:46 Cernan Guess what isn't opening again. Should, though. It's all set right.
165:54:56 CC You could put them under Jack's seat if it's easier.
165:55:13 Cernan Okay. What do you want done to the SEP while I'm here? Do you want the blanket stayed - left open?
165:55:15 CC Okay, we'd - Negative. We'd like the blankets closed and taped down again, if possible, and both switches left off. We won't touch it again until Station 8.
165:55:28 Cernan Oh, tape's not going to stick anymore, I'm afraid.
165:55:31 CC Well, try.
165:55:32 Schmitt Big bag open?
165:55:33 Cernan Yes, it's all open. All set.
165:55:35 Schmitt Get me a - I need a normal sample bag for one here. It's pretty fragile.
165:55:40 Cernan Okay. Oh, that doggoned thing's not going to - That tape is full of dust now. Okay. Wait a minute, Jack.
165:55:49 Schmitt Here, let me get this big one. I'm about ready to drop it. It looks like a gabbro.
165:56:00 Cernan There's sample bag 560.
165:56:05 CC Copy 560.
165:56:05 Schmitt And 560 has an undoc - undocumented except by the pans - very white - looks like a crushed anorthosite. It looks like the - some of the inclusions in the breccia - in the gray breccia - gray and recrystallized breccia.
165:56:24 CC Okay. We copy that.
165:56:24 Cernan Jack, when you get around, and we close this gate, you might try and hit that - top of that SEP down again.
165:56:29 Schmitt I will.
165:56:34 Cernan Hey, Bob, you're staying keyed an awful long time. We can hear a lot of what's going on back there. Wait a minute. Let me get this out of the way. Okay. Close it. Yes. That's got it.
165:56:53 Schmitt ... it's -
165:56:54 Cernan That's got it. Okay.
165:56:55 Schmitt Oop, oop, oop. Why'd that come off?
165:56:57 Cernan Well, because it's not locked. It's ... that never was locked.
165:56:59 Schmitt (Laughter) We lucked out.
165:57:14 Cernan Okay. We're moving. Sort of.
165:57:20 CC And, before you get on, remember to close the battery covers if they -
165:57:26 Cernan Yes.
165:57:33 Schmitt Your camera lens looks all right, Geno.
165:57:36 Cernan Yes, I dusted it already.
165:57:37 Schmitt Oh.
165:57:41 Cernan Okay. Cover closed -
165:57:44 Schmitt Okay. Do they want it on or off? Leave it off, huh?
165:57:47 Cernan Leave it off, but try and close that cover as best you can.
165:57:50 Schmitt Well, I'm afraid the tape has had it.
165:57:53 Cernan I know it.
165:57:54 Schmitt You want us to tape it again, Bob? What did you do with the tape?
165:57:59 CC If you can grab the tape right off, but don't spend a lot of time on it.
165:58:06 Schmitt What did you do with that tape?
165:58:09 CC Let's worry about - let's worry about it at Station 7, if we're going to worry about it. Press on.
165:58:15 Schmitt Okay.
165:58:17 Cernan Yes. Let's - let's forget it now. It's too hard, to work on there, and it's not going to take just a minute. It's going to take too much time. I'm not sure I can get back on here.
165:58:24 Schmitt Well, let me give you a hand. We need any a - we don't need any -
165:58:28 Cernan No.
165:58:29 Schmitt Nothing. As a matter of fact -
165:58:31 Cernan I can drive, Jack.
165:58:32 Schmitt Why don't you drive down and get - so you're not - You can get on -
165:58:35 Cernan You can go downhill very easy.
165:58:37 Schmitt Yes.
165:58:38 Cernan Okay. Let me get the TV; The battery covers are closed - Let me carry - -
165:58:43 Schmitt Why don't you just go down there.
165:58:44 Cernan - - I'll carry the Rover samples just in case.
165:58:47 Schmitt Got it?
165:58:47 Cernan Okay. I'll get that out of your way, too.
165:58:54 Schmitt Okay. I'll head down to that, ... that side hill over to those boulders right over there and then see if that's any change.
165:59:09 Cernan Okay. You might, if you get another sample - a large sample, you might grab it, and we'll throw it in the footpan here - and - and I'll see if I can't find a level spot to - -
165:59:19 Schmitt I sort of ought to have my scoop, too.
165:59:20 Cernan - - help you get on. No, don't take too much; just take that. That's all you need.
165:59:25 Schmitt How about letting me have your hammer, then?
165:59:27 Cernan Well -
165:59:29 CC Okay; and, IT, can you verify that the - that the gnomon is back in the Rover?
165:59:37 Cernan Gnomon is on the Rover. The TGE is on the Rover.
165:59:41 Schmitt The rake.
165:59:42 Cernan The rake is on the Rover. The scoop's on the Rover. We got the - you put the core under your pan, right?
165:59:48 Schmitt Yes, that's right.
165:59:49 Cernan Okay. I'm going to power up and see if I can't come down and get you.
165:59:55 Schmitt It's fun walking downhill. Boy, that boulder track is impressive.
166:00:06 CC Okay; and, IT, when you get moving - when you get moving we want to get, and I quote, a maximum variety of hand samples with a minimum amount of documentation, in a minimum amount of time at Station 7. It's just an attempt to see what kind of variety we can get along the face of the front. Over.
166:00:28 Cernan Roger. Okay. Well, I'm not sure I can get down without ending up in your seat.
166:00:38 PAO Station 7 is 8 tenths of a kilometer east of Station 6, still along the base of the North Massif.
166:00:40 Schmitt Need some help?
166:00:41 Cernan No ...
166:00:42 Schmitt I shouldn't have left.
166:00:45 Cernan No, no. I don't need any help. I'll get on.
166:01:00 Schmitt I probably ought to turn my water off of MAX if that's where it is. It's cold. I don't want to run out today.
166:01:56 Cernan Well, the roll indicator says 15 degrees; and the pitch indicator says about 12. I don't know if I believe all that. Bob, you with us?
166:02:06 CC Go ahead. Right. We're with you.
166:02:10 Cernan Okay. I'm rolling.
166:02:12 CC Copy that.
166:02:35 Cernan Man, this is still a slope. Jack, I'm going to pull around and in the front of the way you're facing.
166:02:44 Schmitt I can go down - There's a crater over here. Don't drive through it.
166:02:53 Cernan Oh, there you are. This is much better. How is this?
166:02:57 Schmitt That's great.
166:03:01 Cernan We ought to be able to pick up lots of those fragments out in that field out there.
166:03:07 Schmitt Be right with you.
166:03:08 Cernan Okay. Bob, I just came downslope reading 193/3.1 - just about 100 meters to pick up Jack.
166:03:19 CC Okay, copy that.
166:03:23 Schmitt Okay. Bag 48 Yankee has a sample of about a half - one-third-meter boulder that was lying in - that's sitting right smack dab in a little crater of it's own.
166:03:47 CC Copy that.
166:03:48 Cernan Oh, Jack.
166:03:49 Schmitt What?
166:03:50 Cernan Oh, you Just kicked a snowstorm of dust across here.
166:03:52 Schmitt I'm sorry. I just fell, too.
166:03:55 Cernan Did you? You all right?
166:03:56 Schmitt Yes. Got your hammer?
166:03:58 Cernan Yes.
166:04:00 Schmitt Okay.
166:04:03 Cernan I got to drop it in the pan here. Hold on to it, I think.
166:04:10 Schmitt Couldn't help that one.
166:04:13 Cernan Yes. I think we can get some more level spots. I can dust this thing back there.
166:04:16 Schmitt Am I really on?
166:04:16 Schmitt Am I really on?
166:04:20 Cernan You're high. You're twisted. Go away from me one twist.
166:04:24 Schmitt Okay.
166:04:28 Cernan Is it caught in something? Yes, it is. You're - oh, wait a minute - get up, get up, get up. You've got - you're sitting on - get up.
166:04:33 Schmitt What am I sitting on?
166:04:34 Cernan Can't get out. You didn't put this away. Wait a minute. Get up, out - all the way.
166:04:40 Schmitt Oh, that thing.
166:04:41 Cernan Yes, this thing.
166:04:42 Schmitt That's right. That's why you're sitting high. I knew I'd forget that. Okay. Now, let me get this thing out. Okay. Okay. Let's press. Better get latched.
166:05:22 Cernan Okay. All set?
166:05:24 Schmitt Yes.
166:05:25 Cernan Okay.
166:05:36 Cernan We're rolling, Bob.
166:05:38 Schmitt LMP frame - is 130.
166:05:47 Cernan You got a lot of static now?
166:05:49 Schmitt Yes.
166:05:50 Cernan Okay.
166:05:52 Schmitt Hey, you got a rock on your right. I guess you - -
166:05:53 Cernan Yes. I got them.
166:05:53 Schmitt ...
166:05:58 Cernan I got the low gain set. Hello, Houston. Do you read?
166:06:02 CC Roger. We read loud and clear.
166:06:06 Cernan Okay.
166:06:10 Schmitt Okay; how about that field, not this block but there's sort of a collection of them - -
166:06:15 Cernan Yes. Way out there - -
166:06:16 Schmitt - - way out there, about 300 meters or so.
166:06:19 Cernan Oh, at least. Yes.
166:06:22 Schmitt Oh; going into the Sun, I can't see a thing to tell you about Wessex Cleft.
166:06:27 CC Okay. Station 7 is nominally 208 and 3.3, but it's any group of any significant boulders you want to stop at in reality.
166:06:37 Cernan Understand.
166:06:44 Schmitt Oh, easy.
166:06:48 Cernan You feel like you're on a downslope over there?
166:06:49 Schmitt Yes. I feel like you're about ready to spin out downhill any minute.
166:06:52 Cernan Do you? I don't feel that at all up here.
166:07:00 Schmitt Bob, it's hard to give you much, looking into the Sun the way we are.
166:07:06 Cernan We must be about 200 meters up the slope, looking at that little valley down there, Jack. Am I right?
166:07:10 Schmitt Yes. I think you're right. The pattern on the slope really doesn't look much different than on the light mantle. Matter of fact, it looks very much like light mantle, except for these large blocks that are in it.
166:07:23 CC Okay. Copy that. And you guys may still have your visors up. We can't tell, but you might be better off with them down, if you've forgotten they they're up.
166:07:33 Schmitt Well, boy, I can't see. My hands work just as well as ray visor, as a matter of fact.
166:07:41 Cernan No, I can't believe - mine could be up.
166:07:43 Schmitt You've got a crater right in front of you.
166:07:45 Cernan Yes. I got it.
166:07:47 Schmitt Okay. That looks like a pretty good pile to work on.
166:07:49 Cernan Yes. Let's go over in there.
166:07:50 Schmitt Hey, wait a minute. Okay.
166:07:51 Cernan Bob, what heading are you going to want me to park on? I want to get in that flat area, Jack, sol can dust the radiators.
166:07:57 Schmitt Yes.
166:07:57 CC We have no constraints, Gene. This is going to be a very short station. Probably not more than 10 or 15 minutes. But just to grab, as I say a maximum variety of hand samples with a minimum amount of documentation and a minimum amount of time.
166:08:12 Cernan Okay. We can do a pan, and pick up a lot of those small ones, Jack.
166:08:15 Schmitt Yes.
166:08:17 Cernan Rather than trying to chip.
166:08:22 CC Okay. We would like to have the - -
166:08:24 Cernan I'd like to see us a little more level.
166:08:25 CC - - TV camera and its mirrors and stuff dusted there, however. But we won't do anything to the battery.
166:08:30 Schmitt I thought you were going to stop back there.
166:08:33 Cernan Well, okay. I was going out - out here around this big one.
166:08:38 Schmitt I'm sorry. I misunderstood you.
166:08:40 Cernan Yes. See, there's a lot of little ones up in here I want to -
166:08:51 Cernan Okay. Do not do anything to the batteries. Understand.
166:08:53 CC Roger.
166:08:54 Schmitt I can't figure out where you're going to stop.
166:08:56 Cernan Right in here - right here to give you as much of a level spot as I can. That's about as level a spot as I can find. I'm inside the slope of a crater.
166:09:04 Cernan Bob, I'm at 200/3.3.
166:09:07 CC Copy that.
166:09:22 Schmitt You want me to help you with it - that thing, Geno?
166:09:24 Cernan No, I'll get it. Only one guy can do it.
166:09:31 Cernan I just - we'll take - you take a pan before, and we'll start picking up some of those samples, and I'll take a pan afterward.
166:09:40 Schmitt Well, let's see here.
166:09:48 Cernan See what kind of variety we can get here.
166:09:50 Schmitt There is another one of our blue-gray breccias, I think, over there; recrystallized breccias with some of that crushed anorthosite in it. I think right in here I'm going to take the pan at about - -
166:10:08 CC And, Jack, what's your frame count?
166:10:12 Schmitt 131.
166:10:14 CC Okay. Press on.
166:10:22 Schmitt Bob, I'm going to take the pan at 11 - feet, so you can see the fragments that we are going to pick up here. Then we can take another one at - for location work.
166:10:40 CC Copy that.
166:11:00 PAO The picture's coming in now. EVA time 2 hours 38 minutes.
166:11:11 Cernan Should have it, Bob.
166:11:13 CC We've got a TV. And, I repeat, we'd like to get some dust both on the mirror - dusting of the mirror and the lens of the TV; TCU and the TV.
166:11:26 Cernan Let me get you - let me get you out of the Sun.
166:11:39 Cernan I wouldn't do this for anybody but you, you know that.
166:11:44 CC Okay. Looks good, Gene. Thank you.
166:12:07 Cernan You know what? I'm getting tired of dusting.
166:12:28 Cernan My primary tool, the dustbrush and the hammer - and my head. Okay. You ready to start picking?
166:12:43 Schmitt Picking.
166:12:44 Cernan Okay.
166:12:51 CC And - -
166:12:51 Cernan You notice the temperature difference with that high Sun angle?
166:12:56 CC Roger. You're probably letting in a lot of infrared through that - without having that gold visor down, too. That's sort of an infrared shield.
166:13:05 Cernan Yes, but mine's been down all the time, Bob.
166:13:07 CC Copy that.
166:13:07 Cernan Except in the shade.
166:13:12 Schmitt Okay, 540 is the first bag of selected samples.
166:13:19 CC Copy that.
166:13:23 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to leave it open, but don't let me - let me get -
166:13:25 Cernan Here, put that one in there.
166:13:28 Schmitt Wait a minute, let's get a bag on it. We're getting too many rocks, and we don't know where they came from.
166:13:39 Schmitt I don't think it will fit. Know it?
166:13:42 Cernan Yes, we'll wrap it a little bit. ... it will fit. ... fit.
166:14:07 Schmitt Okay. Bag 541 is partially around another big rock in Gene's - Gene's collection bag.
166:14:27 Cernan Did you get pictures of this thing here?
166:14:29 Schmitt Yes; well, not the big rock yet. Not in focus anyway.
166:14:33 Cernan I got to do that.
166:14:36 Schmitt I was just collecting in this area.
166:14:38 Cernan Why don't you keep grabbing a few, and I'm going to -
166:14:42 Schmitt That's what I'm doing.
166:14:43 Cernan That's one of the blue-gray rocks, Bob. And it's got a light-colored fragment that runs the full height of it, about a meter and a half thick. And then it's got the gray or blue-gray rock on the other side. As a matter of fact - Let me look at it closely. It's a fragment in it all right.
166:15:18 CC Okay. Copy that, Gene. And remember to document around the corner if you're trying to get some photo documentation of the boulder.
166:15:35 Cernan Bob, I wouldn't be absolutely positive, but it sure looks like I see a dikelet in here that's in the inclusion. And I'm going to get a closeup stereo of it. I'd call it a dikelet, if you pinned me down.
166:15:48 CC Okay. Copy that.
166:15:51 Schmitt Pin him - pin him down.
166:16:10 Cernan I wish I could break a sample right off. Here's another one. It is a dikelet! There's three or four of them.
166:16:21 CC Okay. Copy that, Gene. Very good.
166:16:29 Cernan Oh - me; oh, wy. The material in the dike looks - Yes, it is, it is, it's not covering it. It's between the - it's between the - lighter colored rock, and it's the blue-gray rock.
166:17:09 Schmitt 542 is another bag of goodies.
166:17:13 CC Copy that.
166:17:14 Schmitt Gene, let me get rid of this.
166:17:15 Cernan Oh, wait a minute. I got - I got - Well, maybe it isn't a dikelet. Maybe it's just a screen covering, a flow covering.
166:17:23 Schmitt No, you got - They're - they're dikes.
166:17:24 Cernan Let me - let me -
166:17:25 Schmitt They're little veinlets of -
166:17:27 Cernan Let me get this whole thing in a bag.
166:17:31 Cernan I got a - I got a rock, Bob. It's fractured, primarily around the dike. It's in several pieces, but we're going to put it all in one bag.
166:17:39 Schmitt 543.
166:17:42 Cernan Some of the men are going to have to assemble that.
166:17:42 CC Copy, 543.
166:17:50 Schmitt Here.
166:17:50 Cernan Here, I got - I got - Let me get it piece by piece.
166:17:57 Schmitt Okay. We need to get a - put one of those dikes in another bag. Bob, it looks like some fraction of the blue-gray material has obviously - -
166:18:12 Cernan Not too full. That's all right.
166:18:13 Schmitt - - intruded. Huh? Now, can you get that dike there?
166:18:17 Cernan Piece of it?
166:18:18 Schmitt That's right.
166:18:19 Cernan Yes.
166:18:19 Schmitt Can you get that?
166:18:20 Cernan I can get it right here.
166:18:22 Schmitt No, I think - No, get the piece with the - you get more of it, right there.
166:18:25 Cernan Yes. It's this soft, white inclusion again. It breaks pretty easy.
166:18:35 Cernan Oh, it's got to be a dike. Look at that.
166:18:37 Schmitt It is. It is.
166:18:42 Cernan Okay.
166:18:43 Schmitt Okay, 544.
166:18:45 CC Copy that.
166:18:45 Cernan Oh, yes, it is because I just broke into it.
166:18:47 Schmitt Yes.
166:18:47 Cernan I'm looking - -
166:18:48 CC And we'd like to have you guys moving again in 5 minutes to get to Station 8 on time.
166:18:56 Schmitt Yes, sir. Looks like - although the blue-gray up on the hill looked like a fragment breccia, if this is still related, then it's - been some partial melting at some time.
166:19:16 Cernan There's a preserved contact between the dike and the - -
166:19:17 Schmitt That's what I wanted.
166:19:19 Cernan - - white material.
166:19:20 Schmitt That's what I wanted.
166:19:20 Cernan Why don't we get this big piece of dike now?
166:19:21 Schmitt See if you can get - Whoa! Don't hit it again. There, you've still got some - still got some contact there.
166:19:31 Cernan Now, there's some good contact. Man, that'll do it.
166:19:34 Schmitt Okay.
166:19:35 Cernan That'll do it.
166:19:36 Schmitt Dike and intruded rock in 544. Now, these dikes are a dark bluish-gray. And it looks like there are some - it looks like they're very finely crystalline - maybe with some - -
166:19:51 Cernan Get my bag. I'm taking some closeups.
166:19:52 Schmitt - - very fine phenocrysts.
166:19:55 Schmitt Okay.
166:19:58 CC Okay. We copy that.
166:19:59 Schmitt We ought to get - Well - we ought to get a piece of the normal gray that the dikes are coming from. You got your hammer handy still?
166:20:09 Cernan Yes. I want to - I want to get - -
166:20:12 Schmitt Go ahead.
166:20:13 Cernan - - finish documenting this thing.
166:20:19 Cernan Ah-hah! Ah-hah!
166:20:20 Schmitt Hey, over here on this side, it looks like the vesicular anorthositic gabbro.
166:20:30 Cernan I got to get some regular pictures on this set. Okay. Here's the - if that one won't come off, this one will. Got it?
166:20:41 Schmitt And - Yes. 561. That's a sample of the gray, looks like recrystallized breccia that the dikes are continuous with.
166:20:57 CC Okay. And a -
166:20:59 Schmitt And a - Bob, that's my turn to say "and a." And the - the vesicular rocks -
166:21:18 Cernan Let me finish the stereo around the corner here.
166:21:22 CC Okay. And you guys have dropped the scoop there on the ground. And we're ready for you guys to leave.
166:21:30 Cernan I know you are.
166:21:34 CC And you might grab one FSR on the way out.
166:21:41 Cernan Okay. We'll do that.
166:21:42 Schmitt Okay. There's that one. The vesicular anorthositic gabbro is in 5 - What is it? 62.
166:21:54 Cernan 62.
166:21:55 Cernan I'll get this in there, and you take the -
166:21:58 Schmitt I got to get the scoop.
166:21:58 Cernan Scoop, and I'll get the hammer. Then make sure your bag is closed.
166:22:02 Schmitt Yes, I've got to check yours, too. Let me get uphill from you, though.
166:22:04 Cernan Wait a minute. Give me the hammer. Hows that? Can you get it now?
166:22:12 Schmitt This is one of the worst bags we've had ... It just doesn't stay down. Probably - If we get time somewhere, we ought to change that out.
166:22:34 Cernan Two of the corners are - -
166:22:35 Schmitt Yes. Well -
166:22:37 Cernan How's she doing?
166:22:37 Schmitt It's okay. It'll hold for a while.
166:22:52 Schmitt Okay.
166:22:56 Cernan Okay. Here's an FSR that's about -
166:23:00 CC And, Jack, you're untied on one - one side of your bag is undone again.
166:23:07 Schmitt Oh, I'll get it - for you.
166:23:13 Cernan Here's a football-size rock that was 50 percent varied.
166:23:16 Schmitt Can you grip it? I got the gate open.
166:23:26 Cernan I'm going to get your bag. Hey! Did you see the way I handled that hammer?
166:23:29 Schmitt Yes.
166:23:29 Cernan Tell you what, I'm getting accustomed to things.
166:23:38 Cernan That gate's a little sluggish, too, Jack.
166:23:46 Cernan Boy, I think everything is so full of dust, nothing wants to move anymore.
166:23:54 Schmitt Okay. That one looked like a piece of the gray rock, I think.
166:23:57 Cernan Yes. I'll bet I didn't push the gravimeter here. Did I, Bob?
166:24:00 CC No. We'll get it at Station 8.
166:24:02 Schmitt No. They didn't tell us to.
166:24:05 Cernan Okay. Jack, you're going to have to close the gate, and I'll have to hold the big bag over the top.
166:24:09 Schmitt Okay.
166:24:10 CC Okay. And, Jack, before you leave, we'd like you to change mags before you get to - before you leave this station.
166:24:18 Schmitt Yes, sir. I'll do that. No. ...
166:24:23 Cernan Wait a minute.
166:24:24 Schmitt I've got it.
166:24:25 Cernan Yes, but don't push.
166:24:26 Schmitt I won't.
166:24:26 Cernan One of those little ... strip - Okay, now you can push. Okay, that's locked. Well, it's in. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me see what's going on in there. Oh, - we - this thing isn't - didn't - isn't released all the way. Pull it out this - that's ... Push. Okay, now -
166:24:55 Schmitt There, you got it. It went in.
166:24:56 Cernan Okay, that's the dust again. Now, the bag's in the way. Let me get the bag out.
166:25:01 CC Okay. And, Gene, you might get the -
166:25:03 Cernan Okay. Now shove it. That's too much. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me - Okay. Let me lift it up and do it. Well, wait a minute, I've got to tweak this thing. Okay, now shove it in. Right now.
166:25:25 Schmitt That got it. No? Why don't you play with it, and I'll see if I can change a mag.
166:25:41 Cernan Well, dadgummit! That latch is -
166:25:48 Schmitt ... ?
166:25:49 Cernan I'll lock it. I'll just push that latch - that latch is just sticking, that's all. It's just dust again. I don't know what you do about those problems.
166:25:56 Schmitt Okay, what magazine did you want, Bob?
166:25:58 CC Magazine Mike, as in Mary.
166:26:00 Cernan Okay. It's latched.
166:26:04 CC Gene, you might spend your time taking a - -
166:26:07 Cernan It's latched.
166:26:07 CC - - standard 74-foot pan while Jack is changing his mag, if you got a chance there.
166:26:15 Cernan That's a splendid idea, sir. And that's exactly what I'll do. I don't mind going uphill, because it's so much fun coming down. Down in my little hole here. Oh! That's stability. That's stability.
166:27:07 Cernan Boy, Challenger looks a long way away. That's 3 kilometers, huh?.
166:27:20 Schmitt Yes.
166:27:29 Schmitt Okay. Mag's changed.
166:27:32 CC Copy that.
166:27:40 Schmitt Bob, those two bags with the goodies in them will have enough soil to be representative of the area we sampled, too, I think.
166:27:50 CC Okay, copy that. And did you guys get your bags fixed up there, Jack? We were concerned about your SCB for a while.
166:27:58 Schmitt No. We have to do that.
166:28:00 Cernan We'll do it.
166:28:01 CC Okay.
166:28:01 Schmitt Look at my camera lens and see how dirty it is.
166:28:14 Cernan Now it's the other hook that came - turn a little more left. No, it didn't - it didn't come off, I don't think - unless it - the bottom's off, but the bottom is not going to stay on. And it's not - you're not going to lose it. The tops are so tight you'll - Your bottom's loose, but that - that's because your harness shrunk a little bit.
166:28:33 Schmitt Okay.
166:28:34 CC Okay. It looked like, from time to time, guys, that only one of Jack's hooks was hooked. On the top.
166:28:41 Cernan Yes. They're both on, and they're both tight. And - -
166:28:45 CC Okay. We copy.
166:28:46 Cernan - - I got the bottom hooked again, too.
166:28:51 Schmitt Yes. Okay.
166:28:51 Cernan Bottom - but his bottom is not going to stay.
166:28:53 Schmitt Okay. Check my lens.
166:28:56 Cernan Oh, your lens is beautiful!
166:28:57 Schmitt ... What's mine look like? Can you see it?
166:28:59 Cernan Yes, I know it's clean. Let's forget it.
166:29:01 CC Okay; and, 17, as you get around to the front there, Gene, would you dust the LCRU; we don't think you did that here, and the top of the TV camera. And, Jack, would you take a peek at the SEP temperature for us?
166:29:15 Cernan I'm sorry, Bob. I already did that when we stopped at the station.
166:29:19 CC Okay. It's ... - -
166:29:21 Schmitt SEP temperature is about 115 -
166:29:27 CC Copy. 115.
166:29:38 CC Okay, then. Press on.
166:29:50 PAO The television has been shut down while the crew travels south-east to Station 8, along the base of the Sculptured Hills. It will be up to crew discression just exactly where to sample along the base of these hills.
166:29:55 Schmitt Okay.
166:29:56 Cernan Jack, this is tied down everywhere. You're just going to have to watch it.
166:30:12 Schmitt I will. Okay, I'm in.
166:30:19 Schmitt Hey, we seem to do an awful lot of down-Sun driving for - or up-Sun driving for all the planning we did (laughter).
166:30:26 CC Yes. Wait until we come home from Station 8, then we'll take care of it.
166:30:31 Cernan Okay.
166:30:31 CC And, Gene, as you get started there, we'd like a couple of Rover battery temperatures; at least one, we know what the other one says. And, Jack, we might get a frame count from you - Oh, excuse me, we already got that. Thank you, because you changed.
166:30:47 Cernan Well, okay, 110; and CDR, by the way, is about 73 on the frames.
166:30:54 CC Copy that.
166:31:00 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'd like the range and bearing to the - We're roll - we -
166:31:04 Schmitt How did you get in reverse?
166:31:05 Cernan I don't know.
166:31:08 Cernan Okay. We're rolling, and I'd like the range and bearing to the next -
166:31:14 CC Okay. We want a heading of around 1 - we want a heading of around 125, and there's going to be a short - some - a small turn, and I think it's just at crater - the SWP Crater at 225 and 3.4, there'll be a slight turn. That's a heading of 125 is what you should start out on.
166:31:33 Cernan That's what I'm looking for.
166:31:35 CC And 225 and 3.4 -
166:31:36 Cernan I though we were bypassing -
166:31:40 CC No, we just do that - -
166:31:41 Cernan I thought we were bypassing SWP.
166:31:42 CC - - through the mission planning stages.
166:31:48 Cernan 225 and 3.4. Okay.
166:31:52 Schmitt That's pretty close to nominal.
166:31:54 Cernan Yes. ... got my - Man, I tell you, this little navigation map I've got on my hand - cuff checklist is - is unquestionably the greatest thing that I've ever - done.
166:32:10 Schmitt Sure hard to tell where north is on it, though.
166:32:17 Cernan Trying my best to keep you out of those slopes.
166:32:19 Schmitt That's all right. I'm learning to tolerate it.
166:32:26 Schmitt Okay, Bob. We're pretty close now to - no, really not. We're still about 100 meters, I think, from where the break in slope is - with the flank. And - but we're away from the block population except for scattered - two great big blocks out ahead of us, this side of the SWP Crater. And - but the average population is down to the 1 percent or less, again.
166:32:58 Cernan That average population really never changed up in here. Just the big blocks were around. I saw some little -
166:33:08 PAO We estimate driving time to be 20 minutes. Distance about 2.3 kilometers.
166:33:13 Schmitt Half-meter to one-third-meter, glass-lined, pit-bottom craters. Look at the size of those things!
166:33:27 Cernan Boy, aren't they big mothers - mamoos (laughter).
166:33:33 Schmitt (Laughter) And it looks like they're probably the same thing that we sampled. They have the inclusions in them, white inclusions. They look like a mixture of gray and the - sort of a tan-gray of the - the gray of the recrystallized breccia, and the tan-gray of the anorthositic gabbro.
166:34:01 Schmitt That must - Hey, look! There's Van Serg, blocky rim crater. That's the other side of Cochise there. See it?
166:34:12 Cernan Yes. Way over there.
166:34:15 Schmitt Yes. Cochise is certainly a shallow crater, although we knew that. It doesn't have any - it only has one place I can see that has any blocks on the inner wall of Cochise. Otherwise, it has a surface much like what we're driving on for walls and for the floor. One place on the south - southeast wall there is a concentration of blocks much like we saw in Henry or in Horatio. But the rest of the crater seems to be pretty well mantled. Van Serg is a very blocky rim crater, big blocks up on the rim.
166:34:52 Cernan Do you have a lot of static, Jack, or is it just me?
166:34:54 Schmitt No, I think it's just you. People are always giving you static.
166:35:02 Cernan Bob, if you are still reading me, I'm looking at the Sculptured Hills, and I still have that - that old man wrinkled face appearance, even up close at this Sun angle. And those wrinkles go from, generally, upslope at the west to downslope at the east.
166:35:21 Schmitt Hey, are you - No, you're right at the edge of Cochise. Aren't you?
166:35:27 Cernan Where? Right here?
166:35:29 Schmitt Yes. Aren't you?
166:35:29 Cernan No, we're not that close. Uh-uh. Cochise is up at - see that rim where those blocks are?
166:35:33 Schmitt No, that's a small crater.
166:35:35 Cernan Oh, I'll bet you that's Cochise up there. We've got to go quite a ways yet to get to -
166:35:39 CC How about a range and bearing there, guys?
166:35:40 Cernan This sideslope driving is really a tough - -
166:35:44 CC How about a range and bearing?
166:35:45 Cernan Okay. It's 210/3.4.
166:35:48 CC Copy that. 210/3.4. And you should be somewhat north of Cochise there, as per planning, although you may be cutting south to try going directly up-Sun.
166:36:03 Cernan I guess that's some other - That's Just a depression. I think Cochise is over that rim.
166:36:08 Schmitt That's just a depression. Yes, yes. Those are getting warm.
166:36:14 Cernan Boy, I tell you that. Every bump you go over on that sideslope is just accentuated.
166:36:28 CC Yes, we don't think you're anywhere near Cochise.
166:36:32 Schmitt Yes. I agree.
166:36:34 Cernan Yes. I think it's over that rim up there.
166:36:36 Schmitt That's just a big, shallow depression.
166:36:41 Cernan All I'm doing is flying the 3.4-kilometer arc right now.
166:36:49 CC Say again there, Gene.
166:36:50 Schmitt There's another one of those deep craters that's not - that doesn't have a blocky rim.
166:36:56 Cernan Okay. 214/3.4.
166:37:00 CC Copy.
166:37:02 Schmitt That's one of the more striking characteristics of the mantle are these craters that look, as far as the diameter-to-depth ratio is concerned, like they ought to be fairly young. But there's no blocks on the rim, and they seem to be - have this mantled appearance, just like some of the large craters.
166:37:26 Cernan As I look up Wessex Cleft from just about abeam of it - Let me get over here - it still shows me an albedo change and a surface wrinkle-texture change.
166:37:43 Schmitt And - yes, I think so. I've got it at the same Sun angle more or less, or part of it there.
166:37:48 CC Okay. Copy that. You guys may be getting just a little far north.
166:37:51 Cernan It's sort of a perfectly formed ...
166:37:51 Schmitt Yes.
166:37:53 CC You may want to head just a little south to avoid running right into the middle of SWP Crater.
166:37:59 Schmitt Yes. I think we see it now. Is that SWP?
166:38:02 Cernan Well, I don't know. I don't -
166:38:04 CC SWP will be at 22 - SWP will be at 225 and 3.4.
166:38:11 Cernan Yes. That's my - that's what I'm shooting for, Bob.
166:38:14 CC Okay.
166:38:15 Cernan I'm just flying a 3.4 mile - or kilometer arc.
166:38:19 CC Roger. I was going to suggest that.
166:38:21 Schmitt Bob, there's something I haven't mentioned, but if one had time on the next program - -
166:38:31 Cernan I think that's SWP right there, Jack.
166:38:31 Schmitt - - you can sample secondary craters, and they tend to have blocks either in them or on one rim, suggesting that you could tell directions if you put your mind to it. Directions of the - where the secondaries came from. These are small ones.
166:38:51 Cernan Did we ever get a piece of glass in place?
166:38:52 Schmitt Yes, I did yesterday.
166:38:53 Cernan Documented in place?
166:38:54 Schmitt Yes.
166:38:54 Cernan Okay.
166:38:55 Schmitt That's what I was trying to protect in the SRC yesterday.
166:38:59 Cernan Here's SWP, Jack. It's coming right up, and I'll go along the southern rim.
166:39:05 Schmitt I wish I wouldn't lose - start concentrating. I'm forgetting to take my pictures.
166:39:10 CC Roger, Jack. Don't forget to take your pictures.
166:39:10 Cernan I'll tell you, if we don't concentrate, we end up -
166:39:15 Schmitt Okay. I'll quit thinking and just take pictures.
166:39:24 Schmitt There's a crater, that double pit-bottom crater. That's the first one of those I've seen.
166:39:28 Cernan Right here, Jack, you're going to be able to peek right over the top of SWP.
166:39:34 Schmitt Right.
166:39:35 Cernan Right here. How's that grab you?
166:39:39 Schmitt That's SWP, all right. SWP's a bigger hole than I thought it was.
166:39:49 Schmitt Might - SWP even has some blocks in the wall.
166:39:54 Cernan Yes, but the eastern and southeastern rim of SWP are just continuous - Ooh - they're just continuous with the slopes of the Sculptured Hills.
166:40:06 CC Okay. Copy that.
166:40:15 Cernan How does 238/4.2 sound for the beginning of 8?
166:40:19 Schmitt Hey, you're -
166:40:23 Cernan May have to take these slopes just the most comfortable way we can.
166:40:27 CC 238 and 4.0 we're expecting for Station 8, the beginning of it. 238/4.2 - 4.0, excuse me; 4.0.
166:40:40 Cernan Roger.
166:40:43 CC And remember again, Station 8 is a very flexible area. You just get to a place where it looks like it's feasible to sample Sculptured Hills.
166:40:53 Schmitt That's right.
166:40:54 Cernan Yes.
166:41:02 Cernan Let me tell you, this Rover is a machine. I don't know if it saw that hill we're climbing, but I did.
166:41:27 Schmitt How's your - how're you doing?
166:41:29 Cernan Doing fine. I'm trying to get around SWP over here and start hitting that -
166:41:35 Schmitt East Massif has outcrops on it. I can see now on the north side. And they also tend to have linear to upper terminations. And some of those line up as if there's roughly horizontal structure within the upper one-half of the East Massif.
166:42:03 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack. Stop thinking and take pictures.
166:42:12 Schmitt Go by that little dark crater over there. There's a very blocky-rim small crater that's a dark-rim crater instead of a bright rim like we'd seen some around that looked fresh. It partly may be the angle at which we're approaching it.
166:42:16 PAO The crew is about 20 minutes behind the timeline.
166:42:34 Cernan Bob, we're on the southeastern rim of SWP at 226 and 3.6.
166:42:41 Schmitt Why don't we get some samples of that material in there.
166:42:42 CC Copy that.
166:42:44 Cernan Right here.
166:42:46 Schmitt Okay. Keep driving toward the rim and then just -a shallow curve. Okay. Now, curve it.
166:42:53 Cernan That your spot?
166:42:54 Schmitt Okay. Right. Just keep going, and I'll stop you.
166:42:58 Schmitt Whoa, straight in. Good, good.
166:43:02 Cernan Okay, Bob. 226/3.6. There's a - there's a highly fragmental, small crater about 40 - 30 or 40 meters across, right on the southeastern rim of SWP. And at - there's a - most of the fragments are football size and smaller, and they're very angular. And probably the inside of that rim is -
166:43:26 Schmitt Turns out that they'll break. They're clods.
166:43:29 Cernan Are they clods?
166:43:29 Schmitt Yes.
166:43:30 Cernan I guess that's going to be about 70 percent covered on the inside of the rim with these things.
166:43:34 Schmitt It's all instant rock, but the crater rim looks dark compared to - to other fresh craters like this that we've seen.
166:43:47 Cernan 50 Yankee.
166:43:49 CC Copy. 50 Yankee.
166:43:50 Schmitt And the frame count is 26. LMP frame is 26.
166:43:57 CC Copy that. Press on.
166:44:00 Schmitt Yes, you're - We are, we're rolling.
166:44:04 CC And, 17, we're hoping to go to Station 8a - -
166:44:04 Schmitt Yes. Your wheels are just chewing those things up.
166:44:07 CC - - the northernmost section of Station 8, if we can, of course.
166:44:14 Schmitt Yes. I think - I think we ought to head just about - -
166:44:18 Cernan Yes. We'll get there.
166:44:19 Schmitt Well, the most - I think we ought to get below the highest peak up there because that seems to have the rocks on it.
166:44:27 Schmitt I only see one rock so far - -
166:44:28 Cernan ... straight ahead, in there. See that one. Of course, I don't know where that came down. Doesn't look like it may have came down from the top.
166:44:39 Schmitt Certainly aren't many rocks. It's certainly not like the old North and South Massifs. Yes. There's one big rock over there. That doesn't look like it might be -
166:45:01 Cernan Well, let's head that way. That's about where the station is, anyway.
166:45:04 Schmitt ... I think we're starting to see blocks. That one is so - so unusual -
166:45:14 Cernan That's about the station. That's the northernmost station anyway. There's another one there.
166:45:20 Schmitt Well, this probably is - We can get the other smaller population around it. I'm worried about that one being exotic to the Sculptured Hills.
166:45:28 Cernan Yes, it doesn't look like it rolled -
166:45:29 Schmitt No.
166:45:29 Cernan But I don't see any others, do you?
166:45:31 Schmitt Well, there's some small ones up in there. Off to about the 2 o'clock position. But I think that's all. We're going to have to be satisfied with small ones. Big ones don't get down. There's some big ones way up on the slope.
166:45:44 Cernan Yes, I see those.
166:45:49 Schmitt Watch it; crater. You're ...
166:45:58 Cernan Yes, let me get it for them. Okay. We're at 227/3.9.
166:46:05 CC Copy. 227/3.9.
166:46:11 Cernan I think it's worth - There's smaller ones around here, too, Jack.
166:46:17 Schmitt Yes. That looks like subfloor from here.
166:46:22 Cernan What's it look like? If it doesn't look worthwhile stopping, I'll move on up over there.
166:46:25 Schmitt Yes, it looks like subfloor. I would recommend that we - -
166:46:28 Cernan All right.
166:46:28 Schmitt - - try to get up to some of those. I don't know whether we can or not. How's your - what's your pitch indicating?
166:46:35 Cernan Oh, that doesn't mean anything.
166:46:39 Schmitt See that - those two up there would be reasonably well up the slope.
166:46:45 Cernan Bob, no parking constraints on the battery?
166:46:48 CC Roger. No parking constraints. We'll park at 045, Gene. Or wherever you like, really.
166:46:56 Cernan I have to park about 045 because I've got to be pointing uphill so we can get out.
166:47:01 CC Okay. Either - any place you want to. 045 is fine.
166:47:03 Cernan Jack, I'm going to park - -
166:47:06 Schmitt How about just that rim of that little crater there?
166:47:09 Cernan Well, this is so level right here, Jack, I'm going to just park it -
166:47:11 Schmitt Well, I was just thinking on top of that crater is closer to the - That's level, too, on the rim. It'll give them a view of the - a good view of the sampling area. I think we can - if we work on those blocks there and we're in pretty good shape.
166:47:27 Schmitt Bob, we're directly downhill, and that is from the highest point that I could see up on this first mass - first Sculptured Hill.
166:47:39 Cernan Bob, I'm parked at 026; bearing is 226; distance, 6.6; range, 4.0; amp-hours, 85 and 80; battery is 1 - I think it's 115; and motors are all off scale low.
166:48:04 CC Okay - -
166:48:04 Cernan Not really, but - Okay - -
166:48:08 CC And here, we would like - -
166:48:09 Cernan - - 0 - 230 on the - on the forward and off scale low, and 220 on the right rear.
166:48:21 CC Okay. We copy that. We'd like to get the usual dusting here. Up front.
166:48:28 Cernan Yes. And I'm fairly level.
166:48:31 Schmitt Not really.
166:48:33 Cernan I'm not, huh?
166:48:33 Schmitt (Laughter) I just about rolled downhill again.
166:48:38 Cernan Oh, man. (Laughter) I am pointing uphill, aren't I?
166:48:41 Schmitt Yes.
166:48:43 Cernan Well, at least we don't have a sideslope.
166:48:47 CC And, 17, we'd like - -
166:48:48 Cernan Battery covers stay closed?
166:48:49 CC Battery covers stay closed. But we do want the LCRU, and the TV camera, and the TCU dusted.
166:49:08 Cernan Okay.
166:49:17 CC And, 17, we'd like the SEP blankets opened and dusted one more time.
166:49:26 Cernan I think you're a dreamer, Bob, but I'll do it.
166:49:31 CC Roger. We keep hoping.
166:49:45 Cernan Start doing your thing, Jack. It's going to take me a little while to get this dusted.
166:49:51 Schmitt Bob, the first block I looked at here looks like subfloor gabbro.
166:50:01 CC Okay. We copy that.
166:50:13 Cernan Should have it, Bob.
166:50:16 CC Okay. We've got a picture.
166:50:21 Cernan You even sound better. Battery covers are awful dirty, but I will not dust them as long as you're happy.
166:50:33 CC Yes. I don't think dusting the battery covers gives us any cooler batteries.
166:50:40 Cernan Well, I know; but it keeps the batteries from getting dust in them. I've had pretty good luck with them. They've been pretty clean.
166:50:47 CC Roger on that,
166:51:07 Cernan You are dusted; and you're shiny bright, all over.
166:51:11 CC Okay. Copy that.
166:51:15 CC We thank you. Ed thanks you.
166:51:21 Cernan And we all thank you. Listen, if Ed thanks me, that's enough. A man couldn't ask for any more than that. Okay. I've got my ... - -
166:51:40 CC I think your LMP just ran away.
166:51:46 Cernan Where'd he go? Jack?
166:51:47 Schmitt What?
166:51:47 Cernan Oh, there you are. I thought maybe you fell in that crater I'm looking at. Okay. I'm going to give you a TGE reading.
166:51:49 CC Roger. Give us a mark.
166:51:58 Cernan Our fender's beginning to fade and, uh-oh, the clip came off on the inside; that's what's wrong. We'll have to fix that before we start. The outside ones hold but the inside one's not.
166:52:10 Schmitt Bob, all - all the blocks bigger than 20 centimeters that I've looked at up here are subfloor gabbro in appearance.
166:52:21 CC Copy that.
166:52:23 Schmitt I've looked at about five.
166:52:31 CC Did we get a mark there on the gravimeter, Gene?
166:52:37 Cernan Thirty seconds to go, Bob.
166:52:39 CC Roger. I copied it. Just wanted to check.
166:52:47 Cernan Okay. Jack. You find anything up there?
166:52:51 Schmitt Gene, I'm going to go up and look at this one rock. Why don't you set up and sample any one of these other big ones. They're all the same. Like the one near the Rover. And I'll go up and try to get this big one down there.
166:53:07 Cernan Well, okay.
166:53:09 Schmitt It's the only one left to look at, but right now we're dealing with subfloor material, I think.
166:53:14 Cernan What about some of these little fragments that seem to be sitting more on the surface?
166:53:17 Schmitt Yes, we're supposed to rake here. We'll get those with the rake.
166:53:19 Cernan That one up there, by the way, is sitting on the surface. These others are submerged.
166:53:23 Schmitt Yes. That's why I want to look at it.
166:53:26 Cernan If you - you won't - you don't have a hammer, but if you need me, I'll come up there because I think that may be worthwhile.
166:53:31 Schmitt I'll roll it down to you.
166:53:33 Cernan Yes. Thanks a lot.
166:53:54 CC A reminder, 17. We'd like to have you leaving here in 30 minutes to make up some of the time we spent at stations 6 and 7, a little extra. And we'd also remind you that we'd like a rake soil sample here, too. That may be the only way we try and pick up seme stuff other than subfloor if that, indeed, has come down from the top of the Sculptured Hills.
166:54:18 Schmitt Okay, Bob. This rock is a big chunk of shattered, but still visible, bluish-gray anorthosite. It's glass-coated, and it actually looks like it's vesicular. I'm going to roll it downhill so we can work on it. Well, I'll document it first.
166:54:57 Schmitt Did you copy that?
166:54:59 CC Roger. I copy that. We'll be watching it coming.
166:55:05 Schmitt Okay. But the point is, as Gene said, it's the only rock, big one anyway, in the area that I see that's perched on the surface as if it might have rolled here.
166:55:23 CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
166:55:33 Schmitt But I don't see a track.
166:55:38 Cernan Man, this one here is tough as a -
166:55:42 Schmitt Well, we can get some .small ones.
166:55:43 Cernan Yes. That's what I'm going to do. I tell you, this one is so -
166:55:47 Schmitt I thought you might be able to break it up.
166:55:49 Cernan Well, there's no - there's no corners on it.
166:56:24 Schmitt Ready for this?
166:56:27 CC We're ready.
166:56:28 Cernan Bob, 563 is the sample.
166:56:31 CC Copy, 563.
166:56:32 Cernan Over here to the - ... -
166:56:37 Schmitt Are you ready? Are you ready for this?
166:56:39 Cernan I'm not sure I am, but go ahead.
166:56:51 Schmitt Go, roll - Look, I would roll on this slope, why don't you? Five-sixths gravity that's missing. Hey, I'll bet you they would like, if I didn't step on it, sample out of the bottom of that thing.
166:57:17 Cernan Yep. These others all look - You're right, Jack, they look like what we've been sampling. And they're all pretty well mantled except the ones you got up there. There's one more piece I see on the side of that crater that may not be.
166:57:45 Schmitt Bag 545 will be soil from under that anorthosite boulder. Bob, the only thing that bothers me about that boulder being subfloor - I mean Sculptured Hills - is that it's glass-coated.
166:58:15 CC Copy that.
166:58:16 Schmitt It may have been thrown in here by an impact. Oh, you're here.
166:58:26 Cernan Thought I'd sample it, and then roll it down.
166:58:28 Schmitt Well, okay. I never would have moved it if I thought you were coming up.
166:58:31 Cernan Well, I wasn't coming up; but I looked at some of those others, and there's only one more -
166:58:35 Schmitt Okay. Well, I got it documented up in place. Let's - That's not the - I think that's the side that was down. Let me roll it over -
166:58:43 Cernan Well, let me get a piece of that side since it was underneath. Then We'll roll it over and get a piece of the other side.
166:58:46 Schmitt Good thinking. Oh, okay, yes. Let's do it again. Except I got dust all over it.
166:58:57 Cernan Well -
166:58:58 Schmitt The albedo - the down-Sun picture's not going to mean much. Let me get this sample in your bag. I think we ought to change your bag because the stuff's going to start flying out.
166:59:13 Cernan Okay.
166:59:13 Schmitt It won't stay closed.
166:59:14 Cernan Jack, after this one, there's only - there's one more in that crater. It may be from that crater, but I don't know.
166:59:22 Schmitt How's your hand for hammering?
166:59:24 Cernan Ohhhh
166:59:26 Schmitt This will be easy. This will be easy.
166:59:27 Cernan The old hammering hand -
166:59:29 Schmitt This will be an easy one, Gene.
166:59:42 Cernan Two pieces for you.
166:59:43 Schmitt Okay. Let me - -
166:59:44 Cernan Oh, that's a pretty one inside!
166:59:46 Schmitt Well, it's stained by the glass coating.
166:59:48 Cernan Oh.
166:59:49 Schmitt It's stained by that glass coating.
166:59:51 Cernan That's a pretty one inside.
166:59:54 Cernan Can you get that? Here, take my hand.
167:00:02 Schmitt Thank you.
167:00:03 Cernan While I'm at it, I'm going to chop another piece off right here.
167:00:05 Schmitt Yes, get more than that.
167:00:10 Cernan Piece right there. You've got three pieces laying around. Let's get those before we lose them.
167:00:27 Schmitt Bag 564. Maybe. I - Okay, I got it.
167:00:40 Cernan Have you already got them in the bag?
167:00:41 Schmitt No.
167:00:43 CC Copy. We copy; 564 from the bottom of the boulder.
167:00:51 Cernan Sure that's the bottom, huh?
167:00:53 Schmitt Yes, it's got - mixed with local soil. I'm pretty sure. Let's turn it over. I think I'd recognize the top, although it's got dust all over it now.
167:01:06 Cernan I think I'll get one more swap off there. I don't want to seal this. Let me get another swap off there. I can get it.
167:01:11 Schmitt Okay.
167:01:32 PAO That's Gene Cernan hammering.
167:01:36 Schmitt Well, that disappeared. Get it this way.
167:01:40 Cernan One time. That disappeared, too? That probably went into orbit.
167:01:54 Schmitt Yes.
167:01:56 Cernan Boy, is that pretty inside. Whoo! We haven't seen anything like this. I haven't. Unless you've been holding out on me.
167:02:02 Schmitt No, this is a nice crystalline rock.
167:02:06 Cernan Okay, I see that one.
167:02:06 Schmitt Where did that one go?
167:02:07 Cernan That's a good one. I'll go get it with my tongs. That's a good one. That one I worked too hard to get. Hey, I see how it makes boulder tracks. I just made one - it just - it just skipped along, made those little pothole craters as it went.
167:02:30 Schmitt Hey, Houston. This is a - about a 50-50 mixture of - what looks like maskelynite or at least blue-gray plagioclase, and a very - let's say yel - light yellow-tan mineral, probably orthopyroxene. It's fairly coarsely crystalline.
167:02:58 CC Copy that. Okay. When you guys get done with that rock, we'd like to get to the rake sample, please. And that's probably just as well done by the Rover as anyplace else. We don't seem to see anything worthwhile here doing besides that.
167:03:20 Cernan Did you get it?
167:03:20 Schmitt Yes.
167:03:30 Cernan Okay. That went in the same bag, Bob, as the other - rest of the chips from the bottom. All the chips from the bottom are in 464.
167:03:38 CC Copy.
167:03:46 Schmitt Here, let me roll it over. Go ahead. Want to put it in?
167:03:48 Cernan Yes.
167:03:49 Schmitt Okay.
167:03:56 Cernan Oh, boy.
167:04:00 Schmitt By coarsely crystalline, it's - probably, the average grain size will turn out to be about 3 or 4 millimeters, maybe - maybe half a centimeter. Hold this, and I'll - -
167:04:09 Cernan Well, I got to go get a couple of pictures.
167:04:13 Schmitt Yes. Yes, we really got that one messed up.
167:04:15 Cernan Yes, I -
167:04:16 Schmitt That's all right.
167:04:17 Cernan If you'd hold your scoop where that one came off, it'd help.
167:04:20 Schmitt Yes, I was just going over there.
167:04:21 Cernan On that other side.
167:04:23 Schmitt Just going over there.
167:04:23 Cernan This side is clear. That last one I took off. Okay.
167:04:28 Schmitt Right there.
167:04:30 Cernan Okay, that's good. Let's move the gnomon, and we won't roll it over on the gnomon.
167:04:47 Schmitt Watch it. Watch it. Oh, yes. That other side is the one that was up. Well, I'm not sure now. It's got so much dust on it. But let's -
167:05:18 Cernan It's not going to roll down that hill unless we got it on edge.
167:05:21 Schmitt No. Did it come up here?
167:05:28 Cernan Oh, look at that glass on it. That's what you said, huh?
167:05:30 Schmitt Yes.
167:05:31 Cernan Well, which side was the glass on when you looked at it?
167:05:33 Schmitt It's on all sides. It's on all sides.
167:05:35 CC 17, there's probably not much point in spending a lot of time out here trying to decide which is the top. It's not big enough, anyway, really to worry about - -
167:05:43 Cernan We're not.
167:05:43 CC - - the top and bottom samples. They're radiologically significant.
167:05:49 Schmitt Well, let's - If you don't want another sample, then we can go ahead.
167:05:52 Cernan Well, let me get a piece of this glass.
167:05:56 Schmitt Righto.
167:06:10 Schmitt There it is. Okay. Let me try to get them. Put them in here.
167:06:29 Cernan Okay; a piece of the glass from it, Bob, is 546.
167:06:32 CC Okay. We copy 546.
167:06:32 Cernan With a little of the local soil.
167:06:40 CC And now we're ready for you guys to rake - -
167:06:42 Cernan Okay. We'll rake.
167:06:43 CC - - and I guess they suggest the crater rim if possible. Probably over there near the Rover.
167:06:50 Schmitt Okay. Now you got a sample of that big block down there, huh?
167:06:57 Cernan Yes.
167:06:57 Schmitt Okay. Don't forget your gnomon. Whoo! Oh, boy.
167:07:10 Cernan Bob, on my frame count; 85.
167:07:14 CC Copy, 85 for the commander.
167:07:21 Schmitt Too bad I don't have my skiis.
167:07:23 Cernan Jack, did you get a pan up here?
167:07:25 Schmitt No.
167:07:26 Cernan I'll get one.
167:07:26 Schmitt Good, I forgot. I got interested in skiing, Whoo! Can't keep my edges. Little hard to get a good hip rotation.
167:07:58 Cernan Let's see, I must be looking back at - well, there's SWP. Golly, I don't know. I'm looking back at the complex, Cochise and Shakespeare, and I can see the LM.
167:08:36 Schmitt Hey, Bob. One interesting thing up here, you can see the erosional pattern of the talus, the mantle that - I call it a mantle, but the talus that's on the Sculptured Hills, there's little - little boulder tracks of all sizes from all these little clods. And they all, of course, point downhill or nearly downhill.
167:09:01 CC Okay. Copy that.
167:09:06 Schmitt Hey, Bob. In the interest of time, I'll document this without the gnomon.
167:09:13 CC Okay. I presume Gene's got the gnomon up there.
167:09:17 Schmitt Yes. I should have brought it, but - -
167:09:19 CC Okay. Don't forget the gnomon, Gene.
167:09:19 Schmitt - - I didn't think about it.
167:09:23 CC And we concur - -
167:09:24 Schmitt Don't forget the Gene, gnomon!
167:09:24 CC - - with Dr. ... about the gnomon.
167:09:31 Cernan Whee! Boy, when you do this, and you go downslope, that first step is a long one.
167:09:41 Cernan I'm having - This is the best way for me to travel. Uphill or downhill.
167:09:51 Schmitt What's that?
167:09:52 Cernan Like this. Two-legged hop.
167:09:55 Schmitt There seems - Yes.
167:09:56 Cernan And on level ground, I can skip. I don't like that loping thing.
167:10:01 Schmitt Oh, the loping's the only way to go.
167:10:03 Cernan Well, when I'm on level ground, I can skip. But this two-legged thing is great. Man, I can cover ground like a kangaroo. Oh, okay. You documented already; I was just going to put this in the field of view anyway.
167:10:26 Schmitt Yes. Here on the after ... right out there.
167:10:56 Cernan Well, what do you think about that? There's not much in here worth - Man, there's just nothing - Either this has been totally mantled with talus. Well, it is, because that - that downhill pattern goes right down the slope of this crater, and, actually, it goes upslope of the crater. This may be on a ray somewhere. Because it goes right downhill - this little bitty boulder trail pattern goes right up the slope.
167:11:35 Schmitt I think those are later than the crater by a long ways.
167:11:37 Cernan Did you - did you sample anything over here?
167:11:38 Schmitt No, I haven't done anything - -
167:11:42 Cernan I'm going to pick up the piece out of that little - -
167:11:44 Schmitt Yes, get this - -
167:11:45 Cernan - - crater.
167:11:46 Schmitt Want your gnomon over there?
167:11:48 Cernan No. I'll just take it to it. Let me know when you're ready for a bag.
167:11:56 Schmitt Well, I'm about ready.
167:12:06 Cernan You about ready?
167:12:07 Schmitt Yes.
167:12:07 Cernan Okay.
167:12:18 Schmitt I went - I raked about a 2-meter square area - maybe - yes, about 2 meters, and down to 4 or 5 centimeters for these. Pretty good population. They all going to go in?
167:12:37 Cernan They're all in; 5 - -
167:12:38 Schmitt Wait, wait.
167:12:38 Cernan - - 5 - 565.
167:12:40 CC Okay. Copy that - -
167:12:41 Cernan 565.
167:12:41 CC Sounds great. Sounds like a good rake sample for a change.
167:12:46 Cernan Yes, sir.
167:12:49 CC And this is a kilogram soil locations, fellas.
167:12:53 Schmitt Yes, sir.
167:12:55 Cernan Jack, your bag is full; we're going to have - No, it isn't, but we ought to change it when we get back there anyway. And that one ought to go under your seat.
167:13:03 Schmitt Oh, okay.
167:13:04 Cernan Get your kilogram. I'll be ready to take it.
167:13:17 Cernan The kilogram is in 566.
167:13:20 CC Copy that. And, remaining here, we'd have primarily a trench. If you fellows think it's feasible, we'd like to be moving in 1 - 1 minutes, 11 minutes. And we could use a pan from this lower location also, probably.
167:13:40 Cernan Why don't you go back and dig a trench at the Rover?
167:13:42 CC Roger. That sounds good to us.
167:13:45 Cernan Okay.
167:13:46 CC And we also remind you of getting - -
167:13:47 Cernan Once you get a trench at the Rover - -
167:13:49 CC - - a pan at the lower section there.
167:13:49 Cernan - - we just scoop this out. I'll get the sample here that I got documented now and - -
167:13:57 Schmitt Did you? - is that - is that all going to go in there?
167:13:59 Cernan Yes, it'll go.
167:14:00 Schmitt Can you twist it?
167:14:01 Cernan Yes.
167:14:03 Schmitt That ... rock may have been too much. Take that rock out, and - -
167:14:08 Cernan No, it'll stay. We're going to have to put it in mine, though. Well, let me try. Since we're going to unload your bag, this may be the last - the last one. That's the last one for your bag.
167:14:24 Schmitt Okay.
167:14:26 Cernan Okay.
167:14:28 Schmitt Did you get anything out of that little crater?
167:14:29 Cernan No. But I'm going to right now.
167:14:31 Schmitt Okay.
167:14:31 Cernan Why don't you get your after picture over there and go down and get that trench. I'll come down -
167:14:36 Schmitt You don't want a bag? Okay.
167:14:37 Cernan I can - I can back it - I can do it -
167:14:40 Schmitt ...
167:15:06 Cernan Boy, almost pure white and very friable. Oh, boy, is it. Pure white. Right out of a small little pit crater on the side of this crater I just walked in, Houston. And it's pure white, very friable. I got about - well, one big piece and several small in 567.
167:15:32 CC Copy that.
167:15:39 Schmitt Bob, the walls of these craters, the big craters around here, that is, the ones that are, say, 15 meters in diameter, tend to be a little bit lighter albedo than ones down in the mantled area. I'm afraid those pictures on that rake may be a little bit made - be through a - a dust-colored lens.
167:16:15 Cernan Yes, they were also in my documented sample here, too.
167:16:34 Cernan Okay. Where do you want this trench? On the side of this crater?
167:16:37 Schmitt Well, - -
167:16:38 Cernan I'll drop my gnomon.
167:16:38 Schmitt - - I don't know. I don't - I was just thinking about that. I think - I think we - we - we ought to get out in the inner crater area to see if there's any stratigraphy to the - to - to whatever the talus is.
167:16:57 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm going to leave the gnomon right here.
167:17:04 Schmitt I'll get it.
167:17:06 Cernan And, while you're digging that trench, we've got to pan to get, but I want to fix this fender.
167:17:10 Schmitt I guess this - The pan's mine, isn't it, this one?
167:17:11 Cernan Yes, it is. And I want to fix the fender before - -
167:17:14 Schmitt Okay.
167:17:15 Cernan - - before we leave. ... - -
167:17:16 CC Okay. We agree with that, and you might get us a - -
167:17:17 Cernan - - ... one, and I'll tighten - -
167:17:19 CC - - you might get us the gravimeter reading there, Gene, while you're at it. And if you have time, you might drop the gravimeter on the ground, and we'll get a reading with it on the ground as well.
167:17:32 Cernan Holy Smoley. The gravimeter's coming up. 670, 096, 001 - 670, 096, 001.
167:17:46 CC Copy that.
167:17:50 Cernan You want it dropped on the ground, huh?
167:17:51 CC Gently.
167:17:55 Cernan Gently. I can't find a gentle level spot, but I'll level it. If it takes pictures - or does it's thing on the Rover, it'll do its thing here.
167:18:13 CC Yes, this is just to get a check - -
167:18:14 Cernan Okay.
167:18:15 Cernan MARK. ...
167:18:16 CC Copy that.
167:18:31 Cernan It's fender-fixing time, it's camera-taking-off time. And I think I'll zap myself with a little cool water.
167:18:43 CC And how's the trench going, Jack?
167:18:49 Schmitt Oh, down.
167:18:57 Cernan Oh, man, I tell you. When you call for cold water, does it come in nicely. Whew! I'm really happy with this fender, really happy with it.
167:19:25 Schmitt Bob, I have dug - have gotten a wall, now in one place that's standing about 25 centimeters high. And it shows no apparent change in the texture of the soil to that depth; except possibly at the lower 5 centimeters, there's some zones that might be slightly more granular. Particle size may be up a little bit.
167:20:04 CC Okay. I copy that. Probably just three samples then will be sufficient, then.
167:20:10 Schmitt I think - I think so. Maybe four.
167:20:16 Cernan Be there in a minute, Jack.
167:20:18 Schmitt Oh, that's all right. I can probably get started.
167:20:32 Cernan Oh, oh, oh, boy.
167:20:33 Schmitt Need some help?
167:20:35 Cernan No. Boy, we're sure giving this suspension system a workout. Whew! I can even see it. Well, everything's getting awful dusty. Boy, everything is stiff. Everything is just full of dust. There's got to be a point where the dust just overtakes you, and everything mechanical quits moving.
167:21:24 Schmitt Like scoops.
167:21:30 Cernan I'm not sure whether Detroit would like the fender, but it will sure buy the fix. Okay, it's fixed.
167:21:39 CC Okay. Copy that.
167:21:40 Cernan And I'm happy; I like it.
167:21:42 CC Roger. We copy that. And copy it again. And we'd like to have you guys moving in about 3 minutes.
167:21:54 Schmitt Good luck.
167:21:56 Cernan You need any help you get - bag those samples, huh?
167:21:58 Schmitt Yes, sir. I think I do. I can't adjust my scoop to my belt-bagging method.
167:22:04 Cernan Let me get back on some lighter cooling here to - to save some water. Okay, now.
167:22:12 Schmitt Okay - the bottom 10 centimeters - -
167:22:15 Cernan Let me get your bags - I left my camera off when I -
167:22:17 Schmitt - - of a - Well, shoot! I didn't take a picture of the trench after I dug it. Let me take one - one shot.
167:22:28 Cernan What's this, the bottom?
167:22:30 Schmitt That's the bottom.
167:22:31 Cernan Okay. The bottom is in 548. It's very cloddy. Looks very much like the surface we're standing on except it clods up quite a bit more. Can you tell them anything from the trench itself?
167:22:45 Schmitt I told them - I talked to them a little bit about it.
167:22:46 Cernan Okay.
167:22:48 Schmitt It looked a little more - a little coarser grained, but that's all.
167:22:51 PAO EVA time, 3 hours 50 minutes.
167:22:54 Cernan Okay. It sure holds a nice wall, though.
167:23:01 Schmitt Yes.
167:23:03 Cernan That's the kind of wall I expect those core tubes held.
167:23:07 Schmitt You got another one?
167:23:09 Cernan Okay. Skim of the upper - We'll see - how well I do - skim sample of the upper - half centimeter. Maybe a centimeter deep.
167:23:33 Schmitt Okay. Can you hold this?
167:23:35 Cernan I'm going to put it in your bag.
167:23:37 Schmitt Is it going to fit in there?
167:23:38 Cernan Well, there's no choice, right now. Let me see if these little ones will fit in there. Stand by. I want to put this one in there, too.
167:23:46 Cernan That's in bag 549.
167:23:49 CC Copy that.
167:24:03 Cernan Okay. Let's try again. Okay. The upper - Below that skim, the next 5 centimeters.
167:24:26 Schmitt Put it down, Geno.
167:24:26 Cernan ... put over.
167:24:28 Schmitt Well, I can't turn it.
167:24:34 Cernan 550.
167:24:37 CC Copy that.
167:24:40 Cernan And the next 10 centimeters down -
167:24:46 Schmitt Can you get this one too?
167:24:47 Cernan Yes. Now, I got to get your bag.
167:24:58 Schmitt Okay.
167:24:59 Cernan Okay. That was the next 10 centimeters, and then the first sample, of course, was the 10 centimeters below that.
167:25:06 CC Roger. Copy that.
167:25:07 Cernan And that last bag was 551.
167:25:09 CC Okay. Copy that. We're ready for you guys to move out.
167:25:16 Schmitt Okay.
167:25:18 Cernan You didn't get a pan here - while I clean up the Rover, you can get a - get your after of the trench in the pan.
167:25:24 Schmitt I will.
167:25:25 Cernan I'll get the TG and clean up the Rover.
167:25:28 CC That's affirm. We agree with that.
167:25:30 Schmitt What's the key that keeps - I keep getting keyed.
167:25:34 Cernan It sounds like Bob's stepping on his foot mike.
167:25:36 Schmitt Yes, he's so excited - -
167:25:38 Cernan Okay - -
167:25:38 Schmitt - - he can't stand it.
167:25:39 Cernan - - You done with the gnomon?
167:25:40 Schmitt Yes. Okay. I'll get the pan.
167:25:44 Cernan You get your pan, and I'll get the TG and clean up.
167:25:46 Schmitt You took a pan up the hill there?
167:25:48 Cernan Yes. I took it way up there, somewhere.
167:25:49 Schmitt Okay. I'll take it right here, then. Uh oh.
167:25:59 Cernan What?
167:26:00 Schmitt Sample came out.
167:26:02 Cernan The sample came out?
167:26:03 Schmitt I'll pick it up.
167:26:04 Cernan Yes, your - your top came open. It's awful full, Jack. If you can't get it, I'll get it with the tongs.
167:26:09 Schmitt Go ahead and go to work, and I'll get the pan first. I lost two of them, I guess.
167:26:16 Cernan Yes, those are the last two I put in there. They just - your bag is so full they won't stay. Let me give them a reading here. Hey, Bob, can I move it on the Rover and then give you a reading?
167:26:25 CC Yes. As long as you're careful not to hit the button while you're doing it.
167:26:31 Cernan I won't hit the button. Just easier to do it that way. I don't know why I asked you; I know I can.
167:26:45 Cernan Even this thing doesn't want to go on; it's so dusty. Okay. It's on and it's locked. And here's your reading. 670 - 670, 117, 301 - that's 670, 117, 301.
167:27:08 CC Okay. We copy that.
167:27:10 Cernan I've got to dust that thing the next time around. Jack, we've got to do some bag changing here.
167:27:18 Schmitt Yes.
167:27:20 Cernan I'll get those things with my tongs. You can't get them - You'd have to bend over. Every time you jump around, you come close to losing something. I'll just take them back there and put them under the seat.
167:27:46 Schmitt Okay. You want me to take that one?
167:27:50 Cernan No, I got it.
167:27:51 Schmitt Okay.
167:28:08 Schmitt Damn.
167:28:09 CC You got another one dropped there, Gene - Jack got it.
167:28:14 Cernan Another one?
167:28:15 CC Jack's getting it.
167:28:16 Cernan Okay. Jack, we've got to make a place in here for your - that full bag. Let me put this small can over there, and core tube over there.
167:28:32 Schmitt I have a sample.
167:28:37 Cernan Okay. Let me take your bag off first.
167:28:41 Schmitt Okay. Well, you might as well fill it as full as you can.
167:28:43 Cernan Yes, I am. Holy Smoley.
167:28:47 Schmitt (Laughter) Turn - turn to the left.
167:28:55 Cernan Okay. It's off. Let me fill it.
167:29:08 Schmitt Your bag isn't in much better shape.
167:29:10 CC Roger. We'd like to have you check the commander's bag. You might put them both under the seat there.
167:29:19 Schmitt Well, we're running out of bags, aren't we?
167:29:21 CC Okay. We've got one bag left - we should have there. It was on the gate, right?
167:29:30 Schmitt Okay. Yes. We - we could have put it under the seat.
167:29:34 Cernan Okay, bag number 4 - bag number 4 is - is absolutely full - and it's under Jack's seat.
167:29:47 CC Okay. I suggest that you take the other bag that's on the gate there, and put that on either you or Jack. And also, the commander's bag is pretty full also, we suspect.
167:29:58 Schmitt Why don't you put it on me? Mine gets full faster, somehow.
167:30:03 CC You might - you might check Gene's bag anyway.
167:30:05 Cernan Stay there. Stay there, stay there. I'm trying to get the bottom off.
167:30:09 Schmitt Oh, I'm sorry. I checked it. He's got about six samples to go.
167:30:16 CC Okay. And - -
167:30:17 Schmitt And I just want to be sure that it's locked down.
167:30:23 Cernan Okay. Well, turn to the left so I can get this other hook.
167:30:31 Schmitt Okay.
167:30:32 Cernan That's not coming out; I guarantee you that. Now ... take your - -
167:30:34 CC Okay. And SCB 5 is one for the LMP if you want to take it off the gate.
167:30:41 Cernan I got it.
167:30:41 Schmitt SCB-5 is on the LMP.
167:30:43 CC Okay. Copy that.
167:30:44 Schmitt There is nothing on the gate.
167:30:49 Schmitt Well, I think, that'll stay down, but it's not very good - -
167:30:52 Cernan Okay. I've got one more loose sample I'm going to throw in the big bag back there.
167:30:56 Schmitt A local one, you mean?
167:30:58 Cernan Yes.
167:30:59 Schmitt Well - -
167:31:00 Cernan Well, let me leave it under your seat.
167:31:01 Schmitt Now, let's - Can I put a "bag a round it?
167:31:03 Cernan No, it's got a bag around it - it's all bagged.
167:31:06 CC Okay. Jack, while Gene's doing that, why don't you read the SEP temperature, or somebody read the SEP temperature anyway, and close the blankets.
167:31:15 Schmitt Okay. I'll do that.
167:31:21 Cernan Okay, Bob. Let's see, you got your readings - -
167:31:26 Schmitt 120, Bob, 120.
167:31:29 CC Copy. 120.
167:31:33 Schmitt Those blankets just aren't staying closed.
167:31:40 Cernan Okay. I guess we're ready to head on out. Do you agree?
167:31:43 CC Okay. And, Gene, when you go to change the - when you go to change the LCRU, we'd like you to turn it to OFF - O-F-F, on the POWER switch, the INTERNAL POWER EXTERNAL switch. And we'll be reading you through the LM. It will give you a chance to cool down the LCRU on the way home to Station 9.
167:32:04 Cernan All right.
167:32:07 Schmitt And, Houston, what's the temperature limit on the DSEA?
167:32:18 CC Stand by, Jack.
167:32:28 Cernan Do you read us, Bob, through the LM?
167:32:30 CC Roger. We read you through the LM. Do read us through the LM?
167:32:35 Cernan Yes. Not as well, but we're reading you.
167:32:37 CC Okay. And the temperature limit, Jack, is 160. We'll just leave it as is until we get back to the LM.
167:32:45 Schmitt Okay. I was going to say, we could take it out and put it under the seat or something, but that sounds all right.
167:32:50 Cernan Okay. An EMU status check. I'm at 3.88, and I got 48 percent, no flags, and I'm INTERMEDIATE cooling.
167:33:04 CC Copy that.
167:33:05 Schmitt And the LMP - is at 47 percent, no flags, 3.86. Hey, Gene?
167:33:18 Cernan Yes.
167:33:19 Schmitt What - Well, Bob, I guess - remind us to change the LRV sampler at the next station. It's almost out of bags.
167:33:26 CC Okay.
167:33:26 Cernan Well, let's do it next time around.
167:33:28 CC Okay. When you get on, Jack, you can give me a frame count as you start moving.
167:33:34 Schmitt Yes. Hang on. Need some help?
167:33:44 Cernan Nope.
167:33:46 Schmitt Go downhill. Get your feet downhill.
167:33:48 Cernan Yep.
167:33:55 Schmitt Okay. Let me help you.
167:33:57 Cernan (Laughter)
167:34:01 Schmitt Now watch it, there's a crater right behind you.
167:34:03 Cernan I got it. I got it.
167:34:09 Schmitt Here, here. Grab my hand.
167:34:13 Cernan Okay, now, just push up on my head.
167:34:16 Schmitt Okay. I'm not going to do it too hard. Going backwards.
167:34:21 Cernan All right; just push up.
167:34:24 Schmitt Okay.
167:34:25 Cernan Okay.
167:34:26 Schmitt Boy, are you - you got your pockets completely filled with dirt.
167:34:30 Cernan Well, extra samples.
167:34:31 Schmitt Do we throw those pockets away this time around?
167:34:32 Cernan Extra sample.
167:34:36 Schmitt Are you a mess!
167:34:37 Cernan Well, that one was coming for a long time.
167:34:41 Schmitt My hand's are already tired from dusting you.
167:34:44 Cernan That one was coming. I keep trying to blow the dust off my camera, which is very frustrating.
167:34:49 Schmitt Very ineffective, too.
167:34:57 Cernan Okay. Do we try that trick again? You know that happened on that upslope getting on the Rover. Okay. I'm all locked in. Let me know when you are.
167:35:23 Schmitt How come we aren't deploying any charges? I guess the last one - I remember when that one is.
167:35:27 Cernan Okay.
167:35:28 CC We'll deploy one at Station 10.
167:35:33 Cernan Okay. We're heading to Station 9 pointed about 267. Okay, and they're reading us through the LM, so I won't worry about the low gain. We're powering up. The switch is on. Okay, I'm going to make a turn to the right.
167:35:51 CC Okay. And the updated headings, since you're at the north end of Station 8 will be something like about 240.
167:36:03 Cernan Okay, Bob. 240.
167:36:07 Schmitt Bob, I think your rake sample here at the Sculptured Hills is going to have to tell a tale combined with the observation that most of the blocks we saw were, like Gene sampled, looked like subfloor gabbro. It's conceivable that the Sculptured Hills could be the same kind of material. I think it's fairly clear that the boulder population does not resemble the massif population at all.
167:36:44 CC Okay. Copy that.
167:36:51 Schmitt (Laughter)
167:36:52 Cernan You been riding on this downslope all the time?
167:36:54 Schmitt (Laughter) Yes, but - -
167:36:55 Cernan And you hadn't said anything, huh?
167:36:56 Schmitt Scary, isn't it?
167:36:58 Cernan Man, I'm glad I'm driving.
167:37:02 CC Okay, and Jack -
167:37:04 Schmitt (Laughter)
167:37:04 CC - when you're don't - holding on with two hands, we'd like the frame count from you.
167:37:07 Schmitt Wait a minute. Yes.
167:37:12 Cernan Is that Van Serg over there?
167:37:13 Schmitt Ahhhh -
167:37:16 CC You have a bearing of 234 - -
167:37:18 Schmitt I think it's - -
167:37:19 CC - - and a range of 2.1.
167:37:19 Schmitt I don't know - no - it's - Okay.
167:37:27 Schmitt We got to get around SWP here and then - -
167:37:31 Cernan Well, let's - yes.
167:37:32 Schmitt - - and then head on more westerly. LMP frame is at 80.
167:37:37 CC Copy 80.
167:37:41 Schmitt SWP or Bowen, I mean - Bowen, I guess it is.
167:37:44 Cernan Well, yes.
167:37:50 Schmitt That's SWP over there. Bowen is out here ahead of us.
167:37:52 Cernan Yes. ... he said two - -
167:37:56 Schmitt Bowen - Bowen isn't much of a crater on the map.
167:37:59 Cernan - - 225 - What did you say, Bob? 225 what?
167:38:02 CC 234/2.1 - -
167:38:04 Schmitt 234 - -
167:38:04 CC Heading ought to be about 240; 240 for a heading for there.
167:38:11 Cernan Did you hear him? I didn't hear him.
167:38:13 Schmitt 240. Are you not reading him?
167:38:15 Cernan But what did he say for bearing and range? That's what I'm interested in.
167:38:17 CC 234 - -
167:38:19 Schmitt 240. State bearing and range, Bob.
167:38:19 CC - - 2.1.
167:38:24 Cernan Okay. I got that.
167:38:32 PAO Station 9 is 2.3 kilometers from Station 8 and we estimate driving time 18 minutes.
167:38:44 CC Okay. And we think you're even farther north than I was saying. Maybe it's about 215 would be your heading for there.
167:38:55 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'll find it. 234/2.1.
167:38:58 CC Roger.
167:39:02 Schmitt And all the big blocks still look like subfloor from the Rover. But big blocks in here are only about a - a third of a meter in diameter. And they're subrounded to subangular. Okay. We're up on the plains again now, just off the brink and slope.
167:39:34 PAO Station 9 is Van Serg crater which could be of volcanic origin.
167:39:49 Schmitt That sure looks like - looks like outcrop ... down in the East Massif on the lower slopes, if it's here the high albedo is. Doesn't it? See it over there?
167:39:56 Cernan Yes - Yes. Yes. It does - ... was one of my guidelines for the geophone deployment - ... points.
167:40:15 Cernan There's some more of the blue-gray rock here in the east end of the South Massif down low.
167:40:22 Schmitt Yes. It looks like it might have been a slump block or something.
167:40:24 Cernan Yes. You can see it's blue-gray because of its contrast with the light mantle.
167:40:27 Schmitt Yes. It might be a slump block, or something - like that.
167:40:31 Cernan Oh, Jack, I'm going to go to the left.
167:40:33 Schmitt You going to go soon? (Laughter) Need 234 - -
167:40:37 Cernan No, No. I'm going over here. This is closer. That's a shorter cut.
167:40:41 Schmitt Okay, that - that's probably Bowen there, don't you think?
167:40:44 Cernan I think - -
167:40:45 Schmitt Oh, well - -
167:40:46 Cernan Well, see, we never got too far - -
167:40:48 CC How about a - how about a range and bearing, guys.
167:40:49 Schmitt ... aren't very far from SWP.
167:40:50 Cernan Maybe we got too far east. Okay. It's 228/3.4. And we're moving along at 10 to 12 clicks. That's all it'll hack.
167:41:03 CC Copy that. How about an amps reading? We haven't had one of those for a couple of ...
167:41:09 Schmitt Starting to rain again. Got a crater ahead of you.
167:41:15 Cernan Oooh, boy.
167:41:19 Schmitt Down-Sun isn't much easier than up-Sun.
167:41:21 Cernan It's just easier on the eyes. You just can't see any more, that's all. You don't have that static, huh?
167:41:32 Schmitt Nope. Hope you've still got an antenna; I haven't looked recently.
167:41:43 Cernan Hope there's no holes in the high gain.
167:41:46 Schmitt Might have hit it on a rock.
167:41:50 Cernan Oh, boy. Okay. The - we're back into the mantle area population of fragments is still 1 percent or so. The crater off to our left, which is at 227 and 3. - What is that?
167:42:09 Schmitt 3.1.
167:42:10 Cernan 3?
167:42:11 Schmitt 3.3; 227/3.3.
167:42:14 Cernan And a fairly good-sized depression, but it's completely mantled. There's no blocks showing in the wall at all. How do you read, Bob?
167:42:31 CC Loud and clear. We're listening.
167:42:39 Schmitt Now there's that crater in the wall of that depression or a hollow near it. And it has one big block in the side as if it penetrated the mantle and exposed some of the wall of the depression. Just about a 30-meter crater. Valley of Taurus-Littrow is not planar.
167:43:11 Cernan No, it isn't.
167:43:14 Schmitt I'm glad we changed it to a subfloor instead of a plains unit.
167:43:20 Schmitt (Laughter)
167:43:22 Schmitt Okay. We're in the inner wall of the depression here, and the rocks still look like subfloor gabbro. Boy, there's certainly not much variety.
167:43:33 Schmitt Okay. Generally, there are few exotics.
167:43:35 Cernan Ooh, now that's got to be Cochise.
167:43:36 Schmitt Ah, look at Cochise.
167:43:38 Cernan That's Cochise.
167:43:39 CC Roger. We think you're coming up on Cochise.
167:43:40 Cernan Get your self a couple pictures while you're looking right at it.
167:43:42 Schmitt Could you swing right? Swing right.
167:43:45 Cernan Bob, we are on the south - or northeastern rim of Cochise. I'm going to work my way around the other side. And Bob - -
167:43:52 CC Roger. Copy that.
167:43:53 Cernan - - looking at the western wall of Cochise, I can see a contact within the subfloor between albedo units, one of which is a light tan-gray and the other is a light blue-gray. May reflect the two kinds of subfloor gabbro we've already sampled. Vesicular and nonvesicular. And that contact that looked like it was dipping - apparent dip in the wall - was to the north. And the west wall dipping to the north about 20 degrees.
167:44:38 CC Okay. Copy that. What - which one's on top? Can you tell?
167:44:51 Cernan Yes. The blue-gray's on top. I'm sorry.
167:44:53 CC Thank you. And you got a bearing and range there at the rim of Cochise?
167:44:55 Cernan I took a picture of it and - Okay. We're at 228/3.0, and we're not - we're headed south and not quite on the - on the east rim.
167:45:08 CC All right.
167:45:12 Cernan I'll give you a hack at the east rim.
167:45:19 Cernan Bob, I got a - a picture of that contact so, I was -
167:45:25 Schmitt I took some pictures right into Cochise, too, when we were coming up.
167:45:28 Cernan Good. It'll show on yours, too, probably - I hope.
167:45:36 Cernan Okay. We're sort of on the inner -
167:45:39 Schmitt Quick; give them a mark.
167:45:40 Cernan MARK, 230/2.9. We're on the east rim.
167:45:44 CC Copy that.
167:45:45 Cernan Well, we're sort of inside the east rim a little bit.
167:45:47 CC Well, don't get too far inside.
167:45:49 Cernan We're halfway between the rim and where the blocky wall starts.
167:45:55 CC All right. Copy that.
167:45:56 Schmitt Did you get that, Bob?
167:45:57 CC Yes. We got that.
167:46:08 Schmitt Cochise is much like Horatio and - actually, more like Camelot, although not as blocky in the walls, in general, in that it - it has blocky walls but a mantled rim. Again, all the blocks I see in here are big ones. And blocks down to about 20 centimeters are subangular, in general, and appear to be the - have the appearance of the subfloor gabbro, although most of the smaller rocks are not - do not appear to be highly vesicular.
167:46:53 CC All right. We're copying that all.
167:47:07 Cernan We're at 232 and 2.7.
167:47:13 CC Roger. Copy that.
167:47:26 Schmitt Watch it.
167:47:32 Cernan You know why - what happened there?
167:47:34 Schmitt What?
167:47:34 Cernan I was just about to take a picture, and the minute you take your eye off anything -
167:47:37 Schmitt Yes.
167:47:43 Cernan Yes. I got another view of that contact, and let's put that - let's put that on the northwest wall of Cochise and dipping to the southeast.
167:47:55 Schmitt All right. South and east is to our left.
167:48:01 Cernan No, no, no, no, no. Put it on the northwest wall dipping to the northeast.
167:48:11 Schmitt Yes, that's right. See that, Geno, can you see that over there?
167:48:19 Cernan Oh, yes. I can see it now between the gray and blue-gray?
167:48:21 Schmitt Yes.
167:48:22 Cernan Oh, yes. Yes, I sure do.
167:48:26 Schmitt Can you swing in there, and let me get another shot of it?
167:48:28 Cernan You betcha.
167:48:37 Schmitt Oh, this is a good view right here. Okay now, I need to have you go left.
167:48:44 Cernan Okay. I got two of them in there, too.
167:48:45 Schmitt Great.
167:48:46 Cernan Look at that rock right in front of us. It looks like a contact between a blue and a gray.
167:48:50 Schmitt Oh, yes, there it is. Yes, you're right.
167:48:52 Cernan We can't get down to it, but take a picture.
167:48:54 Schmitt Well, I think we've done - I think we've got that relationship. I think we got it at Station 1, as a matter of fact.
167:48:59 Cernan But that's a big beautiful boulder on the - -
167:49:00 Schmitt Yes, that's - -
167:49:01 Cernan Inner rim - -
167:49:02 Schmitt - - that's ... a block.
167:49:02 Cernan - - inner south rim of Cochise.
167:49:04 Schmitt Oooh - -
167:49:04 Cernan It's a single block.
167:49:05 Schmitt That's how you bend your tires.
167:49:07 Cernan Well, thatf s what it's for. Oh, that's a mou - Oh, man, would that be ... - -
167:49:11 Schmitt Well, now, that might be glass covered. That might be a glass coating; the way it sort of hangs on the outside there. Hard to say.
167:49:21 Cernan We're at 234/2.5.
167:49:28 Schmitt Starting to sling dust. I wonder if we've lost our fender.
167:49:30 CC Roger. Copy that.
167:49:30 Cernan No, they're on there tight. ... - -
167:49:31 Schmitt You think that's Van Serg? Right over there.
167:49:35 Cernan No.
167:49:35 Schmitt There it is. Bet you.
167:49:38 Cernan Yes. I think you're right, because that's just about the right place. Let's see, 234 - okay, is where - and 2.1 is where we want to go, and I'm at 230/2.5.
167:49:47 Schmitt Okay, our - -
167:49:48 Cernan Pretty close.
167:49:49 Schmitt - - Our block population in here now, on the south rim of Cochise and it's - and up ahead of us looks like it's up to 5 percent. And it's - all looks like subfloor - light to tan subfloor gabbro - or tan-gray. You don't see much blue-gray; not out on here.
167:50:22 Schmitt There's a recent hit.
167:50:26 Cernan This Rover is getting tested for what it was built for now.
167:50:29 Schmitt Yes.
167:50:37 Cernan I tell you it handles just the way as advertised, maybe even better.
167:50:44 CC Okay. We think you guys are getting to the point we ought to swing a little bit west to make that 232/2.1.
167:50:51 Cernan Yes, I am, Bob.
167:50:56 Schmitt I think we - We've got it. Tallyho.
167:50:56 Cernan Bob - Bob. That's my fix. I'm just navigating to it.
167:51:00 CC Okay. Copy that.
167:51:01 Cernan I know where. I'll get there.
167:51:04 CC Roger.
167:51:04 Schmitt We have a Tallyho on Shorty - I mean of Van Serg. How about through there, Geno. Thanks.
167:51:13 CC Let's not prejudge the crater too much.
167:51:15 Cernan You want 234/2.1. Okay.
167:51:20 CC And remember we talked about parking on the southeast rim.
167:51:21 Cernan It wanders like our wander factor in here has got to be 50 percent.
167:51:25 CC Copy that.
167:51:29 Schmitt Bob, you're cut - you're being cut out. I can't tell what you're saying. Isn't that where we want to go, over there?
167:51:37 Cernan 23 - Well, -
167:51:38 Schmitt Well, - look, ... way to get - -
167:51:39 Cernan - - ... found the crater.
167:51:40 CC 234 or 232 - -
167:51:42 Schmitt No, we didn't ... there on the right.
167:51:42 CC - - it doesn't make much difference, 17. If you see Van Serg, that's what we want.
167:51:48 Cernan Well, you're - Let me wander over that way. That's where I want to get, but I couldn't go there because of that -
167:51:57 Schmitt There's a different looking rock there.
167:51:58 CC And remember, we're talking about parking on the southeast rim.
167:52:06 Schmitt Yes, I think you're going to have to bear right.
167:52:09 Cernan Yes. That's why I - I've got to get through this field, though.
167:52:11 Schmitt Yes, I know (laughter).
167:52:15 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're still primarily in an extreme block field here now. It's up to a 20 percent cover, and - of fragments mostly the subfloor. Some of it looks quite highly shattered. There's -I just saw one piece that looked like a white anorthositic rock.
167:52:43 Cernan How's this look to you? We can go farther up there, I guess. Let me go farther up.
167:52:46 Schmitt Well, okay, if you can get up.
167:52:48 Cernan Get a little farther on the southeast.
167:52:50 Schmitt A little higher is apt to overdo it.
167:52:55 Cernan Okay.
167:52:55 Schmitt There are - there is some - some grayish rocks that are - -
167:53:01 Cernan Oops! I centered. Right, coming up here. I turn to the right and park right here.
167:53:07 Schmitt - - That have a - somewhat of a swirl texture.
167:53:12 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're at 230/2.2.
167:53:18 CC Copy that. Copy you parked.
167:53:25 Cernan Yep. What did I say? 230 on that? Yes, bearing is 230/2.2, and I'm parked on a heading of 320, which gives you a better view.
167:53:42 CC Copy 320 for the parking.
167:53:49 Cernan Yes, 3-330.
167:53:52 Schmitt Oh, boy. This is getting harder and harder. Got it ... also. Don't know what's wrong with it, now. I might have got it twisted.
167:54:16 Cernan Here, let me look at it.
167:54:18 Schmitt Got it hooked, but not so I can get it undone.
167:54:21 Cernan Here let me look at it. I'd say stay put, but I don't think you have any choice.
167:54:30 Schmitt That fender just curled under, that's where we're getting the dust - starting to warp.
167:54:37 Cernan Look at those other fenders, talk about warping.
167:54:40 Schmitt Did I get it twisted or something?
167:54:42 Cernan Yes, you did twist it when you put it on. Okay, squanch down.
167:54:44 Schmitt I'm squanched.
167:54:45 Cernan Okay. Had one twist in it.
167:54:51 Schmitt Boy, that makes a difference.
167:54:52 Cernan Sure does. Here. Your footpan's down, too.
167:55:00 Schmitt I'll get it. It's lost it's stiffness in there. Okay - okay, I guess now I'll plan for Shorty, huh? ... Van Serg.
167:55:14 Cernan Okay, 2 POWER'S ON -
167:55:18 Schmitt Van Serg looks like a blocky rim fresh impact crater right now.
167:55:24 CC Okay. We copy that. How about scuffing your feet and seeing if it looks orange underneath?
167:55:26 Schmitt Slight differences - Don't worry.
167:55:34 CC And, Gene, before you go away, we'd like the rest of the Rover readouts, like batteries. And how about a SEP temp readout before one of you guys leave there?
167:55:47 Cernan Get - Can you get that on that side, Jack?
167:55:48 Schmitt I will.
167:55:50 Cernan Should have TV.
167:55:50 CC Roger. We have it, and I'm sure that Ed would like a good dusting Job up front.
167:55:57 Cernan Well, there's so much - -
167:56:01 Schmitt I'll dust it if you can't read it. I'll get it.
167:56:04 Cernan - - dust. I've got it.
167:56:04 Schmitt I'll get it.
167:56:05 Cernan - - Just over the gauge. It's about 12 - 125 on the SEP.
167:56:12 CC Okay. Copy that.
167:56:13 Schmitt Boy, everything is really bad now. The fender warped.
167:56:17 Cernan Yes, the fender cut - dug under. See if you can straighten it out.
167:56:20 CC Okay, and leave the covers - -
167:56:21 Cernan Okay. Amp hours, 82 and 80. Battery, 122 and off scale low. Forwards are 210, 240; Rears are 225 and 2 - 220.
167:56:43 CC Okay, We copy that.
167:56:45 Cernan That's just a sample of the kind of - kind of dust we would have got, Jack, if we hadn't of had that fender yesterday. Fender's almost worn out.
167:56:54 Schmitt Can you get a dustbrush, and let's check our camera.
167:56:58 Cernan Stay where you are, and I'll give you a zappareno wherever you are.
167:57:16 Cernan Okay.
167:57:19 Schmitt That it?
167:57:19 Cernan Yes.
167:57:20 Schmitt Okay, how many bags do I have.
167:57:22 Cernan I don't know, but I've got a lot of dusting to do here.
167:57:24 Schmitt Do you have a lot of bags?
167:57:26 Cernan Yes. I must have - I've got four of them is all.
167:57:31 Schmitt I'd better change my bag.
167:57:35 Cernan Can't even read the Rover.
167:57:37 Schmitt Yes. I have an empty bag on me now, right, a collection bag?
167:57:40 Cernan Empty.
167:57:47 Schmitt Don't know how much time do we have here?
167:57:47 CC Okay, 17 - We're looking at a nominal, Station 9 here. You've got about 25 minutes remaining.
167:58:04 Cernan No such thing as a nominal station anymore.
167:58:07 CC This may be the first and only one of the traverse.
167:58:13 Schmitt The geology won't let it be nominal. Hey, I've got some new bags, Bob.
167:58:18 CC Okay. We copy that, Jack.
167:58:19 Schmitt And I guess I'm pretty good on film.
167:58:21 CC Okay. And you're going to get a radial sample here, and so you might check your Rover sample bag supply.
167:58:29 Schmitt That's right. I want to take that.
167:58:29 CC And you might - and you might give me frame count or check it to make sure you're okay.
167:58:36 Schmitt I just did, and it's 123.
167:58:40 CC Okay, good enough.
167:58:45 Cernan How do you want the SEP blankets?
167:58:47 CC Leave them closed, please, Gene - -
167:58:49 Cernan Open or closed?
167:58:49 CC - - as closed as they'll get.
167:58:51 Schmitt CLOSED.
167:58:57 Cernan We been riding with this thing off?
167:59:00 Schmitt What?
167:59:01 Cernan SEP?
167:59:03 Schmitt Yes, it should be off.
167:59:04 Cernan Yes, it is. Doesn't seem like it'd get much data that way. Even if it's hot.
167:59:09 CC Yes, but it's - it's automatic - -
167:59:11 Cernan I guess they're worried about getting it so hot it - -
167:59:12 CC - it shuts itself off when it gets above 108, so it's no good anyway.
167:59:18 Cernan Are you kidding? We're - oh, boy.
167:59:20 CC We've been hoping all day - it's been off all day. We've been hoping that it would - since Station 6 - We've been hoping that it would cool down so that we could get some more data, but it's not, obviously.
167:59:31 Cernan It's not going to make it, Bob.
167:59:33 CC That's obvious by now.
167:59:37 Cernan That's a - that's a shame.
167:59:39 Schmitt This is starting to look like a geological survey expedition. The vehicle's are all covered with dust.
168:00:00 Schmitt Oh, look what's in there.
168:00:05 PAO EVA time 4 hours 27 minutes.
168:00:18 Cernan I don't think I can read that unless I dust it with a lens brush - Okay. Get my - Okay, can I get by you here?
168:00:45 Schmitt My - my bag look all right to you?
168:00:47 Cernan Yes, it's still closed.
168:00:49 Schmitt Okay. Okay. What are we going to do here? We're going to go up there and sample on the rim, look at the walls, and the floor, and miscellaneous, and - -
168:01:05 Cernan Well, we are on the rim ...
168:01:05 Schmitt - - then you're going to take 500 millimeters when you get back to the Rover while I do a radial sample.
168:01:15 Cernan Okay.
168:01:16 Schmitt But the big - the first thing we do is go up to the crater. Bob, I think the mantle objective here really is immaterial and - because the - there's - blocky ejecta around the crater covers - oh, boy - Well, it looks like it - it extends several hundred meters out from the rim - say a couple of hundred meters.
168:01:49 CC All right. Copy that, Jack.
168:01:50 Schmitt We're quite a ways - we're pretty close to the rim.
168:01:53 CC Yes, we can see that.
168:01:55 Schmitt We're pretty close. I'll go up on the rim, Gene, and see what we've got.
168:02:23 Schmitt Tiptoe through the tulips (singing) - -
168:02:26 CC Okay. Let's get grabs before you guys leave.
168:02:29 Schmitt (Singing) I'm getting it right now. Let me see; anything else you want me to do while I'm here?
168:02:37 CC Negative.
168:02:44 Schmitt Sure look like shocked rocks to me.
168:02:53 Cernan Lot of glass splattered on some of these, Jack.
168:02:55 Schmitt Yes.
168:03:05 Cernan We might even find some shatter cones. But don't tell anybody.
168:03:16 Cernan Well, I'll say one thing for old Van Serg, it's blocky. Whoo!
168:03:24 Cernan MARK. Gravimeter.
168:03:25 CC Copy that.
168:03:30 Schmitt Bob. This is about - I think this is the only clearly - well, I won't even say that. This is at least a blocky - a large blocky rim crater. But even it has the mantle dust ma - material covering the rim, partially buried rocks. And it's down on the floor, as near as I can tell, and on the walls. The crater itself has a central mound of - of blocks that's probably 50 meters in diameter - that's a little high - 30 meters in diameter. It - Many of the blocks are - -
168:04:31 Cernan Holy Smoley!
168:04:32 Schmitt - - intensely shattered in that area, as the ones that are on the walls. I don't see any sign of organization of the blocks in the walls right now. There's a possibility that on the west wall, there's an indication that there's slightly darker gray rocks starting about halfway down the crater. And that's - that level is coincident with what appears to be a bench on the northwest wall. And that bench - hints of that bench - it's not continuous, but hints of it are around on the north wall and, I think, right below us - yes, on the southeast wall. The - We'll start - The rocks are pretty badly broken in many cases. And - well, I haven't seen any real glass yet. Yes. We'll start looking at them a little more carefully.
168:05:55 Cernan Some of them - That looks like a breccia right there in front of us.
168:05:56 Schmitt Yes. There's some interesting patterns on the surface.
168:06:02 Schmitt Stand by. Wait, wait, wait. I keep - Aw! Sorry, Geno, but -
168:06:21 Cernan Okay?
168:06:22 Schmitt Okay, there. Afraid I haven't been doing my duty on locators, occasionally.
168:06:43 Schmitt See that?
168:06:44 Cernan Yes. I got it.
168:06:49 Schmitt Okay, Gene's tearing apart one of the - -
168:06:52 Cernan Here. There you go.
168:06:53 Schmitt - - very intensely fractured rocks. And it comes off in small flakes. Let's get this one, because this will be the best oriented one for documentation, plus why don't you get that one you've got inside there?
168:07:08 Cernan Yes, I am.
168:07:11 Schmitt Got a bag?
168:07:16 Schmitt Bag 568 is a fragment from the surface. That's a corner, I think, off the block that Gene documented here.
168:07:28 Cernan Yes; it is.
168:07:30 Schmitt We'll get - we'll get another sample - that'll be from inside the block.
168:07:42 Cernan Get it with this real easy. Here's a whole big - we ought to take that just as is.
168:07:57 Schmitt Well, put it - put it in your - put a bag around if we - around one end if we can. Here the other end is smaller.
168:08:05 Cernan Yes. Hold this - -
168:08:05 Schmitt Let me hold this end. Let me hold it, and you put the bag on.
168:08:10 Cernan That's breccia, too. That's - -
168:08:12 Schmitt Well, it's - -
168:08:13 Cernan Well, see that? See the white fragments in there?
168:08:15 Schmitt Yes. It certainly - -
168:08:16 Cernan It's got a lot of very small - -
168:08:17 Schmitt It - it looks like this big one over here. You know, it might be that the - these are - might be pieces of the projectile. I don't know. Because it doesn't look like - it's not subfloor.
168:08:31 Cernan Okay. Pin it down.
168:08:38 Schmitt Well, that's wrapped in - if you can put it - if you put it end down, it may stay in the bag.
168:08:45 Cernan I doubt it.
168:08:46 Schmitt What's the number?
168:08:48 Cernan It's a 480, and it's a - a relatively tabular [sic] shape, and it's about - -
168:08:56 Schmitt And it's going to - -
168:08:57 Cernan - - 10 inches long.
168:08:58 Schmitt And it's highly friable. It breaks apart.
168:09:03 Cernan Oh, not so much.
168:09:03 Schmitt In small chips. Well, you can - you did it with your hands there. I call that being friable, compared to what we've seen anyway.
168:09:13 Cernan Okay, and let me get in after of that.
168:09:14 Schmitt Let me get a - soil - soil right over here. Okay. The soil next to the boulder down about 3 centimeters, is in bag 569.
168:09:38 CC Copy that.
168:09:40 Schmitt Okay. And the soil and chips - about two-thirds of a meter from the boulder - -
168:09:53 Cernan Get another one?
168:09:54 Schmitt Yes - are in bag 570.
168:10:01 CC Copy that.
168:10:12 Schmitt Okay?
168:10:14 Cernan Let me get over here. You're going to step on your gnomon there.
168:10:18 Schmitt I wouldn't step on my gnomon. I'm going to get this one - crimped. Okay. There, very clearly, is a central, mound. And now that we've looked at this one, the mound looks like it's composed of gray fragment breccias much like what we've just sampled - -
168:10:39 Cernan ...
168:10:40 Schmitt - - dark gray. And again it might be related - -
168:10:44 Cernan Jack.
168:10:46 Schmitt Oh, excuse me. I didn't hear you.
168:10:47 Schmitt Related to the projectile. Now, we've got to see if there is subfloor up here, or whether we're dealing with another unit somewhere.
168:10:55 Cernan Got your after. Okay. I don't see any - -
168:10:58 Schmitt Well, the more coherent rocks - this looks like subfloor.
168:11:02 Cernan I don't see any orange material either.
168:11:04 Schmitt Not yet.
168:11:12 Cernan This particular rock we've sampled has tabular fractures, and in one-half of the rock, they are definitely oriented.
168:11:29 Schmitt Boy, I'll tell you, I don't - There's more dust on these rocks. It's harder to see a fresh surface. They're not as clean. That's subfloor.
168:11:46 Cernan Look, even the floor of the crater is mantled, down there.
168:11:47 Schmitt You know, that seems - Yes. That seems like a - what you got? A piece of glass?
168:11:54 Cernan Yes, I think it is glass. At least it's glass covered - just glass covered. Houston, I've got an undocumented sample. It's about 2 meters west of where we just sampled. It's a glass-covered -oh, baseball-size rock in 571.
168:12:12 CC Copy that.
168:12:17 Schmitt A lot of these blocks up here, Houston, are - particularly the more fractured ones, but even some that aren't - are a gray matrix fragment breccia. And it looks like - really, the fragments are quite fine. There are no - On the rim anyway, we haven't seen any large fragments. The largest I've seen is about 2 centimeters. But down in the mound you can see some fragments that are probably half a meter in diameter.
168:13:00 Cernan Jack, are you going around that rim of the crater up there?
168:13:02 Schmitt I was just looking at rocks.
168:13:03 Cernan Well, okay.
168:13:05 Schmitt We - we - -
168:13:05 Cernan I want to get a pan before we leave back there.
168:13:07 Schmitt Oh, yes. We need to see if we can get some of the subfloor. I'm not sure I understand what's happened here, yet. This should have brought up subfloor according to the theory, and it hasn't.
168:13:19 Cernan That looks like some of the - look at some of the breccias - the blue breccias with the white - big old slabby white - with the fracture face with the white inclusions.
168:13:28 Schmitt Down there.
168:13:29 Cernan Yes, down in the floor, Jack.
168:13:30 Schmitt Yes, it has that appearance all right. Hey, Gene. Do you see that rock - -
168:13:34 Cernan That's a - -
168:13:34 Schmitt - - that rock that's fractured in sort of a pyramid shape down there? Out here on the right - the right end of - of the floor down there - that big one?
168:13:42 Cernan Yes.
168:13:42 Schmitt It's sort of pointing west.
168:13:44 Cernan Yes.
168:13:44 Schmitt It's really neat. That's a unique fracture, isn't it?
168:13:47 CC Roger, 17 - -
168:13:48 Schmitt And there's another one that's fractured almost in a ... - -
168:13:50 CC - - And we'd like to be moving from here in about 10 minutes, so we probably better be trending back toward the Rover, unless you're seeing something really great out there.
168:13:57 Schmitt Well. Hey, Bob, we ought to - we ought to find out whether or not we got - whether - what the rock is here, if you've got a little time.
168:14:05 Cernan Jack, do you want me to put this in your bag and start - I'm sorry.
168:14:05 CC Roger. You got - you got 10 minutes. I'm just telling you to start thinking about getting back.
168:14:14 Schmitt Yes. We're always thinking that way.
168:14:15 Cernan Okay, Bob. One thing I noticed we do uncover. There's a lot of - oh, 2, 3, 4-millimeter-size fragments of glass we're kicking up all over the place.
168:14:25 Schmitt Yes.
168:14:27 Cernan Little glass balls.
168:14:28 Schmitt Hey, Gene?
168:14:29 Cernan Almost like Pele's -
168:14:31 Schmitt Gene?
168:14:31 Cernan Yes.
168:14:32 Schmitt Can you come over here? I think there's some subfloor here. We ought to - -
168:14:36 Cernan Okay.
168:14:37 Schmitt We ought to try to document it. But I tell you, most of the rocks are the - are the fine-fragment breccias. Let me see if I can't get one of those little - -
168:14:45 Cernan There's some glass.
168:14:46 Schmitt Hey.
168:14:47 Cernan You see if they're like Pele's - -
168:14:48 Schmitt Okay.
168:14:50 Cernan - - ... eyeballs or whatever they are.
168:14:53 Schmitt I think we can get some over here. If you're - if you're careful coming over here, we can get glass that looks like it may have crystallized in place there.
168:15:00 Cernan Okay. I'm talking about those little - little balls, too. See that - -
168:15:06 Schmitt Whoo, take it easy - Take it easy.
168:15:08 Cernan Where are you? Right there?
168:15:08 Schmitt Yes, but put your gnomon right over here, and we can get that for glass and that for subfloor.
168:15:14 Cernan Okay. Let me -
168:15:15 Schmitt But I'm not sure that is. I Just - it may be breccia there - Everything is covered with dust here, and it's hard to tell the types. Most of the rocks we're seeing are breccias. Make sure that glass is in your stereo.
168:15:47 Schmitt Okay, be careful with it.
168:15:52 Cernan Oh, shoot!
168:16:08 Cernan I don't have any bags so -
168:16:11 Schmitt Okay, the glass - looks like a glass agglutinate. Oh, no!
168:16:20 Schmitt Did it break? Good. I think that will survive going back now.
168:16:30 Schmitt Okay. It's a frothy - glass agglutinate is going to be in bag 48l.
168:16:43 CC Copy that.
168:16:46 Schmitt And - and it looks like a - almost like a cowpie - pile-type of bomb, Bob, if you'll pardon the expression.
168:16:56 CC I will. I don't know whether anybody else - -
168:16:58 Schmitt Although it's not flattened. It's - it's - it's a - it's an aggregate of glass in - or it's a pile of about four fragments, much like the one we're sampling.
168:17:16 Cernan Jack, we want to get a good scoop sample here. Maybe can we get some of those little fine pieces of glass around.
168:17:21 Schmitt And it looks like it's - it's in place from the day it was born.
168:17:26 CC Copy that.
168:17:28 Cernan Oh, gol dig da! I'm having a hard time with this one.
168:17:37 Schmitt A piece of that rock rigiht behind it.
168:17:42 Cernan If I can -
168:17:51 Schmitt Want a bag?
168:17:55 Cernan Yes. I'm going to turn around. Just not going to be able to get that one in the bag, I don't think.
168:18:07 PAO
168:18:19 Schmitt Okay, Houston. My sample's in - 482 is a rock, but it doesn't look like subfloor. It looks like the blue-gray material we've been seeing - the breccia-type material.
168:18:30 Cernan Yes.
168:18:32 Schmitt I don't think there's any difference.
168:18:36 Cernan Got it in!
168:18:38 Schmitt Might just as well throw them in my bag.
168:18:46 CC Okay, and - -
168:18:47 Cernan I want a scoop out of here, though, Jack.
168:18:49 CC 17, why don't we get that scoop sample as the first sample of Jack's radial sample, 17?
168:18:58 Cernan Okay. That's right. You're getting a radial sample. That's fine. I forgot you were doing that.
168:19:04 Schmitt Oh, man.
168:19:05 Cernan That's all right, Jack. That won't come out. Just-put it in there.
168:19:16 Schmitt Oh, boy.
168:19:19 Cernan Okay. Let's let that one be the last -
168:19:21 Schmitt Here's one.
168:19:22 Cernan Well, okay. Those are the last ones that you can take. Got a lock?
168:19:32 Schmitt No, I don't - stand by, a second on that.
168:19:41 Cernan Okay. Okay, before you go back - I got to go down after a picture here. And I want to get a pan of this thing. We can get a stereo pan - as you start your radial sample.
168:20:03 Schmitt Yes. Are you going to - You - you take the after from there, and I'll go over here and -
168:20:10 Cernan Okay. You - -
168:20:10 Schmitt Well, wait a minute.
168:20:11 Cernan - - you need the gnomon?
168:20:12 Schmitt No.
168:20:13 Cernan Okay. I'm going to go over behind me and take part of the stereo.
168:20:16 Schmitt Where are you going to take your pan? Let me see.
168:20:18 Cernan From - from behind me, where we were.
168:20:18 Schmitt Well, I think I'll just take my radial right from here to the Rover.
168:20:23 Cernan That's great. That's great. Just do that, and then you'll be right back at the Rover.
168:20:27 Schmitt And I'll take my pan from here, so you -
168:20:48 Cernan Man, there's about four or five different modes of travel out here.
168:22:08 Cernan I don't believe it.
168:22:10 Schmitt What?
168:22:12 Cernan I think I'm out of film.
168:22:14 Schmitt You're out of film?
168:22:17 Cernan 150. And it stopped clicking. Jack, I - I - I didn't get the rest of that crater down there.
168:22:25 Schmitt Okay.
168:22:26 Cernan I only got it 12 o'clock and around. Well, shucks.
168:22:34 Schmitt I can get it.
168:22:37 Cernan Well, here's where I -
168:22:39 Schmitt Well, I'm going to be out of film, too, here before long.
168:22:42 Cernan Okay. Just don't worry about it then. Just press on with your radials.
168:22:44 Schmitt I've got - I got a good pan over here. Did you get the crater at all?
168:22:47 Cernan I got the right half of it and probably two-thirds of it, so we're going to - I'm just going to have to let that do. Okay. I'm going to see if I can get some 500s while you're doing that.
168:23:06 Schmitt Hey, this isn't going to be an ideal - radial sample - but it will have to do. Giddyapping over hill and dale (singing).
168:23:43 Cernan Bob, would you tell me what your primary desires are again on the 500, based upon what we have?
168:23:51 CC Okay. The primary desire will be the North Massif, the blocks, and the trail.
168:24:00 Cernan Okay.
168:24:04 CC And while you're at the Rover, they want you to take the gravimeter off again, and we'll get another Rover and a - well another surface measurement here, as well - to check against the Rover.
168:24:20 Cernan Okay. Here's a reading. I think I owe you one of those, don't I?
168:24:28 CC Roger.
168:24:30 Cernan 670, 037, 801; 670, 037, 801.
168:24:37 CC Copy that.
168:24:41 Cernan I didn't know we were going to do both of these things. I thought we were going to do one or the other. But - if we're going to do it, we might as well do it right.
168:24:58 Cernan MARK it. It's flashing.
168:25:13 Schmitt Okay, bag - stand by - 52 Yankee is at the rim crest.
168:25:27 CC Copy that.
168:25:41 Cernan Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to use the Rover to steady the 500, and see what happens.
168:26:28 Schmitt Oh, I should have let you take this scoop back. Oh, no. Oh, me. Well, shoot! This isn't working out too well, Dr. Parker.
168:26:47 CC Say again there, Jack.
168:27:01 Schmitt This isn't working out too well. I've got to get rid of this scoop.
168:27:05 Cernan Just set it there and take your sample. We'll get it.
168:27:09 Schmitt I'll take the samples going back.
168:27:49 Schmitt Just like in training, the scoop doesn't stay locked to the ...
168:28:31 CC Okay, 17. We'd like you to press on. We'll abort the radial sample. We'd like to leave here immediately, if not sooner, to head for Station 10. Enough of the 500 millimeters, Gene. And we'll give you some information here on mags. We need the gravimeter put back on the Rover, if you haven't already. If it's on the ground, we didn't get the mark, but it's probably done by now. And we're going to take the DSEA out of the tape recorder here, and we'd like to get that all done pronto.
168:29:11 Cernan Okay. 85 is the mag count on the 500.
168:29:14 CC Copy 85 on the 500.
168:29:15 Schmitt I think that's a smart move, Bob. I don't think - I don't think the radial sample's going to tell you much here.
168:29:21 CC Okay. Let's take a -
168:29:24 Schmitt I don't under - I - I -
168:29:26 CC Go ahead.
168:29:31 Cernan Jack, you ought to get a scoop of that dirt, though.
168:29:34 Schmitt Well, there's - -
168:29:35 Cernan One scoop. We don't have a scoop of it, do we?
168:29:37 Schmitt Look what's underneath it.
168:29:39 Cernan Well, I don't know what's underneath it.
168:29:40 Schmitt It's white.
168:29:42 Cernan Well, I wanted to make sure we got some of those small glass balls.
168:29:46 Schmitt Yes, we'll get a scoop of it. Upon the top.
168:29:50 CC 17, we're anxious for you guys to get going.
168:29:54 Cernan Okay. Here's your gravimeter reading from the surface; 670, 057, 101; 670, 057, 101.
168:30:07 CC Copy that.
168:30:07 Cernan Do you want me to change my mag at the next station?
168:30:10 Schmitt Come here, Gene, quickly. We can't - we can't leave this. This may be the youngest mantle over - whatever was - -
168:30:21 Cernan Take pictures of it. I don't have any film.
168:30:22 Schmitt - - was thrown out of the craters.
168:30:25 Cernan Take pictures of it. Bob, we've got to take 5 more minutes. We'll be right with you.
168:30:31 Cernan What Jack's done is he dug a - a trench in a - the southwest-northeast direction, and he discovered about 3 inches below - 4 inches below the surface - a very light-gray material.
168:30:49 Schmitt Possibility here - Careful, Geno.
168:30:51 Cernan Yes.
168:30:59 Cernan Take that crust.
168:31:00 Schmitt Well, I'm trying - I'm trying to get the - the upper portion there. There we go.
168:31:07 Schmitt The first 2 centimeters, bag 483. The next 5 - Ahhh - in 484. Augh!
168:31:43 Cernan Get some?
168:31:44 Schmitt I got quite a bit.
168:31:45 Cernan That's enough.
168:31:46 Schmitt I got quite a bit. Here, you got to put that away, don't you?
168:31:52 Cernan Yes.
168:31:53 Schmitt And the next 10 centimeters of the light-gray material, be in - probably in 486, if we're lucky - get it off.
168:32:12 Cernan Okay.
168:32:14 Schmitt I think it is 486, right?
168:32:15 Cernan Yes. 485!
168:32:18 Schmitt 485. Okay. What did I say 483, 484? Okay.
168:32:25 Cernan You with us, Bob?
168:32:26 CC Roger. We're with you.
168:32:27 Schmitt He's mad at us now.
168:32:30 CC How'd you guess?
168:32:32 Schmitt Okay. The third sample is in 485.
168:32:34 CC Copy that.
168:32:38 Schmitt Okay. Whoops, sorry. Bob, a possibility here is that the - this upper 6 inches of gray material in here is the latest mantling in the area and the light-colored debris may be what's left over from the impact.
168:32:59 CC Okay, I copy. I understand. But we'd like to get you going. In case you didn't get the clue.
168:33:06 Cernan I know. We're going. Okay.
168:33:09 Schmitt All right. What else? Magazines.
168:33:12 Cernan No, we'll change them at the next station. Isn't that right, Bob ?
168:33:15 Schmitt No, I've got to have some. I got to get some, or I can't take -
168:33:19 CC Okay, 17. We need Jack to put on magazine Nancy. And we'd like, Gene, for you to pull out the DSEA tape recorder at this station.
168:33:31 Cernan Okay, I need a magazine too, Bob. I don't have any film at all.
168:33:35 CC Roger. That'll be Bravo if you change yours here. You could change it at Station 10.
168:33:42 Cernan I'll change it here. It's just as easy while we're in there.
168:33:45 CC Okay.
168:33:48 Schmitt Okay. You want Bravo, huh?
168:33:49 Cernan Bravo. And I'll get the tape - I'll get the DSEA. Bravo was outside there, I thought.
168:34:02 Schmitt There you go. Let me get this - hold it one -long enough for me to get this. Then I can get rid of this all at one time.
168:34:08 Cernan Okay. Oh.
168:34:11 Schmitt Well, that's all right.
168:34:12 Cernan I can't put that back in.
168:34:15 Schmitt Got it?
168:34:16 Cernan I got - I got Bravo.
168:34:18 Schmitt Okay. I got that one.
168:34:20 Cernan We lost the dark slide out of Bravo, and it's - it's in the dirt. I'm not going to pick it up.
168:34:27 CC All right. Copy that. There's no point in putting it back in. It probably wouldn't go in anyway.
168:34:32 Cernan Well, that's dirty. Okay. I'm changed. And I don't know what the mag count is, but let me get the DSEA. If this thing is true to form, I'm going to have to get in there - I got to - oh, it tripped! Well, now what's - Hey, we got some rocks in that big bag. Okay. We're done with the SEP. DSEA is coming out. I hope there's something on it.
168:35:49 Cernan Oh - Jiminy Christmas - I can't even pick up that big bag to close the gate.
168:35:49 Cernan I've got to - I've got to trip that latch with - with tongs or something to lock it.
168:36:05 CC Okay. And, Jack; Houston. Over.
168:36:12 Schmitt Go ahead.
168:36:13 CC Okay, we've - -
168:36:16 Schmitt Go ahead.
168:36:16 CC - - had a change of heart here again, as usual. And we're going to drop Station 10 now that we've heard you so much, and we're going to get a double core here. And we'd like to get the - some football-size rocks while you're doing that. But double core here, and then we're going to leave here and go back to the LM.
168:36:34 Schmitt You don't want a - You don't want a - you don't want a double core here. I don't think we can do it, Bob. It's too rocky.
168:36:43 Cernan You don't think we'll get through that stuff you just trenched?
168:36:45 Schmitt Well, I'm afraid there are rocks all through it, Gene. We can try, but -
168:36:50 Cernan Let's try it.
168:36:51 Schmitt Well, I don't like to try things that there is a probability of failure on - if you can - You're just going to lose some time. Okay, mag Nancy in on the LMP's camera.
168:37:00 CC Copy that.
168:37:09 Schmitt Well, this is - you can see the rock population here, Houston. But we can try it.
168:37:24 Cernan Sure. If we get a single, we get a single out of it.
168:37:29 Schmitt Oh, you're doing it, huh?
168:37:30 Cernan I've got it started.
168:37:31 Schmitt Well, you're not even - okay. Not even going to debate the issue.
168:37:35 Cernan Well, it takes too much time debating it.
168:37:37 Schmitt Well, let's see how much time it takes. I hope you're right.
168:37:41 CC Okay. And -
168:37:42 Cernan Okay, and we need a - we need a lower out of my bag.
168:37:46 Schmitt Let me get the core.
168:37:47 Cernan A lower out of my bag is all we need.
168:37:49 Schmitt Watch it. You're in a crater almost.
168:37:50 Cernan Yes. I want to get ... for you.
168:37:52 CC Okay. We have to have you guys moving in 10 minutes. And we'd like to also deploy EP number 5 here.
168:38:01 Cernan Okay. I'll start on the ... - -
168:38:05 Schmitt - - ... the lower 5?
168:38:10 Schmitt This is a lower, right?
168:38:11 Cernan Yes.
168:38:12 Schmitt You got an upper?
168:38:12 Cernan Yes. Why don't you get 5 out, and I'll start on the core.
168:38:21 Schmitt ... And I'll put it - I'll put that right there.
168:38:29 Cernan Okay. The lower is 50; the upper is 37.
168:38:34 CC Copy. 50 and 37.
168:38:38 Cernan You got 5, Jack?
168:38:40 Schmitt Yes.
168:38:41 Cernan Okay.
168:38:49 Schmitt Why don't you put it up - well - You put the gnomon away. Put it fairly near that trench. At least there is some documentation there. I'll try to have the pan going while you're doing it. Okay, Houston. Which way you going to drive out of here?
168:39:09 Cernan I'm driving out of here -
168:39:11 Schmitt Left or right?
168:39:12 Cernan I - I've got to go right. I got to go right.
168:39:16 Schmitt Okay. Pin 1 is pulled and safe. Pin 2 is pulled - safe. Pin 3 is pulled and safe.
168:39:46 CC Okay, Jack. And we'll document it back to the Rover, I guess is the best way. That doesn't look too hard, Gene. Until just now.
168:39:52 Cernan ... Oops, looks like you proved me wrong.
168:39:59 Schmitt The first core was easy; the second one a little tougher; and then it got tough down at the end. There, I'm getting a picture of you. Okay?
168:40:06 Cernan Okay.
168:40:09 Schmitt I got it.
168:40:10 Cernan You got it from here? Okay.
168:40:11 Schmitt Yes.
168:40:45 Cernan Core but it wants to slide out. It's full. No rocks in it. It looks like just the same stuff we've been traveling through.
168:40:57 CC Okay, Jack. I think you better help Gene with that - recovering that core there where the ... going to fall out.
168:41:06 Schmitt You know, I think you're right. And if you'll just wait until I finish the pan, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
168:41:11 CC Okay. I didn't know what you were doing.
168:41:13 Cernan Bob, it's capped.
168:41:14 CC Got you. Okay.
168:41:21 Cernan You hold - just hold the handle.
168:41:30 Schmitt Okay? I can take this one.
168:41:32 Cernan It's very - very loose soil, Jack. And it's - just any little movement and you'll lose some of it.
168:41:40 Cernan Let me cap that end. Don't move it.
168:41:41 Schmitt Uh-oh, you're - you almost knocked some out. Get your - you know where your thing is.
168:41:45 Cernan Yes, but I need you - that - that cap's on you. The last one's gone off the Rover.
168:41:49 Schmitt That's all right. I'll stay here. Go put your top in. I won't move it.
168:42:24 Cernan Any little movement and that stuff starts - -
168:42:26 Schmitt Yes. Okay.
168:42:39 Cernan Go - turn around. I'll get the rammer.
168:42:41 Schmitt Okay,
168:42:43 Cernan Oh, man! Even these pins are getting stiff. Okay, Bob. The top rammed down - oh, almost half way without any effort.
168:43:09 CC Copy that.
168:43:10 Schmitt The scoop's back on.
168:43:16 Cernan The bottom rammed down about an inch.
168:43:19 CC Copy that.
168:43:26 Cernan Okay, Robert. Let's see -
168:43:30 Schmitt Turn around and I'll get this.
168:43:31 Cernan - what was the last thing - let's see - we had to do?
168:43:34 Schmitt A couple of football-size rocks.
168:43:35 Cernan You got the DSEA?
168:43:38 Schmitt I got it. I got the charge. You got the double core. I got the double core. And I got one sample of a radial sample (laughter).
168:43:45 CC We got a - that's a unique one.
168:43:48 Schmitt In my pocket (laughter).
168:43:48 CC And have we got the gravimeter back on the Rover?
168:43:54 Schmitt Yes; it's on.
168:43:56 CC Okay. Copy that.
168:43:56 Schmitt And we want to get a large block. Why don't we - Why don't we - -
168:44:00 CC Okay, and there's a - -
168:44:01 Cernan No, let's get a couple of them. I've got - I've got one.
168:44:01 CC - - ... here for a SESC from the shallow trench. We'd also like to have you moving in 4 minutes. That's with wheels rolling in 4 minutes.
168:44:11 Schmitt SESC, huh?
168:44:13 CC Roger; but we have to have the wheels rolling - -
168:44:15 Schmitt I don't know if we can do that. We can try it.
168:44:16 CC We want the wheels rolling in 4 minutes, so I don't think it's practical at this time.
168:44:22 Cernan Bob, we cannot get an SESC in 4 minutes - -
168:44:25 CC Okay. Copy that - -
168:44:26 Cernan - - and roll - -
168:44:26 CC - - Copy that.
168:44:27 Cernan - - at the same time.
168:44:33 Cernan Now, I've got to push this latch on the - on the gate to get it locked - on the pallet to get it locked.
168:44:39 Schmitt Need some help?
168:44:40 Cernan Push the pallet while I trip the latch, will you? Because I got to trip the latch. There's so much dust in that core.
168:44:50 Schmitt Get it?
168:44:51 Cernan No. No. Wait a minute. Open it up. Wait a minute.
168:45:04 Schmitt Okay.
168:45:06 Cernan Now - now that's where - now let me trip it.
168:45:13 Schmitt Okay. Try it.
168:45:19 Cernan Locked?
168:45:20 Schmitt Yes. Yes.
168:45:21 Cernan Should be locked now.
168:45:21 Schmitt That got it. That got it.
168:45:30 Cernan Okay.
168:45:31 Schmitt Got a big rock there, too?
168:45:33 Schmitt It's a - well, you know, the thing that amazes me is that there's no subfloor around here.
168:45:40 Cernan I got one here.
168:45:50 Cernan Okay. I'm about ready to clean up the Rover here.
168:45:57 CC Okay, 17. What's out there in the distance on a hillside in the field of view of the camera? The camera is pointing at it. Oh, I'll bet that's the - that's the - -
168:46:09 Cernan What's out there in the distance. Which hill? Let me see the - -
168:46:11 CC - - that's the flag, I bet, on the charge.
168:46:16 Cernan Yes, but it's only - you're looking right at it, but it's only 10 meters away.
168:46:21 CC Okay. It's hanging in front of the hills. That's the problem.
168:46:23 Cernan You're looking right at the flag.
168:46:24 CC Okay. It's hanging in front of the hills. We thought we had an artifact or something like that. Okay. Press on.
168:46:35 Schmitt Bob, bag 486 is a light-colored rock taken about 3 meters to the right of the Rover. It should be - you should be able to pick it out in that last pan, unless the focus was bad.
168:46:53 Cernan Bob, you got all your TG readings?
168:46:55 CC Roger. We've got that. We'd like to have you climb on.
168:47:00 Cernan You want the LCRU off?
168:47:03 CC Roger. Let's go to LCRU power off.
168:47:07 Cernan Okay, Jack, let's - better get going.
168:47:13 Schmitt Yes. You know, I don't think there is any subfloor in here. The rocks are so dust covered that it's hard to be sure, but no rock I picked up looked like subfloor.
168:47:26 Cernan Get on there one time. Ready? I got three of them that time.
168:47:38 Schmitt (Laughter)
168:47:39 CC 17, Houston. Do you read me through the - the LM?
168:47:43 Schmitt You're loud and clear.
168:47:45 CC Roger. Thank you.
168:47:48 Schmitt I hope they came out. Okay.
168:47:57 Cernan I get that twisted this time, if I can get off.
168:48:01 Schmitt Oh, let's see if old twinkletoes can do it.
168:48:05 Cernan Jack, there's a big - a big one right there in my floor pan. That's what I did last time.
168:48:17 Schmitt Okay. I'm on, strangely enough.
168:48:29 Cernan Okay. Let's see. Okay. The charge is off to the - right.
168:48:48 Schmitt Yes, you're all - You can clear it this way or - -
168:48:56 Cernan Yes. I see it. I see it.
168:48:57 Schmitt Okay.
168:49:00 Cernan I bet you they thought there was some more orange soil over there on the hills.
168:49:15 PAO EVA time 5 hours 16 minutes.
168:49:16 Cernan Get out of this block field, we'll be able to move it a little bit.
168:49:21 Schmitt I wonder where we stand on time.
168:49:24 Cernan Well, we've been out about 5 hours and 20 minutes or so.
168:49:31 Schmitt Where is it - where are we headed, now that we are moving?
168:49:33 CC That's affirm - -
168:49:34 Cernan Well, I'm trying to get around - trying to get out of the block field here, then I'll head back to the southwest. We going to Sherlock at all, Bob?
168:49:51 CC No, we're going ... follow the ... - -
168:49:52 Schmitt That must be Gatsby over there.
168:50:10 CC And a reminder, Jack. We can get lots of photos. We've got lots of film left right now.
168:50:10 Schmitt Okay.
168:50:11 CC And, 17, Gene, I guess you're the one that took the SEP out. If you could give me - do you remember the reading of the SEP temperature when you broke it down?
168:50:22 Cernan Didn't even look, Bob.
168:50:24 CC Okay. Copy that.
168:50:25 Cernan It was 125 - 125 when we started the station.
168:50:30 CC Roger. Copy that.
168:50:35 Cernan That's Gatsby there, I guess, huh?
168:50:36 Schmitt Yes.
168:50:38 Cernan It's not - it's not unlike Van Serg, though.
168:50:41 Schmitt Hey, you know that looks like mantling. Hopefully, we can get a - watch your rock - there you go - we can get a shot looking back to the northwest - -
168:50:58 Cernan Yes, I'll get that when I - -
168:50:59 Schmitt - - into Gatsby, because it looks like the mantle streams over the - the side from the southwest. Can you swing to your right - get up a little closer to the rim, there?
168:51:15 Cernan Hey, here's a couple fragments in spots -
168:51:17 Schmitt Look at that. See that?
168:51:18 Cernan Yes.
168:51:18 Schmitt See that structure. See how the - -
168:51:20 Cernan Yes.
168:51:20 Schmitt - - See how the mantle streams over -
168:51:23 Cernan Yes.
168:51:24 Schmitt - from the northwest. Can you get that?
168:51:26 Cernan Yes.
168:51:27 Schmitt And from the southwest.
168:51:29 Cernan Got it?
168:51:29 Schmitt Yes. Go ahead. Keep going. Good shape. Got it.
168:51:37 PAO Station 10 has been eliminated, the crew will head back toward the LM.
168:51:39 Cernan We're 236/2.1.
168:51:44 Schmitt Bob, what I'm looking at is the - northwest portion of Gatsby, where there's a very very concentrated block field on the inner wall, except where there are, on the southwest, three streams and on the northwest and north a continuous stream, if you will, or band, radial band, of mantle that is bur - appears to be burying that field, overlying and mantling the field. We got some pretty pictures of it, I think.
168:52:29 CC Okay. Copy that.
168:52:35 PAO Distance to the LM, 2.2 kilometers, estimated driving time 19 minutes.
168:52:35 Schmitt Bob, I'm more and more convinced there's a mantle. One possibility, I guess, is that, if it's a pyroclastic mantle, that in the lunar vacuum environment and with whatever volatiles we're dealing with, the stuff becomes extremely fine upon vesiculation. We may have been on it all the time and not known it - as far as recognizing it.
168:53:09 Cernan As soon as we come through this draw, smooth or free of any debris or boulders it is on the other side of the upslope.
168:53:15 Schmitt Yes. Watch it.
168:53:29 Cernan Bob, do we have an extra EP?
168:53:32 CC No. We have two of them behind you. We're going to deploy - we're going to deploy one. I'll give you a reading soon on that.
168:53:41 Cernan Okay. Well, one - one I deploy at the end I know. I thought we had an extra one here somewhere.
168:53:45 CC Okay. Yes, that's what I - Okay, that's the one we were planning on deploying all along, and it's there. We'll be deploying at a range of 0.1, which is just before you get to the SEP.
168:54:01 Cernan Okay.
168:54:03 Schmitt I guess Sherlock's going to be right over the top over here. I saw it when we were on that other ridge.
168:54:12 Cernan Hey, you know, there's a lot of bad landing places around here. That old Sun angle, I think, shows most of them up. Bob, I - -
168:54:27 CC And, Geno, we were looking - -
168:54:29 Cernan I don't under - -
168:54:30 CC - - at the map here - -
168:54:31 Cernan - - I don't unders - -
168:54:32 CC - - and if you keep going straight to the LM, you're probably going to run into this crater area around San Luis Rey. You probably ought to head somewhat south of directly back to the LM, so we can at least tip the - western edge of Sherlock and then pick it up and go from there back to the SEP. It looks like it might be rather rough there in that dotted-lined area, if you can look at the backside of your map, Jack.
168:54:58 Cernan Bob, I've already been doing it. I'm at 244/1.7.
168:55:02 CC Copy that. Thank you.
168:55:03 Cernan Already been doing that.
168:55:04 CC Okay.
168:55:04 Schmitt And, Bob, about - about 200 meters back, we crossed back into our standard mantle surface of about 1-percent fragment cover - -
168:55:15 CC Okay 200 meters back ... your present location - Okay. Copy that.
168:55:15 Cernan - - out of this - the block field, which -
168:55:24 Schmitt I can see the LM.
168:55:26 Cernan Yes, I can see the LM. And there's Sherlock, where those blocks are.
168:55:30 Schmitt Yes, that's the block field, the Sherlock block field; that's right. That is a block field.
168:55:36 Cernan Some big ones there.
168:55:37 Schmitt Yes.
168:55:39 Cernan Old Station 10. I might even call it 10 Alpha in honor of the Apollo Program Office. The - -
168:55:49 CC 10 Bravo, Apollo.
168:55:49 Cernan - - Apollo Spacecraft Program Office.
168:55:56 Cernan Oh, that's right. 10 Bravo. I knew I'd never get that straight.
168:56:00 CC Do those blocks look like gabbros, you guys?
168:56:02 Cernan How fast do you think we're going, Jack, without looking?
168:56:05 Schmitt I think we're going about 18 clicks.
168:56:08 Cernan Hey, you're just about right. Seems like the first time we've been able to go downhill.
168:56:18 Schmitt (Laughter)
168:56:19 Cernan Not really.
168:56:23 Schmitt Pull close to this big block, if you can.
168:56:26 Cernan Oh, yes.
168:56:27 Schmitt And I'll try to get a reading on what it is - some pictures of it as we come up to it.
168:56:32 Cernan Yes. Boy that's a big one.
168:56:41 Schmitt Watch it. ... Looks like our old friend, the subfloor - -
168:56:53 Cernan Subfloor, isn't it? Yes.
168:56:54 Schmitt Yes. Vesicular subfloor. Vesicles are about a centimeter maximum size. Didn't look like they were - they look like they're fairly evenly sorted, and the rock itself seemed to be massif.
168:57:08 Cernan 250/1.4.
168:57:10 CC 250/1.4.
168:57:12 Schmitt Okay, we're back into a - we're back into about a 5-percent rock cover as we cross the edge of the Sherlock block field.
168:57:23 Cernan That's Sherlock over that rim over there.
168:57:24 Schmitt Yes. Yes, Once again, all these subfloor blocks look as if they're buried. Now - not mantle, necessarily, except maybe that one. Can you swing right, just a tad?
168:57:39 Cernan That one's got the mantle blowing up on it, in it - -
168:57:42 Schmitt Yes.
168:57:43 Cernan - - in it's fractures and everything.
168:57:44 Schmitt That's the best example of that, I think.
168:57:46 Cernan Take a picture of that?
168:57:46 Schmitt I got it. I got it.
168:57:46 Cernan Watch it.
168:57:47 Schmitt Got it; got it.
168:57:49 CC Okay. Now, do those blocks look like the same subfloor gabbro?
168:57:49 Cernan Yes, that's just got the mantle -
168:57:54 Schmitt Watch it.
168:57:55 Cernan ...
168:57:56 Schmitt Yes. Everything in here so far is the tan-gray subfloor gabbro that I've seen. I haven't - Oh, there's one over there that's a blue-gray. But blue-gray is not abundant.
168:58:06 CC Okay. Copy that. And, 17, as you're getting closer, we're going to want a - an LRV sample at 1.1 on the range.
168:58:25 Cernan Okay.
168:58:27 Schmitt What are we now? 1.2?
168:58:28 Cernan 1.2. Okay. We'll try to get block and soil.
168:58:32 CC That'd be good.
168:58:34 Schmitt There's a fresh little pit.
168:58:46 Schmitt Bob, I am continually impressed by the lack of exotic fragments in here.
168:58:52 Cernan Hey, Jack. How about picking out a place -
168:58:55 Schmitt ... there? Okay. If you head into that little - Well that's a crater there.
168:59:00 Cernan Let me get around it. We can go a little bit further.
168:59:02 Schmitt Yes. Maybe - -
168:59:04 Cernan I'll go up on that flat area up there.
168:59:05 Schmitt Yes, yes. There are a lots of little fragments over there by that area - ha, ha.
168:59:16 Cernan Any time.
168:59:18 Schmitt Okay. Now swing a shallow turn. Whoa. Yes, that ought to ...
168:59:25 Cernan - Did you get any of those?
168:59:26 Schmitt Unfortunately, I can't see them - the shadow.
168:59:29 Cernan How about that one right in front of you, in front of the television camera shadow. See that little one up there? Right there. With the - -
168:59:39 Schmitt It's a little big, I think.
168:59:40 Cernan Upper right, no upper right. Straight up the line.
168:59:42 Schmitt Oh, okay. Yes. If you can get over there, I can get it.
168:59:46 Cernan I can get there.
168:59:51 Schmitt Oh, I guess I had the wrong - I guess I wasn't looking at the right one. The shadow is making it impossible to see down there. Now, see what you can get.
169:00:03 Cernan Bob, we're at, let's see, 253/1.1.
169:00:09 CC Copy that.
169:00:12 Schmitt You're going to have to - If we do another sample, you're going to have to swing right so I can - see. I can't see this way.
169:00:23 Cernan Yes.
169:00:27 Schmitt And 53 Yankee.
169:00:29 CC Copy that. Is that soil or rock?
169:00:34 Schmitt That's soil. I can't see to get a rock.
169:00:36 CC Okay.
169:00:38 Schmitt Go forward just a little bit, Gene.
169:00:40 Cernan Okay.
169:00:44 Schmitt Bet you're going to get yourself in a box there.
169:00:47 Cernan No, that's all right.
169:00:48 Schmitt Whoa.
169:00:48 Cernan A little more, sorry.
169:00:51 Schmitt Little more. Okay.
169:00:55 Cernan You get it?
169:00:56 Schmitt I will. Got it.
169:01:05 Cernan I can't see the LM anymore.
169:01:09 Schmitt Okay. The rock fragments, that's 54 Yankee.
169:01:25 Schmitt Ah!
169:01:27 Cernan Okay. You got a rock right in front of you, don't you?
169:01:31 Schmitt I see it. Rolled over. Good old Rover.
169:01:47 Schmitt LMP frame for that sample - Looks like about 60.
169:01:55 CC Copy that.
169:01:59 Schmitt 60! Have I taken 60 pictures?
169:02:08 Cernan Boy, these rock fields are something else again.
169:02:11 Schmitt Yes, 60. Looks like some of our gray variety of subfloor up here - around the rim of that little crater. You know, I'm starting to think that maybe the gray relatively nonvesicular subfloor may be deeper - deeper fraction, based on what we saw - well, actually, though, let's see - that could have been overturn, I don't know. Take that back. There just isn't much of it around here, although we saw a lot of it in the wall of Cochise.
169:03:00 CC Roger. We got that.
169:03:01 Cernan What do you think this is, San Luis Rey?
169:03:02 Schmitt Well -
169:03:05 Cernan We're at 252/0.9.
169:03:09 Schmitt - I wouldn't doubt it at all. I'll bet that's San Luis Rey. Around the east side of it - Mariner and San Luis Rey. They're shallow - filled with rocks.
169:03:30 CC As close as we can tell, you're at one or the other of them.
169:03:32 Cernan Boy, I tell you they're a lot - Okay. We're at 250/0.9.
169:03:38 CC Copy that.
169:03:39 Cernan Mariner should look pretty fresh.
169:03:39 CC Copy that.
169:03:58 Schmitt Boy, I certainly don't see much variety other than the gray and the tan subfloor variety. There's old Challenger.
169:04:07 Cernan There she is. Pretty as a picture. (laughter). Boy, I tell you, there's no getting out of this stuff. You go from one to the other.
169:04:23 CC Okay, and 17 - -
169:04:24 Cernan I don't know whether I said it or not - -
169:04:25 CC Gene, your range is 0.1. We're going to deploy the quarter-pound charge, and that'll be Jack's getting off to deploy it like we talked about last night.
169:04:35 Cernan Okay. That's EP-2, Jack.
169:04:48 Schmitt EP-2; right.
169:04:57 Schmitt Bob, we're still - we're moving in and out of areas of say 1-percent to 5- to 10-percent blockiness. And where it gets blocky - not only is it more blocky, but we seem to have more of the medium-sized craters in the range of 20- to 5-meter-diameter craters. That may be Mariner right there.
169:05:43 Schmitt How do you read, Bob?
169:05:45 CC Loud and clear. Loud and clear.
169:05:50 Schmitt Hey, Van Serg, let me mention again, was an unusual experience in the plains geology here. That must be part of San Luis Rey or Mariner, one.
169:06:06 Cernan Yes. That's pretty deep. Pretty deep.
169:06:11 Schmitt Yes, it is. It's really big.
169:06:15 Cernan Yes. We're at 252 and 0.6.
169:06:19 CC Copy that.
169:06:19 Schmitt The crater on our left - that is, south of us - is a large crater. It's somewhat deeper than the craters of the same size that we've seen. And it, too, though, has - its blocks - mainly - large blocks mainly in the walls, although there are blocks - blocks up here in the rim, occasionally up to 3 meters.
169:06:57 Schmitt Look at that string of blocks over there - that may be it.
169:07:00 Cernan Yes.
169:07:00 Schmitt That's an edge of a crater, I guess.
169:07:02 Cernan Want a picture of that?
169:07:05 Schmitt Got it. Look at the way that thing's fractured.
169:07:15 Cernan Yes, this is the San Luis Rey, Luis complex, because see how elongated it is?
169:07:19 Schmitt Yes. Yes.
169:07:20 Cernan Fact is, we're going to cut right through the western half here.
169:07:29 Cernan We're at 244/0.4.
169:07:33 CC Copy that.
169:07:35 Schmitt Bob, I may have said earl - early - early on up there at Van Serg that I saw subfloor, but we never did sample any that I know of. And the dust was thick enough that I'm just not sure. Breccias were the most obvious thing there.
169:07:55 CC Okay. Most interesting.
169:08:00 Schmitt It might have been a window in the plains here, of some kind. But - it's strange to see it there, with so much subfloor all around it that we saw.
169:08:29 CC And, Jack, you're going to get a feedwater tone pretty soon.
169:08:35 Schmitt Got it. Hey, I should be in OFF now.
169:08:50 Cernan 252 and 0.2.
169:08:54 CC Copy that.
169:08:55 Cernan There she is.
169:08:55 CC And as soon as we get to the 0.1, let's stop and deploy the charge.
169:09:03 Cernan Alright.
169:09:07 Schmitt Okay. And then I guess - then I'll head back to the LM.
169:09:14 Cernan Yes, I don't go to the - -
169:09:17 Schmitt Unless you want to go to the ALSEP.
169:09:19 Cernan (Laughter) I think I'm going to.
169:09:22 Schmitt When do I go to the - Oh, you go to SEP. That's right.
169:09:27 Cernan No, you're SEP when I ... - -
169:09:29 CC We're going to let you play the return to the ALSEP game there, Jack. We've got a few things for you to do out there, when the time comes.
169:09:35 Schmitt Okay.
169:09:36 Cernan Point 1? No. We're almost to SEP. We're about - -
169:09:42 CC Roger. We'll be just short of SEP.
169:09:43 Cernan - - 50 meters from SEP.
169:09:45 CC Is it short of the antenna?
169:09:49 Schmitt Well - -
169:09:50 CC - - We'd like to have this - -
169:09:51 Schmitt - - You see, we can get to the end of the antenna - -
169:09:53 CC Well, no, no. Don't - let's have it east of the antenna. If we are there, let's deploy it right where you are.
169:10:00 Schmitt Okay. We're about 30 meters east of the antenna. How's that?
169:10:04 CC That sounds great.
169:10:09 Schmitt Okay. And we're measuring 221 and 0.2; 221 and 0.2
169:10:19 CC Copy that.
169:10:27 Cernan There's a rock. I stood up down there, and I want to get it - -
169:10:29 CC And it's EP number 2 that we're after, Jack, in case you didn't follow us.
169:10:35 Schmitt Okay. Hey, our gate's open.
169:10:38 Cernan It's open?
169:10:40 Schmitt Yes. But it looks like everything's here.
169:10:44 Cernan How about the big bag?
169:10:45 Schmitt Big bag's there.
169:10:48 CC Is that the gate or the pallet?
169:10:48 Schmitt They wouldn't dare run away.
169:10:50 CC The gate or the pallet?
169:10:54 Schmitt The pallet. I'm sorry.
169:10:57 CC Well, that's worse.
169:11:02 Schmitt Seems to ride all right that way.
169:11:15 Cernan Boy, that dust. It's getting into everything. (Humming) Okay, I'm going to leave the gate like it is. Seems to be all right.
169:11:32 Schmitt Okay.
169:11:33 Cernan Okay; EP-2.
169:11:38 Schmitt Where is that? There it is.
169:11:43 Cernan Hey, Jack. You're just going to walk back from here, aren't you?
169:11:46 Schmitt I can, yes.
169:11:48 Cernan Well, why don't you just go turn the SEP receiver off? Oh, we did that. The receiver's all done.
169:11:53 Schmitt ... the transmitter - but you've got to come out here anyway.
169:11:55 Cernan Yes, I've got to come out here. Forget it.
169:11:57 Schmitt I can do it.
169:11:58 Cernan No, I was just reading ahead, but no sense - Forget it.
169:12:02 Schmitt One thing I want you - Okay, Pin 1. Pulled and safe. Pin 2. Pulled and safe. Pin 3 is pulled and safe.
169:12:14 CC Copied all those.
169:12:14 Schmitt And I'll try to put it in a depression. I'm going to put it in a depression, if you want. Okay. And then I've got to take a pan, huh? Will a locater - yes - How about a locater to the LM?
169:12:44 CC Be fine.
169:12:51 Cernan You going to get on, Jack, or walk back? Dealer's choice.
169:12:54 Schmitt I'll get on.
169:12:55 Cernan Okay.
169:12:57 Cernan Okay. Locater to the LM. I'll give you a frame count, if I can read it: 90 - 92.
169:13:06 CC Copy; 92.
169:13:16 Schmitt You're going to have to go left a little, right here.
169:13:21 Cernan Go left?
169:13:22 Schmitt To avoid the antenna.
169:13:24 Cernan Oh - -
169:13:24 Schmitt Yes, we don't have to worry about it.
169:13:25 Cernan - - we don't have to worry about it, but - but I will anyway.
169:13:29 Schmitt Go ahead.
169:13:32 Cernan Okay. I'll take it easy.
169:13:33 Schmitt Oh, that's all right.
169:13:40 Schmitt I want to point out a rock to you I set up on end. You need to get in the bag, and you can let me off there and I'll carry it.
169:13:47 Cernan Okay.
169:13:48 Schmitt But drive close enough so I can reach down and use the ... for support.
169:13:52 Cernan Where is it?
169:13:53 Schmitt It's out over here. Between the - -
169:13:57 Cernan Oh which side of that antenna?
169:14:00 Schmitt It's - -
169:14:02 Cernan Oh, there it is. Right there?
169:14:03 Schmitt No. No, it's out - it's on the - it's near the LM.
169:14:06 Cernan Oh, okay.
169:14:06 Schmitt Here, I can go across this thing I already did.
169:14:10 Cernan That bag is empty, isn't it?
169:14:12 Schmitt Yes, that's the one I lost, I mean, I dropped.
169:14:19 Schmitt Look's like you got over.
169:14:20 Cernan Yes. Yes.
169:14:33 Schmitt I think it's that one there that's sort of dark.
169:14:38 Cernan Up there, straight ahead?
169:14:40 Schmitt Yes.
169:14:43 Cernan Bootprints are by it. That must be it.
169:14:45 Schmitt That's it, yes. Can you swing over so I can lean on the Rover when I put the - -
169:14:49 Cernan Oh. (Laughter)
169:14:50 Schmitt That's good. No, that's good. That's perfect.
169:14:54 Cernan Okay. You off?
169:14:56 Schmitt Okay. I am now - I'd hate to get run over this late in the game. Well now, what did I do that for?
169:15:08 Cernan (Laughter) What did you do? Kick it under?
169:15:10 Schmitt Yes.
169:15:19 Schmitt Need your oil changed?
169:15:21 Cernan Yes. While you're under there, would you check (laughter) - check my transmission, please?
169:15:24 Schmitt (Laughter)
169:15:26 Cernan (Laughter) And - any bubbles on the inside of the tires? (laughter)
169:15:32 Cernan Okay. Have you got it?
169:15:34 Schmitt Yes, I got it. Hey, Bob. I got my rock. It's halfway between the SEP and the LM. Wait, wait. Let me put it in the big bag - in the big bag.
169:15:47 Cernan Big bag. ... - -
169:15:48 CC Is this that - is this that brown one you saw out here before, Jack?
169:15:50 Cernan Okay. Go ahead.
169:15:52 Schmitt No, it's a gray one.
169:15:54 CC Okay.
169:15:55 Cernan Oops - Okay?
169:15:57 Schmitt Yes, I just lost the sample. It's in my pocket, I guess. Let me get some tongs.
169:16:04 Cernan Okay.
169:16:11 Schmitt Then you can go ahead. I'll walk back. ...
169:16:48 PAO EVA time 5 hours 44 minutes.
169:17:47 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm back at the LM - -
169:17:49 CC Roger. We have you back at the LM.
169:17:50 Cernan 151, 12.0, and 001. Well, wait a minute.
169:18:04 Schmitt Can you get it?
169:18:05 Cernan I got to get your bag - -
169:18:06 Schmitt I got it; I got it.
169:18:08 Cernan Let me get your bag off.
169:18:18 Cernan I'm reading 80 on the amps, 78 on the amps - Correction, that's amp-hours. Voltages, 62 and 65. Battery 1 is 132, ... 0. Motor temps are 200 and 210 on the rear, 200 and 250 on the fr -forward.
169:18:47 CC Okay. We copy that.
169:18:57 CC Okay. And let's - let me brief you here on the closeout tonight, 17. A number of things we - we're going to do here that are slightly different. We've got some stuff for you over at the ALSEP, Jack, and I'll get with you when you go over there. Nothing we have to worry about in the meanwhile. When we unload the Rover, we're going to take the SESC out, and we're going to use that to collect the contaminated sample out behind the footpad there as per plan, and when we take the traverse gravimeter off, we're going to want to get both a grav and a bias reading, because the pallet was swinging in the breeze there. Otherwise, let's press on with the closeout, and we'll get with you as times change.
169:20:15 Cernan Okay, Bob. The core tubes are going in SCB-7 - I mean - Yes, 7.
169:20:23 CC Okay. I copy that.
169:20:29 Cernan You should have TV, Bob.
169:20:31 CC Roger. We have TV. Thank you.
169:20:41 Cernan Did you get my bag already?
169:20:42 Schmitt Yes.
169:21:07 Cernan Jack?
169:21:07 Schmitt Yes.
169:21:07 Cernan We'll have one more to put in here. I'm just going to lay this one over here. Yes, the big one. Man, there's some big ones in there, too.
169:21:11 Schmitt We can get some of that subfloor.
169:21:19 Cernan Yes, there's one in my footpan, too. You see it there?
169:21:23 Schmitt Yes, we'll have to - -
169:21:27 Cernan Why don't you leave that there for a minute? Okay What did you say about the TGE, Bob?
169:21:29 CC Okay. We'd like to take TGE, of course, as we planned. Take it off, and we'll try and get both a grav and a bias reading. You might initiate one of them now. We'll initiate another one later on. We've got plenty of time while it's sitting on the ground there to - to do our thing with it.
169:21:52 Cernan ... - -
169:21:52 CC I see where you've got ... coming up pretty soon, Gene.
169:21:57 Cernan Bob, I already got it and I'm in AUTO. Just about 30 seconds ago.
169:22:00 CC Okay.
169:22:05 Cernan Okay. How are we fixed for samples? Here's 5, and it's about 1/2 to 3/4 full.
169:22:12 Schmitt Well, let's dump - -
169:22:14 Cernan We've got to carry the SECS up.
169:22:16 Schmitt - - let's dump these - -
169:22:19 Cernan We got 3.
169:22:19 Schmitt - - 3 in there, the Rover samples.
169:22:22 Cernan Okay. Okay. We probably ought to put the SESC in there, huh? If there's room for it.
169:22:42 CC Yes, let's put the SESC someplace - -
169:22:43 Cernan Where do you want the SESC, Bob?
169:22:45 CC Let's put the SESC someplace where it's accessible to get that contamination sample. We probably want to get it before you go off to the ALSEP, but there's no real hurry on that. We'll see what works in best. I'm not sure where the most convenient place for you - -
169:22:59 Cernan Yes. Why don't we get it now, and then we can - then we can have this bag - -
169:23:03 CC - - to put it right offhand is.
169:23:03 CC That's probably is the - -
169:23:04 Cernan Let's get it now. We can get the bag cleaned up. We can put it in bag 5.
169:23:05 CC Roger. There's probably not very many convenient places to put it. That sounds like a good idea to me.
169:23:10 Schmitt Okay. Let - let me my scoop.
169:23:13 Cernan Get your scoop. Let's get it over with.
169:23:17 Schmitt Say again, Bob. You want that - I don't have a scoop, I don't even have a rake.
169:23:25 Cernan They're both gone, huh?
169:23:26 Schmitt Yes.
169:23:27 Cernan Use your - your Rover sampler.
169:23:30 Schmitt Yes. They both fell off when that thing opened.
169:23:33 Cernan Yes.
169:23:34 Cernan Here's a full core tube we can't forget.
169:23:36 Schmitt Yes, oh, that goes in the - -
169:23:39 Cernan Is there room for it?
169:23:40 Schmitt Yes, why don't you get that scoop off, and I'll put it over here in 4. I mean in 7.
169:23:47 Cernan That was a good time to lose it. I'm glad we didn't lose it (laughter) any earlier. If we were going to lose it, that couldn't have been more ideal.
169:23:53 Schmitt Yes. That's appropriate, I guess.
169:24:02 Cernan We got two - we've got two empty core tubes. Feel like we took a lot of them, though.
169:24:06 Schmitt We'll get it. We'll use them, maybe.
169:24:08 Cernan Back here.
169:24:11 CC Okay. We confirm that. Please go forward - -
169:24:12 Schmitt Hey, I'm getting this ... - -
169:24:15 CC - - and don't have to worry about bringing back, huh?
169:24:20 Cernan Here's your thing.
169:24:24 Cernan We're going to get this SESC now, and get it out of the way, Bob.
169:24:27 CC Roger. We agree with that.
169:24:32 Cernan Okay.
169:24:35 Schmitt Minus-Z, huh? You want it in front of the minus-Z footpad?
169:24:43 CC Roger. Sort of underneath where you probably had the - -
169:24:45 Schmitt Looks like a good place.
169:24:46 CC - - solar side of the cosmic ray experiment there. Between the SES - between the footpad and the ALSEP doors there.
169:25:23 Schmitt Full?
169:25:24 Cernan Oh, I've got about an inch to go.
169:25:27 Schmitt Okay.
169:25:27 Cernan ... me. Let's fill it up.
169:25:42 Schmitt Looks good.
169:25:42 CC Okay. And both you - your feedwaters are up, 17, so things look good.
169:25:50 Cernan Thank you.
169:25:54 Cernan Would you brush the - that white thing off for me?
169:26:01 Schmitt Yes. Here, let me get - there, you got her.
169:26:24 Cernan Okay. Take a couple over here.
169:26:35 Schmitt Let me go past the radar. Good job.
169:26:46 Schmitt Bob, radar's built better. I'm on frame 96, and the short can sample - contaminated sample is documented by two stereopairs prior to that. And the before is the cosmic ray pictures.
169:27:08 CC Copy that.
169:27:16 CC Okay. And which SES - which SCB is that going in, Jack?
169:27:22 Schmitt Number 5.
169:27:24 CC Okay. Copy that.
169:27:26 Schmitt Okay. The SCB's in - the SCB's in 5. That what you have?
169:27:30 Cernan Yes, short can in 5.
169:27:32 Schmitt The ... short (laughter) SCB. Okay.
169:27:40 CC Okay. And while you're doing that - -
169:27:41 Cernan Yes. He can ... your - let me get this - -
169:27:42 CC - - remember, I want inventories of the stuff as it comes off the Rover and where you put it over there by the footpad, so we can help you keep track of it.
169:27:51 Schmitt Okay. I've got the - we've got the big bag, bag 7,bag 5, bag 4 at the footpad.
169:28:09 CC Copy that. We've also got SCB-3 with the Rover samples in it on the Rover, if there - if you have any - yes, you have some of those today.
169:28:17 Schmitt No, we - we emp - we emptied those into 5.
169:28:20 CC Okay. Copy that.
169:28:21 Cernan Okay, Bob. The gravimeter's on the surface. And you want a gravity reading and a bias reading, is that correct?
169:28:28 CC Roger. We'll get the grav first.
169:28:35 Cernan Okay, Bob.
169:28:37 Cernan MARK it. Let's see, where am I?
169:28:39 CC Copy that.
169:28:45 Cernan What did you do with the - -
169:28:46 Schmitt Okay.
169:28:50 Cernan - - gravimeter - You've got another big rock over here from the - -
169:28:54 Schmitt It's in my footpan.
169:28:55 Cernan That's from Station 9, right?
169:28:57 Schmitt Yes.
169:28:58 Cernan That's what I told them. Station 9, I a football-size rock, and I've put it in there.
169:29:07 Schmitt Well, we eventually lost one clamp. Let's see what we've got left on here.
169:29:25 Schmitt Okay. Gene's football-sized rock looks like it might be glass coated. And it might even have a shatter cone or two on it.
169:29:38 CC Okay, Jack.
169:29:42 Cernan Okay. I'll let you get - -
169:29:43 Schmitt I don't know what you're focused on - -
169:29:45 CC And - -
169:29:45 Schmitt - - but here's his rock.
169:29:46 CC - - and, Jack, we're making plans here, to change the camera usage at the end of EVA here. And we're going to let you take commander's camera out to the ALSEP and take a few photos that people think we need. And Gene's going to take your camera out and document the geophone. When he deploys it, we will not deploy it for the longterm experiment, however. And we'll bring both back, and carry them to the ETB when we get done.
169:30:19 Schmitt Okay.
169:30:24 Cernan Okay. We've got to reverse the rolls of the camera here.
169:30:27 Schmitt While you're getting that, we've got to doff our harnesses. Let me - before you take this - -
169:30:31 Cernan Are you going to start loading the ETB yet or not?
169:30:33 Schmitt Well, I'm just about there.
169:30:35 Cernan Okay. I'll be right with you.
169:31:51 Cernan Okay, Bob. I've got the cosmic ray in the ETB.
169:31:58 CC Roger. Copy that. It's been in there all along, hasn't it?
169:32:03 Cernan Yes.
169:32:05 Schmitt Mag Foxtrot, or Franny, I guess, we changed it to, Mag Donna, the DSEA. Mag Echo. Mag Linda. Mag Mary.
169:33:03 Cernan Are you through with the 500?
169:33:06 CC Roger. We're through with the 500.
169:33:13 Cernan Jack, where is the cosmic ray? Did you put that in the ETB already?
169:33:15 Schmitt Yes.
169:33:16 Cernan Okay.
169:33:23 Schmitt I don't think the 500's working anymore, anyway.
169:33:26 Cernan It was working ... - -
169:33:26 Schmitt There it is.
169:33:26 Cernan - - I used it.
169:33:27 Schmitt There it is. Okay. Film cycle. Three times.
169:33:52 Schmitt ... wait a minute ... Okay. Okay. In go the scissors.
169:34:20 Cernan Okay. I'm going to go get a gravimeter reading.
169:34:30 Schmitt Now, let's see. ... There it is.
169:34:53 Schmitt Okay. Mag Karen is in.
169:35:00 CC Copy that. That sounds like all of them to us.
169:35:06 Schmitt Okay. And there are two on the cameras.
169:35:09 CC Roger.
169:35:13 Cernan Bob, I'm reading 670, 010, 701; 670, 010, 701.
169:35:21 CC Okay. Copy that. We're ready for a bias, Gene.
169:35:26 Cernan Okay.
169:35:40 Cernan Bias, and it is flashing.
169:35:42 CC Roger. Mark that.
169:35:52 Schmitt Okay. Let me take a look around.
169:35:56 Cernan Jack?
169:35:56 Schmitt Yes.
169:35:59 Cernan Was that bag in there?
169:36:01 Schmitt Yes. It's over here on the MESA.
169:36:03 Cernan Okay.
169:36:12 Schmitt Oh. Let's get rid of these tool harnesses We don't need those anymore.
169:36:18 CC Yes. That's affirm.
169:36:20 Cernan Is your - You've come loose on the - you've come loose on the right.
169:36:25 Schmitt Yes. Take a picture for you.
169:36:27 CC Let me know when they come off, guys. Don't, get them tangled up in the hoses. Stand still ... - -
169:36:34 Cernan Let me pull it off for you. ...
169:36:35 CC - - stand still ... untangle it.
169:36:42 Cernan Yes. Okay. Turn this way.
169:36:52 Schmitt Now get the other side.
169:36:58 Schmitt Okay. That's off.
169:37:02 Cernan Came off, huh?
169:37:03 Schmitt Yes.
169:37:03 Cernan You don't have to get it around those hoses and everything? See if you can do it.
169:37:09 CC Works a lot better than the simulations, doesn't it?
169:37:11 Cernan They won't find the other one. Stand by.
169:37:16 Cernan That's your only fallacy. They're not even watching this. Come over here and watch me, Ed. Oh, me. Let me have it.
169:37:26 Schmitt Wait a minute. Move over that way. He - he can't - Okay. ... - -
169:37:30 Cernan Did you see me?
169:37:31 Schmitt - - see if it comes off.
169:37:32 Cernan Nod your camera if you can see me.
169:37:34 CC Roger. We can see you.
169:37:35 Schmitt It's taking too long. Just take it off. is it off? ... - -
169:37:40 CC That's - that's - that is almost ... at the Cape. Roger.
169:37:44 Cernan Jack, wait - wait - wait a minute before you - Hey, Bob, are we going to need those other core tubes?
169:37:50 CC We'd like to have you leave the two core tubes and the extension handle and the hammer and I suppose the core cap dispenser here. If we get back in time from doing all our appointed tasks at the VIP site and at the ALSEP, we'll try and drive a double core here to end things up with a bang.
169:38:08 Cernan Don't leave it - don't - don't leave it there. Do it. No, don't leave it there.
169:38:11 Schmitt Oh, I'm sorry. I'll leave it here. You got it.
169:38:13 Cernan We'll play games with the extension handle, but that's all right.
169:38:16 Schmitt Okay. Let me set them over here. Where am I? Okay. Big bag, all those - -
169:38:29 CC 17, did you guys lose your - -
169:38:29 Schmitt Don't need the LRV sampler any more.
169:38:31 CC - - extension handles when that pallet came open?
169:38:36 Cernan Yes, but we can - I can still drive a core with the hammer if we need to.
169:38:40 CC Okay. Copy that.
169:38:42 Cernan I think.
169:38:46 Schmitt Yes. One went with the rake, and one went with the scoop. Okay, Bob. As I read down that page, it looks like we got it. The ETB check, I think we had four mags in there, and the DSEA, and the maps, and the cosmic ray.
169:39:07 CC Roger. You've got six mags.
169:39:07 Cernan ... and -
169:39:08 Schmitt I guess I'm ready to go to the - -
169:39:10 Cernan Wait a minute. I want you to do something.
169:39:13 CC Okay. One - -
169:39:14 Schmitt Six mags, is it?
169:39:15 CC - - one further question.
169:39:15 Schmitt You want these - We don't have - -
169:39:17 CC - - Did all the FSRs get off the Rover into the big bag?
169:39:23 Schmitt That's affirm.
169:39:25 Cernan Yes, ... more than you need anyway. That's color. Why don't you see if you can grab a couple? Yes, right here.
169:39:42 Schmitt Boy, are you dirty.
169:39:42 Cernan I know it.
169:39:45 Schmitt Let's see. I don't know whether I can get to you.
169:39:49 Cernan Yes, you can.
169:39:54 Schmitt Ed, you've got your camera in the way.
169:39:56 Cernan Oh, just take them straight on. That's all right.
169:39:59 Schmitt That's sort of - ... Okay. (Laughter) Such - such a pose. Let me get a little different - focus. That looks good.
169:40:17 Cernan Hey.
169:40:18 Schmitt Try one more over here. Have your pick.
169:40:22 Cernan One - one more.
169:40:23 Schmitt How's like this?
169:40:26 Cernan Okay. (Laughter) You got that camera. That's the color camera.
169:40:30 Schmitt Yes.
169:40:30 Cernan You take it.
169:40:31 CC Okay - -
169:40:31 Schmitt I've got to go get a new neutron flux probe, I guess.
169:40:34 CC That's right.
169:40:34 Cernan Oh, yes. That's going to be easy to pull out.
169:40:37 Schmitt Okay.
169:40:38 Cernan Okay. Let's see if I've got everything in here.
169:40:40 CC Okay. And - -
169:40:40 Schmitt You ready for me to go to the ALSEP?
169:40:44 Cernan Jack -
169:40:44 CC Roger. We're ready for both of you guys, now.
169:40:47 Schmitt Bob?
169:40:49 CC Roger. Go ahead.
169:40:51 Schmitt Hello, Houston.
169:40:52 CC Hello, 17. Stand by. I think we're having a slight handover or something.
169:40:58 Schmitt Houston, do you read? Gene, do you read me?
169:41:03 Cernan Yes, I read you.
169:41:04 CC Okay, 17. We had a - -
169:41:05 Schmitt ... Well, I don't know ...
169:41:07 CC - - slight bit of trouble there, and we've got you again.
169:41:14 Schmitt Are you ready for me to go to the ALSEP?
169:41:17 CC Roger. We're ready for both of you guys, now.
169:41:23 Schmitt What do you mean? I'm headed for the ALSEP.
169:41:35 CC Gene, are you ready for Jack to go to the ALSEP, now?
169:41:37 Cernan Let me see. Yes, he's gone. He's good. I'm ready to get out, and go to the VIP site. Wait a minute, Jack. Wait a minute, here. Wait a minute. Where are you?
169:41:52 CC Yes. We're trying to - -
169:41:52 Schmitt Right over here.
169:41:53 Cernan Come on back here a minute.
169:41:53 CC - - we're trying to be subtle there, guys.
169:41:55 Cernan Come on back here a minute. Come on back here a minute. I didn't realize you were going out there quite so soon.
169:42:02 Schmitt Well, I just looked to see where it is.
169:42:08 Schmitt There. I'll - -
169:42:10 Cernan What did you - what did you do with that -
169:42:13 Schmitt How about one of - how about this one?
169:42:14 Cernan You got it?
169:42:30 Cernan What was it happened to that one in my footpan?
169:42:34 Schmitt I put in the (laughter) big bag.
169:42:36 Cernan Okay. Here we go, Jack. I - Here's one here. Here. All right?
169:42:45 Schmitt Yes. Let me - let me get it, so you won't get it too dirty.
169:42:48 Cernan Okay. (Laughter) Very good.
169:42:53 Schmitt You hold it.
169:42:54 Cernan Okay. Got it?
169:42:56 Schmitt Yes. How about over here?
169:43:04 Cernan I'll put it right over here aginst that back - background.
169:43:15 Cernan Houston, before we close out our EVA, we understand that there are young people in Houston today, who have been effectively touring our country, young people from countries all over the world, respectively, touring our country. They had the opportunity to watch the launch of Apollo 17, hopefully had an opportunity to meet some of our young people in our country. And we'd like to say first of all, welcome, and we hope you enjoyed your stay. Second of all, I think probably one of the most significant things we can think about when we think about Apollo is that it has opened for us - for us being the world - a challenge of the future. The door is now cracked, but the promise of the future lies in the young people, not just in America, but the young people all over the world learning to live and learning to work together. In order to remind all the peoples of the world, in so many countries throughout the world, that this is what we all are striving for in the future, Jack has picked up a very significant rock, typical of what we have here in the valley of Taurus-Littrow, it's a rock composed of many fragments, of many sizes, and many shapes, probably from all parts of the Moon, perhaps billions of years old. But a rock of all fra - sizes and shapes, fragments of all sizes and shapes, and even colors that have grown together to become a cohesive rock, outlasting the nature of space, sort of living together in a very coherent, very peaceful manner. When we return this rock or some of the others like it to Houston, we'd like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world. We hope that this will be a symbol of what our feelings are, what the feelings of the Apollo Program are, and a symbol of mankind that we can live in peace and harmony in the future.
169:45:55 Schmitt A portion of a - of a rock will be sent to a - a representative agency or museum in each of the countries represented by the young people in Houston today, and we hope that they will, that rock and the students themselves, will carry with them our good wishes, not only for the new year coming up but also for themselves, their countries, and all mankind in the future. Put that in the big bag, Geno.
169:46:28 Cernan In the big bag.
169:46:30 CC Roger - -
169:46:31 Cernan We salute you, promise of the future.
169:46:31 CC - - Jack and Gene. We thank you for your sentiments and your interest.
169:46:50 Cernan And now, let me bring this camera around. To commemorate not just Apollo 17's visit to the Valley of Taurus-Littrow but as an everlasting commemoration of what the real meaning of Apollo is to the world, we'd like to uncover a plaque that has been on the leg of our spacecraft that we have climbed down many times over the last 3 days. And I'll read what that plaque says to you. First of all, it has a picture of the world. Two pictures, one of the North America and one of South America. The other covers the other half of the world including Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, covers the North Pole and the South Pole. In between these two hemispheres, we have a pictorial view of the Moon, a pictorial view of where all the Apollo landings have been made so that when this plaque is seen again by others who come, they will know where it all started. The words are, "Here man completed his first exploration of the Moon, December 1972 A.D. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind." it's signed, "Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, Harrison H. Schmitt, and most prominently, Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America." This is our commemoration that will be here until someone like us, until some of you who are out there, who are the promise of the future, come back to read it again and to further the exploration and the meaning of Apollo.
169:49:07 CC Roger, Gene. We in Houston copy that and echo your sentiments, and Dr. Fletcher is here beside me. He'd like to say a word to the two of you.
169:49:18 CC Gene and Jack, I've been in close touch with the White House, and the President has been following very closely your absolutely fascinating work up there. He'd like to wish you Godspeed as you return to Earth, and I'd like to personally second that. Congratulations. We'll see you in a few days. Over.
169:49:44 Cernan Thank you, Dr. Fletcher. We appreciate your comments, and we certainly appreciate those of the President. And whether it be civilian or military, I think Jack and I would both like to give our salute to America.
169:50:03 Schmitt And, Dr. Fletcher, if I may, I'd like to remind everybody, I'm sure, of something they're aware, but this valley, this valley of history, has seen mankind complete its first evolutionary steps into the universe, leaving the planet Earth and going forward into the universe. I think no more significant contribution has Apollo made to history. It's not often that you can foretell history, but I think we can in this case. And I think everybody ought to feel very proud of that fact. Thank you very much.
169:50:53 CC We'll see you in a little bit.
169:50:54 Cernan Okay, babe. Let's go to the AL - Okay, Bob. I owe you a - a bias reading.
169:51:01 CC Okay. Or you can get it later. There's no hurry on that. And we're off to the ALSEP.
169:51:06 Cernan I'm going to give it to you right now.
169:51:08 CC Okay. Ready to copy. I presume you've a UHT out at the ALSEP, Jack.
169:51:13 Schmitt That's affirm.
169:51:15 Cernan 337, 417, 101; 337, 417, 101.
169:51:25 CC Okay. Copy that.
169:51:29 Cernan Are you through with this?
169:51:35 CC Roger. (Laughter)
169:51:37 Cernan Bob?
169:51:38 CC Roger. We're through with it.
169:51:40 Schmitt Be kind. Be kind.
169:51:42 Cernan Well, I love it, and I'm sure it did a good job - -
169:51:44 CC Well, we're not through with you, Gene, so don't throw yourself too far.
169:51:50 Cernan No, sir. I just don't want to hit old Challenger there.
169:52:03 Schmitt That was unkind. You did the javelin. That was unkind.
169:52:10 CC Roger, Gene. And we - -
169:52:11 Cernan I didn't throw it as far as I could have. I just - -
169:52:13 CC - - we timed the parabola for that, and we have one excellent measurement of g on the Moon now.
169:52:22 Cernan Yes, I didn't get you a - I didn't get you a pendulum, but I don't know where I would, Bob. Okay. I'm going to have to take you out to the VIP site --
169:52:33 CC Okay. We're ready for that, and we'll - -
169:52:34 Cernan - - if you concur?
169:52:36 CC Okay.
169:52:48 Cernan Well, let me make sure I got everything. Okay. Remember, we -
169:53:03 PAO We won't have a picture while Gene Cernan drives the Rover to the VIP site, the Very Important Place where the Rover will be left. He will turn the television back on after reaching that site.
169:53:15 Cernan Okay. Bob, I guess you're reading me through the LM, huh?
169:53:18 CC Roger. Read you through the LM. You guys both read me through the LM?
169:53:24 Cernan That's affirm. Okay. The first thing I want to do - Tell John I'm going to do it exactly like he wants. Okay. The camera is under the seat, I hope. Let me look. Yes, camera's there. Jack, did you do something with the dustbrush?
169:53:52 Schmitt No.
169:53:53 Cernan It was under the seat, right?
169:53:55 Schmitt It was, yes.
169:53:56 Cernan Yes, I want to make sure it is because I'll need it out there.
169:53:58 Schmitt No, wait a minute. I don't know that it's there now.
169:54:00 Cernan Well, I want to make sure that I can get - get something to dust with.
169:54:06 CC Okay. And, Jack, as you go out to the ALSEP, let me cue in on your next 3 hours worth of work out there, repairing the ALSEP. All right? Over.
169:54:16 Schmitt Oh, okay. Go ahead. I'm here.
169:54:18 CC Okay. Number one, we want to retrieve the UHT. And I quote, "tap sharply" - that's "sharply" on the gimbal, which is the center section there, the little square metal piece in the middle - tap sharply on the gimbal with the UHT, and then re-verify the level on the LSG. We'll check response here in Mission Control after you've done that.
169:54:49 Schmitt You mean tap on the thing that swings?
169:54:52 CC That's what they say.
169:54:53 Cernan You always wanted to do that, didn't you?
169:54:55 CC Yes, that's right.
169:55:01 Schmitt Well, let me see if I can grab a clean UHT to do that.
169:55:07 Cernan Okay, Bob. Everything is zeroed.
169:55:09 CC Okay. And I'll be talking to Jack here, Gene, for a while. You can interrupt with your comments over - talking over me, and I'll try and copy them.
169:55:21 Cernan One comment. I got a flag on the other battery, 139 degrees.
169:55:24 CC Okay. We copy that.
169:55:27 Schmitt How much - how much is sharply?
169:55:31 CC Sharply is sharply. It's probably not heavily, but sharply. Fairly light, but sharply.
169:55:37 Schmitt On the edge?
169:55:39 CC No. You can see that little square metal piece in the middle there?
169:55:42 Schmitt On the edge?
169:55:42 CC You see that little square metal piece on there? You can just sort of rap on that - -
169:55:44 Schmitt Oh, yes. Okay. Here goes. I did it.
169:55:54 CC Okay. And then it says - -
169:55:56 Schmitt You want me to do it again?
169:55:59 CC Stand by.
169:56:04 Schmitt That was sort of a med - moderate hard tap.
169:56:10 CC Go ahead, and hit it harder.
169:56:11 Schmitt It is level.
169:56:12 CC Hit it harder, please.
169:56:16 Schmitt Okay. Okay. I can hit it harder yet.
169:56:29 CC Okay. We've observed something there. Stand by.
169:56:40 Cernan Bob, you might be getting TV the way the antenna's oriented right now.
169:56:43 CC Okay. Jack, go ahead. We'll do some more stuff here. In the meanwhile, while they're thinking about what's wrong with it, did you just tap it again?
169:56:57 Schmitt No, I didn't touch it. I'm over at the central station now.
169:57:00 CC Okay. They're looking at it. All right. Now, we want to take some photographs at the central station and a few selected - a few selected photographs of the ALSEP. Number one, we want a 7-foot cross-Sun to the south of the ALSEP central station and then a 7-foot down-Sun of the central station. Over.
169:57:23 Schmitt Okay, 7-foot cross-Sun to the south.
169:57:26 CC That's what it says.
169:57:30 Schmitt And then a down-Sun.
169:57:32 CC Roger. A 7-foot down-Sun.
169:57:37 Schmitt You might tell me what they're trying to get with it. I might be able to help them.
169:57:42 CC Okay. I presume that what this means is looking to the south. It was cross-Sun originally. I suspect that's what happened here, the way it was written up. So it's a 7-foot looking at the - all the switches to make sure you guys turned them the right way, I suppose. And then a 7-foot looking down-Sun, so that would be facing west, that side of it.
169:58:04 Schmitt Okay. I got it. What else?
169:58:07 CC Okay. Now, there's a problem with the central station - which they think the south end of it's buried more deeply in the dirt than they had intended. And the central station is at present time getting very warm on the back side on the south side there, which is - they believe you probably buried in the ground when you were trying to tilt it to the proper alignment. They are requesting that, when you're at the ALSEP, you remove any soil buildup or debris with a convenient tool. They don't want you to touch it because it's fairly warm. But if you have a UHT or something to move it - Do you have the UHT with you or something with you that you can brush that soil aside with?
169:58:46 Schmitt Yes, sir.
169:58:47 CC Okay. You know the secton - -
169:58:48 Schmitt It is piled up there. That's a good call - -
169:58:50 CC Yes. Okay. They'd like that brushed away. And you can give me a call - -
169:58:59 Schmitt Fortunately, I brought my handy-dandy Rover sampler out.
169:59:03 CC Okay. You can brush that aside, and give me a call when you think that's cleared up the way it ought to be. That's probably one of those things we didn't think about when we decided to tilt the central station.
169:59:15 Schmitt Well, you didn't - you couldn't anticipate the soil, Bob. It's very soft.
169:59:28 Cernan Bob, we are at VIP.
169:59:31 CC Okay. And Ed Fendell is hard on my back to remind you that it's better to be too far away than too close.
169:59:44 Cernan All right.
169:59:47 Schmitt I thought I was, but I think I may move just a little bit. There's a little rise here I can give you. I think I'll give it to you.
169:59:55 CC Okay.
169:59:58 Schmitt By the way, Bob, the soil gets more cohesive with depth. I hadn't really noticed that before.
170:00:05 CC Okay. We copy that. Duely noted.
170:00:08 Schmitt It's - it's quite a bit more cohesive at - about the - feels about the same down to 3 centimeters out here, and then the cohesiveness goes up, so it's difficult to scrape with the Rcver sampler.
170:00:23 CC Copy that, Jack.
170:00:51 Cernan Well, I think you can see almost everything from here.
170:00:54 CC Okay, Geno. And, Jack, let me know when you get done scraping that soil away.
170:01:03 Schmitt I will.
170:01:23 Schmitt And now comes the hardest alignment of them all, but I'll get it.
170:01:51 Schmitt Somewhere about there. See if I can't tweak it up for you. Bob, the east-west level bubble is not quite level. The north-south is. Do you want me to tweak that up?
170:02:07 CC Yes, you might tweak that up. We are getting a good signal, but go ahead and tweak it up just a little bit.
170:02:23 CC And, Gene, what are you doing these days?
170:02:27 Cernan I'm getting the high gain set up for you.
170:02:30 CC Okay. Now you know why we didn't make you park it in that orientation all the time, don't you?
170:02:36 Cernan Boy, I'll tell you ... it was a piece of cake up until now.
170:02:44 Cernan There, I got you.
170:02:55 Cernan Bob, you got - Bob, you're looking right down the center of my eyepiece. You - -
170:03:03 CC Okay, I don't think - -
170:03:03 Cernan - - you should have TV.
170:03:04 CC Yes, we're getting TV there, Geno.
170:03:09 Cernan You getting it?
170:03:11 CC We've got TV.
170:03:11 Cernan Well, let me take a look, and clean things up.
170:03:13 CC Okay. I guess you can dust and dust and dust some more for a while.
170:03:21 Cernan let me get this dusting problem out of the way before I do anything else.
170:03:24 CC Roger.
170:03:25 Cernan You can look at your vantage point, and if you don't like it, let me know.
170:03:29 CC Okay. I'll call Captain Video.
170:03:44 Schmitt Bob?
170:03:45 CC Go.
170:03:45 Schmitt How close can soil be to this back plate of the ALSEP?
170:03:51 CC Stand by. I'll check.
170:03:56 Schmitt It's about 30 centimeters away, most of the places now.
170:04:04 CC Okay. That sounds good. We'd like you to return to the surface gravimeter, Jack. What you did had some effect, but not - not a lasting effect. And we'd like you to rap even more sharply, more strongly on the gimbal another three times. And we're again watching it, and we'll let you know what to do. And - I might tell you that this has all been done recently this afternoon up at Bendix on the qual unit, and it survived it and so we aren't in any real danger apparently of destroying it.
170:04:39 Schmitt Okay. Three times, huh?
170:04:42 CC Roger. Or up to three times.
170:05:42 Schmitt Bob, don't let me forget to bring a dustbrush back when I come. ... - -
170:05:44 CC Okay. I'll mark that down and remind you. And, Jack, you'll be glad to know that the temperature of the back plate there has already dropped 20 degrees - 20 degrees.
170:05:56 Schmitt Oh, beautiful.
170:05:58 Cernan Bob, I don't think that bubble's working.
170:06:00 CC O -
170:06:01 Cernan How's your signal now?
170:06:03 CC Stand by. I'll check. But why don't you go to the - to the surface gravimeter?
170:06:11 Schmitt Bob, how's your TV lens? I don't have a lens brush. It looks good from here. I don't want to use this unless you think so.
170:06:18 CC Stand by.
170:06:19 Schmitt Knock three times. (Singing)
170:06:22 CC Roger. Get out of the way please, Jack, and we'll take a look against some bright soil.
170:06:30 Cernan What?
170:06:30 Schmitt No, that's me he's talking to.
170:06:38 CC Okay. It looks pretty good, Geno. Go ahead.
170:06:40 Cernan I ... with the lens brush.
170:06:41 CC Yes, go ahead. It looks pretty good to us.
170:06:46 Cernan Okay.
170:06:47 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Here come the raps. Knock three times. Okay.
170:07:15 CC Okay, Jack. That's really fighting us pretty hard. We'd like you to put the UHT in the socket, and rock it very firmly. Don't pick it up, but rock it very firmly from side to side in all four directions about - Move the UHT about 6 inches in each direction while you're doing it.
170:07:38 Schmitt Okay.
170:07:58 Schmitt Okay, I rocked it. It's swinging.
170:08:08 CC Okay. is it reading?
170:08:10 Schmitt And the level bubble is - better.
170:08:32 CC Okay. We understand it's in good configuration again as far as alignment and leveling is concerned, Jack. Let's go on and take some more ALSEP photos, and let them think about it for a minute.
170:08:44 Schmitt Okay. What do you want?
170:08:46 CC Okay. Next, what we want is some heat flow - Okay. We just got late word. They'd like to do it one more time, and then call it quits.
170:09:08 Schmitt The rocking bit, huh?
170:09:10 CC Roger. The walk - rocking bit one more time.
170:09:20 Cernan Bob, I may have moved the high gain. Do you see any change in signal?
170:09:24 CC Stand by.
170:09:27 Cernan If you're happy, I won't touch it.
170:09:37 Schmitt Okay, Bob. It's rocked. The shadow ... - the shade is aligned to the Sun now, and it's level.
170:09:49 CC Okay. We copy that, and let's go get some ALSEP photos, Jack. I think you got some heat flow photos the other night, besides the two pans. If you did, we may - these may be redundant. They're - they want the cross-Sun and down-Sun of the east hole and cross-Sun and down-Sun of the west hole. And I'm not sure what you got those earlier. You said you got some extra heat flow, but tell me if you did. They're both - all four of these are 7-foot - -
170:10:20 Schmitt ... -
170:10:22 CC Go ahead.
170:10:25 Schmitt I'll get the heat flow pictures. They - One was 11-foot, I think. And then the steropair.
170:10:38 CC Yes. I think all they're asking for is the two 7-foot stereopairs.
170:10:50 Schmitt Okay. That's one of them.
170:10:58 CC Okay. What they're asking for, Jack, is a 7-foot down-Sun and a 7-foot cross-Sun, which isn't quite what we've been taking in the past.
170:11:08 Schmitt I'm getting the standard ones, Bob.
170:11:11 CC Copy that.
170:11:17 Schmitt Okay. You got the standard documentation.
170:11:20 CC Okay - -
170:11:20 Schmitt 11-footers and 7-foot stereos.
170:11:22 CC Okay. Go ahead. They can't complain about that, certainly.
170:11:29 Schmitt Okay. Now what?
170:11:31 CC Okay. We'd like a 3-foot shot of the lunar mass spectrometer, including the orifice where the breccia was. And, Geno, we are observing some degradation and would like to have the high gain - -
170:11:44 Schmitt Cross-Sun?
170:11:47 CC Yes, yes, Jack; 3-foot's cross-Sun. And, Gene; this is Houston. We'd like to get the high gain reoriented a little bit. We're observing some degradation in the picture.
170:11:58 Cernan I'll tweak it.
170:12:14 Schmitt Okay. Got it. Now what? LMS is complete.
170:12:29 CC Okay. Copy that. Now we want to go over the neutron flux, Jack.
170:12:35 Schmitt Okay.
170:12:49 Schmitt How's the gravimeter doing?
170:12:51 CC We're looking at it, Jack. I'm not sure.
170:13:28 Cernan Hey, Bob. The panel you want covered. Yes, that's the panel. Okay. You want the - the panel with the - with the ON-OFF switch and the - and the signal strength switch and so forth covered, don't you?
170:13:46 CC Roger. And be sure to get the thing to EXTERNAL before you cover it there, Gene.
170:13:53 Cernan Okay. That was going to be a question of mine.
170:13:55 CC Okay. That goes to EXTERNAL.
170:13:57 Cernan Okay. It's EXTERNAL.
170:13:58 Schmitt What - what do you want me to do with the neutron flux?
170:14:02 CC Okay. We want a photograph facing south, for the 7-foot. So a 7-foot cross-Sun, essentially, of the neutron flux in the soil.
170:14:16 Schmitt Okay. Would you like to have the RTG in that picture?
170:14:28 CC Oh, I suppose if you're generous, you might take a partial pan around to the RTG.
170:14:43 Schmitt Well, it's just about that direction. Okay. Now what?
170:14:52 CC Okay. Now let's remove - remove the neutron pro - probe experiment from the ground, and turn it off.
170:15:03 Schmitt Okay.
170:15:11 Schmitt No more on the gravimeter, huh?
170:15:15 CC No, the gravimeter is looking very bad, still. And, Jack, you might note as you withdraw just how difficult it is to withdraw it. It - it - whether or not it's been seiz-ed by the soil collapsing around it or not. That's soil mechanic's goody.
170:15:35 Schmitt Not at all, not at all.
170:15:36 Cernan It won't be, I'll tell you. No problem.
170:15:38 CC Okay. We copy that.
170:15:40 Cernan Okay. The high gain is - the high gain is tweaked.
170:15:44 CC Okay. We'll consider ourselves tweaked.
170:15:50 Cernan And I'm giving the LCRU another zap here. Boy, I tell you, I ain't going to do much more dusting after I leave here. Ever ...
170:16:03 Schmitt Okay. Upper probe is OFF -
170:16:04 Schmitt MARK it.
170:16:06 CC Copy that.
170:16:12 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I'm going to put bus B and D, OPEN, and AUX circuit breaker BYPASS, ON.
170:16:21 CC Okay. Copy that.
170:16:25 Schmitt And let me see. Bravo. Okay. And Delta. Okay. Bravo and Delta. Upper probe is OFF -
170:16:42 Schmitt MARK it.
170:16:43 CC Is that upper or lower, Jack?
170:16:46 Schmitt Up - oh, lower. I'm sorry, Bob.
170:16:48 CC Copy that.
170:16:51 Schmitt AUX POWER circuit breaker is ON. BYPASS, ON. And the lower probe is capped.
170:16:57 CC Okay; and, Gene, you need to close that CAUTION AND WARNING FLAG. It's a heat sink when it's open, I guess.
170:17:06 Cernan Okay; it's closed.
170:17:08 CC Copy that.
170:17:09 Cernan You want me to put a bag in front of that thing?
170:17:14 CC No, I don't think - -
170:17:15 Cernan Want me to put a bag in front of it in case it pops open again? I guess it won't.
170:17:18 CC No, I don't think so. I can't imagine why it's really a problem anyway, because we got the BYPASS, ON there, and that heat's not going anywhere.
170:17:26 Schmitt Okay; now the switch is off, except my 15 volts. Bob, you want me away from the ALSEP now?
170:17:35 CC Stand by, Jack. I'll get one more word before we come back to the LM.
170:17:43 Schmitt Okay.
170:17:51 Cernan Yes, I got a camera, over there. I'm going to look under the seats one more time. Nothing but a 500 - Okay. Used tape.
170:18:05 CC Okay. Jack, we're ready for you to leave the ALSEP.
170:18:12 Schmitt Well, I hate to do that, Bob. I'm sorry about this gravimeter, though.
170:18:18 CC Well, you're not the only one. The word is down here there's a whole room full of people who are sorry.
170:18:35 PAO EVA time 6 hours 46 minutes.
170:19:11 Cernan Okay. I got the LMP's camera. Nothing in here but couple old bags. We used about all the bags we had, Jack. Not many here. Bob, I have the dust brush tethered.
170:19:51 CC Copy the dust brush.
170:19:56 Cernan Okay; let me get one parting shot of - one of the finest running little machines I've ever had the pleasure to drive.
170:20:21 CC Okay. And, Geno, some people down here are concerned about whether you've opened the battery covers or not.
170:20:28 Cernan Yes, sir; they're open.
170:20:30 CC Roger. Copy that.
170:20:37 Cernan Oh, what a nice little machine. Parked on a little downslope, but at the heading you want, and I guess Ed's satisfied with the TV response, huh?
170:20:49 CC Roger. We're satisfied with the TV, Gene. We're ready for you to take the EP number 3.
170:20:59 Cernan Good old Mother Earth is right smack in the center.
170:22:08 Cernan Bob, while we've got a quite moment here, as I go to de - deploy that EP charge, I'd just like to say that any part of Apollo 17, or any part of Apollo, that has been a success thus far is probably, for the most part, due to the thousands of people in the aerospace industry who have given a great deal, besides dedication and besides effort and besides professionalism, to make it all a reality. And I would just like to thank them, because what we've done here and what has been done in the past - As a matter of fact, what has been done for 200 years, you've got to contribute to the spirit of a group of people who form the aerospace industry. And I God bless you and thank you.
170:23:16 CC Roger, Gene. And we thank you guys.
170:23:23 Cernan Well, we're just two little - two little sets of twinkletoes here. There's a lot that goes to getting this Rover running out here that we don't have much to do with. And I guess there might be someone else that has something to do with it too, and I've been reading his signs, maybe not from Him directly, but His in spirit, as we run up and down that ladder. And that's Godspeed, the crew of Apollo 17. And if He's listening, I'd like to thank Him, too.
170:24:25 Cernan Pin 1 is pulled.
170:24:27 CC MARK that.
170:24:32 Cernan I'm at the end of the west SEP antenna. Do you agree with that?
170:24:35 CC Roger. Exactly right.
170:24:40 Cernan Okay. Pin 2 is pulled. Still safe. Pin 3 is pulled, and it still safe.
170:24:49 CC Copy that, and - -
170:24:51 Cernan Don't know what I would do if it wasn't. (Laughter)
170:24:53 CC - - and now, also, do you have the SEP transmitter turned off there, Gene?
170:24:59 Cernan No, sir. Thank you. Okay. Bob, - -
170:25:04 CC Then we're ready for you guys to get back to the LM and dust, and get in.
170:25:05 Cernan - - it's getting ready - it's getting right adjacent to the ring on the west end, and I'm going to go back and turn the SEP cff.
170:25:18 CC Okay. And when that's done, Gene, we're ready for you and your dust brush to hasten back to the LM and dust each other and climb in.
170:25:27 Cernan You know what, Bob?
170:25:29 CC What, Gene?
170:25:29 Cernan Great as an experience as it has been, I'd say we're probably both ready.
170:25:37 Schmitt Oh, I don't know. Hey, Bob, 55 Yankee is an exotic-looking rock I found about 5 meters south of the neutron flux hole. It's another gray - possibly gray basalt. It's just that there aren't many of them around here, and so I picked it up.
170:25:55 CC Copy that.
170:25:59 Schmitt Cheating a little again.
170:26:03 Cernan Jack, you'll always be picking rocks.
170:26:07 Schmitt Oh, I don't know.
170:26:08 Cernan Okay, the transmitter is OFF.
170:26:11 CC MARK that.
170:26:12 Cernan I don't blame you. There's so many interesting things around here.
170:26:26 Schmitt Just don't lose your brush, Gene.
170:26:29 Cernan Okay, Bob, according to my inventory I'm going to return to the LM and the camera is going to the ETB.
170:26:37 CC That's affirm. We'll have - -
170:26:39 Cernan ... we're done with the TGE.
170:26:40 CC Roger.
170:26:43 CC We need a bias reading if you want to use it again, Gene.
170:26:44 Cernan Jack, come to think of it, I - come to think of it, I guess you are, aren't you. Where are you, Jack?
170:26:56 Schmitt I'm at the MESA.
170:26:58 Cernan Okay.
170:27:01 Schmitt Trying to snap a snap.
170:27:02 Cernan I need a locater here to the LM.
170:27:18 CC Okay; and, 17, we need you guys in the LM in 15 minutes, 15 minutes because of oxygen constraints.
170:27:29 Cernan Okay, Bob, my pictures are taken; I'm on the way. Oh, Boy, where else can you do this?
170:28:42 Cernan If I had landed 30 meters back, Jack, we'd be pitched down 5 degrees.
170:28:51 Schmitt You're right.
170:28:55 Cernan Okay, what they're saying is, I don't need my hammer any more.
170:28:59 CC Roger -
170:28:59 Cernan ... dust and get in.
170:28:59 CC - we want you to dust and get in. We got l4 minutes remaining before we need the hatch closed.
170:29:11 Cernan Okay, Bob. We'll - we're doing our best. Well, that RTV worked on the hammer, but look at it, Jack. It's worn completely to a nub. It's off.
170:29:36 Schmitt I guess that's all right - Look at - Here - my - I don't know where I am. Oh, boy, how about that? Okay.
170:29:45 Cernan Okay, sir, you ready to go on up?
170:29:48 Schmitt Well, I don't know. Got to take my camera off. I got another batch of pictures - the LM and the flag and - -
170:29:56 Cernan Well, watch this real quick.
170:29:57 Schmitt Stereo, even.
170:29:58 Cernan Jack - -
170:29:59 Schmitt Let me have your camera. Go ahead. Oh, there ... there. Let me throw the hammer.
170:30:03 Cernan Okay.
170:30:04 Schmitt Let me throw the hammer, please.
170:30:06 Cernan It's all yours.
170:30:07 Schmitt You got the gravimeter.
170:30:08 Cernan You deserve it. A hammer thrower - you're a geologist. You ought to be able to throw it.
170:30:11 Schmitt You ready?
170:30:12 Cernan Go ahead.
170:30:13 Schmitt You ready for this? Ready for this?
170:30:15 Cernan Yes. Don't hit the LM or the ALSEP.
170:30:22 Schmitt Look at that! Look at that! Look at that! Beautiful.
170:30:29 Cernan Looked like it was going a million miles, but it really didn't.
170:30:32 Schmitt Didn't it?
170:30:33 Cernan Okay, here, this is an ETB.
170:30:35 Schmitt Let me - let me make sure that that's all cinched up.
170:30:38 Cernan Okay. And then start on up. We got to get going here.
170:30:43 Schmitt Yes. Unfortunately, their little plan didn't count for the fact that it's hard to pack the ETB with the film magazines in it.
170:30:49 Cernan And I'll try and get the big bag here cinched up.
170:30:54 Schmitt That is a major task.
170:30:55 Cernan Yes, that's going to be - oh, is it heavy. Is it heavy. Something in that core tube you put in there?
170:31:01 Schmitt Yes, sir.
170:31:02 Cernan Okay.
170:31:03 Schmitt Don't tell anybody, though, because they'll get mad at me.
170:31:05 Cernan Oh, man, is that heavy. Holy smoley. Oh!
170:31:19 Schmitt ... 252. That's about three-quarters of a core, hand pushed, half a meter inside the plus-Y footpad.
170:31:41 CC Okay, copy that.
170:31:45 Cernan Okay, Jack ... how's that ETB coming no you can get going?
170:31:48 Schmitt Fine.
170:31:49 Cernan Okay, I've got to - -
170:31:49 Schmitt I've got to put it on a strap, though.
170:31:53 Cernan I can get that. You can - This is all cinched up. I think it'll hold. Why don't you start on up? Then I'll start dusting you.
170:32:04 Schmitt Okay.
170:32:08 Cernan Okay. Very good.
170:32:11 Schmitt Anything fall out?
170:32:12 Cernan No.
170:32:13 Schmitt Okay. Oh - -
170:32:15 Cernan Let me dust you. Set that down, and I'll hand it all to you.
170:32:16 Schmitt Okay, you'll have to hand stuff in - -
170:32:17 CC Okay; and, 17, we - a reminder, we need you inside in 10 minutes.
170:32:24 Cernan Okay, Bob. ...
170:32:35 PAO EVA time 7 hours.
170:32:41 Schmitt I'll do a lot of jumping up here in a minute.
170:32:42 Cernan Your back is clean.
170:32:46 Schmitt I'll get the legs as best I can.
170:32:47 Cernan Okay. Why don't you get me here before you do that?
170:32:48 Schmitt Okay. And while I'm doing that, will you take this - I'll get it.
170:32:55 Cernan Okay.
170:33:01 Schmitt Boy, you got dirty today. I think we're just going to have to live with it.
170:33:14 Cernan Get my top. I can kick a lot of that stuff off my legs. How do I look in back?
170:33:23 Schmitt Terrible. Okay, turn.
170:33:47 Schmitt Oh, man. You're going to have to - Your legs are really filthy. Not much to do about it.
170:33:52 Cernan Okay, I'll get them off. Why don't you start back - -
170:33:53 Schmitt Just kick them against each other ... - -
170:33:55 Cernan Okay. Start on up.
170:33:59 Schmitt You might shake the bags.
170:34:01 Cernan Okay.
170:34:02 CC And don't forget your PLSS ant.
170:34:07 Schmitt No.
170:34:09 Cernan Do what?
170:34:10 Schmitt PLSS antennas.
170:34:11 Cernan Okay.
170:34:12 Schmitt Although it doesn't make much difference anymore. That's to get them out of the way.
170:34:18 Cernan The big bag didn't stay closed very long.
170:34:21 Schmitt I don't know how we can get that in.
170:34:23 Cernan There, I'll stand - I can hand it to you.
170:34:26 Schmitt It never had a very good closure on it - -
170:34:29 Cernan That velcro won't hold.
170:34:31 Schmitt - - but it can be closed.
170:34:32 Cernan I had it over - over the top. The latch was closed, but -
170:34:36 Schmitt Oh, it won't hold with all that weight in there. Okay, I got your antenna.
170:34:39 Cernan Okay, let me get a high - Got to close this. You don't want that in your way.
170:34:45 Schmitt I can't close it.
170:34:47 Cernan Oh, okay.
170:34:50 Schmitt You might try.
170:34:56 Cernan Get all your flaps? Okay, hold your head down.
170:35:12 Cernan Yow.
170:35:13 Schmitt Won't go, huh?
170:35:13 Cernan No. Will that bother you getting in?
170:35:16 Schmitt I can probably make it.
170:35:17 Cernan Okay, get on up.
170:35:22 Schmitt Oops, try that again. Okay, why don't you hand me the neutron flux, and I'll put it - -
170:35:31 Cernan Okay, neutron flux.
170:35:32 Schmitt - - on the platform? Okay.
170:35:39 Cernan Why don't you start in, and I'll get some of these bags out of the way.
170:35:41 Schmitt Well, I just - You don't want to hand them to me up here?
170:35:50 Cernan Okay.
170:35:53 CC And, Jack, for your thoughts, we've agreed that you can delete the tracking light. We'd like to get you guys in as soon as possible - 7 minutes now. And we'll delete the tracking light test.
170:36:03 Schmitt Okay.
170:36:07 Cernan Okay, Bob.
170:36:21 Schmitt Okay, that's all I can handle up here. One more - one more and I can put it up here.
170:36:27 Cernan Watch your cover on this one. Got it?
170:36:32 Schmitt Got it.
170:36:33 Cernan Stand it up because the cover won't hack it.
170:36:55 Cernan Okay. If you get on in, I'll come up to the porch.
170:37:42 Schmitt Where's that EVA pallet that's always in my way?
170:37:46 CC I think we aren't going to have one of those tomorrow, Jack, so we did away with that. We hope we're not going to have one of those tomorrow.
170:37:55 Cernan Bob, we're maximizing our efforts, so just bear with us. Jack's going to be in about 30 seconds, and I'm on the ladder hauling some stuff up now.
170:38:10 CC Roger. Don't panic.
170:38:15 Cernan Well, we're not. I just don't want you to.
170:38:19 CC I never panic there, guys.
170:38:28 Schmitt Got some stuff for me?
170:38:30 Cernan Yes, sir. This is not the time to rush. It's the time to do it nice and slow and right.
170:38:39 Schmitt Oh, we're all right.
170:38:40 Cernan Okay. You're not going to like this, but I'm going to give you this one first because I've got it in my hand.
170:38:52 Schmitt Either one. Oh, hang in there - I've got it. Yes, that's a heavy bag.
170:39:07 Cernan That is heavy, babe. Let me tell you, that's heavy.
170:39:20 Schmitt Okay, next.
170:39:23 Cernan Can you reach that one? If not, I'll shove it in further.
170:39:36 Schmitt Okay.
170:39:37 Cernan One more coming at you.
170:39:38 Schmitt Okay.
170:39:38 Cernan Tilting up right now.
170:39:39 Schmitt Go ahead.
170:39:53 Schmitt Okay, next.
170:39:55 Cernan ...
170:39:56 Schmitt Got it.
170:39:57 Cernan Okay. Okay, next. Okay, Bob, we've got it - -
170:40:06 Schmitt Up here -
170:40:07 Cernan - - big bag, three SRCs and a neutron flux.
170:40:12 CC Okay, and we gather an ETB coming up with two cameras in it.
170:40:18 Cernan ETB's next.
170:40:29 Schmitt You have an ETB? Ya -
170:40:32 Cernan ETB has two cameras.
170:40:34 CC Okay. And as you guys say farewell to the Moon, we're looking up to the Earth down here where you guys are returning pretty soon.
170:40:44 Cernan Okay.
170:40:45 Schmitt You're going to have to push that.
170:40:46 Cernan Okay, let me get it. That's all right - I'll wait until you're ready. Okay. Can you make it?
170:40:56 Schmitt Yes, I've got it. Okay, let me get that other thing in here.
170:41:17 Cernan Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface and as I take man's last steps from the surface, back home, for some time to come, but we believe not too long into the future. I'd like to just let, what I believe history will record, that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.
170:42:12 CC Roger, Geno. Thank you very much.
170:42:17 Cernan Bob, I am up on the ladder and I'm going to be going through the hatch.
170:42:35 Schmitt Gene, I've got to get out of your way.
170:42:37 Cernan Yes.
170:43:04 Schmitt Okay.
170:43:06 Cernan Okay, let me - Okay, babe - here I come.
170:43:13 Schmitt Come on in.
170:43:13 Cernan Hatch look good to you?
170:43:15 Schmitt Still looks dirty. Okay, keep her down - buttons. Come towards me a little - there you go. Okay, you've got it.
170:43:40 Cernan Okay, I'm inside the hatch.
170:43:43 Schmitt Okay.
170:43:44 Cernan Let me look - let me see that hatch once more.
170:43:46 Schmitt Okay.
170:43:48 Cernan That's the last time we want to have to - open that.
170:43:52 Schmitt Caught in the same way again.
170:43:54 Cernan Let me just - I can see down there.
170:43:56 Schmitt I can see, it's -
170:43:57 Cernan Does it look good to you?
170:43:58 Schmitt It's clear -
170:43:59 Cernan Okay.
170:44:01 Schmitt There is a little bit of dust but it's all in the - I don't think ...
170:44:05 Cernan Roger.
170:44:08 Schmitt There you go.
170:44:09 Cernan If I can turn around.
170:44:10 Schmitt Yes, I've got to get out of your way.
170:44:11 Cernan Yes, I'll wait for you.
170:44:30 Cernan Yes, now I can.
170:44:32 Schmitt Okay.
170:44:33 Schmitt Okay, I've got to get my hand over here. Okay, I'm out of your way.
170:44:39 Cernan Okay. And -
170:44:45 Schmitt Close the hatch.
170:44:46 Cernan Hatch is closed. Let's see if I can lock it.
170:44:50 Schmitt Then we've got to turn our H2O off. Oh, we've got to turn our - let's turn our water off first, before you lock it.
170:44:59 Cernan Well, it's locked now. Can you get your own water? If not, I'll get it - -
170:45:02 Schmitt I doubt it. Haven't been able to before.
170:45:07 Cernan Okay, I'll get it.
170:45:08 Schmitt Have you got your -
170:45:09 Cernan Let me see.
170:45:17 Schmitt Mine's off. No, wait a minute. Mine's off. Well, I can't get it.
170:45:27 Cernan Okay. I'll get it for you. And - before you move any more, let me get over here out of the way.
170:45:33 CC Okay. And pay attention here, 17, when you come on, we'd like you to leave PRESS REG A which is the one that's in OFF - we'd like to leave that closed.
170:45:41 Cernan Turn around.
170:45:42 CC Just use PRESS REG B going to CABIN.
170:45:44 Cernan Okay, Bob.
170:45:47 Schmitt Get it, Gene?
170:45:47 Cernan Turn some more, I can almost reach it - another.
170:45:50 Schmitt Okay.
170:45:54 Cernan Okay. Your AUX water is OFF.
170:45:56 Schmitt Okay.
170:45:57 Cernan Okay, Bob -
170:45:58 Schmitt No, no. The - the PRIM water.
170:46:00 Cernan Okay.
170:46:02 Schmitt Turn your PRIM ...
170:46:09 Cernan Your PRIM water is OFF.
170:46:10 Schmitt Is your PRIM OFF?
170:46:13 Cernan Yes. It's OFF.
170:46:15 Schmitt Okay.
170:46:17 Cernan Okay. PLSS PRIM water closed. Forward hatch CLOSED and LOCKED. Okay, I've got to get the upper valve, Jack. Move in.
170:46:25 Schmitt Okay. How's that?
170:46:30 Cernan Oh, that ought to do it.
170:46:41 Cernan AUTO and I've got the lock on it. Okay, now, Bob, say again which REG A you want left.
170:46:51 Schmitt REG A left closed, I got it.
170:46:54 CC That's affirm, Jack.
170:46:56 Schmitt Go ahead.
170:46:57 Cernan Okay, DUMP valves are both AUTO - CABIN REPRESS AUTO.
170:47:00 Schmitt CABIN REPRESS, AUTO.
170:47:02 Cernan Okay, and I've got plenty of oxygen so we're in good shape for an AUTO REPRESS. CABIN REPRESS breaker CLOSED at 16.
170:47:08 Schmitt Okay, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
170:47:12 Cernan Come on, baby, there it comes. Half a psi. Okay, it is increasing - you can go to CABIN on the regulator.
170:47:25 Schmitt REG B.
170:47:27 Cernan Yes, just the one regulator B. 1.5.
170:47:35 Schmitt REG B is in CABIN.
170:47:36 Cernan Okay, she's coming up. There's 2.0. Your next move will be to get PLSS O2 OFF. 2.5. Okay, get your PLSS O2 OFF.
170:48:04 Schmitt Mine's OFF.
170:48:06 Cernan Get it?
170:48:07 Schmitt ... shortly.
170:48:12 Cernan Turn around - I'll get it for you.
170:48:14 Schmitt I think that I've got it. There I got it.
170:48:19 Cernan Okay. Verify cabin pressure stable at 4.6 to 5.0. We'll watch it here.
170:48:24 Schmitt I'm watching; 5.
170:48:28 PAO EVA ended at 170 hours 48 minutes 8 seconds. EVA duration, 17 hours 15 minutes 31 seconds.
170:48:28 Cernan Okay. 5.0.
170:48:30 Schmitt 5.0.
170:48:31 Cernan Boy, it got hot in here, didn't it? Okay, purge valve to DEPRESS; verify your circuit breakers.
170:48:37 Schmitt Say again, that last one.
170:48:39 Cernan You don't need your ... DEPRESS but you don't need it.
170:48:41 Schmitt Oh, yes. No, No.
170:48:42 Cernan Verify your circuit breakers - White Dots -... EVA decals.
170:48:46 Schmitt The White Dots.
170:48:58 Cernan Okay, I'm squared away there. Squared away?
170:49:05 Schmitt Am I.
170:49:06 Cernan Okay.
170:49:07 Schmitt Looks good.
170:49:08 Cernan Stay at 16 now, ECS SUIT FAN 2, CLOSED?
170:49:11 Schmitt SUIT FAN 2 is CLOSED.
170:49:12 Cernan SUIT FAN DELTA-P, CLOSED.
170:49:13 Schmitt CLOSED.
170:49:14 Cernan Caution lights are on, that's good. Until the SEP - wait, ECS caution can still go out when it winds up.
170:49:23 Cernan Doff gloves, stow on comm panel. Oh, oh. Sweet music to my ears.
170:49:29 Schmitt Have to put them on again, in a few minutes.
170:49:31 Cernan I know, it's still sweet music.
170:49:34 Schmitt Come on, now.
170:49:37 Cernan I have never seen so much dirt and dust in my whole life. Ever. Ron's not going to be able to see out of either one of these helmet visors.
170:49:50 Schmitt (Laughter) Yes he will.
170:49:53 Cernan But they sure do get scratched, if you're not careful. Okay. Hey, it's harder getting them off ... than it is getting them on.
170:50:38 Schmitt Ah, I did it. Patience. Maximum effort. There's one. Okay, helm - gloves are off.
170:51:08 Cernan My gloves are off.
170:51:10 Schmitt ... right there.
170:51:13 Cernan Okay, verify safety on the dump valve. I'll do that.
170:51:17 Schmitt Okay, I verify that there. And, ... there. I want to take a double look at something down there.
170:51:28 Cernan What's that? Locked?
170:51:33 Schmitt Um-hum.
170:51:39 Cernan Happy?
170:51:39 Schmitt Yep.
170:51:40 Cernan Okay. Okay, DESCENT H2O valve OPEN. Okay, DESCENT H2O valve OPEN.
170:51:50 Schmitt That is OPEN.
170:51:50 Cernan Remove purge valves, stow in purse.
170:51:56 Schmitt Okay.
170:52:02 Cernan Okay, disconnect OPS hose.
170:52:25 Schmitt Oh boy.
170:52:26 Cernan That lock/lock is just tight on there, Jack.
170:52:31 Schmitt It is (laughter). Got it.
170:52:44 Cernan Is it off?
170:52:44 Schmitt Yes.
170:52:45 Cernan Okay. Connect LM hoses, red to red, and blue to blue. We've got to do that this time, because we've got to dump the PLSSs. Okay?
170:52:54 Schmitt Okay. Let me turn around here. Let me get out of your way.
170:52:56 Cernan I'll get back in here. Okay, I'm out of the way now.
170:53:01 Schmitt How would you like to get off the PLSS water and get some spacecraft water, too?
170:53:07 Cernan Oh, that's the next thing. Suit ISOL and suit FLOW, ON; and then We'll put PLSS pump and fan OFF. Then we'll disconnect the PLSS water and connect spacecraft water.
170:53:20 Schmitt You might unhook that stuff up there so you can get to your hoses.
170:53:24 Cernan I can't reach it though.
170:53:25 Schmitt Oh, okay. I can get it then. I can get it.
170:53:34 Cernan Okay, I guess.
170:53:39 Schmitt Okay, we want red to red and blue to blue. We got to verify these too because -
170:53:48 Cernan Yes. Bob, you still with us?
170:53:58 CC You bet, I wouldn't leave for the world.
170:54:04 Cernan Okay.
170:54:09 Schmitt Okay, I'm hooked up and locked.
170:54:11 Cernan Okay.
170:54:11 Schmitt You want to verify? And I'll veri - I'll do it for you, if you want.
170:54:15 Cernan Okay see if you can't find this one. Okay?
170:54:19 Schmitt Yes. There, verify the red one.
170:54:24 Cernan Okay, in and locked?
170:54:27 Schmitt Got the red one, locked. Locked.
170:54:34 Cernan Okay.
170:54:34 Schmitt Let me take a look at yours.
170:54:41 Cernan Locked. Locked.
170:54:50 Schmitt Okay.
170:54:51 Cernan Okay, now -
170:54:52 Schmitt Ready for suit FLOW.
170:54:52 Cernan Yes sir - suit FLOW on both of them.
170:54:56 Schmitt Okay.
170:54:57 Cernan Oh man, it feels great.
170:54:58 Schmitt Yes sir.
170:54:59 Cernan PLSS pump OFF and PLSS fan OFF.
170:55:01 Schmitt PLSS fan's OFF; pump's OFF.
170:55:04 Cernan Okay, disconnect PLSS water from PGA. Connect the LM water. Boy, I never thought air could feel so cool.
170:55:11 Schmitt Yes.
170:55:13 Cernan Okay, the PLSS water is disconnected.
170:55:16 Schmitt I think that's mine. Yes, that's mine. Spacecraft water.
170:55:26 Cernan Okay. Mine's connected.
170:55:40 Schmitt How about pushing on that?
170:55:42 Cernan Okay. Got to see it, yes - but, I want to see it first. Watch your helmet, Jack. You're going to scratch it.
170:55:53 Schmitt Got it -
170:55:54 Cernan You don't have your visor on - neither do I.
170:55:55 Schmitt Yes, got it.
170:55:57 Cernan Okay, connect - Okay, PLSS mode. Bob, we're both going off the air. We'll get on LM comm.
170:56:03 CC Okay. We'll be waiting for you. We're here.
170:56:08 Cernan Okay, go "0", Jack.
170:56:10 Schmitt How about some cooling?
170:56:11 Cernan Okay, zap me with it, and go "0", and then put your audio breaker OPEN and connect the LM comm. Then an audio breaker CLOSED. Okay?
170:57:03 Cernan You read me, Jack?
170:57:14 Cernan You read me?
170:57:48 Cernan Read me?
170:57:48 Schmitt You're loud and clear.
170:57:49 Cernan Okay. Next thing, VHF B - wait a minute. You get the audio breaker OPEN, CLOSED - Okay - VHF squelch B LMP. Okay, noise threshold, plus 1-1/2.
170:58:07 Schmitt Yes.
170:58:10 Cernan Okay. AUDIO, both panels. VHF A RECEIVE, and B OFF.
170:58:20 Schmitt A RECEIVE and B is OFF here.
170:58:24 Cernan Okay, mode ICS/PTT.
171:00:06 PAO This is Apollo Control at 171 hours. Ron Evans, in America, 3 1/2 minutes away from loss of signal on the forty second lunar revolution. Ron, in good shape, and all systems on America functioning well. SIM bay experiments performing well, also. Even though we'll be in contact for another 3 minutes we have said good night to Ron and he, shortly, will be getting a - an 8 hour sleep shift.
171:01:09 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're back on LM comm.
171:01:11 CC Roger, 17. We copy you loud and clear on LM comm.
171:01:33 PAO This is Apollo Control at 171 hours 1 minute. The 3 EVA's of Apollo 17 totaled -
171:01:34 CC And 17, Jack and Gene, we have a couple of - in fact, we have three records here to read out to you guys. On Apollo 17, two of them; one, the longest single EVA, 7 hours 37 minutes and 22 seconds. The longest total lunar surface EVA time 22 hours 5 minutes and 6 seconds. And the summary, the total lunar surface EVA time for the Apollo Program, 80 hours 44 minutes and 8 seconds.
171:02:10 Cernan That's quite a tribute to the people who made it possible. I'll tell you. Thank you, Bob.
171:02:15 CC Roger, Geno. And I can't speak as authoritatively as some people have tonight, but for all of us around me, I'll say thank you, also.
171:02:30 Cernan Your words are well taken. You know how I feel.
171:02:55 CC Hey, Gene and Ron, this is the CSM CAPCOM. Thought you might be interested. Your buddy up on - above you there is chugging on and about ready to bed down himself, right now. And he did take a good look at the landing site through binoculars tonight and took a good look at Shorty crater there, and noticed - plotted out some variations in color that may be the same color changes you saw in that orange soil and that, but we're trying to match it all up - Farouk and Ron are working it out - we're trying to match it all up and see if we can get a comparison there.
171:03:33 Schmitt Excellent. Tell him we'll see him tomorrow.
171:03:36 CC Yes, he's counting on it.
171:03:42 Cernan How's America looking to you, Bob?
171:03:45 CC Well, I'll give an update. It - it's working perfect. No problems at all and we got good SIM bay data on everything. The UV, the IR, the lunar sounder, and everything that we - every data point we can see is just great. It's - it's just hardly any anomalies at all. Everything is just wonderful.
171:04:06 Cernan Outstanding.
171:04:24 CC Gene, about this total limit of any problem there is, and it's not a problem, is we're just having to stir those tanks manually because of that limiting cycle on the - on the pressure switch there. We could go back to auto but it's easier to go manual.
171:04:44 Cernan I'll be back up there tomorrow and I'll stir it for you.
171:04:49 CC Roger. And Jack and Gene, let me make a note here for you guys. There will be a series of references to this throughout the checklist but there's a general thing and you might even put a piece of tape across it if you want to or something - rather than go through and call out all the locations. We'll leave PRESS REG A closed for the rest of the time. Might just keep that in mind.
171:05:16 Schmitt Okay, Bob, we'll - I think we'll handle that one okay.
171:05:54 CC Gene, there's one thing you may be interested in as - as the Commander. We're going to have to do two burns tomorrow on America. The - the orbit - the mascons didn't deteriorate the orbit as much as everybody thought it was so there's going to be an RCS burn about an hour prior to the - to the LOPC burn.
171:06:21 Cernan That's interesting, Bob. Are you going to do a DOI 3, huh?
171:06:25 CC Well, yes, I guess that's what it'll be - it's going to be an RCS burn at about 11 foot per second. It'll drop the - it'll circulize the orbit and then we'll do the plane change burn.
171:06:42 CC Okay, and 17, we'd like you to press on reasonably diligently tonight. You're just about on schedule but if we can turn off this Marine, we'd like you guys to press on. We're looking at a nominal launch time and we've used up, of course, all the MCCH conference but we think you're within a few minutes of being right on. If you can press on like you did last night we'll be in great shape.
171:07:09 Cernan Okay, Bob. I never stopped doing what I wanted to do anyway even though a Marine was talking.
171:07:27 Schmitt Okay, CDR's OPS 6100; LMP, 6500.
171:09:09 Schmitt Okay, Houston this is the LMP. LMP's OPS is regulating at 4.25.
171:09:21 CC Okay, I copy that.
171:09:23 Schmitt And the CDR's is 3.9 - at 3.9.
171:09:27 CC Okay that -
171:09:27 Schmitt That might be - I started - let me bleed it off and let me see where it regulates at next time. I didn't have my hose locked, Bob, and it came off the first try. Bob, we'll take another OPS check later on when we stow them. We're pressing on.
171:10:03 CC Jack, they're saying we better do that before you throw off the PLSSs because we have to verify a good one before you - before you dump the PLSSs.
171:10:13 Schmitt Okay, we'll do that.
171:15:16 Schmitt Okay, Houston, we rechecked the LMP's OPS and it's regulating at 4.25, again.
171:15:28 CC Is that a steady 4.25, Jack?
171:15:33 Evans Yes, it's done that twice now.
171:15:41 CC Okay, and it's steady once you do it, Jack, right?
171:15:47 Schmitt Right, it's open now. We've been watching it for about a minute, now.
171:15:51 CC Okay, we'll go with it then, Jack.
171:15:56 Schmitt Okay.
171:17:40 Schmitt Okay, Bob, we're going to start the weighing process here - -
171:17:45 CC Okay we're ready to copy - -
171:17:46 Schmitt - - it might take a couple minutes to get things squared away.
171:17:48 CC Okay give us a call. We're ready to copy the weights.
171:17:51 Schmitt Okay.
171:18:33 Schmitt Bob, sample 15 Echo has a bunch of dust and that gradually accumulated in my pocket.
171:18:43 CC No fair, Jack, you can't go collecting samples after the EVA's over.
171:20:45 Schmitt Say - say Bob, right now I can't find the sample containment bag number 5. Number 5 collection bag will be in bag 3.
171:20:57 CC Okay, we note that. Thank you. Very good.
171:21:47 Schmitt Okay, and we're going to cross out 3 on the bag, and put a 5 on it.
171:21:53 CC Okay, or I think we could keep track of it otherwise; but that's fine.
171:22:01 Schmitt That's for our reference too.
171:27:05 CC ...
171:36:32 Cernan Okay, Bob, you ready?
171:36:33 CC Roger. We're ready.
171:36:38 Cernan Okay, bag 7 is 32, bag 4 is 31.5, bag 5 is 21, the big bag is 71. The ISA is 22.
171:37:04 CC Okay, we have those five weights there, Geno. We have 32 for number 7, 31.5 for number 4, 21 for number 5. 71 for the SR - the big bag, and 22 for the ISA.
171:37:26 Schmitt That's affirm, and we're standing by for your GO for jettison.
171:37:45 CC Okay 17. Challenger, we are ready for jettison.
171:37:52 Cernan Roger. Understand.
171:39:03 CC Okay and 17, we'd like - -
171:39:04 Cernan How do you read, Bob?
171:39:05 CC - - loud and clear, 17. And Challenger, we'd like to keep out the original BSLSS bag, the one that you launched with. We - we think we're going to need that to stow samples in.
171:39:19 Cernan Okay, it's out.
171:39:21 CC Okay. Or - or it's in, we hope.
171:39:23 Cernan Okay.
171:39:28 Cernan RECORDER, ON.
171:39:29 Schmitt Whichever way.
171:39:31 CC We want it kept in the cabin, right.
171:39:33 Cernan RECORDER'S ON.
171:39:37 Cernan Okay, don EV gloves. Let me - -
171:39:38 Schmitt Okay, the recorder's not giving us any recording though.
171:39:43 Cernan See if I can't get a little ... out of some of these things. Don your gloves, Jack if you're -
171:39:55 Schmitt Why isn't the recording recording?
171:40:01 Cernan Are we out of tape?
171:40:05 Schmitt Be 8 hours on it. I don't think I left it on. I might have left it on. I probably did if it's on now. I thought I read it in the checklist though. Don Arabian will never forgive me.
171:40:41 CC Shall we save ourselves some ascent weight?
171:40:47 Schmitt (Laughter)
171:40:50 CC Unfortunately, Owen wasn't listening.
171:40:52 Schmitt Well it was okay up until - it was just this EVA if it was on, Bob.
171:41:04 CC Okay.
171:41:05 Schmitt Because it was working when we prepped, I'm sure of that.
171:41:09 Cernan Okay. Did you don your EV gloves? And we'll check each others connectors again.
171:41:15 Schmitt I'll take my cuff checklists off.
171:41:25 Cernan Needless to say, you don't have to put your dust covers on, Jack. If that makes you feel better.
171:41:43 Schmitt Oh boy.
171:41:50 Cernan Bob, how long were we out today, 7 what?
171:41:54 CC Stand by, we got it here someplace; 7 hours and - 7 hours 15 minutes and 31 seconds.
171:42:10 Cernan How many kilometers did we put on the Rover?
171:42:13 CC We have an approximate total of atout 36.1.
171:42:22 Schmitt Boy this one is really getting stiff.
171:42:29 Cernan Probably another 1/2 kilometer on that when the nav wasn't working.
171:42:37 CC I don't - yes, we didn't - we didn't get distance readouts all the time. We sort of interpolated those distances there, Gene.
171:42:46 Schmitt Push on the button.
171:42:48 Cernan Are you opening or closing?
171:42:50 Schmitt Closing, trying to.
171:42:51 Cernan You don't have to push on the button to close it.
171:42:53 Schmitt Well yes - -
171:42:54 Cernan It's not locked.
171:42:56 PAO That rover mileage is straight line distance. There would be a 10 to 20 percent variable factor for skirting around craters and other excursions of that type. The experiments support room expects to have a better on the mileage sometime tomorrow.
171:42:56 Schmitt Now I know why I brought you.
171:42:56 Cernan Jack, did you put those gloves on?
171:42:56 Schmitt I don't know. I was listening to you for one thing. Boy, it is stiff though. Never get it off. ... off.
171:43:30 SC I ...
171:43:31 Cernan I ... this thing down there so it - -
171:43:33 Schmitt Wait a minute. Tangled.
171:43:57 Cernan Okay, it just don't want to -
171:44:09 Cernan All we need.
171:44:34 SC Okay, ...
171:44:39 Cernan Okay, EV gloves are donned. Let's check our PGA connectors. Do you want to check mine?
171:44:51 Schmitt That's locked, that's not ...
171:44:52 Cernan Okay.
171:44:54 Schmitt Helmet shouldn't have changed. Okay. That's locked, locked, locked, locked. Over, I can't see, locked.
171:45:12 Cernan Okay, suit circuits shall not be maintained at elevated pressure greater than 5 minutes.
171:45:16 Schmitt Okay, we want to do an integrity check here.
171:45:18 Cernan Now, we're not going to use REG A at all.
171:45:20 Schmitt Right.
171:45:21 Cernan Okay, SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL EGRESS, verify.
171:45:24 Schmitt PULL EGRESS.
171:45:25 Cernan Now you can verily all that other stuff. CABIN GAS RETURN EGRESS, verify.
171:45:30 Schmitt Verified.
171:45:32 Cernan And SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF is a CLOSE. CLOSE it.
171:45:36 Schmitt Okay, it's going CLOSED. CLOSED.
171:45:40 Cernan Okay, PRESSURE REG A - let's leave A OFF, and PRESSURE REG B to DIRECT O2 - ... 4.0, and then go to EGRESS, and we'll check on decay.
171:45:55 Schmitt Okay, go on to - -
171:45:57 Cernan Wait a minute ... I should have ...
171:46:03 Schmitt Yes. Okay, its unlocked.
171:46:11 Cernan Okay.
171:46:12 Schmitt For 3 you're ready for O2.
171:46:31 Schmitt How high do they want the suit?
171:46:33 Cernan 3.7 to 4.0 cuff gage.
171:46:36 Schmitt Okay, it's warming up, slowly.
171:46:43 Cernan Yes, could you give me some water.
171:47:07 Schmitt Off the peg. Down off the peg.
171:47:25 Schmitt There, you - coming up on 3.5.
171:47:28 Cernan Okay, when you hit 3.7, I'll be with you. So you can -
171:47:31 Schmitt Okay 3.7. Okay.
171:47:34 Schmitt MARK it. One minute.
171:47:36 Cernan Okay.
171:47:39 Cernan You did go EGRESS, right?
171:47:41 Schmitt Yes.
171:47:41 Cernan Okay.
171:47:52 SC (Laughter)
171:48:00 Schmitt Well, it's suppose to be possible to do it.
171:48:03 Cernan Hope so, ...
171:48:22 Cernan There. Get it?
171:48:25 Schmitt Yes.
171:48:26 Cernan Okay, we've got another 15 seconds to go.
171:48:43 Cernan Okay, MARK it. In one minute you go to SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO.
171:48:48 Schmitt Okay, suit - watch your ears.
171:48:50 Cernan Okay.
171:48:52 Schmitt There.
171:48:55 CC And 17, we're watching you, and you look good to us. You're GO.
171:49:02 Schmitt Okay, I had about 2/10.
171:49:04 Cernan And I had 2/10. 3.7 to 3.5. Okay, let's make sure we got everything. You went to 4.0, then you went to EGRESS then we monitor SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO; pressure is decaying at 4.8. Okay, that's good. Okay. We're GO for cabin depress.
171:49:22 CC Roger. Roger, you're GO for -
171:49:24 Cernan Okay, 16 ECS CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
171:49:28 Schmitt Okay, REPRESS coming OPEN. CIRCUIT BREAKER, OPEN.
171:49:32 Cernan Okay. This time, I think I'll get this down here.
171:49:36 Schmitt They want this left in auto?
171:49:37 Cernan Huh?
171:49:38 Schmitt Leave this in auto?
171:49:42 Cernan ... just all you want is - -
171:49:43 Schmitt - - circuit breaker.
171:49:43 Cernan - - 16 CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
171:49:45 Schmitt Okay. Overhead or forward dump valve OPEN and then AUTO at 3.5.
171:49:50 Cernan Get that one down there, now.
171:49:53 Schmitt Okay, you ready?
171:49:54 Cernan Okay, go ahead. I'll give you a call at 3.5.
171:50:02 Cernan Circuit relief was AUTO, right?
171:50:04 Schmitt Yes. Had to be. Okay.
171:50:12 Schmitt Okay, going OPEN.
171:50:16 Cernan Okay, it's coming down. I want your AUTO at 3.5, I give you a call my suit is going up.
171:50:23 Cernan MARK it. Okay, you're 3.5. Verify cabin 3.5 and LM suit circuit locked up at 4.3 and decaying. Okay, it's about 4.6 and decaying. How's it look to you, Houston?
171:50:40 CC Looks good to us, 17.
171:50:45 Cernan Okay, Jack. Overhead - make it forward dump, OPEN. And I'll verify we lock up ...
171:50:57 Schmitt Is decaying, the auto's working.
171:51:18 PAO Challenger's cabin is being depressurized.
171:51:20 Cernan Locking up, and the cabin's at 1.
171:51:24 PAO Hatch will be opened and equipment no longer needed will be jettisoned.
171:51:40 Cernan Okay, hatch opening. Downward.
171:51:51 Cernan When I get the hatch partially opened, you can go to AUTO on that valve.
171:52:04 Schmitt Still no good words about the gravimeter, huh, Bob?
171:52:08 CC No, there's an out - outside chance that it's been a little cold. And they're hoping that if it warms up, that it may take care of itself but, no, everybody's very sad about that.
171:52:23 Schmitt Well, I could have sprinkled dirt on it, maybe.
171:52:31 Cernan Let me ... to the hatch, Jack. Still about point 2.
171:52:49 Schmitt Okay, you want that in auto?
171:52:50 Cernan I can get it from here.
171:52:52 Schmitt Okay. And a lock / lock's on.
171:53:06 Cernan Turn around over here, boy I wish you could take some of that dust out. Get it.
171:53:12 Schmitt Better turn - wait ...
171:53:16 Cernan The hatch is open, Houston.
171:53:19 CC Copy that.
171:53:21 Schmitt Okay. Okay.
171:53:29 Cernan And, Danny's not out there, to hand us in the light weight PLSS's.
171:53:33 Schmitt Okay. Here goes the old - whose PLSS is this now?
171:53:37 Cernan Well, look at it, if you want a memory.
171:53:40 Schmitt That must be yours it's red. No, that's mine, no it's yours. Here goes the old Commander's PLSS.
171:53:48 Cernan Okay, baby thanks for doing a good job. And that was a backup PLSS too.
171:53:53 Schmitt Well, that wasn't very good.
171:53:55 Cernan It walked down the ladder.
171:53:58 Schmitt It went down as gracefully as you did.
171:54:00 Cernan Look at that. Okay, what's next?
171:54:04 Schmitt Well, I can give you some of these. Here hold - okay. Everything that's in here. Okay. That's the first thing.
171:54:19 Schmitt Okay. Okay.
171:54:35 Cernan Let me. Beautiful gloves.
171:54:44 Cernan Yes. Houston, I think we ought to probably just mention, anyway. We are jettisoning a set of - 2 sets of EVA gloves. I think that's worth mentioning. Because they did their job.
171:54:59 Schmitt Just like everything else did its job. Can I jettison mine?
171:55:05 Cernan Okay.
171:55:09 Schmitt Whoops, we didn't get them clear.
171:55:11 CC Okay, we copy 2 sets of EVA gloves to the surface for the last time.
171:55:19 Cernan They're very reluctant. (Laughter)
171:55:22 Schmitt What else have you got there?
171:55:24 Cernan IS - ISS.
171:55:25 Schmitt ... the other ISS.
171:55:36 Schmitt Nope, one more.
171:55:36 Cernan Is that it?
171:55:40 Schmitt Nope, one more thing.
171:55:42 Cernan No wait. Oh, is there something ... ?
171:55:48 Schmitt Watch it. Take this, I'll get it.
171:56:12 Cernan Okay, that's getting thinned out.
171:56:16 Schmitt Okay, the old LMP's PLSS. - that OPS stays where it is.
171:56:25 Cernan Okay. Okay, put your - get it down there and then put your foot against it and it'll probably go. The only geologist's PLSS on the Moon. Good boy. Have fun PLSS.
171:56:54 Schmitt It'll stay there. Okay, we got everything else. Okay - -
171:57:00 Cernan Hatch seal clear.
171:57:04 Schmitt Pretty good.
171:57:05 Cernan Pretty good from here.
171:57:07 Schmitt Too bad we don't have a broom.
171:57:09 Cernan You got everything else? Nothing else here to go? Nothing behind you? Nothing here? Okay.
171:57:19 Schmitt Hatch going closed. ... again tomorrow. I know it.
171:57:28 Cernan Okay, forward hatch closed. Let me see if I can't lock it. Okay, it's locked.
171:57:51 Schmitt Okay, CABIN REPRESS, DUMP valve, both AUTO, verified.
171:57:55 Cernan They're - all are auto and locked. Okay.
171:57:59 Cernan CABIN REPRESS, AUTO. Verify.
171:58:02 Schmitt Verified.
171:58:03 Cernan At 16, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED.
171:58:05 Schmitt REPRESS going CLOSED.
171:58:07 Cernan MASTER ALARM and CABIN WARNING LIGHT ON. There it is. Cabin's coming up. Okay, it's increased and you go to ca - cabin on that one reg.
171:58:27 Schmitt One reg, Bravo.
171:58:31 Cernan Cabin - ...
171:59:24 Cernan Okay, cabin's coming it's about 5.
171:59:28 Cernan Okay, lights are off. Repress stopped. Cabin pressure stable. Okay, Houston, Challenger, we're going to take off our gloves.
171:59:48 Cernan Hello, Houston. How does it look?
171:59:50 CC Roger. You look stable, and stand by.
171:59:58 CC Okay, you're GO to unsuit there, guys.
172:00:13 Schmitt Speaking of suits. These things performed super.
172:00:58 Cernan Okay, and we can get our helmets off.
172:01:01 Schmitt If I can ever get unsuited. Oh, this is funny. (Laughter) That's my hand. Let me try the other one.
172:01:13 Cernan Oh, let me get it for you. I can free here - Yes, but I'm (Laughter).
172:01:18 Schmitt There. The right one went easy - I think they're all really getting -
172:01:27 Cernan Oh, and the helmet is off and I'm throwing it in the BRA.
172:01:44 Schmitt Well, there's no changing our mind now, the PLSSs are going to be hard to retrieve. But you could if you had to, though.
172:01:52 CC Challenger, Houston. Challenger, Houston. From the old backup crew that followed you every step of the way, super job on EVA you guys.
172:02:10 Schmitt Thank you, John. Appreciate the words Jose. But we also appreciate your helping us get it this far.
172:02:22 CC Roger; Neil.
172:02:23 Cernan Hey, you know in - in all those things you tell people - Was that Charlie? I haven't heard your voice since - you know all those good things you tell us about dust and all those other things, you know, you believe them all just like everybody else does - but you've just got to come out here and experience it for yourself to really be a believer.
172:02:47 CC Yes, well I take it back about it all looks the same.
172:02:53 Schmitt Hey, it - it really doesn't Charlie, but all those physical things you get handicapped with - there's a lot of easy things as far as 1/6 g - but all those other things - you know there's nothing like doing it to be a believer.
172:03:07 CC Well, you guys did it great.
172:03:14 Schmitt Charlie it may all look the same but Taurus Littrow, mark my words, has some variety.
172:03:21 CC Yes, we could tell that, Jack. Great job.
172:03:27 Schmitt Thank you, Charlie and thank you for all the help.
172:03:32 Cernan Hey, Charlie I remember a long time ago when I said something about being down among them. I didn't know what it was until we got here.
172:03:45 CC And, Challenger we have a good word from the old program managers even though you guys were pretty piggy there in bringing rocks back, we're going to let you keep them all. You only busted the red line by 40 pounds.
172:04:02 Schmitt Okay, he's a pretty good guy anyway.
172:04:06 CC That assumes your good buddy upstairs gets a good plane change tomorrow.
172:04:15 Schmitt Oh, he will and I tell you Gene and I both have lost 20 pounds apiece on this mission.
172:04:23 CC We can believe that.
172:04:28 Cernan Verify safetys.
172:04:31 Schmitt Hey, we're on VOX anyway - let's go to ICS/PTT.
172:04:35 CC It's safer that way.
172:04:40 Cernan Yes, specially when you don't know you're talking.
172:04:51 Schmitt Okay, we came to the end of the EVA-3 prep and post card.
172:05:00 CC Roger. We're following you to the surface checklist.
172:05:01 Cernan Hey Jack and I are going to frame this - Jack and I are going to frame this page 2-3, cut it down the middle and each take half.
172:05:17 Schmitt I'm going to take the front half. Gene will take the back half.
172:06:13 Schmitt Okay, Roberto, we're going to manage the old batteries.
172:06:21 CC Okay, and Challenger we're ready to manage the old batteries.
172:06:30 Schmitt The old ED batteries are 37.2 - A and B. I was just going to say I wish we had a broom.
172:08:45 PAO This is Apollo Control at 172 hours 8 minutes. The Change of Shift News Conference is scheduled in the MSC News Center Briefing Room for 1:30 A.M. CST, approximately 30 minutes from now.
172:10:14 CC Okay, we're happy with your battery management. We're ready for you guys to go to low.
172:10:23 Schmitt You got - you got low.
172:10:25 CC Thank you.
172:10:57 CC And Challenger, it's Bob. I'm going to turn you over to Casper about now, and let him put you guys to sleep.
172:10:57 BEGIN LUNAR REV 45
172:11:15 Schmitt Bob, I'm not sure what you mean. Who's your friendly ghost?
172:11:19 CC I bet you can guess.
172:11:22 Schmitt He doesn't know anything about the LM. He doesn't know anything about the LM.
172:11:34 CC It's never too late to learn.
172:11:41 Schmitt For you, I believe that; for a lot of people, I wouldn't.
172:11:48 Cernan Welcome aboard, Ken.
172:11:51 CC You guys make a pretty interesting show to watch.
172:12:03 Schmitt I hope so.
172:12:26 Schmitt All I can do is hear your breathing, Ken.
172:12:30 CC Yes. Just noticed that.
172:19:18 Schmitt Hey, Ken. You can tell your friends off to the left there that I've turned the biomed off.
172:19:25 CC Okay. Thank you.
172:25:27 Cernan Hello, Houston; Challenger. CDR's going off the air.
172:25:33 CC Okay.
172:32:41 PAO This is Apollo Control at 172:32 Ground Elapsed Time. They're estimating a Change of Shift Briefing with the offgoing Orange Team Flight Director, Pete Frank and the Spacecraft Communicator Bob Parker, just being relieved after completion of EVA 3. We're estimating that Press Conference to commence in approximately 5 minutes in the small Briefing Room - Building 1 News Center. 172:33 this is Apollo Control.
172:36:27 CC Hey, Jack; Houston. You busy?
172:36:33 Schmitt Say again, Ken.
172:36:35 CC Are you busy? I'm sitting here looking at a couple of questions that they wanted to ask. And whenever it's convenient for you - I'm not sure just how busy you are right now - and just keep in mind I've got a few questions to ask you on the traverses, and give me a call when you're ready to talk about it.
172:36:58 Schmitt Okay; we're suit - unsuiting, Ken. Let us get unsuited, and then we'll be back - be back with you.
172:37:02 CC Okay. Just whenever it's convenient for you.
172:44:06 PAO This is Apollo Control. The Change of Shift Press Conference is prepared to begin at this moment. We'll take down the Air-Ground Circuit at this time and play back accumulated tape at the conclusion of the Press Conference. At 172:44, this is Apollo Control.
172:46:57 CC Challenger, Houston.
172:47:02 Schmitt Go ahead.
172:47:04 CC Hey, how about if we hit a PRO on the DSKY and get it into P00 and back into STANDBY? We're worrying about the clock registers overflowing. And we'd like to get that done before 172:50, or somewhere in that neighborhood.
172:47:23 Schmitt Okay; stand by.
172:47:28 Schmitt Is that what you wanted?
172:47:31 CC Oh, we can't watch it, Jack. If you just tell us that you've got it into P00 and back into PO6.
172:47:41 Schmitt That's what happened.
172:47:46 Schmitt I thought you watched it the other night.
172:47:48 CC No, we don't have any high bit rate now.
172:47:48 Schmitt That do make a difference. That's right.
172:47:48 CC I understand that - that you've completed that transition. is that correct?
172:47:48 Schmitt Which one?
172:47:48 CC You did get it out of STANDBY into P00, and then back. Is that correct?
172:47:48 Schmitt That's affirm. We completed that.
172:47:48 CC Okay. Thank you.
172:47:48 Schmitt Sorry to be so unclear.
172:47:48 CC Hey, we - we also are still on your stowage. So when you get on page 7-6, where it says, "Stow Heaviest Collection Bag," down in the right-hand column towards the bottom, why don't you skip that step until after the eat period. And we're still working on the stowage locations.
172:47:48 Schmitt Okay.
173:02:33 Cernan Hello, Ken. How do you read Challenger's CDR?
173:02:37 CC Loud and clear.
173:02:37 Cernan Okay.
173:03:04 PAO This is Apollo Control at 173 hours, 3 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The crew aboard Challenger at this time still unsuiting, getting prepared for bedding down for their final night on the lunar surface, final Earth night that is, in as much as they're in a middle of a 14 hour lunar day. Spacecraft America now behind the Moon on the end of the 43rd lunar orbit. There are about 55 seconds of tape from the air/ground 1 contact with the lunar module, Challenger which were accumulated during the just completed Change of Shift Press Conference. We'll play back that tape at this time and continue live with the remainder of the communications prior to the sleep period for Cernan and Schmitt at Taurus-Littrow.
173:19:13 Cernan Houston, Challenger. How would you feel about this canister being changed now?
173:19:20 CC Stand by. Okay, change her out, Geno.
173:19:28 Cernan Okay.
173:19:45 CC For your information, we're trying to negotiate some time for you here. We're about one and a half down. We know how to pick up 1 hour of it, but we haven't quite figured out how to gain the other half.
173:19:58 Cernan Okeydoke. Well, we're - we're all unsuited now, and we're about ready to talk and eat at the same time, or listen and eat here at the same time. And it won't be long and we'll be ready to hit the sack.
173:20:10 CC Okay; fine. Ken's trying to negotiate the question sessions for you here.
173:23:52 Cernan Canister's changed out, now.
173:23:56 CC Thank you.
173:26:04 Cernan Okay, Ken, we're - we're on and ready for that debriefing. And you should be getting Jack's biomed also.
173:26:11 CC Okay. Okay, before we start cn those questions, are you prepared to copy some lift-off times in your data book, and that kind cf stuff?
173:26:26 Cernan In about 10 seconds.
173:26:27 CC All right, sir.
173:26:37 Schmitt Go ahead, Ken.
173:26:39 CC Okay. This is rev 44. Lift-off: 174 plus 13 plus 49. TPI: 177 plus 01 plus 00. Okay; I'll give you just the lift-off times. Excuse me. For rev 45: 176 plus 12 plus 19; 178 plus 10 plus 49; 180 plus 09 plus 20; 182 plus 07 plus 50; 184 plus 06 plus 20. Rev 50 is 186:04:50. Over.
173:27:40 Schmitt Okay, Ken. Starting with 44: 174:13:49; 176:12:19; 178:10:49; 180:09:20; 182:07:50; 184:06:02 [sic]; 186:04:50. And what's the present rev, please?
173:28:05 CC Okay; we're coming up on fourty - in fact, it looks like we're in 44 right now. Okay. And, Jack, how about let's confirm that the rev 49 was 184:06:20.
173:28:33 Schmitt Oh, I did have that wrong, in the seconds - two zero seconds.
173:28:37 CC That's affirmative. Okay; and we've got your biomed coming through.
173:28:44 Schmitt Well, one - one - Am I alive?
173:28:50 CC Just barely.
173:28:55 Schmitt Ken, I'd like to believe that you read that one wrong, because I've gone througn 50 copies on that without a mistake.
173:29:03 CC Well, I'll - I'll settle that with you when you get back.
173:29:06 Schmitt 50 rev.
173:29:08 CC All right, sir. And - -
173:29:10 Schmitt Okay.
173:29:10 CC - - looks like it's about time for an eat period, and I've got these questions for you. But let's keep in mind that that's secondary, and if it ever gets in the way of eating, why holler up, and we'll just drop it right there. We're about an hour and a half behind the time line, and we're going to make up no more than an hour of that.
173:29:38 Cernan Okay.
173:29:45 Schmitt Well, I think --
173:30:10 Cernan Okay, Ken. We're cutting into the chow and go ahead.
173:30:13 CC Okay. Would you like for me to just read you all the questions, and let you mull those over before you work on it, or you want to do one at a time?
173:30:25 Schmitt One at a time's better, Ken.
173:30:27 CC All right, sir. Number 1. Wanted to know if the blue-gray rocks at Station 6 are similar to those at Station 2.
173:30:48 Schmitt Ken, I think they are. But I think you'll find that the ones in Station 6 are much more metamorphic rock, or recrystallized rock, than the ones we had at Station 2. I had the impression that the ones we were sampling at Station 6 were - were really inclusions in the - anorthositic gabbro, and had - had been probably considerably metamorphosed by it being included in it; whereas, the ones we had at Station 2 were a separate rock type apparently, as I recall it, anyway.
173:31:41 CC Okay; that's good.
173:31:42 Schmitt Ken, let me just say that I - My impression is that there was a lot more action in the rocks at Station 6 than 2, I saw a lot more; a lot more was evident, the inclusions and, some of the patterns, some of the other things we saw.
173:32:07 CC All right, sir. Let's go on to the second one, and it said: Do we understand that there were no breccias at Station 8?
173:32:26 Schmitt In the one - that parent orthopyroxene piagiociase rock - was a breccia in the sense it was fractured and was injected by dark glass. But it would be what we would call a mosaic breccia, in that respect, I think, and not the - Didn't see any Station 6, or Station 2-type breccias there at all. Other than the subfloor gabbro, that orthopyroxene piagiociase rock was the only major rock type I think we saw, unless we picked up some in the rake sample.
173:33:13 CC Okay. Okay; the third one says: What are your impressions of the distribution of the - the familiar subfloor gabbros throughout the EVA-3 traverse?
173:33:45 Schmitt Well, I don't - I don't - I think we discussed that a little bit on the traverse - quite a bit, as a matter of fact. The impression I had was that most of the traverse on the plains, with the one exception of - of Van Serg Crater, were - We were in box fields or fragment fields that were almost - well, were dominately subfloor. And visually from the Rover, I had no impression of any other significant rock type, with the exception of occasional blocks of the gray variety of the subfloor gabbro. And I don't know - Gene - I don't know what Gene's impression was. He was driving a lot, but - pass it on.
173:34:35 Cernan I think - we actually even commented when we hit the breaking slope coming back out of Station 6 and 7, and then back off at - coming back down at 8 - how the terrain features changed. I think that was due principally to the - to the - what we've been calling the subfloor material evident. And there again, it was, what I would say, particularly mantled, filleted, much like we nave here where the LM is, with the exception of Van Serg, where we actually saw fragmental boulders for the most part, a lot less buried sitting on the surface.
173:35:25 CC All right, sir. At Van Serg, some rocks were described as gray breccias, and some contained white fragments. Was there a variety of breccias present?
173:35:41 Schmitt I think - I think not, Ken. My impression was that there was a variety only in their - in the degree to which they were fractured. We found and sampled, I think, the two major - one extreme - extremely fractured rock that I said was - was friable. Anyway, it broke into small pieces very easily with a hammer or in your hand, if you worked at it. And the other was a breccia that was not - was much more cohesive than that. It was not fractured or friable at all, but they both were on the rim, and I think they were just varieties of - probably of shock fracturing.
173:36:27 CC Okay. Could the Van Serg breccias correlate with the blue-gray material at Cochise?
173:36:40 Schmitt That's possible, I guess. But my first guess would be that the blue-gray at Cochise was blue-gray subfloor. And, well, I don't know. That's a good question. That's a good question. We - Maybe with the pictures we have, we can work out the - an attitude - approximate attitude on that contact that I talked about in Cochise, and see if it would project over reasonably to Van Serg. I wouldn't be surprised if it would. That's a good - that's a good point. To me they looked very similar.
173:37:21 CC Okay. And you guys sure you're eating?
173:37:24 Schmitt But - but - Ken, Ken, Ken - -
173:37:29 CC Go ahead.
173:37:33 Cernan Yes, we're eating. We're fixing and eating at the same time.
173:37:39 CC You're mighty efficient. Go ahead. You were starting to say something.
173:37:46 Schmitt You just - yes, Ken. I think from the distance we saw the blue-gray in Cochise, you couldn't make a definite correlation. But it's a good idea and ought to be considered as one of the possibilities. The other is that we just had a window in the subfloor that coincidentally - I mean one underneath the subfloor might be that breccia. Coincidentally - the Van Serg impact hit that window.
173:38:21 CC Okay. Can you tell us anything about the cowpie at Van Serg. Was that a clast in the breccia?
173:38:31 Schmitt Negative. It was a - excuse me; I have my mouth full.
173:38:39 CC It's about time.
173:38:42 Schmitt It was an ag - it was an aggregate of irregular - what looked like agglutinated glass in fragments just sitting on the rim of Van Serg. And the reason I said I thought it was in place or had - had fallen there and crystallized there, is that there were four or five similar fragments arranged in a small coherent area. Not making that very clear I don't think, but it looks as if it hit and broke apart upon hitting a little bit but didn't - didn't really splatter or - or break apart in any significant manner.
173:39:38 CC All right.
173:39:39 Schmitt There are similar things - I tell you what it looks like. If anybody'd walked up the rim of Kilauea Iki in the ash out there, and on top of the ash, there are bombs that were fairly clearly molten when they hit, and they had just - just enough spring to break as - when they hit. But they - the individual pieces didn't move very far at all. And you can see that pattern on Kilauea Iki. And it was the same kind of thing, except that there was no directional aspect of it here.
173:40:22 CC Okay.
173:40:25 Schmitt And that's not to say it's volcanic glass. That's just the kind of pattern it was.
173:40:36 CC Okay. Can you tell us if the darker material in the bottom of Van Serg was similar to the collected rim material?
173:40:50 Schmitt I think so, except as Gene pointed out, the clasts were coarser. They were coarser in the bottom than about anything we saw in the rim.
173:41:02 CC Okay. Are there any distinctive features, other than color, to separate tan from blue-gray breccias, such as joining, or massive nature, continuity, anything of that nature?
173:41:29 Schmitt Yes, we're - -
173:41:32 Cernan Where did we find those tan breccias?
173:41:39 CC Challenger, this is Bob. I think we were talking about some of them, I think, at Station 1 the first night. We had both natures. In fact, I think we had - Didn't we have two of those in the same rock together?
173:41:53 Schmitt They were both gabbros.
173:41:55 CC Yes, excuse me - -
173:41:55 Schmitt Bob, they were tan gabbros and blue-gray gabbros.
173:41:59 CC Roger. Okay, yesterday, excuse me I wasn't reading the question. Okay, the breccias - they were tan and blue gray breccias yesterday at Station 2 were there not? You have the two types of breccias at Station 2.
173:42:12 Schmitt Oh well, yes, yes, that's right. And now as I think back I guess that's the main difference between the tan rocks at Station 2 and Station 6, but the ones at 6 appear to be - have an igneous texture or at least a very crystalline texture and inclusion-like masses of other rocks. Whereas, the ones at Station 2 they - they seem to be fragment breccias, as I recall. That's right, although they may have been recrystallized or metamorphosed, they were clearly breccias at Station 2. I just forgot about that.
173:42:58 CC Okay, copy that. Okay, and can you amplify your description going out to Station 6. In particular were there blue-gray and tan-gray bands on the North Massif?
173:43:17 Schmitt Rather than bands, there were lines that appeared to be the upper terminus of the - of the source of the boulders that were strewn below that line. And those lines tended to be either - show a blue-gray source or a tan-gray source, if you will. ...
173:43:59 Schmitt Oh, those ... bags.
173:44:05 CC Challenger, if you - if you think you're talking to us, you're breaking up badly.
173:44:13 Schmitt I just thought you might be interested, we just had a little spurt of dust come up by the window.
173:44:24 CC Was there a sleigh with it?
173:44:41 Schmitt Wise guy.
173:44:50 CC Okay. Did you see very much of dust, or was it just one little shot?
173:44:54 Schmitt ... one little shot, it was actually just particles. Something we threw out must have popped.
173:45:09 CC Okay, do you have any preliminary stratigraphic sequence for the plains?
173:45:22 Schmitt For the plains, huh? Well, my guess would be that the Van Serg breccias were the oldest rocks. The gabbro - subfloor gabbro's the next oldest, and the mantling material's the youngest. But that's - the only good clear relationship was mantle on top of the subfloor gabbros. I - we really don't have a good relationship of the breccias and I just - I guess I lean towards thinking that that Van Serg was a window in the sub floor rather than being a bed of some kind, on top of the subfloor.
173:46:10 CC Okay, and do you have an opinion on what underlies the Sculptured Hills?
173:46:22 Schmitt Well, I think, we said - the rake sample is probably going to have to tell the tale there. My guess is from the boulder - boulders and subfloor around up there that - are of gabbro and maybe the Sculptured Hills are a version of the subfloor rocks. I don't think that the orthopyroxene anorthosite rock was necessarily indigenous to the Sculptured Hills. It was glass-coated and permeated by glass so I suspect it may have been thrown there by an impact somewhere else.
173:47:05 CC All right sir, we've got one last thing for you to clean up. Back on page 7-6 of your checklist, it looks like we may have skipped some steps on the GAS RETURN valve, and like to make sure that you get to AUTO and the GAS DIVERTER PUSHED to CABIN before you stow the oxygen hoses.
173:47:55 Schmitt Okay, Ken, we got CABIN GAS RETURN, AUTO.
173:48:00 CC Okay, understand AUTO and you got the select to CABIN?
173:48:08 Schmitt Yes, GAS DIVERTER pushed to CABIN and we're trying the PGAs now.
173:48:13 CC All right, sir.
173:48:23 Cernan And I guess if - if you could go in - my feeling is if you go to the bottom of every one of those large craters like Camelot, you could examine some of these fragments on the walls and down into the bottom, I just get a feeling you'd find this - this blue-gray breccia down there.
173:48:46 CC All right, sir.
173:48:53 Cernan I mean in all the big craters like Camelot.
173:48:57 Schmitt Well we - I think maybe that's true, however, we did not see isolated fragments of it very often, if at all, out here on the - the plains themselves, away from the craters. So if the blue-gray breccia does - the Van Serg breccia does underlie the subfloor, the craters are not - it's far enough that the craters we have apparently have not penetrated and brought up much of that kind of material. Well that's it.
173:49:43 CC Okay guys, it's time to press on and finish up chow time and I've got your stowage summaries whenever you're ready for that, to get started on.
173:49:58 Schmitt Okay, Ken let us finish eating, then we'll go back to work.
173:50:02 CC Okay, give me a call when you're ready.
173:50:16 Schmitt I'll help you in just a second. ...
173:54:08 Schmitt Okay. Okay. Ken I'd like to go ahead and hear your recommendations on stowage and I'll write it down.
173:54:15 CC Alright, sir. Page 2-2. I've got some numbers to fill in at the bottom under the collection bag stowage.
173:54:28 Schmitt Okay, I've got it.
173:54:30 CC Okay, number 1 with the aft engine cover is bag 8. And then the second line, it's bag 7. The third line it's bag 6 left hand and 5 right hand. And the last line is bags 2 and 4. And you can disregard the max weights.
173:54:57 Schmitt Okay, just so we got it straight aft of the engine cover, bag 8. Left hand side, bag 7. Left hand plus the right hand side; number 6 left land and 5 right. And the ISA bags 2 and 4.
173:55:12 CC That's affirmative.
173:55:22 Schmitt Okay.
173:58:55 CC Hey, Jack, the people down here watching things noticed that your SUIT ISOL valve is still in DISCONNECT if you're trying to dry the suit out you might check that. It's your option what you want to do with it.
173:59:10 Schmitt I'm glad somebody is watching things. Thank you.
174:07:57 Cernan Ken we're in the process of getting all these bags in the proper places, now.
174:28:03 Schmitt Ken, this is Jack, why don't you take a note that mag Bravo is empty, with miscellaneous photos since the last report on it.
174:28:14 CC Okay.
174:31:36 Cernan And, Ken, we're stowing mag Nancy at a reading 153.
174:31:45 CC Okay, copy 153.
174:44:15 Cernan Houston, Challenger.
174:44:18 CC Go ahead, Geno.
174:44:25 Cernan Okay, Ken we're - all we've got left to stow now is the buddy SLSS bag and that's in work. And we got all the ETB stuff taken care of. All the other bags are stowed per your recommendation. We'll be configuring the ECS for sleep and putting up the hammocks here shortly and as soon as we can get cleaned up personally a little bit, we'll be in the sack.
174:45:00 CC Okay. Sounds great.
174:45:58 CC Hey, Geno, the guys are looking at that buddy SLSS bag and suggested you all make sure that you're going to have room to do the equipment jettison and get the hatch open and all that. They had planned on stowing it the next day.
174:46:17 Cernan That's a good thought, Ken. Thank you, Ed. The fact is that probably may think more convenient - we were going to be smart and get ahead here but, thank you.
174:46:26 CC The faster I run, the behinder I get.
174:46:32 Cernan Yes. I keep forgetting these checklists have been exercised a hundred thousand times.
174:46:51 CC Yes, we keep remembering that.
174:51:06 CC Challenger, Houston. If you'll just give us a call when you're ready to sack out we won't bother you and just that way we can keep track of what you're doing and when you're about ready to go to bed and we'll get you up at an appropriate time.
174:51:23 Schmitt Okay, Ken, this is Jack. I guess I have the duty biomed tonight, so I'll give you a call when we're turning out the lights.
174:51:32 CC Okay.
174:51:32 Schmitt And it won't be too long.
174:51:34 CC All right. You guys are doing pretty good. You're almost caught up.
174:52:37 Schmitt Hey, Ken, working through this thing, we haven't been able to find instructions for the stowage of the EV gloves. Do your friends back there have any recommendations?
174:52:50 CC Okay, stand by one and I'll check on that.
174:54:14 CC Okay, Jack, we can stick those things on The comm panel for now, and then tomorrow on page 7-l4, it's going to have you stow them in the LEVA bags. But for the time being if you just stick those up on the panel, set them aside - you'll use them tomorrow.
174:54:36 Schmitt Okay, Ken got you. Yes, they're going to get the inside of the LEVA pretty dirty.
174:54:59 CC Well, from what we've seen, Jack. I think everything's going to be about the same color by the time you get through.
174:55:10 Schmitt Okay, it didn't bother your - your EVA, did it Ken, to have a little dust in your helmet?
174:55:17 CC No, no - that's kind of nice to have.
174:55:24 Schmitt Hey, an experienced fellow like you might have a recommendation on how to get my visor up.
174:55:32 CC Yes, give it to the CMP.
174:56:03 CC We were just debating down here how come you guys threw away those nice clean gloves and kept the dirty ones.
174:56:12 Schmitt I wish you hadn't ask that Pete. (Laughter) We were just debating that too.
174:56:25 CC How long are your arms, Jack.
174:56:28 Schmitt You do all sorts of things.
174:56:32 Schmitt Hey, they're out on the porch as a matter of fact. That's not too far fetched.
174:57:08 Schmitt I guess there's some old friends you just hate to get rid of, Pete.
174:57:12 CC Yes, that figures.
174:57:32 CC Hey, you guys have had some real winners there. Don't change a good thing.
174:57:41 Schmitt Well, they seemed to do all right for us. I guess that's the way we were half-way thinking, but not thinking very well, as was witnessed in our checklist procedures tonight.
174:57:54 CC Ah, you're doing outstanding.
175:00:09 CC Challenger, Houston. On your comm, your checklist will call for going to down-voice backup. And, tonight, we'd rather just leave it in the normal voice. So if you leave the configuration you have, rather than change it, that would be a good deal for us.
175:00:38 Cernan Okay, Ken, I only got part of that, I was scrubbing my face here. You want to save the same comm configuration we've got right now. is that correct?
175:00:46 CC That's affirmative.
175:00:53 Cernan Okay. That's easy. Yes.
175:16:55 Schmitt Okay, Ken. Gene just stowed the EVA antenna.
175:17:01 CC Okay.
175:17:05 Schmitt And I'll be off COMM here just for a few minutes, biomed, so I'll be back with you when I turn in.
175:17:14 CC Okay. I may have misled you earlier when I said, we weren't going to lose any time. We can - we can get you 8 hours up to about 19 after the hour. After that, we're going to have to start rearranging things to get 8 hours.
175:17:36 Schmitt Well, Gene's almost in his hammock now. And I will be shortly, so I think we're probably in pretty good, shape.
175:17:42 CC Okay, that's fine. I just - I didn't want to mislead you.
175:17:48 Schmitt That's all right, you've never misled me before. Well, let me think about that.
175:17:59 CC Was going to say, you catch on awful slow, if that's true.
175:18:08 Schmitt Right.
175:19:17 Schmitt Ken, I'm going to take off my headset here and jump into the hammock. What - what time we getting up CET - Central Time?
175:19:31 CC Well, it's going to be roughly 45 minutes past the time listed at 182:39. So - are you asking for it in local time?
175:19:44 Cernan Yes, I - My watch is set on Houston time. What time will it be?
175:19:48 CC Be about - -
175:19:48 Schmitt Eight hours from when?
175:19:50 CC Be about 12:15, Geno.
175:19:55 Cernan Okay, that sounds great, Deke. It won't - We're just cleaning up a few minor things and we'll actually probably be asleep in the next 10 to 15 minutes.
175:20:07 CC Okay, sleep good. You had a lovely day. Hope tomorrow's as good.
175:20:10 Cernan Sorry to keep - Thank you, boss. Sorry to keep you up so late. But appreciate it very much.
175:20:19 CC We're enjoying it.
175:20:23 CC Hey, Gene, before you unplug you might - -
175:20:24 Cernan Okay, I'm going off the air.
175:20:24 CC - - Check your - check the Suit Flow valve. Looks like it's not flowing, if that's the configuration you want.
175:20:41 Cernan Yes, we've got them - we got them both flowing. And we've got good circulation in the cockpit. If it looks good to you down there, we're in good shape up here.
175:20:50 CC Looks fine. See you later.
175:20:55 Cernan Okay, we thank you much.
175:21:07 PAO This is Apollo Control at 175 hours 21 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The crew of Challenger has signed off for the night, climbing into their hammocks. The Commander, Gene Cernan in the upper berth, Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt in the lower hammock, scheduled 8 hours sleep period, wakening shortly after noon, today. Command Module America currently in a 67.8 minus 54.9 nautical mile orbit. Command Module Pilot, Evans has 4 hours and 22 minutes remaining of his sleep-period before being awakened, for plane-change maneuver and a trim maneuver, to get in the proper orbital plane for rendezvous. And at 175:22 taking down the air-ground 1 line, until somebody wakes up, this is Apollo Control.
176:07:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 176 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Command Module America about 1/3 of the way through frontside pass on revolution 45. Fifty-two minutes remaining until America coasts behind the moon. The crew aboard Challenger, meanwhile is settling in for 8 hours scheduled sleep period which will end shortly after noon today, central time. Three hours 37 minutes remaining in the Command Module pilot's sleep period. Command Module America presently in a lunar orbit measuring 55.1 nautical miles at pericynthion by 67.7 nautical miles apocynthion. Gold team of flight controllers settled in for a 12 hour shift today, on a quick turn around. And at 176:08 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
178:07:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 178 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Command module, America, at the present time on the 46th lunar orbit immediately over the Taurus-Littrow landing site where the crew of Challenger has approximately 5-1/2 hours remaining in their sleep period. Evans, meanwhile, has some hour and 37 minutes remaining in his scheduled sleep period before a wakeup call is made. For the coming day's activity, including a trim maneuver to tune up the command module's orbit and a plane change maneuver to place the command module in the proper orbital plane for the rendezvous which will take place after the lunar module has lifted off the lunar surface and is placed back into orbit around the Moon. The command module spacecraft systems are are all functioning normally at this time according to the the flight controllers here in the Control Center. Some 49 minutes remaining until America goes behind the Moon. At 178:08 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
179:41:12 PAO This is Apollo Control, 179 hours 41 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. About a minute until we have lock-on with the Command Module America on the 47th revolution around the Moon. Shortly after we have good solid lockup, the Spacecraft Communicator Ken Mattingly will call Ron Evans on Air-Ground 2 circuit for a wakeup. We'll bring that up at that time. Meanwhile the crew in the lunar module, Challenger, is still asleep at this time, with some 3 hours remaining until they're awakened. Standing by for word that we've locked onto the Command Module downlink. We've had acquisition. We'll bring up Air-Ground 2 and standby for the wakeup call to Command Module America.
179:45:02 CC Good morning, America. Rise and shine.
179:46:14 CC Hello, America, this is Houston. Over.
179:46:30 Evans Hey, Houston, this is the Command Module Pilot on the United States spaceship, America. I'll be ready to go to work as soon as I can get untangled.
179:46:41 CC Okay. We got plenty of that for you.
179:46:46 Evans (Laughter) Okay. I think I woke up just about the time - just before you called, for some reason.
179:49:11 Evans VHF is OFF.
179:50:59 Evans Houston, at least it's daylight today. Yesterday you got me up in the middle of the night.
179:51:05 CC Oh, this is a gentleman's day.
179:51:10 Evans (Chuckle) Right.
179:51:38 Evans Of course, I guess it's really a 2-hour day when you go around the Moon, isn't it?
179:51:45 CC You don't get so tired that way.
179:51:49 Evans (Laughter) Right.
179:52:30 Evans Okay. S-BAND MODE is to VOICE, SQUELCH is - says "OFF"; I want to leave it ENABLED. Crew report, I'll get in a minute and wind your watch.
179:55:02 Evans Houston, America. If you happen to have a summary report of EVA-3, I'd sure like to hear it.
179:55:12 CC Okay. We'll do that. Let me give you a - a quick rundown on review of what we're going to do this morning. We've got the extra RCS trim burn that's going to be coming in, and I've got a pad for that guy. And I have about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 one-liners to go into your Flight Plan, to bring it up to date. The general plan is to do a minus-X RCS on the trim maneuver, in order to avoid impinging on the SIM bay. That burn will be about 30 seconds worth. And that's going to give you about 9 foot per second DELTA-V. The maneuvers have all been checked out, and it's a reasonable timeline. And so, I have both the plane change and the trim pads for you. And that may cut into your eat period just a little bit. So, you might keep that in mind, that when you get a chance to nibble; that's probably a good - good thing to be doing. And then once we finish the plane change, we - we're going to be back on the nominal Flight Plan, and pressing on in a - just like we have been. We'll be leaving the mapping camera in and taking pictures with it still retracted, in a attempt to avoid increasing the number of cycles on the camera. And we'll be running the SPS PU valve in the decreased position, in order to optimize our propellant loadings.
179:56:43 Evans Ah ha! Okay. That sounds like ... good.
179:56:50 CC So, when you're ready to copy some of those things, that's - Might be a good thing to get started on. Go ahead and finish squaring away your cockpit. And, while they're putting together an official summary, I can tell you my unofficial summary of EVA-3 is that that sure is super. You've got to watch those tapes when you get down. That's really a - that's really a spectacular place, as you can probably see. And they found a lot of - -
179:57:16 Evans Oh, it really is.
179:57:16 CC - mighty interesting rocks there. Jack, being a true geologist, is making up new geological terms as he goes along.
179:57:37 Evans (Laughter) I can - yep, I bet.
179:57:48 CC What you ought to do is, when he gets aboard, you ought to tell him that you saw a bunch of vertical dikelets over on the north side of the massif. Tell him they were very dark, very small.
179:58:01 Evans Vertical dikelets?
179:58:03 CC Yes, I think that's the word he coined on the way down there.
179:58:06 Evans Dikelets? Oh, okay (laughter).
179:58:13 Evans Hey, I got a Update Book here. I guess it'll be good for a trim burn - trim ...
179:58:21 CC Okay. In general, let me tell you also that your RCS is 4.7 above the Flight Plan. And, just in a summary, unless you want to plot them, I'll just tell you that the oxygen and the hydrogen are doing good things. And you've got plenty of it. And I'm ready to give you a - The first pad will be a trim RCS burn and the second one will be the plane change burn.
179:58:56 Evans Okay. No, that's good on the hydrogen and oxygen. And, I'm ready to copy the trim P30 pad.
179:59:05 CC Okay. I'll give you the trim. RCS/G&N; 37416; GET 181:34:01.22; plus 0009-2, all zips, and all zips; roll 180, 179, 316; 0067.3, plus 0062.4; 0009.2, 0:30, 0009.2; 13, 292.3, 299. And at Sirius and Rigel, 118, 159, 349. This will be four jets, minus-X on the RCS. And, I'd like to just add a comment here about the attitude. This attitude is one that's computed after you've gone to the plane-change REFSMMAT. And when you call P41, you'll be getting a different set of attitudes computed out of it because of the P41 computing a plus-X burn. But, when you're in attitude and P41's called, and you get to the DELTA-V register, you should be able to put all of the DELTA-V in one axis.
180:00:48 Evans Oh, okay. This really is a posigrade burn is what you're saying. And I really won't be able to trim it?
180:00:57 CC I'm not sure I understood your comment there.
180:01:03 Evans Well, in other words, we're not - we're not faking NOUN 8l. You know, like we do on the SEP maneuver.
180:01:13 CC Oh. That's - that's correct. You're going to see the numbers go to zero during the burn.
180:01:23 Evans Okay. Real good. We just won't - ... won't be the right attitude. We'll use the VERB 29 maneuver and use that attitude.
180:01:32 CC That's correct. And when you get there, that should put it all in - in the X-axis.
180:01:38 Evans Okay. Mighty fine.
180:01:42 CC Now I'm ready for the readback.
180:01:44 Evans Oh, let me read it back. Okay, it'll be G&N/RCS for the trim burn. Weight, is 37416; TIG is 181:34:01.22. I'm not sure on the seconds. Is that correct?
180:02:00 CC That's correct.
180:02:04 Evans Okay. NOUN 8l plus 9.2 in X, 0 and 0, roll, 180; pitch, 179; yaw, 316; Ha will be 67.3, PERIGEE, 62.4; DELTA-V total is 9.2; burn time is 30 seconds; DELTA-Vc, is 9.2. Sextant star is 13, shaft is 292.3, trunnion is 29.9. That'll be Sirius and Rigel, 118, missed the pitch align and the yaw align is 349. It'll be four jets, minus-X, and it'll be at the plane change REFSMMAT.
180:02:48 CC Okay. And that pitch align is 159.
180:02:56 Evans Okay. Pitch align, 159.
180:02:59 CC Okay. The next one will be the plane change, and I'll have that ready in just a second.
180:03:13 Evans Okay. I'm in the Flight Plan for that one.
180:03:16 CC Okay. Stand by, just a second.
180:03:53 CC Okay. LOPC SPS/G&N; 37416; plus 0.38, plus 0.92; 182:33:53.00; minus 0017.9, minus 0365.5, minus 0006.9; roll, 0; pitch, 0; yaw, 315; 0062.7, plus 0062.6; 0366.0, 0:20, 0353.8: 22, 148.9, 19.5; Sirius and Rigel and the roll, pitch, and yaw aligns are the same: ll8, 159, 349. This will be four jets and 12 seconds.
180:05:25 Evans Okay. LOPC, SPS/G&N, 37416; plus 0.38, plus 0.92; Tig 182:33:53.00; NOUN 8l is minus 17.9, a minus 365.5, and a minus 6.9; roll, 0; pitch, 0; yaw, 315; HA, 62.7, perigee, 62.6 - that's pretty circular - DELTA-V total is 366.0. Burn time is 20 seconds, DELTA-Vc, 353.8; sextent star 22, shaft 148.9 and 19.5; Sirius and Rigel, 118, 159, 349; four jets, 12 seconds.
180:06:20 CC Okay. It's a good readback. And, I've got a couple of Flight Plan things to give you when you're ready for that.
180:06:34 Evans Okay. I'm with you.
180:06:36 CC Okay. The first one is at 180 hours and 20 minutes. And -
180:06:50 Evans Okay, I've got it.
180:06:51 CC Okay. We owe you an attitude there and the attitude will be: 179, 222, 359. The HIGH GAIN: pitch, minus 39; yaw, 145. Why don't you read them back, individually as we go along?
180:07:14 Evans Okay. Roll, 179; pitch, 222; yaw, 359. HIGH GAIN will be minus 39 and 145.
180:07:22 CC Okay. And that's the - that's at 180:20. That's with the VERB 49 there. The next one is at l8l:35 - -
180:07:28 Evans Yes, that's right.
180:07:29 CC - which is on the next page, and it's going to be at VERB 49, maneuver to LOPC. What we're going to do here is two separate maneuvers. We're going to do a maneuver which is a roll, so that when you do the next one, you'll avoid the gimbal lock because of the direction that the CMC would normally maneuver you. So, this maneuver is going to be in two parts. The first one we're calling a VERB 49 maneuver to the gimbal lock avoidance attitude at l8l:35. That attitude 08l, l8l, and 317. The HIGH GAIN: PITCH, minus 19; YAW, 227, and AUTO and NARROW for AOS.
180:08:45 Evans Okay, at l8l:35, we'll have a VERB 49 to gimbal lock avoidance; roll 08l, l8l, and 317. HIGH GAIN will be a PITCH of minus 19, and YAW, 227; AUTO and NARROW for AOS.
180:09:04 CC Okay. Now at l8l:43, you can just skip that high gain call out. At l8l:45, we want to add a VERB 49 maneuver to the LOPC burn attitude.
180:09:32 Evans Okay. At 181:45, VERB 49 to LOPC burn attitude.
180:09:38 CC Okay. Now on the next page, we go over to 182:15. And, I want to add a PU VALVE to DECREASE.
180:09:55 Evans 182:15. PU VALVE to DECREASE.
180:10:06 CC All right, sir. And I have two more to give you, but before we do that - now about let's terminate the jet monitor by calling P30 - P20, and a VERB 21 NOUN 26 to all zips, and then we can up-link while we're finishing it.
180:10:42 Evans Okay. You have ACCEPT.
180:10:49 CC Okay. And you got the monitor terminated?
180:10:54 Evans Yes. It's terminated.
180:11:07 Evans I guess it went to P30 faster than it showed up down there or went into P30 not through it.
180:11:24 CC Okay, why don't you put the PAN CAN1ERA to STANDBY and POWER, ON, while we're about it and we can let them look at that stuff while we're getting the rest of our Flight Plan updates?
180:11:39 Evans PAN CAMERA, STANDBY; POWER is ON,
180:11:42 CC Okay, thank you.
180:11:46 CC All right. Let's go back to our updates and the next one should come at 182:44.
180:12:04 Evans Okay. 182:44.
180:12:09 CC Okay. At 182:44, I want to delete the "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND."
180:12:23 Evans Okay. Delete the "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND." Wait a minute. I scratched out the opening the cover. We got to do that.
180:12:30 CC Yes. You won't do that because we're going to the pictures anyhow.
180:12:36 Evans Yes. Okay.
180:12:39 CC Okay. Then the next thing we want to do is at 132:48 just a half inch down, I have a new attitude for you. Where it says 097, 068, 019, it's now going to be 096, 097, and 352; and the orb rate attitude is still all zeros.
180:13:14 Evans Okay. The attitude after the P20 option 5 plus-X forward will be 096, 097 and 352 and orb rate is 0.
180:13:23 CC Okay, that last angle was 352. I'm not sure we got that right.
180:13:30 Evans Okay. 352 for Yaw. That's correct.
180:13:33 CC All right, sir. And while we're about it, why don't you take the PAN CAMERA POWER back OFF?
180:13:50 Evans Okay. Pan cam - pan ca - PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF (laughter).
180:13:55 CC Okay, and as long as we're talking about pan cameras, let's go to 183:45,
180:14:09 Evans 183:45. Okay.
180:14:12 CC Okay, and after the pan camera block, want to add "V OVER H OVERRIDE to HIGH ALTITUDE."
180:14:29 Evans Okay. After "PAN CAMERA, STANDBY, STEREO, and POWER," put "V OVER H to HIGH ALTITUDE."
180:14:34 CC That's affirmative. And the last update is on the next page - 184:27. And it says "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT" and since we didn't extend it you don't have to retract it.
180:14:50 Evans Sounds logical. Okay, mapping camera, delete the "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT."
180:14:57 CC All right, sir. And let's see what else we have here - how about running your paw over most of your biomed sensors? Looks like you've got some noise on there. And avoid changing them. Why don't you just kind of rub on each one and see if we can get it to come in a good signal?
180:15:19 Evans Okay. I'll do that.
180:15:46 CC Okay. You're making progress there.
180:15:51 Evans Hey, it's working, huh?
180:16:36 Evans Hey, there's old Hadley Rille out there. That's a pretty deep little trough. Hey, you really didn't get a perspective of that thing, at least I didn't from some of the pictures. Not until you had a chance to get up here and take a look at some of the other things.
180:16:57 CC Okay, I'll tell you when we get through - -
180:16:59 Evans Okay, that's the last of the Flight Plan things, huh?
180:17:02 CC Yes, sir; that was the last of the Flight Plans, and I still need a morning report from you and things like that; and I'll keep an eye on the clock down here and try to help you stay on the timeline. The one thing that I see that may have to change is - I gave you a DELTA-Vc for the RCS burn that wasn't very useful, and we have to set it up to count in the other direction. There's a couple of things you do - like set it to 100.
180:17:28 Evans (Laughter) Yes, okay.
180:17:34 CC It's just a backup monitor anyhow and so it's - setting it to 100 is probably the first thing to do.
180:17:39 Evans Yes, that's right.
180:17:51 Evans Okay. Let me see if I've got time to put some hot water in my eggs.
180:17:57 CC Okay.
180:18:28 CC Okay, Ron, the computer is yours when - whenever you want to go to BLOCK.
180:18:42 Evans Sleep last night was probably about 6 hours - kind of intermittent - but it seemed to me like when I was sleeping I was sleeping pretty good. For some reason, I woke up a couple or 3 hours after I went to sleep and I got to sleep about an hour late. Oh, and I was just itching like a son of a gun.
180:19:08 CC What's that, the sensors?
180:19:09 Evans The only thing I can think of is that - no, my arms - you know my forearms.
180:19:16 CC Oh, I see.
180:19:16 Evans From the wrist back to the elbow.
180:19:18 CC Okay.
180:19:20 Evans The only thing I can think, of is maybe the old Beta cloth itch, you know. Then I looked around and there was nothing there. You know, no hives or anything like that. So I got out some of that carry cream and put that on and that stopped it and went back to sleep.
180:19:40 CC Okay. And, it's coming up on tine to start our - our first VERB 49 maneuver which can be running and I'll watch the angles while you put a little hot water in your food there if you want to.
180:20:07 Evans Okay, I've got a target load, I guess, in desired orientation. Okay, 2, VERB 49 ENTER, VERB 25. Plus 179.00, ENTER; plus PITCH 22 - 222.00 ENTER, YAW 359 plus 359.00 ENTER. Okay, we're still saying 2/10ths of a degree per second; PROCEED to ... keys - PROCEED.
180:20:57 CC Okay, and the HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please.
180:21:04 Evans HIGH GAIN is in AUTO and we'll set that at minus 39 YAW 145, just in case it breaks lock.
180:22:32 Evans Hey, Ken, I'n going to be off the headset here while I change hack to my comm. carrier.
180:22:37 CC All right., sir,
180:25:16 Evans Okay. My PRD is 15044.
180:25:21 CC Copy that.
180:25:28 Evans ... Those are easy to fix.
180:25:50 Evans I had three jugs of water.
180:27:19 Evans Okay. We're going ATT 1/RATE 2. Yes. Oh. Star number 11 - Aldebaran.
180:27:44 CC You lucked out.
180:27:48 Evans Yes. That's a good one.
180:28:10 Evans It's a little ways off.
180:28:30 Evans Okay. PROCEED, it was Aldebaran. ... Dnoces. To Dnoces. 6. Dnoces is hard to recognize through the telescope. Must be it. Yes, that was it.
180:29:38 CC How about that?
180:29:43 Evans Okay. ... for some torquing angles. Plus 173.5.
180:30:00 CC Okay, got those.
180:30:04 Evans Okay, We'll torque at 30 10.
180:30:07 CC All right.
180:30:27 Evans 52 - 52 ENTER. We want to do an option 1 tc the LOPC orientation. Okay? Let's see, 622, 180 - that's a pretty neat - isn't that where I'm supposed - and 8179 and 316. Outstanding! Okay, it's dark out there, and I think I could find a star if I had to.
180:31:10 CC Okay, I copied the angles for you if you need them.
180:31:16 Evans Okay. It scares me everytime that light comes on. Ah ha! it went away. ... What the coarse align error is. ... Just barely in the sextant's field of view.
180:32:26 CC Okay.
180:32:32 Evans I don't know. That wasn't a very good mark. Let's try that again. Let's try Dnoces again. Pretty logical since we're in this attitude. But we didn't gauge our -
180:32:57 CC Okay. And the angles I copied last time were 217 on the shaft and 33 on the trunnion.
180:33:10 Evans That's close. Just in the sextant again.
180:33:44 Evans Looks like 217 and 33's going to be it once you get it in there. I'll settle for that. There's the old coarse align error. I'll let you copy those down there. I don't want them up here.
180:34:15 CC Okay.
180:34:19 CC And you can torque any time.
180:34:21 Evans And let's see - Okay; we'll torque at 3430.
180:34:27 CC Okay; that's a good number.
180:35:21 Evans Ah ha! Knows exactly where it is, Okay.
180:35:26 CC Isn't that amazing?
180:35:30 Evans Yes.
180:35:34 CC And it shows we even know how to calculate the burn attitude.
180:35:40 Evans Yes. That's good. ...
180:36:35 Evans Okay. We're CMC, RATE 2, Here.
180:37:40 Evans Okay. Count -
180:37:59 CC And, Ron, I just noticed that in all our scribbling, I missed the line that said "Configure for the dump" on the previous column about 23. I don't Know if you saw it in there or not.
180:38:16 Evans I missed it. I'll sure get it.
180:38:31 CC And when it's convenient for you, I've got - -
180:38:34 Evans Okay.
180:38:34 CC - - couple of hydrogen tank fans to change and the good docs would like to hear how you're eating and pushing pills.
180:38:48 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Took a Seconal last night, and I'm by the H2 fans.
180:38:56 CC Okay. And that's HYDROGEN tank 3: FANs, OFF; and HYDROGEN tank 1: FANs, ON.
180:39:07 Evans Okay, number 3 went from AUTO to OFF, tank 1 is going from OFF to ON.
180:39:14 CC Very good.
180:39:21 Evans Let's see, I got that done - at 40, next thing we got coming up, huh? Okay, I'll go down there and get some of this stuff configured. Oh, I ate just about everything yesterday, and then some other things on there, and a bunch of extra stuff too, so when I get a chance, I'll call that down. Okay?
180:39:45 CC Sounds fine.
180:39:46 Evans Getting ready for this urine dump. ...
180:46:26 CC And Ron, we're coming up on dump time and don't forget we want to close the covers and that kind of good stuff before we start the dump.
180:46:38 Evans Okay. UV cover is clo - Let's see - UV is OFF. IR is OFF.
180:47:06 Evans That's. Yes, I start on old fuel call purge here. Do this O2 fuel cell purge. Okay. Now let's see, waste -
180:48:15 Evans MARK it. The old waste water dump is on.
180:48:18 CC Okay.
180:48:26 Evans DRAIN VALVE is DUMP; BATTERY VENT is CLOSED.
180:49:49 CC Okay, Ron, the EECOM's calculated about 12 minutes to go on your dump, and it, wouldn't hurt to set your kitchen clock or whatever you do to help remind yourself because that'll be after LOS. And we've taken a look at all of the systems ana everything looks pretty good there and RETRO would like to remind you tnat the weight has cnanged on your trim pad and that has some implications to the way that computes the burn arcs and you want to he superprecise. And looks like everything is GO for a trim.
180:50:33 Evans Okay, sounds good. I'll set my little ding-ding here for about 10 minutes.
180:50:38 CC Why don't you try about 9? Charlie swears that it's no more than that.
180:50:53 Evans I believe Charlie.
180:51:12 Evans Want me to configure the DSU or are you going to set it up for me?
180:51:17 CC Why don't you do that one?
180:51:22 Evans Okay.
180:54:30 CC And, Ron, we've got about a minute and a half to LOS and I never did give you a summary of the EVA - just a few quick particulars were that they got 7 plus 15 out of EVA-3. Got almost everything done, They had to delete Station 10 in order to make up time, but that's made up for by the fact that they found some more interesting things at other stops. And there was - I mentioned the dikelets, and there's some indication that they may have seen a dike or something of that nature over on the North Massif, And Jack went out and applied all his - his physical skills to the lunar surface gravimeter and that included jumping ana kicking and pounding and it still doesn't work. Guess we'll get them up about 183:45 and the only thing we've had to do on their Surface Checklist for launch day is just to scrub the P22 that was in there. And we're just going to drop that one to make up some time--and it looks like they ought to get about 8 hours sleep out of it. So looks like everybody is in good shape. And you've got just a few seconds to LOS. Keep your eye on the waste water and we'll see you.
180:55:49 Evans Good. Thank you Ken.
180:55:49 BEGIN LUNAR REV 48
180:56:13 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal from the spacecraft America, going behind the Moon and nearing the end of revolution number 47. Now Ground Elapsed Time of 180 hours 56 minutes. Two hours 48 minutes remaining until Cernan and Schmitt, aboard the lunar module Challenger, awakened at Taurus-Littrow. And approximately 48 minutes until America comes around again, coming up on two maneuvers. Spacecraft communicator, Ken Mattingly, read up the PAD's or the data needed by the Command Module Pilot for performing these maneuvers. The first is a trim maneuver to tune up the command module orbit, prior to the lunar orbit plane change maneuver. The trim maneuver will be done on the back side of the Moon when we're out of contact with the spacecraft. That trim maneuver is scheduled at 181:34:01 or 181 hours 34 minutes 1 second Ground Elapsed Time. Total velocity change in posigrade - 9.2 feet per second. Burn time RCS - that's with the reaction control system engines - 30.06 seconds. And as Mattingly mentioned to Evans, it's being done in so called minus X direction. In other words the spacecraft will pitch over engine bell forward toward the direction of flight so that Evans will see where he's been instead of where he's going. And the RCS thrusters will fire forward so that the instruments in the SIM bay will not be damaged by the exhaust plume from the rearward firing engines. The effect is the same, however the spacecraft's performing the maneuver in a pitched over attitude and actually 180 degrees away from the original land direction. On the next front side pass, then, following that the scheduled lunar orbit plane change maneuver putting the command module America back into proper co-planer path with the landing site for rendezvous later today. This maneuver is scheduled at Ground Elapsed Time of 182:33:53. Total burn time on the SPS engine of 20.07 seconds, for a velocity change of 366 feet per second. This a burn that will force the plane of the orbit back to coincide with that of the lunar module as it makes its ascent from Taurus-Littrow back into orbit for the rendezvous sequence. The orbital measurements after the trim burn will be 67.3 nautical miles apocynthion by 62.4 at pericynthion. The plane change maneuver has also some retrograde component in it. A very slight retrograde component, which will Circularize the orbit at 62.7 nautical miles. At 181 hours even, this is Apollo Control.
181:39:55 PAO This is Apollo Control at 181 hours 39 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Some 37 seconds now until the spacecraft, America, comes from behind the Moon on revolution 48. One of the first items in business on this pass will be a report by Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, on the trim maneuver, which he will have completed just prior to acquisition on this rev. Two hours and 4 minutes remaining of the Challenger crew sleep period. Waiting now for word from network that the -
181:41:03 PAO We've had acquisition now. We'll stand by for the initial calls.
181:41:33 Evans Ah ha! Looks like we're getting you already.
181:41:54 CC Hello there. How's it going?
181:42:00 Evans Okay. Just now calling the VERB 82. It's 67.4 by 62.8. Okay. Let me give you a little burn report here - -
181:42:38 CC All right.
181:42:38 Evans - - ... reading on the burns, so you can get that off the recorder.
181:42:42 CC Okay.
181:42:43 Evans Let's see. Okay. With 30 seconds of burn time, by my stopwatch there, I ended up with a plus - no, let's see - with a minus - minus 0.5 X. I think 0 in Y and a plus 0.5 in Z. Okay, so I tweaked out the plus X and roiled right 90 degrees and burned a 0.6 in a plus-Y. Okay. With final trim of - on the NOUN 85s of 0 plus 0.1 and a minus 0.1. DELTA-Vc was a minus 110.4 but we had that - not a minus, a plus 110.4. But there's no bias check at a plus 0.9 - on the bias.
181:43:47 CC Okay.
181:43:48 Evans Okay, the NOUN 20 values - NOUN 20 values - after the 90 degree roll there and for the final trim were 270, 179, 317.
181:44:05 CC Okay. Sounds like you're way ahead of the game.
181:44:11 Evans Yes. Worked real fine.
181:44:15 CC Have you had a chance to get anything to eat yet?
181:44:22 Evans Yes, I ate some scrambled eggs and I'm nibbling on the bacon bars, and I had a - some orange juice.
181:44:30 CC Okay, I wasn't trying to fish for a report, I was just trying to find out it you were still eating or how things were going.
181:44:36 Evans (Laughter) I'm a little - I'm still eating a little bit. But we're in good shape.
181:44:42 CC Okay. You get a - you get a medal for not over-dumping the waste water tank.
181:44:51 Evans Yes. It's amazing.
181:44:54 Evans The old 9-minute mark was right on. I set it at 8 minutes, just to be sure, and 1 minute later it was 10 percent. Tell Charlie he figured right.
181:45:07 CC Well, we won't be able to talk to Dumis again.
181:45:12 Evans (Laughter) That's right.
181:45:26 CC Okay. And I don't remember if I explained - -
181:45:27 Evans ... star check.
181:45:29 CC Yes. Okay. And I don't know if you've got an explanation on why your angles changed for the P20 business after the burn, but, this - this plane change burn is going to have a little orbit shaping in it as well as the previous one. So that it - it is going to have some components that are both radial and tangential.
181:46:01 Evans Ah ha, okay.
181:46:04 CC So that meant that your REFSMMAT wasn't quite the REFSMMAT that you were anticipating earlier. And that explains the - why those angles had to change on you and also explains some of those odd-ball components.
181:46:23 Evans Okay. Okay. I was wondering about that but - I'll, tell you - those guys in the trench down there know so much more about what's going on when they calculate that stuff than I do that I'll - I'll believe them.
181:46:45 CC Say, Ron, are you - are you in a place where you spare a minute or 2? is it convenient?
181:46:56 Evans Sure.
181:46:57 CC Okay. Got somebody that would like to talk to you for just a minute.
181:47:03 Evans Oh, yes.
181:47:05 NASA Ron, this is Jim Fletcher. How are you?
181:47:11 Evans Yes, Dr. Fletcher - mighty fine, sir.
181:47:14 NASA We had hoped to catch you last night but you were behind the Moon when the ceremony was going on. Did you catch any of it at all?
181:47:23 Evans Well, I - I got the briefing, or the report from it from the CAPCOM, but it sounds like it was a mighty fine ceremony and something that this nation can really be proud of.
181:47:40 NASA Well, Ron, there's one thing that the President wanted to make sure that you got. And I had hoped to do it last night. We've been in very close touch with the White House and the President has been following closely what - what's going on up there and, of course, it's absolutely fascinating to us down here. But he wanted to be sure that you understood that he'd like to wish you Godspeed as you return to Earth. And I must say I'd like to add that and also add that, from everything I've heard, this is a spectacular success.
181:48:24 Evans Well, thank you very much, there, Dr. Fletcher, and please convey my thinks to Mr. President. I appreciate that very much, and I - I also appreciate the opportunity to be able to do something for my country and I - hopefully, this is the one thing that I will be able to do. And I certainly appreciate it. Just the thoughts, themselves, really.
181:48:49 NASA Well, very, good, Ron. I'd just like to say that I - I've never - I've never had any idea whatsoever that things would go so well in the scientific part of the - of the orbital science. It's - it's almost unbelievable when I talk to the guys in the backroom, and I just wanted to make sure that you knew that I knew it.
181:49:15 Evans Yes, sir. We certainly do and they worked real hard to get the - these experiments and the equipment all squared away. I was following along with them pretty well and I had lot of confidence.
181:49:29 NASA Well, very good. Thanks kindly.
181:49:34 Evans Yes, sir. Dr. Fletcher; appreciate it.
181:49:38 CC And, Ron, how about the high gain?
181:49:46 Evans Okay. Let me reset it here, I guess.
181:50:14 PAO That was NASA Administrator, Dr. James C. Fletcher.
181:50:20 Evans Okay. I'm in REACQ and NARROW now.
181:50:38 PAO He was passing along a similar message to the one that he spoke to the crew in Challenger on yesterday while Evans was apparently behind the Moon, or at least out of contact on that particular circuit.
181:51:52 CC And how about AUTO on the HIGH GAIN when you get a chance?
181:51:58 Evans Okay, I'm right there, so we've got her.
181:52:03 CC Okay, and let's see we've got a few minutes. I had - I had two more magazine changes to go into the Flight Plan if it's convenient to give them to you now.
181:52:16 Evans Let me get started on the other VERB 49 here, okay?
181:52:20 CC Okay, just fine.
181:52:38 Evans 315. Plus ENTER - plus - and one more PROCEED.
181:53:02 Evans Okay, we're on our way.
181:53:16 CC Okay, Ron, just for your information, about 291 looks like the maximum yaw you ought to see on this. And we'll keep an eye on it for you.
181:53:27 Evans Okay. 203. Okay, why don't we take some of those Flight Plan changes here?
181:54:07 CC Okay. And these are real simple ones on page 283.
181:54:16 Evans 283. You're really looking ahead. Okay.
181:54:29 CC Okay, at l87:45, you've got a magazine Bravo Brave called out and we'd like to make that Delta Delta.
181:54:43 Evans Delta Delta it is.
181:54:45 CC Okay, and a couple of lines below that you have a magazine November November which we want to change to Kilo Kilo.
181:54:55 Evans Kilo it is.
181:54:57 CC Okay, that was kind of painless, wasn't it?
181:55:02 Evans Yes, that was.
181:55:06 CC And that's all I've got. We want to remember to get the PU VALVE to DECREASE.
181:55:14 Evans Yes, I could do that now, I guess, couldn't I?
181:55:17 CC Okay.
181:55:22 Evans Okay, we're setting on the minus 200-DECREASE.
181:56:06 Evans Got a time here and let me bring you up to date on the - lookout.
181:58:14 Evans Okay. Ready to go on the food?
181:58:17 CC Yes, sir.
181:58:19 Evans Looks like we're going to miss it.
181:58:22 Evans Okay. Day 8: sausage, grits, fruit cocktail, orange beverage, coffee, and tea, and a vitamin. Next box: ham - couldn't find my cheese until last night so I didn't have it, one rye bread, can of peaches or sack of peaches, cereal bar, orange drink, coffee, graham cracker cubes, apricot cubes, jelly candy, sugar cookies. Supper: had hamburger and ketchup, vanilla pudding, grape drink; I guess that was it.
181:59:39 CC All right, sir. We've got about 34 minutes or so until the burn. I've got a news summary I can read if you'd like to have that or if you'd like to put it off until later I can do that too.
182:00:03 Evans No, why don't you go ahead?
182:00:06 CC I'll just read it and if I start to bother you, why just holler at me and I'll stop.
182:00:14 Evans Okay.
182:00:15 CC This is put together by a - a Mr. Jim Kokowsky [?] and it looks like he's done a pretty nice job of summarizing the news, so I'm going to read it cold. And he's given us a summary of the late news. And the weather couldn't be worse in Houston. It had to be better on the Moon or in orbit around it. This morning more cold and drizzle blanketed the Houston metropolitan area. Yesterday morning it was 32 degrees. This morning a little warmer but a lot wetter, and it's getting colder on Friday. On the national-international scene: Peace talks in Paris between Dr. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have ended - at least for the time being. Dr. Kissinger is in Washington today to brief President Nixon on the talks. The past 3-1/2 weeks, the pair of negotiators have held 58 hours of talks. Neither side is giving out any hints. When asked about the cease-fire by Christmas, Dr. Kissinger told reporters at Andrews, "I don't want to make any predictions." The U.S. by sizeable vote has had its assessment to the fund of the United Nations reduced by a vote of 8l to 27. The U.S. will now pay only 25 percent of the cost rather than the present 31 percent. Transatlantic fares may drop beginning in February. The International Air Transport Association says all carriers will set their own prices. It appears that air travelers to Europe next year may get some real bargains. In the hotly contested and federally supervised United Mine Workers election, the insurgent candidate, Arnold Miller, has gone into a lead over incumbent President Tony Boyle. Miller has led a grass roots movement to oust Boyle who took over the union control from the late John L. Lewis. We mentioned the rather dismal weather in the Houston area this morning, but the midwest and northeast are really getting some bad weather. Ice storms seriously hampered the northern part of the nation, from Idaho to the eastern seaboard. After almost a year, troops involved in the India-Pakistani War are beginning to go back to their homelands. Truce-line maps have been exchanged and approved by both governments. Civil servants of the European Common Market, they're called Eurocrats, are on strike. The 8000 employees walked off the job due to a salary dispute. On the regional and local scene: the Houston City council has vetoed a plan to build a nev commuter airstrip in southwest Houston for the STOL aircraft. Residents of the area have been protesting. The community of Tomball, north of Houston, is looking for a new police force. The police chief and seven officers walked off the job Tuesday, after the City Council refused the officers a pay raise. In Harris County, the State Highway Patrol end reserve police have been called in to maintain police protection. That's maintain protection in Tomball. The project to expend the - expand the Armand Bayou as a park and wildlife refuge has been given a boost with a $100,000 pledge. So far $350,000 has been pledged and $750,000 is needed to gain Federal matching funds. Galveston will hold a school bond election on February 3rd. The bonds, if okayed, will be used to air-condition all schools not so equipped and to improve lighting in two schools. It's a light day in sports; the head coaching job for SMU is open, being considered are North Carolina coach Bill Dooley, and Washington coach Jim Owens. George Blanda, a living testimony for the over-40 set will become the oldest man ever to play football this Sunday. Prior to Blanda, I guess, we've had some other folks, but this ought to be a new record. In pro basketball, Houston didn't play last night. Currently, Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles lead the divisions. In pro hockey, Alberta beat the Houston Aeros, 3 to 2. The big news in Houston sports is a City Council approval of the Greenway Plaza as a site for the 10-l/2-million-dollar sports arena. And finally in - Christmas shopping is in full swing. Christmas trees are in tents, on street corners, and supermarket sites all over the area. Private homes throughout the whole area are lighting up with decorations ranging from happy Santa Clauses in sleighs to nativity scenes. It will be a Christmas world waiting for you when you come home. And that ends our summary for this morning.
182:04:54 Evans That's a good summary; appreciate it. Little bit of everything in there.
182:05:01 CC Yes, it looks like Mr. Kokowsky [?] reads a lot of newspapers there.
182:05:08 Evans (Laughter) He sure did.
182:05:29 CC Okay, Ron. We're picking up some thermal problems on the pan camera. Would you manually roll left 30 degrees and we'll hold it until we've passed - you know the terminator - or cross the terminator.
182:05:43 Evans Okay.
182:06:05 CC And, Ron, that terminator crossing comes fairly close to the burn, so you might think about - if it looks agreeable to you, just go ahead and we'll use that as the burn attitude. You'll have to get a new P40 trim to take care of the gimbal offsets. So you may see a slight Pitch and Yaw attitude change.
182:06:28 Evans Okay; that's no problem. I'll just roll left and then use a P41 trim. (Cough)
182:07:16 Evans I hit ACCEL COMMAND to make that 90-degree roll the other day, or just a while ago. And, if you hit your stick a little too hard, you really wrapped it up to a little better than a degree a second. So, you can really get a sensation of roll, especially when you can see the Moon.
182:08:00 Evans How's that? Pretty good attitude?
182:08:03 CC Looks like we're going to have to go a little bit further. Why don't you give us 5 or 10 more?
182:08:10 Evans Okay, I didn't let go of the stick -
182:08:13 CC You're learning our tricks, aren't you?
182:08:17 Evans (Laughter) Used a teacup of gas there.
182:08:27 CC Okay, now - now, you're in good shape.
182:08:33 Evans Okay, we'll stop it right there, then. About 35 degrees or so.
182:09:08 SC Anything to make you happy.
182:10:21 Evans Okay. I just made a DELTA-V check while ago and it was minus 22.2. Bias check was a mi - let's see, went from 100 to 100.9 in a minute and 40.
182:10:37 CC Okay.
182:10:40 Evans ... RATE 2; auto RCS, a little light. And let's see - Okay, we'll turn off six ... Let's see, the DELTA-Vc is - 353.8 for the DELTA-Vc. Okay; SIM bay I checked it a while ago, 3MAGs are RATE 2, AUTO RCS SELECTS are okay. Okay. ... 7416, that's pretty good. Okay, plus 0.38 and a plus 0.92. That's all right. Okay, VERB - Load my own, I guess, it looks like, don't I?
182:12:50 CC Yes, sir. When they gave you the up-link, they had to put in the - the trim burn.
182:12:57 Evans Yes, that's right. Plus 180.2 ENTER. Plus - 182:33:53 ... - -
182:13:15 CC Looks good.
182:13:15 Evans - - all right. 25, ENTER. Okay; NOUN 8ls, 15.9, minus 17. Okay; Y is a minus 365.5. Z - 9 - minus 9 ENTER. Okay; 17.9; 365.5 minus 6.9, PROCEED.
182:13:58 CC Okay, they look good here.
182:14:00 Evans (Cough) Okay.
182:14:21 Evans The computer thinks we're going tc be circular, 63.0 by 63.0. Of course, that's impulsive, I guess. 366.0 for total, that's right. Okay. 19 - on the DET. Okay, I got the DET going. I think my sextant star check's not going to be any good here.
182:15:10 CC Okay, we can give you another one here if you'd like that.
182:15:15 CC They been scurrying around here, and got you some new numbers.
182:15:17 Evans I don't see any reason - Oh really? I'll do it just for the heck of it.
182:15:23 CC Okay - -
182:15:25 Evans Got time here - let's see, 19 minutes - -
182:15:30 CC Okay - -
182:15:31 Evans ... I'll just let you read them to me as I get ...
182:15:32 CC All right, sir, it's a shaft of 237.2, when you get there.
182:15:52 Evans Okay. Plus - What did you say it was? Shaft -
182:15:54 CC 237.20.
182:16:01 Evans 237.20 ENTER. Okay. Trunnion?
182:16:09 CC Okay. That's 27.480.
182:16:22 Evans Okay. We're CMC. Optics are - ... No, it's the wrong calculation (laughter). ...
182:16:57 CC Okay, well, we're off in roll - -
182:16:58 Evans What star's it supposed to be - -
182:17:00 CC - - by a degree from where he calculated it.
182:17:07 Evans Okay.
182:17:10 CC It's supposed to be good old star number 22.
182:17:20 Evans Oh, I can't see squat in the telescope. Hey, there it is. There it is.
182:17:24 CC Okay, you're passing through the right roll angle so it - -
182:17:26 Evans Okay; yes, that's it.
182:17:30 CC Okay.
182:17:31 Evans Outstanding!
182:17:35 Evans Okay, VERB 37 ENTER, 00 ENTER. DIRECT and HIGH MANUAL. ... Optics zeros. Okay. Put those things up for a minute. (Humming) Okay. There. (Cough) 358 and 314, that didn't change very much Okay.
182:18:42 Evans Okay, it says we're there. Set IMU.
182:19:34 Evans Ah, wrong pitch. Acts just like the simulator, you can't tell, I thought when you got in the spacecraft that if you're 180 ... it's supposed to flop back and forth, but it doesn't do it. Okay; 326, 357.5, and about 315.4. Let's see, align the GDC.
182:21:03 Evans (Cough) Okay. It's easy to see those lines. STAB CONTROL. DIRECT ULLAGE breakers are going IN. PITCH 1, YAW 1. Okay. ... and SPS breakers are IN; MANUAL ATTITUDE - RATE COMMAND. Okay, looks like about DEADBAND MIN RATE to LOW - ... is in RATE COMMAND. LM only. GIMBAL DRIVE is in AUTO. We're down to the 6-minute check. ... Okay, we won't have any manual starts on this one. Do not restart it. If it quits, we'll shut it down at burn time plus 1. V - Vg Y only. Back to zero and then trim Y, I guess. All axis - Y and Z just a little ... trim X. Okay, we scratched out the part - we're going to turn the tape recorder on, right?
182:23:49 CC Yes, sir.
182:23:53 Evans Okay.
182:24:01 Evans At 12 seconds for ullage. Burn time was 20 seconds.
182:24:12 CC Okay, and you're GO from this end.
182:24:17 Evans Okay.
182:25:34 Evans Hey, refresh my memory on the mission rules there, Ken, could you? If it doesn't start on bank A, do we start on bank B?
182:26:01 CC Stand by. We're - we're making sure we're going to tell you the right thing, here.
182:26:08 Evans Okay. I was a little confused about the no MANUAL STARTs. That's not a manual start to me, though.
182:26:38 CC Okay, Ron. The rule says, "If no start on A, try B."
182:26:45 Evans Okay. That's what I thought. (Humming) Plenty of battery juice here. Let's go to A; ON - and B, is ON and coming up - Okay, fuel cell 3, pressure is all right in 2-A; and 2-B is okay. And HELIUM VALVEs are in AUTO, we're in DECREASE; and the OXIDIZER FLOW VALVE PUGS MODE is PRIMARY. PRIMARY, DECREASED, and NORMAL. Okay. That's a lot of work. I'd like to get strapped in a little bit here.
182:28:04 Evans Okay. Bus tie - I forgot the crazy tape recorder. COMMAND RESET - here we go. Okay. Helium valves, I did that. SERVO POWER 1. Okay - number 2, back to AC.
182:28:39 Evans MARK DIRECTs are OFF. BMAGs are uncaged. Okay, no hardovers. Okay . Go to SCS. HAND CONTROLLER number 2 is ARMED. Okay. PITCH 1, got it; YAW 1, we got it. Okay. Trim is about set there; okay. Yaw is 0.9; PITCH is about - kazink, kazink, kazink, kazink. Okay; we have the trim. Okay. Give it back to the computer. Returns to zero. THC clockwise; no MTVC. Okay; PITCH 2; got it; YAW 2, got it. Ah ha! We have the trim plus point ... and - plus, plus, minus. Okay; give it back to the computer. No MTVC.
182:29:59 Evans Okay; 3 minutes to go. THC. Okay. On the AC. DIRECTs are ON. Cage the old BMAGs. KEY RELEASE. PROCEED for the final trim. Got a 6l8. D-l8 says we're there. Okay; we'll ENTER that. 204. Do you want a gimbal test option? Yes. Plus 2, minus 2, 0, plus 2, minus 2, 0. 3004. Okay; we have the trim with 3 minutes to go. Okay; LIMIT CYCLE'S back OFF. ... burn, we'll go RATE to HIGH (cough). DET looks good; we've got a 20-second burn. Shutdown on 21 seconds.
182:31:35 Evans Okay. DELTA-V in STANDBY. Have CMC, GDC, RATE COMMAND; LIMIT CYCLE, OFF; DEADBAND, MIN; RATE to HIGH; TRANS CONTROL POWER is OFF. DIRECTs are both OFF; CMC, AUTO. Okay. There we go; missed one. ATT1/RATE 2 on the old BMAGs. RATE COMMAND; all four GIMBAL MOTORs are ON, We're CSM on the CG. ... LOGIC, ... ROLL, ROLL; Alpha; S-IVB. PITCH is AUTO; DET is working; ARMED, ARMED.
182:32:18 Evans Okay; at 16, AUTO RCS SELECTs, ON; circuit breakers are still good (humming). Okay. I'm waiting for 30 seconds when ... the NORMAL TRANS CONTROL POWER and the DELTA-V THRUST A switch.
182:33:22 Evans EMS G; EMS to NORMAL; TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON; and DELTA-V THRUST A is ON. Okay; four jets, 12 seconds. (Humming)
182:33:45 Evans Okay; we have ullage. Okay; 699, PROCEED.
182:33:57 Evans 3 - oh - okay! There we go! We got ignition about 87. Okay; number 2 is coming ON; we're up to 90 on the DELTA-Vc. Wait a minute. Okay; 913. Looking good. Okay; ROLL ERROR is OFF. That's all right; we're done. 3,1 -
182:34:17 Evans SHUTDOWN - automatic! Okay; minus 9.5 on the EMS. Okay; 366.8. Let's PROCEED to stop the rates here. 6.8. Okay; man, look at those 85s! I'm a little bit off, but that's good. Okay; PITCH 2; got it; YAW 2; got it; and, number 1, got it; number 1, got it. Okay; SERVO THRUST is OFF. Well, let's see. I've forgotten what it feels like. Ha! That's pretty neat. Okay; that was okay. Somehow we got a 0.3 in there. That's in X anyhow. Y is zero; that's what I want. Z is all right, so we'll just leave it that way. I'll PROCEED with the changes again. That just changed. Okay; 00 ENTER. Okay; VERB 6 NOUN 20 ENTER. Okay; I presume you're reading the DSKY, haven't you been, Houston?
182:35:45 CC Yes, sir.
182:35:52 Evans Two, three. The time, as near as I could tell, was pretty good. Vgx - what did I say - 366.8, I think. DELTA-Vs is a minus 9.5; tail off is 11 or something. 12.2. Okay; let's get some more switches off. TRANS CONTROL POWER - okay - LOCKED, LOCKED.
182:36:36 Evans TRANS CONTROL POWERs are OFF; DIRECTs are OFF; DIRECT ULLAGE circuit breakers are OPEN; PITCH 1, YAW 1 are OPEN. Okay. EMS FUNCTION is OFF. MODE is STAND - RATE 2. Okay. We'll come and get the bus ties. (Humming) Hey, that was a neat burn ... (cough).
182:37:29 CC Feels more like an airplane, that way, doesn't it?
182:37:35 Evans Yes. Yes. It was kind of like an afterburner that time. Okay. A BAT BUS AC is OFF; BC is OFF. Not too bad. Okay; we're MAIN A. Must be a - little oxidizer is 0.6. Fuel is 28.4 ... and balance is minus - Now, let's see - about 460, I guess. Thing going in the right direction?
182:38:54 CC We don't think the PUGs really ever stabilized.
182:38:59 Evans I don't think it did, either. Okay; AC ROLL switches are OFF, now.
182:39:37 CC And, Ron, we're ready to give you some new stuff in the computer whenever you're - pass by and can give us ACCEPT.
182:39:48 Evans Okay. You have ACCEPT. While you're doing that, I'll do the post-SPS SIM prep cue card.
182:39:57 CC All righty.
182:40:07 Evans I'd really forgotten how that thing kicks you in the seat of the pants. I guess I must have been floating off the seat a little bit more this time than I was on the - the rest of the burns.
182:40:27 Evans Okay. PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF; and the old LOGIC POWER should go to DEPLOY/RETRACT. Okay, ... down is A, down is B. DEPLOY/RETRACT. Got to inhibit all jets. Okay, we'll inhibit the - all except the ROLL, right now.
182:41:31 Evans On - okay. I'll just inhibit the ROLL 1, DELTA 1, and then I can start the - Yes, here's the DAP now. You through with the computer?
182:42:11 CC Okay. We're through. It's your computer.
182:42:17 Evans Okay. And - ... two, ON - OFF now. CAMERA LASER ALTIMETER, OPEN. Barber pole in the gray. 20 ENTER, 22 ENTER, 5 ENTER, plus-X SIM bay att - 2.25 - 2 ENTER. We are going to use a 2-1/2-degree dead band this time. Fifty is around the Moon. Okay.
182:45:19 Evans 276 plus 2. ... (laughter) Different attitudes.
182:46:26 Evans I think I'll make a cup of coffee.
182:47:42 CC Ron, I've got your pan camera photo pad when you're ready.
182:47:49 Evans Okay. I just happen to be ready to copy.
182:47:53 CC Okay. T-start, 183:48:41; T-stop, 184:06:43.
182:48:09 Evans Okay.
182:50:16 Evans Ken, I'm just now remembering one of your comments from16 that we didn't get done on this extra comm carrier cloth - there's cloth here, you know.
182:50:38 CC Uh huh.
182:50:38 Evans Don't need any extra electronics, but we sure could use another cloth hat (laughter).
182:50:44 CC Oh, you can wash it off. You probably do that inadvertently.
182:50:50 Evans (Laughter) I already have. I didn't wash it with the right thing though.
182:50:54 CC (Laughter) I was wondering if you would own up to that. Hey, the good Doctor over here says that your traces are flat lines. Thought you ought to be aware of that.
182:51:11 Evans Oh, they are?
182:51:12 CC You feel okay?
182:51:12 Evans Well, let me - They're kind of itching it - They're kind of itch - Yes, I'm okay. But they're kind of itching anyhow. I feel like I ought to change them so -
182:51:22 CC Okay. That would really make him happy.
182:51:35 Evans No wonder they're flat lines - it's unplugged.
182:51:41 CC Okay.
182:51:42 Evans Said something sooner (laughter).
182:51:45 CC All righty. We're about 4 minutes from LOS, and all systems have been looked at, and they're all looking okay. So, guess we'll see you on the tother [sic] side.
182:52:00 Evans Okay. How's my stuff, now that I got plugged in.
182:52:09 CC We don't see anything, yet.
182:52:13 Evans Didn't, huh?
182:53:00 Evans Well, I needed to change them anyhow so -
182:53:02 CC Okay.
182:53:02 Evans I'll try to -
182:53:04 CC Looks like you hit something there when you did that.
182:53:22 Evans I was just shaking my coffee.
182:53:28 CC I tell you, it sure put life in the signal.
182:53:33 Evans It did?
182:53:35 CC How are those binoculars working out?
182:53:40 Evans They're working real good. I find I have a bit of a problem holding them still, though.
182:53:48 CC Yes, they're about the max magnification, I think, that you can hand hold.
182:53:56 Evans Yes.
182:53:56 CC Have you tried looking in earthshine at it? See if you can pick up anything there?
182:54:05 Evans Yes. And they just don't quite look as - let enough light through, I don't think, in earthshine. In other-words, you can see better - with the naked eye; but they don't - they don't let enough light through the binocs to enhance your image capability at all.
182:54:25 CC Okay. I was curious because I noticed in the - in the dark shadows in the daylight side, that they did bring out things that ycu couldn't see with the naked eye. I guess that's contrast that does that.
182:54:41 Evans Yes, I noticed that too. Yes, ycu can look down in the shadow of a - of a crater, where you got the Sun down there, but if you have more backlighting or something. You know, but you can - you can see that pretty good with the naked eye, anyhow. Earthshine, now, about all I can get out of the earthshine, really, are differences in albedo. And you can get some textural - Well, not so much textural differences, but terrain bumps and humps, and flow fronts, and - see craters, you know?
182:55:22 CC I wish I was there with you.
182:55:31 Evans I tell you, I had no idea how interesting and how much fun it would be. After the first day, and I finally got over the - I guess you could - I don't know. You'd call it the effects of adapting to zero g or something. But you're just a little bit woozy. You really don't feel like doing a heck of a lot that first day up. So, it's good that the first day is kind of - -
182:56:09 BEGIN LUNAR REV 49
182:56:09 PAO This is Apollo Control. The Command Module, America, passing behind the Moon on the end of the 48th lunar orbit. 48 minutes until the crew of Challenger is awakened at Taurus Littrow. During the just completed front side pass the Command Module Pilot Ron Evans completed the lunar orbit plain change maneuver which went nominally on time with a velocity change of 366 feet per second using the service propulsion system engine. Just prior to that before he appeared on the front side of the Moon a small trim maneuver was performed using the forward firing reaction control system thrusters. This maneuver was to trim up the orbit. Some dispursions that had grown during the lunar orbit period that America has been in motion about the Moon. The Gold Team of Flight Controllers is handing over at the moment to their replacements after about a 12-hour shift. The oncoming team is the White Team of Flight Controllers headed up by Eugene Krantz. There will not be a change of shift press briefing of the off going shift. 47 minutes to wake up of the surface crew, Schmitt and Cernan. And at 182:57 this is Apollo Control.
183:31:12 Cernan (singing) Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning dear Gordy. Good morning to you.
183:31:12 Schmitt (singing) Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning dear Gordy. Good morning to you.
183:31:33 PAO This is Apollo Control at 183 hours 32 minutes. We're about 14 minutes away from the scheduled wakeup time for Apollo 17 - the lunar module crew, however they beat us to the punch this morning and we just got a rousing rendition of "Good Morning To You" sung by the crew of Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on the lunar surface. The Surgeon reports that the two crewmen appear to have gotten a good nights sleep - 6 to 7 hours, and we'll pick up with the taped replay of that Good Morning rendition from the crew and then follow it live, (music)
183:32:10 CC (Music: Thus Spake Zarathrustra by R. Strauss)
183:33:14 CC Good morning, Challenger and thank you for the vocal rendition from - from the Moon, there.
183:33:25 Cernan Well, we thank you for your kind music. We wanted to let you know we were thinking about you this morning, Gordie.
183:33:35 CC You just beat us to it, but - -
183:33:37 Cernan That was a great song.
183:33:38 CC Decided to play it anyway, because it's such a - such a pretty selection.
183:33:44 Cernan I think it's very apropo at the moment. I guess I can just wait for "Hail Purdue," huh?
183:33:55 CC Yes, just stand by, you'll probably hear it before you get back.
183:34:03 Cernan Hey, we've been stirring for about 15 or 20 minutes. We're in the midst of a nice hamburger omelet (laughter) and assorted accessories. As a matter of fact, it's all over us. And if you'll give me 5 minutes, I'll be ready to go on the PGNS, unless you want to start it sooner.
183:34:39 CC Okay, we'll - No hurry, finish up and get cleaned up there. And the only change, we have some change in the timing as far as the checklist so we can gain back the time we're behind now, which is actually less than an hour. And the only hardware change other than deletions is to - that we'd like you to leave Demand REG A, CLOSED, at all times. So whenever you come across a place that says OPEN at CABIN or EGRESS, we'd like you to leave it CLOSED.
183:35:22 Schmitt Okay, Gordie. We've got you on that.
183:35:26 Cernan And, Gordie, could I have a quick status report on - on America and Challenger?
183:35:34 CC You bet. America is just as good as gold, just like always. Ron got off the trim burn on the back side followed by a good plane change on the front side. In fact he - G&N cut-off was a tenth and - or less in all axes. Didn't even need to trim it. So, he's in about a 62-1/2 circular, I believe, and waiting for you to come up and join him.
183:36:08 Cernan Okay, how's his consumables?
183:36:15 CC Stand by.
183:36:24 CC Okay, America's consumables are great and so are yours. There is a possibility we may have to switch to ASCENT WATER, just prior to lift-off, but everything really is in good shape.
183:36:42 Cernan Those are good words, Gordie. Thank you.
183:36:49 Schmitt Hey, Gordie. In honor of one of your comm handovers last night, and in the tradition of Apollo 8, I've got paraphrase of a familiar poem for you.
183:37:05 CC Okay; go ahead.
183:37:11 Schmitt Well, it's "The week before Christmas and all through the LM, not a commander was stirring, not even Cernan. The samples were stowed in their places with care, in hopes that with you, they soon will be there. And Cernan - Gene in his hammock and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long - short lunar nap. But out on the - up on comm loop there rose such a scatter, I sprang from my hammock, to see what was the matter. The Sun on the breast of the surface below gave the luster of objects, as if in snow. And what to my wandering eyes should appear, but a miniature Rover and eight tiny reindeer. And a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment, it must be St. Nick. I heard him exclaim as he - over the hills he did speed. Merry Christmas to all and to all - to you all Godspeed.
183:38:27 CC Very good.
183:38:32 Cernan Gordo, that was the first time I heard that and I got to say - I got to say that is beautiful.
183:38:39 CC I agree. Did the LMP get any sleep or did he spend all night composing that?
183:38:48 Schmitt People always said we ought to have a poet in space.
183:38:53 Cernan I don't think we've made it yet.
183:38:55 Schmitt No, for some reason I really woke up with one of your handovers last night, and that was how I went back to sleep.
183:39:18 PAO That poetic offering was from Jack Schmitt.
183:39:19 Schmitt Gordy, that's for the kids. ...
183:39:25 CC Roger, Jack.
183:40:00 PAO
183:40:22 CC Challenger, Houston. One update for the postsleep procedure. I understand you brought in the LMP's camera, and we want to be sure you get that into the jett bag before the final jettison here, and by the way, you're STAY for the final jettison.
183:40:45 Cernan Okay, Gordy. It's already in the jett bag, thank you.
183:40:58 Schmitt And, Gordy, you might make some notes that, before I put it in there, I took another black-and-white or black-and-white window pan with mag Nancy.
183:41:15 CC Okay, Jack. Roger.
183:41:19 Cernan Gordo, on REG A, that is - you interpret that is just a small leak by the reg? That it would be usable, if you had to.
183:41:35 CC That's affirmative, Geno. It's a small, slow leak and it is usable If - if needed.
183:41:45 Cernan Okay, thank you. - Summing up, so far, I think that's all - all the system anomalies we've got, isn't it?
183:41:56 CC That's all I can think of at the moment. I do have revised times for the rest of the Lunar Surface Checklist which, at a convenient time, I can give to you - so that you'll have a how-goes-it as you go on down the line here.
183:42:13 Cernan Why don't you give them to us now, Gordy?
183:42:16 CC Okay, turn to page 7-9.
183:42:32 Cernan Go ahead.
183:42:33 CC Okay, 7-9 LGC/IMU POWER UP, change that time from 183:04 to 184:10. The eat period time is now 184:20. Turn the page, and the 183:59 above "Park RENDEZVOUS RADAR" is now 185:05. Next page, don suits at 185:15. Go to the next page. Prep for equipment jettison is 185:50, and the same page - helmet/glove donning is 185:58. Next page, pressure integrity check, 186:04. Cabin depress is 186:08, and hatch opening is 186:12. Next page, 7-l4, cabin repress is 186:15. Cabin cleanup for launch is 186:20. And on the following page, we're going to delete the P22 but we'd like you to go all the procedures except those from "VERB 95 ENTER," through "P00 ENTER," inclusive - the center section of procedures. So you'll still be closing the rendezvous radar breakers, going to LGC, and parking the antenna and copying pads. Over.
183:44:33 Cernan Okay, we're going to delete everything from VERB 95 through P00 on P22. That's the center of the page.
183:44:43 CC That's affirmative and then the next page, cabin prep for ascent is 186:45, and instead of 39 minutes we're going to have you do that in 3 minutes. And you'll actually - you should have a little more time than that, since you got up early. That puts you right back with timeline, at lift-off minus 1 hour 15, at 186:48. Over.
183:45:16 Cernan Okay, top at 7-15 where we pick up - what was going to be the beginning of the P22. Have you got a time up there?
183:45:24 CC I guess we'll just have to work that in with cabin cleanup time. We had deleted that whole time block but you do have to catch those procedures.
183:45:41 Cernan Okay, and then the times on the top of 7-10, for P22, are not applicable, and I guess you can give us an update for our P57 lift-off time.
183:45:57 CC That's affirmative. We might - that might be - there's a couple more changes coming at me here but let me make sure I got them straight and I'll call you later. Go ahead with whatever you were doing.
183:46:11 Cernan Okay.
183:46:37 Cernan (Cough) Gordy, if I - if I get ready for the LGC/IMU power up, I'll give you a call even though it comes earlier but I'd like to get that started, as soon as we're ready to start it.
183:46:49 CC Okay. We concur with that.
183:47:03 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, as far as the food, medication, and sleep goes - no medication. Gene had 5 hours of good sleep, I had probably around my usual 6, in spite of my poetic inclinations. And the food -we continue to do well, I believe. We've eaten a wet pack apiece last night. We got one this morning. We've eaten our scrambled eggs and sausage yesterday, and as we've run out of juices and tea. And which is somewhat of an inconvenience I might say. And if you've got any specific questions, I can fill you in on it but, I think, food-wise we've done pretty well.
183:47:54 CC Can you give us a feel on the fluid intake?
183:48:02 Schmitt Well, that's what I was trying to do when I said we'd drunk all the juices and tea. Plus, Gene, in particular, takes water from the hose.
183:48:14 CC Okay, Jack, fine. Sounds good.
183:48:41 PAO This is Apollo Control at 183 hours 49 minutes. Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard Challenger on the lunar surface after having gotten up about 15 minutes early. Now having breakfast. They're a bit behind in the timeline but we expect to have them caught up by the time they - or about 1-1/2 hour prior to lunar lift-off, which is when we begin the really busy period of liftoff preparations, and everything appears to be going alone very smoothly at this time. The crew's early arising caught us a little unprepared here in mission control we had our own wake up tune to play up to them this morning which was to be the title theme from the motion picture 2001 A Space Oddessy, however they beat us to the punch with their own wake up song to the control center and we'll play that back for you at this time.
183:50:06 PAO And after giving us a few minutes to catch our bearings we hit them with the theme from 2001 A Space Oddessy. Since then things have been going along pretty much normally. The poetic offering was from Jack Schmitt. He said it was for all the kids back home. It was his version of the Night Before Christmas. We have reacquired Ron Evans aboard the Command Module America and everything is progressing very smoothly aboard that vehicle. We're on separate communication circuits at the present time and will be up until the revolution prior to LM liftoff at which time we'll switch back to a single air-to-ground a single spacecraft communicator operation and be able to follow the operation in both vehicles simultaneously. That will be at acquisition of signal on the CSM's 51st revolution.
183:57:34 Cernan Okay, Gordy, it's PGNs power up time.
183:57:39 CC Okay, Geno, I - and I've got a couple more items to completely clean up the checklist whenever you can get to that.
183:57:56 Cernan I'll let Jack give you a call. I'm going to start on the PGNs, if we're ready.
183:58:18 Cernan Gordy, you ready for a PGN?
183:58:26 CC That's affirmative, finally got you a GO to start it as per checklist.
183:58:36 Cernan Okay there's the PRO, I did get the RESTART. I got the NO ATT, the DAP, GIMBAL LOCK light, and a PROGRAM ALARM light's on.
183:58:52 CC Roger.
183:59:40 Cernan MARK it the gimbal operate breaker is CLOSED.
183:59:44 CC Roger.
183:59:49 Schmitt That's the IMU OPERATE breaker. Yes. Stand by for a 90 seconds.
183:59:54 CC And we're ready for a POWER AMP PRIMARY and HIGH BIT RATE.
184:00:12 Cernan Okay. You got it.
184:04:37 Cernan Okay, Gordo, self test is complete and is GO, and I'll give you an E-memory dump.
184:04:43 CC Okay, we're ready, standing by for it. And while it's coming, I could give you the update for the next page.
184:04:58 Cernan Okay, it's coming at you and you can go with the updates on the next page.
184:05:02 CC Okay. Page 7-10, your P57 lift-off time, upper right corner, is 188:01:43.85. Over.
184:05:19 Cernan ?Okay, Gordy, P57 lift-off time 188:01:43.85.
184:05:27 CC That's affirmative. And then we'd like you to delete all the steps below that lift-off time, from the A/T-3 data star info box through the VERB 32 after the last - after for the remaining data stars and after last star. In other words, just delete all between the box and up to circuit breaker AOT LAMP, OPEN. And, of course, they'll be no P22 time, over.
184:06:02 Cernan Okay. Delete all the data star information between the start of that box and after last star VERB 34 ENTER, 00 ENTER.
184:06:16 CC That's correct and then turn to page 7-15. We're changing - we - looking here a little closer we find that radars are already in good position, so you can delete all procedures on page 7-15 except "Copy Ascent pads, CSI pad, and LM DAP weight."
184:06:52 Cernan Okay. We deleted everything but the last three lines on that page.
184:06:57 CC Okay. On page 7-12, back up a couple pages. In the lower right corner there, in the blank space, you might jot down 185:58, VHF check with command module. And that'll be according to the procedures on 7-15 in the box. You might just parenthesis 7-15 to remind you where the procedure is. But the comm check will come during that time when you're preping for equipment jettison, or right around there.
184:07:41 Cernan Okay. We got that.
184:07:44 CC Okay. That's all we got for you, and we have the E-MOD dump okay.
184:07:53 Cernan Okay.
184:09:06 Cernan Gordy, we're in P00 and data and we're standing by for your up-link, and how long does that AOT HEATER breaker have to be open? I pushed it IN at 184:08.
184:09:17 CC Okay. I'll get an answer on that, and I think we'll be coming with the up-link here shortly.
184:10:04 CC Gene, no time constraint on that AOT breaker; except, if it's foggy, it hasn't been in long enough.
184:10:16 Cernan (Laughter) Thank you, Gordy.
184:11:13 CC Challenger. Here comes your up-link.
184:11:19 Cernan Okay.
184:15:01 CC Challenger, it's - your computer. You have a state vector, a time increment, and an RLS.
184:15:11 Cernan Thank you, Gordy.
184:15:11 Cernan Yes, it likes - it likes the command module's orbit.
184:15:11 CC That's good.
184:34:35 CC Okay, we see that.
184:34:39 Cernan Houston, there's a NOUN 05.
184:34:39 CC Doesn't look like the Challenger shifted around much in the last 3 days.
184:34:39 Cernan Well, at least it always settles back to the same spot.
184:35:47 CC Okay. You're clear to torque those.
184:39:58 Schmitt Say, Gordy, are we clear to jettison the buddy SLSS bag, now?
184:39:58 CC That's affirmative, Jack. We've determined you won't need it for rock stowage. And along the same line, John Young suggested that you might check your checklist pockets on your suits, when you get to that point. His were full of dirt. You might want to take those off and discard them If that's the case, so that it won't fly up and get you at Insertion.
184:39:58 Cernan Yes, we already did that, Gordy. They were a mess, and we took them off. They're in the jettison bag now.
184:39:58 CC Okay.
184:39:58 Cernan We're going to take time out for about 15 or 20 minutes of mandatory housekeeping here.
184:39:58 CC Okay, understand.
184:39:58 Cernan That's - that's prior to suit donning.
184:40:59 CC Roger.
184:40:59 CC Okay, Jack.
184:40:59 Schmitt And Gene will be on biomed shortly.
184:40:59 CC Roger.
184:40:59 Schmitt Gordy, I'm back up.
184:40:59 CC Okay.
185:17:16 Schmitt Okay, Houston. This is the LMP suited. How do you read biomed and voice?
185:17:16 CC Oh, we're copying your ticker loud and clear. Also your voice.
185:17:16 Schmitt Okay.
185:17:16 Cernan Gordy, Gene. I'm going off the air.
185:17:16 CC Okay, Geno.
185:31:33 Cernan Okay, Gordo. This is CDR. You ought to have me all backup on the comm and biomed now.
185:31:33 CC Okay, Geno. Looking good.
185:31:33 Cernan CDR's PRD is 17045.
185:31:33 CC Okay; got that.
185:31:33 Schmitt LMP is 24150.
185:31:33 CC Okay.
185:42:16 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're ready to don the helmets and gloves.
185:42:16 CC Okay.
185:42:16 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're going to press on, but don't let us miss 185:58 for the VHF check, will you?
185:42:16 CC Sure won't. We're watching them.
185:42:16 Cernan Okay.
185:46:02 CC Challenger, Houston, We're getting close to the bottom on descent water. We're expecting to have to switch to ascent water sometime- in the next hour. We'll give you a call.
185:46:02 Cernan Okay, Gordy.
185:46:02 Schmitt Okay.
185:46:02 Schmitt I cleaned them up for you. What more could you ask?
185:47:38 Cernan Yes. Hey, Houston. We're VOX now.
185:47:38 CC Okay; and loud and clear on VOX.
185:47:38 Schmitt Is the recorder on yet?
185:47:38 Cernan Yes. The recorder's on, but I dor.'t think it's going to work. (Laughter) See if I've got anymore juice in here. I owe Don Arabian something.
185:47:38 Cernan Wristlet covers. Don wristlet covers.
185:49:22 Cernan Okay; my right - right glove is or. and locked. Verified.
185:49:22 Cernan Oh, I just came to the end of my grease. Probably a good time, because if everything goes the way it's supposed to, I shouldn't put on these ZV clothes anymore.
185:49:22 Schmitt Don't you use that in your IV?
185:49:22 Cernan No, I don't need it with my IV.
185:50:10 Cernan Mine are all on and verified. Locked. 3ack in SUIT FLOW.
185:50:10 Cernan Hey, we got 8 minutes to the comm check, so let's press on. Hate to get in the middle of the integrity check - Oh, we can do it. This won't take long. Need any help with your glove?
185:50:10 Schmitt I will.
185:50:10 Cernan Okay. Let me. Buggish today. Turn that off.
185:50:10 Schmitt Well, I did once, Gene, and I - didn't help, and I started to run out of air. There.
185:50:10 Cernan Doublecheck. You sure they're locked?
185:50:10 Schmitt Yes, they're locked.
185:50:10 Cernan Okay.
185:50:10 Schmitt Okay. Gloves are GO.
185:51:28 Cernan Okay; stay facing that way. Pressure integrity check. Suit shall not be maintained at elevated pressure greater than 5 minutes. Okay; SUIT GAS DIVERTER, PULL to EGRESS. Verify.
185:51:28 Schmitt Okay; that's verified.
185:51:28 Cernan CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS. Verify.
185:51:28 Schmitt EGRESS verified.
185:51:28 Cernan SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, CLOSE.
185:51:28 Schmitt I'm CLOSE.
185:51:28 Cernan Okay; we will leave PRESSURE REG A, CLOSE.
185:51:28 Schmitt Yes, sir.
185:51:28 Cernan PRESSURE REG B, DIRECT 0 , and we'll go up to 3.7 or 4.0 on the cuff gauge, and then you want to go to EGRESS on it.
185:51:28 Schmitt Okay.
185:51:28 Schmitt Okay; you can go on up. I'm in DIRECT O2.
185:51:28 Cernan Okay; suit circuit's coming up.
185:51:28 Cernan Okay; suit circuit's about 7*2 now. Should be coming off the peg shortly. I'm off the peg.
185:51:28 Schmitt And I'm off the peg.
185:51:28 Cernan You can stop it on your cuff gage - -
185:51:28 Schmitt Yes, I will.
185:51:28 Cernan - - at 3.7*
185:51:28 Schmitt That's 3-0, 3.5, 3.7.
185:51:28 Cernan Okay; go to egress.
185:51:28 Schmitt I'm in EGRESS.
185:51:28 Cernan Okay.
185:53:09 Cernan MARK it.
185:53:09 Schmitt Okay. 3.75 and CDR was 3.75*
185:53:09 Cernan Got about k minutes for VHF.
185:53:09 Cernan Our suits are going to be good.
185:53:09 Schmitt That's the whole circuit.
185:53:09 Cernan Yes, I know.
185:53:09 Schmitt It's about the same.
185:53:09 Cernan Got about 10 seconds to go.
185:53:09 Cernan Okay.
185:54:24 Cernan MARK it. CDR dropped from 3.75 to 3.60.
185:54:24 Schmitt Okay.
185:54:24 Cernan Okay; SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF, AUTO. Hold your ears
185:54:24 Schmitt AUTO.
185:54:24 Cernan Suit circuit pressure decays to 4.8. Coming down.
185:54:24 Cernan Okay. Jack. The next thing is depress, but before we do that, I think we ought to get the VHF check. It's only about 3 minutes away.
185:54:24 Schmitt Do it. I got a scratch on my helmet.
185:54:24 Cernan Okay, Gordo. We're going to configure for the VHF here. Standing by for a call from the CMP.
185:54:24 CC Okay; sounds like a good idea.
185:54:24 Cernan And we'll press on after that. Jack, you better make sure your volume's up.
185:54:24 Schmitt You're RECEIVE B, huh?
185:54:24 Cernan I'm A, OFF - we're A, OFF and RECEIVE, B on the AUDIO.
185:54:24 Schmitt Hey, what do we do once we hear him?
185:54:24 Cernan Okay; when you hear him, probably answer him is the first thing. And then - and then VHF. No. They need - You want A TRANSMITTER, VOICE/RANGE, then A to T/R, and A TRANSMITTER, OFF after conversation.
185:54:24 Schmitt Okay.
185:54:24 Cernan As soon as you hear him, you want the VHF A TRANSMITTER to VOICE/RANGE.
185:54:24 Schmitt Yes, I'll do it. is he going - He's going to try to lock up on us I guess, huh?
185:54:24 Cernan They've got us VEF RANGING, so we'll have to be quiet once we get established.
185:54:24 Cernan *** like home in these suits.
185:54:24 Schmitt Yes.
185:54:24 CC Challenger, about 30 seconds to the comm check.
185:54:24 Cernan Okay. Thank you, Houston.
185:54:24 Schmitt There he is.
185:54:24 Cernan Yes. Talking in VOX.
185:54:24 Schmitt Okay; I'm going to go VOICE/RANGING, I guess.
185:54:24 Cernan Wait - No, wait until he gives us the call.
185:54:24 Schmitt Hey, Houston; we're reading CMP on VOX.
185:54:24 CC Roger.
185:54:24 Cernan Hey, Captain America, this is Challenger. You're loud and clear. Go to T/R.
185:54:24 Schmitt Okay, Ron. You're loud and clear. How do you read us? Okay; you were very good on B. On T/R, you're in the mud a little bit. On the A. Oh, okay. That's better. You must have turned away from your mike. How are you doing?
185:54:24 Cernan Okay. Okay. Are you in VOICE/RANGE, Jack?
185:54:24 Schmitt Yes, I am.
185:54:24 Cernan Ron, are you going to do any ranging at all?
185:54:24 Cernan Okay. Gee, you're loud and clear. How's - how's America looking to you? Yes, we got a beautiful bird down here. We'll - we'll see you up there shortly.
185:59:48 Schmitt Hang in there and keep your probe extended. Okay; we're going to go VHF, OFF.
185:59:48 Cernan Okay. Jack, you need your A TRANSMITTER, OFF.
185:59:48 Schmitt A is OFF.
185:59:48 Cernan That's all you need to do.
185:59:48 Schmitt Outstanding.
185:59:48 CC Okay, Challenger. You have a GO from us for depress.
185:59:48 Cernan Okay; stand by 1.
185:59:48 Schmitt I doubt it.
185:59:48 Cernan You might be able to. It's awful glary though. He'll be well sunlit up there.
185:59:48 Schmitt I doubt it.
185:59:48 Cernan Okay; we have a GO for depress, Jack. On 16 ECS, CABIN REPRESS, OPEN.
185:59:48 Schmitt CABIN REPRESS coming OPEN. OPEN.
185:59:48 Cernan Why don't you watch your gage, and I'm going to -Okay. I'm going to open the forward dump to AUTO to 3.5.
185:59:48 Schmitt Okay; I'll watch. You call.
185:59:48 Cernan Hey, coming down?
185:59:48 Schmitt Okay; it's 5 s 4.5> 4. Stand by.
186:01:21 Schmitt MARK. 3-5.
186:01:21 Cernan Okay. Verify - suit circuit lockup at 4.3 and decaying. Okay; it's 4.5. Stand by for the decay. Oh, man, I got to go get that WATER SEP SELECT.
186:01:44 Schmitt Pull the 2, huh?
186:01:45 Cernan Oh, boy.
186:01:46 Schmitt Want me to get it?
186:01:47 Cernan No. I got longer arms, I guess.
186:01:53 Schmitt I can reach back in there.
186:01:55 Cernan Okay. If you can get back there.
186:01:56 Schmitt I think. Now, they want it?
186:02:02 Cernan Yes, now. Pull the 2.
186:02:05 Schmitt Okay. Pull the 2. Okay. Happy with the suit circuit. And yes, we got a decay in the suit loop.
186:02:14 Cernan Okay. Okay; verify suit circuit lock's up. I'm dumping all the way.
186:02:21 Schmitt Okay.
186:02:34 PAO Cabin pressure dropping down through 2 1/2 pounds now.
186:02:46 Schmitt Circuit's 4.2.
186:02:51 PAO Approaching 1 pound cabin pressure.
186:03:07 Schmitt Hey, there's 0.7 in the cabin and 4.1 in the suits.
186:03:35 Schmitt About 4.0, and the cabin is 0.3.
186:03:55 Cernan Okay; let me see if I can jar it.
186:03:58 Schmitt Okay; I guess we're GO for EVA-4.
186:04:02 Cernan Five, isn't it? Five this time? Oh, man, I got it open. If I could bleed that pressure. Oh, boy. Hey, hold it here for a minute. There's a lot of psi on that hatch.
186:04:19 Schmitt Okay; that'll hack it. Let me go to AUTO here. Need my checklist. Make it - Oops, that's closed. That's AUTO, and the lock lock is on. Okay. Hatch is open all the way. Where are we?
186:04:53 Schmitt Why is that still waving in the breeze?
186:04:56 Cernan Man, there's a solar wind in here.
186:05:04 Schmitt We're on 7- something here. Still venting, are we? Houston, how's our cabin configuration? Mean there's still the - had a little breeze going out the hatch.
186:05:28 CC All the numbers look good here, Jack.
186:05:33 Cernan Hey, hold that, Jack.
186:05:35 Schmitt Okay. Okay. Ready?
186:05:38 Cernan Okay.
186:05:41 Schmitt Partially open; that's good. ... Jettison the jett bag. Here goes Santa Claus - -
186:05:47 Cernan Here you go, Santa Claus. - - Santa Claus' bag. Another bag of goodies.
186:05:54 Schmitt Give it the old - -
186:05:55 Cernan There you go.
186:05:55 Schmitt - - 3-point kick.
186:05:57 Cernan Nice. Beautifully done. Just where we wanted it. All clear the ascent stage.
186:06:12 Schmitt Need the - Okay; clear. Good boy. Now, for your next act.
186:06:27 Cernan No. Don't - don't even think about it.
186:06:30 Schmitt Okay. (Laughter)
186:06:30 Cernan Okay? (Laughter)
186:06:32 Schmitt Jettison bag. All items are clear of ascent stage. Ready to close hatch?
186:06:35 Cernan Looks like it.
186:06:37 Schmitt Short EVA-5. Are we STAY/NO STAY for hatch closure?
186:06:45 CC You have a GO for closing the hatch.
186:06:50 Schmitt Okay.
186:06:55 Cernan Okay. The hatch is closed.
186:06:59 Schmitt Boy, is it easy to get around in here without a PLSS on. Okay; your DUMP VALVE verified in AUTO?
186:07:09 Cernan Yes, sir, and locked.
186:07:10 Schmitt Okay.
186:07:13 Cernan CABIN REPRESS. Okay.
186:07:15 Schmitt Okay.
186:07:16 Cernan Verify it's AUTO?
186:07:17 Schmitt It's AUTO.
186:07:18 Cernan Okay; on 16, CABIN REPRESS, CLOSED?
186:07:21 Schmitt Okay; CABIN REPRESS going CLOSED.
186:07:22 Cernan And the hatch looked clear when I - sealed it. Clear when I closed the hatch.
186:07:26 Schmitt Okay. Closed.
186:07:28 Cernan There's the MASTER ALARM. And the cabin is coming up. AUX O2.
186:07:42 Cernan Okay; cabin is increasing, and you can go to CABIN on PRESSURE REG B
186:07:49 Schmitt It's in CABIN.
186:07:53 Cernan Every warning light will go off here shortly. And my suit's coming down.
186:08:02 Schmitt Mine, also.
186:08:15 Cernan Okay. We're just about to go to 50 percent. DESCENT O2. We're there.
186:08:38 Cernan Okay. Cabin's almost at regulating pressure, and cabin lights are still on. Next thing we'll do when it stabilizes, we'll doff our gloves, doff our helmets; locked up.
186:08:50 Schmitt Okay; 5.0.
186:08:53 Cernan Okay. You can doff your gloves.
186:08:58 Schmitt Let me watch that pressure a minute. Well, it looks like it's stable at five. Okay.
186:09:13 Cernan How's the cabin look, Houston? Looks good here.
186:09:23 CC Okay; it looks good here.
186:09:29 Cernan Okay.
186:09:31 PAO That EVA lasted the total of 1 minute from hatch open to hatch closed.
186:09:33 Schmitt I hope so. Physics says it should have been.
186:09:37 Cernan There's an experiment.
186:09:40 Schmitt Not really, since we do that with our PLSS and everything else.
186:09:43 Cernan Okay. Take your helmet off.
186:09:54 Schmitt That was painless enough.
186:10:03 Cernan Jack, I'd wrap that thing around it like that. ..
186:10:07 Schmitt Wait a minute, don't we take our helmets?
186:10:11 Cernan Not yet. We - No, obviously. Go behind the engine cover.
186:10:17 Schmitt Okay.
186:13:41 CC Challenger, Houston. Just a reminder. Before you stow the right-hand OPS on the floor, you need to attach the floor hole cover.
186:13:57 Cernan Okay; we're - Jack's down there cleaning up the floor now, and I'm working on the visors.
186:14:02 CC Okay.
186:18:54 CC Challenger, Houston. We have a copy of a - an update on the rock stowage that was given to you last night. We're not sure if they read one part of it to you, and that was concerning using some contingency webbing to reinforce the tiedown of the bag that goes on the Z-27 bulkhead. If you did get that update, forget it. We do not need any extra tiedown other than the normal tiedown. Over.
186:19:27 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. That's for the buddy PLSS bag, I guess, and we did not get it. But we haven't quite stowed that yet anyway, so we will forget it.
186:19:36 CC Okay.
186:19:40 Cernan Are the Rover batteries still alive?
186:19:47 CC I'll check with the back room here. Stand by.
186:40:57 CC Challenger, Houston. I'm standing by with a pad any time you're ready.
186:41:05 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I'll be ready in just a minute.
186:41:41 PAO This is Apollo control at 186 hours 42 minutes. Cernan and Schmitt aboard the lunar module Challenger at this time are getting the cabin of the vehicle ship shape for liftoff. Their essentially back on the timeline at this time and ready to begin the final liftoff preparations. Aboard the Command Module, America now in its 50th revolution everything continues to go very smoothly. Ron Evans is beginning to get suited up and configuring the command module for the LMs liftoff, rendezvous and docking.
186:45:01 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, go with the ascent pad.
186:45:06 CC Okay, Jack. This is the direct ascent pad. Tig is 188:01:35.93; NOUN 76 is 5540.8, 0032.0 minus 000.5; DEDA 047 is plus 37430; minus 72507; plus 58669; plus 56907; plus 0032.0; plus 0535.9; and TPI time is 188:55:57.00. LM weight 10900; and HA, is 62.9; Hp, 62.2. One remark; your Tig for one rev late is 190:00:18. Go ahead.
186:46:58 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, here is your readback. Direct rendezvous - direct rendezvous is 188:01:35.93; 5540.8, 0032.0, minus 000.5, plus 37430, minus 72507, 58669, 56907, 0032.0, 0535.9; 188:55:57.00; 10900, 629, 622. Remark: one rev late Tig is 190:00:18. Over.
186:47:55 CC Okay, that was a good readback. Now I have a coelliptic ascent pad. Tig is 188:04:14.00; 5539.0, 0038.0, minus 000.5; plus 37430; minus 72507; 58630; 56907; 0038.0. Rest of the pad down to LM weight is NA. Your LM weight is 10900, and the HA and Hp are NA. Over.
186:49:17 Schmitt Okay, coelliptic readback: l88:04:14.00; 5539.0, 0038.0, minus 000.5; plus 37430; minus 72507; 58630; 56907; 0038.0; rest of pad is NA except for LM weight: 10900. Over.
186:49:58 CC Okay, that's a good readback. Turn to page 10; I have the CSI pad coelliptic.
186:50:12 Cernan And, Gordy, I'm starting to pick up the breakers on panel 11.
186:50:17 CC Okay, Geno.
186:50:27 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, CSI on page 10.
186:50:31 CC Okay. Tig is 189:01:53.81. Tig at TPI is 190:55:00.00. NOUN 8l is 053.9; and DELTA-Vy is a plus all balls. 373, 0541.9, 0655.0; plus 053.9, plus all balls, and plus 001.2.
186:51:31 Schmitt Okay. CSI pad; 189:01:53.81, 190:55 all zeros; plus 053.9, plus all zeros; 0541.9, 0655.0; plus 053.9, plus all zeros; plus 001.2. Over.
186:51:58 CC Okay. That's a good readback. That's all I have for you.
186:52:04 Schmitt Okay.
186:53:46 PAO This is Apollo Control at 186 hours 54 minutes. We've just had loss of signal now, with Ron Evans aboard the Command and Service Module. Everything going very smoothly at this time, and our preparations for Lunar lift-off. We'll be reacquiring the Command Module in about 45 minutes. And at that time, we plan to reconfigure the CAPCOM or air-to-ground circuits with the two vehicles, so that we have both the Command and Service Module and the Lunar Module on the same circuit for the single spacecraft communicator operation. Included in the string of numbers read up to the crew aboard Challenger by CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton, was the time that will be used for ignition -
186:54:33 Cernan Okay, Gordo, we're on the top of 8-4.
186:54:37 CC Roger, Geno.
186:54:52 PAO The ignition time for Lunar lift-off now, as passed up to the crew, is 188 hours, 1 minute, 36 seconds. And that burn time on the Lunar Module ASCENT engine will be 7 minutes, 20 seconds.
186:55:52 Schmitt Okay, Gordo. The rendezvous radar looks a little warm, it - I'm reading about 90 degrees.
186:55:59 CC Okay 90.
186:56:11 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, are you ready for AGS STATUS to OPERATE?
186:56:17 CC Let me check. We're ready, Jack; go ahead.
186:58:29 Cernan Okay, Gordo, NOUN 72, R2 is not varying. I've got, both shaft and trunnion, and crosspointers varying.
186:58:41 CC Okay, Geno. We copy that.
186:59:23 Cernan Okay, Gordy. On the radar test, everything is GO. Everything is within limits. The only anomaly is the one I just reported.
186:59:32 CC Okay, Geno. And 20 seconds here on the hour even, we'll have a site handover to Goldstone.
186:59:43 Cernan Okay.
187:04:08 CC Geno, Houston. You can go ahead and park the radar at 0 and 30.
187:04:16 Cernan Yes. It's going there right now, as a matter of fact.
187:04:20 CC Okay.
187:06:11 Schmitt Okay, Houston. The AGS gyro calibration is complete and looks pretty good. I guess Z's a little - little - No, that - Yes, Z's a little more than you'd expect, I guess.
187:06:28 CC Okay, Jack.
187:06:57 CC Challenger, Houston. Words on the radar. When you parked it there, we saw it go to the proper places. From all our indications, the interface between the radar and the PGNS is okay. And our best guess is some kind of self-test problem.
187:07:18 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Thank you.
187:07:59 Cernan Rate gyros are good.
187:08:04 CC Roger.
187:09:25 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I'm going to go to AUTO on the S-BAND, if you want it.
187:09:40 CC Okay. We're GO. And go ahead with the check.
187:09:50 Cernan Okay, Gordy. I'll give you a call before I fire, but we're in the process of getting ready for the RCS.
187:09:56 CC Roger.
187:10:21 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Here we go.
187:10:45 PAO Cernan and Schmitt, at this time, are firing the reaction control system thrusters in what's called the hot fire test. Everything continuing to progress smoothly toward liftoff at 188 hours 1 minute 36 seconds. And, we expect to have the lunar surface television up and in operation in about 10 minutes.
187:11:35 Cernan Gordy, the AGS check looked good.
187:11:38 CC Roger. It looked good here also.
187:11:53 Schmitt Okay; SYSTEM A QUAD 4 talkback still sticky.
187:11:58 CC Roger, Jack.
187:13:01 Cernan Okay. Here we go on the PGNS, Gordy.
187:13:05 CC Okay, Geno.
187:13:43 Cernan Looked good here, Gordy.
187:13:49 Schmitt And, you've got DATA and P00.
187:13:55 CC Okay. Your up-links are coming. We'll give you a vector and zero the pos/neg cells. Your RLS is okay.
187:15:56 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like you to put the ASCENT BATTERIES ON according to the procedures on the next nage, 8-8, just a little early because of pre-conditioning noticed in - before descent. And we checked your RGAs during the hot fire, ana your hot fire itself, and they both looked good.
187:16:20 Schmitt Thank you, Gordo.
187:16:22 CC And, Challenger, it's your computer now.
187:16:28 Schmitt Thank you.
187:16:31 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're now 45 minutes from LM liftoff. Everything continuing to go very smoothly. We've completed the reaction control system's checkout. It looks good through the telemetry we're receiving here on the ground. Also, aboard the spacecraft, the primary guidance and backup guidance system clocks have been synchronized. The next item on the crew's preparation checklist will be to align the platform of their guidance system which is used as a stable attitude reference. And, we're now some 20 minutes from reacquiring the Command Module, which is now in its 51st revolution of the Moon. And, as mentioned before, when we do acquire, we'll have both the LM and the Command Module on the same communication circuit.
187:19:52 Cernan Gordo, did you ever get any word on the Rover batteries?
187:19:59 CC No. I sure haven't. I haven't heard on that one.
187:20:05 Cernan It's not important. 1 just wondered whether those things were going to be working back there.
187:20:11 CC Okay. We've got no reason to believe they won't. When you get down to parking the rendezvous radar antenna after this P57, give me a call. We're going to change the parking position.
187:20:26 Cernan Okay.
187:20:35 Cernan Why don't you just give me the numbers now?
187:20:38 CC Okay. Do a - as - as the checklist, shows, except do a VERB 41 NOUN 72 to 0 and 30 degrees. Go to SLEW, and then delete the "manual slew for 3 seconds." They want to leave it there for temperature purposes. This will be a cooler position for it during ascent.
187:21:05 Cernan Okay. Understand. That's 0 and 03000.
187:21:11 CC That's affirmative.
187:21:18 Cernan And the first 01 - first 04 was 0.01.
187:21:24 CC Roger. We got that.
187:21:43 PAO Cernan and Schmitt at this time are in the midst of the platform alignment and we're standing by for television from the lunar surface, via the camera on the Lunar Rover. And we're getting the first, first bits of the picture now. We should have color. And we do have a color picture from the lunar surface.
187:24:22 CC Challenger, Houston. We've got you on television now. We have a good picture.
187:24:33 Cernan Glad to see old Rover's still working.
187:28:53 CC Okay. We got your NOUN 05?
187:29:20 CC Go ahead and torque them.
187:30:43 PAO This is Apollo Control at 187 hours 31 minutes. Now approaching 30 minutes until time for Lunar lift-off. The count down toward lift-off is going very smoothly. The crew aboard Challenger has completed aligning their inertial platform that's used as a stable attitude reference during powered flight. And we're less than 6 minutes now from regaining our radio communications with Ron Evans, aboard the Command and Service Module, America. The television picture is coming to us from the Lunar Roving vehicle, parked about 490 feet west of the Lunar Module, looking toward the east. Cernan and Schmitt will shortly be going through their prelaunch switch checks, checking the configuration of all the switches in the Lunar Module. They'll then don their helmets and gloves.
187:33:07 Cernan Okay, Houston. P12 looks good, and the PGNS is in AUTO.
187:33:13 CC Okay, Challenger. There's no change to 047 and 053. I do have a K-factor for you.
187:33:29 Schmitt Go ahead.
187:33:30 CC Okay. It's 179:59:59.82. Over.
187:33:46 Schmitt Okay; 15 - 179:59:59.82.
187:33:51 CC That's right, Jack.
187:35:18 CC Challenger, Houston. I have a couple of PIPA bias updates for the PGNS.
187:35:33 Schmitt Okay. Go ahead.
187:35:35 CC Okay, a VERB - with a VERB 21 NOUN 01, load address l452 with 03045, and load address 1454 with 05246. Over.
187:36:00 Schmitt Okay. That's 1452 with 03045; and 1454, 05246.
187:36:07 CC Readback's good.
187:36:29 PAO This is Apollo Control now 25 minutes from Lunar lift-off. Aboard Challenger, the crew has set up their guidance computer in program 12, which is the program used for the Lunar lift-off. And we're less than 1 minute now, from regaining radio contact with Ron Evans aboard America.
187:36:55 Schmitt Okay. They're in, Houston.
187:36:57 CC Okay. Look good to us.
187:37:23 PAO And, we've had acquisition of signal now, from the CSM. About 10 minutes from now, the Lunar Module's scheduled to begin pressurizing the ASCENT propulsion tanks.
187:38:02 Evans-CM Hey, Houston; America.
187:38:08 CC Roger, America. This is Houston. You're loud and clear.
187:38:13 Evans-CM Okay, Gordo. Got my suit on.
187:38:18 CC Okay, Ron. We gave you the wrong skinny on the comm configuration last rev. We're actually, now, in a full MSFN relay mode. We'd like you to stay off of VOX. Over.
187:38:36 Evans-CM Can do. I'm off VOX.
187:39:11 CC Challenger, Houston. When you get to a break point, I have some words on what you can expect in the way of guidance steering. Over.
187:39:21 Cernan Stand by.
187:40:00 Cernan Okay, Gordy. You can go ahead and talk while we're putting our helmets and gloves on.
187:40:05 CC Okay. We never got around to debriefing you on PDI, but the out-of-plane indications you saw on the AGS during descent were proper. We had changed your - your vector slightly just prior to PDI, and so the AGS was navigating and indicating properly. We just ran the present ascent targets in the LMS with the half-a-mile crossrange as shown on the pad, and you're going to be steering south. That's the way the steering direction goes. That's to your left, for Geno's benefit. And the crosspointer indicated a maximum of about 13 feet-per-second out-of-plane velocity at about ignition plus 3 minutes and 50 seconds, and then came on back to zero. Over. That - that velocity was AGS velocity.
187:41:10 Schmitt Okay, Gordo. That's good information to have.
187:41:19 Cernan Understand; the AGS on that one. Okay.
187:42:33 PAO This is Apollo control coming up now on 18 minutes until lunar liftoff.
187:42:35 Evans-CM Okay, Houston. America maneuvering to attitude.
187:42:40 CC Roger, America.
187:42:51 PAO And flight director Gene Kranz has just gone around the room checked with all flight controllers. We're go for lunar liftoff.
187:42:51 Evans-CM Also I'll start pumping up the cabin, DIRECT O2.
187:42:56 CC Okay.
187:43:00 Schmitt ASCENT WATER is OPEN, Houston.
187:43:02 CC Roger.
187:43:27 PAO And we've now switched over to the water on the ascent stage to be used in cooling electronic equipment, as called for in the flight plan. There was some concern that we would run out of descent water before we switched over to ascent water, but the water in the descent stage lasted as long as it was required.
187:44:16 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're at lift-off minus 17 minutes, and VERB 47 is going over.
187:44:22 CC Roger, Challenger.
187:45:36 CC America, we see your cabin at 5.5.
187:45:44 Evans-CM Okay, thank you.
187:45:55 Evans-CM DIRECT O2 is CLOSED.
187:46:02 Cernan Houston, the DESCENT BATTS are coming OFF.
187:46:05 CC Roger.
187:46:13 CC America, it looks like, to us here, your maneuver has stopped. Maybe you hit the stick.
187:46:25 Evans-CM You roll around in this thing, you knock the thing off of lock.
187:46:34 PAO This is Apollo control now 15 minutes from lunar liftoff. The descent stage tanks have been depressurized. We're about 1 minute now from beginning pressurization of the ascent stage tanks.
187:46:48 CC Challenger, we're recommending PGNS direct rendezvous.
187:46:54 Cernan Roger, Gordo; understand. PGNS direct rendezvous for Challenger.
187:48:09 CC America; OMNI Delta, please.
187:48:35 CC America, Houston; voice check.
187:48:38 Cernan Okay, hold -
187:48:53 Cernan Hello, Houston; Challenger. Circuit breakers are configured. We're on the top of 8-l6.
187:49:00 CC Challenger, Houston. Okay; sounds good.
187:49:09 Cernan And we're standing by for lift-off minus 10.
187:49:12 CC Roger.
187:49:26 Cernan And, Houston, are you in relay now?
187:49:31 CC We had - we lost high gain on America, so we inhibited the down-link. We're not in relay, no.
187:49:42 Cernan Okay.
187:49:44 CC We're actually in a one-way relay. Ron should be able to hear you, but not vice versa.
187:50:25 PAO This is Apollo Control. Gene Kranz now getting a GO for ascent stage pressurization.
187:50:52 Cernan Okay, Houston; coming up on 10 minutes. And we're ready to pressurize the APS.
187:50:57 CC Okay; you're GO to pressurize the APS.
187:51:05 Cernan Okay. The MASTER ARM is coming ON. I've got two good lights.
187:51:13 Cernan TANK 1 is SELECTED. Okay, ASCENT HELIUM PRESS TANK 1, FIRE. Ready; 3, 2, 1 -
187:51:24 Cernan MARK it. We got a squib fired, Houston.
187:51:28 CC Roger.
187:51:38 PAO And we can confirm the ascent stage tanks are pressurizing.
187:51:43 CC Challenger, you're GO for TANK 2.
187:51:48 Cernan Okay, understand; GO for TANK 2. Ready? Okay. 3, 2, 1 -
187:51:57 Cernan MARK it. TANK 2. We got the squib.
187:52:12 CC Okay, Challenger. Both tanks look good.
187:52:14 Cernan Wonder why they didn't balance off?
187:52:19 Cernan Okay. MASTER ARM is coming OFF, and the lights are out.
187:52:24 Cernan Okay, Jack. SYSTEM A ASCENT FEED 2, OPEN. Okay, monitor your - okay.
187:52:39 Cernan SYSTEM A MAIN SOV, CLOSED. How does it look to you?
187:52:44 Schmitt Fine.
187:52:44 Cernan Okay; B ASCENT FEED 2, OPEN. I can feel them in the floor when they go.
187:52:52 Cernan Okay; and B MAIN SOV, CLOSED. Check your manifold pressures. Are you happy?
187:53:02 Cernan Okay, Houston. We got ASCEKT FEED.
187:53:06 CC Roger. And America, can you read Houston? Over.
187:53:14 Evans-CM America. Roger. Loud and clear.
187:53:16 CC Okay, Ron. You're loud and clear.
187:53:27 Cernan Okay. We're standing by for 5. Houston, Challenger is GO for lift-off. We're at 7:54 and counting.
187:53:39 CC Roger, Challenger. You're GO for lift-off.
187:53:47 Cernan Roger. Understand. Challenger is GO for lift-off.
187:54:01 CC Challenger, Houston. We think the transducer in tank 2 has shifted. We want you to monitor tank 1 for APS helium. Over.
187:54:13 Schmitt Roger. We were looking at that, and we'll monitor 1.
187:54:17 Cernan What of this do you want?
187:54:19 Schmitt I need the - the big one there, with the cards in it.
187:54:47 Cernan Here you go.
187:54:48 Schmitt Thank you.
187:54:48 Cernan That's all right.
187:54:51 Schmitt Okay.
187:55:18 Cernan Okay. Let's go over the APS burn card.
187:55:19 Schmitt Okay. My DISPLAY/ENGINE OVERRIDE LOGIC breaker is IN; circuit breakers STAB/CONTROL all CLOSED on panel 11, except AEA and DECA POWER.
187:55:30 Cernan Okay. STAB/CONTROL breakers are all CLOSED, except AEA and DECA POWER.
187:55:33 Schmitt Okay. LOGIC breakers IN.
187:55:34 Cernan LOGIC breakers IN.
187:55:36 Cernan And all of mine are CLOSED except DESCENT ENGINE OVERRIDE. LOGIC'S IN.
187:55:40 Schmitt Okay. RATE SCALE, 25 DEGREES PER SECOND.
187:55:42 Cernan 25.
187:55:43 Schmitt ATTITUDE/TRANSLATION, 4 JETS.
187:55:45 Cernan 4 JETS.
187:55:46 Schmitt BALANCE COUPLE, ON.
187:55:46 Cernan ON.
187:55:47 Schmitt DEAD BAND, MIN.
187:55:48 Cernan DEAD BAND in MIN.
187:55:49 Schmitt ABORT/ABORT STAGE, RESET.
187:55:50 Cernan ABORT/ABORT STAGE are RESET.
187:55:51 Schmitt ATTITUDE CONTROL, three, to MODE CONTROL.
187:55:55 Cernan ATTITUDE CONTROL, three, on MODE CONTROL.
187:55:57 Schmitt Okay. And you're going to be in AUTO and ATT HOLD
187:56:01 Cernan PGNS is AUTO, and AGS is ATT HOLD.
187:56:03 Schmitt Stop pushbuttons are reset, and - -
187:56:05 Cernan Reset here.
187:56:05 Schmitt - - And you're in JETS.
187:56:07 Cernan And I'm in JETS.
187:56:08 Schmitt Okay.
187:56:12 Cernan Okay, let's take a swing around the systems.
187:56:16 Schmitt I just did. Everything looks good. The propellant pressure is holding up. We're tied to the ascent tanks on the RCS.
187:56:25 Cernan Okay; 5 minutes and my -
187:56:28 Schmitt That EC - -
187:56:28 Cernan RENDEZVOUS RADAR breaker is CLOSED.
187:56:35 Cernan And let's go to the timeline book.
187:56:37 Schmitt Got it. Takes care of everything in here.
187:57:02 Cernan Okay. At 2 minutes, I'll get the MASTER ARM. We already are VOX. You'll get 400 plus 1.
187:57:11 Schmitt Okay. And I'll get the camera and - -
187:57:13 Cernan Okay. At 10 seconds, I'll hit the ABORT STAGE, followed by the ENGINE ARM to ASCENT. You get the PRO. I'll backup the start. If we don't get a start, I'll go GUIDANCE CONTROL to AGS. I'll wipe out the thrusters. I'll go AGS AUTO. And if we don't get a start, we'll back off. Okay?
187:57:41 Schmitt Okay.
187:57:52 Schmitt Houston, we have an awful lot of noise coming up.
187:57:57 CC Okay, Challenger. I understand.
187:58:01 Schmitt I think we can read you, Gordy. You sound pretty good now.
187:58:06 CC Roger.
187:58:12 PAO Three minutes now till lift off. Everything looks good.
187:58:14 Cernan That's VHF noise, Jack. VHF B.
187:58:26 Schmitt Okay. I can cut it out with a high squelch on Bravo.
187:58:33 Cernan Okay, Houston. Challenger's at 2 minutes and 50 seconds.
187:58:40 CC Roger, Challenger - -
187:58:41 Cernan We're GO for PGNS --
187:58:41 CC Everything looks great down here.
187:58:43 Cernan - - direct. Okay.
187:58:59 Schmitt I'm not going to be able to squelch him out any more.
187:59:01 Cernan Okay.
187:59:03 Schmitt Turn the volume down a little bit.
187:59:12 Cernan Reading you loud and clear, America. This is Challenger. We're coming up on 02:10 from lift-off.
187:59:24 Schmitt We'll be with you shortly.
187:59:28 Cernan Okay, Jack, double check your logic power breaker.
187:59:31 Schmitt Checked.
187:59:32 Cernan Okay, MASTER ARM is ON. I've got two good lights.
187:59:36 Schmitt Okay. My - I've got 400 plus 1 in.
187:59:38 Cernan Okay.
187:59:45 Schmitt My watch is reset.
187:59:55 Cernan Okay. You got 367. You want to pick up the camera just before I hit ABORT STAGE.
188:00:18 PAO Coining up on 1 minute, and we look good.
188:00:22 Schmitt One minute coming up, Gene.
188:00:26 Cernan Take your final look at the valley of Taurus-Littrow, except from orbit. Okay, 1 minute, Houston. We're 50 seconds now, and we're GO.
188:00:41 CC Roger. You're looking good here.
188:00:44 Cernan I'll get that at 30.
188:00:46 Schmitt Okay.
188:00:59 Schmitt Camera - camera's not going to run without me holding it.
188:01:07 PAO 15 seconds.
188:01:09 Cernan Okay. Average g, 20 seconds.
188:01:12 Schmitt Ah, shoot!
188:01:14 Cernan Okay. Now, let's get off. Forget the camera.
188:01:17 Schmitt Ten seconds.
188:01:17 Cernan - - 10 seconds.
188:01:19 Schmitt ABORT STAGE.
188:01:19 Cernan ABORT STAGE.
188:01:19 Cernan - - pushed. ENGINE ARM is ASCENT.
188:01:21 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to get the PRO; 99 PROCEEDED; 3, 2, 1 -
188:01:28 Schmitt IGNITION.
188:01:29 Cernan We're on our way, Houston!
188:01:31 Schmitt Rates are good. AGS solid.
188:01:38 Schmitt Pitchover!
188:01:38 Cernan Pitchover!
188:01:40 CC Roger. You have good thrust.
188:01:48 Schmitt Okay, 30 seconds; 308's your number.
188:01:52 Cernan Okay, coming through 1500 feet.
188:01:53 Schmitt And H-dot looks good.
188:01:55 CC Roger. We've lost data right now, but we - we'd like AFT OMNI, AFT OMNI, please.
188:02:06 Cernan Okay; coming up on 40 seconds. And we're GO - coming right over the top of Camelot.
188:02:13 PAO And, we show an altitude of 2700 feet.
188:02:15 Cernan Awful lot of static, Jack. We break lock?
188:02:18 Schmitt Yes.
188:02:18 Cernan Why don't you get it on an OMNI, or something?
188:02:21 Schmitt Yes, I got it. It's on the OMNI.
188:02:22 Cernan See if you can get comm back.
188:02:24 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read?
188:02:26 CC Roger, Challenger. You're loud and clear, and both systems look good. You're right on the line.
188:02:29 Schmitt Okay. Should be about 145 and minus 47.
188:02:36 PAO Altitude 5500 feet.
188:02:37 Cernan See if we can get comm.
188:02:40 Schmitt I will.
188:02:48 PAO Both guidance systems agree, we're nearing 8000 feet altitude. Ascent engine performing very well.
188:03:02 Cernan 01:30, Houston. We're in the blind, and we're GO.
188:03:04 CC Roger. We'd like the AGS to AUTO.
188:03:06 Schmitt Okay. I got good lock - No. Trying to hold.
188:03:16 Cernan Okay, Houston; coming up on 2 minutes - -
188:03:21 CC Challenger, Houston. You're GO at 2 minutes. We'd like AGS to MODE CONTROL AUTO. Over.
188:03:21 Cernan - - Challenger is GO and coming through l4K.
188:03:33 Schmitt Okay. You watch the table, Geno.
188:03:34 Cernan I'm watching it. Just get comm, if you can.
188:03:41 CC Challenger, Houston. How do you copy Houston?
188:03:47 Cernan Okay, Houston. Challenger's GO; coming up on 02:30. We're through 19K.
188:03:54 CC Roger, Challenger. We need a 623 plus 10,000 in the AGS. Over.
188:04:04 Schmitt Well, those are the angles.
188:04:07 Evans How about an - an OMNI - -
188:04:08 Schmitt I've got - I tried it. I've got -
188:04:17 CC Challenger, Houston. AFT OMNI, please. Would you relay, America?
188:04:22 Cernan Okay, Houston. Three minutes, and Challenger is GO. We're through 25K.
188:04:31 Schmitt I tried it - I tried it, Ron, and it doesn't hold. It doesn't help.
188:04:36 Cernan Try AFT OMNI again, Jack.
188:04:39 CC America, Houston. Tell Challenger - -
188:04:41 Schmitt All my comm breakers are in.
188:04:43 Cernan Try AFT OMNI again.
188:04:43 CC - - that they're right on the money on trajectory; both systems are GO. Over.
188:04:46 Cernan Okay, Houston. In the blind, Challenger's GO; coming up on 03:25 and at 30K.
188:04:52 CC Okay - -
188:04:52 Schmitt There's AFT. How do you read, Houston?
188:04:56 CC America, would you relay to Challenger to go AFT OMNI?
188:05:02 Schmitt We are AFT OMNI. How do you read?
188:05:04 Evans Okay, they are in AFT OMNI right now.
188:05:08 CC Okay, America, tell Challenger - -
188:05:09 Schmitt And we're reading Houston.
188:05:10 CC - - we're reading them 5 by.
188:05:15 Schmitt Okay. We're reading you, Houston.
188:05:17 CC Okay, Jack - -
188:05:18 Evans Okay, Challenger, America.
188:05:19 CC - - we need a 623 plus 10,000. Jack, give us a 623 plus 10,000.
188:05:27 Cernan Okay, 4 minutes. Challenger's GO. We're through 37K.
188:05:31 CC Roger, Challenger. You're looking good here.
188:05:33 Schmitt Okay, that's in.
188:05:37 PAO We're about 3 minutes from shutdown now.
188:05:38 Cernan NOUN 37 says we got about a 07:16 burn, Jack.
188:05:47 PAO Altitude approaching 40,000.
188:05:48 Cernan Okay, at 04:30, I'll be about 282 coming through 41k.
188:05:53 Schmitt Okay, 04:30. 282 is great; 41K is great, 73 is good; AGS and PGNS are right together.
188:06:04 Cernan Okay, Houston. Challenger is GO. We're now through 43.5.
188:06:15 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like to terminate ASCENT FEED now.
188:06:23 Schmitt Okay, MAIN SOV is going ON.
188:06:27 CC And the reason is the mixture ratio problem. - -
188:06:28 Schmitt ASCENT FEED, CLOSED.
188:06:30 CC - - That's just to be conservative and safe. Over.
188:06:35 Cernan Understand. And we're going 5, and we're now out of 48K.
188:06:44 Schmitt Okay, the camera's stopped.
188:06:46 Cernan Okay, burn time's going to be about 18 or 19, 07:18 or 07:19, Jack.
188:06:50 Schmitt Okay.
188:06:54 PAO About a minute and a half to go. We look good. Altitude 50,000 feet.
188:06:56 Schmitt Okay. The AGS has us just about in plane.
188:06:58 Cernan PGNS and AGS are looking good.
188:06:59 Schmitt A little bit north.
188:07:02 Cernan Okay, Houston, 05:40. Challenger's coming through 52K. And PGNS says 126 on the H-dot. We're GO.
188:07:09 Schmitt AGS likes the plane.
188:07:10 CC Roger, Challenger. Your trajectory is right on the money. Both systems are GO.
188:07:21 Cernan Get a good shutoff time now.
188:07:23 Schmitt Okay.
188:07:24 Cernan Okay, it'll be 20 - 07:20 on the shutoff.
188:07:26 Schmitt Okay, we've already terminated ASCENT FEED. You got 1300 to go.
188:07:30 Cernan Okay. Let's doublecheck everything now.
188:07:34 Schmitt You got that; you want - -
188:07:35 Cernan Next move is at 200 feet. ENGINE ARM OFF with 200 to go. AGS and PGNS are right together. We got about another minute to go, Houston. And we're coming up on 57K.
188:07:44 PAO Lunar module now nearing orbital velocity, about 4500 feet per second.
188:07:50 CC Roger. And we agree with the - -
188:07:51 Schmitt 900 to go.
188:07:52 Cernan ... out nicely. Okay, H-dot is rounding right out to the target.
188:07:59 Schmitt 700 to go.
188:07:59 Cernan Coming up -
188:08:01 CC Okay, normal shutdown and normal trim procedures.
188:08:03 Schmitt Thank you.
188:08:06 Cernan Roger. Normal shutdown, normal trim. Give me a hack at 200, Jack.
188:08:14 Schmitt Okay, it's 500 now -
188:08:15 Schmitt MARK it, and the ascent feeds are already terminated.
188:08:17 Cernan Okay. Very good.
188:08:22 PAO LM velocity now nearly a mile a second.
188:08:23 Cernan Seven minutes, Houston. And we're passing 59K.
188:08:26 Schmitt 300; stand by. 200 to go.
188:08:29 PAO Coming up on shutdown.
188:08:32 Schmitt MARK it.
188:08:33 Cernan Okay, ENGINE ARM is OFF.
188:08:36 Schmitt Okay, stand by for shutdown; 80, 50 -
188:08:41 Schmitt SHUTDOWN!
188:08:42 Cernan Okay, AUTO shutdown - -
188:08:43 Schmitt AUTO shutdown.
188:08:43 Cernan - - Houston, AUTO shutdown.
188:08:46 CC Roger.
188:08:53 PAO Flight Dynamics officer says we can expect a tweak burn to trim up the orbit.
188:08:55 Cernan Okay, no trim, Houston; no trim.
188:08:57 CC Roger. We're reading the DSKY.
188:08:59 Cernan We're showing a 50 by 9.1.
188:09:04 CC Roger. And MSFN confirms that orbit.
188:09:09 Schmitt Okay. AGS got a little bit of out of plane. First in was 0900. Okay, ENGINE STOP is RESET.
188:09:28 Cernan Get in the attitude for the tweak. Okay.
188:09:33 Schmitt Okay, AGS says it's 9.1.
188:09:44 CC Challenger, Houston. There will be a tweak. Stand by for it.
188:09:50 Schmitt 48 by 9.1; 49 by 9.1.
188:10:04 Cernan Okay, that's our attitude. We're in attitude for the tweak.
188:10:08 PAO TWEAK burn, a little less than 3 minutes from now, to put the LM in the proper orbit for the rendezvous sequence.
188:10:11 CC Okay, Challenger. Here is your tweak. Ignition is at 12 plus 12; Vx is a minus 4.0; Y, minus 9.0; and Z, plus 1.0. That's at 12:12; minus 4; minus 9; and plus 1.
188:10:34 Schmitt Roger. That's at 12:12; minus 4; minus 9; and plus 1.
188:10:39 CC That's a good readback.
188:10:44 PAO This will be a very small maneuver performed with the reaction control system thrusters on the Lunar Module.
188:10:50 Cernan Okay, that's out of - Okay, at 12:12, Jack, we'll do the X, Z, Y. I'll do minus 4. Then I'll do plus 1; and then I'll get the Y. That's going to be aft, forward, and left. At 12:12, another minute.
188:11:03 Schmitt Okay.
188:11:05 Cernan We're in the attitude; let me get - -
188:11:08 Schmitt Say again. You're going to do X and then - -
188:11:10 Cernan - - X, Z, Y.
188:11:11 Schmitt X, Z, Y. All right. AGS is ready.
188:11:32 Cernan Okay, we've got P47. Standing by for 12:12.
188:11:36 Schmitt Okay, it's 10 - 20 seconds away. Okay?
188:11:43 Cernan Okay, I'm going to do X first. Okay, let's do it.
188:12:02 Schmitt Okay, you want 4. Little more. Okay?
188:12:09 Cernan Okay, and 1 forward.
188:12:13 PAO TWEAK burn is in progress.
188:12:21 Cernan Okay. Here's 1 forward; I'm going 9 left.
188:12:23 Schmitt Okay. Keep her coming, keep her coming, keep her coming, 9 left. That's it.
188:12:38 Cernan Okay, Houston, I read -
188:12:40 Schmitt Now that's it.
188:12:42 Cernan Let me get this in.
188:12:45 Schmitt Good, good.
188:12:47 Cernan Okay, Houston; 4.1, 9.0, and 1.1. - -
188:12:50 CC Okay, that's good.
188:12:50 Cernan - - minus, minus, plus. Okay, 47.7 by 9.5.
188:13:02 CC Roger.
188:13:08 Cernan There's those mysterious noises.
188:13:09 Schmitt Yes, that's right.
188:13:13 Evans Okay, Challenger; America. I'm going to try to get the VHF ranging reset.
188:13:22 Schmitt Go ahead. We'll keep quiet.
188:13:24 Evans Okay, reset - now.
188:13:29 PAO And, we confirmed an orbit on the ground very closely - agrees very closely with the orbit calculated onboard of 48 by 9 nautical miles.
188:13:45 Evans That wouldn't quite do it. Let me try it again.
188:14:08 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like FORWARD OMNI.
188:14:10 Schmitt ... 36.6 ... Okay; you've got it, Houston.
188:14:18 CC Okay, you're loud and clear.
188:14:22 Schmitt That sounds good on the AGS, Ron. Gene's getting lockon yet.
188:14:28 Evans Okay; great.
188:14:46 Cernan Okay, that was me, Jack. I just reset the MASTER ARM.
188:14:48 Schmitt Okay.
188:14:51 Cernan No functions left on it, anyway.
188:15:48 Schmitt How you coming, Gene?
188:15:49 Cernan Coming good.
188:15:50 Schmitt P20 going, huh? 26.6 breaking - -
188:15:55 Cernan That's not supposed to take those updates. Until I tell it to.
188:16:18 Schmitt The AGS likes the tweak.
188:16:22 Cernan Shaft and trunnion look good.
188:16:25 CC Challenger, Houston - -
188:16:26 Schmitt We've gone 127 miles in - 430 feet per second.
188:16:27 CC - - that 6l6 should be plus four balls 5. Over.
188:16:36 Cernan Okay, Gordy. I'm - good - good call.
188:16:40 CC Thank you.
188:16:41 Cernan Okay, America; Challenger. We've got you at 126 miles locked up hard.
188:16:48 Evans Okay, I got you 125.2 miles now.
188:16:55 Schmitt You want that relay still on, Gene? We're getting a repeat on Ron.
188:17:01 Evans I tell you what, I'll - let's turn the VHF off.
188:17:07 Cernan Up to you, Ron.
188:17:11 Evans Okay, I'm just going to turn the VHF off.
188:17:15 CC Challenger, Houston. There will be no vector update, no PIPA update. The NOUN 49s you're seeing are what we expect. You can go ahead and accept them.
188:17:28 Schmitt Okay, Geno. You can - RANGE/RANGE RATE, shaft and trunnion are all GO - -
188:17:34 Cernan Roger, Gordo.
188:17:34 Schmitt Okay, you like everything?
188:17:36 Cernan You can start taking your marks, Jack.
188:17:38 Schmitt Okay - -
188:17:38 Cernan The DAP is changed.
188:17:39 Schmitt - - 122. AGS likes the range.
188:17:44 CC Challenger, Houston. Also you're GO for APS TPI.
188:17:51 Cernan Roger. GO for APS TPI. We're looking good onboard.
188:18:01 CC America, Houston - -
188:18:02 Schmitt Okay.
188:18:02 CC - - the NOUN 29 you have there looks good to us.
188:18:07 Schmitt Okay, I checked the inverter. You can pull INVERTER 1 breaker.
188:18:10 Cernan INVERTER 1 breaker PULLED.
188:18:12 Evans I'm going to ... Okay, you want me to - you're not going to ship me a vector?
188:18:18 CC Negative. No up-link for you either, Ron.
188:18:25 Evans Okay.
188:19:04 Schmitt Houston, you happy with the OMNIs from the Challenger?
188:19:10 CC That's affirmative. Keep it like it is.
188:19:18 Schmitt Okay. Terminator's coming up, Geno. We got lights and everything we need?
188:19:31 PAO This is Apollo control. We show the lunar module, Challenger, in an orbit of 47.9 by 9.3 nautical miles now. The CSM in a nearly circular 62 nautical mile orbit. The flight dynamics officer at this time is working up the information that will be used by the lunar module crew in their terminal phase initiation maneuver that puts the lunar module on an intersecting orbit with the command module to be performed with the ascent propulsion system engine.
188:20:00 Schmitt AGS looks good.
188:20:02 Evans Challenger, America. I don't see you in the sextant yet. But it's probably because of Sun shafting or something.
188:20:33 Schmitt Okay, anytime you want them. Okay, ready? 188?
188:20:44 Cernan Hello, Houston. Challenger has a visual on America at about 112 miles.
188:20:50 CC Okay, and America's just called. I don't know if you heard him. He hasn't got you in the sextant yet. You might check your light on. He is getting VHF marks. Over.
188:21:02 Cernan Okay, light is ON.
188:21:08 Schmitt Okay, 55 and 5700. That's good. That's right.
188:21:18 PAO That was Jack Schmitt confirming visual acquisition of the Command Module about 112 miles away.
188:22:02 Schmitt The AGS saw that out of plane, Geno.
188:22:37 CC Challenger, this is Houston. I have a MSFN TPI for you.
188:22:44 Schmitt Go ahead.
188:22:46 CC Okay. DELTA-V is a plus 74.0; Y, plus 3.9; and Z, plus 9.0. DELTA-V total is 74.7. And, for once, they didn't give us the braking, Jack.
188:23:10 Schmitt (Laughter) Okay, plus 74.0, plus 3.9, plus 9.0, and total 74.0.
188:23:24 CC That total is 74.7.
188:23:30 Schmitt Sorry. Okay, 74.7.
188:24:06 Schmitt I'm working on my third mark.
188:24:08 Cernan And, Houston; Challenger. I still have a visual on America.
188:24:13 CC Okay. I'm sure Ron's problem is he is looking into the Sun.
188:24:19 Cernan That's right because he's sunlit up there.
188:24:21 Evans Oh, you are correct, Houston.
188:24:23 CC Challenger, we'd like AFT OMNI now.
188:24:29 Schmitt Okay, going AFT.
188:24:38 Evans America, how do you read Challenger?
188:24:40 Schmitt He's not - he's turned his VHF off. You want it on?
188:24:47 Evans I'm reading you relay now, Challenger. This is America.
188:24:52 Cernan Okay, that's fine, Ron.
188:25:00 Evans Let me know when you want a voice - VHF voice check, there, and we'll make sure we go to VHF.
188:25:08 Schmitt Okay. And we're holding you at 93 miles right now.
188:25:14 Evans Roger. That'd be about 92.7, which is probably the delay.
188:25:24 Cernan Okay, and you just went into darkness up there. I lost you.
188:25:37 Evans Should be able to see you now, then.
188:25:43 Cernan Yes, we're also in darkness.
188:25:45 Evans You sure you got your tracker light on?
188:25:49 Cernan That's affirm. I can see it flashing. We do have our tracker light on.
188:25:56 Schmitt See it flashing?
188:25:57 Cernan Yes, I see a reflection on - -
188:26:05 Evans Oh, I see it. Hey, I can't see you in the telescope, but I got you right in the sextant.
188:26:12 Cernan Good. Outstanding, Babe.
188:26:19 Schmitt I got it. ...
188:26:26 CC Challenger, Houston. No update on your LM weight.
188:26:34 Cernan Okay; understand. No update on the weight.
188:26:53 Evans And, Houston, I'm going to accept that because he was about 1 degree - almost to the edge of the sextant.
188:27:07 Schmitt Houston, can you tell Challenger what's wrong with our high gain?
188:27:12 CC Stand by, Challenger. For America, go ahead and accept that one.
188:27:19 Evans Okay, brought him right in - This is America - brought him right into the center.
188:27:39 CC Challenger, Houston. Jack - -
188:27:42 Schmitt Okay, Houston - -
188:27:42 CC - - if you have a free moment, you might try the steerable again: PITCH, 120; YAW, minus 70.
188:27:56 Schmitt Okeydoke, Gordy; 120 and minus 70.
188:28:29 Schmitt Okay, Houston, that's AUTO or. the HIGH GAIN. How do you read?
188:28:33 CC Jack, you're loud and clear. Looks good.
188:28:38 Schmitt Gordy, I don't know what broke lock. Did you read us all through ascent? We had some up-link signal strength.
188:28:46 CC That's affirmative. We read you loud and clear all the way. We haven't figured it out either.
188:28:54 Schmitt Okay, we had a loud up-link squeal - -
188:28:58 CC Roger.
188:28:58 Schmitt - - on all - on OMNIs - on OMNIs as well as high gain.
188:29:04 CC Roger.
188:29:04 Cernan That's steerable.
188:29:06 Schmitt Excuse me.
188:29:08 Cernan Okay, Gordy, Challenger's state vector is locked in with the raw data. We've got 12 marks going for us now.
188:29:16 CC Roger.
188:29:29 Cernan And, Houston, could we have an LOS time, please?
188:29:33 CC Yes. Stand by.
188:29:54 CC Challenger, LOS should be 188:51:15.
188:30:04 Cernan Roger. 51:15.
188:30:44 PAO This is Apollo Control. We now show America leading Challenger by about 78 nautical miles. The two vehicles closing at about 300 feet per second. And we have about 21 minutes now remaining before we lose contact with the Command Module and we'll lose the LM, which is in a lower orbit 1 minute earlier than that. Shortly after disappearing behind the Moon and shortly after we lose radio contact with the two vehicles, they'll be performing the terminal phase initiate maneuver from the Lunar Module. That will be a burn using the ascent propulsion system engine, a 3500 pound thrust engine imparting an increase in velocity about 74.7 feet per second. This maneuver will place the LM on an intersecting trajectory with the CSM for rendezvous.
188:31:59 Cernan America, Challenger. We got you now just under 72 miles, and we're 279 feet per second closing.
188:32:10 Evans Okay, got you 71 miles.
188:33:07 Evans Hello, Challenger; America. You still there? I lost all my noise.
188:33:13 Cernan Affirm. We're still here. And, Ron, that ... is coming right up the pike.
188:33:34 CC Challenger, Houston. For your information, the out-of-plane difference that we - that you probably saw there during ascent was - we think, in the PGNS. The AGS is okay. There's probably a slight ... in the PGNS.
188:33:51 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Understand.
188:34:05 CC Challenger and America, Houston. If that noise, which is due to low signal strength on America, is bothering anyone, we could break down the relay and let you talk to each other VHF. Over.
188:34:19 Cernan Yes, sir, Houston. This is Challenger. Let's break down the relay. And, America, let's go VHF.
188:34:25 CC Okay.
188:34:27 Evans Okay, America. I'm on VHF.
188:34:36 Evans Okay; good.
188:34:42 Cernan Okay, Houston. We have America on VHF.
188:34:46 CC Roger.
188:34:53 Evans I still got your echo there, Challenger. This is America.
188:35:04 Cernan Okay.
188:35:09 Schmitt Gordy, you want to give us an explanation of the ascent engine mixture ratio problem.
188:35:18 CC Let me get that story myself. We're still looking at the data. I'll try to have one for you before we lose you, at least the next time around we will.
188:35:30 Schmitt Okay. Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead. How many marks you got? 35.5. Okay. Go ahead. Go. Go.
188:36:11 Schmitt Well, not very in Z; 15 feet per second difference But it agrees with the AGS, if that makes you feel any better.
188:36:22 Cernan Hello, Houston. You were looking at our NOUN 8ls on the recycle. That's 17 marks.
188:36:28 CC Roger, Challenger. And what it was on the APS there, we saw an indication, probably due to a temperature shift, which was a possible indication of unbalance in propellant usage there. And it was sort of confirmed by an increase in the roll moment offset, so we just played the conservative thing and terminated ascent feed.
188:36:59 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Thank you. I was just curious exactly what it was.
188:37:05 CC Okay, and it's no problem for our TPI on the APS.
188:37:12 Schmitt Understand.
188:37:36 Evans Okay, Challenger; America. I got some NOUN 8l for you to recycle.
188:37:43 Schmitt Okay.
188:37:47 Evans I agree with you pretty well.
188:38:00 Schmitt Outstanding.
188:38:11 Evans Well, I say TPI is about 4.9, or 5 feet a second.
188:38:19 CC America, Houston. Let's try the HIGH GAIN: PITCH, 0; YAW, 30; MANUAL and WIDE and leave it in MANUAL.
188:38:32 Evans Hey, relay to me. I can't hear then, Challenger. Can you do that?
188:38:45 CC Challenger, Houston - -
188:38:45 Evans That's all right. I'll get them.
188:38:50 Schmitt Go ahead, Houston. This is Challenger.
188:38:52 CC Okay, would you relay to America to try the HIGH GAIN: PITCH, 0; YAW, 30; MANUAL and WIDE.
188:39:02 Schmitt You want PITCH, 0; YAW at 30; MANUAL and WIDE. That's pitch, 0, yaw 30; MANUAL and WIDE.
188:39:11 CC Yes, that's affirmative.
188:39:13 Evans Okay, I got it.
188:39:17 Schmitt Okay. He's working at it.
188:39:20 Evans It doesn't work. B is better than that. There's OMNI A; how's that?
188:39:29 PAO This is Apollo Control at 188 hours 39 minutes. The noise we're getting on the communications circuits right now is coming from the CSM link and we hope to improve that by getting the Command Module in operation on it's high gain antenna, which will increase our signal strengths and should cut down the noise quite a bit.
188:40:28 CC Challenger, Houston. Over.
188:40:29 Evans Houston, America. How do you read?
188:40:33 Schmitt Go ahead, Houston. This is Challenger,
188:40:35 CC Okay. Stand by, America. We just barely read you. Go ahead.
188:40:42 Evans Okay, just checking. I can read you loud and clear now.
188:40:45 CC Okay, you're readable. For Challenger, the MSFN Z was kind of weak. We're expecting more like a plus 20 for the DELTA-Vz solution for TPI, and that's what all the airborne systems seem to be converging on. Over.
188:41:05 Cernan That sounds right. We prepared that way up here. Glad to hear that. Thank you.
188:41:10 CC Roger.
188:41:19 PAO The numbers that the crew aboard Challenger will use for the TPI or Terminal Phase Initiate maneuver are generated onboard. The numbers from the ground are used as backup.
188:41:29 Cernan And, Houston, Challenger. We're plotting them right on the black line. Coming right up the pike.
188:41:36 CC Okeydoke. Sounds great.
188:41:47 Evans Okay, Challenger; America. I got you 49 miles now. Okay?
188:41:54 PAO Challenger's radar shows the LM now 49 miles behind the CSM, closing at the rate of 178 feet per second. And we have about 10 minutes now until loss of radio contact as the vehicles go behind the Moon. About 13 minutes 25 seconds until TPI initiate.
188:42:31 Evans Okay. I'll check it again pretty quick, but I had the running lights and the rendezvous light on.
188:42:48 CC Challenger, this is Houston. If you lose the steerables ... blockage, go to AFT OMNI.
188:42:58 Schmitt Roger.
188:43:22 Evans Okay, Challenger; America. They're both checked on. I'm going to check the circuit breakers.
188:43:37 Cernan Yes. They are both IN, and I - I just started picking you up in the telescope.
188:44:09 Evans (Laughter) You're going to sleep with them. They're too big.
188:44:20 Evans (Laughter) I don't care what you look like; come on back. I was going to shave and look nice for you, but I didn't have time to shave either. So - (laughter)
188:44:46 PAO That's Ron Evans aboard America that we're hearing right now.
188:44:53 Evans Yes, I heard you lost a couple fenders or something.
188:46:48 Evans I'm with you. I'm already in final comm.
188:46:52 Cernan Okay, Houston ...
188:46:57 Evans Your what?
188:46:59 Cernan ... ETA ...
188:47:05 Evans Well, let me doublecheck it. 188:55:57.00.
188:47:12 Cernan Beautiful.
188:47:13 Evans We're lucky. (Laughter)
188:47:19 Evans That's right.
188:47:20 Cernan ...
188:47:27 Evans Okay, you ready to copy my NOUN 8ls?
188:47:31 Cernan Go ahead.
188:47:32 Evans Minus 75.9 minus 4.8 - -
188:47:35 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like AFT OMNI now.
188:47:47 Evans - - and Z is a minus 17.6.
188:48:05 Evans Okay, copy correctly. I'm going to maneuver to TPI attitude.
188:48:23 CC America, Houston. We'd like NARROW and REACQ on the HIGH GAIN.
188:49:37 CC Challenger, Houston. We see you heading toward gimbal lock. Over.
188:49:44 Cernan No, you don't. I'm just rolling - yawing.
188:49:51 CC Okay, let me check back on that call; sorry.
188:49:56 Cernan Yes, this is just normal procedure. I'm rolling l80.
188:50:01 CC Okay, we're about 2 minutes to LOS. All the solutions look good to us. I guess, if we apply the voting logic, we go with the PGNS. Over.
188:50:13 Cernan Okay, we've already decided that we are going to go with the PGNS. All the solutions look good on our onboard comparison, Gordo.
188:50:21 CC Roger.
188:50:43 BEGIN LUNAR REV 52
188:50:44 PAO This is Apollo control. We've had loss of signal now from the LM and about 1 more minute we'll lose contact with Ron Evans aboard the Command Module, America. As the two vehicles go behind the Moon on the 51st revolution. Challenger, will be performing the terminal phase initiation maneuver in about 4 minutes 30 seconds. This maneuver computed onboard and their time of ignition and Ground Elapsed Time will be 188 hours 55 minutes 57 seconds. This burn again performed with the ascent propulsion system engine a very short burn between 2 and 3 seconds in duration. And when last we had data from the lunar module radar it showed Challenger 39 miles behind America closing at a rate of about a hundred feet per second. And we've had loss of signal now from the Command Module. We'll be reacquireing vehicles in about 45 minutes. And at that time Challenger should be closing with America going through the final breaking prior to station keeping leading up to docking. The following is a statement from the President of the United Stated of America. "As the Challenger leaves the surface of the Moon we are conscience not of what we leave behind, but of what lies before us. The dreams that draw humanity forward seem always to be redeemed if we believe in them strongly enough and pursue them with diligence and courage. Once we stood mystified by the stars today we reach up to them. we do this not only because it is man's destiny to dream the impossible, to dare the impossible and to do the impossible. But also, because in space as on Earth, there are new answers and new opportunities for the improvement and the enlargement of human existance. This may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the Moon, but space exploration will continue. The benefits of space exploration will continue. The search for knowledge through the exploration of space will continue, and there will be new dreams to pursue based on what we have learned. So let us not mistake the significance nor miss the majesty of what we have witnessed. Few events have ever marked so clearly the passage of history from one epoch to another. If we understand this about the last flight of Apollo then truly we shall have touched a many splendored thing. To Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ronald Evans we say Godspeed, and safely back to this good Earth." This statement will be available in the MSC news center.
188:58:15 PAO This is Apollo Control at 188 hours 59 minutes. About 2 minutes 45 seconds ago, Challenger should have performed the Terminal Phase Initiation maneuver that will put the LM on an intersecting trajectory with the Command Module. We would like to recapitulate the lunar liftoff which was nearly normal in all respects. The liftoff occurred at Ground Elapsed Time of 188 hours 1 minute 36 seconds and shutdown occurred 7 minutes 20 seconds, both as predicted. The onboard guidance system, the primary guidance system of the LM calculated an initial orbit of 48 by 9 nautical miles. Correction of 50 by 9 nautical miles, and on the ground we calculated an orbit agreeing very closely with that of 48 by 9. The CSM at this time in an orbit 62 nautical miles circular, nearly circular. There was a period of time during the early phase of the liftoff, at pitchover, which occurs at about 10 seconds, when we lost tracking data. This loss of data lasted for about 3 minutes. Now later in the powered ascent, there was a period of time where the crew aboard Challenger was not receiving voice communications from the Control Center, although we were receiving communications from the LM and we were relaying messages through the Command Module to the Lunar Module. And we don't have an assessment of what caused that problem at this time. We expect to get further information on that later. We'll be reacquiring the vehicles in about 35 minutes as they come back around on the front side of the Moon on the 52nd revolution for the Command Module, America. At 189 hours 1 minute, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
189:34:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 189 hours, 34 minutes. We're about 2 minutes now from reacquiring the spacecraft, America and Challenger. At the time we reacquire, the two vehicles should be about 7 miles apart with Challenger behind and below the Command Module, closing at the rate of about 5 feet per second. As they pass out over the front side of the Moon, approaching the landing site at about 190 hours Ground Elapsed Time, they should be in position for docking. And we expect to have television of that event. Docking is unlike some trajectory events not constrained to occur at a specific time, but depends on when the crew feels that they have everything aligned up properly and in a position to move in and dock. But we would expect that we would be fairly close to that time of 190 hours Ground Elapsed Time.
189:36:22 Evans Okay, Houston, America here.
189:36:27 CC Roger, America. You're loud and clear.
189:36:33 Evans Okay. Do you have him on the tube?
189:36:37 CC Not yet, Ron. I'll let you know.
189:36:41 PAO And we have a good television picture.
189:36:41 Evans Okay.
189:36:43 Cernan Okay, Houston, we're reading you loud and clear. We're at 1 mile and I just broke into 30 feet per second. TPI was nominal.
189:36:54 CC Okay, Challenger. That's good news.
189:36:59 Cernan Okay. And the midcourses were all less than 1.6 feet per second, and we're at 0.8 miles now - 5000 feet.
189:37:10 CC Roger.
189:37:20 Cernan Okay, our next breaking gate is at 3000 feet.
189:37:25 Cernan Ron, I've got a platform. I can see the Command and Service Module now.
189:37:31 Evans Okay.
189:37:34 Cernan We're at 4200 feet - 30 feet per second. And inertial line of sights are both zero.
189:37:44 CC America and Challenger, this is Houston. And, we've got a good picture of the Challenger coming up from the surface of the Moon.
189:37:55 Evans (Laughter) it's coming straight up, all right.
189:38:05 Cernan Okay, Ron. Coming up to 3000 feet. I'm going to brake off to 20.
189:38:09 Evans Okay.
189:38:10 Cernan Hold on; here we go.
189:38:30 Cernan Okay, we're 2500 feet and 20.7 feet per second. Fifteen on 110.
189:38:48 Cernan Got you centered in the needles, Ron.
189:38:51 Evans Okay. You're looking good.
189:38:57 Cernan Coming up right at - you at - under 114 - 116 degrees. 1900 feet, 20 feet per second.
189:39:08 Evans Okay. Quarter of a mile, I got you.
189:39:19 Cernan I can see your thrusters firing now, Ron. We're at 1500 feet braking.
189:39:23 Evans Okay.
189:39:46 Cernan Okay, Ron. We're at 1200 feet and 8.8 feet per second.
189:39:54 Evans Okay, that's about right. Concur.
189:39:56 Cernan Yes, you do have a stub of an antenna out there on the same side that the VHF antenna's on.
189:40:01 Evans Yes, how far is it sticking out?
189:40:02 Cernan I can't tell yet, but about - from where I am, about a third of the way - a third of the length of the VHF antenna.
189:40:10 Evans Oh, that's not very far.
189:40:12 Cernan No. Okay, we're at 970 feet.
189:40:34 Cernan 800 feet and we're at 8.8 feet per second.
189:40:43 Evans Looks like Challenger's in good shape. I don't see anything hanging down or anything.
189:40:47 Cernan She's in excellent shape. Okay, we're at 650 feet and 8.8.
189:40:54 Evans Okay.
189:40:55 Cernan God, you look pretty. Yes, you just got a smail stub, Ron. Probably not more than a couple of feet.
189:41:02 Evans (Laughter)
189:41:03 Cernan 600 feet, braking to 5. Okay, I've got 5.0, and I'm at 520 feet.
189:41:25 Cernan Ron, I'm closing at 5 feet per second, 440 feet.
189:41:28 Evans Okay.
189:41:32 Cernan Good to see you.
189:41:34 Evans Good to have you all back up here.
189:41:37 Cernan It's been a good trip. Okay, I'm at 5 feet per second and 350 feet.
189:41:55 PAO Challenger's coming in with the crew in the - nearly heads down position as seen on the television monitor.
189:41:58 Cernan Taking off a couple. I'm at 3 feet per second, 280.
189:42:09 Cernan Just great. Okay, Ron, 240 feet and 3 feet per second.
189:42:16 Evans Okay, keep her coming. Rice and easy. Getting a lot of pictures.
189:42:30 Cernan 200 feet and 3 feet per second. I got 2 feet per second and I'm at 170 feet.
189:43:00 Cernan 140 feet and 2 feet per second. About 3 feet of that antenna, Ron, and we'll get a better look at it when you pitch over.
189:43:10 Evans Okay.
189:43:14 Cernan Everything else looks clean.
189:43:16 Evans Man, that Challenger's a beautiful vehicle.
189:43:18 Cernan You bet you.
189:43:21 Evans One little strap flopping on the top of it, and that's all.
189:43:25 Cernan Okay, I've got 2 feet per second; I'm at 100.
189:43:36 Evans Hey, Houston, you can see that strap flopping up there now on the TV, but that's the only thing.
189:43:43 CC Okay, Ron. We haven't picked it out, but we do have a perfect picture.
189:43:52 Cernan Ron, I'm sneaking in at about - a little over 1 foot per second.
189:43:55 Evans Okay, I'm trying to keep you on the - the tube here, so - How come you - how come you guys do everything upside down?
189:44:12 Cernan Okay, let's let it drift in like this slowly.
189:44:14 Evans Okay. You still have it.
189:44:18 Cernan I've still got it.
189:44:27 Cernan Ron, I'm going to stop it here, and you can do your maneuver.
189:44:31 Evans Okay.
189:44:33 Cernan Okay, I'm stationkeeping on you.
189:44:35 Evans Okay; I'll do my VERB 49.
189:44:39 Cernan Seem okay, Jack?
189:44:39 Schmitt Yes.
189:44:40 Cernan Okay.
189:44:43 Evans Oh, I got to get a picture here, too.
189:44:54 Cernan Okay, will do. Stand by.
189:44:58 Evans Just another couple of pictures here. Got them. 25 ENTER. 319, 254, and 0 ... Okay, you ready, Jack?
189:45:21 Cernan I'll ... that; Jack.
189:45:21 Schmitt ...
189:45:23 Evans Okay, here we go.
189:45:25 Evans MARK it. ... a minute.
189:45:43 Cernan Yes, I'm going to get the radar out of the way, but I'm not going to. I'll lose him here as soon as his transponder get out. I'm going to just stationkeep. Ron, your probe looks good. I can see it extended.
189:45:55 Evans Okay; great.
189:45:59 Cernan The radar holds you - well, we don't hold you anymore.
189:46:11 PAO Ron Evans will now maneuver the CSM into position for the final docking.
189:46:19 Cernan ... Radar's being stowed now, Ron.
189:46:26 Evans Okay.
189:46:35 CC America, we'd like OMNI Delta, please.
189:46:37 Cernan Houston, America and - -
189:46:40 Evans OMNI ... -
189:46:43 Cernan Houston, America and Challenger - are ... a good tight Navy formation.
189:46:50 CC Roger, Geno.
189:46:51 PAO We've switched to one of the omnidirectional antennas on the Command Module, and we won't have television back until we get back on the high gain antenna, which should be shortly.
189:47:03 Cernan Hey, Ron. I may have to take back what I said. That thing I thought was an antenna is nothing more than your EVA light out there.
189:47:08 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
189:47:09 Cernan From where I was, it looked like - looked like it was coming out the other side - -
189:47:13 Evans Yes.
189:47:13 Cernan - - but I think you're clean.
189:47:14 Evans Okay. Now the one I'm concerned about is on - is on the other side from the EVA antenna - EVA light.
189:47:19 Cernan No-uh uh. You were clean over there.
189:47:21 Evans Oh, okay.
189:47:33 Evans The bottom of your vehicle's got a bunch of tinfoil on it. It's a little bit scorched; but it's all intact, as far as - as much as I can tell.
189:47:42 Cernan ... this bird is good enough to fly again. Yes sir. I'll even move left, how's that? Still got 60 percent left ... I like to fly.
189:48:20 Cernan You in your maneuver, Ron?
189:48:21 Evans Yes. It's maneuvering now.
189:48:23 Cernan Okay, I'm going to go out and take a peek at your SIM bay up here. Yes, I know.
189:48:43 PAO Our instrumentation and communications engineer estimates that it will be 10 to 12 minutes before we're in position to get the high gain antenna and television back.
189:49:11 Cernan See him okay, Jack? See him okay?
189:49:35 Evans Okay, we're getting pretty close now. About another 5 degrees of roll is all. Can you see it?
189:49:54 Cernan Yes.
189:49:55 Evans How does the mapping camera look? Should be all covered up.
189:50:10 Cernan Stand by.
189:50:12 Evans Okay.
189:50:13 Cernan ... fly over there and take a look at it.
189:50:15 Evans Okay.
189:50:21 Cernan Sun's shining right in it.
189:50:28 Cernan Okay, Ron. It looks intact here. There's one cover - -
189:50:33 CC Challenger, Houston. Over.
189:50:34 Cernan ... cover on the right-hand side. Go ahead.
189:50:38 CC We'd like you take a special look at the pan camera and see if you think maybe the lens is not completely stowed. Over.
189:50:53 Cernan Well, I'm looking at this thing upside down. There's the Sun - give me the location again of the pan camera, Houston.
189:51:03 CC It's a round, barrel-type object, approximately right in the center of the SIM bay.
189:51:13 Evans It's just - if you were standing in the shoes, the pan camera would be right in front of you.
189:51:18 Cernan It's stowed; it's flush. There's one door open, Ron. If you were standing in the shoes, it's at the bottom hand - bottom left-hand side of the SIM bay.
189:51:31 Evans Bottom left-hand side, if you're standing in the shoes.
189:51:34 Cernan Yes. It looks like two covers open there. Doesn't it, Jack?
189:51:37 Evans Yes. Okay; well, that's part of the mapping camera - bottom of that door that pushes open by itself.
189:51:43 Cernan Okay, Well that's the only thing that's open. Everything is flush.
189:51:46 Evans Okay. You think - is that a door that extends - if you're standing in the shoes - that extends out the bottom of the SIM bay or one that extends out - if you're standing on the shoes - it would be one the - extending on the left side of the SIM bay?
189:52:02 Cernan Yes. It extends out the left side towards the front of the spacecraft down in the bottom left-hand comer, if you're standing in the shoes.
189:52:08 Evans Yes, Okay. Yes, that's the one that the camera pushes open by itself.
189:52:11 Cernan Okay. Well, that's good. I can't see anything that's abnormal down there. Everything's covered; everything's flushed.
189:52:18 CC Challenger, Houston.
189:52:22 Evans Okay.
189:52:27 CC Challenger, Houston. Over.
189:52:29 Evans Houston, were you calling America?
189:52:33 Cernan Go ahead.
189:52:35 CC Some more words on identifying whether the pan camera is stowed or not. The pan camera, as Ron said, is right in front of the shoes. And, if it's stowed - well, if it's not stowed properly, you should be able to see the lens or probably part of it. And if it's fully stowed, there'll be just a plan-faced barrel facing outward - silver colored. Over.
189:53:07 Cernan It's stowed, Houston.
189:53:10 CC Okay. It sounds good.
189:53:14 Cernan It's got to be - there's nothing - it's stowed. ... one more of those.
189:53:30 Cernan The only thing abnormal is the Service Module plates, just forward - plus-X - of the SIM bay, are all blistered - just forward of those EVA handholds.
189:53:43 CC Roger. We copy that. Our concern - or the reason we're asking about the pan camera is - we have a higher than normal temperatures in the pan camera, and we were concerned whether it was either not completely stowed or maybe there's a heater stuck on. We'll check the heater out later on here.
189:54:09 Cernan I'm going around the other side here a little bit, but it's - Yes, the long barrel, through the center down - X-X axis, deep into the SIM bay - then you have a little barrel - oh, about 3 inches - 2 or 3 inches - like about a 500-millimeter lens on a Hasselblad - sticking straight up, perpendicular to SIM bay, and it's well flushed. It's inside the box that it's next to.
189:54:45 CC Okay, Geno.
189:54:49 Cernan It's normal. There's nothing that's unstowed in that thing. Not again.
189:55:00 CC Challenger, America, that's good on the inspection from questions from here, anyway. Clear to continue and proceed with docking.
189:55:12 Evans Okay.
189:55:15 Cernan It is unbelievable. This is the greatest flying in the world, Ron.
189:55:18 Evans (laughter)
189:55:18 Cernan Can you see me?
189:55:19 Evans Yes, I can see you. Right in there.
189:55:22 Cernan Yes.
189:55:23 Cernan Reach out and tickle your probe.
189:55:26 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
189:55:26 Cernan Okay. Let's get - let's get this business going. Let's get in a docking attitude.
189:55:31 Evans Okay; we'll maneuver to the docking attitude here.
189:55:36 Cernan Ron, I can also see where your - where your HF comes out on this side, and - and it's flush with the box. It's completely stowed.
189:55:46 Evans Okay. Well, that's the one that we think is, the one on that side. The other side is the one that we are a little concerned with. We don't worry about it.
189:55:51 Cernan It's stowed too.
189:55:52 Evans Oh, okay.
189:55:53 Cernan We were over there.
189:55:54 Evans Okay. And I'm maneuvering back to the docking attitude.
189:56:02 Cernan Your high gain is not pointing at the Earth, though, I don't believe.
189:56:05 Evans Oh, we're not using it yet. It's pointing where the Earth will be when we maneuver back around.
189:56:11 Cernan Okay.
189:56:12 Schmitt Another one from there?
189:56:15 Cernan I'd try 11 and 8. That's what I'm doing.
189:56:20 Schmitt Right.
189:56:32 Cernan ... Guess I ought to pull my radar breakers, now that it's stowed.
189:56:47 Evans Okay, Houston, can you see my logic yet? Or you want to wait until the high gain? This is America.
189:56:56 CC We can see it now, Ron. We can do it now.
189:57:02 Evans Okay, LOGIC 1.
189:57:05 Evans MARK it. LOGIC 2.
189:57:06 Evans MARK it.
189:57:13 CC Ron, you're GO for PYRO ARM.
189:57:17 Evans Okay.
189:57:25 Cernan Backing off here a little bit, Ron. Give you a chance to maneuver.
189:58:07 Cernan Hey, Jack, what are we forgetting here? Let's see the high gain was - or the rendezvous radar is stowed. Okay, as soon as he gets his attitude, I'll get to mine.
189:58:31 Cernan Looks like you've been flying well up there, partner. The spacecraft looks good.
189:58:35 Evans Oh, you bet you.
189:58:40 Cernan How far you got to go on your maneuvers?
189:58:44 Evans About another 60 degrees of roll yet.
189:58:46 Cernan Okay.
189:58:46 Evans And about 10 degrees; pitch.
189:59:03 PAO Ron Evans now maneuvering America into position for the docking. The final few feet of the docking maneuver performed with the Command Module because of the better visibility from that vehicle.
189:59:16 CC America, give us OMNI Alpha.
189:59:18 Cernan Okay, Ron - -
189:59:22 Evans Omni ... Oh, no, there we go.
189:59:33 Cernan Okay, Ron, I can confirm your other HF antenna is stowed.
189:59:36 Evans Okay, good. Thank you.
189:59:53 Evans Okay, the PYROs are ON. Sorry, but I am out of film in the DAC. You guys will just have to - -
190:00:13 Cernan No problem.
190:00:14 Evans - - be on TV (laughter).
190:00:17 Cernan No problem. Let's just get in attitude and get those capture latches in that drogue.
190:00:21 Evans Okay.
190:00:27 CC Ron, the high gain angles look good. Go NARROW and REACQ, and we should have you.
190:00:43 Evans Okay. I'm in attitude, Gene.
190:00:51 Cernan Okay, let me position so I can get in attitude.
190:00:57 CC And, America and Challenger, we've got a beautiful picture once again.
190:01:11 Schmitt Very good, Gordy. We're happy to give it to you.
190:01:16 Cernan This worked out great, Ron.
190:01:18 Evans Yes, it sure did.
190:01:21 Cernan Null PGNS, and then I'll give it to you shortly.
190:01:45 Cernan Okay, Ron, you've got it.
190:01:48 Evans Okay.
190:01:49 Cernan Okay, you've got it. I'm going into my maneuver.
190:01:51 Evans I've got it.
190:02:20 Cernan And that's the landing site down there. We pitched right through the landing site.
190:02:25 Evans You did?
190:02:25 Cernan Yes.
190:02:27 Evans Key, good (laughter). Your - -
190:02:31 Cernan Hey, don't - don't hit that hand. It's ...
190:02:33 Schmitt Yes (laughter). Well, the drogue is still in there.
190:02:41 Cernan Okay. I've got you right out the overhead, Ron, now I'm going to yaw.
190:02:43 Evans Okay, yaw her around.
190:02:47 Cernan Okay, here we go. What a super flying machine!
190:02:59 Evans Still looks kind of tinny to me.
190:03:13 Cernan He's not going to have to do anything but thrust right into the - I might even get your roll angle zeroed for you by - by this maneuver. Okay, it's all yours.
190:03:22 Evans (Laughter) Okay, I've got her.
190:03:23 Cernan Should be looking - I'm looking right up your window.
190:03:25 Evans Well, I got to translate through the - sideways
190:03:30 Cernan The trouble is I'm looking right into the Sun.
190:03:32 Schmitt Yes. Change these focus to 6 feet.
190:03:47 Cernan Okay, Jack, let's go over that thing again. We got anything else to do?
190:03:50 Schmitt Well, you're at the attitude. We're waiting to confirm capture, and then you flip MODE CONTROL, OFF.
190:03:57 Cernan Okay. Wish the Sun would get out of the way.
190:05:10 Cernan Looking good, babe. Keep it coming.
190:05:12 Evans Okay. She's looking all right.
190:05:24 Cernan Command Module looks just as good as the day they put it on the pad.
190:05:30 Evans And, you know, so does Challenger, by gosh. You're missing some of the pieces.
190:05:37 Cernan Yes, one big piece we left behind.
190:05:39 Evans Yes; right.
190:06:26 Cernan Ron, I guess I'm estimating you about 12 or 15 feet.
190:06:31 Evans Yes, that's about right.
190:06:46 Cernan Got my reticle coming right in the rendezvous window.
190:06:55 Evans Okay. She ought to be coming right in there.
190:06:58 Cernan Looking good. You're stable as a rock.
190:07:33 Cernan Bet I'll be able to get with that. Give me a little warning on capture, Ron, so I can go FREE.
190:07:47 Evans Okay; glad to.
190:07:51 Cernan I can see all your docking latches - or I can see half of them now, but they're all looking good.
190:07:56 Evans Okay,
190:08:19 Evans Coming in nice and slow; no problem.
190:08:21 Cernan Okay, you're looking good, babe. 1 got you on my COAS right up in the middle of the window. Looking good.
190:08:59 Cernan Looking good.
190:09:01 Evans Okay.
190:09:04 Cernan Must be a couple of feet away.
190:09:06 Evans About 2 or 3 feet is all.
190:09:59 Cernan Stand by, Jack.
190:10:00 Evans Stand by. Should be getting about the same size.
190:10:08 Cernan Looking good from here, Ron.
190:10:36 Evans Stand by.
190:10:59 Cernan ... to have it here.
190:11:00 Evans Okay; I didn't get it. Let me plus X it.
190:11:10 Cernan Okay. You didn't get it.
190:11:12 Evans Didn't get it. Okay. Might have been a little bit slow.
190:11:50 Evans Stand by.
190:11:53 Cernan You got it! CAPTURE!
190:11:53 Evans Barber pole, capture go to FREE.
190:11:55 Cernan Good. Start here; we're FREE. All you needed was - -
190:11:58 Evans Okay, we're FREE over here. Let me check your rates. Okay, I'm squared away on the rates here.
190:12:02 Cernan All you needed was a little more DELTA-V.
190:12:04 Evans Yes, a little more.
190:12:05 Cernan That looked good though, Ron. Very good.
190:12:08 Evans Okay. That's a good one.
190:12:10 Cernan Okay, Houston, we have capture.
190:12:12 Evans Okay, you ready - -
190:12:12 CC Roger.
190:12:14 Evans ... we're a little bit - not lined up here, Houston.
190:12:19 Cernan What did you say, Ron?
190:12:21 Evans Well, we're not quite lined up here. Kind of drifted off a little bit.
190:12:25 Cernan Okay; we'll stand by for you. Take your time.
190:12:28 Evans Okay. Will do. Okay, she's coming back around.
190:12:41 Cernan Take your time.
190:13:05 Cernan We're still free, Ron.
190:13:07 Evans Yes, I know. Okay.
190:13:28 Evans Yes, when you're free, you know, you create a little bit of rates on the thing, too.
190:13:34 Cernan I know it. I can see that. Just take your time. When you're satisfied, go. But don't go until you're satisfied.
190:13:40 Evans Okay, I'm not.
190:14:03 PAO The soft dock mechanism between the two vehicles has engaged. Evans is in the process now of trying to get things lines up properly, before pulling the LM and CMS together into the hard docking.
190:14:16 Evans Okay, she's coming back around now.
190:14:21 Cernan Okay. Give me a call when you start to retract.
190:14:24 Evans Okay; will do.
190:15:04 PAO Gene Cernan should be visible behind that window in the top of the lunar module.
190:15:17 Evans Crazy thing.
190:15:20 Cernan Say again.
190:15:21 Evans (Laughter) I get the right ... and then it goes around the other way. I think you're bouncing around up there, too, you know?
190:15:31 Cernan I know it. I'm just swinging free. Take it slow.
190:16:06 Evans I think you're going to have to go to attitude hold. You're bouncing around more ... I'm not moving at all.
190:16:11 Cernan Okay. Stand by, Ron.
190:16:15 Evans Okay.
190:16:19 Cernan Okay. I'm stable now.
190:16:21 Evans Okay. Now let me come up to you.
190:16:55 Cernan Okay, when you're happy, I'll go free.
190:16:56 Evans Okay, stand by.
190:16:59 Cernan Looking good now.
190:17:00 Evans Looking good, yes. See, that's what we needed.
190:17:19 Evans Okay, she's looking good. Why don't you go to FREE, and we'll go to RETRACT 1.
190:17:22 Cernan Okay -
190:17:23 Cernan MARK it. I'm FREE.
190:17:24 Evans Okay, RETRACT, Here you come.
190:17:34 Evans Bang! I got all the - two barber poles.
190:17:39 Cernan You got what?
190:17:40 Evans Okay. (Laughter) Two grays, I mean.
190:17:42 Cernan That's better.
190:17:43 Evans (laughter)
190:17:44 Evans That's better, Okay, sounded good, in here.
190:17:47 Evans Yes, sounded good in here.
190:17:49 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're hard docked.
190:17:51 Evans Okay, SECS PYROS - LOGIC is coming OFF.
190:17:53 CC Roger. Understand two gray.
190:17:55 Evans Circuit breaker is OPEN. Two gray; that's affirm.
190:18:59 CC Challenger, Houston. We'd like to bring up the steerable there. PITCH of 155; YAW, plus 40.
190:19:21 Schmitt Roger. 155 and plus 40.
190:19:25 CC Affirmative.
190:19:37 Cernan Say again, Gordy, a 155?
190:19:41 CC A PITCH of 155; and YAW, plus 40.
190:20:20 Evans Okay, Gene. You still free?
190:20:23 Cernan That's affirm. I'm still free.
190:20:24 Evans Okay. I'll take control of it.
190:20:29 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, there's the high gain.
190:20:37 CC America and Challenger. I'd like to - -
190:20:39 Schmitt Okay - Gordy, we're not - -
190:20:42 CC - - I'd like to take a minute of your time here to read the following statement by the President of the United States of America. "As the Challenger leaves the surface of the Moon, we are conscious not of what we leave behind, but of what lies before us. The dreams that draw humanity forward seem always to be redeemed, if we believe in them strongly enough, and pursue then with diligence and courage. Once we stood mystified by the stars; today we reach up to them. We do this not only because it is man's destiny to dream the impossible, to dare the impossible, and to do the impossible, but also because, in space, as on Earth, there are new answers and new opportunities for the improvement of and the enlargement of human existence. This may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the Moon, but space exploration will continue. The benefits of space exploration will continue and there will be new dreams to pursue, based on what we have learned. So let us not mistake the significance or miss the majesty of what we have witnessed. Few events have ever marked so clearly the passage of history from one epoch to another. If we understand this about the last flight of Apollo, then trtuy we shall have touched a many splendored thing. To Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ron Evans, we say Godspeed you safely back to this good Earth.
190:22:19 Cernan Gordon, those are beautiful words by a great American President. We're very honored to receive them; we're very honored to be able to serve our country in a way that we believe in. And we thank you.
190:22:37 Schmitt Thank you very much, Gordy and Mr. President.
190:22:42 Evans Mr. President, this is America. And we appreciate it very much. Thank you, sir.
190:22:56 Cernan Say, Houston, Challenger.
190:23:19 Cernan Ron, would you give us a call, when the tunnel's pressurized?
190:23:23 Evans Okay. Stand by.
190:23:25 Cernan And also, we'll need a call when you get to attitude.
190:23:29 Evans Okay. Will do.
190:23:38 Evans Okay, your DUMP valve is in AUTO?
190:23:42 Cernan Yes, sir. It's in AUTO.
190:23:44 Evans Okay. CABIN FANS are ON for the first time in the flight.
190:24:44 Evans I got to get down there and turn the tunnel leak.
190:24:53 Evans Okay, EMERGENCY CABIN REGS are OFF.
190:25:11 Schmitt Houston, Challenger.
190:25:13 CC Go ahead, Challenger.
190:25:18 Schmitt Roger. Give us a call when you want us to go through the comm configuration. And we're going to leave the cabin fan on a little bit, keep airing out - filtering the cabin. And don't let us forget it.
190:25:34 CC Okay.
190:25:44 Evans Okay, Houston. I'm going to open the PRESSURE EQUALIZATION VALVE going into the tunnel. Can you keep an eye on my cabin pressure?
190:25:52 CC Roger, America. Will do.
190:25:56 Evans Okay.
190:26:08 Evans Okay, there's 2. DELTA-P of 2. ... closed; we'll see if it stays.
190:26:17 CC America, Houston. You need a PRO to get the VERB 49 maneuver to Jett attitude started. Over.
190:26:28 Evans Oh, sorry. ... hit the stick again, huh?
190:26:38 CC Ron, while you're down there, there's a couple switches on the SIM bay to check out this pan camera heater. Over.
190:26:47 Evans Sure; go ahead. Just waiting for the DELTA-P to stay steady ...
190:26:49 CC Okay. Put the PAN CAMERA MODE switch to STANDBY. And the PAN CAMERA POWER switch to POWER.
190:26:59 Evans Verify. STANDBY. PAN CAMERA POWER is going to POWER now.
190:27:04 CC Okay, that's good. We'll take a look at it a while and let you know when we want power off.
190:27:11 Evans Okay.
190:28:23 Evans Okay. Looks like pressure is holding good there.
190:28:26 CC Challenger, Houston.
190:28:28 Evans Cabin pressure is okay. We'll go ahead and take her on down.
190:28:35 Cernan Go ahead.
190:28:36 CC Okay, when you get ready to transfer an OPS, we want you to transfer the commander's OPS. Over.
190:28:47 Cernan Okay; will do.
190:29:11 Cernan Hello, Gordy. Were you able to see the lunar surface lift-off?
190:29:16 CC Yes, sir; we certainly were. It was a beautiful picture, and Captain Video stayed right on you. We saw you up to about 2 minutes into the burn. We could see the plume.
190:29:30 Cernan I'll tell you, if Challenger hits that South Massif and you're anywhere pointing in the right direction, you ought to have a spectacular shot.
190:29:40 CC I'm sure of that because that camera is as good as any I've seen in a - in a television studio.
190:30:18 Evans Okay, I've got about 2 - point 2 on the DELTA-P. And the equalization valve's wide open, so it must be about right.
190:30:44 Evans Okay. EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE selector's going to BOTH.
190:31:36 Evans Okay, I'm ready to open the hatch.
190:32:03 Cernan Ron, do you read?
190:32:04 Evans What? Yes, go ahead.
190:32:06 Cernan Okay.
190:32:14 Evans Yes. I still got about 5 on the cabin, I think.
190:32:18 Schmitt ... is the tunnel pressure up?
190:32:20 Evans I got the hatch out. Yes, it's pressurized.
190:32:22 Schmitt Okay, Just pull it open then.
190:32:24 Evans Okay.
190:32:27 Schmitt ...
190:32:48 Cernan Okay, Ron, I'll be a minute or two before we open that hatch. We got a little work to do in here.
190:32:51 Schmitt ... egress. LEVA bags.
190:33:27 Evans (Laughter) I don't know what it's like.
190:33:32 Schmitt ...
190:33:33 Evans (Laughter) I guess it's great. Let me check the old docking latches.
190:33:49 Schmitt ... 6.
190:34:41 Schmitt Okay.
190:34:44 Evans Okay. I hear you. And, Houston, every latch has worked perfectly.
190:34:55 CC Roger.
190:34:57 Evans Okay. Let's get the probe out of here.
190:36:06 Evans I was just bleeding the nitrogen out of the probe.
190:36:11 CC Roger, Ron. And when you get back in the cabin next, we'll take PAN CAMERA POWER, OFF.
190:36:20 Evans Okay. The probe's loose in there.
190:36:27 CC Sure sounds like it.
190:36:29 Evans Is there any hurry on that, Gordo?
190:36:33 Schmitt What did you say, Ron?
190:36:35 Evans Houston, this is America. Is there any hurry on that pan camera thing? If not, I'll take the probe out.
190:36:41 CC Negative. No hurry; we have plenty of time here till LOS - 14 minutes. We want to see it before then.
190:36:50 Evans Oh, okay. I'll get it out before then.
190:36:55 PAO Evans will now remove the probe and drogue assembly and hand them through to Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan in the Lunar Module. He'll also be transfering in the vacuum cleaner and a list of other items that need to be transferred out of the LM into the Command Module. After, gettings things as cleaned up as possible in the LM cabin, the crew will begin transferring samples and other equipment into the Command Module, and getting - begin the process of getting transfered themselves from Challenger into America. We have about 13 minutes remaining before we lose radio contact with Apollo 17.
190:36:56 Evans Ouch.
190:37:00 Schmitt ... over here,
190:37:05 Evans Don't lose those (laughter).
190:37:30 Schmitt They might be in the data file.
190:37:59 Schmitt ... I got the bags -
190:38:12 Evans There comes the old probe.
190:38:23 Schmitt ...
190:39:20 Evans Okay. The probe is out.
190:39:24 CC Roger, Ron.
190:39:29 Evans Hey, does that - Do you want the probe right away, Jack?
190:39:32 Schmitt What?
190:39:33 Evans Do you want the probe right now?
190:39:35 Schmitt No, and ...
190:40:13 Evans Okay, Gordo. PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF.
190:40:17 CC Okay, Ron. And before you pass the transfer list out of the Flight Plan Supplement, we have two small changes to page 1-11.
190:40:33 Evans Okay. Wait 1 and I'll get it. Okay, I'm on 1-11.
190:41:04 CC Okay, Ron - -
190:41:05 Evans No, that's it.
190:41:06 CC - item 17. Just change the last part of the statement "stow on A-1" to "stow on A-7"; and, on item 19 there, change from "stow on A-7" to "stow on A-1". That's it.
190:41:24 Evans That's it? Okay? We can do that, I think.
190:41:30 CC Okay.
190:41:30 Evans Hey, hey! Here they come, by gosh. How you doing? (Laughter) Beautiful! Good show!
190:41:36 Evans Boy, is it cold up there, it's hot as hell down here. It's stuffy.
190:41:41 CC America, advise we're reading all of you on Ron's VOX.
190:41:52 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
190:41:57 Cernan Let me just doublecheck all ...
190:42:22 CC Jack, if your handy to it, we'll take the S-band reconfiguration now.
190:42:31 Schmitt Okay, I'll do that.
190:43:01 Schmitt Okay, Houston, how do you read on the AFT OMNI?
190:43:06 CC You're loud and clear, Challenger, on the AFT OMNI.
190:43:24 Evans Here's your old vacuum, cleaner (laughter). You ... No, it's not on. You want it on? (Laughter) Great.
190:43:42 Cernan Hey, let me know when you turn it on; it costs me a MASTER ALARM.
190:43:48 Evans Okay, I'll turn it on.
190:43:53 Evans Turn it on. You got the switch.
190:43:57 Evans Okay.
190:44:13 CC America and Challenger, both vehicles may get a program alarm on the computers due to the W-matrix overflowing. A VERB 93 will fix it in both cases.
190:44:29 Evans Oh, okay. Should we just do a VERB 93 now for the heck of it anyhow?
190:44:37 CC That's affirmative. VERB 93 on both spacecraft will fix them.
190:44:51 Evans Okay, I got my -
190:45:07 Schmitt Okay, Houston. I'm on the steerable, and I'll start tweaking to the best signal strength I can get.
190:45:14 CC Okay, Jack.
190:46:57 CC Jack, we think you've got the steerable up as good as it's going to get.
190:47:09 Schmitt I think you're right.
190:47:24 Schmitt Okay, and I verify I am in SLEW and not in AUTO.
190:47:28 CC Okay; thank you.
190:47:41 Evans Yes, are you going to leave us? Oh, okay; I got it. Okay? Okay, I'll get ... take care of this. Man, you guys got a lot of dirt up there.
190:48:03 Schmitt It's clean now.
190:48:09 Evans Oh. (Laughter)
190:48:54 Evans One OPS, stowed.
190:49:03 CC Challenger and America, about 2 minutes to LOS now, and both spacecraft are looking good.
190:49:13 Schmitt Roger, Gordy; thank you. We'll see you coming around.
190:49:16 Evans Okay, Houston, this is America, and we'll see you around there.
190:49:20 CC Okeydoke. Adios.
190:50:13 Evans Hey, Jack, you want a jettison bag?
190:50:16 Schmitt Not yet.
190:50:17 Evans Okay. Let me know when you want it - an empty one, you mean?
190:50:21 Schmitt Not yet.
190:50:22 Evans Okay.
190:51:25 PAO This is Apollo Control at 190 hours 51 minutes. We've had loss of signal now with America and Challenger docked together in the 52nd revolution and we'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes. The current orbit for the two vehicles is 62.2 by 61.6, and they're currently at an altitude of about 62.2, very close to apogee at this time. This is Apollo Control Houston.
191:34:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 191 hours 34 minutes, about 1 minute away from reacquiring America and Challenger on the 53rd revolution of the Moon. During this front-side pass one of the major activities here in the Control Center and also aboard the spacecraft will be to get the Lunar Module, Challenger properly configured for the LM jettison and the subsequent de-orbit burn that will impact at - into the lunar surface near the landing site at Taurus-Littrow. The Flight Dynamics Officer will be coming up with the numbers that will be programmed into the LM for that de-orbit jettison and subsequent de-orbit maneuver. Right now, we're looking a time for ignition, or rather, a time for separation of the LM of 193 hours 58 minutes, and a LM de-orbit burn at 195 hours 38 minutes 14 seconds. The LM will be jettisoned by severing pyrotechnic bolts that - pyrotechnic charges that in turn sever the connection between the two vehicles. And we have AOS. We'll pick up the live conversation.
191:34:38 BEGIN LUNAR REV 53
191:35:00 Schmitt Yes.
191:35:10 Cernan Got a good ISA bag - -
191:35:15 Evans Okay.
191:35:20 Cernan - and stow on top of A-2 ...?
191:35:25 Schmitt Darned if I know (laughter). I've been sleeping floating around in the tunnel.
191:35:33 CC America, Houston. We hear you talking.
191:35:37 Schmitt Hey, okay, Houston.
191:35:43 Schmitt Hello, Houston; Challenger's up also.
191:35:45 CC Okay, Challenger. Keeping busy up there?
191:35:49 Cernan Yes sir, Gordo. I think we're moving right along with the - with the transfer and stowage. And we'll give you a hack here. We got the ISA bag over for A-2. We got the - two of the sample return bags stowed and a DECON bag, and they're over and a lot of miscellaneous stuff.
191:36:14 Cernan Jack?
191:36:14 CC Okay.
191:36:19 Evans It's my page, probably, yes.
191:36:21 Cernan Jack, is that -
191:36:26 Evans ... did it come loose, there? Yes, my whole book came loose.
191:36:39 Schmitt You got something on your - -
191:36:43 Evans (laughter)
191:36:45 Schmitt ... bags.
191:37:02 Evans Thank, you. I'm checking some of this stuff off. Yes.
191:37:12 Schmitt Okay.
191:37:25 Evans That was a good one.
191:37:26 Schmitt I didn't like that ...
191:38:33 Evans Okay. Are you going to put the Buddy SLSS in the DECON bag and stow it on A-l?
191:38:38 Schmitt Yes. That's in there now.
191:38:40 Evans Okay. - Okay, the ISA has got the - ...
191:38:52 Schmitt You just took the ISA bag, - the big ...
191:38:54 Evans Okay, but it had a lens brush,16 millimeter mags, three of them?
191:39:00 Cernan No, we can't have ... like that.
191:39:02 Evans Okay, so I got those in - -
191:39:04 Cernan The lens brush is there ...
191:39:06 Evans Okay, those - those l6-millimeter mags are in R-13. Yes. Extra sample collection bags? You got two of those in there? in the I - in the ISA?
191:39:19 Schmitt I need another -
191:39:20 Cernan Yes, there's two collec - -
191:39:22 Evans Okay.
191:39:23 Schmitt I need another decontamination bag.
191:39:29 Evans Got one for the - that's got a metal plate in it somewhere.
191:39:31 Cernan That's it right there. That's got a metal plate.
191:39:34 Evans Yes, that goes in the PGA bag, I think.
191:39:36 Cernan Huh?
191:39:37 Evans That goes in the PGA bag.
191:39:38 Cernan Yes.
191:39:47 Evans (Laughter) I don't know. I had a pretty nice little home here by myself.
191:39:53 Cernan You got any more bags or what?
191:39:55 Evans I'm out of bags, I think.
191:39:57 Cernan ... what are you going down there? ...
191:40:04 Evans Yes.
191:40:07 Cernan ... bags ...
191:40:10 Evans Yes.
191:40:11 Cernan We've got to tie that ...
191:40:17 Evans I'd - I don't even know what's going on in the Flight Plan. Let's see.
191:40:21 Cernan This.
191:40:22 Evans This, I think. Isn't it?
191:40:38 Evans Yes. What time is it? Let's see, 191:40. Let me check. One hour from now.
191:41:05 Schmitt ... What?
191:41:05 Evans One hour from now.
191:41:07 Schmitt No, no. We have two revs.
191:41:09 Evans At 1 hour from now, it's supposed to be - Okay? Okay, let me get some out.
191:41:31 Cernan Let me work with this ... Jack.
191:41:37 Evans Guess it doesn't make any difference whicn one goes where, does it?
191:41:41 Cernan Hey, Jack - -
191:41:42 Schmitt Hey, Gene.
191:41:43 Cernan Yes.
191:41:43 Evans You're tangled up in the vacuum cleaner cable.
191:41:54 CC America, Houston. We heard you talking about the time there. As near as we can tell, you're right on the timeline.
191:42:03 Evans Right on the timeline, huh? Aren't we supposed to be closed out in about an hour?
191:42:09 CC Well, let's see - -
191:42:10 Evans That right? Or not?
191:42:49 CC Ron, it's about an hour and a half until you're supposed to close up the LM hatch.
191:42:56 Evans Oh, okay. An hour and a half yet. Well, we should get it by then, I hope.
191:43:23 Evans Hey, Gene. Do those SRCs have numbers on them, or weights, or anything like that?
191:43:29 Cernan Both weigh the same ...
191:43:32 Evans Both weigh the same?
191:43:33 Cernan Yes. Almost.
191:43:34 Evans Okay. Won't make any difference where I put ther. then.
191:43:36 Cernan No.
191:43:42 Evans Yes. Okay. Switch.
191:44:19 Evans Oh, that's all right. Yes.
191:44:37 Evans Well, it's serial number 1007. It's in the B-6 rockbox area. I don't know how you tell which one's the number, which number's what.
191:45:27 Evans Just a second, I can't get the other one closed. No. I - I don't mean that one. I mean, the B-5 rockbox.
191:45:40 Cernan Okay. That's good ....
191:45:53 Cernan I have to think about it. They are in the ISA, I should say. Did you want the ...?
191:46:12 Evans Oops, I got the B-6 back again (laughter).
191:46:18 Cernan You ready for a ...?
191:46:19 Evans Yes, I'll take it. Okay -
191:46:24 Cernan ... on the back side of ...
191:46:25 Evans There's a neat way to pass things back and forth. Okay. That's all right, we'll keep - -
191:46:34 Schmitt Don't have room for it down here yet.
191:46:35 Evans Okay.
191:46:36 Schmitt How's the rockboxes ... ?
191:46:39 Evans Let me look.
191:46:41 Schmitt I've got one, but ...
191:46:43 Evans No.
191:47:09 Evans Have you guys still got your PGA pockets on?
191:47:12 Schmitt No, we threw them away.
191:47:13 Evans Oh, okay.
191:47:21 Evans You didn't want any of the stuff that's in them?
191:47:23 SC No, we ...
191:47:27 Evans Oh (laughter).
191:49:01 Evans You guys you got any - sample bags you can put in A-9?
191:49:06 Schmitt Say again.
191:49:07 Evans You got a sample bag for me to put in A-9?
191:49:09 Schmitt No.
191:49:11 Evans You don't?
191:49:12 Schmitt Oh, wait a minute.
191:49:15 Evans Okay.
191:49:16 Schmitt Do you have a bag for it?
191:49:19 Evans No, I just got an empty box.
191:49:22 Schmitt Oh, okay.
191:49:27 Evans No, it just goes in a lithium hydroxide canister.
191:49:31 Schmitt Okay.
191:49:32 Evans You want the canister? It's easier to just put the bag in the - in the thing over here. I think.
191:49:38 Schmitt Okay. I'll send it over.
191:52:00 Evans What's that? Okay. That's all right, I'll get it. (laughter) I didn't - doesn't look like it's going to fit.
191:52:11 Schmitt It may not. You may have to ... put one in the ...
191:52:19 Evans Yes, it's number 7, huh? Well, maybe it'll fit.
191:52:24 SC ...
191:52:34 Evans Oh, it fits !
191:52:36 Schmitt ...
191:52:44 Evans Sample bag number 7 is in A-9.
191:53:12 Evans You know, from the looks of this dirt, no wonder it looks dark down there at that landing site. No, we're going to keep them all. We're taking them, back.
191:53:25 Schmitt Okay.
191:53:27 Evans What do you mean? Unused ones?
191:53:29 Schmitt I don't know what this is all about. I -
191:53:37 Evans Okay.
191:53:48 PAO We're getting a one way bit of communications here apparently with Ron Evans, whose mic is on voice operated, voice operated mode. Triggered by his own speech and Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan in the Lunar Module apparently operating their microphones in the push-to-talk mode.
191:54:09 Evans Have you found the - waist tethers yet?
191:54:12 Schmitt Yes. I got them - for you.
191:54:14 Evans Okay.
191:54:17 PAO And we hear Evans whenever he speaks to them, but we only hear the Lunar Module crew when they press the push-to-talk switch on their mic. Interesting to note that when Evans' mic is open, you can hear the vacuum cleaner operating in the background, presumeably in the Lunar Module, where Cernan and Schmitt are facing the monumental job of cleaning up the LM cabin, the things that are being transfered into the Command Module, and the same job is going to have to be done in part in the Command Module, from all the dirt that will be tracked in from the LM and from the rock containers that are moved into the CSM for stowage.
191:54:20 Evans Yes, it's right here in the tunnel.
191:54:25 CC Hey, do we need any toothpaste up there?
191:55:00 Evans Yes, this one's about three-quarters gone, or half gone. Oh, okay. Here.
191:55:08 Schmitt Hey, Ron, ... that?
191:55:13 Evans Ah.
191:55:16 Schmitt What?
191:55:22 Evans We can probably always use that, you know.
191:55:25 Schmitt Okay, I'll send it over to ...
191:55:28 Evans Yes.
191:56:16 Evans Hey, Houston. How was the quality of America's TV camera? That's the first time - first chance we had to use it on this flight.
191:56:24 CC I don't think it could have been any better. We had a real nice picture.
191:56:31 Evans Hey, okay. Good.
191:56:51 Evans No.
191:56:55 Evans I never did find that one set that you were talking about.
191:57:03 SC ...
191:59:21 Evans Send the tape over here. You want it?
191:59:24 SC Here's your -
191:59:25 Evans Yes?
191:59:26 SC ...
191:59:31 Evans Okay.
192:00:28 Evans Okay, coming up.
192:00:36 Cernan I found a med kit. Did you say ...?
192:00:40 Evans No, we - we only have about six more sleeping pills left, or seven, or something. I don't know.
192:00:48 Schmitt How many more nights are you going to sleep?
192:00:50 Evans Well, I like to - sleep about one more, probably.
192:01:15 Schmitt Empty your jettison bag if you could get ...
192:01:19 Cernan That would get me out of the way.
192:01:24 Evans (Laughter)
192:01:26 Schmitt How about the jettison bag?
192:01:28 Evans You want it?
192:01:28 Schmitt Yes.
192:01:29 Evans Okay, just a second. Okay.
192:02:00 Evans One jett bag. Oops - Oh, the big one. You got to have a bigger hole than this to get it through.
192:02:14 Schmitt Okay. Let's wait for Gene, then.
192:02:15 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
192:02:29 Schmitt Okay, Houston, this is Challenger. I think we're getting close to being able to take your up-1ink.
192:02:36 CC Okay, Challenger. We're ready when you are.
192:02:43 Schmitt Okay. You've got P00 and DATA.
192:02:46 CC Okay, and I've also got the pads ...
192:03:02 Evans Is that the book that's down here in R-2?
192:03:05 Schmitt Yes.
192:03:17 Evans I don't think I will ever find it in here.
192:03:18 Cernan You'll never find it in there, Ron; I just stuck ...
192:03:23 Evans What does it look - is it a small book or what?
192:03:26 Schmitt Some P30 pads and stuff.
192:03:28 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, it looks like we've gotten - -
192:03:31 Cernan Get one from the command -
192:03:33 Schmitt - We've got our Data Card Book - -
192:03:35 Evans What do you need? A P30 pad?
192:03:36 Evans - stowed away. Can you read each of the items, and I'll copy down the pad that way?
192:03:41 Evans Hey, wait a minute and I'll tear you one out of here, Jack.
192:03:43 CC Sure enough, Jack. No problem. It's not that complicated anyway.
192:03:50 Schmitt That's right, this is an easy one. Go ahead.
192:03:53 CC Okay. It's a LM deorbit pad, and NOUN 33 or Tig is 195:38:13.00; NOUN 8l: X is a minus 0224.6, Y is a plus 0056.9, and Z is a plus 0167.7; the apogee and perigee are N/A, perigee is going to be minus; and DELTA-Vr is 0286.0; burn time will be 1:58; and the FDAI attitude - for what it's worth -here is 048, 138, and 075. Go ahead.
192:05:12 Schmitt Okay, here's the deorbit pad. Tig 195:38:13-00; DELTA-V's are X, minus 0224.6; Y is plus 0056.9, Z is plus 0167.7.
192:05:32 Cernan Ron.
192:05:33 Evans Yes.
192:05:33 Cernan ...
192:05:33 Schmitt Total DELTA-V is 0286.0; burn time is 1:58; and FDAI angles 048, 138, 075.
192:05:51 CC Okay, that's all correct.
192:05:56 Schmitt Okay, Gordy.
192:05:58 CC And you'll need a LM weight for the DAP; if you want to write that one down, it's 5185.
192:06:13 Schmitt Okay, 5185 is the LM weight.
192:06:17 CC That's affirmative.
192:06:42 Evans I never did get the purse back over here yet.
192:06:44 Cernan It's in here. You don't need it.
192:06:47 Evans Okay.
192:07:32 Evans Okay.
192:07:33 Cernan ...
192:07:34 Evans Yes, will do. Yes.
192:07:50 Evans I think that's all the stuff - think that's all the junk.
192:08:32 Evans Well, the - you know, we have more than enough to eat every day - the only food that's left is the - you know, the food that's to come up.
192:08:41 Cernan You got yellow pills?
192:08:43 Evans Yes. We got more yellow pills than we know what to do with.
192:08:46 Cernan You do? Okay.
192:08:46 Evans Yes. But that food that we didn't eat, it's gone.
192:08:57 Cernan What did you do with it?
192:08:58 Evans It's in that big bag.
192:09:01 Cernan Okay.
192:09:04 Evans (Laughing) Well - -
192:09:08 Cernan They must consider that you are the judge of that.
192:09:15 PAO The big yellow pills, that Ron Evans was referring to, are the germicidal pills that are mixed with the food after it has been - the astronauts have eaten what they want the remnant is mixed with the germicical pill and stored. The pill prevents the bacteria build up and the subsequent build up of odors and so on in the spacecraft.
192:10:03 PAO The last series of numbers passed up to the crew included the time of ignition for the lunar module deorbit burn. And the parameters that will be fed into the LM guidance system to control that burn. The result of which will be to impact the lunar module into the lunar surface generating seismic waves.
192:10:24 Evans Okay, Jack, you still got your helmet over there, right?
192:10:26 Schmitt Yes.
192:10:26 Evans Okay, because I've only got two helmets here.
192:10:44 PAO The LM deorbit burn is now scheduled to be performed at Ground Elapsed Time of 195 hours 38 minutes 13 seconds. This will be a 158 second burn, using the reaction control system thrusters on the lunar module and the burn will be controlled by the lunar module primary guidance and navigation system. With a total Delta V of 286 feet per second.
192:10:50 Evans Okay. You guys say you got the LCG plugs with you, huh?
192:11:00 Schmitt Yes.
192:11:00 Cernan Yes.
192:11:10 Evans Okay. I want to make sure you got those. Okay.
192:11:28 PAO The deorbit burn will give us a predicted impact time of 195 hours 57 minutes 12 seconds. And the predicted latitude and longitude for impact is 19.95 degrees north 30.57 degrees east.
192:11:30 CC Challenger, Houston. It's your computer, now.
192:11:58 Evans How about the monocular?
192:11:59 Schmitt Yes. I've got it in my pocket.
192:12:00 Evans Okay. It's in your pocket.
192:12:01 Cernan You got that?
192:13:06 Evans You need this?
192:13:07 Cernan What is it?
192:13:07 Evans Just a big bag.
192:13:09 Cernan No, I don't need it ...
192:13:11 Evans Okay.
192:13:49 Evans Tape? Okay.
192:13:51 Cernan Okay.
192:16:37 Evans Well, if you br - if that's a good one; you just need one.
192:16:40 Cernan It's a good one.
192:16:41 Evans Okay.
192:17:10 Evans Houston, America.
192:17:14 CC Go ahead, Ron.
192:17:17 Evans Is it a mag Dog Dog for LM jett on the l6-millimeter?
192:17:26 CC I'll check that. One other thing. We'd like H2 Tank 1 FAN, ON now to start getting it set up for the sleep period.
192:17:39 Evans Okay. Just a second here. I'm stuck, can't get this - (laughter). Oh, Mr. Clean. You guys are so dirty. I'm going to make you sleep in the tunnel. Let's see, H2 -
192:18:04 CC H2 Tank 1, FAN.
192:18:05 Evans Which tank? Tank 1?
192:18:07 CC That's affirmative. Tank 1 FAN.
192:18:09 Evans Okay. To ON?
192:18:13 CC That's right. ON.
192:18:18 Evans Okay. H2, Tank 1 FAN is ON.
192:18:21 CC And we've got a vector for you, if you want to give us ACCEPT.
192:18:28 Evans Okay. The old CMC - let me get a big hatch right there in the middle of things. Let's see. There it is. Okay, you've got ACCEPT.
192:18:45 CC Roger.
192:20:09 Evans Yes, you guys keep the bag up there. And I get the - I get the rest of it.
192:20:15 Schmitt We keep the bag?
192:20:16 Evans Yes.
192:20:20 CC Ron, Houston. The answer to your question is yes. Mag Delta Delta is the one.
192:20:27 Evans Delta Delta. Okay.
192:20:35 CC And, it's your computer, Ron.
192:20:35 Evans ... Thank you. ... Get in there in a minute. Let's see. ...
192:20:57 Evans Okay? Apparently, you're stuck on something. Okay. Got it.
192:21:17 Cernan ... Turn on the ...
192:21:24 Evans Okay, I got it. You want some tape? The tape. Gene wants the tape.
192:21:33 Cernan Yes. I'll need it. ...
192:21:41 CC Ron, Houston. If Delta Delta is more than 50 percent finished, then use Charlie Charlie.
192:21:53 Evans Okay. I don't think I've used Delta Delta, have I? I'll have to look at it and see.
192:22:23 CC Ron, one other thing to bug you; we'd like you to do the VERB 48 load as shown in the Flight Plan. It'll collapse the dead band so we can check and make sure the LM steerable is right on the money.
192:22:38 Evans You want to do that now?
192:22:40 CC That's affirmative.
192:22:44 Evans Okay, why don't you read it to me, Gordo? And I'll get it, in the LEB DSKY down here.
192:22:51 CC Okay, it's a VERB 48, R-l, you want 61101.
192:23:24 Evans Okay, Houston; this is America. That should have collapsed it there.
192:23:49 CC Okay, Ron. That caught what we wanted.
192:23:55 Evans Okay.
192:25:10 Cernan 495 ...
192:25:22 Evans Yes. The jettison suited. Okay, Houston, mag Delta Delta looks like it's full. I was just going over the list of stuff here I've got. And I think you've got everything.
192:25:53 Cernan ...
192:26:49 Cernan ... bringing it back.
192:27:26 Cernan Okay ...
192:28:44 Cernan ... bag ... too many pictures.
192:29:32 Schmitt Okay, Houston, I guess we're GO or NO/GO for your LM closeout.
192:29:41 CC Okay, stand by 1 on that.
192:30:22 Cernan ...
192:30:28 Evans Yes, we're in a jettison attitude now.
192:30:38 CC Challenger, you're GO for closeout.
192:30:44 Cernan Okay, we're proceeding then.
192:31:07 Evans No, I'm NARROW DEADBAND now.
192:31:09 Cernan MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD.
192:31:11 Evans That's right. MIN DEADBAND ATT HOLD.
192:31:12 Cernan GUIDANCE CONTROL, PGNS.
192:31:30 Cernan AGS MODE CONTROL, ATT HOLD.
192:31:47 Cernan ... OFF and RECEIVER, ON. ...
192:32:47 Cernan Hello, Houston; Challenger.
192:32:50 CC Go ahead, Challenger.
192:32:54 Cernan Gordo, how soon is AOS?
192:33:01 CC Okay, LOS is 16-1/2 minutes.
192:33:08 Cernan That's what I meant - LOS. Thank you.
192:33:48 CC America, Houston. I have a couple updates to go in the Flight Plan.
192:34:00 Evans Yes?
192:34:04 Cernan Did you hear it?
192:34:05 Evans What's that?
192:34:05 Cernan They have an update for ...
192:34:07 Evans Oh, okay.
192:34:16 Evans Houston, I'm ready for the Flight Flan update.
192:34:20 CC Okay, what it is, is the CSM and LM weights for the DAP at 192:10.
192:34:29 Evans Okay, go.
192:34:30 CC The CSM weight with three men, assuming you're going to have three men from here on out, is 36545 (laughter). And the LM weight is 5185. And you might jot down a couple trims for three men aboard. Pitch trim will be plus 0.60 and yaw plus 0.8l.
192:35:09 Evans Okay, CSM weight is 36545, LM weight is 5185, pitch is plus 0.60, yaw is plus 0.8l.
192:35:23 CC Okay, that's a good readback. The LM jettison numbers are nominal as shown down the LM jettison time for Tig. and attitudes.
192:35:39 Evans Okay, wait a minute.
192:35:52 CC I realize there is no ...
192:35:53 Evans Okay. 194:03:30.
192:36:04 CC Okay. That's right for CSM sep, and the LM jettison time is on a page before there, 193:58:30.
192:36:22 Evans Okay.
192:37:04 Cernan Okay, Houston. Challenger is going off the air.
192:37:14 CC Okay, Challenger. It's been a pleasure talking to you the last few days.
192:37:24 Cernan It seems like an unfitting finish to a super bird, but it's got one more job to do.
192:37:31 CC Roger that.
192:37:37 Schmitt Take care, Gordy, and thank you.
192:37:45 CC Sounds like you're planning to stay there.
192:37:49 Schmitt (Laughter)
192:37:52 Cernan I speak for the Challenger.
192:38:00 CC Say, one final thing. And sometime in the next 30 minutes, Parker will be coming on to take over here and, just for your information, today is his birthday.
192:38:21 Evans Ah-ha. Okay, thank you much.
192:38:29 PAO Parker is Astronaut Robert Parker, who is the spacecraft communicator, or Capcom, will be coming on to relieve Astronaut Gordon Fullerton on the shifts change in about 15 or 20 minutes.
192:39:04 PAO After that last transmission, Gene Cernan indicated that he and Jack Schmitt were ready to return to the Command Module, close the hatch and leave Challenger to be jettisoned and later deorbited into the lunar surface. And again to go over the information for the Lunar Module deorbit, the time of ignition, which will start the LM on its trajectory toward the lunar surface is 195 hours 38 minutes 13 seconds. The deorbit burn will be a 158 second burn, using the reaction control system thrusters, providing a change in velocity of 286 feet per second, primarily slowing the LM down, and getting it in orbit that intersects the lunar surface. LM impact is scheduled to occur, will be targeted to occur at 195 hours 57 minutes 12 seconds and the target at impact point will be 19.95 degrees north, 30.57 degrees east, which is about 9 kilometers from the ALSEP in South Massif, and hopefully will be visible to the television camera on the lunar surface.
192:40:36 Evans Yes, I can just barely hear you.
192:40:40 SC I need the hose. I need ...
192:40:46 Evans Want a hose, yes. What, the suit hose?
192:40:55 SC Yes.
192:40:58 Evans Well, I was thinking of comm. That's Jack's.
192:41:04 SC ... this one here.
192:41:08 Evans Okay. There you go. Let me put the - ... connect in. Yes.
192:41:41 Evans Hey, we ought to put this thing on there.
192:47:32 CC Okay, America. You're about 2 minutes from LOS, and everything's looking fine right now.
192:47:43 Evans Okay, it looks like the majority of the stuff is completed, so we should see you, ready to go, or. the other side.
192:47:51 CC Okeydoke.
192:47:51 BEGIN LUNAR REV 54
192:49:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 192 hours 49 minutes. We're now less than 1 minute from losing radio contact with Apollo 17. We'll be reacquiring in about 45 minutes on the 54th revolution of the Moon. And, on that revolution, the Lunar Module, Challenger, will be separated and jettisoned from the CSM, preparatory to it being de-orbited and impacted into the lunar surface. We're having a shift handover here in Mission Control. Flight Director, Pete Frank and his team of flight controllers coming on to relieve the team headed by Flight Director Gene Kranz. And, we're planning a change-of-shift press briefing for 10 P.M. in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. At 192 hours 50 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
193:31:49 PAO This is Apollo Control at 193 hours 31 minutes. We're slightly under 1 minute away from acquisition of spacecraft America on it's 54th lunar revolution. Still docked to the Lunar Module, Challenger. Challenger will be jettisoned during this front side pass. We'll stand by now for first call to the crew.
193:33:03 Evans Okay. DIRECT O2 is OFF. The other day, mine went up to 4.5. No, it just goes that high; doesn't make any difference what you do.
193:33:17 Cernan I am, too.
193:33:17 Evans So am I, right now. No, not yet. We got to wait until the O2 flow stops. Yes, it'll increase on up to - should be 4.1 to 4.5. Well, she's still going up. I'm reading 4.2 on the cuff gage.
193:33:43 Cernan 4.1.
193:33:48 Evans Well, we'll go on up to about ... Well, there's the total suits.
193:33:54 Cernan Yes, it's got 8 - ... 9-
193:33:57 Evans 8.9?
193:33:57 Cernan 9.
193:34:00 Evans Yes, it ought to stable off there. It's to about 4.3 - 4.4 on mine now. Houston, America. How go you read?
193:34:07 CC Loud and clear, America.
193:34:11 Evans Okay, we're in the old suit circuit integrity check at the present time.
193:34:19 CC Roger, we're copying you live.
193:34:20 Evans Okay, DIRECT O2 is coming down now - I mean the O2 Okay, O2 flow's coming down.
193:34:28 Cernan And, Houston, the tunnel's closed out. We're still at TUNNEL VENT, and the hatch integrity is GO.
193:34:35 CC Okay, we copy that.
193:34:50 Evans And O2 flow's down to 0.5, now. Yes, that's right. The - the suit Integrity check will pump you up that high.
193:35:02 Schmitt It's a - it regulates through the delta over cabin.
193:35:05 Evans Yes. Yes, maybe she might make it down to 0.4. Yes, it's going down. Well, it means you guys' suits are still on tight.
193:35:21 Cernan What do you mean? There's so much dust in the joint, they couldn't be anything else but tight.
193:35:24 Evans (Laughter)
193:35:26 Schmitt They're tighter than they were when we started.
193:35:27 Evans Oh, yes?
193:35:33 Schmitt But that lubing is just so it collects dust to make them tight.
193:35:36 Evans Uh-huh.
193:35:43 Evans Well, I was down to 0.4, now it's up to about 0.5, 0.4 and a half. All we need is less than 0.8. Well, I haven't been timing it. I guess it's about 30 seconds, though.
193:35:58 Schmitt Oh, yes. ...
193:36:03 Evans Yes, I'm happy; let's go to DEPRESS. ... Don't, go to OFF, yet.
193:36:10 Cernan Okay.
193:36:13 Evans There we go - DEPRESS.
193:36:15 CC And, America, Houston's also happy with what we see down here.
193:36:17 Evans Okay, it looks like you've been staying around - -
193:36:21 Evans Okay. Speaking of happy - Happy birthday.
193:36:26 CC Thank you, Ron. Found out you guys plan far ahead.
193:36:28 Evans Who, Parker?
193:36:28 Cernan Yes.
193:36:32 Evans (Laughter)
193:36:33 Schmitt What was that?
193:36:34 Cernan Ron, we'll - we'll drop Challenger right on the South Massif for you - for your birthday present.
193:36:43 CC Thank you, Gene.
193:36:47 Evans Okay. LM POWER's OFF.
193:36:50 Schmitt Are you going to let the suit down or what?
193:36:51 Evans It's going down. It's going down slowly.
193:36:53 Schmitt Yes, it is.
193:36:55 Evans We'll take it down real fast if you want to, but that's kind of hard on my ears. Okay, SECS PYRO ARM circuit breakers - I wonder if I can reach those. Yes. There's BAT A and BAT B are in.
193:37:14 Evans And, Houston, America. I guess we're ready for LOGIC ARM if you are.
193:37:20 CC Roger. We're ready to watch.
193:37:21 Evans SECS LOGIC. Okay. Here goes LOGIC 1 -
193:37:27 Evans MARK it. And LOGIC 2 -
193:37:30 Evans MARK it.
193:37:38 CC Okay, America. You're GO for PYRO ARM.
193:37:44 Evans Okay. We - we'll wait awhile to do that. We're actually a little ahead of time.
193:38:03 CC Okay. And, America, can you report - -
193:38:05 Cernan Houston, how does Challenger - -
193:38:06 CC - - LM/CM DELTA-P?
193:38:07 Cernan - - look to you?
193:38:13 CC Okay, Challenger looks good, but we'd like the LM/CM DELTA-P.
193:38:15 Cernan That's affirm. I - I'm seeing DELTA-P is off scale high, and I'm on about the sixth minute of my 10-minute tunnel vent, following 3.5 DELTA-P.
193:38:34 CC Okay, copy that.
193:38:57 Evans Yes, it does, doesn't it? (Laughter)
193:39:01 Schmitt That's right.
193:39:03 Evans Yours come down faster than mine?
193:39:04 Schmitt Oh, you opened the old suit circuit relief. We're tough, though, us guys that go to the lunar surface.
193:39:11 Evans Yes, yes. You guys got to be tough.
193:39:13 Schmitt Yes. (Laughter)
193:39:16 Evans We got a tough position here too, you know, if you want to try it. Just go to off.
193:39:22 Schmitt Bet you life you do.
193:39:26 Evans Okay.
193:39:27 Schmitt I imagine they had you humping.
193:39:30 Evans Yes, a little bit.
193:39:36 Schmitt How we're back to screw up your routine.
193:39:39 Evans Yes, that's right, you know.
193:39:44 Cernan Don't let us bother you, Ron. You just go about and do whatever you want to do. We'll just get clean for the next 3 days.
193:39:49 Evans Okay.
193:39:54 Schmitt Oh, we - we're down to 7 now.
193:39:56 Evans Lower limit. You know, I can't even see my EMS for that Sun shining in here. That'd be a great LM jett attison [sic].
193:40:08 Cernan Ron's ears apparently are bothering him is the only thing I can decide.
193:40:11 Evans (Laughter) Oh, we're about down, aren't we?
193:40:17 Cernan Couple of more pounds and we'll be there.
193:40:18 Evans Couple more pounds? Okay.
193:40:22 Evans Tunnel light are off.
193:40:51 Schmitt We didn't hurt this end of the LM much.
193:40:56 Evans Yes, it looks real good. I got some pictures of the bottom of it, too, I think. When you guys were going around there. And that looks real nice.
193:41:06 Schmitt Well, you always were a bottom man.
193:41:16 Evans Okay, let's see.
193:41:59 Evans Okay, suit circuit integrity check. We've already done that. Okay, I'm loading the EMS to plus 100 and making a null bias check, right now.
193:42:23 PAO As a precautionary measure the crew will wear pressure suits while the lunar module is being jetted.
193:42:50 Cernan Okay, Houston. I've been in TUNNEL VENT now for about 11 minutes after 3.5 on the DELTA-P, and I'm going TUNNEL VENT valve to OFF.
193:43:04 CC Okay, we copy that, Gene.
193:43:16 Evans Houston, the null bias check, I've got plus 100.9, starting out at 100, in a minute and 40 seconds.
193:43:27 CC Okay, we copy.
193:43:52 Evans (Laughter) You all done? You'll have to stay inside. Okay, align the old GDC; I just did that awhile ago. ... do it again. Good.
193:44:32 Evans In the LM? ... In there.
193:44:46 Evans Okay, we're right down here now, and I can't see that very well. Can you - do you want to read the - read the checklist?
193:44:57 Evans Okay, uncage the BMAGs. RATE to LOW; DEAD BAND, MIN. Okay, wait a minute. We won't do that as late as 45. Let's see. Okay, might as well, I guess. Okay. And SCS. Oh, I don't use that anyhow, really. That's just - well, I really don't use that this time, anyhow. TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON.
193:45:55 Evans Okay. I don't either. You're looking right into the Sun. We're looking right into the Sun so we won't be able to see it. Okay. Yes, I got this one going over here, but - it might still have something.
193:46:23 Schmitt Twelve frames a second.
193:46:28 Evans DIRECTS, MAIN A, MAIN B. Well, I'll wait awhile on arming those.
193:46:52 Evans Let's see, we ought to go ... the old SUIT TEST valve to OFF now, okay?
193:46:59 Evans Okay.
193:47:22 Evans That's both of them. That's both the ascent stage and the - and the - Yes, we'll change that, too. O2, okay. That's good.
193:47:39 Cernan B/D roll.
193:47:40 Evans Yes; okay.
193:47:53 Evans And we don't need to be P30 anymore, we can get out of there. Turn the page over there and then you can see what the - See, we'll do the jettison burn and then we'll VERB 49 to a new attitude so we don't zap the hot exhaust into the SIM bay. And then we'll do a P41 for separation, see? At that new attitude. That's all over there in this thing. So, we'll do all that as soon as we separate, then we'll go into the preseparation - or as soon as we jettison, we'll go right to the pre-SEP checklist.
193:48:41 Evans About 10 minutes to SEP - I mean to jett. Ten minutes to jettison.
193:49:01 Evans Oh, that's all right - it won't work anyhow, see. So -
193:50:20 Evans Okay, plus 110.00, ENTER. Plus 7.000, ENTER. Plus 349. Okay, that's the NOUN 22s for the VERB 49.
193:50:57 Evans Yes. Got arm controllers in, that's all. We'll use this for time, jett effect [?] 55.
193:51:46 Schmitt Okay.
193:51:50 Evans Those two, but not the ones next to them; yes.
193:54:22 Evans Okay, PYROS are coming ON. There's A and B. And all breakers are IN.
193:54:37 CC Okay, America, we see the PYROS ARMED. Looks good.
193:54:43 Evans Okay.
193:55:00 Evans Get the - 47? Okay.
193:55:46 Evans (Humming)
193:56:31 PAO Two minutes to jettison.
193:56:59 Evans Yes, must be.
193:57:13 Evans 193 hours. I don't know what day this is, really.
193:57:33 Evans Okay, I can go into P47 now. Hey, could I dump him, or do you want to get to dump? Yes, that was your Challenger. Okay, you can dump him. I brought him up here, though. He was - he was a good Challenger. Okay.
193:58:07 Evans AGS ON. is it running? Yes, it's running. Okay, 55. 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 -
193:58:33 Evans MARK! There she goes! Yes. Well, yes, it's holding out. Hey, that's firing.
193:58:42 Evans Hey, there goes all the docking latches!
193:58:51 PAO Jettison on time.
193:58:51 Evans Yes, everything else's right there. Beautiful. I hope this thing's working.
193:58:59 Evans You know, Houston, this is America. I guess in the terms of some of the Grumman people down in Florida, the LM is a "wop-off".
193:59:17 CC Okay. We copy that.
193:59:24 Cernan And, Houston, I think the last few days have proved that they really did save the best until last.
193:59:32 Evans This a - I need you to get the maneuver in here, Gene.
193:59:34 Cernan Okay.
193:59:39 Evans No, that's all right; I'll get it. Okay, go ahead. Good. Ready. CMC; RATE 2. Okay. (Humming) PROCEED. Boy, it's just stable as a rock out there. That's a STANDBY? Let me get some more pictures of it here.
194:00:21 Schmitt I think you might take - I'm going to change the setting down to about a 2.8, get to the bottom part of it there for a little bit. Right, well, it's not quite at the bottom. He's right on the side, but -
194:00:39 Evans Okay, 16: up, MAIN A, MAIN B.
194:00:44 Cernan Yes, we're maneuvering.
194:00:52 Evans Okay, SAFE the PYROs. LOGIC 2 is OFF, LOGIC 1 is ON.
194:00:59 Evans PYRO ARM, BAT A, BAT B, BAT A are OPEN.
194:01:04 CC Okay, we copy them SAFE, America.
194:01:10 Schmitt Okay, Houston.
194:01:12 CC And your cabin looks good. LM also looks good.
194:01:18 Evans Hey, great!
194:01:29 Schmitt Okay, Houston, the preseparation checklist is complete, except for completing the maneuver and going to P41.
194:01:35 CC Copy that.
194:01:51 Cernan And the LM is holding attitude very well.
194:02:05 Evans Okay, we're going to get there at 194:03. 30. Okay. So Tig. will be - well, it's 03:41 - we can start we can - got so excited with watching the LM that I forgot to get going.
194:02:41 CC Hope you guys remembered to take roll call before you let it go.
194:02:47 Evans (Laughter) Say again, sir?
194:02:53 CC And, America, we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please
194:02:58 Schmitt ... got it.
194:03:14 PAO That remark was by Deke Slaton.
194:03:15 Evans ... Yes. We're there. Yes. Okay, there's average g.
194:03:25 Schmitt Okay, Houston. How do you read on the Alpha?
194:03:28 CC We read you on the OMNI Alpha.
194:03:29 Evans Okay, trans CONTROLLER'S ON. Let's see, what's next? Need to time. ...
194:03:32 Schmitt Hey, you called Alpha, did you not?
194:03:35 CC No, we want HIGH GAIN to AUTO, but I'm not sure we can do it right now. Stand by.
194:03:38 Schmitt That doesn't make any difference on the S-band.
194:03:42 Cernan We're burning now.
194:04:19 Evans Ahhh, well, come on. (Laughter) ... Okay, there we go. - 0.1 to plus - well, keep the change. You can read it. Press on.
194:04:35 CC 17, we're not reading the NOUN 85s. Would you read them to us?
194:04:46 Evans Okay. NOUN 85s were minus 0.1, a plus 0.1, and plus 0.2.
194:04:53 CC Okay, copy.
194:04:58 Schmitt Okay, Bob. You want me to get the high gain back?
194:05:02 CC Stand by.
194:05:12 Evans Okay, DIRECTs are OFF. Locked - locked it. We go into - we go into SIM bay configuration?
194:05:26 CC Okay, Jack, OMNI Alfa is just fine, right now. You've gone past the scan limits, anyway.
194:05:40 Evans Okay. Okay, we got SIM bay jett configuration.
194:05:55 Cernan Give them a mark though, Jack, from the - when we extend the antennas.
194:06:01 Schmitt Right.
194:06:31 CC Okay, 17. We're ready for you to start that P20 maneuver, please.
194:06:47 Evans Okay, Bob. We're getting it there. Plus 90 52 ...
194:06:58 CC Okay, 17, we'd like to hold the extension on the HF antennas until we get the high gain reacquired. We'd like you to go to P20 at the time we see that.
194:07:09 Evans Okay. Will do.
194:07:30 Evans ... ENTER, Yes, that's when we can get there.
194:07:50 Evans Yes, it's supposed to be the slow rate. Now, we're going ... fast rate.
194:08:00 CC
194:08:25 Evans Okay. We'll give you a call on that, Houston.
194:08:28 CC Okay, Ron.
194:10:56 Schmitt Houston, America. Magazine Dog Dog is 40 percent remaining.
194:11:05 CC I copy that.
194:11:23 CC Okay, and, America, we've got a pitch of minus 67 and a yaw of 300 for the high gain.
194:12:44 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Let me have the old Flight Plan changes.
194:12:47 CC Okay. At page 195 - excuse me - time 195:15 - that's page 304.
194:13:02 Schmitt Go ahead.
194:13:03 CC Okay. It says, "Set HIGH GAIN MANUAL, WIDE" and the new angles will be pitch of minus 5 and yaw of 315. And the time will be 196:30 instead of 21 - 30.
194:13:28 Schmitt Go ahead.
194:13:29 CC Okay. You might also at that point write in "Verify all Command Module VHF OFF." I'm sure Ron will understand what that means. He's been doing it all along anyway.
194:13:42 Schmitt Yes.
194:13:44 CC Okay, and then over at 195:31 -
194:13:47 Schmitt That just means you want the VHF off, doesn't it?
194:13:49 CC Right. All of these, I think - three switches over there along the side. And BEACON, RANGING and -
194:13:56 Schmitt I think I understand that.
194:13:57 CC Okay. I thought even an LMP would understand that At 195:31, we're going to move "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE to OPERATE." The new start time there Will be 195:31:38. Over.
194:14:36 Schmitt Okay. "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE" will be done, new time will be 195:31:38.
194:14:42 CC Okay. And then next page at 196:20 which was the original lunar sounder stop time, we will move all that block which starts with "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE STANDBY and T-stop" - that will all move over - and goes down to "UV ON." That block will move over to the 196:30 time of the next column, and the T-stop time there will be 196:30.
194:15:26 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to move the "LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE/UV ON" block from its present position to 196:30:00.
194:15:36 CC Okay, Roger. And the "VERB 22 NOUN 79" that was originally starting at 196:30 will be done following that block of "LUNAR SOUNDER SIM bay" stuff.
194:16:32 CC And, Jack, there - -
194:16:33 Schmitt Okay, Bob. is there anything else?
194:16:35 CC Okay, in the middle of that section that we moved, it says "Acquire STDN," says "High gain angles," and those will again be changed to minus 5 and 315 which is the same change we made on the earlier page.
194:16:52 Schmitt Okay.
194:16:53 CC Okay. And that is the extent of the update.
194:17:01 Schmitt Okay, thank you.
194:17:40 CC And, America, we're GO to extend the HF antennas.
194:17:53 Schmitt All right, stand by - about 30 seconds.
194:18:49 Schmitt Okay, Houston, HF ANTENNAS - going to EXTEND, number 1 -
194:18:55 Schmitt MARK it.
194:18:57 CC Mark.
194:19:27 Cernan Houston, did you - was that mark for OFF?
194:19:30 CC Negative, that was a mark that we copied you going ...
194:19:31 Cernan Going to have to square a new guy away, here.
194:19:36 Schmitt Okay, I'm sorry, I'll tell - I'm going to turn it OFF - going to EXTEND again -
194:19:40 Schmitt MARK it.
194:19:41 CC Okay, we marked it again.
194:19:50 Cernan Bob, it was OFF for about 5 seconds, while I asked you that question.
194:21:13 CC Okay, America. We copy HF 1 extended. You're GO for switch OFF there, and we're ready to extend HF 2.
194:21:23 Cernan Okay, Bob, and that's gray, now. And HF ANTENNA 2 -
194:21:30 Cernan MARK it.
194:23:50 CC America, Houston. We're observing CMC in FREE instead of going through the P20. We wonder if you accidentally hit a switch.
194:24:17 Cernan Okay, Bob. I think we've got it now. Thank you.
194:24:19 CC Copy.
194:24:52 PAO America's crewmen are removing their pressure suits now. We show America's present orbit is 63.8 by 61.1 nautical miles.
194:25:58 Schmitt How's that antenna looking - -
194:25:59 CC Okay, yes. We're just going to tell you, it's probably not quite out yet according to indicators, that I guess you see. I would like to go OFF, though, to keep the motor from heating up. We'll come back on it a little bit later.
194:26:15 Schmitt Okay, it's OFF and the talkback went gray, with it going off.
194:26:20 CC Roger. Let's see, it was barber pole up until then, right, though?
194:26:27 Schmitt That's affirm, Bob.
194:26:32 Cernan Houston, America.
194:26:43 Cernan Houston, America.
194:26:44 CC Go ahead, America.
194:26:49 Cernan Okay, Robert, I just want to tune you in on our mode of operation here, for the next few hours. We're getting Ron out of his suit, so that he can operate more effectively and efficiently the SIM bay. And, then Jack and I are going to start getting out of our suits and trying to clean up a little bit, and that's going to probably be a long and tedious operation but we're just going to have to take that time.
194:27:17 CC Okay. We copy that. And, Ron, HF 2 is the one - -
194:27:25 Cernan No, we'll be - -
194:27:25 CC - - that we're not quite sure if it's out and you might check a visual on that, I think you've looked at it before when it's fully extended and, and give us a clue whether it's 99 percent extended or not. And, go ahead, Gene; I think I cut you off.
194:27:40 Cernan Stand by 1.
194:27:51 Cernan Yes. Wait until sunrise, Bob, and he can look at it.
194:28:27 Cernan Bob, you're probably going to have to wait until sunrise to get a good verification of that.
194:28:30 CC Roger. Copy that. I just looked down the Flight Plan and saw you going into darkness.
194:28:41 Evans It's easier with us.
194:28:54 Cernan And, Bob, during this LMP and CDR suit doffing and CWD changeout and so forth, the LMP will be off biomed until he gets a new set and gets cleaned up and gets them on. So I just want you to understand all that.
194:29:13 CC Okay, yes. We understand.
194:29:18 Cernan Okay.
194:30:48 Cernan Bob, what's the LM impact time?
194:30:53 CC Okay, stand by on that. Okay, 195:57:20. So it's 57:20.
194:31:13 Cernan Okay, that's about an hour and 20, then right?
194:31:17 CC That's right.
194:31:21 Cernan Okay. Of course, we're interested in the whereabouts of Challenger, so when the time comes up, give us a holler, will you?
194:31:29 CC Oh, Roger. We will do.
194:31:34 Cernan We're still very much interested in her performance.
194:31:43 PAO That impact time is an update from the previous impact time of 195:57:12. Present impact time 195:57:20.
194:39:49 CC Okay, America; Ron, we'd like you to go on HF 2 there which we've got, apparently, most of the way out; but we're apparently stuck a little bit. We'd like to get the HF 2 to RETRACT for 10 seconds and then go to EXTEND for 20 seconds. Over. And we'll be watching here on the ground.
194:40:10 Evans Okay, that's HF 2. And we'll go to RETRACT and, let's see - I need three hands here - VOX, let me get VOX. Okay. HF 2 going to RETRACT: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
194:40:41 Evans MARK it. Okay, we'll stay that way for 10 seconds, we've got a barber pole - and -
194:40:52 Evans MARK it; okay. And it's OFF now. Now you want to go to EXTEND for 20 seconds, huh?
194:41:02 CC That's affirm.
194:41:06 Evans Okay, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, -
194:41:11 Evans MARK it. Got a barber pole.
194:41:32 Evans Okay, 21 seconds and it was OFF. Hey, you said - somebody just told me about looking at HF 2. That's the one I can't see.
194:41:43 CC Okay; we copy that, too, Ron. Thank you.
194:41:48 Evans Yes.
194:41:57 CC Okay, Ron, we'd like you to do that same cycle one more time. RETRACT for 10 seconds then EXTEND for 20 seconds again.
194:42:07 Evans Okay. And HF number 2. 3, 2, 1 -
194:42:14 Evans MARK it, RETRACT.
194:42:23 Evans Okay, 9, 10; it's OFF. Okay, 3, 2, 1 -
194:42:32 Evans MARK it; it's EXTEND. Yes, it was stuck right in there. Oop, okay, that's twenty - 23 seconds before it went to OFF.
194:43:02 CC Copy that, Ron.
194:43:11 CC Okay, we think it's starting to clear up, Ron. If you'll leave - put it in EXTEND and leave it there, we'll give you a call - or else until it goes gray.
194:43:20 Evans Okay. 3, 2, 1 -
194:43:25 Evans MARK it. It's going to EXTEND.
194:44:28 CC Okay, OFF, please, Ron.
194:44:33 Evans Okay, OFF. And it was OFF at a minute and 8 seconds.
194:44:40 CC Okay, and I gather it was still barber pole, right?
194:44:46 Evans It was still barber pole, yes.
194:45:40 CC Okay, America, you're GO for LOS; and we'll be picking up on the HF path as per the checklist. Ron, we'd like to have you look on the back side - see which or any antennas you can see out there, just to give us a status when you come around the Horn. Over.
194:46:02 Evans Okay; we'll give her a try.
194:46:04 CC Okay; thank you.
194:46:05 Evans I can see the one out window 1. Window 1 is the only one I can see.
194:46:12 CC Copy that.
194:46:13 Evans And that happens to be HF number 1.
194:47:14 Evans Yes - Oh, here's a little - The electrical covers? Oh, they're - each one of them is in your bag here. Yes.
194:47:38 BEGIN LUNAR REV 55
194:47:38 PAO This is Apollo Control at 194 hours 47 minutes. We've had loss of signal from America. When we next acquire on the 55th revolution we'll be about 6 minutes away from the LM deorbit burn. Ignition time for that maneuver 195 hours 38 minutes 13 seconds. Burn time 158 seconds, velocity change 286 feet per second. The impact time was updated during this revolution, now expect impact at 195 hours 57 minutes 20 seconds. The impact coordinates have not changed, 19 point 95 degrees north, 30 point 57 degrees east. This is on the South Massif. At 194 hours 49 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
195:30:41 PAO This is Apollo Control at 195 hours 30 minutes. We are 54 seconds away from acquisition on the 55th revolution and 7 1/2 minutes away from the de-orbit maneuver. We'll stand by for first communications on this pass.
195:31:45 Evans Okay. There we are at OMNI Charlie.
195:31:57 CC Roger. America, Houston, We read you loud and clear.
195:32:03 Evans Okay. Houston, this is America. Okay, for your planning purposes there, I got a little tied up and started the RECEIVE ONLY TAPE RECORDER at 195 plus 24.
195:32:23 CC Okay; I copy that, Ron.
195:33:01 Evans Okay, Houston. HP number 1 is sticking out where it should stick.
195:33:08 CC Okay, we copy that and - Stand by. Okay, go STANDBY on the LUNAR SOUNDER, please, Ron. Somebody is worried down here. STANDBY on the LUNAR SOUNDER.
195:33:25 Evans Okay, what's - STANDBY. Okay, STANDBY.
195:34:03 CC Okay, and, Ron. We're going to do this one in VHF. Apparently they're still too worried about your HF antennas. So if you'll take your MODE switch to HF when we get ready to get ready to come out of STANDBY, we'll do it in the VHF MODE.
195:34:27 Evans Okay. We're - we'll - we'll standby on your call then. Or I'll go to VHF now, if you want. Or would you rather have HF receive? I'll stand by on your call to go to VHF.
195:34:43 CC That's affirm, Ron. You can go to VHF now, and stand by on our call to come from STANDBY to ON.
195:34:56 Evans Okay, MODE's in VHF.
195:35:35 Evans Houston, America. What - is somebody kind of afraid that maybe the antenna isn't all the way out? is that what the problem is?
195:35:40 CC That's affirm. They're worried about HF 2 not being all the way out, and they think that they won't get much - if it's partially extended. So we'll see what we can get with VHF instead. And, right now, we're going to STANDBY to warm up the film cassette. It's too cold.
195:35:56 Evans Okay.
195:36:19 Evans I don't think I ever told you down there that mag Kilo Kilo was on frame 99 at the end of the rendezvous - and the picture-taking sessions there.
195:36:34 CC Okay, copy that.
195:36:51 CC Okay; and, America, we'd like to bring up the high gain since we're going to be using VHF. And we'd like PITCH of plus 25, YAW of 200, NARROW and REACQ.
195:37:12 Evans PITCH of plus 25, YAW, 200; and REACQ and NARROW.
195:37:36 Evans Pitch of plus 25. Okay. Okay.
195:37:59 PAO 15 seconds to ignition.
195:38:02 Evans Okay.
195:38:31 PAO The LM is burning now.
195:38:32 CC Okay; and, Ron, we'd like H2 tanks 2 and 3 FANs to ON.
195:38:39 Evans Okay - 2 - H2 tank 2 is ON; tank 3 is ON.
195:39:36 PAO The burn has been completed.
195:39:40 Evans That end might stick. It might stick there, but the back of it won't stick to anything. It's the wrong kind of stuff. If that won't, this will. ...
195:44:26 PAO We're nine and one half minutes away from predicted impact. Okay, America, stand by 5 minutes to Challenger impact.
195:44:26 Evans That's the vacuum transfer to the ECS. I can put those away.
195:44:28 Evans What? We're just -
195:44:48 Evans We're coming across Crisium.
195:46:10 Evans With three guys in here, it fogs the windows up all the time. ... card
195:47:20 CC Okay, America. Stand by, 5 minutes to Challenger impact.
195:47:25 CC MARK.
195:47:33 Evans Roger; 5 minutes to Challenger impact, huh?
195:47:35 CC That's affirm. I don't know if you guys can see it out the one window or not -
195:47:43 Schmitt We'll do all right.
195:47:55 Evans Let's see - we should be what? - behind it, aren't we?
195:48:01 CC Say again, Ron.
195:48:07 Evans Shouldn't we be behind him?
195:48:12 CC I should think he'd be a little bit behind you, right? Ron, I'll take that back, I think he is in front of you.
195:48:30 Evans That's kind of the way I thought it would be. But, unfortunately, we're looking behind us.
195:48:35 CC That's affirm. And, 3 minutes to impact.
195:48:40 Evans Okay, 3 minutes to impact.
195:51:25 CC MARK, 1 minute to impact.
195:51:33 Evans Okay, 1 minute. Yes, we're right over Vitruvius A, now.
195:52:17 CC 10 seconds.
195:52:37 PAO We've had LOS on the LM.
195:52:44 CC Okay, we had LOS LM. And we don't believe we saw it down here, fellas.
195:53:00 Evans What do you mean, you don't believe you saw it?
195:53:08 CC That means that we didn't see it - on the TV.
195:53:13 Evans Oh, on the TV, I see - I see.
195:53:19 CC We are picking up the signal on the seismographa, though, the geophones.
195:55:09 Evans Okay. Hey, Houston, I can see a bright spot on the South Massif - on the top of the South Massif.
195:55:19 CC Uh, go ahead again there, guys.
195:55:24 Evans Okay, this is America. I can see a bright spot on the top of the South Massif and, let me see, from the west you got the first hill or the first part of the mountains, then there's a valley, and then - there's a valley that kind of goes into a Y - it's a Y-looking valley. I guess, if you come from the east, it's the second ridge from the east, and right on top of that ridge is a bright spot. I don't know how big - I don't know how big a crater it should make.
195:56:18 CC Okay, we copy that and we'll take a look at the maps and see what we can find.
195:56:27 Evans And, I'll put a spot on my map, if I can do it here. Just a second.
195:56:30 CC Okay, thank you.
195:57:04 CC And, Ron, this is Houston. You ready tc copy an update in the Flight Plan, please, for me?
195:57:19 Evans Okay, do you need it right now or should I mark this on the map first?
195:57:22 CC No; oh, no. Go ahead and mark the map first.
195:57:29 PAO The seismic recorder data on the monitor is coming from the Apollo 17 Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment.
195:59:24 PAO The preleminary estimate is that the LM impact was within 15 kilometers of the Apollo 17 ALSEP site. And the TV camera will be coming off shortly.
196:04:58 Evans Hey, Houston; America.
196:05:00 CC Go ahead, America. This is Houston.
196:05:05 Evans Okay, Bob, I don't have a map with South Massif on it. You know with the meridian interval on the thing and it looks like the only thing I can use is in the visual observations book here - landing site 204. And, if you draw a line - Do you have that one?
196:05:36 CC Okay, I've landing site 204 in front of me.
196:05:42 Evans Okay. If you draw a line from Shorty to that Reseau mark, that's on the top of the South Massif -
196:05:50 CC Okay, I copy that.
196:05:55 Evans And then, extend about a little better than one-eighth of an inch toward Shorty from that Reseau mark. Maybe - Yes, somewhere right in there. I'll look at it again the next time I come over. But, that's a bright spot on the top of the Massif that I hadn't noticed before in any of the observations going by there.
196:06:29 CC Okay, I've got it marked down. We'll also see if we can find it on some bigger maps.
196:06:36 Evans Okay. Yes, you know that bright spot might already be there, but I don't think so. I don't remember seeing it.
196:06:43 CC Okay, copy that. Okay, and, Ron, we'd like to press on with our Flight Plan update here for you.
196:06:50 Evans ... Okay.
196:06:54 CC Okay. Number 1, we'd like to go HF 2 to EXTEND for 3 minutes.
196:07:06 Evans When? Now?
196:07:07 CC Roger; now.
196:07:12 Evans Okay, 5, 4 - okay, countdown - 3, 2, 1 -
196:07:27 Evans MARK it! EXTEND, barber pole, still.
196:07:40 CC Ron, stop the antenna, please. My mistake.
196:07:46 Evans What?
196:07:47 CC Okay, Ron, let me read through this one for you. They are anxious to extend that, but they want the DATA SYSTEM, ON, so they can see it first.
196:07:58 Evans Ah ha, Okay.
196:07:58 CC Why don't you go to 196.20 in the Flight Plan? You're probably sitting there looking at it, anyway. And run through that block that's there. It starts at about 196:19. We told Jack to move it but since we're aborting this lunar sounder pass, let's go to 196:20 and carry out the steps in there with the following exceptions: Do not turn RECORDER or RADAR to OFF. And - Okay. And, we want LUNAR SOUNDER left in STANDBY.
196:08:30 Evans Okay. Let me read those through.
196:08:32 CC Okay, and don't move the HIGH GAIN. The HIGH GAIN has been taken care of already.
196:08:39 Evans Okay, I'll do that. LUNAR SOUNDER is verified in STANDBY. DATA SYSTEM is coming on. HIGH GAIN is already working. SM/AC power. Jack, could you turn ON the SERVICE MODULE AC? Or, I'll get it. Yes. Okay. SERVICE MODULE AC POWER's ON. LUNAR going to STANDBY - -
196:09:17 CC Okay, and, Ron - -
196:09:17 Evans - - and we'll leave the RECORDER, ON, and RADAR, ON.
196:09:27 CC And, Ron, while you're putting those last three on, let's start the HF 2 to EXTEND. They'd like to get it before it gets too cold again.
196:09:36 Evans Okay, HF 2 is going to EXTEND - 3, 2,
196:09:42 Evans MARK it.
196:09:43 CC Okay, we'll time it for 3 minutes for you while you get the IR and so forth.
196:09:50 Evans Okay, IR is going ON. SELF TEST is going to HEATERS. UV is ON.
196:09:59 CC Okay, copy that.
196:10:26 CC Okay, Ron. We see the talkback. We can go to OFF.
196:10:32 Evans Hey, it did! Okay, it's OFF.
196:10:37 CC Okay, I guess we'll try and probably work that in some other time, now that we've got the antennas out. And, we'd like to go HIGH GAIN ANTENNA to AUTO and 2-1/2-degree deadband now that we're not doing the lunar sounder.
196:10:51 Evans Okay.
196:11:44 Evans (humming)
196:12:09 CC Okay, Ron, and did you get the HIGH GAIN in the 2-1/2-degree deadband?
196:12:16 Evans Affirmative. Yes, I got that.
196:12:18 CC Okay. We got that and I got a TEI-65 pad, when you get ready for it.
196:12:27 Evans Okay, let me pull out the old book.
196:12:40 CC Okay, and, Ron if you'll give us the computer, we're ready to up-link some loads for you. You'll leave the jet-on monitor and state vector.
196:12:53 Evans You can have the computer.
196:12:53 CC Okay, thank you.
196:12:59 Evans Okay, I'm ready to copy the TEI.
196:13:38 Evans (humming)
196:14:04 Evans Got it all dirty. (laughing)
196:14:30 Evans Houston, America, I'm ready to copy the TEI pad.
196:14:33 CC Okay, America; Houston. I'm ready to read the TEI pad if you're ready. It's an SPS/G&N, which is a surprise, I'm sure. And, it says: 36541; plus 0.60 plus 0.8l; 216:45:48.23; plus 2754.5, minus 0146.9, minus 0009.0; 179, 103, 359. The rest of the pad is N/A. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel. I guess they picked some bright ones for you for a change. We have alignments of 136 - -
196:15:38 Evans Hey, they're good ones.
196:15:42 CC - - 160, and 034. Ullage is four jet, 12 seconds. And we're using lift-off REFSMMAT. Over.
196:16:07 Evans Okay, TEI - I've forgotten what rev it was.
196:16:11 CC 65.
196:16:11 Evans SPS/G&N, 36541 - 55, okay.
196:16:16 CC 65, 65.
196:16:22 Evans Oh, 65 it is. Okay, now on 47, the weight - 36541; plus 0.60, plus 0.81, 216:45:48.23; plus 2754.5, minus 0146.9, minus 000.0, 179, 103, 359. Sirius and Rigel, 136, 160, 034. Jet, 12 seconds for ullage. And we use lift-off REFSMMAT, which is what we have right now.
196:17:05 CC Okay, Ron, and you dropped out there at 2 momentary seconds. One, the DELTA-Vz was minus a 9.0. Ullage was four jets.
196:17:18 Evans Okay, that's right. DELTA-Vz is minus 9.0 and four-jet; ullage, 12 seconds. Lift-off REFSMMAT.
196:17:27 CC Okay, you had a momentary dropout when you read those two figures.
196:17:32 Evans Okay,
196:18:12 CC And, America; Houston. Do you fellows think you have any chance, or would have any chance next time to take a picture of that possible impact point - with the handheld Hasselblad - or something?
196:18:31 Evans Uh, sure can. You bet you. I think the best way to do it is with the 250 lens on the Hasselblad.
196:18:41 CC Okay, it might be something worth getting just in case we don't hit it with the pan camera later on.
196:18:51 Evans Okay.
196:19:35 CC Okay, Ronald. The computer is yours and you can turn the LUNAR SOUNDER RADAR switch OFF. Leave the RECORDER switch OK.
196:19:46 Evans Okay. The RECORDER'S staying ON and we'll turn the - RADAR, OFF?
196:19:56 CC Roger. RADAR, OFF - RECORDER, ON and the computer is yours.
196:20:03 Evans Okay, RADAR's going OFF and the RECORDER is still ON. And - we have lock.
196:20:24 PAO This is Apollo Control at 196 hours 25 minutes. The tracking stations at Carnarvon, Honeysuckle, Hawaii and Goldstone recorded the Greenwich Mean Time at LM Loss of Signal as 6 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds.
196:21:05 Evans Yes, shaved there one time. I've been trying to - haven't shaved today; I'm going to do it later on.
196:22:20 Evans How about getting the recorder going there?
196:22:23 Cernan What?
196:22:24 Evans How about turning the recorder on? - Huh? it's right in here.
196:22:50 Evans Yes. It's time to eat. Yes.
196:23:45 Evans I don't care.
196:25:17 Evans Okay, WASTE to PURGE LINE HEATERS. They're ON. Then VENT.
196:27:45 CC America, Houston. Ron? Over.
196:27:50 Evans Roger; go ahead.
196:27:52 CC Okay, one, while I'm talking to you how about flipping up and turning H2 TANK 3 FAN, OFF? cl
196:28:03 Evans Okay, TANK 3 is OFF.
196:28:05 CC Okay, and then, how about you three guys giving us - giving some consideration the next 2 or 3 minutes to the following proposal? One, we totally aborted that lunar sounder pass because: One, we couldn't get the HF antenna out; and, two, because the temperature in the film cassette was too low. Those things are both taken care of now, And they're talking down here about essentially starting over at 197 hours, which will be the top of the next page, and pretending that that's 195 hours and running through that 195-hour page, beginning at 197 hours. The only problem with that, of course, is that it runs into your eat period and destroys that, which essentially means that you're going to get to bed 1 hour later. And I guess what we're saying is, if you're going to get to bed 1 hour later anyway, we might go ahead and ask you to do it, if you're agreeable. If you're clean-uping - cleaning-up companions there have progressed far enough that you think you're going to get to bed on time and don't want to do it, then that's another story. So, how about chewing it over there and letting us know?
196:29:17 Evans Okay, let me talk to the guys here for a minute, but I think we'll probably do it. Stand by.
196:29:55 Evans Hey, Houston; America. Let's press on and pretend like I'm eating between when I'm turning the LUNAR SOUNDER, ON, and OFF - Okay? In other words, let's get the lunar sounder pass.
196:30:15 CC Okay, well, you're saying, well - well, we don't want you to have to do that in the middle of your eat period and destroy ... that, Ron. That's another concern we had here.
196:30:26 Evans Don't worry about that. I - I can throw those switches on and I think the other guys can mix the food and I can eat it at the same time. No problem.
196:30:39 CC Okay, we've got that recorded on tape there, Ron. Okay, what we're going to do is essentially - -
196:30:45 Evans Okay (laughter).
196:30:46 CC - - essentially start at the 195-hour page and we'll just mechanically add 2 hours to everything on that page and run through it as - on the page. Okay? The change that we originally had in the Flight Plan, which I read - I don't know vhether it was to you or to - Jack, which moved the group from 196:20 over to 196:30 - will still move over tn 196:30. So, that will stay as is. And, again, that will be, of course, at 198:30, then. Do you understand what I'm saying there? Over.
196:34:16 Evans Yes, I think what you're saying is, we'll just do the Flight Plan like you - like we're starting at 195.
196:34:16 CC Roger - -
196:34:16 Evans - - like we'll be 2 hours later on the mission timer.
196:34:16 CC Roger; you might call it miniclock update.
196:34:16 Evans Okay. Sounds good. Lunar sounder operating time will be 197:31:38 then, right?
196:34:16 CC That's affirmative.
196:39:02 CC Okay, Ron, and two comments on that. Let me make a couple of other amendments to that. One, the lunar sounder operate time, instead of being 31:38 will be 32:51. At that 195 - top of the right-hand column on 195 there - be 195:32:51. Over.
196:39:02 Evans And, Houston. These waste water dump and fuel cell purges - that doesn't foul up the lunar sounder, as I recall. I don't think, does it?
196:39:02 CC Oh, we can go ahead and do those in parallel, right
196:39:02 Evans Okay, good. That's what I thought.
196:39:02 CC And, Ron, one other - Did you catch my one - my 32:51 update, there on that start time?
196:39:02 Evans Did you say cancel it? I'm sorry.
196:39:02 CC No, do you copy. I gave you 195:32:51 as the start time, instead of 31:38. Did you copy that?
196:39:02 Evans Yes, I copied, I'm sorry. Used to working in VOX all the time and I forget to push the button.
196:39:02 CC Okay, and the other thing we'd like to keep you aware of, if you hadn't noticed it, and that is that this thing, of course, Ron, is originally ... to a 196:30 plus, which means that you're going to be running 198:30 plus, which kind of looks like you're going to be eating at least a half an hour into your sleep period, at the very least. Over.
196:39:02 Evans Yes, we understand that.
196:42:38 CC Okay, Ron. We'd like to have Hg TANK 2 FAN, OFF, now please.
196:42:49 Evans H2 TANK 2 is going OFF.
197:31:49 CC Hello, America. This is Houston. One minute to LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE -
197:31:53 CC MARK.
197:31:53 Cernan Okay, 1 minute to LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE.
197:32:00 Cernan MARK. This is your friendly commander, clean and happier5 back up.
197:32:00 CC Roger, Geno. We're glad to hear you're clean again.
197:32:00 Cernan Well, I'm not really clean but it's a major step in the right direction.
197:32:25 CC 30 seconds.
197:32:25 Cernan Okay , 30 seconds.
197:32:25 CC Okay, and -
197:32:48 CC MARK on LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, now.
197:32:48 Cernan Okay, ...
197:32:48 CC And, America, a question here. Did you get an isS alarm on the back side just a few minutes ago?
197:32:48 Cernan No, sir.
197:32:48 CC Okay. We lucked out. We'd - Since we'd had the jet monitor program operating and it hadn't been killed, which had originally been planned to come after the lunar sounder, there was a possibility that we'd get an alarm but looks like we don't have it. Good enough.
197:32:48 Evans A'hat was going to cause that to come on?
197:32:48 CC The possibility, Ron, was when you were reloading NOUN 79j getting a smaller dead band - it depends upon where the vehicle was at that time within the old dead band, EMP 523 might have suddenly found you outside the dead band and been unhappy.
197:32:48 Evans Okay, I'm with you. Thank you.
197:32:48 CC Okay, looks like we lucked out though.
197:32:48 Cernan Say, Bob. do you know - -
197:32:48 CC Go.
197:32:48 Cernan Do you know any more about the demise of Challenger?
197:32:48 CC We know that it was within 15 kilometers of where it was supposed to be, Gene. We could not get a visual on it. It was quite obvious that the geophone saw it and all that - there's no question about that, it's just that, as it turned out at the last minute it was pretty hare, to pick out where exactly it was going to be in order to have the TV camera there.
197:32:48 Cernan But everything appeared to function properly, huh, the ALSEP and you - you're pretty happy with it?
197:32:48 CC Roger. Everything except the TV End, of course, that's just an extra goodie.
197:35:46 CC And, America, if you guys are interested in trying to take a couple of 250-millimeter shots of that tonight, we've got a little camera pad here for it we can pass up - if you're interested.
197:35:46 Evans Hey, you bet I'll take it - I want to try it.
197:35:46 CC Okay, let me know when you get a piece of paper there, Ron.
197:35:46 Evans Okay, go ahead.
197:35:46 CC Okay, it's a LM impact TCA and it's time is 197:56:35 and the camera data is CX5, EL, 250, CEX, f/5.6, 1/125, infinity. Ana magazine Kappa Kappa or Kilo Kilo, and you can use up to 10 frames on it. Over.
197:35:46 Evans Okay. I think I put Kappa Kappa back, I've got Oscar Oscar on there. How about it if I use that, okay?
197:35:46 CC Okay, that's fine, Ron, And, we'd like to get tanks 2 and 3 FANs back OK.
197:37:26 Evans 2 and 3 are ON.
197:37:26 CC Okay.
197:37:26 Cernan Hey, Bob. A quick summary on that rendezvous as far as LM performance was concerned. Handling characteristics were outstanding and pretty much the same as they have always been on LMs in the past. The APS burn - burn went nominal; the residuals on that one were actually quite big, about 744, that's feet per second - and we nulled those out and after that the midcourses were max of 1.3) then a max of 1.6 on the second one. But, after the TPI, we were coming up - up the pike right - over - right - all the way in the line-of-sight rates - actually both out of plane as well as in plane were - were zero - basically zero for out of plane and, as predicted, on a nominal curve for in plane. And it really ended up to be pretty much a storybook rendezvous.
197:37:26 CC Okay. You want to give me that TPI again or did you already pass that down to ground? I didn't copy the residuals there?
197:37:26 Cernan No, I didn't tell them that. And we didn't get a chance to copy them down because I wanted to get them ail down on tape. It surprised me after the APS burn because they were relatively large. They were 7 feet-per-second in X, 4 in Y, and 4 in Z. And that was, I guess, just short of a 4-second burn somewhere around 4 seconds.
197:37:26 CC Okay , copy that.
197:37:26 Cernan And one ether little thing, we put, I think, two marks, three marks - two or three marks in the AGS - manual ciarks s after the last midcourse, as we'd been doing in the simulator - three marks, and Jack tells me that the range rate ca^e right up to - right up to the actual radar-range rate -right up to 100 feet or so.
197:37:26 CC Okay j copy that,
197:42:17 Cernan Bob, we're all just eating away here, anything interesting in the world news that's worth commenting on?
197:42:17 CC Okay; stand by. Let me find out. Did you guys get any news this morning?
197:42:17 Cernan No, sir; we were busy otherwise.
197:42:17 Evans Yes, I did.
197:42:17 CC Okay, well, stand by and let me get hold of the people and see if we can get some news for you.
197:42:17 CC Okay, Gene, we're working on that, it may take us a while to get it. And - but we ought to have it for you before the end of the pass. From my own experience in talking around here, although none of us hung around much to read that stuff today, we don't think anything much did happen in the world today. There is a report that something happened in outer space, and the moon vehicle, we believe, had a lift-off this afternoon, a rendezvous, we'll try and see if we can track down any further news of that. Over.
197:42:17 Cernan Okay, we're pretty much up on that one. Just wondering, you know, Mr. Truman's been pretty sick and so forth, wondered about some of those things, but no big deal, we can - we can wait.
197:42:17 CC Okay, we'll get with you shortly.
197:46:07 CC And, America, did you fellows do ycur hydrogen purge on the back side?
197:46:07 Evans That's affirm. Hydrogen purge, an O2 purge, and, would you believe we forgot to turn the purge line HEATER, OFF? ^
197:46:21 Evans OFF, now. Thank you (laughter), ... EECOM there.
197:46:21 CC Old EECOM was watching the currents there. He had you pinned down.
197:46:21 Evans (Laughter) Good.
197:46:21 CC Okay3 and, America, I presume you guys are sitting there looking at page 195. is that affirm? So I won't bother to tell you all - you all these other things that are going on on that page, presuming that you're not looking at page 197*
197:46:21 Evans Yes, we're on page 195, yes.
197:46:21 CC Okay, good enough.
197:46:21 Evans Really it's the hour 195 5 you know.
197:49:10 CC OMNI Bravo, please, America.
197:49:22 Evans Okay, you have it.
197:58:44 Evans Houston, this is America. That was frame 145 to 150 on magazine Oscar Oscar.
197:58:44 CC Okay. Copy 145 to 150 on Oscar Oscar. Ana if you guys are starting to sort out film mags for the next day, which is called out about 198 hours, it'll be magazine Kilo Kilo instead of November November in that. So it'll be Kilo, Quebec, and Romeo for tomorrow.
197:58:44 Evans Okay; Kilo, Quebec3 and Romeo.
198:07:33 Schmitt Houston, 17.
198:07:33 CC Go ahead.
198:07:33 Schmitt A little historical note. Passing over the Hadley Apennines sites from Apollo 15 we notice that at their landing point, there's the same slightly or distinctly brighter albedo area as there is at Taurus-Littrow site.
198:07:33 CC You mean down on the plains of Taurus-Littrow, like where the LM landed? Or do you mean where you think the 114 impact was?
198:07:33 Schmitt That's affirm. It - in spite of the - no, no, no, where the LM landed. In spite of the - As we walked along the surface, and this was true at Hadley also, you stirred up a darker zone, albedo-wise. When you look at it from orbit, the area around where the LM landed - it's a distinct bright spot on the surface of a - of a fairly uniform gray albedo plain. And both sites look just alike.
198:07:33 CC Okay, we copy that.
198:07:33 Schmitt In that regard, anyway.
198:07:33 CC We copy that.
198:07:33 CC And, America, you might be interested to know that the latest SPAN status report still lists all the LM ECS parameters as normal.
198:07:33 Schmitt Beautiful. SPAN'S up to their old tricks again, I see.
198:07:33 CC I guess it depends upon how you define normal.
198:07:33 Schmitt Somebody must have spilled coffee on their console.
198:10:10 Cernan Listen, Bob, the way - the way it was performing, I wouldn't doubt it.
198:21:15 CC America, this is Houston. Over.
198:21:15 Evans Go ahead.
198:21:15 CC Okay, okay; I'm keeping track of you guys here or, the lunar sounder offtimes. It'll be just slightly less than 198:30, and I'll give you some hacks on that as we get down to it. And we're ready to go to Kg TANKS 1 and 2 to OFF, and TAFK 3 to AUTO.
198:22:03 Schmitt Okay, Bob, that's got it. 1 and 2, OFF, and 3, AUTO.
198:22:03 CC Okay, and you can delete the - When you get to your presleep checklist, you can then delete the cryo stirring.
198:22:03 Schmitt Okay.
198:22:03 Cernan And Bob, what time is AOS?
198:22:03 CC Stand by. You want AOS or LOS? LOS, stand by.
198:22:03 Cernan Yes, LOS.
198:22:03 CC We have LOS at 198:45:37- About a little over 22 minutes from now.
198:22:03 Cernan Thank you, Bob.
198:26:56 CC Okay; 2 minutes to LUNAR SOUNDER, STANDBY.
198:26:56 Cernan Roger. Two minutes to LUNAR SOUNDER, STANDBY.
198:27:43 CC Okay; 1 minute mark at 28:43-
198:27:43 Cernan Roger 28:43-
198:28:33 CC 10 seconds.
198:28:43 CC MARK; STANDBY.
198:28:50 Cernan It's STANDBY.
198:30:33 Evans Okay, Houston; America. All those things in the little box are done.
198:30:33 CC Okay, we copy. You're down as far UV, ON. Now we'd like to have IR COVER, OPEN; and UV COVER, OPEN, also.
198:30:33 Evans Okay. Stand by. Did you want 2-1/2-degree dead band for the night?
198:30:33 CC Roger. I was just going to say we can also go to VERB 22 for the 2-1/2 degree dead band.
198:32:20 CC Okay, and, America, another thing down here 196:47 there are the two comm callouts, the DSEA motion and setting the HIGH GAIN to MANUAL before LOS, and we'll want to catch those before you go around the back side. And ... - yes, as you around at LOS, and after that we're then ready for you guys to skip to 198 and the presleep sys -presleep checklist.
198:32:20 Evans Okay, we can do that.
198:32:20 CC Okay; and, America, if you have time, I have a few news items to read up to you here.
198:32:20 Evans Go ahead, Bob.
198:33:30 CC Okay. Dateline Washington, the United States today threw its support behind the Christmas Peace package proposed by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who accused North Vietnam of using high-pressure tactics in an attempt to impose an incomplete peace settlement. American representatives at the Paris peace talks, told the Communists it was futile for them to continue clamoring for the signature of the cease-fire agreement drafted in October by Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. In Kansas City, the condition of former President Harry S. Truman weakened to, quote "very serious" Thursday. His doctor says vital signs are stable, but former President Truman was unable to speak; his lungs were filling with fluids still, and his kidneys have been impaired. In Mexico City, the International Federation of Airline Pilots, meeting in Mexico City this week, has promised a worldwide stoppage of all transportation industries if the governments do not take action to stop hijackings. In New York, the United States won an apparent victory in the United Nations when the General Assembly voted an approval of a cut in U.S. contributions to the world organization. Vote was 8l to 27, and reduces the U.S. budget assessment from 31*5 percent to 25 percent, starting in 1974. Here at home in Houston, the city council voted to locate the new proposed sports arena in the Greenway Plaza. The vote, however, stipulates that the Mayor find a way to finance it without using city tax funds. Council indicated that if the Mayor can't do this, the city will abandon plans for the 10-million-dollar, 18-thousand-seat facility. On the lighter side, in Jersey City, only one of 51 - that is one of 51 women who took physical exams for the police department, passed. Police Director Frederick Stevens said 24 of the women were too short, seven were underweight, and four did not have eyesight that could be corrected. In sports, the Alberta Oilers, that's Alberta and not Houston Oilers, these are the hockey ones, skated past the Houston Aeros for a 3-to-2 victory here in Houston. And the Minnesota Vikings, in the city of Minneapolis, came to terms on a lease agreement to play their games in a proposed stadium up there in the north, or I guess it's building a stadium to keep it from being too cold, instead of being too muggy like it is down here. And that's the news; as you can see, it's a slow news day and things are still moving very slowly down here.
198:36:27 Cernan Thank you, Bob.
198:37:12 Cernan Bob, we realize it's - it's tomorrow down there but this still might be appropriate.
198:37:20 MS (Singing: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Bob, happy birthday to you)
198:37:35 CC Well, all I can say, it might be appropriate, but it's not very musical.
198:37:40 MS (Laughter)
198:37:43 CC Thank you, guys.
198:37:45 Cernan Epic, Bob, epic. At least you know it's from the bottom of our - hearts.
198:37:52 Evans (Laughter).
198:38:24 CC And just to let you guys know that I'm not easily swayed and made soft by such shows of sentiment, I want to remind the CDR and the LMP that they're going to start collecting their urine from now on, and you shouldn't have been dumping it since 197:00.
198:38:45 Cernan Okay, we're in the process of changing over.
198:38:50 CC Okay, and COVERs are OPEN on the UV and the IR, so we won't be dumping it anyway right now, tonight, right?
198:38:59 Cernan That's right.
198:39:03 CC And, Jack, you're going to be on the biomed tonight?
198:39:11 Schmitt Whose side are you on? Of course, I am. Bob, I'm hooking up right now. I sort of rested my - my own personal sensors and I'm putting the mechanical ones on - electrical ones, I guess.
198:39:43 CC Oh good. I tell you what. If you wait 6 minutes until after LOS to finish that, you'll leave the Surgeon in suspense until you come around on AOS. That'll help keep him awake.
198:39:59 Schmitt Okay, I'll see what I can do one way or the other.
198:40:16 Schmitt Not according to Flight Plan.
198:40:29 Cernan Hey, Bob.
198:40:31 CC Go ahead.
198:40:35 Cernan Would you say what you said a little while ago a about the waste - not waste dumps, but urine dumps?
198:40:42 CC Okay, as per the checklist, it says at 19 - 197 hours, "CDR and LMP collect urine in UTSs until 208 hours," so that's until tomorrow morning. And I was just reminding you that we don't want to be hosing it overboard right now because the UV and IR COVERs are OPEN, and we presumed that, since you'd already done the waste water and the H2 purge on the back side, that - that sufficient time has passed to open them. And I guess that we sort of presumed that you weren't in the mode of dumping urine overboard.
198:41:16 Schmitt Okay, that's fine. I was thinking of the BUSS collection then - that's fine.
198:42:20 CC Okay, and, America, once you fellows finish your presleep checklist, you're GO for sleep. You're GO for LOS and we won't be saying anything to you when you come around the front side next time around, in case you've nodded off. Call us if you want to and we'll just let it be as is. We're finished with you for the night.
198:42:48 Cernan Okay, thank you, Robert. We're hastening to finish the checklist and get to sleep, and unless we have some problems or questions, we won't talk to you until tomorrow.
198:42:57 CC Okay, talk to you tomorrow night.
198:43:00 Schmitt Say, Bob, - Bob, on the biomed and LMP, if it doesn't show up to my normal standards, it's because maybe the sensors have come off. I'm - I've put a little of the bacterial salve on them and they probably won't stick too well. But I'll do the best I can.
198:43:19 CC Okay.
198:43:25 Schmitt Preventive medicine, Bob, not curative.
198:43:31 CC Okay, that'll make the Surgeon happy.
198:44:43 Cernan And before we fade out of sight, you might look at the biomed.
198:44:49 Schmitt Whoops, I got one left.
198:45:00 CC We're in LOW BIT RATE. We can't see you right now.
198:45:33 BEGIN LUNAR REV 57
198:45:36 PAO This is Apollo Control at 198 hours 45 minutes. We've had loss of signal on the 56th revolution. As you heard from CAPCOM Bob Parker, we do not intend to put in a call to the crew on the next acquisition, nor does the crew expect to call us. We'll take the line down and come back up with hourly reports.
199:52:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 199 hours 52 minutes. America is coming up over the landing site now on its 57th revolution. The crew began rest period almost an hour ago. We have not talked to them on this revolution. Rest period due to last 8 hours with wakeup at 207 hours elapsed time. All systems continuing to function well on the America. At 199 hours 52 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
200:53:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 200 hours 53 minutes. America behind the Moon now. We'll next acquire in about 35 minutes on the 58th revolution. The crew is in a rest period and at loss of signal on this revolution all systems were performing well. At 200 hours 53 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
201:52:14 PAO This is Apollo Control at 201 hours 52 minutes. Apollo 17, in its 58th lunar revolution, at this time is over the Taurus-Littrow landing site. We are monitoring systems via telemetry. All going well aboard the spacecraft. Crew has 5 hours 37 minutes remaining in this rest period. America's current orbit 65 by 62.5 nautical miles. At 201 hours 52 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
202:54:18 PAO This is Apollo Control at 202 hours 54 minutes. Apollo 17 is behind the moon on it's 58th revolution. All continuing to go well aboard spacecraft America. Spacecraft systems performing normally. The crew in a rest period. Wake up scheduled 4 hours 35 minutes from this time. Flight director, Pete Frank, and the orange team of flight controllers now handing over Mission Control duties to the gold team, which will be led today by flight director Neil Hutchinson. There will be no change of shift news conference. Early in this shift the lunar module, Challenger, was deorbited ontime and impacted the moon. Preliminary information indicates that the impact did occur within 15 Kilometers of the expected location. However, we were not able to see the impact on television from the rover which was up at that time. Impact data is still being refined and more detailed information should be available on that later today. At 202 hours 56 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
203:48:04 PAO This is Apollo Control at 203 hours 48 minutes. Revolution number 59 for Apollo 17 spacecraft, now in lunar orbit with some 3 hours and 41 minutes remaining until the three crewmen are awakened, for a rather full day of lunar orbit science activities. The spacecraft, currently, is in a almost circular lunar orbit: 62.6 nautical at the pericyntion by 65.1 nautical miles apocynthion. Orbital velocity 5344 feet per second, no apparent systems problems being monitored on the ground aboard the America at this time, and the crew sound asleep according to the surgeon, and at 203:49, this is Apollo Control.
205:07:12 PAO This is Apollo Control at 205 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Coming up on the front side pass on revolution number 60, some 18 minutes remaining until spacecraft America re-appears on the front side of the Moon. Two hours and 22 minutes remaining until the crew is awakened. America, at the present time, is in an orbit measuring 65.1 by 62.6 nautical miles. Here in the control center, the Flight Controllers are - those that aren't busy planning the days activity - are watching a playback of the rendezvous and docking sequence from the Command Module television camera which is being piped to the news room at this time on the monitors. And at 205 hours 7 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
205:47:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 205 hours 47 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. The spacecraft America coming up on the old Taurus-Littrow landing site, where the descent stage of the Lunar Module, Challenger, rests as a monument to the final Mission of the Apollo Landing series, Lunar Landing series. Fifty two minutes remaining until America passes behind the Moon, nearing the end of the 60th Lunar Orbit. An hour and 41 minutes until the crew awake time. America presently, is in an orbit measuring 62.5 at low point at which point it is at the moment, at pericynthion. And 180 degrees around at the rear side of the Moon it will reach apocynthion some 3 miles higher 65 nautical, and at 205 hours 48 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the Mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo Control.
206:47:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 206 hours 47 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Spacecraft America, now behind the moon nearing the end of the 60th Lunar Orbit. Some 42 minutes remaining, until the first call is made to the crew on the spacecraft. Approximately 5 minutes after they come around on the front side of the Moon on revolution number 61. Currently, the orbital digital display here in the Mission Control Center shows the orbit measuring 69.2 by 71.8 which may or may not be the current orbit. If it is some-. body has done a maneuver here. Here in the control center the flight controllers are going over the changes to the flight plan for the day's activities, getting all of the different entries, new entries to the flight plan sorted out and agreed upon. Preparation for crew wakeup. On second thought, disregard that earlier orbital measurement. I suspect this display maybe, is invalid at the moment. At 206:48 up again in 35 minutes, this is Apollo Control.
207:23:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 207 hours 23 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Coming around in less than a minute on the front side pass in lunar orbit number 61 and approximately 5 and 1/2 minutes away from wake-up. The wake-up music during this mission has ranged from grand opera selections to a college war hymn. We'll wait and see what it will be this morning. Spacecraft America in an orbit now measuring 65.3 at apocynthion by 62.6 nautical miles at pericynthion. We'll stand by for first word of acquisition from the network controler. We've had acquisition of signal. Slightly under 4 minutes now until the scheduled wake-up call unless they are already awake. We'll bring up the air-ground 1 circuit at this time and stand by for spacecraft communicators alarm clock at 207:26, and standing by, this is Apollo Control.
207:37:10 CC (Music: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack)
207:42:32 CC Good morning, America, from the Gold Team here.
207:43:30 CC Good morning, America. The friendly Gold Team is standing by.
207:43:40 Schmitt You guys have finally learned how to wake somebody up.
207:43:45 CC Roger.
207:43:47 Evans Good morning, Gold Team, this is the Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America, and we're ready to go to work again this morning.
207:43:55 CC Okay, well, you don't have to do much for a while but eat and get squared away.
207:44:04 Cernan Good morning, down there. This is the Commander of the spaceship America, and I'm glad to see that the CAPCOM console is well guarded this morning.
207:44:12 CC Roger; yes indeed. We've got one gate here and I'm guarding it.
207:44:19 Cernan I'm a little disappointed, though. The music was good, but I expected the Marine's Hymn or something like that.
207:44:25 CC Oh, I wouldn't do that to you this early in the morning.
207:44:31 Schmitt Better now and get it over with.
207:44:34 CC (Laughter)
207:44:47 Schmitt Has your - has your Flight Director changed or is it the same little fellow back there?
207:44:52 CC No, we've got Neil back there and a whole new team since you went to bed.
207:45:00 Schmitt Oh, that's right. Very good.
207:45:34 PAO Wake-up music today was Roberta Flack's rendition of The Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
207:45:59 Schmitt Who selected that song, Joe Allen?
207:46:01 CC No, that's - that's Neil's special. You've got Neil Hutchinson to blame on that one.
207:46:26 CC I must say he had a lot of accomplices on that, too, so -
207:46:36 Schmitt Yes, Bob, I think maybe that's one of the best songs that's come out in the last 10 years, if you ask me.
207:46:44 CC Roger.
207:46:46 Schmitt But then, you didn't ask.
207:46:59 Evans Hey, Houston; America.
207:47:01 CC Go ahead.
207:47:05 Evans I think mag QQ is all gone. Shall I use the RR?
207:47:14 CC Hey, Ron, at 208 - -
207:47:16 Evans ... or something - -
207:47:17 CC - - 05 there, we're going to delete that solar-corona pass anyway. I've got a Flight Plan update I'll give you at 208 there, and we're going to have to delete that solar-corona pass. So, forget it.
207:47:32 Evans Okay.
207:49:14 CC In case you guys are wondering, it looks like we finally might see the Sun down here in Houston. It is clearing off, except it's extremely cold. The temperature must be hovering right in the low 40's, or maybe even the high 30's, or even lower.
207:49:35 Schmitt Well, my goodness. I should have been watching the weather for you, Bob. We'll come and warm things up for you before long.
207:49:44 CC Roger.
208:01:23 CC America, Houston. We've got the Flight Plan update and a pan camera photo pad for the Flight Plan.
208:01:51 Evans Okay, Houston. Stand by 1, here I've got my hands full of - ... PRD thing.
208:02:03 CC Okay, the only thing we want to tell you is don't do the solar corona, and we've already told you that. We'll get back with you later on that. If you want, I'll read you the morning news.
208:02:14 Evans Hey, okay. Go ahead.
208:02:16 CC Okay, there's been a temporary halt to the peace talks in Paris, and, as we mentioned before, Henry Kissinger is in Washington and has conferred with President Nixon. A cease-fire proposal suggested by South Vietnamese government officials has been rejected by the U.S. White House News Secretary Ron Zeigler has declined to characterize the present Paris peace efforts, but say - did say there are still some obstacles to overcome. And we had another hijack attempt. A youthful Canadian, who hijacked an airliner in northern Canada was talked out of his escapade by his father. The youth had held 62 persons aboard the plane for a short while, then retained only four hostages for 10 hours. It appears that the United Mine Workers may have a new president. Maverick candidate Arnold Miller retained a strong lead over Tony Boyle in the government-supervised election. The transatlantic airfare price war that seems imminent, promises to be a real boon to the vacationer. It is now estimated that airfare may be as low as $136.00 for the transatlantic fare in some special categories. Juan Peron has ended his month-long visit to Argentina. An attempt was made to nominate him for the presidential election while he was there, but the move was declared illegal and he returned to Paraguay. A few other news highlights - the village of Rhonda, Switzerland, is threatened by a half-million-ton portion of a glacier moving down a mountain. Willie Brandt has been sworn in as Chancellor of West Germany for his second term. Former President Truman remains seriously ill. Chicago Mayor Daley has made an effort to halt further commercial development along Chicago's Lake Michigan waterfront. Comedian Bob Hope is set again for his annual tour of U.S. overseas military bases. His first Christmas show in the Far East is December 21. Now, in the local news, here, there's a good chance that Texans may soon legally put a bet down on a horse race. A state senate's studying - study committee has heard some heavy opposition to parimutuel betting in Austin, but the proposal appears to have a good chance of approval. And if you follow the Tomball police force, who quit in masses a couple of days ago - Tomball has rehired three of the officers who quit, and two more of the police who walked out are seeking to be rehired. And just a note here - there was a little beautification of Houston. Some of the thousands of billboards that line main highways around Houston will be coming down after the first of the year. All signs must be licensed by the state and a fee paid after that time. Some of the sports news: Johnny Bench, the Cincinnati Reds catcher who had a benign spot removed from a lung Monday, is recovering nicely at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, The star baseball player will remain hospitalized for about 5 more days. Brad Van Pelt of the Michigan State University defensive star won the Maxwell Club trophy as the year's top college football player. The Washington Redskin's Larry Brown took top honors as the top professional player of the year. Southern Methodist has apparently chosen a new football coach to succeed Hayden Fry, but University officials say an announcement won't come until next week. Mark Spitz and Shane Gould, both top Olympic swimmers, were honored as top athletes in the world by European sports writers - for this past year, of course. There was no action last night in college basketball. The University of Houston is getting ready to play California tomorrow night. Joe Paterno, Penn State coach, has won the Walter Camp Football Foundation award as coach of the year. And it appears that Mike Tillamen of the Oilers may play out his option this year and this - Coach Bill Peterson says that it upsets his draft plans this coming year. And I've already updated the weather to you. I just might add a little parenthetical thought that it's really not that much in the news and all the news around here anyway has been Apollo 17 and your lift-off. We picked up the lift-off last night from the Moon and carried it live TV for about 2-1/2 minutes as you went out of sight like a star, and then, of course, live TV picked up your docking and - rendezvous and docking. A very spectacular picture, I might add, of the lunar surface as the Challenger came up to meet America. Over.
208:06:58 Cernan Very good news summary, Bob. Thank you. I didn't realize Tomball had five policemen.
208:07:05 CC (laughter)
208:07:41 CC America, Houston.
208:08:03 CC America, this is Houston.
208:08:08 Cernan Go ahead.
208:08:09 CC Hey, you can probably tell by the comm that this is Gerry. This is - the Gold Team has been handed over to the able hands of Neil. Before things go too far, I'll be around watching for the rest of the flight, of course, but before things got too far I wanted to pass my comments on to you guys that - boy, this has really been super. You guys have - between the performance of you guys and the performance of the hardware, it's been a piece of cake down here. I hope it's staying that same way up there, and we're really looking forward to finishing this thing up and getting you on back home. And my hat's off to you.
208:08:49 Cernan Okay, Gerry, I appreciate those words, but any performance of ours, and certainly that of the hardware, has to go all to the performance of you guys down there, because, you know, you are the guys that make it happen and we do appreciate it. And I guess this is sort of a semiretirement for you then, is that right?
208:09:12 CC Well, I don't know whether to call it semiretirement it's - it's a relaxed feeling, I'll tell you that. But I'm anxious to do it again; and hope I get a chance to do something more like this.
208:09:26 Cernan You bet you. We're all going to keep doing it; and, listen, you couldn't have left it in a more able set of hands than Neil's down there. We'll have to celebrate your 3-day or 4-day rest period when we get back.
208:09:38 CC Roger. Talk to you later.
208:09:42 Cernan I didn't - I didn't realize we wore you out.
208:09:47 CC I will throw in one thing right quick, you know the activation descent day, that was the third one I had handled, and including all the simulations and all the three of the actual flights, I think it's the first time we can say that we really did it all right. For one reason or another, it really turned out to be a fairly easy day and I was really surprised.
208:10:13 Cernan Gerry, that spacecraft that we were working with was undoubtedly the best vehicle, along with America, that I've ever flown.
208:10:24 CC Okay, well I'll be talking to you later.
208:10:30 Cernan Still ... babe.
208:10:32 Schmitt Gerry, this is Jack. Thanks a lot, boy.
208:10:35 CC You bet.
208:13:33 Schmitt Okay, Houston; America. Would you like us to start charging battery Bravo?
208:13:39 CC That's affirmed if you - if you're there, we'd like it.
208:13:48 Schmitt I'm here.
208:14:10 Cernan Okay, Houston, we're going to do the pan camera; stand by.
208:14:17 Schmitt Okay, say again, Geno.
208:14:24 Cernan Mode is STANDBY and Houston -
208:14:30 Cernan MARK. POWER.
208:14:33 CC Roger.
208:14:38 Cernan And if you're curious V/H is HIGH ALTITUDE.
208:14:43 CC Roger; copy that.
208:15:01 Evans Okay, Houston; America here. I've got some medical logs and food.
208:15:12 CC Okay. Stand by 1.
208:15:21 CC Okay, go ahead. We're listening.
208:15:25 Evans Okay, I'll start out with LMP medical log. PRD is packed down there with the suit; so, we'll have to get it later. He had 6 hours of good sleep. Took a Seconal. Fluids - he had lots of fluids - but they weren't logged.
208:16:01 Schmitt Okay, LMP's - okay day 10, I guess, meal Charlie. Had turkey and gravy, and I need to start writing - No. I had a citrus beverage, coffee, fruit cake, meatballs, lemon pudding and lemonade. Hey, Houston, instead of a turkey and gravy that was really a beef and gravy.
208:16:49 CC Okay.
208:16:58 Evans Okay, we'll go over the CMP. Meal A - had bacon squares, scrambled eggs, orange juice, and coffee, vitamins; Meal B - need some light (laughter) meal B is chicken and rice soup, meatballs with sauce, butterscotch pudding, orange drink, caramel candy, apricot cereal cubes, brownies - I guess that was it. Meal Charlie, potato soup, beef and gravy, the ambrosia peaches there - about half of it - four brownies, and an orange drink.
208:18:10 Evans Okay, on the medical log: PRD is 15047 and I had about 6-1/2 hours of sleep in, oh, catnaps I guess - some of them were a couple hours long. And had two sniffs of nose drops on each side prior to going to sleep and five cans of fluid.
208:18:58 Evans Okay, for the Commander's menu - how did we get to day 10 - it was only day 9 yesterday wasn't it?
208:19:22 CC Ron, excuse us. Would you have somebody turn the PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF, please?
208:19:40 Cernan MARK it. It's off.
208:19:42 CC Roger; we'd like the IR COVER, CLOSED, and the UV COVER, CLOSED, at this time.
208:19:54 Cernan Okay. I'll improve, Ron.
208:20:01 Evans Well, it takes a little training.
208:20:04 Cernan Takes a little training once you get back from the lunar surface.
208:20:09 Evans Okay, Houston, UV COVER is CLOSED and gray. IR COVER is CLOSED and gray.
208:20:30 Evans Okay. Ready for the Commander's menu, day 9 meal Charlie?
208:20:59 Evans Houston, America. Are you all set to copy?
208:21:11 CC Yes. We're ready to copy, Ron.
208:21:12 Evans Hello, Houston. How do you read America?
208:21:13 CC Read you loud and clear. We're ready to copy.
208:21:17 Evans Okay, here we go. For the Commander's day 9 meal Charlie - meatballs, butterscotch pudding, beef and gravy, orange-pineapple juice, citrus juice, chicken stew, apricots, and gingerbread.
208:21:54 Evans Okay, his medical log: He had 7 hours of very good sleep, no medication, and drank lots of fluids but nothing was logged on that part of it, and his PRD is also at his suit - down at the bottom of the suit bag so we ought to get it out here, shortly.
208:22:15 CC Roger; copy.
208:22:30 Schmitt Bob, in lieu of the solar corona photography, I watched - Gene and I both watched it set, and there are two bands which I still can see now - a zodiacal light, I guess, going out symmetrically on either side of the plane in the ecliptic and they make an angle between themselves of about, let's say, 70 to 80 degrees. I can still - knowing they're there - I can still pick up the bands, streamers, I guess would be a better word. And last night when I watched one set, there was a strong linear streamer going out - oh, maybe 3 or 4 or 5 diameters - I'll have to get my directions straight. Well, I'll figure out which side of the ecliptic it was. That was not nearly so strong when I looked this time - now partly that may be dark adaptation, I don't know, but I'll try to keep track of that one. But these two streamers today are about an equal strength and they're still visible as zodiacal light.
208:23:55 CC Okay, Jack, we'd - quick break, we'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO and we'd like to get on with this Flight Plan update, please.
208:24:10 Schmitt Okay, you've got AUTO.
208:24:12 CC Okay, and this is a real-time Flight Plan change. This real time right here, and right now if you'll go MAPPING CAMERA COVER, OPEN, and MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND, and give us a mark, we'll time the extend time on it, please.
208:24:28 Cernan Okay, Bob, the MAPPING CAMERA COVER - Ready?
208:24:40 CC Jack, will you go back to REACQ on the HIGH GAIN?
208:24:49 Schmitt Okay, we're in REACQ. ...
208:25:01 Cernan ... Oh, okay.
208:25:07 Cernan No-no - okay, Bob. MAPPING CAMERA is going OPEN.
208:25:12 Cernan MARK. And it's gray. And you want to extend the mapping camera, huh?
208:25:24 CC AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, first of all.
208:25:27 Schmitt Okay, that's what they said - they wanted. Okay, going to AUTO again.
208:25:41 CC Okay - -
208:25:42 Cernan Houston, America. You say you're going to extend the mapping camera, now?
208:25:46 CC That's affirmative, we're extending it early because we want to time it, and extend it now, please, and give us a mark when you start it.
208:25:55 Cernan Okay.
208:25:56 Cernan MARK it.
208:26:00 CC Okay, and might as well finish up the Flight Plan updates if you don't mind. The next one is at 209:01.
208:26:19 Schmitt Okay, go ahead; 209:01.
208:26:22 CC You're going to delete the "MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, OPEN," and "MAPPING CAMERA EXTEND," at that position, because you've just done it. Just scratch them out.
208:26:41 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I got that.
208:26:43 CC Okay, and at 209:03, add - after "PAN CAMERA POWER" - add "V/H OVERRIDE, HIGH ALTITUDE."
208:27:02 Schmitt Okay, I got that: V/H high alt at 209:03.
208:27:08 CC That's affirmative, and - -
208:27:10 Evans Hey, Houston; America.
208:27:11 CC Go ahead, Ron.
208:27:14 Evans Okay, let me interrupt here a minute, Bob. Can we go ahead and dump with the mapping camera extended?
208:27:23 CC That's affirmative, Ron.
208:27:27 Evans Okay. Mighty fine. Thank you.
208:27:30 CC Okay, we'll just show a full extend at 209:40, Jack, in the Flight Plan where it says, "Lift-off time update" is not required. At 209:40, we'll not do a lift-off time update.
208:27:52 Schmitt 209:40. You're not going to do a lift-off time update, huh?
208:27:59 CC That's affirmative. And I've got a pan camera pad while you're on that page. The pan camera pad which is opposite 209:15 - 209:15.
208:28:19 Schmitt 209:15. Pan camera photo pad. Go ahead.
208:28:25 CC Okay, T-start, 209:14:44; T-stop, 209:27:36, and that covers all of it. We can settle back to the Flight Plan, now.
208:28:51 Schmitt Okay, we - I will do that.
208:28:54 CC Okay, sir, and if you'll give us ACCEPT, we've got a state vector at this time for you.
208:29:04 Schmitt Okay, you have it.
208:29:33 CC And, Ron, you may be interested, we had a nominal extend on the mapper.
208:29:41 Evans (Laughter) Hey, great. I guess once - once the door stays out of the way, it'll come out all right, huh?
208:29:48 CC Roger.
208:30:50 CC America, Houston.
208:30:56 Evans Go ahead.
208:30:57 CC Okay, Ron. Just for - first of all - the computer is yours, you can go back to BLOCK. Just for your information, at the beginning of the next rev, we're going to have a Flight Plan update. Or actually, we'll have small - a pan camera pad at the beginning of the rev and then into the rev after the orbital science visuals, we'll have a Flight Plan update. What we're going to be doing is we're going to be doing an extra ultraviolet-scan program and we're going to do some antenna calibration on the HF - lunar sounder antenna so we get quite a lengthy Flight Plan update and, after that, it'll just be flying the Flight Plan. The thing with the lunar sounder is that we're getting a lot of noise from Earth that we don't see on the back side of the Moon in the HF and we'd like to calibrate this out.
208:31:56 Schmitt Okay, you want to give us those updates now or are you going to ... -
208:32:02 CC Negative; we'll wait until next rev, they're not that extensive - we just have a number of them. Just want you to be aware that they'll be coming up. They will not interrupt your orbital-science visual targets there at Mare Smythii or at the landing-site visual.
208:32:20 Schmitt Okay.
208:37:39 CC America, Houston. You're about 2 minutes from LOS here. We've got two items - the America is looking great and as you go around the horn there's no problems open on it. If you do - We would like the LMP - Jack, if you'd push on your EKG sensors a little bit - we're - the data isn't too good - the EKG sensors. And on your H2 tank configuration, Ron, we'd like you to take H2 TANK 3 FANS to OFF and H2 TANK 2 FANS to ON.
208:38:15 Evans Okay. TANK 3 is OFF. Number 2 is ON.
208:38:21 CC Roger.
208:38:23 Schmitt Okay, Bob. First - first break I have I'll change - have to change those sensors. I - I needed to put that salve on and I guess that's probably the same problem as on the way out.
208:38:38 CC Roger. Don't change them, Jack. The CMP is due to come on before too long so just press on them and see if we can improve the data a little bit but don't change them out. And you're looking great, and we'll pick you up again at 209:23.
208:38:55 Schmitt Maybe that ratty data is me.
208:38:59 CC No, no, it's not that way.
208:39:34 BEGIN LUNAR REV 62
208:39:42 PAO And we've had loss of signal as the spacecraft, America, passed behind the moon nearing the end of the 61st lunar orbit. Some 48 minutes until the spacecraft comes around again on revolution 62. During that frontside pass the crew was wakened rather pleasantly by a recording uplink to them by Roberta Flack of The Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face. And after they had sufficiently wakened the Flight Plan updates for the days activity were read up to the crew by spacecraft communicator, Bob Overmeyer. Current orbit, 65 nautical miles by 62.5 pericynthion. And at 208.40 this is Apollo Control.
209:22:50 PAO This is Apollo Control at 209 hours 22 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 Spacecraft America coasting around at this time on the start of lunar orbit number 62, about 40 seconds away from acquisition by the ground station antennas. Still in a 62 by 65 nautical mile orbit. Waiting confirmation as the spacecraft comes around the corner. And we have, indeed, picked up the downlink voice and data signal at the tracking station. We have had acquisition. Let's stand by for the initial conversations.
209:26:49 Schmitt Okay, we've got you OMNI D. Somehow we got off attitude here.
209:26:55 CC Okay, Ron, understand you're on OMNI D. You're coming up on 30 seconds away from PAN CAMERA T-stop time, and I have another pan camera pad I'd like to give you before we get into the orb science visuals.
209:27:13 Evans Okay. Gene will get the pad. ... 27 36 - 27 36, Jack.
209:27:27 Cernan Go ahead on the pad.
209:27:29 CC Okay, the pan camera photo pad is at 209:30 - 209:45 are you read for that one?
209:27:42 Cernan Standby - PAN CAMERA to STANDBY. Okay, pan camera is STANDBY.
209:27:53 CC Roger, we got it.
209:28:02 CC Okay, the PAN CAMERA photo pad T-start time: 209:49:04, T-stop time: 209:51:01. Over.
209:28:24 Cernan Okay I've got T-start of 49:04 and T-stop 51:01.
209:28:29 CC Roger, and we'll hold off on the other pads until after your visuals, here.
209:28:40 Cernan I don't have much to do anyway, Bob. Why don't you go ahead.
209:28:48 CC Rog, if you want, we're standing by to copy the visuals.
209:28:54 Cernan Okay. That's right ... Okay, we're coming across Mare Symthii. One of the - first things I'm concentrating on is the - slope of the - we're out of comm, it looks like. Got some high gain angles?
209:29:17 CC Roger, trying to get one.
209:29:26 Evans Okay.
209:29:28 Cernan Okay. Okay.
209:29:38 CC Ron, if you'll do a standard REACQ for the HIGH GAIN pitch minus 10, yaw 25, we'd appreciate it.
209:29:53 CC Sounds great.
209:30:05 Evans How do you read, Bob.
209:30:06 CC Loud and clear.
209:30:08 Evans Okay, Houston, how do you hear? Okay.
209:30:23 CC We'd like REACQ on the HIGH GAIN until we call AUTO, please.
209:30:29 Evans Reacq in there. Okay.
209:30:47 CC Ron, we're standing by.
209:30:49 Evans Okay, Houston on the - the craters to the north of the Wright Brothers. The slope of the walls is steep - probably 45 degrees on the inside - it's a gradual slope on the outside slipping away from the crater. There is no apparent albedo differences in the ejecta or patterned annulus around the crater itself and we're looking specifically at the one to the northwest of the Wright Brothers, now. There is a definite mare flow that is unindated [sic], and it's a different color and, you know, that you have a light albedo to it now, it's kind of a grayish tan. It's a light grayish tan material that has flowed - and I can't tell - it almost looks like it's flowed down to the crater. There is an impact crater right in the breach of the crater - which has nothing to do with the flow itself. The material in the - I'm almost out of sight of it already. I was going to say the material in the inner crater in these boulder ring structures down there - the material all the way in the center of it is comparable to the hummocky, bumpy looking type stuff that is not really the mare - not the smooth mare of Smythii - but the other part of the mare of Smythii.
209:32:44 CC Are there any differences in the craters, Ron?
209:32:56 Evans Yes, some of the craters, though, you can't see the boulder-ring structures on it. And some of them that are definitely impact craters, you know, that have the ejecta rings around them. I've got to study them a little bit more. This is really the first chance I've had to look at Smythii, on this pass, but I want to take a look at him a little bit more. Some of the boulder-ring basins there - the walls are not delta shaped at all. The one to the north and let's see, as you look to the Wright Brothers there's one directly north, and then the next one, and then the next one. The one directly north we'll say is 12 o'clock; the other one is 1 o'clock; and then a 2 o'clock crater. The 1 o'clock crater looks to me there is a high lava mark around the outer basin, the outer ring of the crater, itself. The one at 12 o'clock is the one I was talking about, has the breach on it with the later impact - the small impact crater on it. And without the binocs I couldn't tell flow direction, whether they were flowing into the boulder-ring basin from that mare patch on the outside or vice versa, so I'm going to try to check that out the next time around.
209:34:38 CC Okay, Ron, we're standing by for any comments along your ground track here and we're following you. We would like to - when you get up on the landing site, we'd like you to concentrate on Stoney and F Cra - F Crater for those textural differences we noticed the other day.
209:34:56 Evans Okay. Shorty. I think - right, I called the Stoney the other day too I think but -
209:35:03 CC Yes, Shorty, I'm sorry. - -
209:35:05 Evans The one out on the landslide.
209:35:06 CC - - And we would like you to mark - Right. Will you mark - like you to mark the breach that you see on the photo, please. Or on the map.
209:35:23 Evans Okay. That's - that's the breach on the - in Mare Smythii.
209:35:30 CC That's affirm, Ron.
209:35:43 CC And Ron, if you'll ask Gene or Jack or somebody to get your PAN CAMERA to MONO now, please.
209:35:54 Evans Okay, PAN CAMERA's going to MONO.
209:36:29 Evans Okay ... I got the binocs.
209:36:56 CC And Ron, we're still standing by for any calls you might want to make en route to the landing site, there.
209:37:03 Evans Okay.
209:37:20 Evans Well, again you can speak of test - or color differences on the thing. And the Sun angle now looking west - you get the same streaked - well, the verticle streaks that I talked about before that you see on the backside at the high Sun angle - higher Sun angles again. And that seems to show up more and more, I think, at the higher Sun angles. And these are the - what I call - radial - radial streaks down in the fresh craters that essentially start at the top of the crater rim and go down inside of them. If you take a look at these streaks, I don't - I don't see how they could be due strictly to the Sun angle on the thing, because they're all the way around the crater.
209:38:37 CC Roger, did you have a particular crater in mind along the - -
209:38:40 Evans Now, on the - Well, I'm trying to find the name of it right now. It doesn't make any difference which one it is. It's in all of the - all the craters, all of the valleys, and everything. It looks like the Sculptured Hills around the landing site.
209:39:19 CC Roger. We understand that, Ron.
209:39:29 CC Coming up on Apollonius. That area now is that correct?
209:39:36 Evans Yes.
209:39:52 CC Is there any significance or difference between the contact of Crisium to the Highlands or at Picard in that - or at the area where you're flying over in the Mare Tran - Fertility and, the Highlands right there in between. Is there any difference between these two contact points?
209:40:16 Evans No, the Highlands look essentially the same as you - as you pass from Crisium on across to Fertility, and, again, they look so much like the Sculptured Hills, it's ridiculous, you know. It's all the high Sun - high Sun angle again. You got the streaks and the highs and there - there are masses of Highlands, though, on the border of Crisium here, though that - although they look like the Sculptured Hills, the sculpturing seems to be radially upslope and then downslope from the center of Crisium and just in small local areas of the Highlands.
209:41:10 CC Roger, Roger. Do you see any radial Fra Mauro-like lineaments?
209:41:12 Evans In that way, I think you can see ... the Sculptured Hills.
209:41:12 CC - - Fra Mauro ...?
209:41:23 Evans No, Bob. What I'm referring to is on the Highlands bordering Crisium, but - not all of them - you just see a definite radial pattern upslope and downslope. From the center of Crisium, but none of the lineaments like you're talking about like at Fra Mauro.
209:41:45 CC Roger, copy.
209:41:47 Evans What kind of film we got? Oh, I got the wrong film in the mag. Right - Let's see, there's Yerkes, and then on the side of the slope, come Yerkes and then there's about a 50-kilometer crater, then there's a subdued crater, and right on the western rim of Crisium - in the western edge of that subdued crater, it's almost a 70-degree slope down there, and it's a square straight slope on the thing. There doesn't seem to be any ejecta piled up in the bottom of it at all, but within the slope - and it must be 50 - about - yes, 50 kilometers long, and there's a bright impact crater on the top of the hill, top of the rim, right below that bright crater, you have the tannish brown streak that goes through the whole slide. The rest of the slope itself is the bright, light - real light, light tan, I call it. I'll find the name of that crater on the map in a minute.
209:43:08 Cernan I think the circumference of that crater right there ceases to be round - -
209:43:12 Evans Yes.
209:43:12 Cernan - - it just is squared off with a linear break about oh - at least 20 percent of the circumference of the entire crater.
209:43:22 CC Now, are you talking about a crater on the Mare of Crisium or are you talking about up near Proculus P in that area ... Hills?
209:43:28 Evans Yes, it's right - no it's right on the mare.
209:43:32 CC Okay. We got it. I think we got ... - -
209:43:32 Evans A subdued crater right on the Mare of Crisium just below - below Yerkes. Jack, where's the -
209:43:39 Schmitt ...
209:43:42 Evans Oh, the film? ...
209:44:00 Evans Window 3 is going to - The landing site is going to be out of window 3. Let's see, about f - f/8 and 1/250.
209:44:30 CC Very shortly you should be coming up on the mare prior to the landing site across Tranquillitatis and then to the landing site. Is that affirm?
209:44:41 Evans Oh, yes, that's affirm, we should, I got Proculus at the window number 3 now.
209:44:55 Evans Yes. Yes, the landing site really shows up - even from this distance right now. We're right over Proculus, and looking off across down through the hills there, you have that definite dark - and now the albedo or the colored texture of the thing to me is turning more of a gray than a tan-gray. In the early parts of it, I thought it was a dark grayish tan, I guess, or something like that. Now it looks to me like it's more tan - I mean more gray, I'm sorry, more gray.
209:45:36 CC Are you using the binoculars on the landing site - -
209:45:36 Evans It has essentially the same - Ah, not yet.
209:45:44 Cernan Yes, this is Gene. I've got it on and the streaked albedo change differences very definite. One is the dark mantle on the floor. One is the South and North Massifs and the other is the Sculptured Hills. And the Sculptured Hills are at a light gray albedo between the Massif and the dark mantle. This line is very evident and there's a definite break in slope that you can see between the South Massif the, I won't call it the slide, but the white mantle is out on the valley floor. And from here, Shorty stands out like a sore thumb.
209:46:44 CC Okay, we're interested in all three of you on that color texture difference up at Shorty and then we'd like to have a comparison of Shorty to F-crater if it is possible.
209:46:55 Evans Okay, that crater is harder than a son-of-a-buck to find. F-crater is right on Family Mountain, and there's one to the north of Family Mountain, a little ways, there's a darker crater and then there's also one to the south of it. I can't find one on Family Mountain at all. I couldn't the other day so I'm going to see if I can find it today.
209:47:20 Cernan Bob, to me the Sculptured Hills incorporate the albedo, both of the North Massif, or the massif, and the mantle area, and combine them to give you a generally in-between gray albedo, but the sculpturing is produced by the darker albedo that looks like the mantle, and the lighter albedo that looks like the massif.
209:47:47 CC Roger. And for Ron, the F crater is just to the south of Family Mountain. It's the one that you mentioned south of Family Mountain.
209:47:57 Schmitt Oh, okay! That's the one I saw the other day. It looks about like Shorty.
209:48:03 CC Is there a cone associated with that crater?
209:48:03 Cernan From here Bob, they're both very dark -
209:48:16 CC Is there a color associated with that crater?
209:48:17 Evans Have to check that just a second.
209:48:20 CC Okay, and we're about 30 seconds from the T-start time on the pan camera, please.
209:48:49 Evans Can't see that far. Stand by.
209:48:49 Evans There is a definite bright spot up on the side of the hill - it's almost an extension of that slide area from Shorty.
209:48:49 CC Okay, you guys, we're about 10 - -
209:48:49 Evans See it?
209:48:52 CC - - 10 seconds from T-start time on the pan camera.
209:48:52 Evans Okay, Jack's getting the T-start. Okay I still get a -
209:49:03 CC MARK. T-start time.
209:49:03 Evans It's on.
209:49:03 CC Go ahead, Ron.
209:49:03 Evans Okay. On Shorty, I still have the - that light orangish-tan-type material - it's essentially perpendicular, to the line of the slide area there in the northern semicircle of the thing. I see F-crater. Boy, I can't hold these crazy glasses still enough.
209:49:03 CC Okay, let me read you some questions about F-crater, if you will. If you'll direct your attention to F-crater. We'd like to know the shape of the crater profile, the rim crest, and probable or possible breaching, the smoothness and distribution of rim deposits, and the superposition-relationship with Family Mountain or Family Hill.
209:49:03 Evans Okay. Get all of those. It is a - by golly, there is a raised rim to it. It's light color down inside the crater, though. And I can't hold the glasses close enough to see if it's breached or not.
209:50:35 Cernan Bob, I can't see it any more but let me add to it what I can remember real quick. The inside is white.
209:50:35 Evans Yes.
209:50:35 Cernan The outside is rimmed with a - it's as if the rim itself, was just dark, very dark. There's some white to the south about a crater diameter, sort of a - small distribution radially to the south, and then there is a - sort of a, what I would call, a free-patterned dark-like ray about 2 crater diameters, maybe 3 crater diameters, to the south just slightly to the west of this light area I was talking about, but to the south, another definite one to the west and another definite one to the north, but none to the east.
209:50:35 CC You just past pan camera T-stop time, guys. Jack, PAN CAMERA to STANDBY, please. Go on Gene, sorry to interrupt.
209:50:35 Evans He's got it.
209:50:35 CC Go ahead, go ahead with your description. We're listening.
209:50:35 Evans I'm going to draw a picture, here, while I'm thinking of it.
209:50:35 CC Okay, good show. Okay, guys, that completed the orbital science visual pass. Any other comments you'd want to make about the landing site.
209:50:35 Cernan Yes. It's an interesting place.
209:50:35 CC No, not that. From a geological standpoint from orbit.
209:51:35 Cernan Yes. And I've got - well, my white spot, there, is ... the same spot. There are two white spots I'm talking about, now. The one I'm talking about primarily is the one I saw right after landing, on the thing was a lighter - lighter grayish area that was evidently blown up from the LM landing. And that's still in the same spot. You can still see that all right.
209:52:59 CC We'd like PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF, now.
209:53:08 Schmitt It's OFF.
209:53:09 CC Okay, Ron, anytime you're ready now, I've got a - that whole series of Flight Plan updates and I've got a few words of explanation with each one, so, maybe you might want to take these.
209:53:25 Evans Okay.
209:53:33 CC Okay, HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
209:53:40 Evans HIGH GAIN'S in AUTO.
209:53:47 CC Ya, one more question. How large is the bright zone you were talking about, Ron?
209:53:57 Evans Right between Sherlock and Camelot there are two small craters there and I'll have to get my map out to look for the name of them for sure.
209:54:14 CC Okay.
209:54:15 Evans They should have been behind the LM - right behind the LM. And the bright spot is about the same size as those.
209:54:21 CC Okay. - -
209:54:23 Evans And it makes I would say an equilateral triangle with those two craters.
209:54:28 CC Okay, fine, I would recommend one of you go on to the "configure camera" while we start the Flight Plan update. We'd like to get the Flight Plan update all read prior to that P52 that you've got to do there, and somebody will be taking those terminator photos.
209:54:45 Evans Okay, soon as Gene - Gene's drawing in the Flight Plan, there. That crater - Okay, ready for a Flight Plan update.
209:55:02 CC Okay. Who's going to take the terminator photos. You want me to give you call about 2 minutes before the photo time?
209:55:08 Evans Yes. Jack will.
209:55:09 CC Okay, well, here's the Flight Plan update, then. At 210:30 - 210:30, add the following - -
209:55:20 Evans Okay.
209:55:20 CC - - MAPPING CAMERA, OFF; wait 30 seconds; MAPPING CAMERA, STANDBY; IMAGE MOTION, OFF; LASER ALTIMETER, OFF; select P00, P00; VERB
209:55:54 Evans Okay.
209:55:54 CC - - 49 maneuver to UV scan attitude. The angles are as follows: 167, 125, 354. Over.
209:56:21 Evans Okay. MAPPING CAMERA, OFF - this is at 210:30, MAPPING CAMERA, OFF. Wait 30 seconds. MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY, IMAGE MOTION to OFF, LASER ALTIMETER, OFF. P00. V49 to UV scan attitude. Roll 167, pitch 125, yaw 354.
209:56:38 CC Good call, Ron. The next one is at 210:35 and this is a P20 maneuver that's going to set up a rotation about the X-axis for a UV scan. Ready to copy?
209:56:53 Evans Okay.
209:56:55 CC P20, option 2, UV scan. NOUN 78 - -
209:57:07 Evans Okay.
209:57:08 CC - - NOUN 78 all zeros; 0, 0, and 0. NOUN 79: minus 0.4000, plus 000.50; NOUN 34: 00210, 00042, 019.00. Over.
209:57:55 Evans Okay, P2 at 210:35 will be P10, uh, P20 for UV scan option 2. NOUN 78's are all zeros, NOUN 79 a minus 0.4 of a degree per second. is that right?
209:58:12 CC That's affirm.
209:58:13 Evans Minus 0.4000.
209:58:17 CC Okay.
209:58:17 Evans Okay, then dead band is at 0.5 a half-degree. NOUN 34 is 210, 42, 19.00.
209:58:26 CC That's affirmative, Ron. Okay, at 210:41.
209:58:35 Evans Okay, 210:41.
209:58:36 CC Add the line, the standard line, verify DSE tape motion, HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD/FORWARD, COMMAND RESET.
209:58:59 Evans Okay, at 41, verify tape motion, HIGH BIT RATE, RECORD/FORWARD and COMMAND RESET.
209:59:06 CC Roger. At 210:57, we've got another P20, Ron. And this P20 will set up the orb rate - -
209:59:14 Evans Okay.
209:59:14 CC - - minus sight on the horizon. Okay, here's the P20, option 5. NOUN 78, plus 162.01 - let me read that again, plus 162.01 - plus 040.76, plus 184.78; NOUN 79, plus 000.50. And we're going to orb rate around the Moon, so NOUN 70 will have a 50 in it for the Moon.
210:00:18 Evans Okay, at 57, it will be P20, option 5. Orb rate to minus sight on horizon; NOUN 78s are plus 162.01, plus 40.76, and plus 184.78; NOUN 79s are half a degree; and it'll be an orb rate around the Moon - 50. Okay?
210:00:38 CC Roger, Ron. Okay. Stand by.
210:00:50 Evans Bob, while I'm standing by there, oh, that's all right. Must be my other map.
210:01:05 CC Okay, Ron. We're ready with some more if you are.
210:01:11 Evans Okay, go.
210:01:14 CC Okay, at 211:02. Add the following at 211:02: UV cover CLOSED, and, in parentheses, put 211:02:09. Configure DSE - -
210:01:45 Evans Okay, we're going to close - Oh - That's all right, go ahead.
210:01:51 CC Configure DSE STOP/COMMAND RESET. Select P00. Manual roll left to a roll angle 039 by 211:05. Over.
210:02:27 Evans Okay. UV cover CLOSED at 211:02:09. Configure the DSE STOP/COMMAND RESET. Whip her into P00 and manually roll left to 039 by 211 plus 05.
210:02:43 CC Roger. And just the prediction from the simulator, you might want to use ACCEL command for a rate of about 1 degree per second to accomplish that. And that - The purpose of that is to get the Sun out of the mapping camera.
210:02:54 Evans Okay. Okay, can do, ACCEL command to 1 degree per second.
210:03:06 CC Okay, at 211:08.
210:03:17 Evans Just a second, ...
210:03:19 CC Roger.
210:03:20 Evans Hey, Jack on here it shows the little circles on the map, which part you ought to be taking for each, rev 2 or whatever it is.
210:03:30 CC We're in rev 62.
210:03:30 Evans Except that, for some reason, on my map D it doesn't have - Yes - on map Delta. I must have got the backup map or something, I didn't have any of the photo - the camera settings on it. (Laughter) Terminator photos.
210:03:50 CC Ron, we can break from this now, we're pretty well ahead, and we can come back to it, if you want to do the photos.
210:03:58 Evans Hey, yes. Do you have the - Do you have the options, there, on the La Hire Rille? And Mount La Hire - which - what the photo settings are.
210:04:12 CC Roger, I've got them, and I can read them - I'll read them to you right off the mop [sic] - map.
210:04:16 Evans Okay.
210:04:17 CC Okay, if you're looking right at the map - -
210:04:19 Evans Okay, read them.
210:04:19 CC - - draw - draw a circle around La Hire Bravo. And that is f/32 - -
210:04:25 Evans Oh, I've got the circles on it.
210:04:28 CC - - 1/500.
210:04:31 Evans Yes. f/32, 1/500. Okay, start with that one, Jack.
210:04:36 CC Got the circle around Mount La Hire? It's f/ll.
210:04:39 Evans 250-millimeter lens - f/ll, okay.
210:04:47 CC At the next circle up, which crosses - which encompasses the "La" of La Hire Rilles, you want f/8 at 1/250.
210:05:01 Evans Okay.
210:05:02 CC And the one that crosses - the circle that covers across the terminator there at Diophantus is f/5.6 at 1/125, 1/125. Get the wrong - -
210:05:22 Evans Okay, we got them all, Bob. Thank you.
210:05:24 CC Okay, just a question for some other period. Will we have to update your map for P66 and P74 revs?
210:05:33 Evans Yes. I don't have anything on this map.
210:05:36 CC Okay, we'll schedule that in prior to those revs, Ron.
210:05:41 Evans Yes. Okay.
210:05:49 Evans Okay, we're coming up on Timocharis, now. Start at Lambert and get the - right along the La Hire Rille, see - Yes. Take six - six - six shots you know, kind of each area at that - You know, north and south. Yes, you know point them every which way, or whatever's interesting on the thing. Okay.
210:06:40 Evans Okay. Mount La Hire, you can get in there at f/ll at 1/500.
210:07:22 CC Hey, Ron. Just - Just a point. -
210:07:23 SC There's Euler coming up there. Okay, go ahead, Bob.
210:07:29 CC Do you have two copies of the maps onboard? And if so, did the - would the other copy of "D" have the updates on it? Or have the settings?
210:07:41 Evans Have 2 copies? I didn't know we had two copies. Okay, and then next to Euler, we've got f/8 at 1/250 - north of Euler, There's - well we're just - Okay, we're just about at the - on the terminator line. Yes. No, f/8 at - at 1/250. Okay. Yes, north and south along the terminator. You're getting close to it. Then, change to - right on the terminator - change to f/5-6 at 1/125. I was wondering when you guys were going to say that. (Laughter) Okay.
210:09:08 Evans (Laughter) Yes, that'll be a good one. I'll tell you, it goes a lot easier when you're by yourself.
210:09:27 Evans Okay, yes, we're on mag 55. I mean frame 55 ana mag Romeo Romeo.
210:09:39 Evans Yes, we didn't get some of the ones up around La Hire. We'll get those next time around.
210:09:53 CC How's the pictures going, Ron?
210:09:57 Evans Okay, we got - The pictures are over. And that's Lunar Orbit Chart Delta. It doesn't have anything on it, you know - -
210:10:04 CC Okay, we'll - -
210:10:05 Evans - - it's the circles on it, but it doesn't have any of the - -
210:10:08 CC We'll - We'll schedule it up - all the fli - all the updates on that. After you go LOS we'll figure out some convenient time to read them up to you on there, Ron. I've got a - I've got the Flight Plan - -
210:10:18 Evans Okay, and we're ready to continue the Flight Plan.
210:10:20 CC Okay. 211:08, 211:08.
210:10:26 Evans Okay. We're all set.
210:10:33 CC Ron, just one comment before we start the Flight Plan. You've got a 52 coming up and we want to make sure that gets done prior to the VERB 49 maneuver at 210:30. And there is no slack on that VERB 49 maneuver at 210:30. So you'll have to get on to the 52 at about 20, but we should have enough time to get the rest of these updates up.
210:10:54 Evans Okay.
210:10:56 CC Okay, Ron, at 211:08 delete the lines: Mapping camera - OFF, wait 30 seconds, mapping camera - STANDBY, image motion - OFF, and laser altimeter - OFF. Delete those lines.
210:11:14 Evans Okay, they're deleted.
210:11:15 CC Okay, at 211:11, change the RECEIVE ONLY ATTITUDE to the following: roll, 039; pitch 159; yaw 300.
210:11:39 Evans Okay at 211:11, VERB 49 will be to 039, 159, and 300.
210:11:47 CC Okay. At 211:26 we're going to do a P20 maneuver. It's going to be a rolling P20 which will roll about the OMNI Bravo line-of-sight to the Earth. We'll need high bit rate during that time. That's why we need the - line of Bravo. And we're doing the Earth study of - with the - with the lunar sounder to determine the polarization of the noise from the Earth so we can subtract it out of our data. And during these maneuvers, you're going to see a middle gimbal angle of plus or minus 65 degrees. We saw that on the - on the simulator, but a word of caution on that. You'll see a middle gimbal angle of plus or minus 65 degrees.
210:12:32 CC The P20 maneuver is as follows: at 211:26, P20 option - -
210:12:40 Evans Okay.
210:12:40 CC - - P20 option 2, HF scan, NOUN 78: plus 270.00, minus 039.30; NOUN 79: minus 0.3000, plus 000.50; NOUN 34 is all zeros.
210:13:20 Evans Hold it there, Bob.
210:13:20 CC Okay, Roger.
210:13:27 Evans Let me get - I got your NOUN, - I got fouled up in the NOUN 78s. Option, I'm going to need two of those, so it's NOUN 78 is plus 270.00 and a minus 039.30. Okay, your NOUN 79's now are - are say again.
210:13:43 CC Minus 0.3000. And now for other NOUN 39 - -
210:13:53 Evans Okay, 0.3 of a degree per second.
210:13:56 CC Rog, and 0.5, 0.5 - half a degree dead band.
210:14:05 Evans Okay.
210:14:07 CC And, NOUN 34s are all zeros.
210:14:20 Evans Okay, so you're going to PRO at 211:26 then, right.
210:14:26 CC That's affirmative.
210:14:29 Evans Okay.
210:14:43 CC Okay, Ron, this next one - actually we're calling it 212:20, but the simulator came out at 212:18:40, just for information. And it's the following: Stop scan at roll 039.
210:15:10 Evans Okay. Stop scan at roll 039.
210:15:12 CC Rog. VERB 49 maneuver to lunar sounder RECEIVE ONLY attitude. Roll 142, pitch 286, yaw zero.
210:15:39 Evans Okay. VERB 49, lunar sounder RECEIVE ONLY, roll 142, pitch 286, yaw zero.
210:15:45 CC Okay, and then the last one is 213:03. Configure the DSE high bit rate RECORD/FORWARD/COMMAND RESET.
210:16:13 Evans Okay. At 213 - was that 03?
210:16:19 CC 03, that's affirm.
210:16:19 Evans Configure DSE high bit rate RECORD/FORWARD/COMMAND. Okay.
210:16:24 CC Okay -
210:16:26 Evans For the high bit rate, RECORD/FORWARD/COMMAND RESET.
210:16:29 CC Ron, we'll be - No more Flight Plan updates we promise today and we'll be working - -
210:16:36 Evans (Laughter)
210:16:36 CC - - map Delta and getting that updated to you, but everybody here thinks there's two maps onboard and I think you're right. I think there's only one, in there.
210:16:45 Evans Oh really. is that so?
210:16:52 CC FAO thinks there are two - -
210:16:53 Evans - - Oh, wait a minute. Jack said they put an extra one - Okay, well, there were two. Jack just said he had one put on for him.
210:17:03 CC Okay.
210:17:03 Evans I must have picked his up or something.
210:17:05 CC Roger.
210:17:05 Evans Mine must be in there then, somewhere. We'll look for it.
210:17:07 CC Okay, if you'll check that and tell us if we need to update you. We'll still plan to update, but if you've got it, fine.
210:17:14 Evans Okay.
210:17:16 CC And it looks like you ought to be getting in your P52 when you get a chance here.
210:17:23 Evans Yes, I'll get her down here. (Humming) Can't tell about these geologists. They put on extra maps in your spacecraft and things like that, you know. Yes, I get - I gave you the last frame number on that Romeo Romeo, but I think I forgot to tell you the one after the - the other one. Oh, by the way, on the other one, Agassiz was completely in the darkness and there was no crater rim at all to shine down on Agassiz so we didn't get him at all.
210:18:07 CC We copy that.
210:18:23 Evans Oh, are we in P20? Go to FREE. We use to be in 20 - P20 - We'll get back into P20. Not much, but that's all right.
210:18:53 Evans They go right along here. I have them right along here and shove them down over there is what they used to do with them. They haven't called. Get into AUTO now, CMC AUTO.
210:19:22 Evans Okay, are we at - that's going and everything. Okay, go CMC FREE now. Okay. That's my fault, Gene, I should have gotten it. (Laughter) That's right - number 12 Rigel. Hey, I can find Rigel I bet you. There she comes. There's Orion. Man, oh man, I've done P52 only, and it's within the - within a half of a crosshair width. Come on, Alphard.
210:21:22 Evans Ah, ha! There's Alphard - for rev 62. Come on in there, baby. Well, up to my usual tricks (laughter). Ah, 12 and 21 - stars 12 and 21. Star angle difference, 5 balls.
210:22:11 Evans Okay, Houston. There's the NOUN 93s.
210:22:19 CC Roger. We copied them down.
210:22:25 Evans Okay, and we'll torque them at 22:45.
210:22:36 CC We copy.
210:22:40 Evans Okay.
210:22:46 Evans Okay. Give us the AUTO now.
210:23:00 Evans Okay.
210:23:14 Evans Okay, just a second, Gene, let me look at it. See resolve - Power is OFF. Do the old optics? Yes. I think - (Laughter) Outstanding idea - have a great drink. (Laughter) Okay, 24. Done that. Doesn't matter. Okay.
210:24:43 Evans Houston, America.
210:24:51 CC Say - say again.
210:24:55 Evans Okay. Hey, Bob, how many frames of mag RR do we have to diddle with? Kind of our own, or are there any?
210:25:07 CC That's in work right now.
210:25:10 Evans Okay. Aha, here's another chart D.
210:25:19 CC I do owe you a consumables status yet, and - -
210:25:21 Evans Who knows - it's got all stuff in it. Hey, do we - we have a good chart Delta.
210:25:35 CC Okay. Good. Great. I owe you a consumables status, and when you woke up, you were right on the Flight Plan line, and you had 53 percent remaining of RCS. And, all other consumables are on the line or above.
210:25:49 Evans Okay.
210:25:52 Schmitt Hey, Bob. Sorry we didn't let you get that in. We're not moving too fast for you, are we? (Laughter)
210:26:12 CC Ron, you have zero spares on RR. No - no film available for yourself on RR.
210:26:21 Evans Oh, okay. We'll - -
210:26:22 Schmitt Hey - hey, Bob, this is Jack. If you could possibly swing it, I would strongly recommend that we let Ron redo that last terminator sequence if we can work it in the Flight Plan, because Gene and I may or may not have done what you wanted there, and I know we missed the first couple of them.
210:26:40 Evans I'll - I'll use the 35-millimeter. I still got about 8 or 10 frames on the 35 - -
210:26:47 CC Okay, we'll take that word under advisement, and we'll evaluate it.
210:26:55 Evans (Laughter)
210:26:57 Schmitt Thank you. We may have to send you to the U.N. with that diplomacy.
210:27:10 CC Thanks a lot for your confidence, Geno [sic].
210:27:25 MS (Laughter)
210:27:31 Cernan Glad to hear your voice down there, boss - Admiral
210:29:41 Evans Okay, Houston. Mapping camera is OFF.
210:29:47 CC Roger, Ron.
210:29:54 CC Okay, we sug - suggest you start that VERB 49 maneuver at 210:30, or you'll be behind the eight-ball there on time.
210:31:26 Evans Okay, Image motion is coming OFF. Laser altimeter is coming OFF.
210:34:02 CC America, Houston. You're looking real good here coming up to LOS, and we'll see you at 211:22. You're looking good.
210:34:12 Evans Okay. Will do.
210:34:26 BEGIN LUNAR REV 63
210:38:29 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal. Apollo 17 spacecraft, America has gone behind the Moon nearing the end of revolution number 62. It will reappear again in about 48 minutes on revolution 63. Presently the orbit measures 62.4 by 65.2. Cabin pressure was holding steady at 4.8 pounds per square inch aboard the spacecraft, America. The crew busily running some photographic assignments, both with the Hand cameras in the cabin and the mapping and panorama camera is back in the SIM bay of the Service Module. Members of the white team of flight controllers beginning to drift in to replace the off-going gold team. And at 210 hours 39 minutes, Ground Elapse Time, this is Apollo Control.
211:21:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 211 hours 21 minutes. We are about 1 minute now from regaining radio contact with Apollo 17 as it comes around the eastern limb of the Moon on it's 63rd revolution. Here in Mission Control we've completed a shift handover. The Flight Director on this shift is Charles Lewis, and our Spacecraft Communicator is Astronaut Gordon Fullerton. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis has completed a status review for each of his flight controllers and from all around the room reports of everything nominal come back. During this shift two things of interest will be the firing of the explosive charges left on the lunar surface by the astronauts to SS scientists and determining the sub-surface structure. The first of these charges, designated charge No. 6 is scheduled to be detonated at about 212 hours 51 minutes. There is some latitude in this event and because of that we'll have the television camera on the lunar Rover up early to catch the event as - at it's earliest possible occurrence, which would be 212 hours 21 minutes and will leave it up through 213 hours 21 minutes.
211:21:26 CC Hey, America; Houston here.
211:21:26 Evans Hi, Gordo. Good morning.
211:21:26 CC It's afternoon - right, afternoon.
211:21:26 Evans Well, we want to PRO on that at 26. - 20 roll about OMNI Bravo.
211:21:26 SC Oh , that' s ...
211:21:26 Evans Yes, that's Earth study ... lunar sounder and the middle gimbal - -
211:21:26 Evans Yes. How's the weather been there today, Gordo? (Music in background)
211:21:26 CC America, Houston. I missed your last, if that was for me.
211:24:43 Evans Yes. Just checking to see how the weather was doing there in Houston before you came in to work.
211:24:49 CC Oh, it's kind of - bunch of high clouds, cirrus, I guess, but it's down around 35, I'd say, and pretty windy. So it's nippy when you're outside.
211:25:06 Evans Ah ha!
211:25:13 Evans And, Houston, how's my biomed looking?
211:25:34 CC About 10 seconds to your PRO, there.
211:25:39 Evans Okay; thank you.
211:25:46 CC America, we'd like the IR COVER, CLOSED - -
211:25:49 Evans Oh, and away we go.
211:25:49 CC - - and I think there might be a chance the Sun will get in it there.
211:25:56 Evans Okay.
211:25:57 Cernan Okay, Gordy. And we're rolling ... - -
211:25:59 Evans Barber pole, gray.
211:26:04 CC Okay.
211:26:39 CC Ron, your EKG looks good. The Surgeon wondered how the irritation that you had mentioned, because of the sensors, is - is it getting any better?
211:26:56 Evans Well, it's - yes, it gets better when you take them off and leave it off for a while and I put the cream on it. And looks like it lasts for about a day. You know every time I put it on. I put it on at a different spot. And it takes about a day for it to get red and irritated.
211:27:20 Cernan And, Gordo, for information, that's not unique; we're all having that, and taking them off is the best relief for it.
211:27:31 CC Okay.
211:27:59 CC America, I've got some words about what you might use for optional - crew optional photographs. Over.
211:28:14 Evans Okay, yes, let's write it down there in the - why don't you write it on the back page, or something like that, so we'll know where it is.
211:28:34 Evans Okay. (Music in background) Ready to copy.
211:28:42 CC Okay. Magazine RR has no spare frames. So if you want to take any photos, we are suggesting using the-DAC and the 75-mm lens and using JJ which is very high-speed black and white. Ninety-eight percent of JJ is unscheduled. Here are some settings you might use for terminator photographs over mare. Use T2.8, 1/500, and infinity. For terminator over highlands, use T4, 1/500, and infinity. And for Tsiolkovsky on rev 74 that's GET of 232:58; that's sometime in the future here - we're suggesting using T5.6, 1/500, and infinity. Over.
211:30:06 Schmitt Okay, Gordo, what was the f-stop for the highlands terminator?
211:30:11 CC Okay, the highlands terminator would be T4. I guess that's the far-side terminator, and the nearside terminator is over mare. That's the mare setting.
211:30:28 Schmitt Okay.
211:33:01 Schmitt Hello, Houston; America, is today Friday down there?
211:33:15 CC America, Houston. I'm sorry. Say again, please.
211:33:20 Schmitt Just wondering, Gordo, if today is Friday.
211:33:24 CC That's affirmative. It's Friday.
211:33:30 Schmitt Okay, thank you.
211:33:32 CC Happens to be pay day. It's the 15th.
211:38:16 CC Jack, Houston. We see no need for you to wear any of your biomed sensors; if you'd rather take them off, give your skin a rest, feel free.
211:38:29 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I've done that. And I'll wait till my next time and put them on then.
211:38:37 CC Okay.
211:41:15 Schmitt Gordy, how do you read LMP?
211:41:18 CC You're loud and clear, Jack.
211:41:24 Schmitt While we're in a relatively quiet period, we're going to make a few comments about some of the things that cross the two big basins that we're getting very familiar with - or, actually, three: Smythii, Ori - Smythii, Crisium, and Serenitatis - and the degradation of the balls of the major ring and the lack of any obvious blanket structures, I think, in contrast to Imbrium and Orientale, which we've also had a pretty good look at - Orientale and Earthshine, on the earlier revs - is quite striking - that contrast is quite striking - to me, at any rate. Also, within Orientale, the - at least at the southeast - on the east-southeast portions of the mare floor, the wrinkle-ridge system is not nearly as well developed; but there is a wrinkle-ridge system that roughly forms an inner floor ring, at any rate.
211:42:51 CC Roger.
211:42:58 Schmitt The fronts of the major ring in Crisium are strikingly different than those of the Apennines just in their general slopes; sharpness of topographical features; and in any appearance of having even a hint of boulder fields on their slopes like we observed, say, on the South Massif, anything like that. At least Serenitatis massifs seem to locally show fairly major boulder fields on their flanks. And I haven't seen any around Crisium yet. Maybe Ron's already talked to you about that, but I haven't seen any.
211:43:50 CC Okay.
211:43:58 Schmitt Yes. The craters now. I'm speaking of the, Ron, of the front faces themselves, the rim - the face of the ring itself.
211:44:08 Evans Oh, I see. The face of the ring itself - okay; that's what you're talking about.
211:44:12 Schmitt Yes, yes. Now it - a crater - a fresh crater in the mare or a fresh crater in the blanket area - rim area - will have boulders, Gordy; don't misunderstand me. But the front faces - the ring front face does not have boulders - that I can see. And I think boulders are pretty obvious when they're there. We've seen them well defined on the central peaks of Tsiolkovsky, and I think any time you have a major boulder popu - field, you can see it with the monocular - with the 10-power monocular.
211:44:48 CC Roger.
211:45:06 Schmitt Getting into areas that resemble, in their surface texture, the Sculptured Hills of the Taurus-Littrow landing area, here we're just passing - Now where are we? - that would be (laughter) I got disoriented all of the sudden. Proclus is there, so it's in the ray-excluded zone of Proclus where there is a mare surface projecting up into terrain that looks like Sculptured Hills. And that mare has a distinct bluish-gray color, in contrast to the regolith associated with the Sculptured Hills - between the Hills at least - which is a brown - let's call it a tannish gray. Quite a sharp color hue contrast to my eyes, at any rate.
211:46:12 CC Roger.
211:46:32 Schmitt Okay. That was a projection of Fecunditatis Mare, I guess, up into there. Sculptured Hills tend to have both a regional distribution and a structurally controlled distribution, the structurally - structural control being apparently related to the rims of - of old craters. For example, there are some Sculptured-Hills-appearing topographic materials that - again, in the ray-excluded zone, but out in Fecunditatis, we find the rim of a fairly large flooded crater - in Fecunditatis. And all of this may tie in with the possible - possibility that we saw at the landing site, that Sculptured Hills are composed of an igneous gabbroic rock. And these may represent local intrusions controlled by the structure of an old impact crater - extrusions controlled by the structure of the old impact crater.
211:47:57 CC Roger.
211:48:10 Schmitt I've noticed - now I'm getting a good view of where in Fecunditatis there is a tannish - or let's call it more of a brownish-gray mare in contrast to bluish-gray mare in Fecunditatis itself.
211:48:34 CC Roger.
211:48:41 Schmitt And in the walls of some - of a large crater -I'll try to figure out which one it is in a minute. It's near the large crater that the Sculptured Hills define you can see in the east wall - or maybe northeast wall of that crater - an area of bluish-gray - material that is streaking the normal tan-gray of that crater wall.
211:49:22 CC Roger.
211:49:41 CC This is a kind of one-sided discussion. I wish I was there so I could take a more active part.
211:49:48 Schmitt That's all right. I just thought I'd fill in a few things. This isn't a good viewing attitude at all, and we get a few isolated views that may be worth commenting on. The contrast, in my eye anyway, between the three color units around the landing site is a - let's call it a medium bluish gray to gray for the dark mantle; a light blue-gray for the annulus around Serenitatis; and, then, a tan-gray for the Serenitatis Mare proper. And, in Dawes, you can see - I think you can see that the overturned - or the - the rim materials are made up of the brownish-gray material, and the walls underneath those rims are the bluish-gray, which is the age relationship suggested by topography. That'd be the over - lower unit is forming the rim with inverted stratigraphy.
211:51:02 CC Roger.
211:51:11 Schmitt The light blue-gray annulus is also the locus of most of the circumferential grabens, that Serenitatis is noted for, is in that area. And that's nothing new. But, in one place, there's a very subdued, flooded crater which seems to control a arcuate projection - or, let's say, a circular projection - of the light blue-gray out over the tan-gray mare. Most of the major wrinkle-ridge system of Serenitatis, of course, is outside the annulus of blue-gray, except locally, and one of those places was in the - to the west of the Taurus-Littrow site. Although that wrinkle-ridge system does - I can see now, as we look south of Seren - in the southern portions of Serenitatis that wrinkle-ridge system does cross the contact between the blue-gray and the tan-gray. That's the light blue-gray and the tan-gray.
211:52:46 CC Okay.
211:52:50 Schmitt The impression I've had in looking at all the mare where the wrinkle-ridge systems are developed is that they're a late feature. They - at least at low Sun, and sometimes even at high Sun - they have a very - very sharply defined ridges with steep slopes on either side that seem - that, in general, give me the impression that they're constructional, possibly associated with some thrusting movement.
211:53:37 Schmitt In the vicinity of Sulpicius Gallus, there are several small craters that look like impact craters that, believe it or not, have - in my eye, anyway - orange ejecta blankets.
211:53:59 CC Roger.
211:54:04 Schmitt Yes. Ron says that he - that he already commented on those, and they're - and they look very obvious to me. No, I - I don't - no. I don't think you can with those windows. We'll get a good view of them again in one of the other attitudes.
211:54:33 Schmitt It's a light orange, obviously, not a - that it but it's in contrast to the brown-gray of the dark mantle in the vicinity of Sulpicius Gallus. There's a good one right down there. Now, that one looks like a constructional cone that's orangish. And that's - that's right out on a raised projection of the - of the brown-gray dark mantle out onto the - out onto the light blue-gray annulus material.
211:55:39 Schmitt This southern and southwestern portion of Serenitatis has a general appearance of the Sculptured Hills, although the individual hills seem to be more widely spaced than around Taurus-Littrow. Once again, historically, we're passing over the landing site of Apollo - or near the landing site of Apollo 15.
211:57:01 Schmitt Tell Dave Scott that the north complex looks just as interesting as it ever did. It's going to remain with Emory crater as one of the unknowns of the space program for a while, I guess.
211:57:18 CC Roger.
211:57:27 Cernan Hey, Gordo, I've been looking at the landing site, off and on the last few revs, and I'd like to get - now that we've been there and back - your best guess of the exact position of what you think we landed, because I think I've got it pinpointed pretty much so from here.
211:57:55 CC Okay. Stand by 1.
211:57:59 PAO That question on the landing site location coming from Eugene Cernan.
211:58:09 Schmitt This is one of the first opportunities that I've had to look closely at Archimedes, which is one of those craters that, in the early days of the lunar mapping program, helped establish some of the fundamental age relationships between the various units that were visible in the Earth-based photography. In this particular case, it related to the sequence of events that created Imbrium, cratered it, and then flooded it with mare. And Archimedes is a completely circular - closed circle as a crater, and it is filled with mare. And it, in itself, is superimposed on the - one of the main benches of the Imbrium crater. Now, to have mare filling that crater and actually filling all the depressions of approximately the same level in the vicinity of a mare - of a large mare region, it's one of the things that's suggested to many people that rather than single sources for mare lavas, you have a multitude of sources in a very fractured lunar crust. The ultimate source in depth, though, is still certainly a subject for controversy.
212:00:10 Schmitt Some of the ridge and valley structure of the Archimedes impact blanket is not covered by mare and extends to the southeast out onto the Imbrium bench. That was also one of the pieces of evidence used in those early days of photogeologic mapping of the Moon. You'll have to excuse the reminiscing, Gordy.
212:00:55 CC Roger.
212:01:10 Evans And, Houston; America. Frame 150 - 151 and 152 were taken of the Sulpicius Gallus region with a 250 lens. 154 was taken at D-Caldera, and that's magazine Oscar Oscar.
212:01:32 CC Okay, Ron.
212:01:43 CC This is Apollo Control at 212 hours 2 minutes and we've within the last couple of minutes had a report from the ALSEP officer here that we're seeing seismic activity on the seismic profiling experiment which indicates that our first charge may have detonated early, either that or a meteorite has struck within range to be recorded on the instrument and we'll be checking that first grenade charge 6, which is a one pounder, was scheduled to have been detonated at 212 hours 51 minutes. It does have a mechanical timer and from past experience we know that mechanical timer to have some variability and when it opens the window allowing a continuous firing command to get through and fire the charge.
212:02:36 Schmitt Gordy, I guess it was the crater Bessel in Serenitatis that Ron and I were looking at last night. And I think he had commented on being layers in the ledges that were visible in the walls, and I certainly concur with that. Although we could not trace layers - individual layers from ledge to ledge, within a coherent ledge the layers were traceable; and, in one case, I'm sure I could count six or seven ledges - sub - well, layers within single ledges. Reason it reminded me of it is looking at Timocharis, and I cannot do that with Timocharis. It looks like it's - those ledges - any ledges that may have been present as a result of the Imbrium Mare have since disappeared by weathering. That's lunar weathering, of course. Of course, down here in the Imbrium - southern Imbrium - is one of the better regions of the Moon to observe the wrinkle-ridge systems or mare ridges, sometimes they're called. And it's purely that. They're fairly sharply defined - quite sharply defined ridges that are wrinkled in their pattern, sinuous would be another term. And with sharply defined slopes on either side of the ridge. Sometimes they are flat-top ridges; sometimes they are more like spines. And occasionally you see them that almost appear to have vertical slopes on one wall or the other. The whole impression that I have, anyway, is that they - there may be a combination of structure and folding of the surface of the mare - construction on the surface and folding of that surface. They're particularly interesting that they tend to - wherever there has apparently been an old sub - flooded crater - Yes, did you want to get that stuff? They seem to be controlled by the shape of flooded old craters within the Imbrium basin. And I think that's a safe conclusion, because you get the standard outlines shown by the rille - the ridges; excuse me. Some of them are polygonal, and some of them are quite circular.
212:05:55 Schmitt Ron, did you want to get these ridges, these rilles south of Euler here?
212:06:00 Evans Yes.
212:06:00 Schmitt Okay. They're coming up.
212:06:03 CC America, Houston.
212:06:07 Schmitt Go ahead.
212:06:09 CC Okay. I guess the last team promised you no changes to the Flight Plan, but they didn't say anything about changes to the changes; and I've got one. At 15 minutes from now, 212:20 - -
212:06:23 Cernan Can you stand by a minute?
212:06:24 CC - - in the Flight Plan. Might get that out, and I'll give you a change.
212:06:29 Evans Just keep talking, Gordo.
212:06:32 CC Okay. At 212:20, you're to stop the roll at 39 degrees and then do a VERB 49 to 142. And we want to change the PITCH to 268 and zero. That would be 142, 268, and zero.
212:06:55 Cernan Okay. I got that change. And you want that about 18 - 212:18?
212:07:02 CC I - have to check back here. Yes, I guess that's when it is.
212:07:09 Cernan Okay.
212:07:12 CC Also, as long as you've got the book and a pencil, let me give you a few other one liners.
212:07:18 Cernan Yes, I'm ready to copy them.
212:07:21 CC Okay. Let's see. The first one is at 214:55. And they want to add after that other stuff just above there "UV COVER OPEN" and "IR COVER OPEN."
212:07:52 Cernan Okay. At 214:55s you want UV and IR COVERs OPEN.
212:07:56 CC Roger. Turn the page. At 215:37 - 215:37. Change magazine November November to Kilo Kilo.
212:08:15 Cernan Okay.
212:08:17 CC And the reason I'm so slow with an answer on that landing site position is, all I've got it in is latitude and longitude; and I assume that you want it in good coordinates, for your reference. One suggestion here was, you tell us, and then we'll confirm your guess. I just ran across an other couple updates, too. Back to 213:15 in the Flight Plan, I can give you the lunar sounder pads - the two of them on that page.
212:08:54 Cernan Okay. I'll get them. Go ahead.
212:08:56 CC Okay. T-start on the left-hand one there, is 213:20:10, and T-stop is 213:24:20. Then the next one is T-start of 213:41:40, and a T-stop of 213:59:54. Over.
212:09:30 Cernan Okay, Gordo, got them all. They're all at 213 hours. Start is 20:10; stop, 24:20. Start is 41:40, and stop is 59:54.
212:09:40 CC Okay. Good readback.
212:09:48 Cernan And, Gordo, I guess my best guess after looking down there from here is - I've got a - the northeast chart of the lunar surface traverse ... And about 84 point - correction, about 83.3 and about and Delta ... point 5. We're right on the top of the hole in Poppy. Looks to be about where we landed.
212:10:24 CC Okay. We got that.
212:10:28 Cernan And, in thinking back about what my intentions were, that looks like probably a very reasonable -reasonable suggestion. And the first thought I had about being close to Trident, I didn't think I was anywhere near that close. And, of course, when you look out there and see a big hole, you don't know how big is big when you're down there. That big hole out there might very easily could have been Poppy out at 9 o'clock.
212:11:00 CC Okay, Geno, from science we finally got it to where it converted to your map coordinates; and their guess was close. Their best guess, with all the data considered, is 83.2 and DN 0.1 - Delta November 0.1.
212:11:25 Schmitt That would definitely make sense, Geno ... - -
212:11:27 Evans That's pretty close to where the old CMP said it the first rev after landing, isn't it?
212:11:32 Schmitt - - north of where we put the ... Remember, that was a little ways away. You were at the edge of the depression, and it would - move it a little.
212:11:40 Cernan Yes, I'll buy that. That's in my scatter. And then that crater, as I looked out at 9 o'clock, we landed next to was actually Poppy. Pretty sure that's that large crater.
212:11:54 CC Okay.
212:12:11 Evans And, Houston; America. On mag Yankee Yankee used frames 31 through 35 at that last near-side terminator there.
212:12:24 CC Okay, Ron. Got that.
212:12:42 PAO This is Apollo Control. There is some debate in the Control Center at this time as to whether or not that first explosive charge did, in fact, fire early, or whether the seismic profiling experiment was instead a reacting on natural phenomenon, such as a meteorite impact or a Moon quake and we have brought up the television camera on the Lunar Rover early and we'll be looking at the area and attempting to draw some conclusions as to whether the aft charge did in fact go early or whether it's still in place. Now that question could be answered quite neatly if the charge, of course, explodes on command as it's scheduled to at about 212 hours, 51 minutes. And that first charge is 1-pound explosive charge about 1.1 kilometer from the Lunar Rover.
212:14:49 Cernan Gordo, I'm just going to stop this maneuver this time around at 39 degrees.
212:14:57 CC Okay, Gene. Say, we've got one question for Ron. We've got large teams of engineers trying to locate the missing scissors, and we haven't asked you in a while whether you might have found them. That might save them a lot of effort down here.
212:15:15 Evans No, I haven't found them yet. And there's a lot of room underneath these CO2 absorbers I found out the other night because I lost my flashlight. But it kind of floated out, and I saw it every once in a while. And we found the flashlight and got it back, but I still haven't the slightest idea where the scissors are.
212:15:36 Cernan Gordo, you might have someone hide them in the CMS and send a backup crew down to the Cape and see how long it takes them to find them.
212:15:44 CC Okay. I'll get an airplane scheduled up right away.
212:15:50 Cernan I just missed 39 degrees. I'll wait for it next time around.
212:15:57 Schmitt By the way, Gordy, you working on next week's airplane schedule?
212:16:03 CC Yes , what do you need? You mean the one from Hawaii back or something like that?
212:16:13 Schmitt Yes, you might have some 38s waiting for us in LA; we can pick them up there.
212:16:20 CC Okay; but we'll have to work a three-way swap with some Skylab troops that will be out there. And then Deke will meet you in Albuquerque halfway back; and I'll let you know how it all works out.
212:16:35 Schmitt That sounds great. That sounds like easier than usual.
212:17:18 PAO This is Apollo Control. We have a Press Breifing scheduled with the flight director from the previous shift, Neil Hutchenson. And that Press Breifing is scheduled to begin in about 5 minutes at 5:15 PM in the MSC News Center Breifing Room.
212:22:53 Cernan Every commander has the right to change his mind.
212:23:31 Cernan And, Gordy, I'll watch the cranapple.
212:23:37 CC Okay, Geno.
212:26:56 PAO This is Apollo control at 212 hours 28 minutes. We are ready to switch to the MSC news center briefing room now for the press conference press briefing with flight director Neil Hutchinson. There is a possibility that during this briefing we'll have the detonation of the first seismic charge, on the lunar surface. If that occurs we'll interrupt the press briefing to announce the firing of that charge. We'll switch now to the MSC news center and our press briefing.
212:27:29 CC America, Houston. We're starting to get to the margin of signal strength to get the data back. We want you to improve that by turning S-BAND MODE - S-BAND NORMAL MODE VOICE switch to OFF, center for about 5 minutes.
212:27:47 Schmitt Say again.
212:27:50 CC Okay, Jack. We'd like you to turn the S-BAND NORMAL MODE VOICE switch to OFF, center, for about 5 minutes to improve our signal margin as you approach the termin - the LOS here.
212:28:07 Schmitt Okay. OFF, center, for 5 minutes.
212:34:04 CC America, Houston. Don't bother to answer, but we'd like H2 TANK 2 FANS OFF. That's hydrogen tank 2 FANS, OFF.
212:34:18 CC America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Bravo. America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Bravo.
212:34:28 CC America, Houston, you can turn the voice back on now. Have about a minute and a half to LOS for a final goodbye.
212:34:40 Evans Okay. This is America with a goodbye for this pass.
212:34:45 CC Okay. I guess the real reason for having you turn the voice switch off there is so the secretaries that are transcribing the air-to-ground here can catch up with Jack.
212:35:01 Schmitt (Laughter) I don't believe it. Yes, I do. Okay. That's all you ever hear from me again.
212:36:26 BEGIN LUNAR REV 64
212:39:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 212 hours 39 minutes. During our press briefing, we had loss of signal with the Command Module. Also, we'did not have the detonation of the seismic charge. We have about 2 minutes of tape of conversation with the crew before loss of signal. We'll play that back at this time, and, of course, we'll interrupt if we should get the firing of the grenade.
212:40:54 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've just had a report from ALSEP that one of the bombs went off. We didn't see it on television, but we are beginning to see some seismic activity and we'll switch now on our television monitor to the seismic tracing, let you - let you look at that.
212:42:01 PAO No one here in the Control Center observed on the television the detonation of that charge. However, we are planning to replay the tape from that time and see if a close look at the tape shows any -- any activity that we can see on the television camera.
212:44:22 PAO This is Apollo Control. It's going to take several minutes before we're ready to rerun the video tape of that time segment when the explosive charge detonated. In the meantime, we'll continue with our tape playback leading up to loss of signal with America on the 63rd revolution.
212:45:49 PAO That brings us up to date now with all of the air-to-ground that we've received from the crew up through loss of signal. We'll be reacquiring Apollo 17 in about 36 minutes.
212:48:44 PAO This is Apollo Control. The time at which we copied the firing of that first explosive charge was a Ground Elapsed Time of 212 hours 39 minutes 44 seconds, which translates to 6:32:45 Central Standard Time, or rather 5:32:45 Central Standard Time. And, we should be ready shortly to rerun the video tape from that segment of the television. And, again looking very closely to see if the charge explosion is visible on the TV, The charge was placed about 1.1 kilometers from the lunar rover, and it was the 1-pound charge.
212:56:48 PAO This is Apollo control at 212 hours 56 minutes. We've had some unexpected activity on the lunar seismic experiment. And the ALSEP controller reports that there is a lot of activity in the ALSEP room looking at the very active seismic tracings that we are getting right now. Some feeling that this may, in fact, represent the detonation of that grenade rather than the previous signal that we recorded. If in fact that is the case we missed it on the television because the television camera was pointed at another area at the time that activity began. And, as soon as we have a further report from ALSEP we'll pass that along to you.
213:02:11 PAO This is Apollo Control we've had no further word from the ALSEP Control area as to which of the 2 seismic events we registered at the Apollo 17 site represents the firing of the first charge. However, it is noted that the second event came much closer to the nominal charge firing time.
213:07:03 PAO This is Apollo Control, we've concluded, here in the Control Center, that the second seismic event, registered on the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment, was, in fact, the one pound explosive charge going off. That occurred, at 212 hours 55 minutes 35 seconds, which was about 4-1/2 minutes later than the nominal or T-0 time. There will be a second charge fired. It is scheduled for 215 hours 27 minutes, that will be a 1/2-pound charge that is located 6/10 of a kilometer from the Lunar Roving Vehicle. We're now some 14 minutes from reacquiring Apollo 17 in its 64th revolution of the Moon. This is Apollo Control, Houston.
213:20:03 PAO This is Apollo control at 213 hours 20 minutes. We're standing by now to reacquire Apollo 17 in its 64th revolution of the Moon. And we expect this at least from the crew work point of view to be a relatively quiet period. During this revolution they are scheduled to begin their eat period. And they will be operating some of the scientific instruments in the scientific instrument module bay the SIM bay. But, relatively little scheduled in the flight plan during this period of time. We show the spacecraft in an orbit of 65.3 nautical miles at its high point, and a low point or pericynthion of 62.4 nautical miles. And, we should have acquisition of signal any second now.
213:21:25 PAO And we've had acquisition of signal. And, it will take a second before we get good solid lock up.
213:21:55 CC Yes.
213:22:10 Schmitt Hey, Ron, do you want me?
213:22:28 Evans That's right. There are a lot of those with a flat floor. Got to be a lava-type thing down there.
213:22:46 PAO And we've got a good solid signal now from the spacecraft - good data. Hearing Ron Evans in the background. Ron apparently has his mike in the so called VOX mode where it's triggered by his voice.
213:23:07 Evans Houston, America.
213:23:08 CC Roger, America. Hello once again. You've got about 1 minute to T-stop.
213:23:16 Cernan Okay. We're right with you, Gordy.
213:23:17 Evans Okay. T-stop isn't it - -
213:23:22 Cernan ... 24:20, Ron.
213:23:23 Evans 24:20?
213:23:24 Cernan ... operation STANDBY.
213:23:28 Evans Standby. Okay.
213:23:45 Evans Okay. We're coming up on 24:20. The visual of Tsiolkovsky is hopefully pretty much recorded on the recorder.
213:23:58 CC Roger.
213:24:09 Evans 18, 19.
213:24:11 Evans MARK it - STANDBY. ... in standby. I guess the somewhat - a very small summary, anyhow, of the visual of Tsiolkovsky concentrating primarily or. the flow up in the northeast corner. To me, that particular piece that's fallen down in the crater there - and it's on one of the pictures - Tsiolkovsky, 4 or 5. The piece that is down in the crater is on the right-hand side of the page. And that portion, you know, is somewhat of a molten state. It looks like it is a landslide that has slid down the wall of the crater and detached from the - well, the molten state of material, rough - rough-looking material that's on the rim of the crater Tsiolkovsky.
213:25:38 CC Roger, Ron.
213:25:46 Evans There seems to be high lava marks around the western and northern sides of the central peak. For some reason, it's not evident or visible on the south side of the central peak.
213:26:06 CC Okay.
213:26:08 Evans Also, there seems to be the high lava marks on the raised portion of the floor in the contact between the dark material of the floor and the lighter - oh, rough-looking ... - on the northern side of the crater. In the first observation, of the mass of material that goes out into the crater Fermi, the - it looks like there is a whole bunch of craters in there that have - or are essentially rimless craters. However, on close examination with the binocs, I couldn't see any that didn't have at least a slight indication of a rim. The rims that were on them were essentially very subdued. They extended out to about - oh, a half a crater diameter; and these are on the craters in the 500 - to 1000-meter size. I didn't get a chance to look at them, looking straight down the craters, to see if there was any depressions or any domes or any type of a structure in the bottom of craters. But I get the impression that they're - primarily all look - just of cones with no flat bottoms at all. And I'll look again at those things when we go by there next time. The flow that goes down into Waterman - if we look at the pictures, Tsiolkovsky 5 of 5 - the shadow is just about in the same area on this one as it is on that one, and I didn't take a chance to look in that one until I got to the west of it. So I'll have to look when I'm passing it from the north side of Tsiolkovsky looking south, to see what's down in the shadow area there. But when you're on the west looking back across it, you can't see into the shadow. But the material that's in the floor of the crater Waterman is the same type of material that the little flow on the northeast corner has broken off and slid down into its own little crater.
213:29:09 CC Okay. Roger that.
213:29:11 Evans So I guess what I'm saying is that essentially whatever molten material that's up around on the rim of the crater Tsiolkovsky has been - well, I want to say extruded - not extruded but pushed out, I guess, away from the crater end has been in a semiliquid or semi-molten state in its period of deposition. I'll reserve judgement on some of the flat-floored, flat-mare filled depressions that are around the crater until I get a chance to look at those the next time around.
213:30:06 CC Okay.
213:30:35 Cernan Say, Gordy, something that struck me, - something maybe everyone else has thought about, but I hadn't before. At the southeast corner of Smythii, there was a relatively large - several large somewhat subdued craters but with relatively steep sides to them. And next to this one was a very small, white, bright-haloed crater. And I watched the rays of this crater; and the southeastern rays draped over the slopes of this much larger subdued crater - draped over the walls, all the way down onto the floor. And as they draped over the walls, they obviously gave me a very good albedo change from the darker wall to the very much lighter colored. But as they hit the floor of the crater, they form patterns that are not only not unlike, but actually very, very similar, to the light-mantled area that we have been referring to as a possible slide, back at Taurus-Littrow. The patterns as they drape down the inner slopes of the crater and onto the floor, I would be willing to bet if we went down there we'd probably find the same type of things we found at Taurus-Littrow.
213:32:11 CC Okay.
213:32:11 Cernan By that I mean albedo changes that we can see here versus to what we can see down there.
213:32:17 CC Roger. Very interesting.
213:32:18 Cernan I looked for these type of - looked for these type of ray patterns, where the rays just went out on a more horizontal plane. You can - you can find them if you look hard, but as they drape over the slopes and onto the more level floor, they're very obviously alike.
213:32:45 CC Roger.
213:32:57 Evans Hey, Houston.
213:33:02 CC Go ahead.
213:33:03 Evans Okay. That crater, if you look at Smythii 1 of 1, and the crater that's right above the rev 62 there, you can see a bright spot on the northwest portion there. And that's the breach zone of that particular crater. The thing that's intriguing about that to me is that if you look at the inner ring, it's a gradual slope from the center - the center of the crater is lower than the secondary - the secondary ring around the thing.
213:33:43 CC Ron, let me interrupt here. Say again which crater you're looking at again in Smythii.
213:33:51 Evans Okay, in Smythii. And - Mare Smythii, 1 of 1, that - that picture - -
213:33:59 CC Roger. I - have got it.
213:34:00 Evans And right about where it says rev 62. Okay?
213:34:04 CC Okay; gotcha.
213:34:04 Evans Now, there's two - there's two rings in that picture. Okay. The inner ring, the central portion of that thing, is lower and slopes outward - radially outward - to the first ring. And then it drops off; in other words, it's a gradual slope, maybe - oh, somewhere in the 15 to 20 degree slope upward to the first ring. And then it's a steep slope on the outside of the ring, at about, oh, 45 degrees, dropping down into the annulus.
213:34:48 CC Okay.
213:35:05 Evans Yes, color? With 250 lens. Yes, all along. I just took it today, two of them, - three of them. Yes. Yes. Yes. I took three of them the last rev.
213:36:05 Schmitt Gordy, this is the LMP. While we're waiting for the site to come up again here, which seems to interest us every time we go over it, I think we sort of came to a general concensus on the problem of the smaller cone-shaped craters on the far side that have the little P00l-like concentrations of material in the bottom. If you look at the freshest of those craters, the - that seems to be contiguous with the streaks of very dark material that cover the walls and the rim of the fresh cone-shaped craters. As the crater gets older, that material - that distinction becomes less obvious; however, the P00l remains, and all you lose is the dark streaks on the rim and on the walls of the crater. I think we sort of feel - suspect that that P00l in the bottom of the fresh craters is just the concentrated impact melt that - some of which is - stayed there during the impact and other which drained back - that drained back after the impact from the - drained from the walls. And then, with time, that P00l maybe subdued some. The structures in it, the swirls and little domes in that P00l are subdued possibly not only by the impact but by debris, slides, and avalanches off the walls of the crater.
213:37:58 CC Okay, Jack.
213:37:58 Schmitt It seems to be a very consistent pattern when you start piecing several of them together.
213:38:05 CC Roger.
213:38:31 Schmitt That black streaking on the walls and the blankets, - Ron may have already told you, but it is characteristic of only the very freshest of those cone-shaped craters, - and - or P00l craters, whichever you want to call them. And it seems to be very logical that it just represents a thin veneer on the rim and the walls of the impact-generated glass. And it's darkest, presumably, where it's quenched; and the P00l itself is somewhat lighter gray than the black, streaks and mantles.
213:39:11 CC Roger.
213:39:26 Evans You know, Jack, I get the impression that these bright ones, - see the bright one right down there in front of us there, - if you look at those with the binocs or with the - I get the impression of a dark greenish-black or blackish-green. In other words, I get a green - -
213:39:44 Schmitt Green cast to the rocks?
213:39:44 Evans Yes, green cast to the rocks. To the big blocks, you know, that are laying around there - around the crater and also the ones that are down - down in the bottom.
213:39:54 SC Greenish cast.
213:39:54 Evans That greenish cast to them.
213:40:11 Evans Yes, it is; isn't it. I can see that with the naked eye. That's a bright one. What's - I'm saying, where is the crater, though? Oh, that's the - that's Yerkes and - okay. You're in VOX.
213:40:35 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, we got another orange-rimmed crater. And we'll spot it. I think everybody agrees. And this one very clearly looks like an impact crater that has it's - let's see, we decided you're looking north?
213:40:52 Evans Yes.
213:40:52 CC Roger.
213:40:52 Schmitt It's north, east, and west quadrants - -
213:41:02 Evans Let me describe it. It's Yerkes and ...
213:41:04 CC Hey, you got; the T-start time coming up here shortly on the sounder.
213:41:11 Evans Okay (laughter).
213:41:12 CC About 10 seconds.
213:41:13 Schmitt Quit interrupting. Okay. We'll get it.
213:41:15 Evans What time is it?
213:41:18 Schmitt We'll hack it up here, Gordy.
213:41:20 Evans VERB 41 ...
213:41:21 Schmitt Thanks, Gordy.
213:41:21 CC ... now.
213:41:23 Evans Okay.
213:41:24 Schmitt Sounder is OPERATE.
213:41:26 CC That was close.
213:41:30 Evans (Laughter)
213:41:30 Cernan That was a very good call. Thank you.
213:41:32 Evans Thank you.
213:41:32 Schmitt No sweat. At any rate, in the north, east and west quadrants of that little crater - and we'll spot it for you on the map, is a - very clearly an orange pattern - an orange color to the ejecta. The other quadrant is a lighter color - a light gray.
213:41:53 CC Okay.
213:42:08 Evans If I had a map. Let's see, what did I do with my map? Wait a minute; I got a picture of that, I think.
213:42:38 Schmitt Right here.
213:42:43 Evans No, go ahead I can't see the landing sight anyhow, I don't think.
213:43:23 Schmitt Gordy, my impression from Shorty the other day, and also from seeing these craters that seem to have orange - that are - around them, that look very much like impact craters from orbit, at any rate - it may be that the - if that is an alteration phenomenon, - that it's being localized around the structure created by the impact. But in this latter case, it looks as if the impact itself penetrated into a zone of that color.
213:44:06 CC Okay, Jack.
213:44:28 Evans (Laughter) yes.
213:45:14 Evans Are we going to use your -
213:45:31 Evans Here, take it - take a look at it. Okay.
213:45:51 Evans Doesn't show up that way today.
213:46:18 Evans Here. The color -
213:47:10 Evans Uh oh. That's the spot.
213:47:16 Evans Yes.
213:47:56 Evans Can't see it anymore.
213:49:43 Evans Yes. That's a good view ...
213:49:56 Evans They're between Tacquet and Mel-Mel-Melanes [sic], aren't they? Yes. I see them ... Okay. Yes, little bitty ones. They're about - a little bit bigger than Shorty. Yes. Those are - those are the ones that I called the other day. It was a very, very light tan. I guess you can put an orange tint to them.
213:51:54 Schmitt Gordy, to put orange into perspective, at least as far as the LMPs eyes are concerned - from orbit, I would say that it's a orange-gray. It's still a gray, with an orange hue to it. And when I use any blue or tan or anything, it's a hue on gray; and I'll usually try to say gray in there. But to say something's orange, I think, would be misleading. It's really an orange-gray, but it's clearly a distinct hue.
213:52:29 CC Okay. Kind of like dirty beach sand with a little orange in it, huh?
213:52:38 Schmitt Well, we can't use that term anymore. That's copyrighted.
213:52:43 CC Roger.
213:53:08 Evans Yes. That's right. There is. That's the one. That's the area where I was trying to talk about. That's just north of, - oh, that's Sulpicius Gallus. No, there's a gouge, just - yes, northwest of Sulpicius Gallus Crater. Yes, bet I didn't doubt - I didn't talk about that thing. That's a - I thought - I was talking about the little orange crater. Now you can see all the colors down - down in the gouge itself.
213:53:43 Schmitt Hey, Ron. We'll spot this one on the map, too - or Gordy. But there's a large gouge just south of the Sulpicius Gallus ridge. The gouge, - it's a rimless depression - and streaming down from the upper portion of that depression are not only our old friend the orange-grays, but some would be a red-brown gray. Very, very clear coloration in this light, in, - I think, - My goodness. There's another crater we'll have to look, at.
213:54:18 Evans Yes. There's a whole bunch of them down there.
213:54:19 Schmitt Yes, but that's something in the wall of it in that area. Yes, it's starting - (chuckle) Man, we're seeing an orange Moon now. This - this whole dark mantle in here around Sulpicius Gallus, - they are - they are scattered craters with variety of orange to red-brown hues. And they all, except for that large rimless depression, which looked, - looked as if was exposing some layers which were streaming those color, - that color debris down its walls - All the other craters seem to be small impacts that apparently are penetrating just far enough into the dark mantle material to tap this zone of orange to red-brown materials.
213:55:18 Evans And just north of that elongate depression, there is another circular crater. And it also is penetrating down though this mantle stuff. And it had the reds and the browns and oranges dipping down it, too.
213:55:37 Cernan Hey, Gordy, just so you're fully aware we're not sort of just leaning and getting color blind up here, I tell you last one Jack was talking about was not even subtle. It's entire ray pattern was this same ... material and definite contact between it and the dark material around it and it had that orange brown hue to it without any question at all.
213:56:06 CC Okay. Very interesting.
213:56:11 Cernan It really is. You know I saw that dirt day before yesterday at Littrow, but, and I really haven't seen too much from orbit that I'd call really very distinct in color, until this one. But, boy, there's no question about this one.
213:56:30 CC Roger.
213:56:35 Cernan And we will pick up the lunar sounder at 59.54.
213:57:09 CC Okay, I'll try to watch it a little and give you a little more warning, too.
213:57:33 Evans Yes, I want to get - I think it's right in that ...
213:57:41 Evans Let me see.
213:57:45 Evans No, here's the Sulpicius Gallus. No, you're up too far, you're up too far. It's closer to Sulpicius Gallus. Right in that ridge basin, right in there on the red line.
213:58:00 Evans And, we'll get a picture of it.
213:58:06 Evans Yes.
213:58:14 Evans Yes.
213:59:06 Evans Okay. Sorry, Houston, we turned that one OFF at the - minute early.
213:59:15 CC Okay.
213:59:23 Evans We'll pick up an extra minute on the next one.
213:59:27 CC Roger.
214:00:01 Schmitt Okay, Houston. RECORDER'S going OFF.
214:00:04 CC Okay.
214:00:08 Cernan Hey, Gordo. I better make this note now. What Jack and Ron were talking about apparently was an elongated depression. I was talking about in the same area, and I'm trying to mark it approximately on the chart. But it was a classic, small, bright-haloed crater. The classic with a classic ejecta and everything. Except it was this orange-hued crater. It was not bright-white. But it was very classic. And, as I said earlier, not subtle at all.
214:00:46 CC Roger, Gene.
214:01:12 CC America, Houston. I have a TEI for rev 72 pad. No hurry, maybe you want to wait until sunset.
214:01:25 Evans Yes, we'll wait until sunset. Okay?
214:01:28 CC Okay.
214:03:23 Evans Houston, 160 and 162 of the mag Oscar Oscar were taken from the north, viewing the central peaks of Copernicus.
214:03:34 CC Okay, Ron.
214:03:41 Evans It's a long ways away. I don't know if it'll show up or not. It might.
214:07:14 Cernan Houston, this is America.
214:07:17 CC Go ahead.
214:07:21 Cernan Okay, Gordo. I'm looking ahead - I'm trying to stay ahead and see what's happening today and tomorrow in the Flight Plan. And although this has come up in the past, we haven't said anything about it. You know, Ron put his biomed harness on a couple of hours ago, and he's going to end up wearing it a total of 6 hours. Then, all of a sudden, when we make a change-over again, and I put it on, and - for a 12-hour period, and then we change again. And one of the problems up here is putting these things on, and you'd like not to leave them on too long, but once you get them on, you like to make use of them. And it's a problem, it's time consuming. I'd like you to consider down there letting Ron wear those until tomorrow morning, having me change over then. And when EVA time comes, we'll take special consideration to whatever requirements there are.
214:08:17 CC Hey, you just got a thumbs-up on that from the Surgeon.
214:08:22 Cernan Okay, very good thank you.
214:08:41 Evans Okay, Houston. Just took whatever the three were before 39 on mag Yankee Yankee of Euler, Tobias Mayer, terminator stuff.
214:09:00 CC Okay, Ron. And for Jack, the Surgeon says he's getting occasional erratic trace from Jack's biomed. He would be happy if Jack wants to take it clear off.
214:09:20 Schmitt Gordy, I don't know how to tell you this, but I haven't had my biomed on for about 6 hours.
214:09:32 CC Okay.
214:09:33 Schmitt As a matter of fact, I haven't even had the sensors on.
214:09:39 Well, we must be copying the heartbeat of the America or something, then.
214:09:52 Schmitt How does it look? Maybe we ought to use it instead of mine.
214:10:02 CC America's ticker is doing fine - along with everything else.
214:10:15 Cernan Okay, Houston. This is America. I've a Plight Plan change for you if you're ready to copy.
214:10:22 CC Okay, ready to copy.
214:10:28 Cernan Okay, if you'll turn to page 3-26 at 217:52.
214:10:37 CC Okay, go ahead.
214:10:39 Cernan You can delete - you can delete both those steps.
214:10:45 CC Okay. I've got that.
214:10:49 Cernan Okay. If you'll turn to 230:40 - you can cross out LMP and put CDR.
214:11:04 CC Okay. We got that.
214:11:09 Cernan Okay, if you'll turn the page - or turn to 230:29.
214:11:13 CC Okay.
214:11:16 Evans You can change the first line, cross out LMP and put CDR. And on the second line, you can cross out CDR and put CMP.
214:11:28 CC Okay, I must be on the wrong page. Did you say 230:29? Must be 231:29, okay, got you.
214:11:38 Cernan 231:29. Cross out LMP and put CDR on the first line. Cross out CDR and put CMP.
214:11:46 CC All right.
214:11:50 Evans Okay, and we'll further update you as the mission progresses. I know you're pretty busy, and we'll hold any Flight Plan updates down to you to a minimum from here.
214:12:01 CC Okay.
214:15:36 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. You want to give me TEI pad?
214:15:41 CC There's nothing I'd rather do. Ready to copy?
214:15:46 Schmitt Go ahead.
214:15:47 CC Okay. It's TEI for 72, SPS/G&N; 36477; plus 0.6l, plus 0.83; NOUN 33 is 230:42:59.17; NOUN 8l, plus 2887.4, minus 0339.4, minus 0050.3; 179, 095, 356; rest of the pad is N/A. GDC stars Sirius and ;Rigel; 136; 160; 034. Ullage is 4 jets, 12 seconds. Remarks: Assumes ascent REFSMMAT. Over.
214:17:19 Schmitt Okay. TEI, 72, SPS/G&N; 36477; plus 0.6l, plus 0.83; 230:42:59.17; plus 2887.4, minus 0339; minus 0050.3; 179, 095, 356; Sirius and Rigel; 136; l60; 034. Ullage is 4 jets, for 12 seconds, and it assumes an ascent REFSMMAT. Over.
214:18:03 CC Okay. That's a good read-back. Say, have a little summary of both the surface and the orbital scientific equipment's working. It's probably about 5 minutes worth. If there's some handy time, I'll be glad to read it to you.
214:18:25 Schmitt Right now, Gordo. We'd love to hear it.
214:18:29 CC Okay. Let me start with the America's gear there. The - on the UV spectrometer, well, actually having to do with UV. During - back during rev 38, they sent an Aerobee sounding rocket from White Sands, up, and it carried a UV spectrometer above the atmosphere and successfully acquired solar UV calibration data. Farside terminator shows there is a hydrogen atmosphere, but it is much less than had been predicted. The PI is very happy with the mode 4 maneuver. On the IR scanning radiometer, it's still performing beautifully, and the PI is getting lots of high-quality data, and I understand is ecstatic about it. On rev 33, the crater Kepler C showed up as a 132-degree Kelvin anomaly on a 94 degree Kelvin background after 11.6 days of lunar night, the crater Reiner was a similar anomaly on that revolution. In low orbit on rev 9, Kepler A showed a broad hotspot corresponding to its ejecta blanket with a sharp spike corresponding to the crater in the center. One coldspot anomaly seems to correspond to a cinder cone-like feature in Mare Orientale near the crater Hohmann. On the lunar sounder, telemetry monitoring of the sounder's average reflected power indicates that the mare and highlands exhibit markedly different reflectivity, both HF and VHF. The data is consistent with distinct layering in the mare, as would be expected, where the mare flooded by successive layers of lava, although, they say other explanations are possible. They don't see that layering indication in the highlands. Predicted topographic signatures over features such as craters and mare ridges have been confirmed in principal. Of course, as you know, until they get the film back they don't have - they can't really reach any definite conclusions. On the cameras - the cameras, both cameras and the laser altimeter all appear to be performing very well. And everybody's especially happy with the solid laser altimeter performance. Okay, that kind of sums up SIM bay. Do you have any questions, that I could chase down, or should I go on with surface stuff?
214:21:31 Cernan No, why don't you press on.
214:21:32 Evans That sounds good Gordo, press on.
214:21:36 CC Okay. On the surface, the heat flow. These are - these are little short summaries, each written by the Pis or co-Is (sic) on each experiment. Mark reports that the entire heat flow system is working perfectly. The probes have cooled down to a temperature of -16 degrees C at a depth of 2.3 meters, and are nearly at their final temperature. For comparison, at Hadley Rille, we found a -20 degree C at 1.5 meters depth, we had, to refresh your memory, was -16 at 2.3. Both probes show an increase of temperature with depth, and it is clear that we will get a valid heat flow measurement. The LEAM is functioning properly, responding to calibration, and sensors show a low noise figure. The LEAM will be off until lunar afternoon, and on, with sensors covered, until after sunset. Otto Berg ask that you accept his thanks and appreciation. On the LSG, the sensor beam cannot be nulled at this time, in spite of Jack's efforts. We are still studying the problem and hope to find a workaround. In any case, the instrument does function to some extent, as a vertical seismometer, and may be useful in a search for a gravitational radiatior from pulsars. The LSPE is fully operational. LM ascent clearly recorded on all four geophones. And apparent seismic velocity measured across the geophone array was 110 meters-per-second. Regolith velocity was very close to that measure at the Apollo 16 site. The LM impact was clearly recorded on the geophones, and the estimated distance was 10 kilometers away, in the South Massif, actually very close to the targeted point. Although, I guess you've discussed this, we didn't see it on the video. The first charge went off while you were on the backside, last rev, and it's very apparent on the tracers which I'm monitoring right now. I think the next one's due sometime within the next 2 hours.
214:24:02 CC Okay, the lunar mass spectrometer, the low voltage circuits of the LMS have been operated briefly. All monitors indicate the proper performance of the instuments, but application of high voltages will await lunar sunset, when both the analyzer and the site has had time to outgas. Temperature of the radiator plate is slightly above nominal, but not so high as to be even important. That was from Dick Hodges. Okay, here's a little summary from Dave Strangway on the SEP. He starts out by saying, "Water, water everywhere and plenty to be found," because you didn't get behind the timeline. The SEP transmitter was confirmed to be working well at the correct power level, using the lunar sounder. The receiver heated well above predictions during the whole mission, as I'm sure you are aware, but the two prime data legs were operated within the temperature limits of the recorder, and we have no reason to doubt that we got good data. There is also a good chance that the leg from Station 4 to the LM was within the temperature limits. Your procedures were performed excellently and we look forward to processing the DSEA tape.
214:25:25 CC Okay, now to - let's see, we got the TGE, which is considered a spectacular success. The Earth-Moon gravity transfer indicates a valve of - won't read the numbers, in miiligals - at the - at the Tarrus-Littrow base. But the value will be used to obtain a revised value for the lunar radius at this landing site. Gravity measurement made during the three EVAs showed a large negative anomaly of about minus 38 milligals at the base of the South Massif. A similar negative anomaly of about minus 30 at the base of the North Massif. Preliminary conclusions of the traverse gravimeter meas - TGE measurements indicate that the material under the valley floor of Tarrus-Littrow is much denser than that of the North and South Massif. The gravity values will support the hypothesis that the valley subfloor consist of dense basaltic rocks, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 kilometers in thickness. The extra measurement between stations 2 and 3 will be of great help in determining the nature of the boundaries of this basaltic layer and the varied extension of the massif.
214:26:42 CC The cosmic ray detector - actually, you know as much as we do about the data return from it, of course, but the - we did - recover it early in EVA 3, as you remember, and that was due to a minor increase in low-energy solar protons and heavier particles detected here. And a reduced exposure will not offset the scientific results.
214:27:13 CC The neutron probe was exposed to the surface for 49 hours. PI estimates that the distance from the RTG to the probe is 40 meters, which will mean that the background count will be low, and he thanks you kindly for those few extra steps. And the last one was - to be summarized - was the field geology and they asked for a very short summary, so Walt Berger came through with three typewritten pages. So, we're just going to skip the whole thing, except the last line, which was to say that you guys did an outstanding job. Over.
214:28:01 Schmitt Thank you Gordy. We're just pleased that so many things are working well, and happy that the PIs are satisfied. That was our objective, and we came up here to meet it - and those things that are done, I hope we met it well, and we've get a few more things to do yet.
214:28:24 CC Well, I can assure you you're not the only or.ci, that are pleased.
214:28:28 Cernan Gordy - Gordy, and you know it's satisfying to have put that much time in and - and come out with some meaningful results. That makes us all feel good. Have you been able, or did you see that first charge on the video?
214:28:48 CC I forgot to mention that. No, we sure didn't see a thing. We had the camera aimed over there, but it was almost a kilometer away. That was 1-pound charge, and we played it back several times, but nobody saw a hint of anything.
214:29:07 Cernan Okay. If you got - if you got a few more going off here in short order don't you?
214:29:15 CC That's affirmative. I don't think we're up to the next one yet, but we'll keep - keep you posted on whether we see anything, or how they're doing.
214:29:27 Cernan I might also say that we appreciate the time and effort the PIs put in with their experiments and with us also.
214:29:37 CC Okay. I'll make sure that gets to the backroom.
214:30:08 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. What did they see over next to the Sculptured Hills on the gravimeter?
214:30:17 CC Well let's see, Jack. They kind of - let me turn back here. They actually included - when they mentioned the negative anomaly of minus 30 milligals at the base of the North Massif. They said stations 6 and 8, parenthetically there. So evidently they're including the whole area there as the negative anomaly. I'll try to get a more amplified answer to your question.
214:30:58 Schmitt Now, could you see if you can verify with them that they were unable to - or there was no distinction between the measurements of the Sculptured Hills and the North Massif?
214:31:14 CC Yes. I'll - I'll work on that.
214:31:23 Schmitt Or better yet, what was the distinction between the Sculptured Hills and the subfloor area?
214:31:29 CC Okay.
214:31:41 CC You may have to wait until next time around for your answer.
214:31:48 Schmitt Oh, there's no hurry. You can wait until tomorrow or even a (laughter) week if you want to. I was just thinking about that problem.
214:31:56 CC Okay.
214:32:06 Schmitt By the way, Gordy, you might tell Bob Walker, if he's around, that the cosmic ray, as far as I know, was untouched by human hands, at least on the Moon. And it looked very very clean when I put it in the - put it back together.
214:32:24 CC Okay, Jack. We'll pass that along.
214:33:18 CC America, Houston. One more question from the Surgeon on this mysterious trace on the LMPs biomed. Do you have anything plugged in to the - is the biomed still plugged in and laying over on Jack's umbilical, or is there, is there anything plugged in to - to Jack's that could explain the funny trace here? It's kind of a sporadic-looking - looks like somebody with a heart in a pretty bad shape. (Laughter) Over.
214:34:03 Schmitt Gordy, my heart has always been in bad shape, for other reasons than the one the Surgeon's thinking about. It turns out that I am still plugged together. I just don't have the sensors on. I will remedy that situation, so he doesn't have to worry anymore.
214:34:21 CC Okay, that solves the mistery. Thank you.
214:35:21 CC Say, America, about 30 seconds to LOS. See you next time.
214:35:29 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Thank you very much, and we'll see you coming around.
214:35:32 CC Okay.
214:35:49 BEGIN LUNAR REV 65
214:36:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 214 hours 36 minutes and we've had loss of signal now with America on the 64th revolution of the Moon. Be reacquiring in a little less than 45 minutes. And coming up at about 215 hours 27 minutes, a little less than 1 hour from now, we're scheduled to have the second detonation of an explosive charge on the lunar surface as part of the lunar seismic profiling experiment. This charge will be a one-half pound charge located about six tenths of a kilometer from the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The summary of science information read up to the crew by our CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton will be available in the News Center. We hope to get copies of the information read up to the crew to the News Center and reproduced and available. It will of course also be available on the transcript somewhat later. At 214 hours 37 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
214:56:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 214 hours 56 minutes. In about one minute we'll be commanding the television on the lunar roving vehicle ON and we'll have it positioned to look for this second explosive charge which is going to be fired at about 215 hours and 27 minutes. This charge is part of the lunar seismic profiling experiment. It is a one-half pound charge of explosives located about six-tenths of a kilometer southeast of the lunar roving vehicle. And we've got black and white TV now from lunar surface and we'll have that through the converter and up on the area where that charge is located. And the instrumentation communications engineer will be putting that camera in the proper position.
215:00:54 PAO We're about 27 minutes away from the predicted time of detonation. However, we are within the window during which the charge could explode. As we mentioned on the previous charge, this window is brought about by the fact that the timer is a mechanical timer, the firing charge is set continuously during the window and as the timer moves across the face of the firing pin, the firing charge going in - the firing command going in continuously fires the charge as the window moves across the pin.
215:03:29 PAO And we believe the television camera is now centered on the area where this charge is located. Hopefully the charge is right in the middle of the television screen.
215:07:01 PAO We now have a clock configured here in the Control Centre, counting down to what our best estimate is for detonation of the seismic charge. And our T0 time is about 20 minutes away, 20 minutes 17 seconds to be exact. This is the clock that's designated H/O on the video monitors.
215:19:20 PAO This is Apollo Control, we're now about 1 minute 20 seconds away from reacquiring Apollo 17. It will be on the 65th revolution. And, we're looking through the lunar rover television camera at the spot on the Moon where we believe the second of two seismic charges to be detonated, is located. We do have a problem with the TV camera in that it appears to be heating up close to the acceptable limit and it could become necessary to shut the camera down prior to the time we have the detonation. This decision will be based in part on what sort of priorities the scientists have for other things they would like to view with the camera in relation to the detonation of this charge. And the instrumentation communications engineer, keeping a close eye on those temperature readings, reports that the temperature has apparently begun to stablize and to maybe even move down a bit, so we maybe out of the woods on that score.
215:21:02 PAO And we have acquisition of signal. Should get a good stable lock on shortly which will decrease the noise on the air-to-ground circuit.
215:21:34 Evans Houston, America.
215:21:54 CC Hello, America. Do you read Houston?
215:22:34 Evans Houston, America.
215:22:35 CC Yes, America, loud and clear.
215:22:41 Evans Okay, Houston. America here. The mapper - when we took the image motion from OFF to ON and then the MAPPING CAMERA switch from OFF to ON also, I think - maybe it was STANDBY to ON - but anyhow, as soon as it went up to ON, we had a barberpole on the talkback. Went back to STANDBY, and just before AOS, or just about AOS there, at 215:20, about 215:20, then we got a gray on the talkback with the MAPPING CAMERA switch to STANDBY. Then we went back through the cycle, and it worked okay. So it's working now and it's ON. What I'm saying is I didn't start working until about 20.
215:23:38 CC Okay, Ron. We got that.
215:23:45 Evans Must have been too cold, huh?
215:23:50 CC We'll look at it. Don't know.
215:24:02 CC America, would you select WIDE on the HIGH GAIN and then NARROW?
215:24:26 Evans Doesn't seem to make any difference. I'll try a REACQ position again. MANUAL - and WIDE.
215:24:53 Evans AUTO or NARROW, it doesn't seem to be working very good.
215:25:00 CC Let's try REACQ, Ron. You're in a skin reflection zone there, is probably the problem.
215:25:46 PAO And, we just had a call from our Instrumentation Communications Engineer that he saw the charge blow down in the lower left corner of the television screen, and simultaneous with that, we're getting very active response from the seismic experiment, the tracing pens are very - very active, almost going wild at this point.
215:27:03 PAO And, the scientists in the back room here also confirm having seen the charge explode. We'll be re-rolling the tapes - rewinding the tape and playing back the video tape of that detonation.
215:27:59 Schmitt Gordy. This is the LMP. How do you read?
215:28:02 CC Jack, you're loud and clear.
215:28:07 Schmitt Okay. Add to that little discussion of the P00l-bottomed, cone-shaped craters that I had, I think, the last rev, that the one place there seems to be some variety in the freshest of those kinds of craters is in Mare Smythii where the ejecta blanket of many of those kind of craters has some small dark halo craters on them - have small dark halo craters on them. Three or four, or half a dozen per crater, on occasion. But that seems to be something I've only seen so far in the Mare Smithii region.
215:29:05 CC Roger.
215:29:14 Schmitt They're superimposed on the bright ray or ejecta blanket and/or ejecta blanket system of the - of those cone, or fresh cone craters.
215:29:30 CC Okay.
215:30:13 CC America, Houston. We've got some words for you to - a request for a little visual observation at the landing site area, having to do with orange material. If you're ready for about a 5-minute briefing, I'd like to give it to you now, so you can get set up.
215:30:40 Evans Okay; go ahead there, Gordo.
215:30:43 CC Okay, what we want to do is see if - This was triggered off by your observation of orange material last rev, I guess, and possibly earlier. But the idea here is to look for some craters that we've identified on photographs that are in a similar geologic setting to Shorty Crater and see if we can see orange material around them. We're trying to determine if the orange material at Shorty is a one-time special occasion or whether possibly it's common to the area and just never been noticed before. And we think you'll be able to determine this visually, better than any other way. So, if you can get out the orbit - the orbit charts; the orbit photographs; let's see, the Lunar Landmark Maps for the CSM, and turn to the landing site number 2 of 4 picture. Let me know when you get that, and I'll show you where we think a likely point is to see craters that are similar in setting to Shorty, to look for orange material.
215:32:03 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, we'll do that. I've made a couple passes with the binoculars over the dark mantle around Littrow already, and have seen nothing comparable with what's around Sulpicius; but let's have the examples, and we'll make a special effort on it.
215:32:19 CC Okay. Have you got the site photo number 2 of 4?
215:32:22 Schmitt Here it is. Stand by just 1.
215:32:54 Schmitt Tab on it.
215:32:55 Evans Which one is that, Gordo?
215:32:56 Schmitt 204.
215:32:58 CC No. Number 2 of 4 of the site photos.
215:33:03 Schmitt Oh, 2 of 4. Okay. Okay, we got her.
215:33:26 CC Okay. You can see the landing site there at - down about 4 o'clock, and - -
215:33:33 Schmitt Yes sir. Go.
215:33:34 CC - - the 7-kilometer crater in the - on the centerline of the page, about a third of the way down from the top, the large bright crater there is - is Littrow B is the name of it.
215:33:46 Cernan Got it.
215:33:47 CC And on the southern half of the ejeeta blanket from that crater, there are several dark halo craters, which we think are in similar structure as Shorty. We think that would be a likely spot to look for orange material. There's a - Farouk has circled about four or five. They show up, say, at 4 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, and 9 o'clock out about - from the center - about a crater diameter. In other words, a crater radius beyond the lip, roughly. We suggest that you utilize the best window in your attitude which you should be maneuvering to now, if you - if I haven't completely interrupted the Flight Plan. is - at that attitude, window - let's see - 1 is the best, and 4 should point up that way also. We suggest you get somebody on the binoculars at 1. And use the same camera setup, with the exception of using tbs 250-millimeter lens, if you can, that you're going to be setting up for as per the Flight Plan for the orbital science photos. If you can put the 250 on there; use KK as shown; and f/8, 1/250, and infinity - I'll repeat that when you get to it - for the pictures, if you see anything. What we're looking for is orange material.
215:35:35 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. We're working on that now, and we'll get KK out.
215:35:39 CC Okay. We were thinking you might be able to get the guy on the camera in window 4 and the binoculars in window 1.
215:36:04 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're about ready to replay now the video tape showing that second seismic charge detonating. You'll see it down in the lower left corner of the screen. It'll appear as a bright flash, with little or no dust visible.
215:36:07 Schmitt We're coming up on the edge of Crisium now.
215:36:08 CC Roger.
215:36:17 Schmitt Okay. I think maybe you're right about window 4 possibly being the photography window. If I can get oriented right. I thought you - No, There you go. Yes. It's all set, right here. And, Gordy, I'm going to try to also shoot, if you'll let me, two pictures on KK of that depression - colorful depression we saw near Sulpicius Gallus, if I can see it. Is that okay?
215:36:56 CC Okay. I'll give you a unilateral GO on those two frames, and we suggest you use two or three frames on this area we've been talking about, also, in addition to the scheduled 28.
215:37:09 Schmitt Okay.
215:37:11 CC If we get short of film or something, Farouk says the last part of this orbital science photos, after you get to the end of the run and change to 1/125 of a second, is kind of marginal for photography anyway.
215:37:26 Evans (Laughter) Right,
215:37:44 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, you want the pictures whether we think we see orange or not, huh?
215:37:51 CC That's affirmative.
215:37:58 Schmitt That's very strange. May have to pass you the camera in a hurry, Geno. I looked.
215:38:33 Schmitt You know, Gordy, the craters we're seeing around Sulpicius that are orange or - orangish are very clearly orange - orangish gray and the whole, or at least most of the crater is that way. We looked at Shorty today, and Ron said that even the little bit of orange that he saw the other day is not visible, and I'd have to agree with that. The amount of orange we saw on the surface certainly would not be comparable to what we're seeing around Sulpicius Gallus.
215:39:09 CC Roger.
215:39:14 Schmitt And in a couple of quick scans, on previous revs, of the area, the dark mantle, near Littrow, I could not - I did not notice any obvious orange-gray craters.
215:39:29 CC Okay.
215:39:43 CC Just to make - to be sure we're clear on this: We suggest that area to look for them only as a likely spot; but any evidence of craters with orange material, in the whole dark-mantle area around Littrow and the edge of Tranquillity there, is worth noting and getting a picture of, if you see it.
215:40:16 Schmitt Okay. Yes.
215:46:31 Evans I don't think there's anything there.
215:46:32 Schmitt Why don't you take a couple of pictures, then.
215:46:35 Evans ... Yes, I've got a few.
215:46:41 Cernan Can you take a picture?
215:46:42 Evans Yes.
215:46:44 Cernan Did he take a picture ...?
215:46:49 Evans Okay. 5.6 at 1/250.
215:47:23 Evans No, I don't either. I don't see anything comparable at all. You know, the ones that we've been seeing the - definite orange or the light-tan stuff around are pure light ejecta blankets around them, not dark.
215:47:47 Schmitt Houston, I guess none of us see anything comparable to what is down by Sulpicius.
215:47:57 CC Okay.
215:47:57 Schmitt And no obvious color either.
215:48:01 CC Roger.
215:48:01 Evans Well, they're comparable to Shorty, but they're not comparable to - they're not comparable to the ones that we've been seeing the obvious orange - -
215:48:09 Cernan Yes. The craters are comparable to Shorty, as Ron points out, and - but the color is not there.
215:48:16 CC Okay. We'd like to give you a couple of spacecraft chores - like to terminate the charge on battery B, and turn tank 1 FANs , ON.
215:48:33 Schmitt - hand me the camera.
215:48:36 Schmitt H2 tank 1 FANs going ON, and I'll get that charge in just a second.
215:48:42 CC Okay. And just a reminder to go back to f/4 - -
215:48:45 Evans Are you going to be able to get that?
215:48:45 CC - - at 1/250 when you get ready for the orbital science photos. Also, the 80-millimeter lens, if you happen to be - have the 250 on there.
215:48:57 Cernan What's the setting for the ...?
215:49:01 Schmitt Oh, f/8.
215:49:02 Evans Well, we're getting a little close to the terminator. Change to 5.6, Jack, I don't know. No, maybe not.
215:49:09 Schmitt We're looking down zero phase.
215:49:11 Evans That's right. It's almost zero phase, okay. See. It's just beyond that - -
215:49:16 PAO The crew is taking pictures of the landing site at this time.
215:49:18 Evans - - I changed to f/4.
215:49:23 Schmitt Yes, but you're going to be looking at the nadir, aren't you?
215:49:25 Evans Yes, that's right. Are you sure we want the - Yes, that's right; 8-second intervalometer for looking at the nadir with the 80 millimeter. Right?
215:49:51 Schmitt Yes.
215:49:52 Evans Okay. Let me take a look down at the - that mare floor and Dawes. No. That's not Dawes, that's Bessel. Doesn't look like Dawes. Dawes has got a bunch of little depressions that look like rimless pits in the bottom of it. Bessel doesn't have any of those. It looks - like a bunch of debris.
215:50:54 Evans There you go, Gene.
215:51:21 Evans Yes. Yes, yes, I see it.
215:51:34 Evans Yours is on - I see yours, Gene. It's on up there a little farther. Isn't it? But all of these are in the - this is not out in the - the mare floor of Serenitatis. It's on the hills there, the Haemus Mountains. It's just to the west of the Sulpicius Gallus Rille, and it's an elongate feature than runs kind of north-northwest by south-southeast. Yes.
215:52:15 Cernan ... was yours ...?
215:52:17 Evans No, it's not in the mare floor at all. It's up there in the edge of the Haemus Mountains. But that was the same type of material that - it has the same color difference as the - the material around the Tacquet Rilles back there. There now, see all those bright orange craters right in the - in the Sulpicius Gallus Rille, up at the north end of it? Jack calls them an orangish-gray; I call them an orangish-tan.
215:53:00 Cernan ... out in the mare that's got this - all that -
215:53:04 Evans No. No. Jack, did you get the pictures, good pictures? Because I can take it. See that one - oh, yes - see that one on the mare?
215:53:16 Schmitt Yes. Good one on the mare.
215:53:18 Evans Yes.
215:53:20 Schmitt Did you get that one - -
215:53:21 Schmitt Oh, lost my - -
215:53:22 Cernan Okay, here's my orange crater - -
215:53:24 Schmitt Here, take it.
215:53:25 Schmitt Let me take a look at it.
215:53:28 Evans Yes, that's it. Yes, I can, too.
215:53:59 Evans Yes, Gene, yours is out on the - I got a picture of it.
215:54:02 Cernan Are you sure?
215:54:03 Evans Yes, yes, I know. It's got a - -
215:54:04 Cernan Okay. It's just inside, just in the foothills.
215:54:06 Evans Yes. Just in the - Wait a minute. Okay, I've got one out in the mare itself. It's got a - strip - -
215:54:14 Cernan ... foothills, and I can't take any ...
215:54:25 Evans Well, when we get to - when I see one out there, I'll get it. Yes, I better have because they're getting close to - As a matter of fact, I need it just about right now. Okay?
215:54:48 Cernan Well, Gordo, we're going - we're going to get set up for Ron's orbital science, but that little classic crater, I could see it again with the - -
215:54:55 Evans ... 1/250.
215:54:56 Cernan - - with the naked eye. I don't think it's the same one that Ron and Jack were talking about, but this is so classic. It's just out of the mare into the foothills to the - right along our orbital track.
215:55:11 Evans And we're starting with mag 109 for the orbital science on Kilo Kilo, and I don't know what the number was before we started taking all of our (laughter) -
215:55:23 Schmitt ...
215:55:26 CC Okay. We copy that; 109 on a key - on KK.
215:55:31 Evans Okay.
215:55:32 Schmitt ...
215:55:34 Evans (Laughter) Fortunately. Oh, what? Okay, there's the old Apennines. Where are we heading for on this, Gordy? Can you give me a clue as we go along?
215:55:57 Schmitt South Imbrium.
215:55:58 Evans Well, yes; South Imbrium's a big thing.
215:56:10 Evans Oh, the stupid thing doesn't work. I got that one.
215:56:20 Schmitt Huh?
215:56:21 Evans I got that one. I took it.
215:56:22 Schmitt Oh, I don't think you did.
215:56:23 Evans Yes, I did.
215:56:26 Schmitt Gordy.
215:56:27 Cernan Just a little bit on it. This one is -
215:56:31 CC Go ahead.
215:56:35 Schmitt This is Jack. My impression on that rimless, V-shaped depression that had the striking talus on it - that it - it also - there was a spotted, mottled rim area that has the orangish-tan, or orangish-gray color as the spots. And it looked as if the - in this first - in this pass, and I'll try to verify it if we have another opportunity, it looked as if the more red-gray, red-brown-gray, if you will, material was lower in the section within the walls of the depression. This is a very steep-walled depression, by the way. It has talus streaming down the sides of it, and the coloration streams in this same direction. It looks as if there may be layers or roughly horizontal zones that are - have the coloration that we're seeing, which are forming the talus slopes down below them.
215:57:49 Evans Break, break. When do I change to 2.8?
215:57:52 Cernan I'll give them to you.
215:57:53 CC Okay, not until you get on up the line, Ron, to Lambert.
215:57:59 Evans Oh, okay. Lambert? Okay.
215:58:02 CC And your pictures are pretty much right along the nadir.
215:58:10 Evans Okay.
216:00:38 Evans Now I got it. Okay. Yes. It's La Hire Rilles.
216:00:41 Cernan Is that Timocharis we're coming up on?
216:00:42 Evans Yes, Timochar - We're over Timocharis now, and then La Hire Rilles are coming up.
216:00:53 Schmitt Okay. There's Lambert up there - -
216:00:55 Evans Yes. Lambert's right up there, coming up. I'm not sure - well, I don't know what the - just to the south of Lambert. What is that? No, just on the map.
216:00:10 Schmitt Well, Pytheas, but it's -
216:01:21 Evans That way. Remember it's right with the La Hire Rilles. There's one rille that goes right through it almost, and then another one - see, goes northeast-southwest. Oh, I see, okay.
216:01:40 Schmitt Gordy, getting a good oblique view of Copernicus on this trip. And some of the dark-halo craters that we mapped originally on the north portion of the ejecta blanket, which were similar to Copernicus H, are very clearly darker halo than the - or have darker blankets around them than the ejecta blanket from Copernicus.
216:02:17 CC Roger. And Ron should be due to change to 2.8 about now.
216:02:26 Evans Okay.
216:02:26 Schmitt And this is a good view of the central peaks, although from some distance; and, as Ron and I were discussing earlier, it's not at all clear that that - in fact, in fact, that dike does not come through as a - the so-called dike - as a - as a unit that is clearly defined.
216:02:50 Evans Yes. I was looking at it through the binocs last time, and I couldn't really see anything that was really defined as coming on through there.
216:03:00 CC Okay.
216:03:01 Schmitt There's still a very - there's a very clear distinction between the dark floor material of Copernicus and the hummocky floor material, the dark smooth being in the northwest quadrant.
216:03:08 Evans You know, if Lambert is an impact crater, it's sure awful smooth ejecta around that thing. It only goes out about a half a crater diameter, maybe a crater diameter in some spots, at the most; but it's not rough, it's blocky looking. You know, it's smooth - smooth, undulating -
216:04:03 CC Ron, your next camera change is at Euler, which you change to 1/125 of a second.
216:04:12 Evans I think we just croaked. We did.
216:04:18 Schmitt You out of film?
216:04:18 Evans Yes.
216:04:20 Schmitt You want that other mag?
216:04:22 Evans Let's throw Oscar Oscar in there to see if it will work.
216:04:27 Evans Need the - dark slide. Here. Okay. Where's Oscar Oscar? Whoops. VHBW. There's a -
216:04:56 Schmitt We've got a good oblique view of the Hortensius Domes, and with their nice little central pit craters.
216:05:29 Evans Did we hit the stick, or something? Huh? Looks like we're changing attitude. Well, I'll be darned. I put Oscar Oscar on there and I got but one picture. (Laughter) And it's empty. Well, that's probably right. Those won't come out too good there, anyhow. Too close to the terminator for this kind of film.
216:06:01 CC Yes, we agree with that, Ron. Farouk was mentioning that was kind of - beyond Euler was pretty marginal anyway.
216:06:09 Evans Yes.
216:06:35 Cernan Gordo, that classic crater that I talked about last rev, I picked it up again this rev with the naked eye, and then I also looked at it again with the binocs. If Ron was talking about the same crater, and I have my doubts, he got a picture of it, he said. But the interior - I won't say there's a change to black; it's just dark. I'd say it's probably about the size, to put it in the right perspective, of Shorty, or just a little bit bigger. The inside is dark. By that, I don't nean it's black or anything inside; I just can't really see inside of it. But the - it's a rust-colored blanket that comes out and overlaps on the rims and then has the classic ejecta. And I'm going to take a shot at trying to get a picture of it next rev or sometime when we're in an attitude, because it's too good to miss.
216:07:36 CC Okay. And, commander, if you can send one of your subordinates over there to terminate the battery charge, we'd appreciate it.
216:07:50 Cernan (Laughter) Okay, that's in work.
216:08:07 Evans Seven Bravo. It's 1 point - it's coming up just a little bit. Well, not much, 1 point - well, 1.25.
216:08:24 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Battery charge on B is terminated, and we got 1.25 on 7 Bravo.
216:08:31 CC Okay, thank you.
216:08:40 Evans Here's November November; it may have three or four pictures left. It's on l60. ... me set one up. Oh, we've got Papa Papa for opportunity, huh? Yes. I'll get it.
216:09:28 Schmitt Houston, are you ready for LASER ALTIMETER, ON?
216:10:08 CC Stand by.
216:10:25 CC America, we're seeing some higher than normal temperatures on fuel cell 1. We'd like you to go to panel 226 and check the FUEL CELL 1 PUMP circuit breaker and also the switch on panel 5. Over.
216:10:53 Schmitt Well, don't ask me how it happened, but your switch on panel 5 is OFF. Going to AC1.
216:11:02 CC Okay. I guess that's the best news that we could have had on that. And we're ready for the laser altimeter - -
216:11:09 Schmitt Okay. Hey, Gordy - -
216:11:10 CC - - whenever you get to the attitude.
216:11:12 Schmitt - - Gordy? Here's one you can explain to me: When I turned that on - well, I guess that - I got a sudden drop in H2 flow; and then it went up, overshot a little bit, and now it's steady. I suspect that's what your EECOM friend there will say should happen.
216:11:39 CC Yes. That's right, and we see indications that the pump started up.
216:12:04 Schmitt Okay, that was a good call. I can't - How long have you noticed that, Gordy? Do you know?
216:12:10 CC Well, it's been about 3 minutes, Jack.
216:12:16 Schmitt Okay. I guess I'm to blame then; I don't know how it happened.
216:12:35 Evans Hey, Houston, America. Do we have any more orbital science photos?
216:12:43 CC Stand by.
216:12:47 Evans I think that was it, but I'm not sure.
216:14:04 Evans Okay, Houston. LASER ALTIMETER is ON, and IMAGE MOTION is barber pole plus 4.
216:14:11 CC Okay. Thank you.
216:15:58 PAO This is Apollo Control at 216 hours 15 minutes. A few minutes ago you heard Capcom, Gordon Fullerton, query the crew as to whether or not a switch might have been placed in the wrong position on one of the pumps circulating glycol, a coolant, to fuel cell 1. And Jack Schmitt looked at the panel, confirmed that a switch was in fact in the OFF position, turned it back on and everthing was back to normal with no problem. By way of background the EECOM, John Aaron, had noticed a slight increase in temperature on fuel cell 1 via the telemetry. After watching it for or 4 minutes he asked Capcom to check with the crew, see if the switch controlling the glycol pump was in the OFF position and as mentioned, Jack Schmitt confirmed that it was. This pump, as we say, circulates liquid glycol coolant through the fuel cells and cools it in much the same way that water flowing through radiators and around the engine of your automobile, cools the automobile engine. The most likely explanation for the switch being in the wrong position that we have here, appeared to be a more or less transitory phenomenon, was that it was bumped by one of the crewmen moving about the cabin in zero g. The fuel cell temperatures very quickly dropped back to normal once the pump was turned on again. We have about 18 minutes remaining in this pass before we loose radio contact with Apollo 17. We are showing an orbit at this time with a high point or apocynthion of 65.2 nautical miles and a low point or paracynthion of 62.2 Among the other statistics the orbital weight of the CSM at this time is 36,477 pounds. And the orbital period just a tad under 2 hours - 1 hour 59 minutes 17 seconds.
216:18:32 CC Say, Ron, this is Houston. And there's no more scheduled orbital science photos. We can't seem to run down Farouk to see if he has anything up his sleeve. There are a couple of passes with black and white coming up; one next rev, and then a couple just prior to TEI.
216:18:54 Evans Okay. Looks like what we've got left here, as far as I can tell anyhow, is just - we've got all of magazine Papa Papa, and maybe four or five of them on November November.
216:19:08 CC Okay. And we'll come back to you if there's anything we got in mind to schedule on - on either of those.
216:19:18 Evans Okay. We'll want to save some for after TEI to shoot back at the Moon.
216:19:25 CC Roger.
216:19:31 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, that's TEI-1, not TEI-2 he's talking about.
216:19:41 Evans Okay, I see what he said.
216:19:46 CC Roger. TEI, period.
216:19:55 Evans That's right.
216:20:06 Cernan These guys can call it what they like, but I know what it's going to be and when.
216:21:17 CC America, a little human interest stuff here. We just watched the second charge go off; not just watched, it's been about half hour ago or so. Second charge went off, and we caught it just in the lower left corner of the TV view. It looked like a - to me it looked like a flashbulb went off - flashbulb laying on the ground vent off, just a kind of a quick flash. No big shower of dirt or anything that I could tell.
216:21:17 Cernan How far away do you expect that one was, Gordy?
216:21:55 CC That one was 600 meters away. And it was a half-pound charge.
216:22:05 Cernan Yes, you're still pretty far away over that - yes, you're still pretty far away over that - that terrain that those things are sitting in over there. You're going to probably see something when you look at those that are placed by the end of the SEP and back to the east there.
216:22:23 CC Roger.
216:24:24 Schmitt Houston, America.
216:24:27 CC Go ahead.
216:24:31 Schmitt Do you need the cryos stirred at all today?
216:24:37 CC Let me see here. Stand by. No. I guess you've been bouncing around there enough. We don't need to stir them.
216:24:52 Schmitt It won't hurt them, will it?
216:24:56 CC No.
216:25:01 Schmitt Okay.
216:25:50 CC Showing about 115 beats per minute on the CMP.
216:26:16 PAO That call of a 115 beats refers to Ron Evans' heart rate, the Command Module Pilot, exercising at this time.
216:27:11 CC America, we'll take AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
216:27:21 Schmitt Okay, you've got AUTO.
216:34:52 CC Okay, America, we're about to LOS in 40 seconds. Everything looks good as it always has. See you next time around.
216:35:06 Cernan See you Gordy, and thanks for keeping an eye on us.
216:35:16 CC One last frantic reminder to configure the DSE per the Flight Plan after LOS.
216:35:28 Cernan Okay, we'll get it.
216:35:28 BEGIN LUNAR REV 66
216:35:36 PAO And, we've had loss of signal with Apollo 17 on this the 65th revolution. We'll be reacquiring as usual in about 45 minutes. And for the rest of the flight plan up to the crews sleep period which begins at about 220 hours we have relatively quiet time very little scheduled in the flight plan - have an eat period. During the next revolution the crew will be operating the panoramic camera in the SIM bay. They're scheduled to be in the midst of an exercise period at this time. And we could confirm from the biomedical data on Ron Evans, his heart rate, that he was indeed exercising. Prior to beginning the sleep period the crew will be going through their film magazines getting everything ready for an active day of picture taking tomorrow. There will be a lunar surface science briefing at 9:20 a.m. Saturday December 16 in the main auditorium building 1 at MSC. Again that time is 9:20 a.m. December 16. At 216 hours 37 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston.
217:18:09 PAO This is Apollo Control at 217 hours 18 minutes, and we'll be back in radio contact with Apollo 17 in about a minute. On this revolution, the major activities aboard the spacecraft will be the operation of scientific instruments. It's a relatively quiet period of time for the crew. The pan camera will be turned on briefly, just so we can get a look at the telemetry data on that camera. We won't be obtaining any photography with it. The mapping camera will be on for one full revolution obtaining ground track coverage supplemented by the laser altimeter data that provides an altitude reference in each photograph. Also the infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers will be operating and the crew will be taking a few hand held photographs out the spacecraft windows, using the Hasselblad camera. We may have a bit of noisy communications toward the beginning of this pass. We've just gotten acquisition of signal and we'll be receiving the spacecraft through one of the 85 foot dish antennas, rather than the 210 antenna. We do have acquisition of signal now and appear to have reasonably good signal strength.
217:20:19 Evans Houston, America. Looks like we're with you again.
217:20:23 CC Okay, America.
217:20:23 Evans . ... We've been taking its picture just as we came up.
217:20:29 CC Roger. You're loud and clear.
217:20:39 Evans Okay.
217:23:10 CC America, Houston. I have three one-liners for the Flight Plan.
217:23:22 Schmitt Is this the same Flight Plan we've been working on up here?
217:23:29 CC I think it is.
217:23:38 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
217:23:42 CC Okay, at 218:09, delete MAPPING CAMERA - RETRACT. At 218:30, delete MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER - CLOSED. And at 219:59 - next page - in addition to IR and UV COVERs - OPEN, put in LASER ALTIMETER - ON.
217:24:28 Schmitt Okay. At 219:59, LASER ALTIMETER - ON; and at 218:30, delete MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER - OPEN; and at 218:09, delete MAPPING CAMERA - RETRACT.
217:24:45 CC Okay, that second one was deleting a COVER CLOSED, but I'm sure that's the one you got. MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER - CLOSED. And that laser altimeter, we'll just leave her run through the sleep period.
217:25:04 Schmitt Okay.
217:27:30 Evans Can't see it, sorry.
217:27:43 Evans May have. Smythii may have, on the thing. I still want to talk a little bit about these polygonal craters and Smythii. The one right above rev 62 picture on the thing, there's definitely kind of a - an unindated (sic) old depression there with a mare, very smooth mare floor on the thing. With two, - two old craters. And, that is definitely a younger flow than whatever made the polygonal craterlike depression. Right above the rev 62 number. The thing that bothers me about that is that they, they almost - oh, looks like if you threw a rock in the mud, you know - made a mud pie, and you get a wave or a ripple going out from there. In other words, you've got a high wavefront going out from a circular direction with a slightly sloping up to that wavefront. That's on the inner ring on the thing. The outer ring, of course, is a typical-type ring that you get from an impact type of an operation. It looked like the rough-looking floors of those rings, ring basins, essentially have the same albedo, the same characteristic, as the rougher looking floor in the Mare Smythii itself.
217:29:18 CC Okay, Ron.
217:29:23 CC We'll take HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
217:29:31 Evans Okay, you have it.
217:29:40 Evans And, I took a picture of that one in Smythii - is frame l60 on mag November November, and the reason I took the picture is really because on the western edge of the big basin it looks like there's a small impact crater, but it's only been dished out in the more recent flat dark-gray mare material. {Music in background) And looks like when it comes to the edge of the original basin ring, that part is not ejected out at all. So, essentially, you have a cone-type depression with an impact crater. The material's only been excavated in the - in the newer mare material.
217:30:41 CC Okay, understand that. Say again, where that one is?
217:30:45 Evans Yes, that's the one above rev 62 or directly north of the Wright Brothers, in the 12:00 position from the Wright Brothers.
217:30:55 CC Oh, okay.
217:32:47 Evans You know, Houston, we're just passing over a little polygonal crater that's maybe 15 kilometers in diameter - 15, 20 kilometers in diameter. It may be 10 to 15 - and down in the basin of it is a kind of a polygonal fill. It, again, has that dark greenish-black rock that is collected down at the bottom of it, and you also see it streaking down the side of it. But, I think one of the most significant features about the crater itself is that it has a swirl, and these are honest to goodness - they look like swirls rather than rays. It has a swirl pattern around there - it's radial, from that most recent impact.
217:33:43 CC Roger, Ron.
217:35:50 CC America, Houston, we haven't got data right at the moment because we are in a skin reflection zone. We'd like you to hold the pan camera to STANDBY until we call you.
217:36:06 Schmitt Thank you.
217:36:08 Evans Okay.
217:36:23 Evans It's near - just see Yerkes. Come down from Yerkes. Yerkes is the subdued crater up there. Come down from Yerkes, and then there's a little one about 10 kilometers in diameter; and, then a big one that's about 50; and, then there's a bright one. Okay, and then - -
217:36:40 Evans Yes, and then right - let me see, kind of northwest of that bright one, about a crater and a half diameter from it - is an orange-ringed crater, again.
217:37:30 Evans See it - right, right, just a - bright one just about a crater and a half diameter from the bright one. See it? See, it's an orange ring on it, isn't it? That's the one we were talking - - I'll get it. Yes.
217:37:44 Evans Yes, I know it. That's right. It's not a classic, but it's another example of an orangish-tannish - Say what? See that bright crater down there. Just about a crater and a half diameter to the north of it - f/8 at 250 - that ought to be good. And Houston, that was frame 162.
217:38:11 CC Okay, Ron.
217:38:12 Evans Yeah, we - -
217:38:17 Cernan And, the frame just before that - I took of a ridge just on the southern edge of Crisium, - the pattern of the massifs in that area were very impressive, but two frames just before that.
217:38:33 CC Okay.
217:39:05 Evans Houston, just one other question. I was looking around here at my film, and I got mag Victor Victor, which is VHBW for the Nikon. And looking through the Flight Plan, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to use that anytime. I just wonder if we might be able to use it for some of these terminator photos?
217:39:40 CC We'll check on the film. We'd like you to go WIDE for 10 seconds and then back to NARROW.
217:39:48 Evans Okay. There's WIDE. Looks like that did it.
217:40:24 CC Okay, Ron. The HIGH GAIN looks good; and, on the film - it's your option on that magazine. There's no scheduled usage.
217:40:33 Evans Oh, okay, thank you.
217:40:36 Schmitt Okay, you want PAN CAMERA POWER, ON, now?
217:40:40 CC That's affirm. We're ready now.
217:40:46 Schmitt Okay, it's ON.
217:43:07 CC Okay, America. We'll take PAN CAMERA POWER OFF, now.
217:43:17 Schmitt Okay, it's OFF.
217:43:38 Evans The landing site?
217:43:39 Evans No, the optics are up in the air all the time on this SIM bay stuff.
217:43:52 Schmitt Houston. Areas in the landing site where we now know there are extensive blocks of the subfloor material, particularly in the walls of the larger craters, I have the impression that those block fields, from this altitude, give a light bluish-gray appearance.
217:44:22 CC Roger, Jack.
217:44:31 Schmitt I don't know how far we could extrapolate that in other craters, but we might start trying a little bit.
217:44:38 CC Roger.
217:45:31 Schmitt Following that a little bit farther, looking into Dawes, the lower talus slopes of Dawes have about the same hue and are overlaying the first by a zone that's producing - or several ledges that seem, to be producing white talus and then above that is the - or make that very light-gray talus - and above that is a tan-gray talus slope that carries right up to the rim of Dawes. So, there are three distinct major stratigraphic units showing up in the talus slope in Dawes that I can see.
217:46:20 Evans Jack, can you see any holes in the - square holes in the floor of Dawes, there?
217:46:25 Schmitt Wait a minute. No, I was, I guess I was talking about the crater northeast of Dawes - Let me check Dawes with the same sequence.
217:46:36 Evans No. Dawes is the little one down there. That other one is - -
217:46:39 Schmitt Okay, take it back again. That was Dawes I was talking about.
217:46:41 Evans Yes.
217:46:44 Evans Jack, you using the binocs?
217:46:50 Evans Yes, I talked about Dawes already but - No, those aren't holes down there, those are just great big - great big blocks that have fallen off the side of the mountain. Side of the - Okay.
217:47:16 Schmitt Okay, between the tan gray and the very light gray there may be another thin and possibly intermittent zone of a - just a plain, apparently gray unit forming in the talus slope.
217:48:16 Schmitt And the crater to the southeast of - southwest - excuse me, of Dawes - large crater, I'll get the name in a minute, you see the lower bluish-gray unit and - and the next white unit or light-gray unit up, but the brown-gray unit is not nearly so evident at the top. In fact, I didn't really say I could recognize it there at all. I'll have to check that one, though. Put a query by it.
217:48:59 CC Roger.
217:49:00 Evans That's Bessel you're talking about. Yes. The top of Serenity?
217:49:06 Schmitt No, no the one back.
217:49:08 Evans Oh, Plinius.
217:49:10 Schmitt Plinius?
217:49:10 Evans Plinius is that rough-looking one. Yes.
217:49:13 Schmitt Yes. That was Plinius I was talking about.
217:49:24 Evans Oh, Yes. ... the oranges. Yes.
217:49:36 Schmitt And, the next large - well, it's not large - not as big as Dawes, it's a reasonable-sized crater that to the west, the talus is largely just white debris on the slope of it. But, it doesn't look like it penetrated nearly as deep as the other two we're talking about.
217:50:23 Evans Ah, Menelaus? Tacquet is the one that is out - right underneath us right now. And then Menelaus is right on the edge of the Serenitatis Basin before you get to the Haemus Mountains.
217:50:37 Schmitt Okay, looking at Menelaus, you can see where the dark - the edge of Serenitatis goes through the crater. And, the north wall is quite distinctly grayer to - let's say, bluish-gray, than the south wall, which is light - very light gray in the talus. My guess is that it's a very nearly vertical contact at that point.
217:51:14 CC Roger.
217:51:17 Schmitt At least that's the way the talus suggests it, but talus does move vertically.
217:51:50 Schmitt Looking at the depression with all the color streaking in the talus on the walls - there - I'll say again, that the more red-looking unit, or talus, is coming from below the orangish-gray material. But it is not a continuous horizon, at least not so far as the talus indicates. It's local spots that are giving the reddish color.
217:52:29 CC Okay.
217:52:40 Schmitt Gordy. That particular depression doesn't look like it's an impact-generated depression at all.
217:52:50 CC Roger.
217:53:02 Evans You know, we sure got to look and see if those things still look orange tomorrow. Because, yesterday, Stoney looked kind of orange there - on the northeast rim but it sure doesn't today - Shorty, yes. It pays to learn the names of all those craters you guys named down there.
217:53:29 Evans Oh yes. I know quite a bunch of them.
217:53:38 Evans Hey, we'd better, hadn't we. Black and - D-Caldera is what I called it.
217:53:47 Schmitt Yes, Ron's D-Caldera - I'm just correlating apparent colors now, or hues. And, the lighter-colored material there is comparable in hue to the subfloor color at the landing site.
217:54:21 Evans The first one's f/32 at 1/500. Tobias Mayer.
217:54:35 Evans ... A window.
217:54:37 Schmitt Window 5-
217:54:37 Evans Window 5? Okay.
217:54:39 Schmitt What's the frame count ... surface?
217:54:42 Evans Count is 55 now on Romeo Romeo, Houston. No, not until we come up to Tobias, just before Tobias Mayer.
217:54:50 Cernan Be able to pick that up there about - -
217:54:51 Evans On the other side of Copernicus.
217:54:59 Evans Right after 218. Okay.
217:55:06 CC Roger that, Ron.
217:56:42 Evans (Cough)
217:56:53 CC Ron, this is Houston. Do you want any help from me calling the f/stop changes on this P66 run? Or do you want to do it onboard there?
217:57:06 Evans Why don't you give me a little help there. Just kind of reminders? So to f/ll about Tobias Mayer, I guess, and, then -
217:57:19 CC Okay. Then f/8 and a 1/250 is at Brayley D.
217:57:30 Evans Yes, right.
217:57:34 CC Are you shooting pretty much straight down or out in front, on this one?
217:57:43 Evans Let's see. We're pretty much straight down on this one.
217:57:49 CC Okay, I've got a real-time plot of your longi - or your - yes, longitude here. So I can call right on longitude.
217:58:00 Evans Oh, okay. Yes, I started before Tobias Mayer.
217:58:20 Evans There goes - What's there? Eratosthenes, okay.
218:01:36 Evans Yes, about right in here it's a good place.
218:03:14 Schmitt Okay, Houston, back to talking about colors a little bit. It looked as If lower talus is more - -
218:03:20 CC Hold 1, Jack. It's about time for f/ll - -
218:03:24 Schmitt Go ahead.
218:03:25 CC ... Ron.
218:03:28 Evans Okay, f/ll at 1/500.
218:03:31 CC That's affirmative.
218:03:33 Schmitt Euler is - lower is blue-gray and the upper is a very light gray, from the talus slope up to the rim.
218:04:06 Cernan Houston, I can just start to see the peaks of Euler now - exposed in the central peak - the tops of them exposed in the sunlight, and it looks like there's massive quantities of large boulders on the - on the peaks.
218:04:21 CC Roger, Gene. Okay, it must be about time for f/8 and 1/250.
218:04:45 Evans f/8 at 1/250, okay? That's my little "C" - crater chain down there. Looks like a cinder cone chain. Right (cough) between Tobias Mayer and Euler.
218:05:16 CC Roger.
218:05:45 CC Okay, try f/5.6 and 1/25.
218:05:54 Evans 5.6 at 1/25. Is this the last - -?
218:05:57 CC Last setting, right, and you should finish up there at Tobias Mayer W.
218:06:05 Evans Okay.
218:06:10 CC Or a little beyond.
218:06:34 Cernan Houston, the MAPPING CAMERA is coming OFF.
218:06:39 CC Roger.
218:07:07 Evans Okay, Houston. We ended up on frame 80, magazine RR.
218:07:14 CC Okay, Ron.
218:07:29 Schmitt Okay, Houston, MAPPING CAMERA - STANDBY, now. IMAGE MOTION is OFF and LASER ALTIMETER - OFF.
218:07:40 CC Roger.
218:10:10 Schmitt Houston, what do you read our GLYCOL EVAP TEMP as? I tapped the gauge up here and got a little bit of upward jump in temperature. Just curious how much a hang up it was.
218:10:24 CC Stand by. Okay, we show 66 EVAP out TEMP.
218:10:33 Schmitt That's exactly what it jumped to. Okay.
218:11:04 Cernan Gordo, I'm interested. How have you been reading me most all day today? I've been on lightweight headset, all the time.
218:11:13 CC I'd say you're fine, since I've been on. Let me check you the rest of the day.
218:11:22 Cernan No, it would be the same all day. You're - you're as good a data point as any. I haven't really tried to make ajay effort to talk into the mike or anything, I just been talking around it, and If you're satisfied, I'm happy.
218:11:39 CC Okay, sound gooded (sic) all day. No cutout or anything - no problem.
218:11:48 Cernan Okay.
218:17:25 Cernan Houston, America. The canister's changed.
218:17:30 CC Okay, Gene.
218:19:34 Evans I think you can stand by for some small torquing angles on this one. Right within the center of the sextant.
218:19:44 CC Okay.
218:21:04 Evans Well, I did get 5 balls that time; but, that's not bad.
218:21:09 CC We'll buy that. Well, the Z-axis here looks pretty good, anyway. You're clear to torque.
218:21:31 Evans (Laughter) Okay. We'll torque at 21 - I missea 30 - Let's go to 21:45.
218:21:41 CC Okay.
218:26:13 CC America, Houston. Request the H2 TANK 2 FAN, ON. Over.
218:26:25 Evans Okay. H2 TANK 2 FAN is ON.
218:26:28 CC Okay, and the waste water dump that you'll start after LOS should take 11 minutes, if you want to set your kitchen clock. Also a reminder, this time after LOS we go to REACQ. Over.
218:26:51 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Thank you. Will do. We'll go to REACQ.
218:29:03 Schmitt Houston, the IR/UV COVERs are CLOSED.
218:29:06 CC Okey-doke.
218:33:45 BEGIN LUNAR REV 67
218:34:34 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now going behind the Moon on it's 66th revolution out of radio contact. The crew is scheduled to begin an 8 hour sleep period about 2 hours from now. The next revolution will be a rather quiet one. The crew is scheduled to eat prior to completing final checklist items before going to bed. And we do anticipate having a change of shift press briefing, which will start at around 12:15 to 12:30 a.m. in the MSC news center briefing room. At 218 hours 35 minutes this Apollo Control Houston.
219:11:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 219 hours 11 minutes. Change of shift news conference is ready to begin in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. We're 5-1/2 minutes away from acquisition of signal on the 67 revolution. We'll tape and play back any conversation after the news conference.
219:16:52 CC Hello, America; Houston. Glad to have you back.
219:16:59 Cernan Well, we got a good one for you, Bob. Not too good, but - in the midst of other things, we let the waste water go to zero on that dump. As a matter of fact, it went past zero. And the ... is starting to fill up again, and the best we can tell onboard, that - it shouldn't disturb anything, but you might take a good look at it.
219:17:18 CC Okay. We've got our moon beside me taking a look at it.
219:17:23 Cernan Okay. How are you doing tonight?
219:17:26 CC Not too badly. I'll have you know, it's clear down here. We saw the Moon for the first time since launch day, and it's getting bright. It looks like you must be somewhere over the terminator on Imbrium.
219:17:36 Cernan Is that right?
219:17:37 CC First time we've seen the Moon since launch.
219:17:40 Evans Oh, we just - Oh, it's beautiful. Your weather has been that bad, huh?
219:17:46 CC That's affirm. Fog and drizzle and rain and rain and rain.
219:17:53 Schmitt How much older do you feel, Bob?
219:17:56 CC About 1 day. Okay. And, America, we'd like H2 TANK 2 FANS, OFF. H2 TANK 2, OFF.
219:19:14 Schmitt They're OFF.
219:19:20 CC And, America, as you can tell from the Flight Plan, we aren't expecting too much from you guys this rev. And we aren't expecting to send up too much to you guys either. A reminder that we won't be asking Gene and Jack for their PRDs tonight, but we certainly would like them in the morning. So you might take that into consideration. And we'll be sending you a few up-links there as per the Flight Plan at 220, both the state vector and the EMP 523. We also have a clock update for you - that we'll send up, and it's a 0.04 seconds; so it's another biggie.
219:19:56 Cernan Okay, Bob. We'll make an effort to get those PRDs. We can get one of them, probably, without too much trouble. But if it's a case of restowing both those suits to get the second one, we're not going to get it until EVA day. I'm sorry, but that's it.
219:20:16 CC We copy that. I guess they're back stored in the L-bag, huh?
219:20:22 Cernan Yes, sir.
219:20:25 CC Okay. And we'll want the onboard read outs there at the bottom of the page, just before you go LOS, And I might pass up one little piece of news - very local news here - concerning us members of the Orange Team. We're all extremely proud that you and Jack chose to call the soil you found the other night, while we were on shift, the Orange soil because we take it as an obvious honor for the Orange Team to have been on shift at that point.
219:20:55 Cernan Bob, you know our intent was certainly well meant. We certainly are glad you appreciate it.
219:21:06 Schmitt I detect a certain amount of skepticism whether it's really orange, though.
219:21:13 CC It looked orange on Ed's TV.
219:21:19 Cernan Did it really? Could you see the color enough?
219:21:22 CC Well, so did the blue ocean on the Earth, and so did the white suits and everything else; but they looked orange on Ed's TV anyway.
219:21:35 Schmitt Is Ed on tonight?
219:21:40 CC We don't have any - No, we've seen the two - only two charges for the day. We don't have another charge for, I guess, about another 24 hours or so.
219:22:21 Cernan I think I understand.
219:22:24 CC Roger. Ed is on the Orange Team, however.
219:22:30 Cernan Bob, I would like a word from you, though, as to whether or not you think there is going to be any problem with that waste water dump to zero as I said. We don't, after looking at it.
219:22:41 CC No, we aren't expecting any problem. They're looking at it. They're kind of amused, but they're looking at it. And I'd like to pass up to you fellows, it's - -
219:22:54 Schmitt ... an interesting.
219:22:56 CC Go ahead.
219:23:00 Cernan All right. Nothing, Bob.
219:23:04 CC Okay, I might also tell you fellows, in case nobody told you yesterday, that we tracked the LM on ascent for 30 seconds. Beautiful pitchover. And we saw you going away from us after pitchover for 30 seconds. It came out quite well.
219:23:24 Cernan Yes, sir. We heard that. Good. I guess I was able to find 102 at 0.1
219:23:43 CC In fact, Ed calculates that you were 480 feet-480 feet - from the lens. As they say, too far is better than too close.
219:23:57 Cernan Well, I was just going to say I cheated a little bit. I made two stops and backed up a little bit out there.
219:24:04 CC You backed up, huh? That's another first, isn't it?
219:24:10 Cernan No, I didn't back up that time. But I did back up.
219:24:15 CC We heard that one at Station 7 - yes, 7, wasn't it?
219:24:23 Cernan No, that was somewhere during EVA-2, I can't remember where.
219:24:54 Evans Houston, frame numbers 40 through 43 are timed sequences of the waste water dump as we were in the sunlight.
219:25:13 CC Okay. I copy that one.
219:26:09 PAO This is Apollo Control at 219 hours 26 minutes. We are in contact with spacecraft, America and have accumulated a few minutes of tape. We'll play that now.
219:27:01 Cernan And, Bob, just give us a call when you want the computer.
219:27:05 CC Okay. It's about another half hour or so, I guess, when we're ready. It will be about 220. And, a reminder, we got - at 220 there we're going to go LASER ALTIMETER, ON and the IR and UV COVERS, OPEN as per your Flight Plan there.
219:27:21 Cernan Yes, sir. I got LASER, ON and IR and UV, OPEN.
219:27:24 CC Right.
219:34:17 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're back live now.
219:35:27 Cernan Hey, Bob, while it's sort of quiet, anything of a news worthy - or noteworthy news happen today?
219:35:37 CC Okay. Stand by on that. From my recollection this evening, there really wasn't anything; but I'll check. Did you guys get a news briefing this morning?
219:35:50 Cernan Yes, we did.
219:35:54 CC Okay. We got some news coming over, and we'll have it here before you go around the hern. Might just, while things are quiet also, pass up to you that, if you run out of the command module film. there, you do have two - You've got some LM surface film left, as I'm sure you're aware. And two mags in particular, which look fine to us, are mag Barabara and mag Karen. Barabara has 500 frames of CEX, and Karen, 100 frames of black and white. Excuse me, 50 frames, not 500, of CEX. And 100 of black and white. These mags have never been fit checked on the command module cameras; but we believe that they will, along with - as long as we take precaution because the locks don't work the same, ... on the command module on the LM cameras, number 1. And number 2, the focus won't be quite as good as on the - with the LM cameras. However, it will be satisfactory. So there's 150 frames there you might want to take advantage of in those two mags. We think those are in Romeo 2 - stowage Romeo 2.
219:37:09 Cernan Yes, yes. We've already inventoried those. And we've got our hands on them. However, we - Bravo is empty. We used it coming up in the rendezvous and docking.
219:38:03 CC And just in case you got some left over, I want to shoot some of that black and white on the Moon. We got some instructions for you, which we can call up in real time, if you want to do it -different exposures. The CEX will be the same, of course, as the CEX that's in the command module.
219:38:21 Schmitt Okay. Bob, what factor on the black and white would you use?
219:39:24 CC Okay. Jack, if you use them, use the same chart you have onboard for the CEX, but you cut the shutter speed by a factor of 2. So it's - for instance, you'd use a 1/500 instead of 1/250 -and so forth. Over.
219:39:44 Schmitt Okay.
219:41:27 Cernan Say, Bob, I don't think - At least I haven't heard anything concerning the home front for about 4 days. You haven't, by any chance, had any contact, have you?
219:41:42 CC As a matter of fact, I haven't. And Gordy didn't talk to them tonight. And - in fact, Gordy and I talked about it on one of your - when we were doing the changeover, and I thought, well, it doesn't look like an opportune time to call up and find out right now. If you like, I can. I'm not sure whether they're still up or not; or I can leave instructions for Overmeyer in the morning to round people up and see what's going on. I'll - I'll make sure Overmeyer does it in the morning.
219:42:09 Cernan No. Don't worry about it, Bob. I was just curious I - No news is as good as good news.
219:42:17 CC Yes, that's my presumption. I kind of thought the daytime people would have taken care of that. It's not the best time in the morning to call up right now. I'll make sure Overmeyer calls in the morning and checks on it.
219:42:46 Cernan Gordy gave us a briefing on the SIM bay and on the lunar surface experiments. And it sounds like all that good liaison work you did paid off. Sounds like most everybody is pretty satisfied.
219:43:02 CC As far as I can tell, that's right. We - we try there, fellow.
219:43:13 Cernan We thank you.
219:43:19 CC What can I say? We thank you guys, too.
219:54:18 PAO This is Apollo Control at 219 hours 54 minutes. 38 minutes remaining in this pass. The crew is eating at the present time. America's orbit now 65.4 by 62.3 nautical miles.
219:59:21 CC Okay, America; Houston. We're ready for a little action there in the SIM bay.
219:59:24 Evans ... is on.
219:59:25 CC Copy that. You just beat us by a minute. And if you guys will give us - -
219:59:29 Cernan It's already on, Bob.
219:59:30 CC Roger. And if you guys will give us the computer, we'll send those updates to you.
219:59:40 Evans Okay, you have the computer.
219:59:42 CC Okay. And if you guys want to sit and listen, I'll broadcast you what's possibly the world's shortest newscast.
219:59:54 Cernan Both covers are open and gray, Bob.
219:59:56 CC Okay. We copy that.
220:01:07 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob, on the news. We were waiting for you.
220:01:10 CC Oh, okay. I was waiting to see if you guys were ready to listen to it. The first item - which has been a continuing item here during the flight. In Kansas City, former President Harry S. Truman's condition continues to deteriorate as doctors are unable to restore his vital kidney functions. On the Paris peace talks scene, there has been essentially no apparent further developments today. It continues about the same. And in New York, police are red-faced, it says, when it was learned that more than 50 pounds of heroin originally seized way back in 1962 - this is part of the French Connection business - has been stolen from the police building where it was being kept as evidence. And a last local news item. Three prominent Houston men are missing. They were last seen in person at Cape Kennedy in Florida on December 6 but were apparently lost among the 500,000 people who watched the launch of Apollo 17 The following appeal, it says, is issued in case they are listening: "Gene, Jack, and Ron, - come home. And if you pass a fellow with a bushy white beard and crimson suit, advise him you'll be home before Christmas." That's the extent of the news.
220:02:29 Schmitt We saw him the other morning briefly, Bob. And all four of us will be around at the right time.
220:02:37 CC That's good news. We'll pass it on.
220:05:38 Schmitt Bob, I've got some on-board readouts if you want them.
220:05:40 CC Okay. We're ready to copy.
220:05:47 Cernan I'll just give them to you - okay - I was going to say - I don't know if you've got - yes, in order: 36.7, 37, 37. RCS is 68, 61, 65, and 66.
220:06:04 CC Okay, we copy that, and we'd like a battery manifold pressure reading. That's 7-A on the selector down there. Seven Alfa.
220:06:59 CC And, America, the computer is yours again.
220:07:08 Schmitt Bob, 7 Alfa is 1.4.
220:07:12 CC Copy, 1.4. And did you copy the computer is yours?
220:07:19 Cernan Yes, sir. We got it.
220:18:08 CC Okay, and, America, we'd like to configure our H2 tanks for the night. TANK 1 to OFF, TANK 2 is already OFF, and we'd like TANK 3 to AUTO.
220:18:29 Evans Okay, Houston, you've got TANK 1 is OFF, TANK 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
220:18:35 CC Okay, thank you.
220:22:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 220 hours 21 minutes. Clock shows 11 minutes 13 seconds before loss of signal on this revolution. However, because of the pointing angle of the high gain antenna on the spacecraft, which is now configured for the rest period, we anticipate an early LOS, perhaps 5 minutes prior to the clock time.
220:23:32 Schmitt Houston, 17.
220:23:33 CC Roger, 17. Go ahead.
220:23:37 Schmitt Roger. As you - we approach having earthset, you night be interested to know, being an astronomer, Bob, that we're getting a very bright specular reflection off the Earth now from the Sun that produces - reproduces the Sun's image quite well.
220:23:55 CC Very good. And we're about, between 4 and 5 minutes from losing track of you guys tonight, and you're GO for LOS and GO for sleep and we won't be saying anything more to you coming around the horn, but we'll be up listening to you though. But we'll consider you guys as going to sleep on the back side. Over.
220:24:19 Schmitt Okay. Well, we're moving in that direction, partly to get the cabin cooled down. And we'll probably talk to you in the morning, before very long.
220:24:29 CC Okay, well then, open the windows to get it cooled down too much, there.
220:24:32 Schmitt By the way - Okay.
220:24:46 CC And while you guys are sleeping tonight, you might be glad to know that the old Orange Team will be sitting around the fireplace here and they'll all be singing Christmas carols.
220:25:00 Cernan That I believe.
220:25:08 Schmitt Is Stan serving coffee to you?
220:25:16 CC We're holding out out for egg nog tonight.
220:25:19 Cernan Well, good night, Robert.
220:25:21 CC Good night, Geno.
220:25:22 Schmitt Well, that would be appropriate, I don't - you know - I think it's about time they treated the MOCR to something.
220:25:35 Evans Good night, Robert.
220:25:37 CC Good night, Ron. Say good night, Dick.
220:25:43 Cernan Good night, Dick. And we'll see you in the morning, I guess, Bob, if you're still around. If not, we'll see you tomorrow about this time.
220:25:54 CC Okay, and by then you'll be headed home.
220:26:00 Cernan Yes, sir. And if my homefront's listening, I just want to say good night and sleep tight.
220:27:36 Evans Bob, that's the most beautiful crescent Earth I've ever seen.
220:27:44 CC It's a nice place to come home to, guys.
220:28:51 BEGIN LUNAR REV 68
220:30:13 PAO This is Apollo Control, we have had loss of signal on the 67th revolution. The crew of Apollo 17 preparing for an 8 hour rest period now. That rest period to begin at 220 hours 30 minutes, about - less than, well, about right now as a matter of fact. All systems on the spacecraft operating normally. We will be monitoring the spacecraft through out the night while it is on the front side of the Moon, although we do not plan to talk to the crew on the next pass, we'll come up hourly during the rest period with status reports. At 220 hours 30 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
221:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 221 hours 37 minutes. Apollo 17 is in the 68th revolution, coming up over the landing site at Taurus-Littrow very shortly. We've had no conversation with the crew since loss of signal on the 67th revolution, their rest period starting at that time. All spacecraft systems are performing well, 6 hours and 42 minutes remaining in the rest period. At 221 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
222:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 222 hours 37 minutes. All still going well with Apollo 17 now behind the Moon in its 68th revolution. 5 hours 42 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. At 222 hours 37 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
223:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 223 hours 37 minutes. The spacecraft, America is orbiting the front side of the Moon in it's 69th revolution. Flight controllers are monitoring systems and all are performing well. The ultraviolet and infared experiments are being performed during this rest period of which 4 hours and 42 minutes remains. At 223 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
224:37:00 PAO This Is Apollo Control at 224 hours 37 minutes. The Command Module America is behind the Moon at this time in its 69th lunar revolution. All systems looked good as they were monitored here prior to loss of signal. The crew is asleep with 3 hours 42 minutes remaining in this rest period. On awaking, the crew will continue to perform orbital science experiments and photography until approximately 5:30 p.m. Central Standard Time today when the translunar insertion burn will be made and America and its crew will be on the way back to Earth. Approximately 30 minutes ago an attempt to turn on the lunar surface television camera was unsuccessful. The reason the camera did not respond to ground commands is not known at this time and another attempt to activate the camera probably will be made later today. At 224 hours 38 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
225:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 225 hours 37 minutes. Command Module America is on its 70th lunar revolution and in a few minutes will be over the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The crew is still asleep with 2 hours 42 minutes remaining in this rest period. About 5 minutes ago, a second attempt was made to activate the television camera on the lunar surface, again, without success. Another attempt may be made later today, and probably one attempt a day will be made for the next several days. At 225 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
226:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 226 hours 37 minutes Apollo 17 is behind the Moon on its 70th revolution. Flight Director, Neal Hutchenson and the Gold Team are preparing to relieve Flight Director, Pete Frank and the Orange Team at this time. There will be no change of shift News Conference. The crew has been in a rest period since shortly after the Orange shift came in for flight control duties. One hour, 42 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. We've had no conversation with the crew since the rest period began and all spacecraft systems are operating normally. Attempts at approximately 5:00 and 6:30 AM to turn on the lunar surface television camera were unsuccessful. The reason why the camera failed to respond to ground commands is not known. And further attempts to activate the camera will be made. At 226 hours 38 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
227:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 227 hours 37 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Spacecraft America now about a third of the way across the front face of the moon in revolution 71. Forty two minutes remaining until the crew is wakened. Some 50 minutes until the spacecraft passes behind the moon. In other words the wake-up call will be made some 8 minutes prior to loss of signal on this front side pass. And the crew will start their preparations for a fairly busy day of orbital science tasks and photography. And the transearth injection burn late this afternoon. Presently the spacecraft is in a 61.8 by 66.1 nautical mile lunar orbit. Current velocity 5,344 feet per second. We'll bring up the air-ground circuit just prior to the wake up call and follow the balance of the day's activities live and as they happen. And at 221:38 - 227:38 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
228:09:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 228 hours 9 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, less than a minute away from wakeup, and 19 minutes away from the time the Spacecraft America passes behind the Moon nearing the end of revolution number 71. Current Orbit 66.1 at apocynthion and 61.8 pericynthion, those are nautical miles. We'll stand by here as we wait for the wakeup call from the spacecraft communicator, Bob Overmyer. And whatever the music selection is this morning, which is becoming tradition for wakeup. We'll standby here for wakeup call.
228:11:01 CC (Wakeup Music "Come On Baby Light My Fire").
228:13:58 CC Good morning, America.
228:14:47 CC Good morning, America.
228:15:38 CC Good morning, America, and we'd appreciate HIGH GAIN to AUTO so we could talk to you all the way through LOS.
228:15:49 Cernan Okay. We've got to get the guy on watch up here in a minute.
228:15:56 CC Time to put your feet on the floor and a smile on your face and face another day in lunar orbit. The last one.
228:16:08 Cernan They're there, but our fellow on watch is still asleep.
228:16:12 CC Roger. Would you like to play the music again to wake him up?
228:16:19 Cernan Apparently it has no affect. Good choice, though.
228:16:26 CC We're going to light your fire today, babe.
228:16:31 Cernan Okay, let me try to get AUTO without waking him. Stand by.
228:17:54 Cernan Hey, you better play the punch line of that song again. Nobody believes you did it.
228:18:25 CC Gene, just before we get the lunar sound - say again - before we get the recording going again, just remember you'll have to go MANUAL then WIDE in a normal acquisition at AOS. And the angles on the dial are correct.
228:18:45 Cernan Okay.
228:18:48 Evans Hey, good morning.
228:18:51 CC Sound a little groggy.
228:18:57 Schmitt Good morning, Robert. How are you doing this morning?
228:19:01 CC Things are great. Stand by.
228:19:06 Schmitt Navy groggy, I think's what you mean.
228:19:18 CC (Music: "Light My Fire")
228:19:48 CC That's for the CMP. Do you believe it now?
228:19:54 Evans Yes, I heard it that time.
228:19:59 Cernan Beautiful, Bob. We're going to get your picture as you set this time. Right out number ...
228:20:23 CC Is that from onboard?
228:20:29 Cernan Say again, Bob.
228:20:31 CC Did you have that tape onboard or is that just a back - But we've got the song again in our background here. Or do you all have that?
228:20:40 Cernan No, we had it; and I think it's very appropriate for today. And that's exactly what we're going to do.
228:20:46 Evans No, we didn't play it back to you.
228:20:48 CC Okay, it's just ... comm - -
228:20:50 Schmitt That was those other guys.
228:24:57 America, Houston. You've got about 3-1/2 minutes until LOS, and you're looking good. All systems look good to us. And have a good breakfast, and we'll see you on the other side.
228:25:11 SC Okay, Houston, ...
228:25:55 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal as Apollo 17 spacecraft, America, coasted behind the moon nearing the end of revolution number 71. A briefing on Apollo 17 lunar surface science will begin momentarily in the main auditorium - repeat, main auditorium at MSC. The briefing likely will last into the next rev at least. The air-ground communications will be taped and played back at the conclusion of the lunar surface science press briefing. And at 228:28 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
229:13:14 CC America, Houston. Realize you're eating and don't want to interrupt you, but if you get your headsets on, we'll give you some news.
229:13:25 Evans Sound great, Houston. We'd appreciate that.
229:13:25 Cernan Go ahead, Bob, we're listening to you.
229:13:26 CC Okay, let's give you the really important news first. Went around the horn here, and over in Nassau Bay, everybody's doing real fine, and it looks like Tracy's going to go out and visit one of our bigger amusement centers around the country and going to have a great day. And everybody just looking forward to the EVA and the deorbit and the splash. Out in El Lago - everybody's fine out there, Ron. And John's out selling Christmas trees today and Jaime's going to go out shopping with her aunt sometime today and - a little Christmas shopping - it's getting near that time of year. And one of your friends from Phoenix is due in today, for the rest of the mission, I guess. And out in Tucson, it was a little early this morning, Jack, but everybody's up and about and I talked to your mother, and everybody's fine. She's getting anxious to go back to Silver City and see all the celebration. I guess those people out there are really enjoying it and really getting wild about it. But everybody's fine all the way around, all the way around.
229:14:34 Cernan Thank you. Bob.
229:14:36 CC Okay, we'd like REACQ and NARROW.
229:14:38 Schmitt We're fine up here and I'm sure you told them that.
229:14:42 CC Oh, I didn't have to tell them that. They're listening. They heard everything already this morning - at all three places.
229:14:51 Cernan Well, we send our good morning on our last wakeup day from the Moon.
229:14:57 CC Okay. Here is a summary of the late news as compiled in the MSC Public Affairs Office. if you'd like it, we're ready to go with it.
229:15:09 Schmitt Okay, we'd love to have it. Go ahead.
229:15:11 CC Okay, everyone - everybody is talking about the success of the Apollo 17 mission here in Houston, and the weather. It was cold this morning. Some thermometers in the Houston metropolitan area were in the mid-20's. The lowest official temperature for the city of Houston was 31. I might add Ellington had a record 29. A huge high pressure system is dominating the midsection of the nation. Barometric pressure reached a high of 30.7 in the Houston area this morning at about 5:00 a.m. With strong gusty winds, the chill factor was a 5 above in Houston, and about a minus 10 degrees in Galveston. Man, that's cold. The national Christmas tree was lighted last night in Washington by Vice President Spiro Agnew. A small crowd, braving cold and rainy weather, watched, as the Vice President threw the switch to light up the 70-foot spruce that came from Medicine Bow, Wyoming. During the ceremony, Mr. Agnew said we must remember the many servicemen who are missing in action or prisoners of war in Indochina and pray for them this holiday season. North Vietnamese peace talk negotiator Le Duc Tho has told newsmen he is very optimistic about prospects for an early cease fire in Vietnam. Before leaving Paris, Le Duc Tho said he will remain in very close contact with Dr. Henry Kissinger. Dr. Kissinger is in Washington. A Paris radio station has said a peace pact signing is imminent, tut the report has been denied in Washington. Former Treasury Secretary John Connally says he expects to get a call from President Kixon shortly to carry out some foreign visits this coming year. One assignment nay be a visit to Moscow. John Scaii, a former newsman from A3C and a special consultant to President Nixon, is expected to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. a formal announcement from the White House is expected in a few days. An explosion has taken the lives of 21 men in West Virginia. The blast occurred at a steel-making complex near Weirtown, West Virgina, on the Ohio River. President Nixon has given the green light for a pay raise for all Federal employees. The across-the-board increase of 5.14 percent will benefit both civilian and armed forces personnel. A 747 jumbo jet, while taking off out of Miami International yesterday, went through a flock of birds and reportedly lost - had an engine go out. The pilot turned the aircraft around and went out over the Atlantic and burned down some fuel and landed at Miami, but skidded off the runway, hit a concrete culvert, and sheared the nose gear. A few passengers fainted, but only 4 were injured when they went down the slide. The unexpected always deserves some attention. The small community of Westwood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, will send back a check it has received from the Federal government in the Federal-revenue-sharing program. Major Joe Dennis said Westwood just didn't need the money. On the regional and local scene - I just might add - I see it's not here, that President Truman's condition seemed to deteriorate some last night, but he is still not listed on the critical list, he is serious. Miss Ima Hogg, the 90-year-old founder of the Houston Symphony, was honored at a gala birthday party last night and cake-cutting ceremony at the symphony. And little Tomball, Texas, has had police trouble, but nearby Pasadena doesn't seem to have any. Thirteen new pretty policewomen have just joined the suburban police force out in Pasadena. And Jack, here's a special for you. If you ever get tired of cracking rocks, why not try politics? A geologist, J. Leonard Davidson, is going to run for mayor of Houston during the 1973 election. And we also received word this morning that an elementary school in Silver City, New Mexico, is being renamed for their most illustrious graduate. It will now be the Harrison H. Schmitt Elementary School in Sliver City, New Mexico. A couple new college coaches have been named- Dave Smith has been named the new coach of Southern Methodist. Up in West Lafayette, Indiana, a veteran coach has been named to improve football fortunes at Purdue. Alex Agase, former head coach at Northwestern, will take over the Boilermakers. Kent Nix is expected to get the nod as starting quarterback for the Oilers against the Cincinnati Bengals in the final game of the year. Pastorini is still out with a pulled hamstring muscle. The Houston Rockets dropped their basketball game with the Baltimore Bullets last night by a score of 94 to 91. Purdue beat Western Kentucky last night 91 to 75. Friendswood High School was eliminated last night in the Class II-A semifinals as they bowed to Boling at Rice Stadium 33 to 7. And a final in the news today, Marian Rice Hart, the 8l-year-old American aviatrix, says she has at least two more years left for flying. Mrs. Kart is currently flying around the world in a singleengine Beechcraft Bonanza. She is presently in Katmandu, India. That's all from Editor Jim Kukowski here. A special hello from the Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network crew around the world.
229:20:39 Cernan Thank you, Bob, and our hello and thank you to the tracking team. We sure have been able to work well with them, and communications have been super.
229:20:54 CC That's real great. I'm sure those words will be appreciated up at Goddard, and around the world, of course.
229:21:02 Cernan Well, like a lot of other people - you know -you can't do it without them.
229:21:36 Schmitt Bob, this is Jack. My appreciation and thanks, for an unnecessary honor, to Silver City.
229:21:42 CC Roger, I'm sure they're listening out there, and just glad to do it.
229:28:20 Evans Hey, Houston; America. How do you reao. now?
229:28:57 CC Read you loud and clear, Ron.
229:29:00 Evans Okay, I've got the Commander's menu for you.
229:29:03 CC We're listening.
229:29:05 Evans Okay, day 10, spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, cinnamon toast and bread cubes, instant breakfast, tea, grape juice, and bacon squares, vitamin. For lunch, frankfurters, two pieces of bread, catsup, orange drink, and a package of pecans. Okay, for meal C, turkey and gravy, orange juice, and lemonade. Okay, for the medical log - commander's - 17052, 5 hours of very good sleep, no medication, and three cans of water. Okay, for the old LMP. Food: cinnamon toast and bread, instant breakfast, coffee, fruit cake, grape drink, peach ambrosia. Meal B, frankfurters, one piece of bread, orange drink, sugar cookies, grape drink, and coffee. Meal Charlie, turkey and gravy, caramel candy, and orange juice. Okay, LMP medical log - the old PRD is still at the bottom of the sack down there. Had about 5 hours of sleep, no medication, and two cans of water. Okay, the Command Module Pilot had to eat: spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, coffee, grape punch, cinnamon toast and cubes, brownies, vitamin. For lunch, four frankfurters, two pieces of bread, catsup, chocolate pudding, grape drink, coffee. Meal C, turkey and gravy5 chocolate bar, orange beverage, and pork and potatoes. Okay, CMP medical log -15050, about 5 hours of sleep, pretty good - once I got to sleep. For medication, two sniffs of nosedrops, each side, prior to retiring, and four cans of water. Over.
229:32:43 CC Roger, Ron; we got all that.
229:32:49 Evans Okay.
229:32:54 CC Ron, could I jog your memory a minute back to the HF antenna extension period after docking?
229:33:06 Evans Go ahead. We'll try.
229:33:08 CC Roger, Ron. We've been chasing a data dropout glitch and we just wonder - trying to cover all bets. When you were extending HF ANTENNA 1, could have you gone to operate on the immediate switch next to it, which is the LUNAR SOUNDER switch which was right next to 1? Could you have gone to OPERATE for a minute or 2 without realizing it while your hold - holding 1 to EXTEND?
229:33:37 Schmitt Stand by, Bob. Which extension anomaly are you talking about, the one prior to rendezvous?
229:33:45 CC No, the one after rendezvous and docking when we were putting them - they're out now and when we put them out - when we were putting them out and were extending HF ANTENNA 1, the LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch is immediately next to it, and I realize HF ANTENNA 1 is a momentary switch. When you were holding it there, could you have gone to OPERATE on that LUNAR SOUNDER switch?
229:34:07 Schmitt Bob, I don't think so. I - no. No, I don't think so.
229:34:13 CC Okay, we'll keep track of that.
229:34:14 Schmitt I would have had to - I would have had to been gone - I would have had to been gone to the OFF position too, I guess, right after that, and I think I'd remember that.
229:34:29 CC Yes, that's affirm. You would have had to go to OFF, there. And I didn't feel it, but Joe needs - you know we got a data glitch - it's nothing serious - no problem - but they're just back there trying to track down all little glitches and that - that seemed to be the only thing that could add up right now.
229:34:44 Schmitt Sure, I - I understand. I understand. Yes.
229:34:50 Cernan Hey, Bob, have you had any more charge firings on the surface?
229:34:58 CC I don't believe so. When I came on shift, they mentioned that the LCRU wasn't working right now, and they were trying to work it.
229:35:15 CC Okay, just for an update, we fired 6 and 7 last night and we'll be firing 1 at about 1 o'clock this afternoon.
229:35:25 Schmitt They all went off okay, huh?
229:35:27 CC Yes, and 4, 1, and 8 go off today. And we're seeing good results, Jack, on all the data.
229:35:40 Schmitt Okay, has Bob Kovach gotten any depth to the debris cover or to anything below it yet?
229:35:53 CC Let me check that out before I give it to you, piecemeal here. We'll check it out.
229:36:44 Schmitt I realize that's pushing a little bit, but I'm curious.
229:40:06 Schmitt Bob, how do you read 17?
229:40:10 CC Read you loud and clear, Jack.
229:40:14 Schmitt Okay. I'm looking right down the slope of the South Massif, above the slide right now - right down at the - just about the angle of the slope. And there's a very slight indentation in the slope, just opposite the maximum - the point of maximum extent of the dark - light mantle. Opposite other portions of it, though, it - there's no clear indication of any change in the direction of the Massif - front. It's very, very slight, and I'd say you'd have a hard time saying that it - that it is a source area for the light mantle but it's - there's a slight indentation there.
229:41:11 CC Roger.
229:41:15 Schmitt Bob, just north of the - of the bright-rayed craters in the Littrow area, there are five craters - oh, probably in the thousand meter diameter class range, 500 to 1000, and all five of those have the sequence of colors in the walls, from rim down, of a brown-gray - blue-gray and then brown-gray. They are all identical in that sequence and quite clear.
229:42:04 CC Roger.
229:42:04 Schmitt And that blue-gray is comparable to the blue-gray that's visible in the craters such as Sherlock in the landing area. And along the graben, in the vicinity of those five craters, there is a series of very black spots, I'm going to have to look at again on the next pass, if we can. I don't have any idea what those spots are, but I'm looking very obliquely now to that graben and it's extremely - black spots along that graben.
229:42:49 CC Roger.
229:50:42 CC Ron, NOUN 26 doesn't require a sign.
229:50:49 Evans Thank you, Bob.
229:50:54 Cernan I've heard more about this P20 on this side of the tunnel this mission than I ever could have.
229:51:02 CC Roger. Looks like you guys are ready to go to work.
229:51:12 Cernan Well (laugh). Yes, we are. We're ready to do anything you want to do.
229:51:18 CC Okay, we need ACCEPT. Got you a CSM state vector.
229:51:27 Cernan Okay, sock it to us.
229:51:31 CC Okay, it's on its way. Going down the Flight Plan, we've got a Flight Plan update If you're ready to copy. It isn't too awful long, although it's not the easiest one.
229:51:43 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
229:51:47 CC Okay. At 230:20, 230:20, add the following: "LASER ALTIMETER, OFF; LA, OFF."
229:52:01 Schmitt Just keeping pressing on, Bob. I'll get then and let you know if I get then. all.
229:52:05 CC Okay. At 230:20, "LASER ALTIMETER, OFF." At 230:29, add "Verify all VHF, OFF." At 230:31, delete "WASTE WATER DUMP." At 230:40, scratch out "LMP" and put "CDR don biomed harness." Just put "CDR" in place of "LMP".
229:52:41 Cernan Hey, that was a Flight Plan update we passed on yesterday. I've got those.
229:52:46 CC Okay, just keep going down the line here. At 231:29, change "Check LMP biomed" to "Check Commander biomed. And change "CDR doff" to "CMP doff". Okay. And the computer's yours, by the way, you can go back to BLOCK. And this is the one important one here. We want to make sure, and I'll explain a little bit. Over at 232:27, 232:27, "If LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, talkback flag goes barber pole, switch LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, to STANDBY." The situation here is that it might run out of film during this lunar sounder HF target on Hertzsprung. If it does, we need to go to STANDBY immediately, and we - it'll probably require somebody monitoring that panel during that 5-to-6 minute pass there. Our best guess is -
229:54:04 Cernan Okay, Bob.
229:54:05 CC Our best guess is we've got a 5-minute pad on that film, but this is just a precaution. And at 233:13, after "PAN CAMERA, POWER," add "V/H OVERRIDE, HIGH ALTITUDE." Okay. That ends the Flight Plan update. I've got a lunar sounder pad.
229:55:24 Cernan Okay.
229:55:28 CC Okay, lunar sounder pad is at 230:55, 230:55-T-start time, 231:00:00; T-stop time is at 07:58.
229:55:50 Cernan Is that everything, or you got a couple more sounder pads?
229:55:53 CC That's trie only sounder pad for now.
229:55:59 Cernan Okay, if - Let me just run it back through you to make sure I got them right.
229:56:07 CC Go ahead.
229:56:12 Cernan Okay. At 230:21, you want the LASER ALTIMETER, OFF. At 230:30, you want to verify all the VHF is OFF. And we want to eliminate the waste water dump at 230:31. The sounder pad on that page is 231:00 and 231:07:58. At 232, following LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, for that pad, if the OPERATE talkback goes barber pole, we want to switch the LUNAR SOUNDER5 OPERATE, to STANDBY, and we'll be monitoring the panel during that time. And at 233:12, following PAN CAMERA to POWER, you want V/H to HIGH ALT.
229:57:07 CC That's a good readback, Gene. I have a TEI-75, preliminary TEI-75 PAD for your Update Book.
229:57:28 Cernan Stand by a second.
229:58:20 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
229:58:22 CC Okay, that's preliminary TEI-75, SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; 236:42:08.58; NOUN 8l: plus 3040.3, minus 0183.3, plus 0080.4; l80, 000, 000; HA is not applicable; plus 0023.0; 3046.9, 2:25, 3029.2; sextant star is 06, 109.5, 30.0; boresight, and that is not applicable. NOUN 6l: minus 17.89, minus 166.00; 1047.2, 36172; GET of 05 G is 304:18:36. Over on the comments line, Sirius and Rigel; 136, 071, 035. Four jetts, 12 seconds on the ullage. I've got two assumptions or rather two other comments. This pad assumes TEI REFSMMAT. Comment 2: With the liftoff REFSMMAT which you have in, it'll be roll, 179; pitch, 088; yaw, 359. Over.
230:01:18 Cernan Okay, Bob. TEI-75. preliminary: SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63 plus 0.86; 236:42:06.58; plus 3040.3, minus 0183.3, plus 0080.4; 18O, all zeros, all zeros; HA is NA; plus 0023.0; 3046.9, 2:25, 3029.2; 06, 109.5, 30.0; boresight is NA; minus 17.89, minus 166.00; 1047.2, 36172; 304:18:36. Sirius ana Rigel; 136; 071; 035. Four jet, 12-second ullage. Assume TLI REFSMMAT. If lift-off REFSMMAT, attitude is 179, 088, 359.
230:02:30 CC Real good readback. No problems. Got a consumable update here for you on RCS update. We're right On the Flight Plan: we've got 56 percent remaining. And the O2 and H2 are basically right on the Flight Plan and we've got plenty remaining - no problem on that. And for the Jack - for Jack, for the LMP, I've got a special Flight Plan update on your crew option photo target on Tsiolkovsky. Would you like to copy that?
230:03:10 Schmitt Stand by 1.
230:03:48 CC And we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
230:04:07 Schmitt Okay, Bob. What's this update?
230:04:11 CC Okay, Jack, at 232:55 this is the LMP crew option photo target Tsiolkovsky.
230:04:23 Schmitt Go ahead.
230:04:24 CC Okay, they're recommending CM-5 to EL 80 or 250 - I guess your option. HBW - maybe I should have used VHBW. I'll check that out, but HBW is what they've got here. Exposure from crew option photo chart as listed, except change 1/250 to 1/500 for the 80-millimeter lens. Change 1/125 to 1/250 for the 250-millimeter lens. Recommend use lunar surface mag Kilo Kilo. That's use lunar surface mag Kilo. Record frame number for start-stop.
230:05:19 CC Okay; and I've been corrected. That is HBW. That's one of those surface mags that I guess I don't know anything about. And we would like cryo tank configuration, H2 TANK 3 FANs to OFF; H2 TANK 2 FANs to ON. Over.
230:06:17 Schmitt Okay, you've got that. And the photo pass on mag Kilo, be the 80- or 250-millimeter lens; HBW exposures as per chart except change 1/250 to 1/500 for the 80 and 1/125 to 1/250 for the 250-millimeter lens.
230:06:39 CC Roger, Jack.
230:06:40 Schmitt And record the frames.
230:06:44 CC Good show.
230:09:38 Schmitt Bob, just had a good view of the sunset and the corona, and there are two strong, bright streamers just right at sunset, one parallel to the plane of the ecliptic and the other - oh, maybe 10 degrees to the south of the plane. And they form two of the major, longer, du - duller streamers that are streaming out from the Sun now. There are some other linear streamers that are still visible, but those were the major ones. Once you get out about to the position of Mars they all have about the same intensity - which is very low.
230:10:35 CC Roger.
230:10:38 Schmitt The pattern is distinctly different from the one I believe I mentioned to you yesterday, sometime.
230:10:44 CC Roger.
230:10:44 Schmitt It was right at sunset at any rate.
230:10:50 Schmitt Still have a very strong glow visible at the sunset point.
230:10:55 CC Roger.
230:10:55 Schmitt And that glow - the - the general glow visible to me now - and of course I'm not very well light -adapted - dark-adapted - but, extends about to a position - oh, let's see - about the same distance from the Sun as the apparent distance of Venus - between Venus and Mars right now. Well, let me - let me start over on that. The apparent distance from Venus to Mars is about the same distance as from Mars to the limit of the strong solar glow.
230:11:38 CC See the NOUN 05 - -
230:11:38 Schmitt Bob, when I'm talking about streamers, I'm talking about lin - Say again.
230:11:44 CC I said, "We see the NOUN 05." Go ahead, Jack.
230:11:48 Schmitt Okay, I just - when I talk about streamers, I'm talking about each time - very linear bright lines that extend - oh, maybe two or three crate - solar diameters out. And then they merge quite sharply into these very long much duller - streamers that - I guess presumably are zodiacal light.
230:12:18 Roger, Jack. We see the NOUN 93; you can torque.
230:13:48 Cernan Okay, we're torquing at 45, now. Bob, we'll go ahead and torque at 230:14.
230:13:56 CC Roger.
230:23:06 Schmitt Okay, Houston, are you through with the high gain now?
230:23:10 CC Stand by on that. We've just gone around the horn and you're looking real good. Looks like we'll have AOS at 231 about 8 or 7 - right in there. And we are now through with the high gain - -
230:23:23 SC ... we are - we're reconfiguring now. Okay.
230:24:43 CC America, Houston. We didn't see the mapping camera go off. Did you get that one off?
230:24:50 Cernan That's affirm. We've got MAPPING CAMERA OFF, Bob.
230:24:53 CC Okay. Thank you. And your AOS time is updated a little bit - -
230:24:58 Cernan We've got them all now, We're coming up - -
230:24:59 CC - - it's 210:11 - 230:11. Try another one, 231:11.
230:25:10 Cernan What's at 231:11, Bob?
230:25:12 CC That's your AGS time. It's a little bit later than what the Flight Plan shows.
230:25:19 Cernan Okay, fine. Thank you.
230:25:23 BEGIN LUNAR REV 73
230:37:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 230 hours 37 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. That completes the 72nd revolution front side pass on a delayed playback. Spacecraft America coming around on revolution 73 in 32 minutes. We'll bring the line back up at that time. And at 230 hours 38 minutes this is Apollo Control.
231:09:52 PAO This is Apollo Control at 231 hours 9 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Fifty seconds away from acquisition of signal as America, Spacecraft America comes around the front side of the moon on revolution #73. We'll stand-by as we wait confirmation from the network controller of acquisition of signal. Some initial transearth injection figures coming up later today around 5:33 Central Time. The tentative ignition time for transearth injection is ground elapsed 236:42:08 for posigrade velocity increase of 3046.9 feet per second. Total burn time of 2 minutes 24 seconds on the service propulsion system engine - and we've had acquisition of signal from America. We'll stand by now, for resumption of communications as the spacecraft becomes electronically visible to the tracking stations on Earth.
231:11:31 Evans Houston, this is America.
231:11:35 CC Hello, America. You're a little scratchy down here. We'll pick you up there shortly.
231:11:42 Evans Okay. We'll stand by until then.
231:11:46 CC Oh, that's all right. Go ahead. We can near you.
231:11:52 Evans Okay. That last lunar sounder pass got an extra 40 seconds on the film - 40 seconds on the last end of it.
231:12:05 CC Okay.
231:14:18 Schmitt Okay, Houston. This is America.
231:14:21 CC Go ahead.
231:14:24 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I was over there on the right side and I hit the FUEL CELL 1 REACTANTS switch for about half a second and got it back on again. It looks okay here.
231:14:44 CC Roger. We copy that.
231:17:55 CC America, Houston. If you're reading us loud and clear. I'd like to give you a lunar sounder flight - sounder pad here at 231:21.
231:18:13 Cernan Okay, Bob. Go ahead.
231:18:15 CC Okay; it's at 231:21, the lunar sounder T-start time, 231:26:18; T-stop, 50:33.
231:18:41 Cernan Okay, I got that. Thank you. You happy with the biomed on the CDR?
231:18:51 CC We won't know until we get the high gain here at 21.
231:18:58 Cernan Okay.
231:20:33 PAO This is Apollo Control, for those news men in the MSC news center who want to watch their television monitors they can see a playback of explosive package number 7 if they'll watch the lower left corner of the monitor you'll see a brief glow and then dims out again and that's all there is to see, we'll roll the video tape back through at this time.
231:21:03 Evans Houston, America.
231:21:07 CC Go ahead, Ron.
231:21:11 Evans Okay, here. I was just looking at the Wright Brothers Crater as we were going through there again. And the outer - crater rims on that thing are kind of like the one - ... about rev 62 in the picture, but the outer rim - is sloping in the opposite direction from the normal crater, or something. In other words, the steep slope is on the outside of the rim, and you have a gradual slope up to the - you know, from the center of the crater, you've got a gradual slope up to the rim, and then it drops off to the steep slope on the outside. And the steep slope on the outside is maybe - oh, 35 to 45 degrees. The slope on the inside is probably - somewhere around 20 degrees - would guess. And there is one portion of the rim - kinda of on the western portion of that one that I was lookmg at, anyhow, it's almost a delta-shaped ring.
231:22:15 CC Roger, Ron. We're ready for the high gain. If somebody can bring it up, we can read you better.
231:22:39 CC How do you read, America? You're sounding great now.
231:22:47 Evans Okay; looks like we've got you.
231:22:49 CC Real good. Go ahead, Ron.
231:22:57 Evans Okay. I was just kind of reminiscing a little bit about the - my mud puddle craters there in Smythii. I guess that's what I can term them or call them - that's what they always kind of looked like to me. But - they slope up. But the rims of those craters and even the interior rims on ones that are multi-ringed, they slope upward from the center of the crater toward the rim, and a gradual slope, and then they drop off on the outside of the crater rim, sloping down from the outside crater up to 45 degrees. And then at some points on there, it almost looks like it's a real classic delta-shaped rim on them, where you have the same slope on the inside as well as the outside of the crater.
231:23:59 CC Roger, Ron.
231:24:09 Cernan Houston, you ready for mode VHF?
231:24:11 CC That's affirmative.
231:24:19 Cernan VHF.
231:25:27 Evans Okay; 50 seconds to LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE, okay? RECORDER is ON; RADAR's ON; we're in VHF, okay. Be a VHF pass. And what time? 26:18. Okay; 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 -
231:26:22 Evans MARK it. SOUNDER to OPERATE.
231:27:21 CC America, be advised. Gene, your biomed looks good.
231:27:32 Thank you, Bob.
231:29:17 Evans Okay, Houston, frame 163 and 164 and 165 were taken of the mud craters in Smythii. And 166, I guess, was taken of the great slopings - side of the crater in Crisium. That's just south of Yerkes.
231:29:49 Evans That's mag November November. Oh, wait a minute. That's Gene's crater, isn't it?
231:30:33 CC America, Houston.
231:30:37 Evans All right, go ahead.
231:30:38 CC Ron, we did not get the HIGH GAIN to NARROW. We have sequence for you which is important to go through so that we do not break lock and lose this lunar sounder VHF data. We would like you to dial in PITCH, minus 45; YAW 5. Go to MANUAL and WIDE. And when you get the signal strength, go to REACQ and then step to the BEAM, NARROW, MEDIUM, and WIDE, or, say again, WIDE, NARROW, MEDIUM.
231:31:13 Evans Okay, I'm with you. Okay, I got minus 45 on the PITCH, plus about 5 on the YAW - -
231:31:22 CC That should be minus 45 on the PITCH.
231:31:27 Evans Isn't that what I said? That's what I got. Minus 45. And plus 5 on the YAW, right?
231:31:34 CC Affirmative. And we're ready for you to do it. Go ahead.
231:31:38 Evans And we're going to MANUAL and WIDE.
231:31:55 Evans How's that?
231:31:57 CC That's great; we didn't drop any. That's great.
231:32:02 Evans Okay.
231:32:09 Cernan Hello, Bob.
231:32:10 CC Go ahead.
231:32:14 Cernan Okay, this is Gene. I've got a - a very interesting crater out in Tranquillity I'd like to pass some info on for you - to you on. It's about in the central part of Tranquillity. It's got a very sharply raised lip, and it's got some very dark - rough rimmed deposits. It's got a - a very, very obvious ... furrow, looks like it's elongated, basically to the - generally to the east and to the west. I can't tell, but because of the shape of it, and because of those a ... darker rim deposits I'm sure there must be a vent there somewhere, but it's too dark down in there. I can't really see for sure whether there is one or not. But, if there is, I imagine it's pretty big. And I can't tell., it's only sort of intuitive, but I imagine the elongation was produced during the thrust of the initial dynamics, the formation of the impact.
231:33:24 CC Roger, Gene. Do you have a scale on the size of the crater?
231:33:37 Cernan Stand by 1 and let me look.
231:34:01 Cernan Bob, yes, I may have said Tranquillity. I meant Fecunditatis. I did not mean Tranquillity.
231:34:09 CC Copy.
231:34:29 Cernan Bob, I'll have to give you an estimate on the - on the relative size of it, but the length-to-width ratio is probably about 2 to 1, and it - it's certainly bigger than the Camelot size range.
231:34:43 CC Roger. That's good. Just wanted to pin it down for you.
231:34:48 Cernan ... might be able to pick it out. Okay.
231:35:04 CC And whoever's got the Flight Plan in their hand, I've got a lunar sounder pan which is at 232:20 and a pan camera pad, which is at 233:20.
231:35:16 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm keeper of the left-hand side plus the manager of the Flight Plan. here, so pass it up.
231:35:24 CC Okay. Lunar sounder pad. T-start time, 232:26:11; T-stop time, 34:18.
231:35:51 Cernan Okay, 26:11 34:18.
231:35:54 CC Okay, pan camera photo pad, which is over at 233:20: T-start time, 233:24:07; T-stop, 38:42.
231:36:15 Cernan 233:24:07, 38:42.
231:36:19 CC Roger. Good copy.
231:41:00 CC 17, just for your information, it's Miami 3, Baltimore noth - about mid-way - nothing - they're about midway through the first quarter, and Miami's making an effort to go undefeated today.
231:41:15 Schmitt It's the last game of their season, isn't it?
231:41:17 CC That's right. This will be the undefeated season if they hack it.
231:41:56 Evans Houston, America. I think I mentioned - a couple or 3 days ago that - however, when we first got up here - that I had a heck of a time seeing that Tycho ray that goes out across Bessel. And I forgot to tell you that yesterday, kind of for the first time, it really started showing up when we were getting up in the higher Sun. And today, it really shows up quite vividly. It's just a ray that takes off from the edge of Crisium and goes right across Bessel and goes out to about the middle of Crisium - I don't mean Crisium, I mean Serenitatis, I was talking about Serenitatis all the time.
231:42:34 CC Roger.
231:42:52 Schmitt Say, Bob. Those craters on the south-western side of Serenitatis still have got that orange hue at this Sun angle, and that's with the naked eye.
231:43:03 CC Roger. These are the ones right in the Sulpicius Gallus region?
231:43:17 Schmitt Yes.
231:44:42 Evans And, Houston; 166 and 167 were taken of a crater that looks like it's got a reddish dike in it and it's on - in the - again in the Haemus Mountains to the west of Sulpicius Gallus.
231:45:01 Schmitt Houston, a little more on that. It's an impact crater with a line essentially across the diameter in a east-west direction, maybe a little bit north of west direction and the ejecta to the north of that - just went under us - the ejecta to the north of the line is the orange - actually more red-brown than orange, although there are both hues in it - -
231:45:32 CC Roger, Jack. Can you give us some scale on that crater?
231:45:32 Schmitt - - looks similar to - Yes, it's about a 600-meter crater. And it looks very much like - in it's geologic pattern to the - that crater out in the Nevada test site on Buckboard Mesa that had an explosion along a contact between two very sharply contrasting rock types. In this case, however, the line does not go completely across the crater, and that's why we feel it may be a dike or a vein which fortuitously has been hit by that impact.
231:46:25 CC Okay; can you give me a little relationship with respect to Sulpicius Gallus, the crater?
231:46:32 Schmitt Yes, I'll try to spot it in a minute.
231:46:34 CC Okay, why don't you just mark it on your map so for pre - postflight we'll have it.
231:47:40 Schmitt On the - somewhere around - I'll try to spot it more exactly - on the 20 north latitude line and about 7 east on a ridge. It's right on top of a ridge. I think it's that ridge. I'll try to spot it more exactly later.
231:48:01 CC Okay.
231:49:37 CC Ron, you're less than a minute to LUNAR SOUNDER STANDBY T-stop time.
231:49:44 Evans Okay, we're on it, Bob. ...
231:50:53 CC And, America, just a reminder. When you're powering the SIM bay, up here again, the mapping camera laser altimeter cover is already open and the mapping camera is already extended.
231:51:05 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
231:51:25 Cernan Okay, Bob. We'll just eliminate those last two steps, is that correct?
231:51:30 CC That's affirmative.
231:51:34 Cernan Okay. You still want MAPPING CAMERAS, STANDBY, up there in the fourth step?
231:51:39 CC That's affirm.
231:52:04 Cernan Okay, Houston. The SIM bay is powered up. We eliminated the last two steps.
231:52:12 CC Roger. Thank you, Gene.
231:52:34 Cernan Okay, Houston. I guess you saw those - we got through those procedures and you probably saw most of the switching. Sorry, I should have been in VOX.
231:52:44 CC No problem.
231:53:22 PAO This is Apollo Control we're going to repeat the playback of the video tape of the explosive package number 7. Down in the - This will be the final time it will be played back. If you'll look in the lower left corner behind a slight ridge, you'll see a glow part way through the playback. Let's watch the playback now.
231:55:38 Schmitt Houston, this is 17.
231:55:42 CC Go ahead.
231:55:47 Schmitt One of the questions we asked ourselves years ago, when we mapped the Copernicus area, was were we really seeing dark mantling deposits on some of the massifs of the Carpathians, and looking at it obliquely here, it - some of those areas that we've mapped as dark mantling are distinctly brownish gray versus the normal tan gray of the - of most of the Carpathians. It looks like - and it's about the same color as - extrapolating - as the dark mantle around Sulpicius and Taurus-Littrow.
231:56:37 CC Roger.
231:56:41 Schmitt Also, the north boundary of the Carpathian Massifs has a very sharply defined high lava marks - and if that's actually what we're seeing. And in - I'll mark the place on the map, but it looks like it extends about a sixth to an eighth of the way up the highest peak. It's quite a striking and obvious mark. There's a major textural change - below the mark of a little scarp that defines it, the texture is very smooth. Above that it has the lineated and typical mountain front texture for the Apennine - for the Imbrium range.
231:57:36 CC Roger.
231:58:59 Schmitt Bob, I might summarize my impression of the rilles in the vicinity of Euler and their relationship to the mare ridges. I've been able to, over the last day - just generally searching it out, I've been able to find rilles that clearly cross and separate portions of ridges. And ridges that clearly cross and partially bury rilles. And in another third case of a rille that appears to be levied - that is, have banks of - flat banks on either side, but near the end of it, it transitions into a mare ridge, very clearly. It looks as if, to me, that the rille and ridge problem in here is just one of repetitive compression and extension within the surficial flows of the Imbrium Basin. And that possibly during the compressive stages, there were extrusions locally along the ridge system, but in the main part, the ridge systems do represent, I think, a doming it looks like just a doming of the mare surface except for these local ridgelike extrusions.
232:00:31 CC Roger.
232:00:32 Schmitt I might also add that the rilles, to me, seem to be made up of zigzag straight line segments rather than being truly sinuous. They appear sinuous because of the rounding of the corners, but in - my impression is that they're really made up of straight line segments.
232:02:44 Evans And, Houston, on mag Victor Victor - Oh - well, I'm on number 28 now, and the last ones before 28 there were taken of the spacecraft sunset terminator.
232:03:02 CC Roger, Ron. Jack, we just had a feed-in to your answer to your question from ALSEP. The PI has not seen enough data at this time to draw any conclusions regarding the depth of the mantle in the landing area. And we've got another bomb charge due to go off here in about - a short time; let me check it.
232:03:29 Schmitt Okay, I'll wait until we get back. Thank you.
232:03:34 CC Roger.
232:03:56 CC That next charge goes off in 15 minutes, Jack. I don't have an exact GET yet.
232:04:09 Cernan Bob, is the LCRU still working?
232:04:18 CC Say again, please.
232:04:23 Cernan Bob, this is Geno. I was just wondering if the LCRU and the TCU were still working?
232:04:30 CC They think the LCRU failed last-night.
232:04:49 CC Gene, they are going to try it again today, but they could not get a - raise it last night and they think it failed.
232:05:00 Cernan Okay.
232:05:20 CC We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, please.
232:14:55 Schmitt Houston, 17.
232:14:58 CC Go ahead.
232:15:03 Schmitt Has Mark come up with a preliminary heat flow number yet or is he still equilibrating?
232:15:21 CC We'll check that, Jack.
232:15:53 CC Jack, nothing on that - the heat flow yet. It's still stabilizing, it'll be awhile before they get many data. But we're watching the data play out here on the TV screen. They just had another one of those charges go off and it really does rap the old heaters.
232:16:14 Schmitt Excellent.
232:18:50 Cernan Houston, MAPPING CAMERA is OFF; and the IR's OFF; PAN CAMERA SELF TEST, OFF; UV is OFF; and the DATA SYSTEM'S OFF; and SM/AC POWER is OFF.
232:19:24 CC Okay, we - I think - We copy that configuration change there. We're about 6 minutes to LOS. Just - on the next pass, just be advised, we're going to change the HF antenna retract times to let them warm up a little bit more. We'll call you on that before we want the HF antennas retracted. And just an update, it's Miami 10 to nothing over Baltimore at the half.
232:19:52 Cernan Okay, we'll stand by on a call on the retraction and got the score 10 to nothing.
232:20:42 Cernan Hello, Houston; America. When do want us to configure the DSE? Do you want us to wait a couple minutes?
232:20:48 CC Roger. We'd like you to wait a couple minutes.
232:20:53 Cernan Okay, we'll stand by for your call on DSE and the HIGH GAIN.
232:21:31 Evans Houston, America; are you giving any odds on the time we might get the barber pole on the lunar sounder?
232:21:39 CC We don't think you'll get it this group but that pad is now about a 4-minute pad. But it's getting so close I'd like to watch it.
232:21:49 Evans Oh, Okay.
232:22:35 CC America, if we should lose you before our published LOS here, check the DSE and when you get the barber pole, you can reconfigure. We're rewinding that tape now.
232:22:51 Schmitt Yes, sir.
232:22:59 CC Okay; it's all rewound. You can go ahead ana configure the DSE.
232:25:22 Evans Say, Bob, what about us configuring high gain. We're getting close to T-start.
232:25:27 CC Roger. Go ahead.
232:25:28 BEGIN LUNAR REV 74
232:25:39 PAO This is Apollo Control at 232 hours 25 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17. Spacecraft America has just gone behind the Moon on revolution number 73 running the last lunar sounder pass in lunar orbit. The spacecraft will reappear again the start of rev - revolution 74 in approximately 48 minutes. We'll rejoin the conversation live when it resumes next revolution. And at 232:26 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
233:08:48 PAO This is Apollo Control, 233 hours 8 minutes, Ground Elapsed Time. Starting front-side pass of revolution number 74 mission of Apollo 17. 40 seconds remaining until spacecraft acquisition by the antennas of the tracking network. Approximately 3 and a half hours until the spacecraft leaves lunar orbit for the trip back to Earth. To reiterate the current predicted times of and values of the transearth injection maneuver, ignition time currently estimated at Ground Elapsed Time of 236 hours 42 minutes 8 seconds. Burn time of 2 minutes 24 seconds for a velocity increase in posigrade of 3046.9 feet per second. We have Apollo 17 acquired on the high gain apparently right around the corner.
233:10:30 CC Hello America. Houston is standing by.
233:10:38 Evans Hey, America - Houston, this is America. We've got you loud and clear. A little late on picking you up that time, but worked okay. Okay, on mag Q, Quebec - it's finished right now, and whatever frame number it was on when they left the lunar surface to 143. Q? Oh, K. Mag Kilo, okay. Whatever frame they were on on the lunar surface to 143 were selected shots by the LMP. Frame 143 to 172 were near-side terminator photos of Tsiolkovsky.
233:11:34 CC Okay, Ron. We copy that right from the Flight Plan change.
233:11:39 Evans Okay. And PAN CAMERA to STEREO - Jack, ... help me get it. Verify STANDBY on STEREO. Okay, PAN CAMERA POWER coming ON. Oops, stand by here. Okay. V over H, HIGH ALTITUDE. Okay, PAN CAMERA to POWER. Okay, got the power. Okay, we've got a T-start coming up here at 24:07, 12 minutes. ... suppose that's what it should be ... yes, ... Tsiolkovsky. Let's see, Houston, America. I only have one pan camera pad here. is that correct?
233:12:44 CC Let me see. We've got one sitting right in front of us for 233:40. Do you want that one?
233:12:59 Evans I don't have that one.
233:13:01 CC Yes.
233:13:01 Evans I've got the one that starts at 24:07, and ends at 38:42.
233:13:07 CC That's correct, and you don't have the other one because we never said it. We've got here ready to go.
233:13:14 Evans Oh, okay.
233:13:17 CC Okay, T-start time, 233:48:15; T-stop is 234:00:30
233:13:41 Evans Okay, photo pad is - T-start is 233:46:15, T-stop is 234:00:30.
233:13:50 CC Roger, Ron. And let me give you some words here that you might be interested in. Right now we're looking at probably pulling in those antenna at 233:45 or 46, right in that time frame. If those maneuvers - that should not work, we shall have to jettison the antennas at around 234:3 - 235:39. We have, and we won't give it to you until we need it. We have a VERB 49 maneuver to a jett attitude for 234:25, and that'll keep in that attitude and then we'll jettison the antennas at 235:43, and, of course, we'll have to bring up the logic power on those. We have this all available standing by and there's no sense passing it until we find out how the antennas do on RETRACT.
233:14:46 Evans Okay, that sounds reasonable. Do you have the, cr you want to use, the page in the Experiments Checklist there?
233:15:11 CC Roger. Except for the NOUN 78s. We'll change those.
233:15:17 Evans Oh, okay. Sounds good.
233:15:33 Evans It's in the Volkswagen pocket. Okay.
233:15:53 Evans I don't think we ever changed it though. Okay, the arrow's there, which indicates that we didn't do it. Okay, LIOH canister change, 19 into A, take 17 and put it into A - A-4. That's correct.
233:17:16 Evans At 24, we want the pan camera.
233:17:22 Schmitt Bob, while we're waiting for the pan camera time, a quickie here. One of the ways that seems be useful for determining the relative age of the larger basins, to me anyway, is the abundance of block fields on the slopes of the walls or the slopes of the central peaks. That abundance decreasing with increasing age, and one of the comparisons that I just made that it looks as if Tsiolkovsky and Sklodowska have about the same abundance of - of block fields on both those features of the crater.
233:18:11 Evans Okay, canister's changed.
233:18:12 Schmitt They presumably then would be about the same age.
233:18:18 CC Roger, Jack. I noted that.
233:18:26 Evans Jack, to me, Sklodowska is lot more subdued, though, than Tsiolkovsky on the ... Oh, okay. It's ... criteria? Yes.
233:19:47 Evans And, Houston, the northern most - I hate to use mud impact, but that's what I'll call it, multiring basin structure there and it also has a delta-shaped rim to it. There is kind of a moat between the inner ring and the outer ring and then it slopes, again a gradual slope from the center of the crater up to the first basin ring and with a steeper slope on the outside of the first ring going down into the moat. And then the outer ring has the delta - the delta-shaped rim to it.
233:20:26 CC Roger. Ron, we copy that.
233:20:28 Evans Okay, 4 minutes to - and, Bob, you'll keep us honest on this pan camera T-start, won't you?
233:20:39 CC I sure will.
233:20:42 Evans Okay; thank you.
233:21:30 Evans And, Houston, Surgeons may be interestea to know CMPs blue bag number 5 was comparable to ground test number 3.
233:21:50 CC Roger, Ron.
233:22:19 Evans I think I should probably add a no problems note.
233:22:24 CC Understand, no problems.
233:22:29 Evans That's affirmative (laughter). The LMP would like to make a comment, but I won't let him.
233:22:47 CC Things pretty miserable up there?
233:22:53 Evans For a while it was.
233:23:03 CC Ground test bag number 3 wasn't the one you had to drive in with, was it?
233:23:10 Evans Yes.
233:23:27 CC You're 30 seconds to T-start time on that pan camera.
233:23:33 Evans Okay, PAN CAMERA to OPERATE at 07. Jack, I'll give you a mark on that.
233:24:04 Evans Okay, 1, 2, 3, start at 7, 4, 5, 6 -
233:24:11 Evans MARK it. Okay, stop will be 38:42. And, Houston, how would you like to have a VERB 74?
233:24:25 CC Roger; we're standing by for it.
233:24:30 Evans Okay, VERB 74 ENTER.
233:24:44 Evans Now take a good - Yes, I got a picture of one of those with - that star is kind of a classic, I think. Can you get it? I can get it right here, a lot easier, Jack. Yes, that's all right, I can do it. Lay down beside it. There we go. That's 8 at 1/250; that'll be good. Okay, is that what we call Star? Okay, that's right, I didn't think this was Star. That's the one I was talking about having the polygonal base on it and it's west of Mare Smythii for sure. I don't know where we - directly south of - eastern edge of Fecunditatis. And that's frame number 14, I guess, of mag Papa Papa.
233:27:09 CC Ron, if you'll give us ACCEPT, we'll give you your TEI REFSMMAT.
233:27:16 Evans Outstanding. You have ACCEPT.
233:27:26 Schmitt And, while we are getting a TEI REFSMMAT, there's a fairly striking graben on the very north edge of Fecunditatis, south of Crisium - just south of Crisium. And it starts in the west within the Fecunditatis Mare and then curves gradually up through the Sculptured Hills structure to the north. And, there's a crater, looks like a subdued impact crater, right on that structure, and you can see the trace of the graben down the walls - the west wall of the crater and up the east wall. And it does - from directly overhead, it appears to taper downward. The walls of the graben, that is, get closer together as it approaches the bottom of the crater. And on the south wall of the graben, as exposed in the west wall of the crater, there's a fairly sharp - sharply defined white area in the talus.
233:28:52 CC America, the computer's yours; you can go to BLOCK.
233:28:59 Evans Okay, we're in BLOCK.
233:29:12 Schmitt With the old pan camera running, we probably can find that graben structure in there pretty well.
233:29:29 Evans Yes, we ought to get some good pictures. It isn't quite as good that way, but you-do get some pictures anyhow.
233:30:24 Evans That's what I was trying to figure out. Houston, what's that big crater we're going over right now in Fecunditatis? It's probably on your map - Yes, Taruntius, that's it. Yes.
233:30:40 Schmitt Speaking of grabens again - how's our pan camera doing?
233:30:44 Evans 38, and we still got ...
233:30:47 Schmitt Speaking of grabens again, on the southeastern blanket of Taruntius, about a crater radius outward, there's a crater looks like an impact also on a trace of a graben, and in this case the ejecta blanket that extends out along the graben both to the west and to the east is noticeably blue gray against the tan gray of the Fecunditatis or at least the Taruntius ejecta blanket. Basically, it looks like blue-gray wings on the crater along the direction of the graben.
233:31:47 CC Roger, Jack.
233:32:04 Schmitt Looking at the crater stratigraphy in the northeastern and northern portions of Tranquility, it looks as if you could say that there are blue-gray mare materials overlying very light gray material of some kind. And, without any strong exceptions that I've seen, and it resembles the same stratigraphy that I think I talked about yesterday on the annulus of Serenitatis and that goes alor.g with what I think Ron told you, that the visual appearance of the annulus and the northern Tranquility Mare, on the surface is indistinguishable .
233:33:02 Evans Yes, that's right.
233:33:10 Schmitt It also suggests that the mare in here's relatively thin if you're getting down to whatever the basement rock is, and that's being represented by the light gray. The ledges of the blue-gray material are high up in the crater ana really appear to form only about - oh, a fifth to a sixth of the wall height. And I'll give you a crater - There's a crater right between the two Cauchy rilles that shows this fairly well. And Ross Crater also shows it a little farther along, I remember from last time.
233:34:06 Evans Cauchy Crater, isn't it?
233:34:06 Schmitt Yes, Cauchy Crater is the one I was talking about that's between the two rilles. Actually, it's not as well defined in Cauchy as it is in seme of the other craters.
233:34:47 Schmitt The western end of the Cauchy rilles, both north and south ones, seem to have a right lateral or echelon structure, but along the trace still to the west of the crater Cauchy that locally changes to left lateral.
233:35:26 Evans And, Houston, even at the high Sun angle here, the ejecta of the - oh, four or five recent craters around Maraldi, still kind of a bluish-gray, light-bluish-gray. The floor of the crater Maraldi is essentially a dark - more of a dark gray today, I guess, than anything. And the ejecta patterns on that are the same albedo and color distinctions as the ones in the landing site. And, the landing site itself, from this angle, I think is going to - No, once we get up at the same viewing angle as we had on Maraldi , the mantling material in the landing site is the same color, same albedo as Maraldi.
233:35:58 CC Roger.
233:35:58 Evans ... In the crater Maraldi.
233:36:52 Evans Yes, I get just a tint or - yes, I was going to say, well no, I still get a feeling that there's just a twinge of the orange or tannish orange around Shorty looking at it with the binocs. What's that black bump on the sides - on the -Let's see, south of the southern side of the South Massif. Can you see that one, Jack? ...
233:37:38 Evans Okay, we ought to be getting ready for P38. About another minute, Jack. PAN CAMERA to STANDBY. At 38:42.
233:38:36 Evans Okay, 35 now and we want to stop it at 42. Okay.
233:38:44 Evans MARK it. Okay.
233:38:48 CC America, we'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
233:38:54 Evans AUTO it is.
233:38:56 CC Ron, the numbers on magazine RR show that you have nine spare frames and you will need nine frames there for calibration, so looks like you'll have nine frames on mag RR for whatever you want to use them on.
233:39:17 Evans Okay, let's see now. We have just this next pass coming up here?
233:39:25 CC That's affirmative, Ron.
233:39:26 Evans ... on 85 now. Okay, and Tsiolkovsky, we got those the last time with, on the LM mag is that correct?
233:40:37 Evans Hey, Jack, we want to get D-Caldera to high Sun here too. And then, yes, and then the crater with the dike in it, because I think we probably should get those - Yes, Papa Papa, yes. And then as soon as you finished with those, we'll switch mags and I'll whip over there and take some terminator photos. Okay, let's see.
233:41:16 Evans Hey, Houston, you sure you want to start retracting the antennas?
233:41:21 CC Oh, stand by, Ron. Just to answer your question on mag Romeo Romeo, you can take it to an absolute number of 106 on the frame count, and the remainder must be used for calibration.
233:41:34 Evans Okay, then 106 is far as we can go on that one. Okay. Thank you.
233:41:48 Evans Fine. Okay.
233:42:02 CC America, Houston. After we start the pan camera at 233:48:15, we would like then to go and 3tart to retract HF antenna number 2. Number 2 first, please.
233:42:18 Evans Okay. As soon as I get the pan camera started, we'll go to retract on that.
233:42:48 Evans Jack, are you talking about the one that's got the red ejecta out to the east? Yes. Right now. Just now looking down there, is that the one you were talking about? Okay. It's just now coming up. ... See. Okay, can you see D-Caldera? Okay.
233:43:34 Evans Okay, I'll get it. Yes.
233:44:10 Evans Let's see, we're almost at subsolar. Wait a minute, I don't know where we are. Right. We're way past subsolar. Yes, I think.
233:44:57 Schmitt Okay, Houston, on Papa Papa frames - let's see, 13 and l4 were of the crater with the red, brown to orange vein across it, and 15 and 16 were of D-Caldera, stereo pairs.
233:45:30 Evans See your dark slide, Jack.
233:45:44 Schmitt And, Houston, I saw at least two other examples of impact craters in the highlands south of Serenitatis and south of - of the Sulpicius area that had vein-like distribution of red-brown or orange material in them.
233:46:10 CC Roger.
233:46:21 Evans And for terminator, but you want to handle the re-retract of the antenna? No, not yet. Soon we - at 48:15, go to pan camera to operate. Yes, and then we start retracting HF number 2.
233:46:45 Evans Ouch!, I cut my finger on the dark slide. Boy, that son of a buck. Yes. That's right. Yes, we'll time it through to start with HF number 2. Be at 8:15, 47:15s 47 twice. And, let's see, where does this thing start? 52, I guess. No, 57.
233:48:11 Evans Okay, 48:15, stand by. 11, 12, 13, 14 -
233:48:18 Evans MARK it. Okay. And, Houston, HF antenna number 2 is going to RETRACT. 3, 1 -
233:48:30 Evans MARK it. Barber pole.
233:48:43 Evans They can do it down there. But in case ... Let's, see. I think they've been taking about 2 minutes, last time - I forgot for sure. Houston knows. How about long is it supposed to take to retract number 2 this time? (Laughter) Any guesses?
233:49:06 CC 130 seconds would be nominal retraction.
233:49:12 Evans 130, huh? Would be nominal. Number 2, yes. No, that's number 1 on your side.
233:50:09 Evans That's the one - we had trouble getting it out, the second time, and finally did. Just took a long time to get out there. Yes, we were taking it out and in.
233:50:56 Evans Gene, yes, we're doing this now, and we need a T-stop here, at this time - on the pan camera.
233:51:14 CC How does the barber pole look up there, boys?
233:51:15 Evans ..., Gene.
233:51:19 Schmitt It looks gray. Okay, ...
233:51:21 CC Okay, that's a full retract.
233:51:24 Evans Good. Beautiful.
233:51:29 Schmitt Now you want to do number 1?
233:51:32 CC That's affirmative and the time of the other was 1:55.
233:51:33 Schmitt Shall I start on number 1 now?
233:51:38 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Going to RETRACT on number 1.
233:51:43 Schmitt MARK it. Barber pole.
233:51:47 Cernan Okay, Houston. I get it visually going in.
233:51:55 Evans Yes, it doesn't come in very fast, does it?
233:52:09 Evans (Laughter)
233:52:51 Evans Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
233:53:42 Evans Oh, okay.
233:53:46 Evans Boy, okay.
233:54:21 CC America, Houston. Go to OFF on the switch where it's stall current. Do you have a barber pole or is it gray?
233:54:31 Evans It was still a barber pole. And do you want number 2 OFF, also?
233:54:47 CC Stand by, Ron.
233:54:52 Evans Just asking.
233:54:56 CC That's affirmative, Ron, number 2 to OFF.
233:55:01 Evans Okay, number 2 is going to OFF, now?
233:55:06 CC Okay, and the preliminary quick look shows a nominal retract on both of them, Ron.
233:55:13 Evans Mighty fine. That's good. Although I was - had - getting the camera ready to take some pictures.
233:56:27 Evans Well, look at the one down here by - You can pick linear segments if you want to on some of them. One long one that goes all the way across there now, it's got a bunch of - Well, this is a ... synthius [sic] one down right down here. Lock at this one. Right - right down there. See, just this side of that little - the short one.
233:57:59 Evans Okay, give me a holler on that pan camera when it comes up because I'm going to be taking pictures here; f/8 at 1/250. Boy, it really shows up a flow from the Tobias Mayer area coming on out to - I don't know whether - is that the Bessel Rille or something like that? I don't know what that Rille is. I agree with you, Jack, in that whatever that rille is, that's running east and west there - made up of linear segments, except for the curves around the corner (laughter).
233:58:59 Evans Yes, I think that's Prinz on up there just - Yes, see there. Can you get them back there?
233:59:07 Cernan Yes.
233:59:07 Evans Here, take it. Should - should be - Oh, the lowest one?
233:59:12 Cernan Yes, on your right-hand side.
233:59:13 Evans Oh, well, let me get these first then. Or - can you get those now?
233:59:17 Cernan Yes.
233:59:19 Evans Okay.
233:59:54 Evans Here. I'll get the pan camera. That's the lowest one. Yes, that's the terminator, right on the terminator. I got something on it. Okay. Here. Need a hack here, Gene.
234:00:24 Evans Okay? Okay, PAN CAMERA to STANDBY.
234:00:35 Cernan You got it?
234:00:35 Evans Yes. What's my frame number here? Oh, wait a minute. It's 105. We'll take one more picture.
234:00:49 CC Ron, did you get the pan camera to T-stop?
234:00:53 Schmitt Yes, sir. ... good, got it.
234:01:00 Evans Frame 106. That's the last one we could use on this one.
234:01:09 Evans Where - where's our stars? Let me take a look, can I? Oh, yes. Okay. Down in R-l.
234:01:52 Evans Okay, let's see, we can take this one ...
234:01:58 Schmitt Houston, in earth-light, we have a dim but good view of the Cobra's Head and Schroter's Valley and the Aristarchus Plateau. It's not as bright as it was the first night we were here, but still light enough to distinguish their outlines.
234:02:22 CC Roger.
234:02:32 Evans Okay. That's all the hoses coming from ... And, Houston, we're ready to go to RETRACK on the MAPPING CAMERA. Okay - -
234:02:46 CC Okay , we're watching it.
234:02:46 Evans - - 3,2,1 -
234:02:50 Evans MARK it. Barber pole. Okay, we'll stand by on our cue for ... camera. Oh, okay.
234:03:25 Evans Well, ... know how to do that.
234:03:42 CC PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF, America.
234:03:52 Schmitt POWER'S OFF.
234:04:03 Schmitt Okay, LASER ALTIMETER'S OFF.
234:04:10 Evans Okay, stand by for P52.
234:04:30 Schmitt Okay, the MAPPING CAMERA COVER is going CLOSE.
234:04:33 Schmitt MARK it.
234:04:35 CC Negative, negative on that, please.
234:04:36 Schmitt And, it's gray.
234:04:38 Evans Hey, negative. Don't - Well, he got away with it.
234:05:00 Cernan That's my fault, Bob. I thought that camera was already in, when you gave us a GO on that.
234:05:05 Schmitt And I put it back to OPEN, and it went barber pole, then gray again, and it acted properly.
234:05:12 CC Roger.
234:05:22 Evans The MAPPING CAMERA'S CLOSED now. It's RETRACTED, I mean. Yes, we're okay.
234:05:39 Cernan Houston, we'll stand by for your GO on closing the cover.
234:05:42 CC Roger. Stand by.
234:06:15 CC Ron, we'd like one test here. We'd like to take the MAPPING CAMERA TRACK switch to RETRACT and verify the barber pole stays gray.
234:06:37 Evans Houston, it's in RETRACT right now or still is and has been all the time, and barber pole is still - I mean is still gray.
234:06:44 CC Okay, you're clear to CLOSE the MAPPING CAMERA / LASER ALTIMETER COVER.
234:06:51 Evans Okay.
234:07:00 Cernan Okay, it's CLOSED, barber pole, then gray.
234:10:12 Evans Ah ha, I recognize Sirius.
234:10:18 CC Gave you another easy one, huh?
234:10:22 Evans Yes, another easy one.
234:10:48 Evans That's Regulus, I think. isn't it? 22. Yes, is that one - yes - Okay. The dot on the question mark.
234:11:30 Evans It's a little hard to see, but I think that's it. (humming)
234:11:56 Evans Yes, maybe I ought to do that one again. Yes.
234:12:13 Evans Rigel, this time, okay?
234:12:58 Evans (Humming) 21, Alphard. Okay, that's down below Sirius.
234:13:48 Evans Okay, there's 0.01.
234:13:53 CC We'll buy that.
234:13:54 Evans Plus 0.065; minus 0.050; minus 0.039. Okay, we'll torque at 14:50.
234:14:15 CC Roger, Ron. We copied those.
234:14:17 Evans No, it won't make any difference. Okay.
234:14:27 Evans Okay; 1 ENTER. Okay, let's torque her - let's go to the TEI REFSMMAT. 55144. About 90 degrees from pitch, isn't it? Difference? Yes, okay. That's good. Ground knows what they're doing. Okay, we're in CMC, FREE, let's coarse align it. Okay, PROCEED. No ATT.
234:15:09 Evans Okay, let's picapar. Okay, it still likes Rigel. (Humming) not if there's a big one.
234:16:22 Evans Twenty-one, should be Alphard, I think. Two stars, huh?
234:17:02 Evans Yes, that's a long ways away off. It's outside of the field of view of the sextant. Both of them were.
234:17:17 Evans Okay, 21. Yes. Yes, let's coarse - let's torque this one then I'll do another one.
234:17:40 Evans (Humming) You got em? Yes. Yes. Yes.
234:18:37 Evans Yes, that brought it in there nice and close. We'll just tweak her up just for the heck of it. Yes.
234:19:30 Evans Well, ptttth! How's our time doing?
234:20:06 Evans Well, that was close enough, really, but - That's within the limits, but I'd like to get her down to at least 0.01.
234:20:21 Cernan Hello, Houston. You want those O2 tank HEATERS pulled ON?
234:20:28 CC That's affirmative, Geno.
234:20:33 Cernan Okay, then we'll pull the O2 TANK 50-WATT HEATERS - three of them - yes, the 50-WATT HEATERS. Three of them OPEN and the O2 1 and 2 100-WATT HEATERS, CLOSED.
234:20:58 CC America, Houston.
234:20:58 Cernan Okay, those heaters are taken care of, Houston.
234:21:02 CC We see you going around the corner here and you're looking good as you go by us.
234:21:09 Cernan Okay, thank you.
234:21:24 Evans Well, the heck with it (laughter). Okay (laughter).
234:21:52 CC You got lots of CMPs watching today, Ron.
234:21:57 Evans (Laughter)
234:21:58 Cernan CDR has taken over, now.
234:22:01 CC Do you take credit for that last zero, two?
234:22:02 Schmitt And after that, the LMP tries one.
234:22:06 Evans (Laughter)
234:22:08 Cernan No, sir. I just got tired of looking at it; that's why I'm going to do the next one.
234:22:30 CC Ron, Stu said that all CMPs ought to accept a two. It just makes you more humble.
234:22:37 Evans Yes, I know. I've really accepted it, but I just thought I could do better.
234:22:45 Schmitt And one thing that you can't do is make Ron more humble.
234:23:43 CC Just a reminder with 1 minute to go, Ron. We want to remind you to go back to auto - to the autopilot when you're done with your 52s and the final score in the game was 16 to nothing. Miami over Baltimore.
234:23:58 Evans Okay, mighty fine. Commander's down there trying his luck, now.
234:24:07 CC We're all watching. We just hope we see it before you go LOS.
234:24:12 Evans (Laughter)
234:24:20 Cernan If you don't hear about it, if you miss it, don't worry - -
234:24:21 BEGIN LUNAR REV 75
234:24:53 PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal as the spacecraft America passed behind the Moon on revolution number 74 will be out of sight from the Earth for approximately 28 or 48 minutes. Coming up in 2 hours and 16 minutes on the transearth injection burn behind the Moon during - at the end of revolution number 75. To repeat the ignition time currently is Ground Elapsed Time of 236:42:08. A burn of 3046.9 feet per second to boost the spacecraft out of lunar orbit and on a trajectory toward Earth. A splashdown in the South Pacific Tuesday afternoon. The spaceflight meteorology group of the national weather service said this afternoon that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of Apollo 17 next Tuesday. A weather forecast for the planned landing area which is located about 350 miles southeast of American Samoa calls for scattered to broken clouds, winds of 10 knots, three foot seas and temperatures near 81 degrees. Members of the white team of flight controllers are beginning to drift in for the hand over just prior to acquisition of signal next revolution. We're estimating a change of shift press conference at approximately 4 p.m. in the small briefing room with the off-going flight director Neil Hutchinson. To repeat, estimated change of shift press conference at 4 o'clock, small briefing room, Houston News Center. At 234:26 this is Apollo control.
234:28:02 PAO This is Apollo Control again at 234:28, Scrub that last estimate of a change of a shift briefing and back it up to 3:45 P.M. Repeat 3:45 P.M. in the small briefing room in the Houston News Center, with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. At 234:28, this is Apollo Control. Out.
234:48:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 234 hours 48 minutes. We'll be regaining radio contact with Apollo 17 in about 20 minutes. The change of shift press briefing is ready to start momentarily in the MSC News Center briefing room. We'll switch you to the briefing room at this time.
235:07:49 PAO This is Apollo Control at 235 hours 8 minutes. Now less than one minute from regaining radio contact with Apollo 17. And, when once again we hear from the crew, they should be in the midst of eating their last meal in lunar orbit. Everything is in very good shape for the trans-Earth insertion maneuver to be performed at the end of this revolution, and at the beginning of the 76th revolution as they come around the front side of the Moon, they'll be on their way back to Earth. During this front-side pass, we'll be passing up to the crew the final set of numbers that'll be fed into their computer, targeting the trans-Earth injection burn. Also, we have the times for acquisition of signal following TEI. With the normal TEI burn, we would expect to acquire signal at 236 hours 55 minutes. If for some reason, the burn is not performed as planned, we would regain radio contact at 239 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds. And, we should have AOS momentarily.
235:09:47 PAO I wanted to make one correction to the AOS times there. Without the burn, if the Trans Earth Injection burn is not performed, the acquisition of signal time is 237 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds rather than 239 hours, as we gave you. Again those times. With the burn, 236 hours 55 minutes; without the burn, 237 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds. That would be about 12 minutes 18 seconds later if the burn is not done.
235:13:52 PAO We've got good solid telemetry from the space craft.
235:14:05 CC Hello, America, Houston. Over.
235:14:29 Cernan Hello, Houston. How do you read America? Over.
235:14:32 CC America, this is Houston. You're loud and clear on your last time around. Over.
235:14:39 Cernan Okay, Gordo. You're loud and clear. We thought we'd lost you there for a little bit.
235:14:56 Cernan And we're just finishing up an eat period, and looked around, and the spacecraft still looks good on-board.
235:15:05 CC Okay. Sounds good.
235:15:12 Cernan Got some gyro torquing angles, if you'd like them, please.
235:15:15 CC Okay; go ahead.
235:15:19 Cernan Okay; the last P52 produced gyro torque of minus 011, minus 007, and minus 002; GET torque time was 234:26:07. And let's just let it suffice to say we torqued on the commander's P52.
235:15:52 CC Okay,
235:18:55 Schmitt Houston, 17.
235:18:58 CC Go ahead.
235:19:02 Schmitt Yes, Gordy. Gene was trying to call you guys for about 4, or 5 minutes, after we had fairly good up-link signal strength, and you didn't answer, until you said that was the first tine you'd called. Is that something that you can explain down there?
235:19:23 CC I think it is, but let me make sure I get the right answer here.
235:19:32 Schmitt We did not change any configuration in the spacecraft during that 5 minutes.
235:19:38 CC Roger.
235:20:55 CC America, Houston. I guess we don't have an explanation. We checked with the site, they were locked on and I can't see any reason why, if you were coming down, that we didn't hear you.
235:21:34 CC America, Houston. You read now?
235:21:39 Schmitt Oh, that's affirm, Gordy. Sorry, I - we were discussing whether or not we had really transmitted, apparently we had.
235:21:48 CC Okay. We'll keep checking here, but first glance doesn't turn up the - any answers.
235:21:57 Schmitt Okay. Well, after the next run, we would like to have comm as soon as possible, and that's what I was checking on.
235:22:05 CC Roger.
235:23:11 CC America, Houston. We're ready with all the updates, both verbal and electronic, whenever you are.
235:23:22 Schmitt Okay. Stand by a few, please.
235:23:34 Cernan Houston, you want the computer?
235:23:38 CC That's affirmative. We're ready with the up-link.
235:23:42 Cernan Okay. You've got ACCEPT now, and stand by on the updates.
235:23:51 CC Okay.
235:26:47 CC America, Houston. The up-link's in there, you can go back to BLOCK.
235:26:55 Evans Okay.
235:29:19 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're ready to take final TEI pad from you.
235:29:33 CC Okay, Jack, here's the numbers you've been waiting for. TEI, rev 75, SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; NOUN 33 is 236:42:08.35; plus 3039.8, minus 0185.0, plus 0066.1 attitude is 180, 000, and 000; NOUN 44 HA is NA, HP is a plus 00228; And DELTA-V total is 3046.1, 225, 3028.5; sextant star is 06, 109.5, 30.0; boresight star is NA. NOUN 61 is a minus 17.87, minus 166.00; 1047.4; 36172; GET for 0.05G is 304:18:32. GDC stars are Sirius and Rigel; 136; 071, 035. Ullage is four jets, 12 seconds. And three remarks: number 1 is single-bank burn time is 2:29. Number 2, post-TEI RCS DELTA-V is equal to 173 feet per second. And number 3 remark is the SPS PU Ox FLOW VALVE, DECREASE, and then control as required. Over.
235:33:16 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Here is your readback. TEI-75, SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; 236:42:08.35; plus 3039.8, minus 0185.0, plus 0066.1; 180, all zeros, and all zeros; HA is NA, plus 0022.8; 3046.1, 2:25, 3028.5; 06, 109.5; 30.0; boresight star is NA, minus 17.87, minus 166.00; 1047.4; 36172; 304:18:32. Sirius and Rigel; 136; 071, 035. The ullage is four jets for 12 seconds. Remarks: 1, single-bank burn time 2 plus 29; 2, post-TEI RCS DELTA-V is 173 feet per second; and 3, the SPS PU Ox FLOW VALVE will start in DECREASE and then control as required.
235:34:46 CC Okay. That's a good readback and I have another one of those for rev 76.
235:34:59 Schmitt Okay; go ahead.
235:35:01 CC Okay. It's TEI-76, SPS/G&N; weight is 36372; plus 0.63, plus 0.86; 238:42:07.62; plus 3079.9, minus 0283.7, plus 0004.8; 180, 359, 358; all the rest of the pad is NA. GDC stars are Sirius and Rigel; 136, 071, 035. Four jets, for 12 seconds. The remark is burn attitude based on TEI REFSMMAT. Go ahead.
235:36:43 Schmitt Okay. TEI-76. SPS/G&N; 36372; plus 0.65, plus 0.86; 238:42:07.62, plus 3079.9, minus 0283.7, plus 0004.8; 180, 359, 358; rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 136, 071, 035. Ullage is four jets for 12 seconds, and the remark is burn based on TEI REFSMMAT.
235:37:27 CC Okay. And one more is a map update. It goes on the Flight Plan opposite 236 hours and 50 minutes on the right side of the page.
235:38:04 Schmitt Okay. 236:50, right?
235:38:08 CC That's affirm.
235:38:13 Schmitt Go ahead.
235:38:16 CC Okay. The AOS without burn is 237:07:18; and the nominal good TEI AOS will be 236:55:00. Over.
235:38:42 Schmitt Okay. AOS without, 237:07:18; AOS with, 236:55:00.
235:38:52 CC Okay, Jack. We're getting pretty good with these pads. Another 3 days, we ought to have it down pat.
235:39:01 Schmitt I think so, Gordy. is that an offer or do we have a choice?
235:39:10 CC Okay. Yes.
235:39:11 Schmitt I presume you meant 3 days around the Moon, didn't you?
235:39:14 CC No, no, 3 days to splashdown.
235:39:19 Cernan (Laughter) it's all right, Gordy, I know vhat you meant.
235:39:23 CC We got a lot of parties planned we don't want to put off.
235:39:38 CC Okay. We'd like the HIGH GAIN on AUTO. And also, EECOM would like the H fans reconfigured. Number 2, OFF, number 1, ON. Over.
235:39:59 Schmitt Okay. As per EECOM's request, H2 fan 2 is OFF and number 1 is ON.
235:40:09 CC Okay. And we've taken another check on the problem with AOS this rev. We have several sites confirm that they had a solid down-link signal strength and that none of them heard you. We were wondering if you had found anything in audio panel configuration, possibly, that would explain it. Over.
235:40:35 Cernan Gordy, no. But it's conceivable I could have been keying the intercom. I don't think so, but it's certainly conceivable. I - I checked everything else around here.
235:40:46 CC Okay, Gene. You're loud and clear now, so guess we'll let it go at that.
235:40:52 Evans Houston, this is Command Module Pilot, do you read me now?
235:40:56 CC That's affirmative. Loud and clear,
235:41:01 Evans Okay. I'm on the audio panel that Gene was on when he first transmitted.
235:41:07 CC Sounds good.
235:41:11 Evans Okay.
235:41:48 Schmitt And, Houston; DELTA-V test was minus 22.2.
235:41:54 CC Roger.
235:45:38 Cernan Okay, Gordo; this is America. Are you ready for the mapping camera?
235:45:44 CC Roger, Geno. Stand by. Okay; we're ready.
235:45:57 Cernan Okay.
235:46:05 Cernan Okay, MAPPING CAMERA is OFF.
235:47:03 Cernan Okay. MAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY and IMAGE MOTION is OFF.
235:47:10 CC Roger.
235:49:59 Schmitt Houston, I'm going to - I'm waiting your cue to check out the number 2 pressure Indicator.
235:50:08 CC Okay. Stand by, Jack.
235:50:11 Schmitt I'm on SPS, of course.
235:50:16 CC Okay, Jack. We're ready.
235:50:28 Cernan Okay, Gordo, We're going to go ahead and maneuver, P30 looks good. The ... flag is reset for VERB 49.
235:50:38 CC Roger.
235:50:45 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Then I'm going back to number 1 on the pressure indication.
235:50:51 CC Okay. We watched it.
235:51:06 Evans And, Houston; America. The EMS DELTA-V test went from plus 100 to plus 100.5, and went from minus 100 to minus 99.5.
235:51:21 CC Copy, Ja - Ron.
235:51:42 Evans Okay; what's our DELTA-Vc? 3028.5. Oh, come on here.
235:52:33 Evans Okay; DELTA Vc is set. 3028.5. We're DELTA-V is STANDBY.
235:52:54 Evans Okay; we're caged, RATE 2. Okay; we'll put all 16 of them on. Down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. We're CMC in AUTO and DET is set.
235:53:20 Evans Okay.
235:53:43 Cernan Houston, America. We'll pick up the star sextant check and set the DAP when we're in attitude.
235:53:51 CC Roger.
235:54:09 CC America, Houston with some words about the pan camera operation after TEI.
235:54:18 Schmitt Okay, go ahead.
235:54:19 CC Okay. We haven't told you about this, but we noticed a failure during the last operation of the pan camera, of the stereo. It's completely failed and, so - when you go to OPERATE, which is about 7 minutes after AOS, after TEI, you car. expect to get - a barber pole after three frames have cycled through. Want you to just ignore that and let her run. We figure you have 2 minutes of film left, but we won't be able to monitor end of film, because you'll be on TV on the FM. So we're going to limit the pan camera operation to 5 minutes total, and we'll be able to give you the mark when to turn it off after the 5 minutes. Over.
235:55:17 Cernan Okay, Gordo. At 237 in the Flight Plan, where it's "PAN CAMERA, OPERATE" we'll ignore the barber pole. We'll run for 5 minutes and we'll shut it down on your cue.
235:55:25 CC That sounds good.
235:56:27 Schmitt Okay, Houston. The PAN CAMERA is going to BOOST. And also, we're presently configured with the IR, ON and the COVER, OPEN. Apparently Flight Plan neglected to have us turn it off, or are we supposed to burn with it open?
235:56:46 CC Let me check that.
235:57:28 CC America, Houston. We'd like the IR cover closed to keep the Sun out of it.
235:57:36 Evans Okay, and you want the instrument off?
235:57:40 CC Negative, Leave the IR on and I - I'll get back to you in a minute on all these covers.
235:58:00 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Cover's closed and we'll wait your further word.
235:59:14 CC America, Houston. On the covers, we want all three covers closed, according to the pre-SPS burn cue card. The instruments, the IR and UV, keep running, until after TEI, when you open the covers and back up per the Flight Plan. Over.
235:59:37 Schmitt Okay, we'll do that and going OMNI Delta.
236:00:16 Schmitt Houston, our last view this time around is the Sun rising over the Aristarchus Plateau and with the Prinz rilles and generally a continuation of the striking views we've had up to now.
236:00:36 CC Roger.
236:00:52 Schmitt We'll leave this country - this part of this planet for the next group to explore, I guess.
236:07:52 CC America, Houston. I think this is what you wanted to hear, you're GO for TEI.
236:08:01 Evans Outstanding.
236:08:03 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Understand America is GO for TEI ana I'll give you a confirm on the star here, in just a second.
236:08:12 CC Okeydoke.
236:08:49 Cernan Say, Gordo, I'm - I got the Moon now in the telescope, be just a little bit before I can give you a confirm on that, but the DAP is set.
236:09:14 Evans Okay; we'll go ahead and go into P40.
236:10:01 Schmitt Houston, 17.
236:10:04 CC Go ahead.
236:10:09 Schmitt Gordy, could you give me a summary of what your expectations are on the operation of the PUGS?
236:10:20 CC Okay, just a minute.
236:10:58 CC Jack, Houston. We expect you'll need decrease throughout the whole burn. However, we'd like you to control it as required, to keep it in the green band.
236:11:12 Schmitt Okay. And why do you expect that, Gordy? I missed one of the burns.
236:11:27 CC Just - just the way it's worked from past history, that's what we expect this time.
236:11:36 Schmitt Okay.
236:14:43 Cernan Okay, Houston we're down to 6 minutes in the checklist, except for a star sextant check.
236:14:52 CC Okay, Gene.
236:15:46 CC Jack, Houston, with a further word on the PUGS. We have noticed after ignition, on previous burns, some oscillation. We suggest you stay in DECREASE for the first 25 seconds or so, until it stabilizes before you start controlling it.
236:16:05 Schmitt Roger, Gordy.
236:17:55 Cernan Houston, the star sextant check is GO.
236:17:59 CC Roger.
236:21:13 CC America, Houston. About 2 minutes until LOS. One reminder about the DSE: we'd like you to go to LOW BIT RATE just prior to LOS as per the Flight Plan. And then go back to HIGH BIT RATE at 6 minutes prior to ignition per your burn cue card and you can just leave it in HIGH BIT RATE from there on through AOS. We just went around the room once more; everything looks good. Have a good burn, and we'll see you and the TV picture as you come out the other side. Over.
236:21:52 Cernan Okay, Gordy, thank you. We're looking forward to a good burn. And, we'll see you coming out the other side.
236:22:59 PAO This is Apollo control. We've now had loss of signal. Apollo 17 completing it's last full revolution of the Moon. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis, has just advised his flight controllers this would be a good time to take a 10 or 15 minute break and then be back on the consoles ready for acquisition of signal at which time Apollo 17 should be on its way back to Earth. The final set of numbers passed up to the crew to perform the transearth injection burn are very close to those that we had earlier. A couple of very minor changes. The ignition time is 236 hours 42 minutes 8 seconds. That represents a change of one second. The total burn duration remains unchanged essentially at 2 minutes 25 seconds. And this will impart an increase in velocity to the spacecraft of 3046 feet per second and that represents a decrease of 1 foot per second over the numbers we had previously. Splashdown is targeted for a Ground Elapsed Time of 304 hours 31 minutes 25 seconds in the Pacific southeast of Samoa. The targeted splashdown coordinates are 17 degrees 54 minutes south and 166 degrees west. The television picture as Apollo 17 comes around into acquisition of signal. We regain radio contact should be a very spectacular view of the lunar surface, The spacecraft at the time we acquire should be at an altitude of about 291 miles above the lunar surface moving out at more than 55 hundred miles per hour and it will be almost directly over the crater Tsiolkovsky which is on the lunar farside normally not visible from Earth. This will be the second time that we've had a chance to view the lunar far side via television from an Apollo mission. The first time occurred on Apollo 10. We were discussing that mission with the Commander of Apollo 10 General Tom Stafford, who's here in the Control Center. Stafford also recalled it being a very spectacular view, as all lunar crews have reported. One thing he did point out is that Apollo 10 had significantly more velocity at transearth injection than Apollo 17 will have. Had a shorter trip time of something like 40 hours for the return compared with about 68 hours for the return time on Apollo 17. This would perhaps cause the Moon to shrink a little less rapidly than we recall it from Apollo 10, but nevertheless, should be a very spectacular sight. The previous crews have described it, the Moon is looking as if you were in a high performance jet aircraft going straight up and the Moon goes from filling the TV screen to shrinking into a discernable sphere in a relatively short period of time, a matter of 10 to 15 minutes as we recall. Again, the acquisition of signal time, the time at which we should have radio contact with Apollo 17, given a normal TEI burn is 236 hours 55 minutes. We have a clock in the Control Center, counting down to that acquisition time. We're now 28 minutes 14 seconds from acquisition. If, for some reason, the transearth injection burn was not performed, we would acquire about 12 minutes later at 237 hours 7 minutes 18 seconds. This is due to the fact that without the burn the spacecraft remains in a lower orbit, does not clear the lunar horizon and become visible to antennas on Earth as soon. Everything has continued to progress very smoothly leading up to transearth injection. On the last front side pass, we fed up the final numbers to the crew. They made the final checks of their guidance and navigation equipment, and as they went around the corner of the Moon everything was looking absolutely normal. We did have one minor unexplained situation occur at the start of the revolution. Gene Cernan reported that he tried for 4 or 5 minutes to establish radio contact and apparently not getting through. The instrumentations communications officer here in the Control Center checked with the various tracking sites, both the prime and backup sites, and they all confirmed that they had rot heard downlink from the spacecraft, although we did have, that is, voice downlink, we did have good telemetry lock on and good solid signal strength. The indications that we had, both on the ground and from the spacecraft were that everything was in the normal configuration and we simply have no explanation for that 4 or 5 minutes when the crew was unable to contact us. But the communications equipment has continued to work absolutely normally. No sign of any problem and no concern. This burn of course is performed while the spacecraft is behind the Moon, so we have no data on the maneuver. We'll get our first report, of it as the crew comes back around on the lunar front side. Comparing this transearth injection maneuver burn with previous burns, it's interesting to observe the Flight Controllers. They're certainly all aware that this is a significant event, leaving the Moon for the final time in the Apollo Program, but the atmosphere here in the Control Center is not much different from previous transearth injection burns that we've observed. Having watched the spacecraft and crew perform this same maneuver flawlessly seven times previously, there's obviously less of the tension that was evident at this time after Apollo 8, when Apollo 8 was preparing to leave the Moon four years ago. We have a number of small clusters of people gathered around in casual conversation and in about 5 or 10 minutes, I'm sure we'll see everybody returning to consoles, getting set to receive that first data from the spacecraft. We're now 12 minutes away from the time at which the crew will be igniting their 20,500 pound thrust service propulsion system engine for 2 minutes and 25 seconds of what's been described as a rather stiff kick in the tail for the spacecraft that starts it on it's path back to Earth. And we're now about 25 minutes from reacquiring radio contact with Apollo 17. At 236 hours 31 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
236:52:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 236 hours 52 minutes. We're now a little less than 3 minutes away from the time we expect to regain radio contact with Apollo 17. And, at that time, we should get confirmation from the crew that America is enroute back to Earth. We have another clock counting, here in the Control Center, for the acquisition time that we can expect, if the Trans Earth Injection burn was not performed, and that now shows 14 minutes 42 seconds until acquisition of signal. That again is the time that we would acquire if the Trans Earth Injection burn was not done as planned. We have an interesting display at the present time, which is called up by our Flight Dynamics Officer, and this display shows what the computers here in the Control Center predict that the current velocity of the spacecraft and its altitude are, based on the assumption that the burn was performed as planned. And, if that assumption is correct, Apollo 17 at this time, is traveling at some 7800 feet per second and is at an altitude of about 237 miles above the Moon and climbing rapidly. And, we're now less than 1 1/2 minutes away from acquisition of signal.
236:54:34 PAO We're now less than 30 seconds from acquisition of signal. The next call will be INCO's, the instrumentation and communications engineer letting us know that we have radio signals from the spacecraft. We'll be receiving Apollo 17 through a 210 foot dish antenna at Goldstone, Calif.
236:55:13 PAO AOS, Goldstone.
236:56:11 PAO We've acquired signal, but we're still waiting for a good solid lockup. And, our data shows that Apollo 17 has an altitude now of 335 miles above the lunar surface.
236:57:14 America, this is Houston. We'd like the high gain, please.
236:57:34 PAO And, we're beginning to get a picture of the lunar surface.
236:57:53 PAO This view's from 400 miles up.
236:57:57 Cernan Houston, do you read America?
236:57:59 That's affirmative, America. And we have a picture. Over.
236:58:05 Cernan Roger, Houston. America, has found some fair winds and following seas, and we're on our way home.
236:58:12 CC Okay, that's great news.
236:58:20 Cernan It sure is, Gordo.
236:58:22 Evans You betcha, by golly. It's outstandingly good. That was a good burn, too. We'll give you the burn report in a bit.
236:58:28 CC Okay.
236:58:57 Cernan Okay, Houston, I'll try to give you Tsiolkovsky from about the nadir.
236:59:02 CC Roger.
236:59:21 PAO The crater Tsiolkovsky on the lunan far side is normally not visible from Earth. First seen by a Soviet Luna, an unmanned photographic mission.
236:59:30 Cernan ... focus. Yes, this - there you go.
236:59:44 PAO That crater's about 160 miles in diameter.
236:59:50 Cernan This is a grand place to be right now.
236:59:56 CC I'll bet it is, and we've got a great picture of Tsiolkovsky. Got it right, in the center, and good focus. Great picture.
237:00:10 Cernan I know there's not as many smiling faces down there as there are up here, but we're making up for the difference in numbers.
237:00:22 CC Roger.
237:00:24 PAO America 500 miles above the Moon now.
237:00:29 Schmitt Gordo, I'll give you a quick burn report. The burn was on time. Burn time was 2 minutes and 23 seconds. DELTA-V was 3047.0. Attitude at the end of the burn was 184, 005, 359. That's 184, 005, and 359. There was no trim. The residuals are minus 2, plus 0.7 - Correction, minus 0.2, plus 0.7, and plus 0.2. DELTA-V was minus 18.1.
237:01:10 CC Roger. We got those.
237:01:14 Schmitt And, Gordy, the unbalance is about 30 pounds, and oxidizer is 2.8 and fuel 2.9, and I blew FULL DECREASE the whole burn.
237:01:24 Roger, Jack.
237:01:38 Evans How's the picture look, Gordy?
237:01:40 CC Real fine.
237:01:46 PAO This view looking back across the lunar far side at the highlands.
237:01:50 Cernan I'd tell you exactly what we're looking at, but I can't quite see it,
237:02:07 Schmitt Gordy, the country Gene's pointing out, is south of the orbit that we've been following for several days, and Ron, even more than Gene and I. And it's some of the striking country of the far aide of the Moon that human beings don't very often have a chance to see, but a trend's been started in the last few years, and I suspect it will continue.
237:02:38 CC Roger, Jack.
237:02:54 Evans Gordy, America performed superbly.
237:02:54 CC America, Houston. We need PAIS CAMERA OPERATE, now.
237:03:02 Schmitt Thank you. PAN CAMERA going to OPERATE.
237:03:10 CC And can you verify that you got the other SIM bay items that precede that?
237:03:17 Schmitt We're verifying that right now.
237:03:40 PAO The spacecraft panoramic and mapping cameras are both operating at this time to record this view of the lunar far side.
237:04:05 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. The SIM bay should be squared away.
237:04:08 CC Okay. Thank you.
237:04:08 Schmitt Pardon our slowness there.
237:04:13 Cernan Gordy, I'll try and take you across the terminator, if I can.
237:04:17 CC All right.
237:04:25 Schmitt Of course, we're seeing country south of Tsiolkovsky that we've never seen before.
237:04:35 CC Roger.
237:04:48 Schmitt And when we get a picture of Tsiolkovsky back, I think maybe even you can see one of the things that both Ron and I have noticed about it is, number 1, it's a basin that is comparable in its freshness ana apparent age to the probably the Imbrium Basin on the near side of the Moon; and, secondly, it has an unusual area an its northeast quadrant that - from which the blanket is excluded. There is an apparent slide. We're not sure what it is, but the normal indications of an ejecta blanket are just not there.
237:05:34 CC Roger that, Jack; and we can see those features you just described. The camera - -
237:05:40 Schmitt Okay. And for - for your - -
237:05:41 CC - - if you can figure out a way to hold it a little steadier, that would help, but we're getting good resolution.
237:05:49 Cernan Okay, Gordo, I'm working on it. You'd think a guy that's been there for however many days we've been there could find it, don't you?
237:06:00 Evans When you see Tsiolkovsky south, the central peaks form an arrow that points south, Gordy.
237:06:00 PAO If you look closely at the northeast rim of Tsiolkovsky, you'll see a large landslide that Al Warden first described on Apollo 15. The crew now moving the camera apparently to a different window. Apollo 17 now at an altitude of 825 nautical miles.
237:07:34 CC America, Houston. Your altitude right now is 820 - 835 miles. Over.
237:07:47 Cernan Okay, 835 miles. And climbing out like a dingbat.
237:08:01 PAO North is now at the bottom of this picture.
237:08:01 Schmitt Frames 5 through 20 were taken on mag Papa Papa, at that altitude.
237:08:08 CC Okay, Ron.
237:08:15 Evans There's Smythii down there. I finally figured out where we are. Right down underneath the window. I can see it now.
237:08:28 Schmitt Gordy, as far as we can, we'll try to run you a little bit along the orbital track. I'll be panning the camera more or less westward. Tsiolkovsky starting and Tsiolkovsky is itself in the crater Fermi, and moving on to the east, the next big pair of craters that we spent some time studying is Hilbert, which is just south, is right there, and just a little bit northwest of there is Pasteur.
237:09:11 CC Roger, Jack.
237:09:21 Schmitt Both Hilbert and Pasteur appear to be very old basins, much older than Tsiolkovsky and they have, as yon can see, a fill in them, apparent fill - very flat-looking at this distance, end very light colored. It's an event on the Moon of which we have relatively little understanding at this time, but possibly the Apollo 16 results, when they're fully known, through the analysis of the samples and other data, may shed some light on that event.
237:09:56 CC Roger, Sorry to - -
237:09:58 Cernan Hey, look here - ... - -
237:09:59 CC - - interrupt, but we'd like PAN CAMERA, OFF; now. PAN CAMERA. STANDBY, rather.
237:10:02 Cernan - - That's a full circle.
237:10:08 Cernan Okay, STANDBY. Now we're going to be able to pan a little bit more east now of Pasteur and start to show the crater Smythii, the basin Smythii really. It's one of the older large basins on the Moon. It has none of the obvious features of big basins such as Imbrium or Serenitatis. But it's nevertheless roughly circular, has a mare fill, and a very - I'm point right now to the hint of a second ring outside, but the main ring is the one Ron's talked to you a lot about, and has his double-ring craters in it. And we're pointing at some of those right now.
237:10:57 Evans Uh-huh.
237:11:00 Schmitt Okay, Houston, we can now see Tycho. We're seeing probably about 75 to 80 percent, of the entire Moon - face, anyway lit up. The rays of Tycho are very obvious from here. Want the camera over there, Gene?
237:11:17 Cernan Let me show it to them.
237:11:25 CC We had a good tour there of Smythii. We recognized the Smith Brothers, the Wright Brothers and started to see Neper before you left, it.
237:11:49 PAO This view from the Moon at an altitude of more than 1000 miles.
237:12:13 Evans No.
237:12:13 Cernan No?
237:12:14 Evans No.
237:12:16 Schmitt No, you won't see Tycho for a little bit.
237:12:32 PAO The large crater in the lower right corner is the crater Humboldt.
237:12:36 Schmitt You can - Langrenus is visible now at the edge of Fecunditatis there, if you want to show that one.
237:12:48 Cernan Just this side of Fecunditatis?
237:12:53 Schmitt And Humboldt is a crater that ought to show up very well on the television. That's the cracked floor crater there with a little dark mare.
237:13:00 Cernan Okay.
237:13:09 Schmitt There's all the swirls in Marginis. You can really see them now.
237:13:16 Schmitt Oh, yes. Why don't you get -
237:13:18 Evans Yes. Can you get some of the swirls - -
237:13:19 Schmitt Okay. Early in our orbit, and particularly Ron, he had the chance to work on the question of these light-colored swirls and Marginis has outstanding examples of them and I'll try to get the camera pointed on those in the northern part of Marginis. Let me orient you, as soon as we're focused here. Okay - Smythii - I'll point right at the center of Mare Smythii, and then move up towards Neper and then into the swirl area a little bit more north. And Gene will zoom you in and let you see what some of that looks like. I don't think we have a full answer at what the swirls are, but some of the things that we saw in Taurus-Littrow and later from orbit around Sulpicius Gallus may suggest to people, from now on, that the possibility of alteration from fluids in the interior of the Moon is more than just a possibility.
237:14:39 CC Roger. That's a nice shot there of Marginis.
237:14:44 Schmitt Can you see the swirls, Gordy? - are the very diffused, light-colored areas that cross various topographic features.
237:14:53 CC That's affirmative, Jack. They're visible from here.
237:15:06 Cernan Okay. I'm going to give you an end-on view, if I can, of Mare - of the Crisium Basin. You should be seeing that now.
237:15:15 Evans How is that, Gene?
237:15:17 CC That's a good picture of Crisium as it is very evident on the right side of our picture.
237:15:24 Schmitt Yes, that's right. And before long, we'll be able to show you the landing site and Taurus-Littrow and I think you probably see Proclus, which is the bright crater just off the horizon now. That's the one with the excluded ray zone on its western or southwestern side.
237:15:44 Evans It's not in view yet.
237:15:45 Schmitt We may not see it, I think we're going the other way.
237:15:47 Cernan Right in the horizon. The landing area, Taurus-Littrow, and the edge of the Serenitatis Basin is probably just on the horizon now and I'm not sure it exactly - -
237:16:00 Evans You can see the dark part of Serenitatis is sticking out of the Sea of Proclus the ray-excluded zone. No, that's Fecunditatis sticking up there, isn't, it? Because the ray perpendicular to our track now points right to the landing site right off of Proclus.
237:16:23 Schmitt The area where one of the Russian vehicles set down and returned samples from is just about in the center of your field of view now. Just on the north side of Fecunditatis.
237:16:40 CC Roger. And you're about 1300 miles up right now.
237:16:46 Schmitt Wow!
237:16:47 Cernan That's not a bad climb is it, Gordy?
237:16:51 CC Pretty good rate.
237:16:52 Cernan A friend of mine says "Wow woozle!"
237:17:00 Evans Looking out window - window 3 now, and the Moon is just the size of the window, and I've got my face right up against the window.
237:17:11 Cernan Or maybe his head's just the size of the Moon. We're not sure which.
237:17:13 Evans (Laughter) That's right.
237:17:18 Cernan I don't know what's happening down there now, Gordy, but this is where the action was one time.
237:17:25 Cernan Okay, we're starting to, I think, in a little bit, be able to show you the edge of the Serenitatis Basin. It's moving a little slowly right now. It looks like it's creeping over the horizon.
237:17:39 Evans It's going to creep over the horizon, maybe, but I think - -
237:17:42 Cernan But I'll tell you what's on the horizon now. I'm not sure I can get it. Let me try the rendezvous window. I think I can show them Apollo 11's landing site.
237:17:54 Schmitt You can probably get it at the south portion of Tranquillity there, if you - out the center window would be better.
237:18:00 Evans Yes, the center window, you could get it.
237:18:07 Schmitt See the southern part of Fecunditatis, and then the Tranquillitatis takes off to the west there, Gene, right along that southern edge of Fecunditatis is where Apollo 11 set down.
237:18:19 Cernan Yes, and a little bit north of the line that - of the ray of those two craters.
237:18:47 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, in the center of your picture is - about right in there, is the southern edge of Tranquillity and the Apollo 11 area and that was the ground track, of course, for Apollo 8 and Apollo 10.
237:19:08 CC Roger.
237:19:17 Schmitt Yes, we'll put you back on Langrenus, which is one of the Copernican-age craters, in this part of the Moon, and I believe it was Apollo 12 had an excellent opportunity for some several orbits to study Langrenus.
237:19:36 CC Roger. We see that. It stands out like a beacon there, on the right side of the picture, and we also saw Messier with its rays.
237:19:54 Schmitt Okay, our landing site's in view now, Gene.
237:20:04 Evans You're a little bit off the field - let me move - you're almost out of the field here. Let's see, Proclus -
237:20:13 Schmitt Our landing area is just about in the center of your field of view right at the horizon now.
237:20:18 CC Roger.
237:20:19 Schmitt That's the best focus we've got, Gene.
237:20:32 Cernan Okay, full zoom, and right in that region in the center should be the landing site of Apollo 17, known, hereafter I guess, as the Taurus-Littrow area.
237:20:57 CC You're now 1500 miles above the surface, and your climb rate was just computed at 295,000 feet per minute.
237:21:10 Evans (Chuckle) Oh man, that is really moving out.
237:21:17 Schmitt Sure glad they cleared the traffic out of the way. Let me - Gene, let me switch over briefly and show them the North and South Poles, which nobody really has done much with yet, except for Lunar Orbiter, and some of the Russian vehicles. There's a spectacular valley off - on the South Pole. I don't know the name. It looks like one of these long chain of - chain of craters.
237:22:04 Cernan Does that snow up? Let me try it with - let me try some of these others. Well, oh, here's where it ...
237:22:33 Schmitt Okay, Houston, we're in - -
237:22:37 Cernan Huh? Good picture?
237:22:39 Schmitt That's in the south polar regions. There's a - I think you can probably see a long chain of craters, which so far unvisited by man. In fact, the whole region has, and that goes for the north pole.
237:22:54 CC Roger, Jack. That's very interesting. Can you zoom in on that whole valley?
237:23:00 Schmitt I think that's the best we got, Gordy, That's full zoom.
237:23:04 CC Roger.
237:23:11 Schmitt It's one of the biggest crater - chain crater valleys that I've seen on the Moon. It - we saw some crossing Mendeleev, in the first few days, I think we talked about, similar in shape but not nearly as big.
237:23:31 CC Roger.
237:23:33 Schmitt Let me move over briefly to give you another view of Humboldt, which should show up very well now. We're just about directly overhead. It's unusual - one of the few craters on the Moon that have a fairly flooded floor, that appears to have been domed, and you probably can see some of the cracks in that floor.
237:23:56 CC Okay, it's in the center of the field now; however, something is blocking the right side of the view.
237:24:03 Cernan How's that?
237:24:04 CC That's real good now.
237:24:10 Schmitt Around the edge of the dome floor, you can see some of the dark mare which is prevalent elsewhere in the region but not so abundant within Humboldt.
237:24:25 CC Roger.
237:24:33 Cernan And you - you can see - if you can see - Check it ...
237:24:39 Schmitt Langrenus, you mean?
237:24:41 Cernan Tsiolkovsky is ... the terminis.
237:24:43 Schmitt Oh, okay.
237:24:46 Evans Out the window.
237:24:47 Schmitt Oh, all right. Hey, there's another view, if you will bear with us, of our old friend Tsiolkovsky, Okay?
237:24:55 Cernan Okay, I got it.
237:25:00 CC Roger. It's hard to mistake that one.
237:25:06 Schmitt Yes, it's one of the more pic - picturesque basins. I guess partly - although it's big, it's not so big you can't look at it all at once. Symthii and Crisium and Serenitatis and Imbrium, in particular, are hard to look at ail at once. You're always down inside of them in the 60-nautical-mile orbit.
237:25:33 CC Roger. Just night mention the diameter for those who are watching at home. That's about l80 miles across, I think.
237:25:43 Schmitt (Laughter) Okay. That's pretty good. I was going to say about 200 kilometers, I think, is what it is, but - -
237:25:50 Evans That's right.
237:25:51 Evans And, Gordy, of course, it's on a part of the Moon that you - you don't see from where you are.
237:25:58 CC Roger.
237:26:04 Schmitt Not yet, anyway.
237:26:12 Schmitt Okay, let's see if we can move on along our orbital track that we've been following and see what's new that's come into view. Once again, I'll pick yon up at Smythii and move you into Mare Marginis, the Margin Sea. And, all the mare, you may recall now, we have pretty good evidence as a result of the Apollo - -
237:26:42 Evans Change this ... around.
237:26:43 Schmitt - - Program - -
237:26:45 Evans Good.
237:26:45 Schmitt - - that our theories of basalt flows that some 3 to 4 billion years ago, in round numbers, were erupted on the Moon and filled many of the low areas that existed at that time. Not an awful lot has happened to the Moon since - except for the impact craters, some of the younger ones, since 3 billion years ago, which is one of the reasons it becomes so interesting to man. It's - the Moon's frozen in a period of history 3 billion years and older, which is a period of history that we cannot recognize very readily on Earth because of the dynamic processes of mountain building and oceans and weathering that are taking place even at the present time. Understanding that early history of the Moon may mean an understanding of the early history of the Earth. And, I think we're well on our way to a first-order understanding of that history as a result of the Program. Okay, going to take you a little bit farther along. Again, to Proclus, which is the obvious partially rayed crater with a big excluded aone to the southwest. There's Mare Fecunditatis and its contact area with the Sea of Serenity, Mare Serenitatis; and the landing site now has to be just about on the horizon. I think we were a little premature before.
237:28:31 CC Roger.
237:28:32 Evans Yes, we were. That's Macrobius A and B just beyond Proclus, there. Yes. that's really Macrobius - -
237:28:44 Schmitt Now, you're starting to - just to see the Mare of Serenitatis come over the horizon - -
237:28:49 Evans Yes.
237:28:49 Schmitt - - and, if you taKe a line Proclus between the two bright craters - -
237:28:57 Evans You're not going to get more of the Moon and less of the space up there?
237:29:00 Schmitt Yes, yes. How's that?
237:29:02 Evans That's better.
237:29:04 Schmitt Take that line, and that will take you just about to the landing area, right at the edge of the next big mare that you see.
237:29:09 CC Okay, Jack, we can follow that just as you told us there. Those three craters are very obvious.
237:29:43 Schmitt The site, Gordo, is now just to the left - left and a little below center of your picture.
237:29:50 CC Roger.
237:29:53 Cernan You can see that ridge of mountains that sticks out and the landing site is - well, from here, anyway, right in that area.
237:30:00 Schmitt Right, I guess my line was a little bit north of where we actually should have pointed you. There's some dark area just showing up around the edge of Serenitatis on the horizon. I think that will show in your picture as I remember some of these from Apollo 10 before. And it's just this side of the dark area that the Taurus-Littrow area sits, in the mountains, there.
237:30:39 CC We think we have Maraldi in sight now.
237:30:47 Schmitt Yes, and you also - -
237:30:48 Cernan Yes. They should.
237:30:49 Evans Yes. You should.
237:30:49 Schmitt - - Vitruvius should be visible to you just to the south of the landing area.
237:30:56 Cernan Vitruvius is in the monitor, so they should have it.
237:31:08 Cernan Jack, I think you got a good view. You can see Censorinus now. You can probably get a real good shot at the 11 site at Tranquility.
237:31:15 Schmitt Yes, you're right.
237:31:19 Cernan There's old Censorinus. It's awful big.
237:31:25 CC How big is it, Geno?
237:31:27 Cernan Okay, towards the southern border of - (laughter). Okay. Old Censorinus is right in the middle of the screen.
237:31:35 CC We see it.
237:31:36 Cernan You've been there before.
237:31:38 CC Right.
237:31:45 CC 17, Houston. You've just passed 2000 miles.
237:31:52 Cernan 2000 miles. We've got about a 95-percent full Moon in front of us.
237:32:10 Schmitt Not too far - matter of fact, I think the Apollo 16 landing area would be just about on the horizon, to the south of Tranquillitatis. And back up to something that's dear and near to our hearts. You probably now can pick out the mountains, the North and South Massif, if you really look closely. What do you think, Gene, from the monitor? Can they see that?
237:32:59 Cernan I can't even see the Massifs with the naked eye. No.
237:33:03 Schmitt See the dark area there next to ... - -
237:33:08 Cernan I know where - Yes. I know where to look. But it's awful hard to pick them out. But you're looking right at it. You've got it right - Just to the left center. It's just about perfect, the landing site. There's a little dark area in that peninsula of mountains that sticks out and the site is just about right in that area.
237:33:25 CC Roger, Gene, as you say - -
237:33:26 Schmitt I wish we could show you - -
237:33:28 CC - - we know where to look, but it's hard to confirm exactly the structure there.
237:33:37 Schmitt Come on, you guys, 1 can even see the light mantle.
237:33:43 Cernan Extrapolation is the nature of our art.
237:33:48 CC I just saw a flash, Jack.
237:33:51 Schmitt I wish we could - Okay.
237:33:55 Cernan I didn't hear them. Say again.
237:33:57 Schmitt Say again.
237:33:59 CC I just saw a flash.
237:34:04 Schmitt (Laughter) I wish we could show you some of the color we've seen on the Moon this trip, but I think we're a little too far away from it. We'll see if we can ... back in ... from here.
237:34:20 CC We - we've been looking for that crater - -
237:34:25 Schmitt Well, I can show you a picture of the commander. He's fairly colorful.
237:35:03 Cernan That's about what we're seeing, Gordy. I can't give you the bottom half because I can't quite move around the post here.
237:35:13 CC Geno, we're getting a great picture ... 50 percent of it.
237:35:15 Cernan You getting the whole movie? I'll get it. Okay, I think you can orient yourself with the big basins Jack's been talking about. There's Crisium. You can see the landing site up in the - what is to me the upper left-hand corner of the picture, but you can pick it out by now, I know. Get a better relationship. You're looking at the Langrenus, down there, that bright crater. You ought to be able to see Humboldt. Maybe Jack can give you the whole thing. Just a second -
237:35:54 Schmitt ... this in.
237:35:55 Cernan Can you get the whole thing?
237:35:56 Schmitt Yes. He said minimum zoom.
237:35:59 Cernan Yes. It's minimum zoom. Okay, that's pretty good, it's centered just about right in the center. It ought to fit your screen as we climb out. Just about a - tangential now.
237:36:18 CC That's perfect right where you got it.
237:36:22 Cernan Okay, we'll hold that for a minute. The terminator is coming across, of course, at the opposite side of the Moon from the big basin that you're looking at.
237:36:34 CC Roger.
237:36:38 CC Geno, what color does that mare look like to you?
237:36:44 Cernan What color does the mare look like to me from here?
237:36:48 CC Right.
237:36:48 Cernan Now, I'm a commander; do I have the right to change my mind? (Laughter)
237:36:53 CC I guess so.
237:36:59 Cernan Tom, you know I always thought you could almost make it look whatever color you wanted to, it's so subtle. But the mare - the mare, to me, has got a grayish - a dark grayish mixed witn a very subtle tan, and that's what it looks like to me, from here.
237:37:22 CC Roger.
237:37:24 Evans This is the CMP. I agree with that.
237:37:29 Cernan The tan is sort of like a dusted tan in spots in and around and on the mare. I'd say that the basic - if I could pick out a chunk of that gray mare from here, I would pick out a very steel gray - a dull steel-gray color, but if I just took a mass of mare out, I'd have to mix it with a subtle - very, very subtle pastel tan.
237:37:59 Cernan That's perfect. You can see Tsiolkovsky now in the terminator, down there. I think Jack's just about got the Moon centered perfect. You got Tsiolkovsky on one end; the big basin's on the other end. how high are we, Gordy?
237:38:13 CC ... gray. Okay, you're 2327 miles.
237:38:24 Cernan You know, I think it's worth noting, while we're looking back at the entire Moon as we see it here and you're seeing it there, that America could be proud of the Apollo heritage it's left here. I know we in the program believe that it's really and truly been a heritage that will prove itself to be one of the - most beneficial things that have happened to mankind in quite some time, although none of us can really predict the future. But I think everyone that has been part of this program has been proud of its accomplishments. I know we have. We're looking back at someplace, I think, we will use as a stepping stone to go beyond some day. And those aren't words. It's a faith I truly and dearly have. And I think we will all see it in our lifetime, not just as a nation, but as a world. I think the Apollo Program not only has given us the first steps to that sort of impossible dream, but has given us an opportunity to make the first steps in bringing a world together as one unit, so that we can make that step together. It's been a privilege sharing the program - that part of it that we've been in with as many people as we have and as many people as we can, because I've often thought and I've often said before that anything that's worthwhile doing and doing well, is certainly worthwhile sharing with others. This is history being made in our time, while you and I are alive, not 100 years ago or 1000 years ago, and it's sort of the real thing happening right now. You're living it, not just us. We hope that you're getting as much out of it, not just feeling of pleasure and excitement, but that of accomplishment, as we are.
237:40:26 CC Thank you, Gene. Speaking for the ground, as part of the Apollo Team, we second those thoughts, which you put very well.
237:40:43 Cernan Well, Gordy, it's not our accomplishment. It's the accomplishments of a nation. And I think the next set of accomplishments are going to be the accomplishments of mankind.
237:40:58 Schmitt Gordy, in - in that vein, I think a couple words, I'd like to more or less reiterate what I tried to say as we finished our third EVA, and that was that the valley of Taurus Littrow and the orbit of the spaceship America saw the completion of mankind's first steps - first evolutionary steps from the Planet Earth into the universe. I think it's important that in doing so, we establish a tradition of peace and freedom within the solar system. From that larger home, now we move to greet the future.
237:42:04 Evans Well, you know, Houston, and America, and the world, this is the Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America, and I just feel quite honored and proud to have been a part of this Apollo Program. The Moon, itself, is a magnificent, it's a dyn - well, I hate to use the word dynamic, because it's really not dynamic, but it's a marvelous planet. It has all the wonderful opportunity for exploration. Man must explore. We will continue to explore, and I hope that some day we may all have the opportunity to see mankind enjoy the benefits of the exploration of the Apollo Program.
237:43:04 CC Thank you very much for the great TV show and the - and your final words. We enjoyed every bit of it.
237:43:14 Cernan And, Gordy, with that, we're about behind out timeline, as we fully expected we might be at this point in time, but believe me, it has been a beginning, it is a beginning, I don't think there ever will be an end, not as long as man is alive and willing.
237:43:42 Cernan ... I turned it off.
237:44:33 CC America, Houston. We didn't have data, of course, while you had the TV on. We're wondering if you configured the SIM bay on our voice call or had you done it earlier? Over.
237:44:47 Cernan No, Gordo. We were late. When you called - I guess "PAN CAMERA, ON," we went back and configured a SIM bay and followed those steps in the Flight Plan that follow "TV, ON." We had not done that.
237:45:03 CC Okay. No problem. We're just - just wondered what we had there.
237:45:18 Cernan Okay, Are we up to date on the SIM bay now, or you satisfied?
237:45:23 CC No, we're just now getting some data, and taking a look. We'll let you know. Okay. We'll take PAN CAMERA, OFF, now.
237:45:42 Schmitt Okay. The PAN CAMERA power is OFF.
237:46:00 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, S-BAND AUX TV is going to SCIENCE.
237:46:04 CC Roger.
237:46:16 Cernan Gordy, it's going to be hard to leave this attitude, but we're going to maneuver now.
237:46:21 CC Roger.
237:47:00 Evans And, Houston; America. Mag Delta Delta is empty now. The last 50 percent was used for taking pictures of the TEI.
237:47:11 CC Okay, Ron.
237:47:23 Cernan Gordo, going back at that burn. It was an outstanding burn. We were looking about a half a g throughout the burn. She lit off on time. She was a very steady burn. I think she reversed roll a - a couple of times in the dead band. The computer and the EMS were with each other all the way.
237:47:48 Evans Chamber pressure on bank A started out at about 87. Bank B brought it up to about 92, 93. And when I first sat down, it was reading 0, now it's reading 5.
237:48:05 CC Okay, Ron. We got 6 down here.
237:48:11 Cernan Okay, so in all other respects, the burn was nominal, Gordy. You got the burn report and the residuals, and we'll leave the tracking to you.
237:48:24 CC Roger.
237:48:36 Cernan I might add, I don't think they built spacecraft any better than they built these two.
237:48:42 CC I don't see how they could have.
237:48:43 Evans I'll sure second that.
237:48:55 Cernan I finally found what I was looking for. I got the man in the Moon.
237:49:01 CC Roger.
237:49:09 Cernan For all you nonbelievers, I verify he really is there.
237:49:14 CC Okay.
237:49:35 Cernan Gordy, these next series of maneuvers - bring us - bring our middle gimbal angle pretty close to the apple. We're watching it, but appreciate you not hesitating giving us a call, too.
237:49:50 CC Okeydoke.
237:51:23 Cernan Gordo. In answer to PP's question about the color of the maria down there, when you look at Serenitatis, of course we saw this earlier, when we were much closer, but when you look at it from up here, it's - it's got on the northeast side, a very - quite thick, laterally across the surface, dark - typically dark with the tannish colors I was talking about - mare - which sort of borders it. But just north of the - the overlap, between Tranquility and Serenitatis, that contact changes sharply to a - the grays are gone - it's a very sharp contrast and I think those who have seen it before will remember it, but Serenitatis from -where we stand is - much more tan dominated, than gray dominated.
237:52:33 CC Roger.
237:53:29 Cernan Gordo, we'll get those numbers out of the first state vector out of the computer here shortly. No hurry to do it though.
237:53:38 CC Okay.
237:53:51 Cernan Do you have our altitude now? About 4000 miles maybe?
237:54:00 CC I lost that display. Let me check here.
237:54:05 Cernan No, I'm just trying to relate it to when we were coming in. I'd say it's more like 5.
237:54:11 CC 3100.
237:54:16 Cernan How many?
237:54:17 CC 3100.
237:54:22 Cernan 3100. Okay.
237:55:09 CC America, Houston. Sorry to say that the LCRU has pretty well crumped, evidently. We were talking over the biomed schedule and suggest that with your choice, either Gene stay on it or Jack go on it, and then we'll get back to the Flight Plan rotation after the EVA. Over.
237:55:36 Cernan Okay, I'll stay on it through the EVA. How's that?
237:55:40 CC Okay, fine.
237:55:43 Cernan And we'll pick - we'll pick Jack and Ron in the morning.
237:55:49 CC All right.
237:55:53 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. I fail to see the correlation between the LCRU crumping and me going on biomed. Don't tell me you were monitoring it on the Surgeon's console, there.
237:56:14 CC Well, we don't see any correlation either, but we're trying to look for some.
237:56:23 Schmitt Okay; let me know when you have an answer.
237:56:27 CC Okay.
237:57:57 Cernan Houston, America. When you get a hack on - on our track, I'd like to get a first-cut estimate at it.
237:58:09 CC Okay; will do.
237:58:42 CC Geno, it'll take about an hour to get a good hack, to get that much tracking. However, earlier, the Retro was betting everybody there wouldn't be any midcourses.
237:58:56 Cernan That's a - that's a good way to feel. Okay, we'll - we'll talk to you in an hour about it.
237:59:04 Schmitt Whose the wild man Retro? I don't want to play poker with him.
237:59:13 CC It's old ... He's a former B-17 pilot. They're - they're always right on.
237:59:41 Schmitt Now you're starting to scare me.
237:59:50 Cernan You can pass the word to Captain Green, back there on the ... to clear the flight decks.
237:59:56 CC Okay, we'll do it.
238:00:06 Schmitt The last time I had anything to do with a bomber pilot, Gordy, he was getting me my airplane.
238:01:25 PAO This is Apollo Control at 238 hours 1 minute. During the -
238:01:30 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
238:01:32 CC Go ahead.
238:01:35 Cernan We got PTC orientation in the computer?
238:01:41 CC Negative, But we got it ready to come to you, if you give us ACCEPT.
238:01:56 Schmitt Okay. It's all yours.
238:01:57 CC Roger.
238:02:15 PAO The significance of Capcom Gordon Fullerton's comment to the crew a few minutes ago that the LCRU had "crumped", as he put it, is that we're no longer able to get television from the lunar surface. The television picture comes back through the Lunar Communications Relay Unit. The Instrumentation and Communications; Officer here has tried numerous times to command the TV on, and the commands are not getting through. So, apparently, the TV is no longer available to us.
238:02:44 Schmitt Gordy, I'm afraid the weather reports on the way back of the only planet that really has much weather visible, will be a little repetitive.
238:02:56 CC Jack, we're heartbroken.
238:03:03 Schmitt For your for - first report, you can just play the recording back; it's sunny and clear.
238:03:14 CC Okay.
238:03:20 CC You're right on that one - -
238:03:21 Schmitt The only sign of any weather - -
238:03:21 CC - - except that you left out the fact that it's - cold also, here.
238:03:30 Schmitt Gordy, you didn't listen. I can't see the Earth. I'm talking about that other planet.
238:03:41 CC Okay. Depending on what part you're looking at, it's cold there, too. We got you, though. You got your REFSMMAT, you can go back - -
238:03:51 Schmitt There might be traces of an atmosphere - -
238:03:56 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We're in BLOCK, and I might give my CMP one more chance at a P52.
238:04:03 CC Okay.
238:04:03 Schmitt Then, the LMP gets to start trying.
238:04:16 PAO P52 refers to the rather tricky job of aligning the stable platform, does require a fair amount of practice, and Gene Cernan threatening to take over the job, of course facetiously, if Ron Evans didn't get a good P52 on his first try. This is the stable platform used as a - as an attitude reference by the spacecraft guidance and navigation system.
238:04:55 PAO By virtue of the fact that the television is not available to us, we were not able to see the third of the explosive charges fired. The seismic data indicates that that charge was fired very close to the planned time at 237 hours 49 minutes 52 seconds. That would be just a little more than 2 minutes early, and we're getting good seismic data on it in the Control Center at this time.
238:08:24 Cernan Gordy, I can look back and, with the glasses - binoculars, and I can see the white mantle and see all the massifs in the landing area.
238:08:33 CC How about that?
238:08:39 CC Back when you had the tube on it, I - I really think - I knew we were looking in the right spot, but you know it was just blurry enough that - you couldn't be sure of exactly what you were looking at.
238:08:55 Schmitt Gordy, let me - since I don't have anything else to do right now, apparently, I'll see - tell you a couple of things I see right here. The annulus - =the dark annulus around Serenitatis, does not look complete in - in the due-north area. Oh, there are little partial pieces of dark material up there, but the main part of the annulus seems to cross into the mare region that's north of Serenitatis, and I can't remember the name of that right now. But it very clearly crosses right over there as a band and then dies out in that north region.
238:09:37 CC Roger.
238:09:39 Evans Okay, Houston. There's the torquing angles.
238:09:44 CC Okay. We copy.
238:09:52 Evans Okay. And I'll torque at - it looks like - at 238:10. I guess you really don't care, though, do you?
238:10:10 Schmitt And, once again, albedo-wise and hue - color-hue-wise, the - that annulus is the same as at Tranquility, and essentially the same as most of Fecunditatis. The areas - although Tranquility and Fecunditatis are mottled locally with tan colors, the - that mottling seems to be local and, probably in large part, related to rays that cross those - those seas.
238:10:47 CC Roger.
238:11:15 Schmitt At this viewing angle, the dark mantle around Taurus-Littrow area is just a darker shade of blue-gray to me of the annulus, it's a - more just a medium gray, I guess. Whereas the Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle is a brown-gray, quite distinct in its color hue - to me, at any rate.
238:11:45 CC Roger.
238:11:51 Evans Houston, I can't see any stars out there, so I'm going to false torque it instead of coarse align.
238:11:59 CC Okay.
238:12:07 Evans Hopefully, the reason I can is because - cannot - is because the Earth is right in the field of view, and it's still pretty bright.
238:12:21 CC Roger.
238:12:32 CC America, we've got a little musical selection for you here. Stand by.
238:12:50 CC (Music: Going Back to Houston, by Dean Martin)
238:15:38 Cernan That's very appropriate. I remember that being played one other time after a TEI burn.
238:15:49 CC Roger. I think it came the other direction that time, didn't it?
238:15:55 Cernan If you stand by, we'll express to you our sentiments here, with a short little tune I think you will enjoy.
238:16:03 CC Okay; standying by.
238:17:27 Evans (Music: God Bless America, by Tennessee Ernie Ford)
238:19:24 CC Hey, thank you very much. Very enjoyable and also very appropriate.
238:19:32 Cernan It certainly has a twofold meaning for us.
238:22:17 Evans That's about par for the CMP, now.
238:22:23 CC Ho hum, another all balls.
238:22:28 Evans (Laughter)
238:22:32 Cernan You hit it right on the money.
238:22:43 CC Okay; we've got those.
238:22:46 Evans Okay; and we'll torque at 238:23.
238:22:52 CC Roger.
238:23:48 PAO Ron Evans' last comment referred to the platform alinement he just performed the so called P52 which came out perfectly no error at all. And, of course, he was referring back to the commander Gene Cernans previous remark that if the P52 did not go properly he would take on the job himself. This, of course, is a task that the Command Module Pilot is most proficient at and has done the most training and preparing for.
238:33:00 Cernan Gordo, I'll maneuver in about 10 minutes.
238:33:04 CC Okay; fine.
238:34:57 Evans Hey, Houston; America.
238:34:59 CC Go ahead, Ron,
238:35:04 Evans You reckon you'd have one of the photo guys down there to figure out when we could get a full Moon with an 80-millimeter lens.
238:35:17 CC Okay. I'll put them to work on it.
238:35:21 Cernan Okay; appreciate it.
238:37:21 Schmitt Houston, 17.
238:37:23 CC Go ahead, Jack.
238:37:29 Schmitt On the pan camera, you said to expect to see barber pole when we ran it. I did not see that, just for your information. It went barber pole and then gray.
238:37:44 CC Okay; thank you.
238:37:56 Schmitt And, Gordy, several times I have reminded myself to tell you guys something and I keep forgetting. I think it was yesterday, when we did an oxygen purge on fuel cell 3, after about - oh, I think it was a minute, possibly a minute and a half. The high O2 flow warning was triggered. Normally that is not triggered when we do the purge. That's the one and only time it's happened. This last one, prior to TEI, there was - it was within the green band and there was no fuel cell caution and warning. Just thought you might be interested in that one.
238:38:42 CC Okay, Jack; thank you.
238:39:21 Evans Houston, Ron here. I think I got - that - on fuel cell 3 too in one of my fuel cell purges, when I was up here by myself. Probably shows up on the data anyhow.
238:39:36 CC Roger.
238:40:18 Cernan And you can tell Farouk that - that crater out on Fecunditatis, that I've got a picture of, that we worked on back at the Cape and studied quite a bit, has got all the attributes of everything he told me about it.
238:40:35 CC Roger.
238:40:37 Cernan Yes, and that's the one - that's the one I was describing to him this morning.
238:40:43 CC Okay.
238:40:57 Evans Also, be advised the inner ring of the - the basin Arabia is quite visible. It looks like there is a - shallow depression outside the inner ring and when you get up at this altitude right around Saenger, it is indeed, it looks like a raised-up plateau crossing Saenger. And, also, in the vicinity is King - King is almost going into the terminator now, well, it's 10 or 15 degrees from the terminator. But you can see a little bit of a raised-up plateau, that takes in the crater King and goes about a crater - a King Crater diameter and a half or maybe 2 diameters to the south, and a crater and a half to the north of King.
238:42:08 CC Roger.
238:43:30 Evans You know, Houston, it's also interesting to note, that the - the range of color, from this altitude and from 60 miles, doesn't seem to change at all, really. In other words, the same impressions that I had of color in the 60-mile orbit are the same impressions that I have now, of the same areas.
238:43:58 CC Okay, that's interesting. You're a little over 5000 miles out, at the moment.
238:44:12 Evans Roger.
238:44:29 Cernan Gordy, you don't have that number on the 80 millimeter camera, do you? We're going to maneuver and I'd like to get a last shot at it.
238:44:35 CC Okay. Well, you're well beyond the point where you can cover the whole Moon with an 80. We were just trying to come up with an altitude for filling up the 250, but you'll get the Moon and then some with the 80, right now.
238:44:52 Evans Okay, that's good. Then we'll take it with the 80.
238:44:56 CC Roger.
238:50:40 CC America, Houston. At 240:30, you'll be about 10,000 miles out, at which altitude the Moon will just fill up the 250 lens field of view.
238:51:00 Evans Oh, okay. 240:30, it looks like for the 250 lens.
238:51:05 CC Right.
238:56:42 Schmitt Gordy, are you ready for an OMNI or you want to wait a little bit?
238:56:49 CC 17, Houston. Gordon's off the console for the moment. We'll wait a couple of minutes on the OMNI.
238:56:58 Schmitt Okay.
238:58:26 CC America, Houston. We need OMNI Delta.
238:58:39 Schmitt Okay. You've got OMNI Delta.
238:58:44 CC Okay.
239:15:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 239 hours 15 minutes. It's been very quiet, both here in the Control Center and onboard America. The crew, at this time, appears to be on the nominal flight plan, and they should be in the midst of an exercise period at this time. Also, they have the scientific instrument module bay in the Service Module of the spacecraft pointed toward Earth, with the ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers gathering their first data on Earth from lunar distance. The crew is scheduled to begin it's sleep period about 3 hours from now, at 242 hours 20 minutes Ground Elapse Time. And at the present time, we show Apollo 17 6782 nautical miles from the Moon with a velocity of 4537 feet per second.
239:18:38 Schmitt Houston, America.
239:18:40 CC Go ahead, America.
239:18:46 Schmitt Looking at our sketches here and trying to figure out exactly what we're looking at in the dark part of the Earth. I guess it's you and, if it's a clear night, you ought to have a pretty full Moon looking back at you.
239:19:05 CC That's right we do. In fact, it's nice and clear all day and I could see it as I came in this afternoon. Your subspacecraft point right now is over the Yucatan Peninsula.
239:19:24 Schmitt Yes, it's just about the chart I'm looking at, Gordo. Looks like about right smack in the center.
239:20:16 Cernan Gordy, do you have a general trend on the prediction in the recovery area?
239:20:23 CC I haven't - haven't heard one, but I'll see if we can get one.
239:21:58 CC America, Houston. The Sun is just about to enter the lens of the mapping camera, and we'd like you to retract it and then close the cover. We're not copying SIM bay data now, so we'd like you to get a MARK on both the start of retraction - give a MARK on the start of retraction and one when barber pole goes to gray.
239:22:24 Evans Okay. We're going to retract the mapping camera. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
239:22:33 Evans MARK it. There - -
239:22:35 CC Okay.
239:22:35 Evans - - barber pole. And that was at 20 - 22:30.
239:22:40 CC Okay, and we want to keep it running to run the film out of it.
239:22:48 Evans Okay, understand.
239:25:53 CC America, Houston. How's the mapping camera talkback look?
239:26:01 Evans Barber pole.
239:26:04 CC Okay. We thought it should have been gray by now.
239:26:10 Evans (Chuckle) Okay, let's see. I've got - we're coming up on 4 minutes.
239:26:27 CC That's what I've got.
239:26:51 Evans Hey, there we go. Gray.
239:26:54 CC Okay, thank you.
239:26:57 Evans Took a while - took a while, but it made it.
239:27:04 Evans Okay, the COVER is going CLOSE; barber pole, gray.
239:27:11 CC Okay, thank you.
239:28:04 CC America, Houston. Got a couple of answers for you here. On this - the O2 caution/warning indication on the purge, at the time you were pulling 37.8 amps out of fuel cell 3 because the SIM bay was fired up and that'll result in about a flow of 1.37 pounds per hour which - and the trip limit is 1.2, so that's why you got the - the flag on it and you can expect to get the caution/warning anytime you've got 33 amps or more being pulled out of the fuel cells at the time you purge. Over.
239:28:53 Evans Ah ha, okay. That sounds good, then.
239:28:58 CC Also, we've tracked you a while now and midcourse 5 looks like a whopping 0.3 of a foot per second at the present time.
239:29:11 Cernan Beautiful, Gordy, beautiful.
239:29:13 Evans That is outstanding.
239:31:31 CC America, Houston. In answer to your question about the weather at splashdown, the area right now is 2000 scattered and 10, winds variable at 10. And forecasting the same - 2000 scattered and 10, with 3-foot waves, variable at 10 knots on the wind, and some rain showers, but less than 10-percent coverage on the rain showers in the area. Over.
239:32:03 Cernan Oh, you're full of good news tonight. Thank you.
239:49:00 Evans Houston, America is about to maneuver.
239:49:03 CC Okay.
239:51:44 Schmitt Houston, 17.
239:51:46 CC Go ahead and give us OMNI Charlie, please, while you're talking.
239:52:09 CC Also, Jack, we'd like you - -
239:52:09 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, this is Jack - since I can't give you - -
239:52:13 CC - - we'd like H2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF.
239:52:16 Schmitt Go ahead. H2 TANK 1 FAN is OFF.
239:52:24 CC Thank you and go ahead.
239:52:29 Schmitt Okay, we got all three of them off now. Right, Gordy?
239:52:33 CC That's affirmative.
239:52:47 Schmitt Hello, Gordy.
239:52:50 CC Hello; go ahead, Jack.
239:52:54 Schmitt Okay, since I can't help you out on the weather right now in the Pacific, can you give me a rundown of what things look like out there?
239:53:07 Cernan I already got it.
239:53:07 Schmitt Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't on the loop. Apparently you already briefed somebody on that.
239:53:12 CC I covered the recovery area. Not the rest of the Pacific. Did you want an overall briefing?
239:53:23 Schmitt No. I was just curious what the recovery area looked like, and I'm sure that my compatriots will clue me in on it, if I'm nice to them.
239:53:31 CC Yes. I'll save them the trouble. It's going to be 2000 scattered, 10 miles, 3-foot waves, variable at 10 knots, and less than 10 percent chance of rain showers. And that's just about what the weather is now, and also forecast.
239:53:55 Schmitt Okay. Thank you very much.
239:54:23 CC Jack, you've got a lot of SIM bay data stored up there that we'd like to get dumped. Can you give us the HIGH GAIN; PITCH, 30; YAW, 320?
239:54:37 Schmitt Okay, PITCH, 30; YAW, 320.
239:55:20 Schmitt Okay, it's the old HIGH GAIN for you.
239:55:24 CC Thank you, sir.
239:55:53 Schmitt Gordy, what altitude are we at now?
239:55:58 CC Stand by, I'll check. 8500 miles.
239:56:11 Schmitt You clipped. Say again.
239:56:13 CC 8500 miles.
239:56:20 Schmitt Okay.
240:03:07 Cernan Gordy, as we're maneuvering, I guess we got one of the most spectacular views of the Moon I've ever seen, from a position like this. It's like - just short of being 100 percent full. We can still see from Tsiolkovsky all the way across the Moon and it's just absolutely magnificent and I'm afraid we're talking here that pictures just won't capture the real three-dimensional picture we're looking at. But, uniquely with the binocs I can still see the light mantle in the landing area.
240:03:49 CC Roger, Gene.
240:05:07 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, I don't know whether your camera people have anything to do this evening, but I've got a little problem for them if they'd like to work on it.
240:05:17 CC Okay, go ahead.
240:05:21 Schmitt Well, it seems to me we're not only moving away from the Moon, but we're moving across the face, and I took a picture about 5 minutes ago of the Moon, and it seems to me we could take another one at some X-number of minutes and have pretty good stereo if we matched the printing of the two pictures in terms of scale. And, I'm wondering what's a good time elapse here for a good stereo of the whole globe?
240:05:55 CC Okay, we understand the problem, but I'm not - Well, we'll try (laughter).
240:06:05 Schmitt Well, I guess, if you could figure out what it would - how far we have to move across the face of the Moon and how long that would take to get about a - oh, shoot, a 30 to 1 base-height ratio'd probably be enough - 20 to 1 would probably be better, obviously, but 30 to 1, you could still see the stereo. And you ought to be able to figure that problem out. How fast do - do the guys know how fast we're moving across the face of the Moon?
240:06:43 CC I'll, I'll put that one to FDO. Just looking at the big chart up here, I'm sure that the rate is slowing down rapidly, and - because you're - because the farther you get away, of course, the straighter away from it you're going. Stand by, I'll see what we can do.
240:24:59 CC Jack, this is Houston with kind of a crude answer to your question.
240:25:07 Schmitt Go ahead.
240:25:09 CC Okay, it turns out right now that you're not moving across the lunar surface very fast, and you - it's getting less and less - right now, I guess it's about a mile per minute. It would take a lot of minutes to get much of a stereo base since you're 10,000 miles out. But, remembering back to Ron's final picture there before you went to the UV attitude, after he asked the question about how high he had to be to fill up the 80-millimeter lens, I think he took one at that time. We're thinking of combining a picture now with that picture, and then enlarging the one to get it to the equivalent diameter. And, some rough calculations of your longitude at that time and then - now, show that you've changed about 21 degrees across the surface of the Moon between that picture and the present time, which comes out, if you take the average altitude between that time and now, to - to about a 25-to-l stereo base, as best I can figure.
240:26:27 Schmitt Sounds good enough, Gordy. We've got it - I got that one at 5 minutes. I mean at 240 on the hour, so those are probably pretty close.
240:26:42 CC I would guess, you know, that the angle of looking at it - other factors have changed so much that it would be pretty hard to pull them together once you - even though you get the images reduced to the same size, but it might be interesting to try.
240:27:04 Schmitt I agree.
240:27:46 CC America, Houston. There's some items coming here now in the Flight Plan. A couple of them, MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT, and COVER, CLOSED, you've already done. However, right now we still see the mapping camera film rolling, so we want to leave it running until we give you a cue to turn it off - get all the film run out. And, the uplink for a state vector that's shown there will not be necessary. Over.
240:28:18 Schmitt We were looking forward to get to do something. Now, we'll wait a little bit longer.
240:28:29 Cernan Couldn't you just flash a couple of lights on the DSKY just to keep us occupied?
240:28:36 CC Send a crew alert or something?
240:28:41 Schmitt Yes, throw it in once in a while just to keep us on our toes, Gordy.
240:29:35 CC The Surgeon had a suggestion. He said if you really get bored, you could all put on your biomed harnesses.
240:29:54 Cernan Only listen to about half of what goes down, will you?
240:30:02 CC Okay.
240:42:06 PAO This is Apollo control at 240 hours 42 minutes. Apollo 17 now 10,438 nautical miles from the Moon and coming up in about, oh, within the next 10 to 15 minutes -
240:42:22 Cernan Gordy, you got any words on the SIM bay prior to going into PTC?
240:42:32 CC Stand by.
240:43:01 CC Nothing additional, Geno, go ahead as per Flight Plan with the one exception. We'll give you a cue when to stop the mapping camera as soon as the film runs out.
240:43:15 Cernan Okay, we'll hold up on the mapping camera and its cover, and we'll get the IR, OFF.
240:43:24 CC Roger.
240:43:34 Schmitt Okay. Okay, Gor - Gordy, the IR is coming OFF now.
240:43:38 Schmitt MARK.
240:43:39 CC Roger.
240:43:44 PAO The crew is getting ready at this time to set up the spacecraft in the Passive Thermal Control mode. This is the mode used to maintain proper thermal equilibrium during the translunar transearth coast phases of the mission. Rotating the spacecraft about it's longitudinal axis set about three revolutions per hour exposing each side equally to the Sun and cold.
240:43:57 Schmitt And the COVER is CLOSED.
240:44:00 CC Roger.
240:44:09 Schmitt Hey, Gordy, this is Jack. is there any updated briefing on the status of the lunar surface equipment and SIM bay findings over and above what we got? I guess, I can't remember when it was, yesterday or some time.
240:44:28 CC I can't think of anything really outstanding. We're just right now coming up on another charge detonation; however, I think I mentioned that the LCRU is "kaput." So, we won't be able to watch it. We're looking at the seismometer traces here. Other - I'll come back with any other words to update you on yesterday's report in a little bit here.
240:45:06 Schmitt Okay, I - just updated stuff. If something new comes in or - is all we're interested in.
240:45:14 CC Okay.
240:46:41 Evans Okay, Gordy, we're going to maneuver now to PTC attitude.
240:46:46 CC All righty.
240:49:01 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're expecting the fourth of the seismic charges one of the lunar seismic profiling experiments to detinate on the lunar surface. The nominal time for the charge to go off is 240 hours 52 minutes. And it's been our experience with the previous three charges that their tending to go with in about five minutes either side of that targeted time. So, we would expect to see my seismic activity in the next oh 5 to 7 minutes. And as we mentioned previously, the television camera on the Lunar Rover is not available to us. Instrumentation and communications engineer at the previous detination attempted to bring up the camera, sent a number of commands and the lunar communications relay unit which transmits the television signal to Earth did not respond to the commands. We never got a picture from the camera and we're assuming that the communications relay unit and camera system on the lunar rover are out of operation. We don't at this point know what it is that has failed.
240:52:12 CC America, Houston. You've just run out of mapping camera film. You can go ahead and clean up the items at 240:30 to power down the mapping camera.
240:52:27 Schmitt Roger.
240:53:13 PAO And it appears that our 4th seismic charge on the lunar surface has detonated. Very close to the planned time we copied the seismic activity at 240:53.
240:53:20 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, we're going RETRACT.
240:53:26 CC Okay, I think it should already be in, with the cover down.
240:53:31 Schmitt Yes, you're right.
240:53:42 CC And just now, the charge exploded at Taurus-Littrow, and we're seeing the results on the tracers here.
240:53:54 Schmitt Which one was it, Gordy? Do you know?
240:54:04 CC Okay, that one was number 8. A quarter-pound charge, and I guess it was fourth - I'm not sure which location that was. It was 0.4 of a mile from the LCRU, if that helps you decide.
240:54:28 Schmitt Okay.
240:56:37 CC America, Houston. We'd like H2 TANK 1 FAN, ON, please. That'll get it up for - prior to the sleep period.
240:56:52 Schmitt Okay, TANK 1 is ON.
240:56:55 CC Thank you.
241:00:48 Cernan And, Gordo, the canister is changed.
241:00:52 CC Roger.
241:01:21 Evans Hey - Houston - or Gordo, Ron here.
241:01:23 CC Go ahead.
241:01:28 Evans Okay, Gordo. As a result of number 5 [?] today and a little bit of a feeling of a little bit of gas right now, with - well, the possibility of a - of the desire, I feel like it may be worthwhile for me to take a Lomotil, and I'd like to get your concurrence on that.
241:01:53 CC Okay, stand by.
241:10:57 Cernan Houston, America. How are our rates looking?
241:11:02 CC Stand by. They're not down there yet. We want to wait a little bit, Gene.
241:11:11 Cernan Okeydoke.
241:15:46 CC America, Houston with a response to Ron's question. Over.
241:15:55 Evans Okay, go ahead.
241:15:58 CC Okay, for gas, we're recommending only - we're definitely not recommending the Lomotil; we're recommending the gas pills; however - -
241:16:08 Evans Ya, I concur.
241:16:09 CC - - we also don't recommend the Lomotils for a situation that really hasn't developed yet. If you want to discuss it in more detail we can set up a private loop or go ahead as you wish. Over.
241:16:33 Schmitt Standby a minute.
241:17:18 Evans Hey, Gordo.
241:17:20 CC Go ahead.
241:17:23 Evans Yes, we'd like to talk to you further, please.
241:17:27 CC Okay. Fine.
241:17:44 PAO This is Apollo Control at 241 hours 18 minutes. We are going to configure the network for a private conversation between the Flight Surgeon, Dr. John Zeiglschmidt and Ron Evans, and we'll have a summary of the content of the private discussion as soon as possible afterwards. Evans had reported a few minutes ago that it had been a slight bit of gas. He requested permission to take a Lomotil, which is one of the pills in the medical kit, which slows down intestinal activity. The Surgeon recommended for gas that a gas pill be taken. Lomotil will not be taken for a problem that has not developed, but if Ron would like to discuss the situation further we would set up a private conversation and a private conversation has been requested and will be taking place shortly.
241:52:28 PAO This is Apollo Control at 241 hours 53 minutes. A private conversation is in progress at this time, with Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans. The conversation was initiated at Evans' request at about 241 hours 22 minutes. Evans had previously asked permission to take a Lomotil tablet for what he described as mild gas. The flight surgeon, Dr. Zeiglschmidt had recommended that a gas pill be taken instead, and we told Evans that if he wished to discuss the situation in more detail, we would set up a private conversation. Evans requested a private conversation and that has been in progress since shortly after 241:22. Participants are Dr. John Zeiglschmidt, Dr. Willard Hawkins, Charles Lewis, the Flight Director, and spacecraft communicator, Gordon Fullerton. And we will have a summary of the conversation as soon as possible.
241:59:51 PAO This is Apollo Control at 241 hours 59 minutes. The private conversation with Command Module Pilot Ron Evans has concluded.
241:59:59 CC America, Houston. It looks good right now to start the roll for PTC.
242:00:07 Cernan Okay.
242:00:33 Cernan She's GO, Gordo.
242:00:35 CC Okay.
242:01:08 PAO Hello, this is Apollo Control. That private conversation ended at about 241 hours 59 minutes, and again we will have a summary, as soon as possible. At the present time, we're in the process of getting the spacecraft set up for the Passive Thermal Control mode rotating it about the longitudinal axis and we'll be going through the pre-sleep checklist, getting the crew set up to begin their sleep period, as close as possible to the Flight Plan time.
242:01:25 CC America, Houston. Sleep configuration on the hydrogen fans, and you can do it now, is H2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF, and 3, AUTO. That's 1, OFF; 3, AUTO.
242:01:43 Cernan Okay, Gordy, we got 1, OFF and 3, AUTO.
242:01:46 CC Thank you.
242:04:52 CC America, Houston. Over.
242:04:57 Evans Go ahead.
242:04:58 CC On that PTC startup, there was only one jet that fired, and so we only got half the rate we need, and so the - I guess the only way to recover is to stop the roll and start damping the rates again and wait for our call to start it again - over again. Over.
242:05:24 Evans Roger again.
242:05:28 CC And we'd like the procedure on G8-2 using B-2 and D-2 for the spin up. Two jets.
242:05:45 Evans Yes. That's interesting. B-2 and D-2 are both on.
242:05:56 CC Okay, we understand that, Ron. Let us look into that a little further here, then.
242:06:03 Evans I'm sorry. It's D-l and - Dog 1 and Bravo 2 are on.
242:06:10 CC Okay, that's what did it.
242:06:14 Cernan Delta 1 and Bravo 2 is what it calls for, and that's what was on.
242:06:19 Evans Yes, those are the wrong ones though; that's the problem.
242:06:52 CC Well, we're reading it both in the checklist and Flight Plan; Bravo 2 and Delta 2 are the ones to use for spinup.
242:07:06 Evans Yes, you're right. Okay. We got - we're reading the wrong ones, I guess.
242:07:49 Evans Okay, Gordy, is this a good attitude or should we go back to the UV/PTC sleep attitude?
242:08:01 CC Stand by. G&C is on the other loop here. Just a second.
242:08:32 CC America, Houston. You need to go back to the pitch and yaw in the Flight Plan, and the present roll will be okay.
242:08:40 Evans Okay.
242:08:52 CC Also for this damping, we want you to go to the jets called out at 240:50 in the Flight Plan. That's a - Well, you got it there.
242:09:06 Evans Yes, we got it here.
242:10:20 Evans Okay, give us a call when we get all damped out there. We got Alfa and Bravo for damping jets.
242:10:32 CC Roger.
242:10:39 Evans Hey, wait a minute; we got the wrong ones here, again. We'll get back to the - what's in the Flight Plan and do it.
242:10:46 CC Roger. I would think - You're firing into the SIM bay - bay with the present configuration.
242:10:54 Evans You're right.
242:14:07 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
242:14:09 CC Go ahead.
242:14:13 Cernan Gordo, how's it looking for a midcourse 5? Any further word?
242:14:24 CC Our last information was still a half a foot. Or essentially no midcourse. I'm not sure if we've been affected by the PTC here or not, the singlejet spinup, but we'll let you know.
242:14:42 Cernan Okay, fine. Don't worry about it. You won't have a final word on it until tomorrow anyway.
242:14:48 CC That's affirmative. I doubt if we'll have any - enough tracking before bedtime here to give you any update tonight.
242:14:57 Cernan Okay, no problem.
242:15:10 CC And we'd like you to configure the HIGH GAIN for us. We'd like PITCH, minus 40; and YAW, 90, on the dials and then go directly from AUTO to REACQ.
242:15:29 Cernan Okay, say again the numbers, Gordo. I'm sorry; I missed it.
242:15:32 CC Okay, PITCH is minus 40 and YAW, plus 90.
242:15:42 Cernan Okay, minus 40 and a plus 9 - 90.
242:15:46 CC That's affirmative.
242:15:51 Cernan And REACQ.
242:15:54 CC Affirm.
242:15:58 Evans Ohay, you have REACQ and NARROW.
242:16:00 Cernan REACQ and NARROW now.
242:20:56 CC America, Houston. Over.
242:21:02 Evans Go ahead.
242:21:04 CC Okay, this SIM bay jett configuration just isn't hacking the job of damping the rates. We're going to go to adjacent quads to try to get it dampened quicker. We'd like you to enable Charlie and Delta. To do that, just disable all Alfa and Bravo jets, enable all Delta jets, and also Charlie 3. Over.
242:21:36 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Let me disable all Alfa and Bravo first.
242:21:48 CC Okay, Geno. And then enable all Delta plus Charlie 3.
242:22:11 Cernan Okay. You don't want Charlie 4 enabled? Or you do? ... - -
242:22:17 CC That's affirmative. But it is already.
242:22:20 Cernan Okay, you're - Yes, here's what I got. I got - I got Delta 1 and Delta 2 on B/D ROLL. I've got Charlie 3 and Charlie 4 for PITCH, and I've got Delta 3 and Delta 4 for YAW.
242:22:40 CC Okay. That sounds exactly right.
242:29:41 CC America, Houston.
242:29:47 Cernan America here.
242:29:49 CC Okay. The rates look good now. I'd like you to use Bravo 2 and Delta 2, and go ahead and spin up.
242:30:05 Cernan Okay, Gordy. We'll do it - get it this time.
242:30:11 CC Okay.
242:31:24 CC America, Houston - -
242:31:25 Cernan Okay, Gordy; they're all off. They're all off except Bravo 2 and Delta 2.
242:31:32 CC Roger.
242:31:51 Cernan Yes, we got the right amount that time. Let's hope it stays good.
242:31:55 CC Okay. For Ron only, no Seconal tonight. Over.
242:32:08 Evans Okay.
242:42:15 CC America, Houston. G&C, with his years of experience, thinks that this PTC is going to hold. It's looking good so far, and so I think it's safe to go ahead and configure to go to sleep there, if you wish.
242:42:33 Cernan Okay, we're in the process now, Gordy. Thank you.
243:04:14 PAO This is Apollo Control at 243 hours 4 minutes. The shifts here in the Mission Control Center will be changing shortly. Pete Frank, and the Orange team, will be relieving the White team. Change of shift news conference is estimated for 1 AM Central Standard Time in the MSC news center briefing room. The crew is in the final portion of the presleep checklist and should be turning in shortly. At this time Apollo 17 is 16,242 nautical miles from the Moon traveling at a velocity of 4062 feet per second.
243:07:25 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
243:07:30 CC Hello, America; Houston. Over.
243:07:36 Cernan Bob?
243:07:37 CC That is affirm.
243:07:41 Cernan Okay. We're just about ready to turn out the lights. By my watch, about 7:20 in the morning is wakeup time, and I got the other guys on their couches and I'm going to stand the duty tonight and I'm going to leave my lightweight headset in my ear. But if the higjh gain bothers me during this PTC, I want to go ahead and take it out. And I've got the tone booster connected up and it does work. So, in any event, give me a crew alert in the morning, will you?
243:08:13 CC Okay. You want a - are you telling me you want to get woke up after 8 hours or at 7:20 as planned?
243:08:21 Cernan No, as - as by the Flight Plan. We've got to get up as by the Flight Plan.
243:08:24 CC Okay. Talk to you in the morning. And we'd like OPTICS POWER, OFF, ... - -
243:08:29 Cernan - - ... Okay, I just didn't want you to ... yes, sir; we'll get the OPTICS POWER, OFF, and we'll get the VOICE, OFF, too.
243:08:41 CC Okay; that suits - makes everybody happy - -
243:08:42 Cernan Okay, we'll see you in the morning then.
243:08:44 CC See you in the morning.
243:08:47 SC Okay, babe.
243:10:21 PAO This is Apollo Control at 243 hours 10 minutes. We have said goodnight to the crew and the downlink subcarrier has been turned off on the spacecraft so we do not expect to talk to them any more this evening. As you heard Gene Cernan, the crew intends to stick to the Flight Plan rest period even though they got to bed a little bit late. Wakeup time at 250 hours 30 minutes or about 7:20 AM Central Standard Time tomorrow. We'll keep the line up for a few more minutes in case there's any post scripts from the crew, then we'll take the line down and come back up hourly. At 243 hours 11 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
244:23:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 244 hours 23 minutes. The change of shift news conference will be begin in approximately 10 minutes in the MSC News Center Briefing Room. Participants will be the Flight Director from the previous shift, Charles Lewis, and the Flight Surgeon, Dr. John Zieglschmid. There was a private conversation with the Command Module, Ronald Evans, between 241 hours 22 minutes and 241 hours 59 minutes. The private conversation was initiated at Evans' request after he had ask permission to take a Lomotil, a medication to reduce gastrointestinal activity. Participants in the private conversation were Dr. Royce Hawkins, Dr. John Zieglschmid, Flight Director Charles Lewis, and CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton. Evans said he had had a continuation of a gas problem, mentioned previously by all 3 crewmen. Both Evans and Gene Cernan said their main concern was for tomorrow's EVA. Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Zieglschmid recommended Evans take 2 Lomotil tablets tonight and 2 more after breakfast to reduce gastrointestinal activity. They recommended that he take a semethocone tablet after meals for gas. They also recommended changes in Evans' breakfast menu tomorrow. Asked if the other 2 crewmen had had problems similar to Evans, Cernan reported that he and Jack Schmitt had had persistant gas which the crew felt was aggrivated by hydrogen dissolved in the water used for rehydrating foods onboard the spacecraft. The crew reported the gas caused occasional discomfort, but that there was no serious problem such as nausea or pain. Dr. Hawkins said he was confident the medication and dietary changes recommended for Evans would preclude any problem for tomorrow's EVA. The news conference should begin approximately 5 or 6 minutes. We've had no further communications with the crew since saying goodnight to them about an hour ago. All going well aboard spacecraft America which is now 19,454 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3,997 feet per second. At 244 hours 26 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston.
245:37:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 245 hours 37 minutes. All going well with Apollo 17. The spacecraft, America is 22,219 nautical miles from the Moon. Velocity 3,955 feet per second. 4 hours and 52 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. At 245 hours 37 minutes this is mission Control Houston.
246:37:09 PAO This is Apollo Control. 3 hours and 52 minutes remaining in the crew's resting period. All spacecraft systems continuing to perform well. Apollo 17, now at 24.542 nautical miles from the Moon. Drawing closer to the Earth at a velocity of 3,926 feet per second. At 246 hours 37 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
247:38:05 PAO This is Apollo Control at 247 hours 38 minutes. Apollo 17 now 26,914 nautical miles from the Moon. Traveling at a velocity of 3,902 feet per second. 2 hours 50 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. The spacecraft America will pass out of the lunar sphere of influence at an elapsed time of 250 hours 39 minutes 50 seconds. At that time it will be 33,822 nautical miles from the Moon and 171,593 nautical miles from the Earth. At 247 hours 39 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
248:36:30 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 now 29,143 nautical miles from the Moon; velocity 3,883 feet per second. All spacecraft systems performing well, and 1 hour and 52 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. At 248 hours 37 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
249:37:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 249 hours 37 minutes. 52 minutes remains in the crew's rest period as Apollo 17 is 31,446 nautical miles from the Moon; velocity 3,866 feet per second. Apollo 17 will leave the Moon's sphere of influence at 250 hours 39 minutes 50 seconds at which time it will be 33,822 nautical miles from the Moon and 171,593 nautical miles from the Earth. The time at which Apollo 17 will achieve velocity match - that is the velocity both Earth referenced and Moon referenced will be the same - is 268 hours, 25 minutes, no seconds. At that time the velocity will be 3,839 feet per second referenced to both the Earth and the Moon. And Apollo 17 at velocity match will be 73,775 nautical miles from the Moon, and 137,356 nautical miles: from Earth. The Flight Dynamics officer has also computed a couple of other milestones: The one-half way in time will occur at 270 hours 30 minutes 7 seconds; distance from Earth, at that time, will be 132,654 nautical miles, and from the Moon 78,504 nautical miles. The half way in distance mark will be reached at 281 hours 32 minutes 45 seconds. Apollo 17's distance at that time from both the Earth and the Moon will be 104,396 nautical miles. At 249 hours 39 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
250:28:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 250 hours 28 minutes. We're 2 minutes away from crew wakeup. Apollo 17 is 33,382 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,853 feet per second. We'll standby now for the first call of the crew.
250:30:01 CC (Music: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS)
250:32:54 Cernan Good morning, Robert. Good morning.
250:32:56 CC Good morning, Geno.
250:33:02 Cernan Hey, your choice of music is getting better down there. We're going to have to keep you there every morning.
250:33:12 CC Well, if I'm here waking you up on Wednesday morning, fellow, you're in trouble.
250:33:21 Cernan Yes, we're not going to count Wednesday. We'll - we'll work out something else for Wednesday. I - I know we're not much, but we're all you got for Christmas.
250:33:57 PAO The wakeup song was, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS sung by Jerry Vale.
250:35:03 CC Okay, America, this is Houston. One little update for you on today's plans. At the present time, midcourse 5 is looking like a quarter of a foot per second, which means at the present time, we're not planning on burning it. But we reserve the right to change our mind sometime in the next hour and a half, if necessary. But that'll give you some thought to what to do today.
250:35:29 Cernan Very good, Bob. Outstanding. We'll go along with whatever you want.
250:35:35 CC You guys are getting easy.
250:35:41 Cernan Oh, we get more likable as days go on.
250:38:21 Evans Good morning, Houston. This is the Command Module Pilot of the spaceship America. And we're up and ready to particpita - participate in another day's activities.
250:38:33 CC I got you there, Ron. And we're ready to part - participate with you, also.
250:38:42 Evans (Laughter) Okay, Robert.
250:38:58 Cernan Got cold up here last night.
250:39:01 CC Well, I'll tell you, it was 27 at Ellington at 6 o'clock down here, too.
250:39:09 Cernan Well, it's not quite that cold in here, but there sure is a difference.
250:39:56 Cernan And, Bob, how's America looking to you down there?
250:40:05 CC We're looking pretty good. We found nothing overnight to give us any concern, and we see nothing at the present time. Looks great. We're showing you at 66 degrees in the cabin.
250:40:22 Cernan Yes, sir. We're going to get it warmed up here, though ... - shortly. Okay; America still looks good to us.
250:41:07 CC And, America, you're now in the Earth control. We passed about 2 minutes ago.
250:41:20 Cernan What was our - what was our velocity going through the changeover in influence?
250:41:26 CC Stand by.
250:41:57 CC And, Geno, you had 3851 feet per second going through the crossover.
250:42:07 Cernan Okay. We're looking back at a - a very full and very bright, very beautiful Moon, right now. And the Man in the Moon is smiling as he's waving us on home.
250:42:30 CC Copy that. We had a good picture of him last night here down in Houston, also.
250:52:26 CC America, Houston. Over.
250:52:32 Schmitt Go ahead.
250:52:33 CC Okay. We lost you there with an antenna change that we didn't catch. So we're back with you again.
250:52:42 Schmitt Yes, we noticed that.
250:52:57 Schmitt Hey, Bob. What time does the old back room get up this morning?
250:53:03 CC Which back room?
250:53:07 Schmitt The geology back room, of course.
250:53:09 CC Well, beats me. I don't know if there's anyone down there or not. Let me see if I can find out.
250:53:16 Schmitt No, that's all right, Bob. I just want you to pass on a thought. I had a little trouble getting to sleep last night. And they've probably already thought of it. But it has to do with Van Serg.
250:53:31 CC Go ahead. I'll copy it down.
250:53:36 Schmitt No, just ask them if they've thought about the possibility that the - those Van Serg breccias might be - might be the old indurated regolith over the subfloor.
250:54:01 CC Okay; I got that.
250:54:07 Schmitt That's an alternative that in the - the heat of battle did not occur to me at the time. It should have, and it may have occurred to some of them.
250:54:17 CC Okay. Thats as opposed to being a window through - to the - below the subfloor, which is what you suggested the other night.
250:54:25 Schmitt Yes, sir. I think I - I think I like the regolith better. It - I think it makes sense from a lot of points of view: the size of the crater, the fact that we should have expected to see something but hadn't up to that time.
250:54:39 CC Okay. I got that.
250:54:48 Schmitt And the breccias were, thinking back on it, could very easily have been soil breccias and just getting coarser as you got closer to the base of the sub - to the top of the subfloor, which is what we were looking at down in the bottom of the crater.
250:55:07 CC Okay. Got that.
251:00:01 Schmitt Bob, is your EECOM friend going to let us practice the waste water dump again today?
251:00:11 CC I kind of expect so. Stand by and let me find out for sure. Roger, Jack. There's one coming up at 252:50, about 2 hours from now.
251:00:33 Schmitt Okay. We'll start reviewing that one. We'll be ready for him this time.
251:00:42 CC We won't let you sneak behind the Moor, on this one.
251:03:48 Schmitt Very good.
251:15:48 Schmitt Houston, 17.
251:16:04 CC America, Houston. Go ahead.
251:16:10 Schmitt Who's the EECOM this morning?
251:16:14 CC Charlie Dumis.
251:16:21 Schmitt Hey, ask Charlie if it's all right if I turn on the commander's heaters?
251:16:35 CC We don't - Would you clarify that request?
251:16:45 CC I'll tell you - you can - you can use reel 2. About the only thing I can think of, Jack, would be reel 2.
251:17:14 CC Jack, you might use reel 2 if you want to. It's about the only thing we can think of.
251:17:25 Schmitt Yes, you get the idea.
251:17:34 Schmitt Anyway, it's cold.
251:17:37 CC Roger.
251:17:45 Schmitt It's net really that bad, Bob, but we're hearing a lot about it.
251:17:50 CC Okay. Well, we'll work it out here, if we can try.
251:17:57 Schmitt Well, you might discuss it with SPAN.
251:18:01 CC We are, believe me.
251:18:04 Cernan I'd like not to - like not to waste reel 2. It's got some other good uses.
251:43:19 CC America, 17. Say again - America, this is Houston.
251:43:29 Schmitt Are you sure? Would you like to try again?
251:43:31 CC Well, that's all right, Jack. We'll live with it for a while. We're looking at - and no need to acknowledge this - we're looking at your temperature problem. And there's a couple of obvious things I'm sure you've undertaken, but if you haven't, all the window shades off. Get some sunlight in there. And might crank on all the lights to get some more heat load in there. Also the - of course, the cabin fan and the temperature - CABIN TEMP control thumbwheel - it's your option on that. The other things, like mixing valve adjustment and powering up other items, we're looking at very seriously, but we would like to not do those items until after the EVA this morning. We'd like to remain the status quo on the ECS system with the exception of - you do have the cabin fans on your option there. But we would like to re - retain the rest of it status quo until after the EVA.
251:44:31 Schmitt Well, thank you for all your research in there, Bob. I'll let the commander make the decisions. It - it's his thermostat.
251:44:43 CC Roger.
251:44:45 Evans The CMP feels pretty good so -
251:44:52 Cernan l'll see if they can get me mad this morning. That'll warm things up. Temperature's on the way up.
251:45:07 CC Roger. Trying to get reel 2 up to you, if you want.
251:45:14 Cernan Pardon.
251:45:16 CC Said, I'll bring reel 2 up to you, if I can get there.
251:45:24 Cernan Well, reel 2 would sure be a ... start when you consider all I've got is Ron and Jack.
251:57:48 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
251:57:52 CC Yes, sir.
251:57:56 Cernan Okay, Bob, before we exit PTC at 20 past the next hour, we'll have to get your final words on the midcourse.
251:58:11 CC Well, ve're working up the midcourse right now, but let's give you some preliminary words, that you won't exit PTC at that time because midcourse 5 is not required - it's less than 0.3 foot per second. Right now your gamma - flight path angle, et cetera, at entry interface is all nominal, and absolutely no midcourse 5 required at this time. And we'll be updating that as we refine the data.
251:58:34 Cernan Okay, well, that's - okay, well, we still exit PTC, Bob. We go to a different attitude. We - Yes, you have a different roll angle. I'm looking at the right-hand column of the - of the Flight Plan. Yes, we still exit, so we're going to need some words on it by then.
251:59:12 CC Stand by on that. I've just got - back at 252:20. I was just given the word that we will not -
251:59:33 Cernan It's just a case of using coupled or uncoupled jets, Bob.
252:00:18 Schmitt Bob, you want the IR on?
252:00:22 CC Roger. We're ready for it.
252:00:27 Schmitt MARK it. It's ON.
252:01:59 CC America, Houston. We'll assume right now - go ahead and fly the Flight Plan using the notes - on the right-hand column there as - as filed, or as planned.
252:02:16 Cernan You say we will use the notes on the right-hand side, correct?
252:02:19 CC That's affirmative. And we have one update. We would like to move up to 252:10. We'd like to move up the IR COVER, OPEN - -
252:02:35 Cernan Go ahead.
252:02:37 CC - - ... - we'd like to move up the IR COVER, OPEN, which is at 252:22, - move that up to 252:10 - just put an arrow up there, please.
252:02:50 Cernan Okay, we got it.
252:04:50 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
252:04:53 CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
252:04:56 Cernan Quick update on the crew status report. The well being of the crew is very satisfactory, capable of carrying out everything that is required today. And, specifically, the health of the crew is excellent.
252:05:17 CC That's real good news.
252:05:23 Cernan Okay.
252:05:38 CC Just for your information, Ron gets the same treatment today that the two - you two surface walkers got. During the mission, channel 8 in Houston is going to carry the full spacewalk in its entirety on live television.
252:05:57 Evans Hey, Bob, I think that's outstanding. Thank you.
252:08:10 CC America, Houston. I've got a Flight Plan update for you.
252:08:17 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
252:08:19 CC Okay, first of all - at 252:20, where it says, "Exit G&N PTC at roll angle 071," change the high-gain angles there to minus, a pitch of minus 64, yaw, 32 - 329.
252:08:40 Schmitt Okay, we got those.
252:08:42 CC Okay, at 252:30, close UV cover. And that's to be done regardless of the fact that we're scrubbing midcourse 5. Just close UV cover at 252:30.
252:09:01 Cernan Okay.
252:09:04 CC And if you'll jump over to 262:10 - 262:10, we've got a change on that attitude - as we're just tweaking it up a little bit - 039, 230, 297; HIGH GAIN angle: PITCH, minus 9; YAW, 339.
252:09:34 Cernan 039, 230, 297, minus 9, and 339.
252:09:39 CC That's affirm. We're just shooting a slightly different point with the UV at that time.
252:09:45 Cernan Okay.
252:10:36 Cernan We're ready to - No, stand by.
252:10:50 CC And we've copied the 93s. You can go ahead and torque.
252:10:56 Evans Okay. We'll torque at 11.
252:12:07 Schmitt Okay, the IR COVER is OPEN.
252:12:12 CC Roger. Good show.
252:20:00 CC America, Houston.
252:20:22 Cernan Houston, America. Did you call?
252:20:25 CC Roger. I called, but we're about ready to lose the high gain. I'll call you back as soon as we get back in.
252:24:46 Evans Houston, America.
252:24:49 CC Go ahead, Houston. Say it again - Go ahead, America.
252:24:55 Evans (Laughter) Okay, we've got the commander's menu for yesterday.
252:25:01 CC Roger. We're all listening.
252:25:06 Evans Okay. Scrambled eggs, bacon squares, pineapple drink, orange drink, plain old coffee, and 10 pecans - that's 10 nuts, not packages. And a vitamin. For lunch: bread, a chocolate bar, an orange drink, and a can of tunafish. For dinner: a beefa steaka, butterscotch pudding, peaches, orange drink, and catsup. Medical: 17055, about 5 hours of fair, no medication, 4-1/2 cans of water. For the old Lunar Module Pilot: scrambled eggs, an orange PA drink, coffee, sugar cookie, and two pecans - that's two nuts, not two packages, and a vitamin. For lunch: peanut butter, jelly, bread, orange GF drink, pork and potatoes, coffee, and a fruitcake. For dinner: beefa steaka, butterscotch pudding, one peach, orange drink, and a coffee. The LMP medical log - he had about 6 hours of good sleep, no medication, and two cans of water.
252:27:43 CC Break, Ron. We're going to have an antenna switch coming up. We'll call you back when we get good comm.
252:27:51 Evans Okay.
252:29:19 CC Okay, America. We're back with you.
252:29:27 Evans Okay. Just a second.
252:29:35 CC Just a reminder on the food report, if you want to shorten them. It's normally used negative reporting - only those things you don't eat on the menu.
252:29:54 Evans Oh, well. I like to talk.
252:29:57 CC Roger.
252:30:01 Evans Okay, for the Command Module Pilot. For breakfast, he ate everything. Okay, for lunch - let's see, he ate everything down to the bread, then he had three slices of bread, didn't eat the cherry bar, add a tea, a chocolate bar, and a pack - Wait a minute, I've got the wrong day, sorry. Negate everything I've said on the CMP. Okay, we're on the CMP again. This time, it's day 11. Okay, make it six bacon squares instead of eight, didn't eat the peaches, add a coffee, package of brownies, and 10 pecans. And the vitamin, ate the vitamin. Okay, for lunch, scratch the cherry bar and add a coffee. For supper, add a catsup. Okay, CMPs medical log: 15054, about 6 hours of good, two Lomotil, two sniffs of nosedrops, four cans of water.
252:35:05 Cernan Okay, Bob. We've stopped PTC, and we've got SIM bay jets on.
252:35:12 CC Roger.
252:35:26 CC And, America. We'd like to cov - close the UV cover, please.
252:35:35 Schmitt Okay, the COVER's now CLOSED.
252:37:16 CC America, Houston. If you're all on the headset, if you'd like, we've got the news for the morning.
252:37:26 Cernan Okay; we're all on.
252:37:29 CC Okay. We start today's newscast out with this historical fact. Today marks the 69th anniversary of man's first flight in a heavier-than-air powered machine. Back on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, took three historic flights on the sand beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The brothers will be honored today at a ceremony at a visitor's center near the flying site. Now, a look at the news. There's apparently been a serious hitch in the peace talks between the U.S. and Borth Vietnam. Dr. Henry Kissinger, in a curt news conference at the White House, has said that the North Vietnamese have reneged on earlier agreements and have brought out - brought the peace talks to a halt. Dr. Kissinger said the unresolved problems, which center around the number of peace supervisors and their placement, is not acceptable to the President, and Kissinger feels, and we quote, "We have not yet reached an agreement that thi.-President considers just and fair." Final unofficial returns from the Federally supervisee election name Arnold Miller the new president of the United Mine Workers. His victory over Tony Boyle appears to be only his first step in his promise to clean up the union. Former President Truman remains in serious condition at a Kansas City hospital. Doctors say that the 88-year old Truman is not responding to treatment. In the congressional spotlight in Washington, it appears that the contest for the position of House Majority Leader will be between Representative Thomas O'Neal of Massachusetts and Congressman Sam Gibbons of Florida. The two will vie for the post left vacant by the absent and presumed death of Congressman Hale Boggs. Boggs disappeared in the crash of a light plane in Alaska, in October. Northeastern Ohio has been blasted by a blizzard. As much as 28 inches of snow has fallen, blocking highways and closing airports. An additional foot is expected - was expected before it was to move east. Cleveland has been very hard hit with the white stuff, and the snow is now moving into the northeast. They'll have a white Christmas up that way. Here in Clear Lake, it's a clear, crispy day, but a chilly Sunday morning. Ellington had a 27 this morning. Might take a look at sports here. Miami defeated Baltimore yesterday 16 to 0, to go undefeated in the American Football Conference of the NFL.
252:40:14 CC America, Houston. The UV COVER appears on our telemetry to still be OPEN. Could you cycle it and see if we can get it CLOSED, or just give us what your onboard talkback looks like.
252:40:31 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I got it - I only got it to the intermediate position.
252:40:40 CC Roger; thank you.
252:40:42 CC Okay. In a real hair raiser at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, John Brodie came off the bench late in the game, in fact, in the last 2 minutes of the third quarter, and led the 49ers to a 20 to 17 win over the Minnesota Vikings. The win gives the Western Division crown to the 49ers in the National Conference. His - the last touchdown thrown was with 5 seconds remaining in the game. That puts the Washington Redskins, Green Bay, San Francisco, and Dallas Cowboys in the NFC playoffs and closes out the NFC contest. In the American Conference, there's one key game today to decide the winner of the Central Division. Pittsburgh plays San Diego and Cleveland plays the New York Jets. Both Cleveland and Pittsburgh will get into the playoff's, but their position in the standings is not yet known. One will be the wild-card team, one will be the conference - division winner. Miami and Oakland are the other teams in the American Conference playoffs. Cincinnati plays here at Houston. And we'll keep you posted on that one. In local high school football, Baytown Sterling scored a major upset by defeating San Antonio Lee in the 4A semifinals. The score was 21 to 20 and the game in the Astrodome before 26,000 fans. The loss was the first in 28 games for the San Antonio school. In basketball, the Houston Cougars downed California last night, 79 to 75. Some other major college scores: Kansas, 60, over San Francisco, 58; Penn State, 65, over Boston, 63; New Mexico State, 69, Texas El Paso, 49; Indiana, 89, Ohio, 68; Minnesota, 87, Loyola, 81; Florida State, 85, Baylor, 67. And in pro basketball, Houston defeated the Detroit Pistons, 123 to 112. And just a final note from all your friends down at Cape Kennedy, they'd just like you to know that the Merritt island High School won the Florida State Championship, defeating Tallahassee Leon High School, 40 to 21. And, that's pretty much the update for the morning.
252:42:55 Cernan Thank you, Robert, for that Sunday morning news break.
252:44:08 Cernan Houston, America. Are we GO for the fuel cell and the waste water dump and the other dumps to go?
252:44:16 CC Roger. You're GO for that, and we're watching them down here.
252:44:22 Cernan Okay, we'll start the waste water dump.
252:47:39 CC 17, Houston. We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
252:48:19 CC America, Houston. I don't think I ever updated your consumables, and just a real quick update. You're above the line on all your oxygen tanks. You're above the Flight Plan line on all your hydrogen tanks or right on the line. And you're 3 percent above the line on the RCS. That's Flight Plan usage at this time, so you're above the line on everything.
252:48:47 Evans Okay, Houston. Thanks much.
252:49:46 CC America, Houston. The MC&W on the FUEL CELL an O2 FLOW HIGH is normal.
252:49:56 Schmitt Yes. I guess I finally learned that, Bob, and it didn't bother me a bit.
252:52:25 CC America, Houston. While you're working on the fuel cell area there, we'd like to reconfigure our H2 tank fans. We'd like H2 tank 2 FANs to ON, H2 tank 3 FANs to OFF.
252:52:43 Schmitt Okay, you got it.
253:06:10 CC For a while, until things stabilize.
253:06:16 CC America, Houston.
253:06:19 Cernan Go ahead.
253:06:21 CC We haven't heard any report from you on - and we're just kind of curious. Have you had a lot of condensation moisture around the cockpit?
253:06:32 Cernan Negative. No, it's been very dry.
253:06:36 CC Okay; real good. Well, just a reminder; may not be applicable if you've got a good dry cockpit there. On 16 we had some - rather strange readings on the EVAP OUT temperature and a few other ones. And the potential is there for you to get those same readings - especially if you had had moisture - the potential is to get those readings at - after depress, and we'll be watching it closely. I guess - I don't want to say just ignore them, but we'll be watching them and take any readings for after depress there with a grain of salt. And while you're at it, you might go down and zero the optics If you've got somebody in the LEB.
253:07:16 Cernan Okay, Bob, stand by. We'll get that. Listen, the tunnel is dry up to the hatch. However, when you put your hand up in the tunnel around the - the edge of the hatch and on the - on the outer periphery of the hatch itself, there is quite a bit of moisture up there. We looked up there yesterday and couldn't find any, but there is some up there today. And the face of the hatch is slightly moist, but it's not - nothing like bubbles.
253:07:45 CC Okay. Well, we just want you to be aware that you may see some extraneous ECS readings. It's no problem at all, but, you know, just wanted you to be aware of it.
253:08:25 CC Gene, the specific thing on 16 that occurred was - as we thought it out was that the ECU control unit back of that panel there had the freezing - we think - freezing of the water on it, causing the bad readings.
253:08:46 Cernan Okay. When we changed the canister this morning, Ron tells me, there was water back there, too.
253:08:53 CC Okay. We'll just - we can just expect some possible erroneous readings.
253:10:04 Cernan OPTICS to ZERO. G/N POWER is OFF.
253:10:52 Cernan Houston, America.
253:10:55 CC Go, America.
253:10:59 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're eliminating everything in the Flight Plan between 253:10, where you terminate the waste water dump, which has been done, and we're picking it up on EVA Checklist at 253:50.
253:11:17 CC Okay; that sounds great, Geno. Press.
253:11:24 Cernan Okay.
253:11:34 CC And, 17, if we could have ACCEPT, we'll give you state vector.
253:11:43 Cernan Okay, Mr. R. You've got ACCEPT.
253:11:46 CC Okay.
253:13:51 CC Say again? Oh, the computer's yours, America.
253:14:00 Cernan Okay; thank you. The computer is ours.
253:14:03 CC Roger.
253:16:38 PAO This is Apollo Control at 253 hours 16 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 16 [sic] coasting home now 167,091 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity 3,034 feet per second. Midcourse correction burn number 5, which is nominally scheduled at 253 hours 42 minutes Ground Elapsed Time will not be performed in as much as the correction is less than a half foot per second required. Meanwhile, the spaceflight meterology group with the National Weather Service said this morning that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of Apollo 17 on Tuesday. The weather forecast for the planned landing area, approximately 360 nautical miles southeast of Pago Pago, calls for partly cloudly skies, widely scattered rain showers, variable winds at 10 miles per hour, seas at 3 feet, and the temperature near 80 degrees. Still approximately 4 hours away from the transearth EVA in which Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, will go hand over hand back to the SIM bay and retrieve film cassettes from the cameras and instruments in the SIM bay, pass them back into the Command Module for return home. At 253:18 still up live as long as the crew is awake, this is Apollo Control.
253:22:23 Schmitt Houston, 17.
253:22:29 CC Go ahead, America.
253:22:34 Schmitt Yes, take a look at the LMPs biomed and see how it looks to you this morning.
253:22:49 CC LMPs biomed looks pretty good, America.
253:22:52 Schmitt Okay.
253:43:28 Evans Okay, Houston. The Command Module Pilot biomed should be on the line.
253:43:34 CC Okay, Ron. We'll give you a word here.
253:44:05 CC Ron, your biomed looks great.
253:44:12 Evans Okay; mighty fine.
253:51:53 Evans Hello, Houston. We just turned the CABIN FAN, OFF.
253:51:57 CC Roger. We are copying it - cabin temp around 70. is it a little more comfortable?
253:52:06 Evans Well, we got two extremes.
253:52:09 CC Okay.
253:53:26 Evans Okay; let's see now, the EVA umbilical bag is on the rock boxes - on the - LiOH cans now. What's next, Jack?
253:53:40 Schmitt Yes.
253:54:32 CC America, we're showing - -
253:54:33 Evans ... Go ahead.
253:54:39 CC - - we're showing a slightly high O2 flow. We're just wondering if all the waste compartment vents and all your dump vents are closed as per the Flight Plan.
253:54:52 Evans Well, as a matter of face, no. OVERBOARD DRAIN was OPEN - Let's see, BATTERY VENT's CLOSED during the water dump, but now it's to VENT. WASTE STOWAGE VENT is now CLOSED. We're thinking about opening that WASTE STOWAGE VENT, anyhow, to keep any possible breakage in there from coming back into the cabin. And that way it might go outside during the depress instead of inside. What do you all think of that?
253:55:25 CC Let us debate that one. It sounds pretty good, but let us debate it here.
253:55:30 Evans Okay.
253:55:32 Cernan Tom, the principle concern is those BUSS samples.
253:55:38 CC Roger. I understand your concern. I - we'll work on it here. I don't think there's any problem to it.
253:55:46 Cernan Okay. But all I'm saying is that the BUSS samples have never flown before.
253:56:08 Schmitt Yes, the EVA umbilical bag is snapped on there. Okay. They're hooked up there, but let me make sure it's hooked down at the bottom this time.
253:56:26 Cernan I don't think - I don't think it has been yet. Yes, it would, as a matter of fact.
253:58:04 Schmitt Okay; the A-2 rock bag is tied up. Yes.
253:58:18 Cernan Okay; that A-7 bag's all squared away. Okay; and let's see what we got there, so we can reach those at the bottom. Temporary storage bag is clear in the top. Yes, we want to leave them there so I can open the bottom. Are they tied up? Okay; here we are. Okay.
253:58:54 Schmitt Yes, I'll have to. Oh, it will hold up there as long as I snap it. Yes, the LEVA bags are okay.
253:59:12 Evans Okay. We got everything we want in the jett bag now?
253:59:55 Evans Hey, Houston, this is America. Obviously I'm on VOX here, so I'll try and keep you informed on how things are going.
254:00:15 CC America, Houston.
254:00:20 Evans Okay; go ahead.
254:00:21 CC Some words concerning the waste management vent. We really don't care what you do with it up - now until a period 20 minutes prior to your suit integrity check. We would like to have it closed for a good stabilized reading during suit integrity check, and it requires to be closed 20 minutes prior to that time for a stabilized flow. After the suit integrity check, if you desire to open it during the cabin depress, that's okay with us.
254:00:49 Evans Okay. We'll leave it closed now, and during cabin depress, we'll probably open it then.
254:00:57 CC Okay. Would you like us to remind you on it or just press on like you are doing?
254:01:02 Evans Yes, that's affirm. We can use all the help we can get.
254:01:07 CC Roger.
254:01:13 Evans Okay.
254:03:05 Cernan Okay, Jack. The jett bag is taped. Okay. Temporarily stowed.
254:03:22 Schmitt We're down to mag already.
254:03:26 Cernan On the camera, yes. Okay; 8. Okay. Yes, this is a biggy. Okay, let me verify. I think I've already got that. Ah ha, there it is. Yes. Ah ha, there it is.
254:03:57 Evans Okay; we've got that one. Check it. Yes; we're okay. Yes. I don't have mine on yet, but here it is. Yes, it's there. It's installed. Jack screws are fully open. Yes, I - I got it open, but I didn't take anything out. Everything was already out.
254:04:44 Cernan Okay; TV pole. Right hand. Yes, I knew, rock box. No, not for me. Look good.
254:05:26 Evans Gene, do you know how to run an extension on the OPS (laughter)? Okay.
254:05:46 Evans Okay. What did you say? You want A-2 now?
254:05:59 Cernan Okay; we're A-2.
254:06:07 Cernan Okay, Houston; America. The OPS checks out at 5900 psi and is regulating to 3.9.
254:06:16 CC Roger, Gene.
254:06:49 Schmitt Okay. The old PGA bag is installed.
254:07:06 Evans Okay. And the EV gloves are on. Okay?
254:08:14 Cernan For some reason, they're called entry boots up here.
254:08:36 Schmitt Okay. Tiedown rope. Where does it go? Okay. And the - Okay; everything goes ...
254:08:57 Schmitt Okay. Vac bag is in there, headrest pads, tiedown ropes, and heel clips.
254:10:02 Schmitt Okay; lunar sounder cassette bag is in the EVA bag.
254:10:10 Cernan Yes.
254:10:16 Schmitt What'd we do with that tissue dispenser, Gene?
254:10:22 Cernan We use it up? ... new one.
254:10:49 Schmitt Yes, just like that. Ah ha, there's the old pressure gauge. And it reads 0.
254:11:14 Cernan Okay. It's in the wrist tether pouch?
254:11:18 Schmitt Ah-ha, you're ... too.
254:11:32 Cernan Okay. Ah ha ...?
254:11:40 Schmitt Yes.
254:11:47 Cernan (Laughter) I was just acting surprised; I really know where they go. That's a little - We listen that way.
254:12:02 Schmitt They're not on yet.
254:12:09 Evans Can't hold everything still to get the thing in there.
254:12:20 Schmitt Bag go in there? Got it all stowed?
254:12:28 Evans Oh, yes.
254:12:57 Schmitt Hand controllers are stowed.
254:13:21 Schmitt Okay; counterbalance is all squared away.
254:13:24 Cernan Yes.
254:13:25 Schmitt Okay?
254:13:38 Cernan What kind of - what kind of lens?
254:13:52 Schmitt Keep it in F-1 all the time.
254:14:01 Schmitt Let's use that other DAC. It goes on the pole with the but you can hook her up. Well, let's put it on the pole first, I guess.
254:14:27 Schmitt A-1, decon bag.
254:14:30 Cernan Oh, okay. I didn't know what you meant. I've got to get in A-1 is what you are saying.
254:14:54 Schmitt Don't forget my jett bag is down there. Okay; the old jett bag's on the other side now.
254:15:53 Cernan In the volkswagen pocket.
254:15:58 Schmitt Here Gene, can you attach this to something up there? Okay.
254:16:46 Schmitt ... out here again.
254:16:49 Cernan ... all this dirt out here again.
254:17:12 Schmitt Okay, you get that ... finished?
254:17:46 Cernan Here we go. Here comes the cable. Here comes the monitor. Well, go that way, I guess. Oh, okay.
254:18:30 Cernan Here it is. There's the tape. Okay. What else do we need out of the - out of the A-1? Yes. Yes. Yes. Package of towels. Oh, okay. That's right. We need a package of towels, don't we? That's to clean off the - all the stuff when we bring it back in, you know? Who - whose towel do we use? Do we use the commander's? Well, I'll use one of mine (laughter). Okay; here's the package of towels.
254:19:37 Schmitt Okay; you got a bunch of them? We're only going to need three or four.
254:19:50 Cernan Yes. Well, yes. You guys aren't, but I still am.
254:19:56 Schmitt Yes, okay. Well, I'm not really pressurized either, I guess -
254:20:13 Cernan Okay; that's A-1.
254:20:50 Schmitt Okay.
254:20:55 Cernan The cable; the TV.
254:22:44 Schmitt - cable on there first. Let's hook the cable up.
254:24:45 Schmitt They should be okay, but ...
254:26:38 Schmitt It just hooks like that.
254:26:58 Evans Got one?
254:26:59 Schmitt Got one.
254:30:17 Evans Houston, in case you're wondering, we're still routing cables.
254:30:22 CC Roger. We've got you down in the checklist, the step just prior to "S-BAND AUX TV to SCI." Do you concur on that?
254:30:31 Evans Yes. We're still keeping TV and DAC cables and what have you up to the pole.
254:30:38 CC Roger. We get you Ron.
254:32:48 Schmitt ... before we run out of those.
254:35:49 CC America, Houston.
254:35:53 Evans Yes, go ahead.
254:35:54 CC Is Gene in the commander's seat at this time?
254:35:59 Evans That's affirm.
254:36:01 CC Okay; I'll delay then - a minute here. We're going to have a VERB 49 maneuver coming up to you. We're getting the SIM bay a little bit cold, and we want to warm up those handrails, so we'll be maneuvering here at about 4 - At 254:45, I'll have a maneuver for you.
254:36:20 Evans Okay; we're ready from now on any time.
254:36:24 CC Just stand by. We want to check out the numbers. I just wanted to give you the word that we were going to make this maneuver.
254:36:32 Evans Any time, Bob.
254:38:06 Schmitt Well, you're going to have to put on your helmet - It's really over that way a little bit more, because I got to get into the hatch to get it out.
254:38:15 Schmitt Okay. Well, anyhow that's all taped up. ... next. Okay.
254:38:37 Schmitt There's the old ... IV tether.
254:39:05 Evans Ah. Found something we didn't practice.
254:39:08 CC America, Houston. I've got the VERB 49 maneuver.
254:39:10 Cernan Oh. Okay. Go ahead with the numbers.
254:39:20 CC Okay. It's ROLL, 150; PITCH, 216; YAW, 330. And that's - we'd like that maneuver to start at 254:45 Just prior to starting that maneuver, we'd like the IR COVER CLOSED and the IR OFF.
254:39:56 Cernan Okay. At 24:45 you want 150, 216, and 330. Prior to maneuver, you want IR CLOSED and OFF. And what about the jets on that, Bob?
254:40:12 CC The same jets you have configured. Did you read ROLL, 150; PITCH, 216; and YAW, 330: is that what you read?
254:40:20 Cernan That's what I read, and I'll stay in SIM bay jets.
254:40:23 CC Okay, and you'll need these new high-gain antenna angles: PITCH, minus 32; YAW, 52.
254:40:36 Cernan Okay. PITCH is minus 32, and YAW is 52. Got it.
254:41:10 Evans Okay, and then what? Okay. Okay. I'll get off of the headset now then.
254:41:30 Schmitt Okay. Panel POWER OFF, SUIT POWER OFF and AUDIO CONTROL NORMAL. Got it? CONTROL NORMAL. Okay. Panel 604, Geno, is SUIT PRESSURE ALARM OFF, verify.
254:41:46 Cernan OFF.
254:41:47 Schmitt All caps from 603.
254:41:49 Cernan Removed.
254:41:50 Schmitt Unsnap CMP comm carrier - cable from O2 umbilical, and we'll beep for you on it when you're - -
254:41:59 CC America, Houston.
254:42:01 Schmitt - - ready.
254:42:05 Cernan Okay. We're going to go ahead and close the IR and turn it off at this time.
254:42:09 CC America, Houston. Would you just close the IR, and we'll cue you on the OFF call. We'd like to see it here, and we'd like to do that as a cue.
254:42:20 Cernan Okay. It's OFF.
254:42:22 Schmitt Okay.
254:42:22 Cernan CLOSED, rather.
254:42:23 Schmitt COVER'S CLOSED.
254:42:25 Schmitt MARK it. And it went gray.
254:42:33 CC Roger. We copy that.
254:42:38 Schmitt Okay. Route outboard of the strut and wires and connect CCU head to 603. ...
254:43:29 CC Geno, I'd like to give you just one bit of information we just got from the simulator. When you go from this new attitude I gave you, this verb 49 attitude right now to the EVA attitude, you'll see a middle gimble angle of 66 degrees. That's right off the simulator.
254:43:49 Cernan Okay, Bob. Thank you very much.
254:45:12 Cernan We're maneuvering, Bob.
254:45:19 Schmitt Okay, you got it connected? Secure cable to TV bracket and top of strut using two straps.
254:45:29 Schmitt Okay. You understand that? Secure cable - and that's the same one, the comm cables - to TV bracket - top of strut using two straps. You got that?
254:45:55 Schmitt Okay. Position the TV monitor. You got that. And - disconnect PGA bag from couch at four places, Ron. It's the old remove center couch bit.
254:46:48 Schmitt Going to have to move the old jett bag, though. Back over to your side, I guess, Ron. Yes, let's get this jett bag over on the other side. You want to unhook the PGA bags. I've got the front two. Okay. Now you can take the center couch out.
254:47:31 Evans Yes.
254:48:01 Schmitt Think you can handle this in zero G, Ron?
254:48:20 Schmitt It certainly comes out easier, doesn't it? I mean like you're going to have to - ... that way - that's right, because this place is fuller than the mock-up ever was.
254:48:56 Schmitt Yes, it's the old full spacecraft story. Well, look what turned up here; the clock. Maps. Well, they should be in R-5. Wait a minute. Yes. Okay.
254:50:10 Schmitt Secured? Yes. Okay. Close and lock your old marmon clamps.
254:50:47 Schmitt Closed and locked? Okay. Open the old - the EVA umbilical bag.
254:50:56 Evans Open.
254:50:57 Schmitt Unsnap the top strap and remove spacecraft end of EVA umb all the way to the second tiedown strap. And you're going to attach that to 603, but verify that the EVA STATION O2 is OFF. Attach the EVA umbilical to 603. Route over couch beam and under wires.
254:52:53 CC Jack, whenever it's convenient, you might turn off the IR now. It's looking great.
254:53:02 Schmitt Okay. The IR ALARM switch is going to OFF.
254:53:07 Schmitt MARK.
254:53:11 CC Thank you, sir.
254:53:56 Schmitt Okay. You got the O2 locked?
254:53:58 Evans Yes.
254:53:58 Schmitt ELECTRICAL locked?
254:53:59 Evans Yes.
254:54:00 Schmitt Umbilical tether to couch ring and lock and install pin.
254:54:04 Evans Okay.
254:54:05 Schmitt Got that? SCU OPEN, bleed system, SCU CLOSED.
254:54:21 Schmitt Okay. And you can close it if your system has bled down. Unstow press gauge from EVA bag and connect the gauge to 603. And tape the flashlight to panel 603 guard, Gene.
254:54:38 Cernan Okay.
254:54:39 Schmitt And then we can - -
254:54:40 Cernan ... gage?
254:54:40 Schmitt Yes, install the gage, tape the flashlight, and then we get rid of the tape, yes. Got one?
254:55:11 Schmitt Leave the tape on that so the light won't get out, Ron. (Laughter) Jerry Griffin told me that one.
254:55:40 Schmitt Once you're taped it you can stow the tape. Unstow from the left-hand temporary stowage bag, top pocket: PURGE VALVE, stow in EVA bag, PURGE VALVE patch - pouch. And then the waist tethers, also. (Humming) Waist tethers are in that bag.
254:56:22 Schmitt Houston, do you have recommendation on whether we use 208 or 211 PURGE VALVE? You - you were very interested in that on the lunar surface. Here's yours, I guess.
254:56:33 CC Stand by. We're getting it.
254:56:35 Cernan Bob - Bob, we're using my OPS, so I assume it would be 208.
254:56:41 CC That sounds good, Gene.
254:57:00 Schmitt Okay. Here's some more tape, Geno. Stow in the EVA bag in the proper pouch, and then get the waist - both waist tethers out. And we can attach them up here to the guards.
254:57:46 Schmitt Yes, I'll get it. And we want one over on the other side, wherever the other one is.
254:58:05 Schmitt Okay. PURGE VALVE waist - and there's another waist tether in the EVA bag.
254:58:43 Schmitt Yes, hook that up there. ... put that up ... Oh, that's yours. I'm sorry (laughter). I was looking for this one. All right.
254:59:27 Schmitt Yes, that's the one. I verified that. Numbers? Okay.
254:59:59 Cernan Okay, Bob - -
254:59:59 Schmitt Okay.
255:00:00 Cernan - - we're at the attitude, and the high gain is set. And I never did see that middle gimbal angle get to 60.
255:00:10 Schmitt Unstow the CDRs LEVA, and leave the EVA bags in the LEVA bag - EVA gloves in the LEVA bag.
255:00:20 CC Okay, Geno. It will be the next maneuver that you'll see that middle gimbal angle out around 60 - 66 degrees.
255:00:31 Cernan Okay.
255:02:00 Schmitt Should have vacuumed those things (laughter). And particularly since you're going to be looking into the Sun (laughter).
255:02:40 Evans Hey ...
255:02:42 Schmitt That's right.
255:03:12 Schmitt Okay, where? ...
255:03:26 Schmitt Put the - put them in the tan TSB. No, not yet. That's the - Yes, unstow the LMP LEVA and EV gloves. Put the gloves in the top pocket.
255:04:14 Schmitt Oh, they're in the left-hand top pocket. We wiped those off quite a bit. They're not half bad now. I don't have any instructions.
255:07:16 Schmitt Okay. I think we can stick these under the couch.
255:07:25 Schmitt Yes. Put your LEVA on the helmet. Okay, LEVA bags go up in the tunnel. Then we need to get the CDR's helmet out, too.
255:09:00 Cernan Houston, this is America. By my count, we're still about 30 or 40 minutes ahead here.
255:09:08 CC Roger, Gene. You're looking good.
255:09:15 Schmitt Oh, not too far. I'll have to - can't tell from the list. ... the next page? Huh? Yes. Oh ... I wouldn't know if my helmet was fogged up or not.
255:09:57 Schmitt Supposed to have put them in the left-hand -
255:10:16 Schmitt Got a place for that ...?
255:10:52 Schmitt Somewhere I ceased to be careful with my helmet, I can see that because ... (Humming)
255:13:11 Schmitt Okay. Have you got the CDR's helmet unstowed? The IV gloves?
255:13:55 Schmitt Put your helmet stowage bag over there. Yes. Place accessory bag in the stowage bag. IV gloves in the temporary stowage bag.
255:14:22 Schmitt Okay. You got your helmet on? Verified your visors? Verify the LEVA visors? Okay, and we antifogged. Okay. And the helmets and LEVAs are under the CDR couch. Stow loose items. Verify all your loose items, gents.
255:15:31 Schmitt We've used it all.
255:15:43 Schmitt Okay. Let me verify that we've got all the covers closed. One, two - Covers are closed. Panel 230, MAPPING CAMERA, OFF. SOUNDER RECORDER is OFF, IR is OFF, SELF TEST, HEATERS to - just about. You can get - you can work in that direction now. You're happy with loose items and everything?
255:16:25 Cernan ... first?
255:16:26 Schmitt CMP first. Yes. They've gotten it. Yes. Then me, and then you. I'm just reading you the procedures is all.
255:16:55 Schmitt Okay, Houston. For a little while things may sound a little bit confused. We're going to do the old thing about getting into suits.
255:17:01 CC Roger. We're copying that.
255:17:03 Schmitt And if you don't hear from us - if you don't hear from us, off and on; well, that's because we're not talking to you.
255:17:09 Cernan And, Bob, the CDR's going off the loop right now. I'll be back in plenty of time for that maneuver.
255:17:15 CC Okay.
255:17:24 Schmitt And - let's see, continuing right here. SELF TEST is OFF, and the UV is OFF. And the DATA SYS - the ON, switch is to OFF, strange as that may sound. And - I can. Yes, I will. I'll stay on for a while, until Gene gets suited.
255:18:02 Schmitt And the panel 5 INSTRUMENTATION SCIENCE EQUIPMENT SEB circuit breakers are coming OPEN. Two are open. Ron, you may want to watch that. Yes.
255:18:38 Schmitt I already stowed mine in my temporary stowage bag. That's it ...
255:20:37 CC America, Houston.
255:20:43 Schmitt Yes, go ahead.
255:20:44 CC Did Ron unplug from the biomed for a while?
255:20:49 Schmitt Yes, he is off the biomed for a while.
255:20:52 CC Okay. Thank you.
255:20:59 Schmitt But you can look at me for a while.
255:21:05 CC Yes, you're there.
255:30:09 PAO This is Apollo Control, while the crew is suiting up, some spacecraft distance and velocity numbers. The current distance from the earth 163,130 nautical miles, velocity 3,131 feet per second. 255:30. And the crew is way ahead of the timeline in getting suited up and preparing for Ron Evans' EVA. However, it is unlikely that they will begin EVA early. That remains to be seen of course. And at 255:30 this is Apollo Control.
255:31:31 Evans Okay, Houston. Gene's got his suit on now, and he'll help Jack get into his.
255:31:41 CC Roger, Ron.
255:31:44 Evans And in case you're won - in case you're wondering, we changed the procedure there a little bit. It was more convenient for them to get those guys suited first and then me.
255:31:52 CC Okay. We'll buy that. You still are off of biomed. Do you concur on that?
255:32:03 Evans Yes, if you want to take a look at it, I can plug it in here. I'm on Jack's headset now, but I can plug it in if you want me to.
255:32:08 CC No, no problem - no problem. We just wanted to, you know, it's easier to remind you now than it is to have you unzip the suit or something, that's all.
255:32:17 Evans Oh, okay. Yes, I understand. Let me check and see if it's still working. I'll go off first and then back on.
255:32:37 Evans Okay. It's hooked up now.
255:32:42 CC Roger, Ron. You look good. You're breathing.
255:32:48 Evans I'm breathing, huh? .Okay.
255:41:26 Cernan Okay, Bob, CDR's suited and back on the comm and biomed.
255:41:31 CC Okay. We copy that.
255:43:04 Schmitt Houston, how do you read the LMP?
255:43:07 CC LMP, we read you loud and clear.
255:43:13 Schmitt Okay. I'm in w suit and on suit comm now.
255:43:22 CC And be advised the CDR and LMP both look good on biomed.
255:43:31 Schmitt Okay. And we're going to get the old CMP in the suit here.
255:43:36 CC Okay.
255:43:40 Schmitt That or we'll let him do it by himself since he's so proficient at it now.
255:44:54 CC America, Houston. We're copying you as being somewhat ahead on your time line, so don't rush on the - on the suit donning.
255:45:08 Schmitt Roger. We're not rushing, just going at it systematically. We apparently learned how to do it, though, somewhere along the line.
255:45:17 CC Okay. Well, just want you to be advised we don't particularly want to start early; and, therefore, you're ahead of the time line right now. You can take a break afterwards maybe.
255:45:28 Cernan Okay, Bob, ... on that one.
255:45:34 Schmitt Understand, Bob. Understand.
255:54:01 Schmitt Houston, this is the LMP. I've got something for you you've been looking forward to. It's a number. It's 24173.
255:54:15 CC Roger, Jack.
255:54:38 CC Jack, I wasn't sure what you were talking about there for a minute, but it lit up the face on the panel next to me there. So everybody's happy now.
255:54:50 Schmitt Good. I'm sorry about that, Bob. Tell them that it was not intentional to leave it in the suit. As a matter of fact, it might be worth a reminder when you think we're unsuiting - suiting to take it out.
255:55:17 CC Well, if you wouldn't mind a reminder, we wouldn't mind giving it to you.
255:55:24 Schmitt Fine with me.
255:55:27 CC We're writing it into the EVA Checklist right now.
256:02:12 Schmitt Houston. We're on the top of 3-8.
256:02:17 CC Roger. Understand.
256:02:22 Schmitt With the exception of the VERB 49 maneuver, the other pages are complete.
256:02:28 CC Roger. Yes, you read my mind on that one.
256:02:34 Schmitt Say again?
256:02:35 CC You read my mind. That was the next thing I was going to ask you. I hadn't seen a VERB 49, and that's on that page that isn't required at this time.
256:02:48 Schmitt Yes, right. We're ... by for your Flight Plan time.
256:02:50 Cernan Bob - we'll maneuver in the Flight Plan - VERB 49.
256:02:57 CC Roger. We understand.
256:03:01 Schmitt Okay. Verify your SCU, CLOSED. You ready to go?
256:03:26 Schmitt Panel 2, CRYO PRESS INDICATOR - INDICATOR is ... 3. Panel 603, EVA STATION O2, ON. Verify EVA STATION O2 gauge reads approximately same as surge tank. And surge tank reads 850. I guess that's approximately. (Laughter.)
256:04:07 Schmitt Okay. SCU OPEN. Verify flow and purge umbilical. And then the panel 603, EVA STATION O2 OFF - O2 OFF.
256:04:36 Schmitt Okay. You verified all that (laughter). Waist - remove waist belt stowage strap from umbilical and stow in EVA bag. Okay. That's done. Connect EVA umbilical electrical and O2 to CMP PGA, right-hand blue and lock. You're going to connect the EVA umbilical to yourself.
256:05:34 Schmitt (Cough). Okay. Your electrical and O2 are connected, right-hand blue and locked.
256:06:08 Schmitt Okay?
256:06:24 Schmitt I transferred the LEB. I don't see that in here anymore.
256:06:40 Schmitt There it is. Okay. Your next big step here is to connect the waist belt and lock; buckle on the left-hand side.
256:07:20 Schmitt ... down there now, Ron. Can I help you with the connections? You don't have me going down there, you know, until -
256:09:45 Schmitt No.
256:10:52 Cernan Okay. Yes, that's good. But you'd like it pointed down, right? Yes, that makes sense. Now, is your belt under the scissor pocket? Okay. We got our comm carriers on, so that's no problem. You ought to put your comm carrier on now. And then we do a comm check.
256:12:28 Evans Hey, Houston. This is the old Command Module Pilot back on the loop. How do you read?
256:12:35 CC Read you loud and clear, Ron, and biomed's clear.
256:12:40 Evans Hey, okay.
256:12:43 Cernan Okay. Some power at panel 10, Ron. POWER, AUDIO; SUIT POWER'S ON; MODE, VOX.
256:12:48 Evans Okay, we're in VOX.
256:12:49 Cernan VOX sensitivity as required, approximately 7.
256:12:53 Evans Well, it works good at 9. I'll try it down here. I don't know whether - Well, I'll leave it all the way up. I '11 leave it on 9. It works that way.
256:13:04 Cernan PAD COMM, OFF.
256:13:05 Evans PAD COMM is OFF.
256:13:06 Cernan S-BAND, T/R.
256:13:08 Evans S-BAND is T/R.
256:13:09 Cernan AUDIO CONTROL, NORMAL.
256:13:11 Evans AUDIO CONTROL'S in NORMAL.
256:13:12 Cernan INTERCOM, T/R.
256:13:14 Evans INTERCOM, T/R.
256:13:15 Cernan And VHF AM, OFF.
256:13:18 Evans VHF is OFF.
256:13:20 Cernan Okay. ...
256:13:23 Evans Okay.
256:13:24 Cernan Panel 3, S-BAND AUX ... verify.
256:13:39 Schmitt Okay, Houston. AUX TV is going to TV now.
256:13:46 CC Roger, Jack. We see it.
256:13:51 Evans (Laughter) Not much of a picture. It was looking right at the floor.
256:13:56 CC We don't see the picture, but we saw the S-BAND
256:13:57 Evans Not at the camera.
256:13:57 CC -- ... S-BAND AUX TV.
256:14:01 Evans Oh, okay.
256:14:47 Cernan Yes. Yes.
256:15:04 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Yes, I read you loud and clear, Jack. Yes. Yes, we're going to have to move this TV a little bit, because I can't get the hatch open
256:15:20 Schmitt Houston, I think you've heard from the CMP and the LMP. Why don't you try the CDR and see if he hears you?
256:15:29 CC Roger. I thought I already had a contact with Gene. CDR, how do you read Houston?
256:15:35 Cernan Still reading you loud and clear, Houston.
256:15:38 CC Roger, CDR.
256:15:51 Cernan Houston, America. That VERB 49 maneuver, you want me to be there at 56:30; you want me to maneuver at 56:30?
256:16:03 CC Your choice on that, CDR. You're ahead of the timeline right now.
256:16:11 Cernan Yes, we're - we're going to press on slowly through the system prep - preps for depress, and just to make sure we don't run into any problems there, and we'll probably - probably call a pseudo hold before I take any checks there, we'll take a look at it.
256:16:30 CC Roger.
256:16:38 Evans Oh, okay. Yes, let's press on.
256:16:49 Cernan ... panel 604, SUIT PRESSURE.
256:16:53 Evans Okay. I don't hear a thing. (Laughter) I - I think I ought to hear that one.
256:17:11 Cernan Sure ...
256:17:24 Evans I guess I can pretend like I hear it.
256:17:38 Evans Make sure I'm in AUDIO/TONE back here, but I don't think it makes any difference.
256:17:54 Evans No. Don't hear a thing. Houston, any suggestions on the SUIT PRESSURE ALARM, ON, and no tone?
256:18:26 Evans I didn't hear a Houston. (Laughter)
256:18:29 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
256:18:34 Evans I hear you guys, though.
256:18:39 CC America, Houston. Just for your information, we've got the TV, and we see the floor.
256:18:46 Evans Okay, Robert. I just turned on the SUIT PRESSURE ALARM, and no tone. Seems like I should get a tone there. That right, Jack?
256:18:59 Schmitt That's what it says. Verify ...
256:19:16 Cernan Hello, Houston; America. Did you get that last?
256:19:19 CC Roger. That's affirmative. And you should have gotten the tone, and we'd like you to try it again. And we're thinking it through right now.
256:19:32 Evans Nothing. (Laughter)
256:19:52 Evans Well, let's see now.
256:20:25 Evans Houston, you got a circuit breaker or two we could check on that one?
256:20:30 CC Affirmative, and we'll be right with you with it.
256:20:34 Evans Okay.
256:21:56 CC Ron, you might go over on panel 5 and check the INSTRUMENT, SCI EQUIPMENT, HATCH circuit breaker. That has to be IN for the tone to work.
256:22:36 CC America, Houston.
256:22:42 Evans Okay, Houston. It's - the HATCH circuit breaker is IN, and - Couldn't be my headset at all, could it?
256:22:58 CC I wouldn't think so. Not your headset per se, since you're reading us and all.
256:23:05 Evans Yes, that's what I'm thinking, too.
256:23:08 Cernan Say - say, Bob?
256:23:10 Evans Yes.
256:23:11 Cernan How would it be if I just plugged into the comm cable on that umbilical, just to check out the entire suit headset system here on that tone?
256:23:22 Evans You just cut out, in one ear.
256:23:37 Cernan Okay. This is the CDR. I'm going off the line for a minute.
256:23:51 CC Ron, you might verify that the NONESSENTIAL BUS switch on panel 5 is on MAIN A.
256:23:59 Evans It's in intermittent in my headset. Okay.
256:24:06 Schmitt That's verified. And Ron thinks he has an intermittent in his headset for some reason.
256:24:16 CC Ron, your transmissions are okay, and you're not breaking up to us. It may be in your headset.
256:25:08 Schmitt Okay, Houston. Gene's able to hear the tone, and Ron's getting it intermittently.
256:25:17 CC Roger. We copy.
256:25:22 Evans How about switching headsets with one of you guys, huh?
256:25:29 CC If you decide to swap headsets, we prefer that you swap with the CDR.
256:25:39 Cernan Any special reason?
256:25:42 Evans Yes.
256:25:46 Cernan ... I think.
256:25:55 Evans Oh, this?
256:25:55 Cernan Yes.
256:25:56 Evans Oh, I see. I'll trade with Jack, here.
256:26:07 Cernan Bob, this is CDR. You got any answer to that last question?
256:26:11 CC Roger, CDR. It's almost a tossup, but we would like to have the other man out on - with an absolutely good headset, although we don't think it's a real problem one way or another.
256:26:27 Cernan We'll get him out with a good headset, okay?
256:26:33 CC It's a tossup, CDR. Take your pick, I guess, really.
256:26:39 Cernan Okay. Standby. We'll check one out here.
256:27:15 Cernan Okay. We just made a swap. Okay. Ron is wearing Jack's headset, and he's got a good tone continually when the switch is on, and he loses the tone when the switch goes off.
256:27:32 CC Okay. We've got that.
256:27:34 Cernan So CMP and LMP made the switch.
256:27:37 CC Roger.
256:28:12 Evans You know, that - No - yes, I didn't - I didn't even know you could cut it off. If I'd known that, I'd have cut it off before. Yes. If I'd cut it off like that, I'd have my curly locks shaved off in front.
256:28:27 Schmitt Okay, Houston; this is the LMP. Give me a call, please.
256:28:30 CC LMP, Houston. Reading you loud and clear. How me?
256:28:36 Schmitt Okay. You're loud and clear;
256:28:39 CC Roger, Jack.
256:28:44 Evans We're going to try the spacecraft - see if Jack hears the spacecraft tone or not. Just turn the power on and off - the caution and warning power. I got a tone.
256:29:22 Evans Hey, that's good and loud. Okay. ALARM is OFF.
256:29:28 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're going to turn the TV off for a while.
256:29:33 CC Roger.
256:29:46 Schmitt Okay. I'm going to start my maneuver now.
256:29:57 Evans (Humming)
256:30:41 Evans Oh, 351. The CABIN REPRESS valve. Okay, I'll get it.
256:30:53 Evans Okay. CABIN REPRESS valve is OFF on 351. And it's verified closed.
256:32:23 Evans Yes, that's right. ... checklist.
256:33:17 Cernan Okay, O2 HEATERS, three of them, are in AUTO.
256:33:32 Evans Yes, that's a good number.
256:33:43 Evans Okay. Got it? Yes, it's ON.
256:33:55 Evans Okay. You ON or - -
256:34:00 CC America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Delta, OMNI Delta.
256:34:06 Cernan You got it.
256:34:12 Evans Yes, got it in there. Okay. PCV is verified on. Okay. Yes.
256:34:39 Evans If we decide to put this on later, then you can put it on for me, because it flops all over the place down here. Okay. Disconnect red ECS O2 hose. Okay.
256:34:58 Evans Close the old purge valve, valve 208. It came from the Taurus-Littrow landing area of the Moon. Okay. Got the purge valve. Boy. Okay, just looking at some ... (Laughter) Okay. It's low, is it?
256:36:08 CC America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Charlie.
256:36:12 Evans Yes, you can't see it.
256:36:14 Schmitt You're OMNI Charlie, now.
256:36:17 CC Thank you, Jack.
256:36:22 Evans It's low.
256:36:28 Evans What's the matter with - I'm going to try the other one. That thing, I can't even move.
256:36:39 Evans Oh! Sticks or something. Let's see. Okay. Let me try the other one.
256:37:16 Evans Yes, this one's stuck here, stuck in something. Couldn't move that if I had to. Okay, we'll use 211 instead.
256:37:26 Cernan Okay, Houston. He's going to wear purge valve 211. It's not perfectly matched, but I see no problems with it. It's a lot freer.
256:37:37 CC Roger, America. And we anticipate no problems with using 211.
256:37:43 Cernan Okay. Fine, Bob.
256:37:45 Evans Okay. We want it in low, you say, Jack - Okay?
256:38:03 Evans ... that's low. Okay.
256:38:15 Evans Okay. 302, SUIT FLOW is OFF.
256:38:30 Evans Might just as well. I - I turned mine off, see.
256:38:46 Evans Okay. ...
256:39:08 Evans Stay up there in the tunnel, that way.
256:39:13 Evans Yes. This other way - you are in the way there. Let's go the other way.
256:39:24 Evans See, like so.
256:39:35 Evans Okay. CMPs hoses are routed up across the tunnel, out of the way - we hope. Ah-ha! Finally getting some flow. Man, I feel a lot better. Okay, cabin pressure's coming up, and - Okay. Jack, I guess you could really go the LEB ... to help me now. Yes - yes, because I can -
256:40:49 Evans Okay. I've got - yes, I've got the flow coming in here, so ... up around 5.7.
256:41:11 Evans Okay, just a second.
256:41:29 Evans Yes, I - I just - Okay, I see. Yes, it's below 2.5.
256:41:35 Evans Okay.
256:41:52 Evans Man, you guys got that thing dirty.
256:41:58 Evans Here, let me get the hose out of here first.
256:42:03 Evans Oop!
256:42:16 Evans (Laughter) Well, put it on there, I guess. Yes. Close up a hole there next to the ... Okay, let's see, I guess we can button that back up.
256:42:56 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're at attitude. I'm going to configure the DAP.
256:43:01 CC Roger, America. We copy attitude.
256:43:25 Evans Let's see. Am I getting all tangled up in the hose I don't think so. Am I?
256:43:30 CC Okay, America. We're ready for the HIGH GAIN. PITCH, 43; YAW of 262.
256:43:39 Evans Okay. Just a minute. MANUAL and WIDE. PITCH of 43; YAW, 262. HIGH GAIN. Okay. They want AUTO now?
256:43:58 CC That's affirmative, Ron.
256:44:08 Evans It still doesn't go full scale, but -
256:44:19 Evans That good enough?
256:44:23 CC Ron, we need it full scale.
256:44:30 Evans Let me try it again. Okay? I'll go to MANUAL and WIDE.
256:44:32 CC RE - REACQ and WIDE, and then step it down.
256:44:38 Evans Okay.
256:44:47 Evans Ah-ha! That works. Okay. You're REACQ and NARROW now.
256:45:28 Evans Okay. There, you want to - -
256:45:30 CC America, we see your cabin at 5.4, and We'll keep an eye on it.
256:45:37 Evans Okay. Give us a little call there ahead of time, and I'll crack the ... Right now - -
256:45:42 CC Roger.
256:45:46 Cernan Okay, Jack. You're squared away.
256:45:49 Cernan Okay, Bob. I've got the proper jets configured, and A/C ROLL, PITCH, and YAW, MAIN B, are OPEN.
256:45:54 Evans What?
256:45:56 CC Roger. And we would like to go back to AUTO on the HIGH GAIN to see if it holds your signal strength for us.
256:46:06 Evans Okay. You got AUTO.
256:46:25 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I'll verify that all the SCS switches are set as per 3-9.
256:46:34 CC Roger, America. Thank you.
256:47:11 CC And, America. Your cabin press is at 5.6, and you can crack the side hatch valve, if you like.
256:48:16 Evans Okay. Get the old cabin pressure down here a little ways. That's about 5, isn't it?
256:48:27 Evans Okay. ... there.
256:48:33 CC Ron, we're seeing 4.9 on your pressure. You can stop venting there.
256:48:38 Evans Okay, we're stopped.
256:48:39 Cernan Okay, it's closed.
256:48:59 Evans Okay.
256:49:18 Evans Here, Jack. Why don't you stick that up there in that? Yes.
256:49:39 Evans Up left.
256:49:51 Evans Okay. Yes, that's right side up. Not, yet, I haven't got them all on there.
256:50:17 CC America, Houston.
256:50:22 Cernan Go ahead, Houston; this is America.
256:50:23 CC Gene, you probably realize that the audio tone is a separate wire all the way to the earplug, and that's - and that's why there's no problem - the LMP should have no problem.
256:50:38 Cernan That's affirm. We understand.
256:50:39 Evans Yes, we understood that. Okay, Gene. The bottom ones look like letters up, right? Yes, okay. That works, okay. Now - we have - Oh, there's the other one. (Laughter) Thought I only had three straps. Okay.
256:51:06 Evans Okay. I guess we're ready to strap this thing on, huh? No, I've got to have that first.
256:51:22 Evans Okay. There's the old - 0 - OPS adapter bracket. It's hooked on. Yes, it floats around there a lot better than it did in the simulator. Okay, Jack. Can you kind of steady it there, and we'll - Some more? Wait a minute. Give me the lower one first. No, up on top, the other way. And then slip - Okay. And an upper one. Okay, need a left upper. There's a left upper.
256:52:15 Evans Okay, the next one's coming around this way.
256:52:28 Evans And then, the left arm's back over here. Ah-ha! There's the old OPS hose. Okay, that's installed and it's locked.
256:52:47 Evans Verify locked. Okay.
256:52:53 Cernan Okay, what do you need, Jack? Okay.
256:53:23 Evans Uh-oh. (Laughter) Should have done that earlier. It's under your bench now. Here it is. Okay. Oh, okay. (Humming)
256:54:36 Schmitt Okay, Houston; America. The LMP is donning his LEVA now.
256:54:42 CC Roger, America.
256:55:08 Evans Yes, it was - that - The back is the part I can't reach right now. Yes, okay.
256:55:15 CC America, the cabin is at 5.6, if you want to vent a little bit.
256:55:21 Schmitt Okay, I'll get it.
256:55:24 Evans Okay, locked. I'll get the back of it. Can you lock - verify your own alignment?
256:55:35 Evans Yes, I can see it.
256:55:38 Evans Which one is locked? Let me twist it just a little bit.
256:55:41 Cernan Okay, there we go.
256:55:43 Evans Engage - locked. Okay, it's on that way. Yes. Yes. No, I ... - You're going to have to twist or something. Okay, that's the back.
256:56:43 Evans One is in there, and then the other one was stuck in that bungee there.
256:57:09 Cernan There's one, up in the tunnel.
256:57:28 Cernan Houston, how does the cabin look to you?
256:57:32 Evans Take a look. It's about 5-1/2 now, Gene.
256:57:36 Cernan Okay.
256:57:37 CC Roger, Gene. It's at 5.3. We're monitoring very closely if you - if it helps you any.
256:57:45 Cernan Okay, very fine. I'm coming down very, very slowly on it.
256:57:49 CC Roger.
256:57:49 Evans Gene, can you look on your left side, over there? That's it. Now, just a second, Gene; hold it there.
256:58:49 Evans Pull valve.
256:58:51 Cernan Okay, it moving.
256:58:56 Evans Okay, let's see. You're right. Okay. It's off. Just tell me when. You want it on yet?
256:59:30 Evans Okay, that's that one? Lock. There's your lock on that blue one. Locked? Okay. You closed? Okay, that's locked. That's locked. Locked. Okay. Having trouble getting them on there, Jack, with the - shouldn't be too much pressure there. Let me - let me push it on you.
257:00:16 Evans Twist? Doesn't look like it's on. Okay. is she locked? Let me see. Okay, let's see your - they're hooked on the right.
257:00:40 Evans Okay. That's O2 - that's a lock lock. Okay, blue one is a lock lock. Okay, that pin is now locked in. That ... is locked in. Okay, and your helmet, I checked that once. Let's try it again; let's see Moves that way, doesn't it? Okay, it's locked. Here, let me - wrong way (laughter). Okay.
257:01:18 Cernan Okay, Houston; this is America. The LMP and the CDR both got their helmets and gloves on, and all connections have been checked.
257:01:26 CC Roger, America.
257:01:42 Evans It's open.
257:01:42 Cernan Okay.
257:01:44 Evans It's locked.
257:01:44 CC America, we are copying the cabin at 4.8. You can stop the venting at this time.
257:01:53 Evans Okay, it's - Gene's closing the valve now.
257:01:56 Cernan Okay, it's closed. And how are you reading CDR on VOX?
257:02:02 CC Read you loud and clear on VOX.
257:02:06 Cernan Okay, fine.
257:02:08 Evans Okay, now she's low.
257:02:09 Cernan Okay.
257:02:13 Evans (Laughter) Yes. Got to get the dust cover on the ..., okay?
257:02:23 Cernan Okay, we're going to do an integrity check, Jack.
257:02:26 Cernan And, Houston, the CMPs connections are all verified locked.
257:02:31 CC Roger.
257:02:32 Cernan Okay, going to integrity check.
257:02:36 Evans Let me know when you get up there because I've got to turn my O2 off. Well, I guess I can see it from here.
257:02:46 Cernan Okay. SUIT CIRCUIT RETURN VALVE is CLOSED.
257:02:56 Cernan Okay, it's CLOSED. DIRECT O2 is CLOSED. What's suit pressure indicating over there, Ron, about 4.7 to 5.3?
257:03:09 Evans Yes, it's about 5.0.
257:03:11 Cernan And O2 FLOW is low, isn't it? Okay.
257:03:13 Evans FLOW is down, yes.
257:03:18 Cernan I'll just take it off of here, huh?
257:03:21 Evans Yes, just right off there.
257:03:22 Cernan Okay, SUIT CIRCUIT RETURN VALVE is CLOSED. SUIT FLOW valve - You have flow, Jack? Suit pressure is okay, and O2 flow is less than 0.4. Suit test. Okay; I'm taking us up.
257:03:34 Evans Okay.
257:03:43 Cernan Okay. We're in PRESSURE, and DIRECT O2 is OPENED.
257:03:53 Cernan Let me cycle the suit circuit return valve. Okay, it's OPEN, and it's CLOSED.
257:04:04 Evans Okay. That's O2 flow.
257:04:08 Cernan Okay. At 4 psi differential, I'll close the direct O2.
257:04:16 Evans Okay, I'll turn my flow off here a little bit to keep the cabin from going up so far.
257:04:20 Schmitt Okay.
257:04:22 Evans If it starts to get hot, I'll turn it back on again.
257:04:24 Schmitt Okay.
257:04:26 Cernan Okay. DIRECT O2 is CLOSED.
257:04:30 Evans Should take you up to about 4.5, I think.
257:04:33 Cernan Okay, check suit pressure. What are you reading over there, Ron? Ron, what are you reading up on the - the suit - circuit?
257:04:43 Evans Oh, I don't know. About - I don't know, 8.5 or 9.
257:04:47 Cernan Okay. That's GO.
257:04:50 CC Okay. We're reading 9.0 on the suit pressure.
257:04:50 Cernan Okay. ... at 4.25, increasing slowly.
257:04:55 Cernan Okay, very good. O2 flow, Ron?
257:04:58 Evans Well, it's still off. Let's give it a chance to - -
257:04:59 Cernan Less than 0.8? Let's wait for it here.
257:05:01 Evans Yes. See, you've got to go up - you're sitting - -
257:05:03 Cernan Yes. We're going through about 4.35, now.
257:05:05 Evans Yes. Goes up to about 4.4 or 4.5.
257:05:24 Cernan Let me know when it comes down up there, will you?
257:05:25 Evans Okay. It's starting to come down now.
257:05:42 Cernan Let me know when it gets stable.
257:05:43 Evans Okay. It's 0.6 right now, but -
257:05:46 Cernan Still coming down?
257:05:47 Evans Still coming down a little bit.
257:05:48 Cernan Okay.
257:05:53 Evans 0.55.
257:05:58 Evans It's 0.5.
257:06:09 Evans Well, it looks like it's going to stabilize right there at just a little less than 0.5.
257:06:14 Cernan Okay. Let's see if it stays stable for about 30 seconds.
257:06:16 Evans Okay.
257:06:17 Cernan Yes? Not to me - oh - to you. Okay. Okay.
257:06:37 Cernan Still stable, Ron?
257:06:38 Evans It's coming down. You guys got pretty good suits.
257:06:41 Cernan Yes. They are good, as a matter of fact.
257:06:44 Evans (Laughter) Put dust in them, and it makes them good. Now it's down around 0.3.
257:06:52 Cernan Houston, how does the suit circuit look to you?
257:06:57 CC It's looking real good, Gene.
257:07:01 Cernan If you're happy, I'll go to DEPRESS.
257:07:05 CC Roger. We're happy with it.
257:07:09 Cernan Okay. Coming down slow, Jack.
257:07:21 Cernan Okay. We're coming down.
257:07:25 Evans Is that okay? Or that okay? Okay. But you can't do that. It's going to have to be (laughter) - and -
257:07:44 Cernan Okay. Let's see.
257:07:45 Evans Okay. You guys are coming down; I want to give myself a little air here.
257:07:53 Evans Wish I had some of that cold you were talking about this morning, Gene.
257:07:57 Cernan Yes. It's plenty cool in here.
257:08:18 Cernan Okay. We'll pick it up over here.
257:08:28 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'll pick it up on page 3-13 as soon as we come down here a little bit more. I'm in SUIT TEST valve DEPRESS.
257:08:40 CC Roger.
257:09:08 Evans What's my next thing here? Suit and helmet donning, isn't it?
257:09:11 Cernan Yes. We'll get your helmet and gloves on, Ron.
257:09:14 Evans Okay. I can go ahead and start doing that now.
257:09:15 Cernan Yes, you sure can.
257:09:20 Evans Okay. I don't know if Jack will be able to get my helmet. I'm going to need my gloves. Well, no hurry yet. I need to get the helmet on first.
257:09:31 CC America, Houston. You asked for a reminder - -
257:09:32 Cernan Go ahead.
257:09:32 CC - - you might want to get the waste management compartment vent prior to glove donning. That is your decision - your choice on that.
257:09:42 Evans Oh, okay.
257:10:00 Cernan Ron, can you see our suit-circuit pressure up there?
257:10:04 Evans Yes. It's about 7.
257:10:06 Cernan Okay.
257:10:07 Evans Cabin's about 5 -
257:10:09 Cernan Okay. We're 6 or so?
257:10:18 Evans Oh. My clean gloves all dirty?
257:10:38 Evans Look at all the water's coming out of that thing.
257:10:39 Cernan Okay, Jack. You want to take us down the rest of the way?
257:10:47 Cernan Okay, Houston, the SUIT PRESS valve - SUIT TEST valve is OFF, and I can verify we are in BOTH on DEMAND REGs.
257:10:57 Evans I don't know which is the best way to do this here.
257:10:59 CC Roger, America.
257:11:12 Cernan Yes, that's that valve you just opened.
257:11:14 Evans Yes. I just opened the waste stowage vent valve here.
257:11:18 Cernan Okay, Ron. You've got the O2 ON yet, I guess. Huh?
257:11:22 Evans Yes. It's still ON.
257:11:23 Cernan Okay.
257:11:24 Evans Well, let's see - -
257:11:25 Cernan I'll let Jack help you with that.
257:11:26 Evans - - ... OPS is in the way in the back here. See if I can squish down here.
257:11:38 Cernan Okay. I'll hold your OPS out of the way.
257:11:40 Evans Okay, wait a minute. I can't see where the - -
257:11:41 Cernan Okay, you're in the back.
257:11:46 Evans Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think something's stuck in the - oh, I don't have a hose. Okay. (Laughter)
257:11:56 Evans There's a cable here. The cable to the comm carrier.
257:12:01 CC America, you're at 5.7 - -
257:12:02 Evans Okay. Comm carrier coming up.
257:12:02 CC - - on your cabin. You want to go ahead and vent a little bit?
257:12:06 Cernan Okay. That's good. Half a second here.
257:12:08 Evans Okay?
257:12:10 Cernan Well, you're - There you go.
257:12:11 Evans Wait a minute. Something's still in there. What in the world's in there? Everytime I look down, your comm carrier comes in -
257:12:17 Cernan You're just not getting it aligned too well.
257:12:22 Evans Let's see if on the sides over there or something.
257:12:25 Cernan No. You're clear.
257:12:27 Evans No, this buckle. I hadn't thought of it. That's the buckle on the OPS. Man. That's something that happened - doesn't happen in there - Wait a minute. That's the engagement right there. Okay. Yes. Yes. I think that's it, isn't it?
257:12:50 Cernan Did it lock? Doublecheck it locked, and doublecheck it in the engage mark.
257:12:54 Evans Okay, that's the lock mark, isn't it? Yes. Okay. Yes. So if I can - Think you know how to get it, huh?
257:13:16 Cernan I got to pull the flap up on this side, Jack. You'll have to get it on the other.
257:13:25 Evans Yes, something's not right the way I - There. Okay, that did it.
257:13:47 Cernan Okay, Ron. You got - why don't you do a couple of other things before you go any further now.
257:13:50 Evans Okay.
257:13:51 Cernan Okay, give me another - pull the pin on the purge valve and give it to me. And activate it in LOW.
257:14:01 Cernan Okay, going activated?
257:14:04 Evans Okay. It's activated into LOW.
257:14:07 Cernan Okay. DIVERTER valves - verify they're vertical.
257:14:09 Evans Okay. Wait a minute. That one is vertical. Okay, that one is vertical - -
257:14:19 Cernan Okay. Next step is not applicable - -
257:14:22 Evans Wait a minute. Hold it.
257:14:25 Cernan Now, you can adjust your PGA tiedown. And set your wrist rings to the ENGAGE position.
257:14:55 Evans Okay, that one's engaged. That one's engaged. How's the noise down there, Houston?
257:15:03 CC Not too bad, Ron.
257:15:06 CC And the cabin is at 4.85. Terminate your vent.
257:15:12 Cernan Thank you, Bob.
257:15:21 Cernan And Houston, this is CDR. I'm on the cue card now.
257:15:36 Cernan Jack, could you get his - his flap on the other side?
257:15:40 Schmitt Yes, I got - Okay.
257:15:46 Cernan Sorry, I didn't leave you -
257:15:49 Evans Oh, let's see.
257:15:53 Cernan I got it on this side.
257:15:57 Evans Okay.
257:16:01 Cernan Well, it'll do that, too, that's - let's push it down behind his OPS here and that'll - that's about the best you can do on that.
257:16:08 Evans That cover on that - -
257:16:09 Cernan Yes. If it's too loose, we can pull the snap and tighten her up.
257:16:16 Cernan That' s all right. Looks good. ... Okay, Ron, you can -
257:16:30 Evans What?
257:16:32 Cernan A rock. Houston, we just found a small sample of the Moon floating around in the cabin.
257:16:42 Evans Hold it there, will you? We can't go on to it now.
257:16:46 CC Roger.
257:16:46 Evans Go ahead ... systems.
257:16:51 Cernan Let me look at that before you cover it.
257:16:54 Evans Okay. Okay, that's locked.
257:17:00 Cernan That's locked.
257:17:02 Evans Okay. Let's - -
257:17:02 Cernan Your right glove is locked.
257:17:04 Evans Okay. I'm going to let you help me with the -
257:17:08 Cernan Let go - put your other hand - -
257:17:08 Evans Oh, okay. Put the strap on and - -
257:17:11 Cernan - - the ring out.
257:17:12 Evans Put it all - up here, yes. On the other side of the valve.
257:17:16 Cernan Okay.
257:17:31 Cernan Take the top and pull it down.
257:17:43 Cernan Tight son of a gun.
257:17:47 Evans That's over. Okay. I don't want that.
257:17:50 Cernan You just ... keep pulling there.
257:17:53 Evans Yes, but it won't go over that - it won't go over that other valve, Gene. There's no -
257:17:56 Cernan Stick it under the gauntlet.
257:18:10 Cernan There you go.
257:18:10 Evans There we go.
257:18:11 Cernan It's over the valve.
257:18:12 Evans Over the valve, okay?
257:18:14 Cernan Okay, your right glove is lock lock. Let's get your left one on.
257:18:25 Evans Okay, she's engaged.
257:18:26 Cernan Okay.
257:18:28 Evans Wait a minute. I've got to turn the pressure off, babe.
257:18:31 Cernan Okay.
257:18:43 Evans (Laughter)
257:18:50 Cernan Okay, on 603, EVA O2, OFF.
257:18:54 Evans Okay. Wait a minute. I can't even reach it.
257:18:58 Evans Okay, EVA O2 is OFF.
257:19:01 Cernan Okay. Okay, get your other glove. Turn it some more. Turn it the other way. Okay now.
257:19:21 Evans She's locked? Let's push her on up. Okay?
257:19:26 Cernan Okay, you are locked.
257:19:28 Evans Wait a minute, I'll get it. ... get some air.
257:19:30 Evans (Laughter)
257:19:30 Cernan Okay.
257:19:33 Evans Okay, fully -
257:19:36 Cernan On as required to pressurize.
257:19:41 Evans Okay, we're coming up.
257:19:42 Cernan Now, let's get that gauntlet.
257:19:44 Evans Okay.
257:19:49 Cernan Okay, Houston, the CMP is coming up.
257:20:05 Evans Okay, looks like about 3.4 - 3.5.
257:20:12 Cernan You pressurized already?
257:20:14 Evans There we go.
257:20:17 Cernan Okay, if you can reach the tone, turn the tone on.
257:20:20 Evans Okay.
257:20:22 Cernan And verify and turn it off.
257:20:26 Evans Aaaaah, don't know how I can reach the tone.
257:20:47 Cernan Want me to help you? Wait a minute, see ... - -
257:20:50 Evans (Laughter) No wonder I can't move. Okay, wait a minute. Hook it in my thing.
257:20:55 Cernan Okay. You want it locked in there?
257:21:00 Evans No, that's all right.
257:21:00 Cernan Okay. You got to get that. Yes, that's -
257:21:16 Evans Hmmm, I don't have a tone.
257:21:20 Cernan Did you turn it on?
257:21:21 Evans Now it's off. Stupid thing.
257:21:27 Cernan You got it? You said you did not have a tone, is that correct?
257:21:40 Evans Yes, that's right.
257:21:43 Cernan Houston, do you hear that?
257:21:46 CC Understand. The CMP does not have the tone, again?
257:21:53 Evans Oh, son of a buck.
257:21:55 Cernan Pretty good ...
257:21:57 Evans Okay, I'm reading 3.9, should have low suit flow because I got the purge valve.
257:22:11 Cernan Okay. You got your EVA - on 603, EVA O2 is ON.
257:22:17 Cernan Is it - is it still on, or have you got it off?
257:22:23 Evans 602 O2? Yes, it's ON; O2 flow is ON.
257:22:26 Cernan Okay, and you're reading 3.7 to 4.0.
257:22:30 Evans Yes. Maybe it's just not - maybe I'm still getting too much flow. That purge valve is open, isn't it, in LOW?
257:22:36 Cernan PURGE valve is open to LOW. Did you open it? Let me see.
257:22:41 Evans I think I did. Yes, it was open.
257:22:46 Cernan Yes. You're open.
257:23:01 Cernan Okay, turn the tone off.
257:23:04 Evans Okay, I turned the tone off. Okay, it's off.
257:23:08 Cernan Okay, how's your master volume? You happy with it? Or should I jack it up some more?
257:23:12 Evans Houston, say something.
257:23:14 CC Roger, Ron. We copy you. You might try and adjust your VOX, thumbwheel down a little bit. It might help us a bit, knock out some of the background noise.
257:23:26 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Jack, you want to try to knock the VOX down a little bit? Okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
257:23:41 CC Hey, you don't sound bad at all, Ron.
257:23:42 Evans Houston, are you reading me?
257:23:44 CC We're reading you loud and clear, Ron. No problem.
257:23:46 Evans Does that - Okay. Did that knock some of the noise down?
257:23:53 CC That's affirmative.
257:23:54 Evans Is that - is that okay? Okay. You're going to get a little bit of noise, I think.
257:24:00 CC Oh, that's affirmative. We realize that.
257:24:02 Cernan Okay, Houston - -
257:24:04 Evans Okay.
257:24:05 Cernan Okay, Houston. Unless we hear otherwise, without the tone at that point, we are pressing on.
257:24:17 Cernan Okay, Jack. On 351, get the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs OFF.
257:24:22 CC America, that's affirmative. And we'd like to vent the cabin. You're at 5.7 again.
257:24:28 Cernan Okay.
257:24:41 Cernan Okay. It seemed like you - it's on 351.
257:24:55 Cernan Okay, Houston, I'm 351, EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE'S OFF.
257:25:01 CC Roger.
257:25:11 Cernan Okay, Ron. It says - let me read this to you. "CMP monitor cuff gage" - it's "PURGE VALVE, HIGH, verify tone on at 3.1 to 3.4, then PURGE VALVE, CLOSED and verify tone off." Go ahead and turn the switch on.
257:25:24 Evans Okay.
257:25:25 Cernan You probably didn't get a tone there because you were already on up to pressure by the time you got that switch on. I think that's why you didn't get a tone.
257:25:32 Evans Yes.
257:25:33 Cernan So you should get one here. So turn the tone - you got the tone power on?
257:25:36 Evans No, not yet. I can't get down there. Not until I get Jack out of the way.
257:25:39 Cernan Okay.
257:25:42 Evans Okay.
257:25:46 Cernan Okay, get down there and turn the tone power on, and I think you'll get a tone this time around.
257:26:02 Evans Okay. There.
257:26:04 Cernan Okay, tone power's on. What I want you to do is go PUR - go HIGH on the PURGE VALVE, and I'll get that . . . - -
257:26:08 Evans I'm going to let you - I'm going to let you do that, okay?
257:26:10 Cernan Okay. Now, it's HIGH - -
257:26:12 Evans Okay, coming on.
257:26:12 Cernan - - 3.1 to 3.4. You ought to get a tone.
257:26:16 Evans Now, I got the tone at 3.2.
257:26:18 Cernan Okay, turn it back on.
257:26:20 Evans Wait a minute.
257:26:20 Cernan PURGE VALVE is CLOSED.
257:26:21 Evans Okay. Back up to 4.
257:26:24 Cernan Tone off?
257:26:25 Evans Tone's off.
257:26:26 Cernan Okay, PURGE VALVE is locked, and it's HIGH.
257:26:30 Evans Locked and HIGH, okay.
257:26:31 Cernan Okay. That's where you want it, huh?
257:26:32 Evans Right.
257:26:33 Cernan Why don't you come up here, and I'll install a pin for you.
257:26:36 Evans Yes, I'll come up there. (Laughter) I'm stuck. Oh, I can - I can get it. Can you do it?
257:26:42 Cernan Yes, I can get it. Okay. Okay.
257:26:47 Evans Okay?
257:26:49 Cernan Now, it's locked, the pin is in, and you are in HIGH. Okay, that's verified.
257:26:58 Evans Okay?
257:27:00 Cernan Okay. Verify flow and cuff gage reads 3.7 to 4.0. Ron?
257:27:10 Evans Okay. I got 3.9 on the cuff gage.
257:27:14 Cernan Okay, we're going to do an integrity check on you. On 603, EVA and STATION O2, OFF.
257:27:20 Evans Okay. Can you reach that gauge, or do you want me to do it? Oh, I can get it.
257:27:27 Cernan I can get it if I turn around here. I'll get it.
257:27:29 Evans If I can - -
257:27:30 Cernan Let me undo this before I pressurize. I'll strap them in again.
257:27:33 Evans How you guys - always got it before, but I must be laying in a different way here.
257:27:49 Cernan Did I get it off?
257:27:50 Evans Okay, I've got the tone.
257:27:54 Cernan Okay, now. Okay, monitor cuff gage; verify PCV closes. Monitor pressure decay for 1 minute; verify less than 0.8.
257:28:03 Evans Okay, closed, and we're at 3.61.
257:28:07 Cernan Okay, when did you start your time?
257:28:15 Evans Okay.
257:28:21 Evans Can you guys hear that tone?
257:28:23 Cernan Yes, I can hear it occasionally.
257:28:24 CC That's affirmative.
257:28:27 Evans Oh, you can hear it on the ground, huh?
257:28:29 CC That's affirmative.
257:28:30 Evans Very good.
257:28:31 Cernan Okay, Ron. How is - how is your suit pressure?
257:28:33 Evans ... pressure is stuck at 3.6.
257:28:36 Cernan That's a good place for it to be. You have about 30 more seconds, don't you?
257:28:41 Evans About 15 more.
257:28:42 Cernan Okay. Okay, and you did get the tone on for low flow?
257:28:58 Evans Yes.
257:28:59 Cernan Let me know when you're satisfied with the time.
257:29:01 Evans Okay, turn it back on.
257:29:02 Cernan Okay. O2 ... is ON.
257:29:06 Evans Okay.
257:29:09 Cernan It's in.
257:29:11 Evans Let me get it. Make sure it's all the way up. ... it all the way up?
257:29:16 Cernan Yes, I think it is.
257:29:18 Evans Yes, I can see it increasing.
257:29:19 Cernan Here, let me get in there and push it. Put your guard down.
257:29:22 Evans See it in there?
257:29:25 Cernan Okay.
257:29:33 Evans Okay?
257:29:40 Cernan Okay, you happy?
257:29:41 Evans Yes, 3.7 to 4.0. Stable?
257:29:44 Cernan Stable, 3.9.
257:29:45 Cernan No tone?
257:29:46 Evans No tone.
257:29:46 Cernan EVA pressure gage, 100 to 500 psi.
257:29:49 Evans Yes. For some reason, the battery is burned out in the flashlight, but - Let me see, it's about - I would say 400, I think. Yes, let's see, its division marks on that gauge are 3, 6, and 900. And it's above the 3.
257:30:13 Cernan Okay, it's good. I can see that.
257:30:14 Evans Yes, it's good. It's about 350.
257:30:16 Cernan Okay, verify surge tank pressure. Houston, can you give us a hack on the surge tank as a GO?
257:30:23 CC Stand by on that.
257:30:28 CC Roger. Looking good.
257:30:31 Cernan Okay, very good. We're ready to press on with the cabin depress, Ron. GN2 valve handle, pulled.
257:30:43 Evans Okay.
257:30:52 Cernan Okay. We'll pick that up when he starts to move. Okay, gauge MIN and leave in the vent position. Pull the handle.
257:30:59 Evans Okay.
257:30:59 Cernan Leave in vent. Leave in vent.
257:31:01 Evans Okay.
257:31:02 Cernan Okay. Verify helmet and gloves locked.
257:31:05 Evans Okay. ... smooth. Here, I need the - get that down.
257:31:12 Cernan Okay.
257:31:12 Evans ... there. Okay, lock locked.
257:31:18 Cernan Hey, babe; you looked good when you went by me.
257:31:20 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
257:31:22 Cernan Just stay that way.
257:31:23 Evans We'll stay that way.
257:31:25 Cernan Okay. Houston, we're standing by for your GO.
257:31:30 CC You are GO.
257:31:33 Cernan Okay, Ron. Hear the note.
257:31:36 Evans Okay.
257:31:36 Cernan EVA warning tone may come on momentarily during the ... depress.
257:31:40 Evans Okay.
257:31:41 Cernan Jack, are you ready?
257:31:43 Cernan Okay, babe. When you get out there, just take it nice and slow and easy. You got all day long.
257:31:49 Evans Yes, that's right. It's not like the zero-g airplane.
257:31:51 Cernan Feel yourself around, and it's nice and easy to get around. Just don't let your body start moving too fast down there. Okay. Side hatch is coming open slowly.
257:32:02 Evans There's a valve ...
257:32:04 Cernan Valve? I can't see the gauge, but I know we're coming down.
257:32:17 Evans Okay.
257:32:18 Cernan Houston, can you give me a hack at approaching 3.25?
257:32:23 CC That's affirmative. We will.
257:32:27 Cernan Okay.
257:32:53 Cernan Okay. That's O2 FLOW HIGH, as expected.
257:32:56 Evans Okay. And that's - oh, about 3.95.
257:33:00 Cernan Okay. ...
257:33:16 Cernan Coming down a little faster, Houston.
257:33:22 CC Roger. We're watching.
257:33:25 Cernan Okay.
257:33:48 Cernan And, Ron - -
257:33:48 CC Okay. You're 3.4 right now - 3.4, Gene.
257:33:49 Cernan - - when you get to the SIM bay, go around -
257:33:53 Cernan Okay. Okay - -
257:33:56 CC 3.3, closing.
257:33:56 Cernan - - ... get your feet in the -
257:33:58 Evans Oh, okay. Yes, will do.
257:33:59 Cernan Get your feet in the golden shoes, and then you can do anything. But get them there first. Okay, 3.25. O2 FLOW indicator is off scale low. Okay, can you verify our suit pressure down there?
257:34:18 CC Roger. We're - you're locked up. Suit press, 3.8.
257:34:23 Cernan Okay, very good. We're coming on the way open. Going to zero. You guys ready? Here we go.
257:34:30 Evans Okay. I don't change. I'm already there. (Laughter)
257:34:34 Cernan Yes, but Jack and I are coming up.
257:34:36 Evans Yes, I know.
257:34:47 Cernan Okay, we're coming up.
257:35:17 Cernan Okay.
257:35:19 Schmitt Nice day for an EVA, Ron. Go out and have a good time.
257:35:23 Evans Yes, it ought to be pretty good out there. I ... - -
257:35:25 Cernan Okay, we're coming off the ...
257:35:26 Evans I just need that one visor down, don't I?
257:35:29 Cernan No, you need your Sun visor down, too. Bring it - one is protective, and the other is the Sun.
257:35:33 Evans It is? Well, it looks dark out there. Can't even see.
257:35:36 Cernan Well, use your own judgment. If - if you're in the shade, you won't need it. But if you're in the Sun, you ought to have it down.
257:35:41 Evans Okay.
257:35:46 Cernan Okay, Jack. I'm at 2.8 and coming up.
257:35:51 Schmitt Okay.
257:36:21 Cernan Well, let's open her up a little more.
257:36:32 Cernan Okay, the valve's all the way open. And I'm 3.5.
257:36:39 Schmitt Okay, I'm still reading about 3.82, now.
257:36:47 Cernan O2 FLOW HIGH light is off. Okay. Wait until we're stable, Ron, and we'll be with you.
257:36:59 Evans Okay.
257:37:02 Cernan Jack, it looks like I'm picking out at - peaking out about 3.75. How you looking? Okay, Ron. You're 3.7 to 4.0?
257:37:10 Evans Yes, I'm reading 3.8.
257:37:12 Cernan Okay. EVA station pressure gauge still up?
257:37:15 Evans EVA station pressure gauge - it's ... I can't see it. Okay. Still - yes, about one-third - -
257:37:20 Cernan Okay.
257:37:21 Evans - - third ... there. ...
257:37:25 Cernan Okay. You do not have a tone, right?
257:37:28 Evans No tone.
257:37:29 Cernan Okay, can you get panel 3, S-BAND AUX TV to TV?
257:37:33 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
257:37:34 Cernan If you can do it.
257:37:37 Evans ... the old jett bag in the way here. Okay, TV is going up to TV.
257:37:47 Cernan You got it?
257:37:47 Evans Yes.
257:37:48 Cernan Okay. I've got lines on the monitor, and Houston, the CDR's going ... PTT.
257:37:56 CC Roger, CDR.
257:38:01 Cernan Okay, Ron. We're ready for the hatch opening. The lock pin release knob, unlock.
257:38:05 Evans Okay. Lock pin release knob, the one on the side. Push it down to yellow, right?
257:38:10 Cernan Unlock indicator release, white goes to yellow.
257:38:13 Evans White goes to yellow. Okay.
257:38:14 Cernan Gear box selector, unlatch.
257:38:16 Evans Gear box selector to unlatch.
257:38:18 Cernan Actuator handle, unlatch.
257:38:20 Evans Actuator handle to unlatch.
257:38:22 Cernan Unstow actuator handle.
257:38:24 Evans Okay. We'll unstow the old actuator handle.
257:38:27 Cernan And the hatch is yours. Unlock it.
257:38:29 Evans Okay, here we go. 1,2,3,- Oop! I got ahold of it. And a bunch of junk going out there. (Laughter) Lost the - Oh, there goes the pen. Yes, ... (Laughter) Okay. It was a felt-tip pen. No scissors. (Laughter)
257:39:08 Cernan Say, Ron. You want to - actuator handle select lock to L.
257:39:23 Evans Okay, wait a minute. Actuator handle to latch. Okay, she's stowed. Yes, it's stowed in there. There it is, okay. There we go.
257:39:43 Cernan Okay, now it's stowed.
257:39:43 Evans Now it's stowed.
257:39:44 Cernan Okay. Gear box selector to latch.
257:39:48 Evans Gear box selector is latched.
257:39:51 Cernan Okay, and you and Jack can both lo - lower your inner visors.
257:39:55 Evans Okay, inner visor's lowered.
257:39:57 Schmitt Okay.
257:39:59 Evans That's the ... - -
257:39:59 Cernan Okay. Open hatch slowly, and verify that our hex clears.
257:40:04 Evans Verify the what? Oh, the hex. Yes. It's a good thing I hung on to it, or it would have been open by itself. ... Now you're going in - here, let me ... a little bit. Now it's got it.
257:40:45 Cernan Okay, Houston. The hatch is open.
257:40:48 CC Roger, America.
257:40:50 Evans Almost.
257:40:59 Evans Hey, there's the Earth, right out the hatch!
257:41:02 Cernan Okay, Ron. You've got a - -
257:41:04 Evans The crescent Earth.
257:41:05 Cernan You've got a GO for egress.
257:41:07 Evans Beautiful.
257:41:09 Cernan And just take it slow.
257:41:10 Evans Okay. First of all, I got to get back in, and get the old TV camera. Oop. Yes. That's right. I don't even know where the Sun is. Which way is the Sun? Okay, yes. Sun's on the right. Okay.
257:41:48 Cernan Okay, Houston. Ron's putting the camera out there on the pole now - pole out there, rather.
257:41:53 CC Roger. We see the EVA light out there.
257:41:55 Evans ... stay lower?
257:42:00 Cernan Okay.
257:42:01 Evans Man, that Sun is bright, Whoooo!
257:42:04 Cernan Pull down that visor, Ron. You're going to need it.
257:42:07 Evans Yes.
257:42:09 Cernan Not the metal one, unless you really need it.
257:42:12 Evans No, I don't want the metal one.
257:42:13 Cernan No, just get the gold one. That's all you need.
257:42:25 Evans I'm trying to - -
257:42:26 Cernan Okay, you're clear back here.
257:42:32 Evans Man, oh man. We're about to get the old TV pole in and lined up. Locked in there. Oh, oh, forgot to turn the camera on. You have it back? The - sequence, yes. Yes, let me just get on up in the - -
257:43:15 Cernan You're a long way from home. We don't want to lose you.
257:43:18 Evans Okay. ... Hey, I think I hear it buzzing. How's the TV picture, Houston?
257:43:27 CC Really great, Ron. Looks great.
257:43:32 Evans Okay. Hey, I see what you were talking about, Gene, on this blister. Something has really blistered on it. Like Quad Alfa. There's a good one? Okay.
257:43:53 Evans Guess we're cleared to go down and get the old - the old lunar sounder cassette, huh?
257:44:01 Cernan Okay.
257:44:04 Evans Okay. Man, I got my foot hooked to something. Which way do I need to go? There we go. Okay. Okay. How's that? Okay. Forward? Go now? Am I clear?
257:44:51 Cernan You're clear, babe. Go.
257:44:54 Evans Okay. Hot-diggety-dog!
257:44:58 Cernan Okay. Did you see him? He's out.
257:45:01 CC Roger.
257:45:03 Evans Am I on the tube?
257:45:08 CC That's affirmative.
257:45:12 Evans Okay.
257:45:14 CC Outstanding quality picture, Ron.
257:45:18 Evans Did you see me wave?
257:45:26 CC That's affirmative.
257:45:26 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Beautiful! Hey, the paint on here is just a - it's a silver paint - and it's just little blisters on it, is all. You just kind of peel it off with your fingers. Yes, it rolled off the other way. Hey, I can see the Moon back behind me! Beautiful! The Moon is down there to the right - full Moon - and off to the left, just outside the hatch down here, is a crescent Earth. Maybe I can get a picture of that - the Earth as I'm coming back in there. But the crescent Earth is not like a crescent Moon. It's got kind of like horns, and the horns go all the way around, and it makes almost three-quarters of a circle. Hey, that last mapping camera retract must have worked because the door is closed - everything is closed on it.
257:46:38 Cernan Okay, Ron, you did get the camera? Right? The DAC ON?
257:46:42 Evans Yes. Okay, DAC's working.
257:46:44 Cernan Okay, you're GO to transfer to SIM bay and get in the foot restraints.
257:46:48 Evans Okay. Here's a piece of the thermal blanket from the - from the SIM door jett. Hey, Houston, they're just kind of laying there underneath the EVA handle.
257:47:00 CC Roger. We see it. Confirm.
257:47:03 Evans Okay. But it's a pretty clean cut from the SIM bay itself. That's just a piece of that thermal blanket that's sticking around there. Man, it's black off this other way! The pan camera lens is all stowed.
257:47:32 Evans (Humming) Okay. (Humming)
257:48:12 Evans Hey, almost had my foot in there, then the cable was between my foot - Can you? Okay, I'm having a little trouble, right now, just torquing down to get my foot in the foot restraint, for some reason. Yes. No, not yet. Okay. Okay, the right one's in. And the left one's in. Hey, pretty stable right here. Let go of both hands? See?
257:49:10 CC Roger. We see you waving.
257:49:13 Evans (Laughter) Hey, this is great! Talk - talk about being a spaceman, this is it! Okay, back to work! My feet are a little stiffer, I think, or something than - than normal. Okay, let's try the old - Ah-ha, the ... is still there! Okay, here's the pan cassette cover and - Oops, there it goes. Okay, before we do anything else here, I guess I better - better hook the old tether on the thing. Okay, tether is on. And she's locked. Okay. It is behind my back? Oh, okay. It's nice and white down here. The UV cover's closed real well. Doesn't seem to be any ... at all on the white face, on the UV or the IR. Everything is in good shape. Looks like part of that - Oh, the cork insulation - chipped off again down here in the corner - in the corner that I'm looking at. Okay, let's try the old cassette. We'll push down on it until it goes past center. Ah-ha! I think that was more than 2 pounds of force to come out, but it came out. And got the film.
257:51:46 Evans Okay, she's locked in there. These EVA handholds are - Hey, the foot just came out - okay - the EVA handholds are - okay, got them free - are rougher than - What was that? I just ... Oh, that was my pocket, okay. And it creates a torque when I cut - when I let go of that pocket, there, I let go with a little bit of a force, and the force has a tendency to throw your feet way up in the air. (Humming)
257:52:48 Cernan Keep talking, Ron. I'm walking that one with you.
257:52:50 Evans Okay. Coming right back. Oh, my feets are bouncing up in the air again. Shouldn't be any - Yes, can you do it? No. Ooooh. Hope I don't hit the end and bounce up again. Yes. See, you twist yourself down there, and then you got to twist to stop, or - or it - you hit - you hit the end and you bounce back up in the air again. Okay, there comes some of the paint. Oh, we'll get attached to the thing on there, before I take mine off. Okay, here comes the old cassette. That - yes - that close enough, Jack, or you want a little closer? Okay. Yes. ... Yes, hook them ... anyway. Okay, and you got the old lunar sounder cassette.
257:54:26 Cernan Okay, Ron, you're GO to get the pan camera.
257:54:28 Evans Pan camera's next, huh?
257:54:30 Cernan We got a couple of hard and soft covers, don't forget.
257:54:33 Evans Yes, yes, there's a couple of covers on there. You know, the old EVA pole, I thought when I was looking at that the other day - it depended on what kind of light you're in - it looked like it was burned a little bit. And, sure enough, it is. Okay, let's see, now, which way did I turn on on this thing. I'm still backwards down here. What the heck? (Humming)
257:55:23 Evans Okay, well, we need to get that big old pan camera. (Humming) Oops.
257:55:55 Evans Okay, I'm locked in there, and you can relax a little bit. Let's see, old suit pressure is - must be breathing a little bit, it's up to 4.0. (Humming)
257:56:14 Cernan Houston, this is America. Everything is looking good from here.
257:56:19 Evans Houston, this is - Let's see, when you're EVA, they use - they use your name, don't they?
257:56:25 CC Okay, Ron. Yes, sir, we'll use it, Ron.
257:56:29 Evans Houston, this is Ron. Okay? You hear me okay, I guess, huh?
257:56:37 CC Roger, Ron. Read you loud and clear.
257:56:41 Evans Okay. (Laughter) Oh, this is great, I'll tell you!
257:56:48 CC Yes, we thought it was Mr. America.
257:56:52 Evans (Laughter) Well, it is. Something like that. Oh, boy! Beautiful Moon! Full Moon down there. Runs back of - What? You know, you can't see anything. The only thing I can see is the SIM bay. I can see the - the engine bell sitting back here. That's a pretty good sized thing, too. And, of course, the UV - the VHF antenna - is still sticking out there. All of the - all of the poles are on it. So it's working all right. Oh, that's a little bit of a rest. Let's pull the old metal thing off here. Oh, okay, well - see it? Can you see that? The thing I'm holding up. Yes, it's the - it's the cover that's on the outside of the pan camera. It's a thermal cover, see, that covers up the cassette.
257:58:14 Evans Yes, well, I'm in the shadows. There we go. Yes. See, that's right. That's the thermal cover that's on there, and then that's the - -
257:58:26 CC Roger. Yes, we see it, Ron.
257:58:26 Evans - - Whooooee (Laughter) Okay. Well, let's see. Ah-ha! There's the pan camera cassette down there.
257:58:50 CC We just saw that cover.
257:58:54 Evans Okay.
257:59:06 Evans Okay. Let's see, that's hooked down. And lock it. Yes. ... hook laying there. Okay, it's locked so it won't come apart. Okay, where's the old pin. There it is. (Humming)
258:00:09 Evans Okay, pin is pulled. Frees the handle. And out she comes. Nice and easy. This a heavy son of a gun. Not heavy up here, it just has a lot of - a lot of momentum to it. Once she starts pulling in one direction, it just takes a lot of force to stop it. And we'll just try and - Oops, there's a - ... right there. Wouldn't want to do that. Let me get this thing first and then get this foot out. Okay. I think I'll just kind of let that thing go and hang on with both hands. Get it started right in front of me. Have to look the best way to see that one. Okay. It's just kind of floating around up there. Both feet are free. Okay.
258:01:31 Evans Hey, it's just kind of coming along with me. I'll just let her do that. Hey, she's just floating there.
258:01:57 Evans Okay. Coming. She's still coming. Must be back behind me. That's good. Nice and slow. Because you don't want that thing banging around too much up there, I don't think.
258:02:24 Evans Ahhh, there it is! Delivered it right to you. (Laughter) That's the way it ought to be done, isn't it? Okay, got it locked? Yes. Okay. Ah, you got it hooked on my French gauntlet - my truss guard. (Laughter) Okay. That's a good idea. Oh, that Sun's bright when you look into it. That is a biggy. (Humming) You know, I just kind of hook it along underneath me and just go backwards down there. (Humming) That's an unorthodox way to enter the SIM bay, but it works. Okay. We'll ease on up. Oh, okay. I'm going to rest when I get my feet in that thing. Wish you could kind of rest here. You could take it nice and easy. Yes, once you get your feet in there, except that - it kind of - you almost feel like maybe they might come out, you know. (Laughter) So I'm not sure you really trust them. The right foot's in good and tight. Hello, Mom!
258:04:41 CC We see you, Ron. Looking great.
258:04:44 Evans Hello, Jon. Hi, Jon. How are you doing? Hi, Jaime. Let's see, I'm supposed to rest, though, aren't I? What would you like to know about the SIM bay? Looks great. Nothing is scorched. I was kind of surprised when I saw it on this mapping camera - There was - the two - well, one's just kind of a steel plate there, and right on top of the door, there's something with a piece of tape on it. And I thought that piece of tape came off before launch.
258:05:21 CC Ron, just a couple questions while you're standing there resting. is there any damage to the cable that the mapping camera - the cable between the mapping camera and the shelf?
258:05:34 Evans Let me check on that one.
258:05:36 CC Roger. Don't move and look at it. It was not that important. If you can see it, fine; otherwise, forget it.
258:05:42 Evans Yes. Okay. I want to kind of take a look at it when I go by. There's Jack (laughter) Hey, how are you doing? You're looking right into the Sun, though, and I'm looking right at you. I should have a camera, and I could take your picture. And there - see the Moon back over there? That's a - Well, that's the way it goes. Hey, it's clearer down here when you take that visor up. I hope I took the outside one. I mean the gold one. No, that's both of them, I think. Better leave it down. There we go. Yes, you take the outside one up a little ways and then you can really see down in the SIM bay. You know, that tape down in here is not scorched one bit. The whole side of the spacecraft is scorched like a son of a gun - but the - you know, the panels, and everything. Man, there's bubbles, you know, on all that silver paint that's on here - is, you know, it used to be kind of a bright-looking silver paint. It looks like - it's in a shadow right now - but it looks like it's just been heated up one way or another. Yes, that's it up here between the SIM bay and the top of the service module. It actually looks like it's been burned, you know. Not just a little bit warm, it's just kind of burned because it's bubbled. Yes. That's what you were seeing from the LM, I'm sure. And - but - as far as I can - it's kind of dark down the other side of the spacecraft - the other side of the SIM bay - but it looks like the thrusters don't make any - hardly any marks on there. Now, I look - I look at quad A - the side of quad A thruster, though, and it's all scorched. So I'm not sure but what that might have been - what in the world could do that? Tower jett, do you suppose? I don't know. Might have. Well, let's take one of these covers off. Oh, this is - like it did in practice. (Laughter) Sticking underneath the door. Looks like I can jerk on it a little harder up here. In practice, I didn't want to break it. There's - a part of the - could you see that one?
258:08:28 CC Roger. We see it. Looks like the outer-space Olympics going on up there.
258:08:34 Evans (Laughter) Hey, this is great, I'll tell you! And let me see which way to throw it so you all can see it down there. There it goes. (Chuckle) Okay - -
258:08:50 CC Roger. We see it reflecting off in the distance.
258:08:52 Evans Did you see it? Okay.
258:08:56 CC Never did that in the water tank.
258:09:00 Evans (Laughter) Yes, That's the little - the Mylar. That's that tinfoil they make the LM out of, you know.
258:09:09 CC Roger.
258:09:10 Evans (Laughter) No, not really. You know, it's kind of an insulation-type stuff. And here we go.
258:09:24 Cernan If that's what they made the LM out of, you'd never be able to pull it apart, I'll tell you.
258:09:27 Evans (Laughter) That's right. I - I'm joking about that, you know. I'm really joking. Fellows, it was a good vehicle.
258:09:35 CC We'll send your apologies to Bethpage.
258:09:40 Evans And (laughter) - No, I guess Bethpage knows I'm joking, you know. Let me see. Hey, I got to make sure I get this on the right handle here, don't I?
258:10:12 Evans Gee, that's why I wore my watch, and I forgot to start it. (Laughter) Okay. About 40 minutes, huh?
258:10:19 CC We've got you 35 minutes - 36 minutes, Ron.
258:10:24 Evans Oh, okay. Oh. Okay. Yes, the EVA lights are kind of blistered, also. No, they're back behind, toward the Sun. Put some hooks on there now. I'm hooked onto the (chuckle) cassette. No, maybe that tape's supposed to be on that pan camera, I'm sure. Put the old doors back in there real well. I don't know what - what would cause that thing to - ... those 4 minutes, anyhow. Ah-ha! There's the old mapper cassette. Well, I'm going to - am. I supposed to pick it up or what? I want to take a look down in there. Can't get out that way. (Laughter) Got my left foot stuck in there, and you can't go out in the left direction with - with my foot in there. You have to lean over to the right a little bit to take your foot out. (Humming) Yes, nice and clean - down in there. Yes, that cable's in the clear. I can see down in there. There doesn't seem to be anything hanging up on it at all.
258:12:44 CC Okay, Ron; good show.
258:12:47 Evans Okay. Put the old Sun visor down now. Whoops, come back here, little cassette. (Humming) Yes, I was going to try to lift that door up, but should have done that while I was punched down in there.
258:13:22 CC There's no requirement on that, Ron; no requirement.
258:13:27 Evans (Laughter) Okay. I want to check one thing while I'm out here before I leave, and to see the bottom of this quad A. Forgot to look at it. Yes, well, it looks just like the side almost. More blistered on the side than it is on the bottom, but I think maybe it's just the paint. Okay, I'm coming back in. Oh, Okay.
258:14:21 Evans Man, the RTV is good out here. Looks brand new. Whatever they put on the hinge. Looks like that RTV stuff, you know. That's why they sealed around all their doors on here. And it's spanking clean as ever. (Humming) Okay, no hurry. ... Once (Chuckle) - Outstanding - once you get stable in a position, see, I can pretty much hang on with one hand, and I can twist - Oops. Yes, once you start going, it's a son of a gun to try - it's all wrist action. Working - Yes, but once you get stable on the thing, you can kind of relax there, and - Yes... drift, you know, and if I ever bang my foot against - against something, just - just barely touch it, and it bangs right back. And - Hey, America looks really great there. Still got that silver tape on him - or is it blue? Looks silver with this helmet. Let's see, I've got to get over this way farther this time, don't I? Okay. There we go. Hey, I got a picture of the waste water dump from the LM the other day, but it looks the same way now. There's all kinds of little ice particles all around the - the periphery of the dump nozzle itself. It covers up the - well, that kind of gold part that's - that's on the - on the end of the dump nozzle. And then, there are little particles of frozen water, I guess - must be - that are - that are all over - up the side of the spacecraft there, but only in the vicinity of the - the nozzle. It goes up just about to window number 1 - it goes up to window number 1 - well, maybe on up to - no, there's particles all the way up the side of the spacecraft, clear up to the top of the tunnel. But they're real fine. I want to see if they're stuck on there. Hey, you can just touch them, and they blow away. They're just little ice particles.
258:17:49 Cernan Okay, Houston. We got all three cassettes inside.
258:17:52 CC Roger, Good show.
258:17:54 Evans Hey, here's something. You know, the one thing that really shows up - and it makes you kind of proud - it says United States, and it's got a United States of America flag right below it. That didn't get scorched or a darn thing. That's great. And - let's see now - I see what Charlie Duke meant. Man, it's dark out here. It is really dark. The scimitar antenna, right there - in no shape - no problem. Wish there were some more handholds, I'd go around the other side of the spacecraft. Take a look at the high gain. There aren't any more handholds.
258:19:39 CC Okay, Ron, we don't need any more spacecraft commentary. We'd like you to go ahead and terminate the EVA. You're looking great. You're looking great. Everybody's really pleased, and we'd just like to go ahead and terminate.
258:19:56 Evans Okay. Sounds good.
258:19:59 Cernan Okay, Bob, we'll get back in.
258:20:03 Evans Torque? I can't. How's that?
258:20:24 Evans Okay, I guess we'll - start getting back in then. I'm up below the camera right now.
258:20:34 CC Ron, you'd be happy to know, on the TV, we got a great view of your OPS [?] with the United States flag on it.
258:20:41 Evans Hey, beautiful! Perfect! Let's see, which way do I want to get the umbilical down there? Oh, yes, but you're pulling me sidewise, okay. That's all right. Wait a minute. Okay. No, that's all right. Okay. You are in good shape now. Go ahead and start pulling in, now.
258:21:08 Cernan Wait a minute, Ron, until we get Jack in the right place.
258:21:12 Evans Okay.
258:21:44 Evans Is it clear?
258:21:45 Cernan Yes, the umbilical's in. Come on in.
258:21:48 Evans Okay.
258:21:48 Cernan You coming in head down or up?
258:21:51 Evans Up. This way right now.
258:21:54 Cernan You can't close the hatch that way.
258:21:56 Evans I know it.
258:21:57 Cernan Okay.
258:22:09 Evans Not yet. What does that look like on the monitor?
258:22:20 CC Well, you should have - test me, and I wouldn't want to guess. It's probably the full Moon, isn't it?
258:22:27 Evans It is.
258:22:31 CC You taught me well, Ron; taught me well.
258:22:35 Evans Okay, you got - got you real well there. Okay, then I'm going to arc it around and ... See if I can turn around here and - Yes, I am. Trying to, anyhow. Yes, wait a minute, I can't - No, I'm not.
258:23:12 Evans Yes, afraid I can't get to it. Can't point it. Okay, well, I'll just have to get back in.
258:23:18 CC Okay, Ron, we know what you're trying to do, and we appreciate the TV show. We're looking - we're sorry to see you go, but we'd like to terminate.
258:23:26 Evans (Laughter)
258:23:28 Cernan We're terminating - -
258:23:29 Evans Okay, we're terminating.
258:23:30 CC And you might be advised you're right on the Flight Plan, you're right on the Flight Plan.
258:23:36 Evans Oh, okay. Good. I didn't want to get - cut my time short, or anything, you know.
258:23:46 Cernan Unless you can set it way back there. Okay, then I'll keep it right here.
258:23:50 Evans Sure it's there, Geno? We can shove it underneath your couch.
258:23:55 Cernan That's the best place to shove it.
258:23:59 Evans Can you do that? I'll get up out of your way, here.
258:24:00 Cernan Let me get it. Let me get out from under the cord. Okay.
258:24:07 Evans And, if you can get the TV switch there, Jack, that kind of saves - all that stuff, I guess.
258:24:17 Schmitt Okay.
258:24:18 Evans If you can't, I'll get it when I come in.
258:24:22 Cernan Okay, and I got it OFF up here, too. Okay, you're in STANDBY. That's all.
258:24:32 Evans Okay. I'm going to have to come in there kind of - a little bit blinded, because, in order to get in, I got to look at the Sun. So you just got to point me in the right direction there.
258:24:49 Evans (Laughter) Hey, one of our - Wait a minute - one of our - Kleenexes we're using to wipe the windows with is stuck in the - the gear thing. (Laughter) There it goes.
258:25:07 Cernan Okay.
258:25:08 Evans Okay.
258:25:10 Cernan Okay, and back on down.
258:25:11 Evans Well, let me see here - backing down - let me see, which way do I -
258:25:16 Cernan Straight down.
258:25:19 Evans Okay.
258:25:20 Cernan I got your leg.
258:25:21 Evans Got my leg?
258:25:22 Cernan Okay, on the left, make sure that the - -
258:25:24 Evans Wait a minute, let me - What? Swing on the leg, or what?
258:25:27 Cernan No. Just kick it down, you'll be free. Kick your - kick your right leg down.
258:25:31 Evans There we go. Okay.
258:25:32 CC Hey, Ron. We assume the scissors went out the hatch. is that affirm?
258:25:39 Evans (Laughter) I didn't see a thing.
258:25:41 Cernan Can you pull it - let me get your umbilical.
258:25:43 Evans (Laughter) The only thing I saw go out was the - -
258:25:46 Cernan Okay, Jack - -
258:25:47 Evans - - ...
258:25:48 Cernan Ron, Ron, how's the hatch? Get down on the hatch. Your OPS isn't fitting through the top. Pull yourself down. Straight forward. Face down. Nose down. Now back.
258:25:57 Evans Okay. How's that?
258:25:58 Cernan Now back. Keep coming. Keep coming. Now, can you reach the hatch?
258:26:03 Evans Yes, makes it sort of ... Let me get back in a little bit.
258:26:06 Cernan Okay.
258:26:07 Evans Let me get this visor up. One of them, anyhow. That's a pretty Earth up there.
258:26:14 Cernan Okay. Keep - keep your - -
258:26:15 Evans Keep your hand on the - the hatch here. ... crescent Earth.
258:26:20 Cernan Now, does the seal look good to you, while you got your nose there?
258:26:23 Evans Yes. Wait a minute - -
258:26:24 Cernan Check that stuff on the ...
258:26:24 Evans Got a cassette going out the window, there. Okay, it's clear.
258:26:30 Cernan Okay.
258:26:32 Evans You'll have to look.
258:26:34 Cernan Kick that back.
258:27:03 Evans Okay, now I think everything's clear out of the hatch.
258:27:06 Cernan Okay.
258:27:07 Evans You see, the reason we put that - -
258:27:09 Cernan Okay.
258:27:10 Evans Can we get rid of the - instead of pulling the pip pin, we put this little hex nut, see, because I can reach down there and grab hold of the - -
258:27:19 Cernan Okay. Start pulling.
258:27:20 Evans - - the hook and pull - and here she comes.
258:27:25 Cernan Okay, she's coming. Here she comes.
258:27:27 Evans Okay, and I'm already back inside here.
258:27:28 Cernan Okay.
258:27:30 Evans Man, it's dark in here!
258:27:31 Cernan Yes.
258:27:34 Cernan Okay. You got to - when you made your first turn, you got a pull light, there.
258:27:37 Evans Wait a minute.
258:27:44 Cernan Okay, get a couple turns on it.
258:27:46 Evans Okay. There's one turn on it. I mean - I - I can release it?
258:27:50 Cernan Okay, now get it back.
258:27:51 Evans Okay. That's a little harder to pull shut than I - -
258:27:54 Cernan The hatch is coming.
258:27:56 Evans Yes, I thought it was.
258:27:57 Cernan Keep going.
258:27:58 Evans That's as far as it will go.
258:28:01 Evans Let's see, does that line up with these little marks on there?
258:28:05 Cernan Okay; and the hex is clear. That one's in good shape. Close the hatch and - Okay. Verify lock pin dropped in, white to white.
258:28:12 Evans Yes. Okay, we're white to white.
258:28:14 Schmitt Okay, stow actuator handle, ACTUATOR HANDLE in NEUTRAL.
258:28:18 Evans ACTUATOR HANDLE is NEUTRAL, and it's stowed.
258:28:22 Schmitt Okay, you still got white to white?
258:28:24 Evans I still got white to white.
258:28:25 Schmitt And the dogs over here look good to me.
258:28:27 Evans The dogs look good, let me see if my pencil mark is on there.
258:28:31 Evans Yes, they're lined up.
258:28:32 Schmitt Okay. GEAR BOX SELECTOR - LATCH. Verify.
258:28:34 Evans GEAR BOX SELECTOR is verified LATCH.
258:28:37 Schmitt Okay. Cabin repress.
258:28:38 Evans Wait a minute, I got to close the - Oh, okay, now I - -
258:28:41 Cernan Let's get this, then we can start on cabin repress, okay?
258:28:43 Evans Okay. Side hatch dump valve, close.
258:28:47 Schmitt Okay. Side hatch dump valve, close.
258:28:49 Evans Okay, we're closing it.
258:29:07 Evans You know, it's funny. We didn't see anything come up around that crazy ... we put in there, but as soon as I opened the hatch, the whole world came out.
258:29:13 Schmitt Okay.
258:29:14 Evans Okay. Okay, it's closed.
258:29:16 Schmitt Okay, on 326, REPRESS PACKAGE, OFF.
258:29:20 Evans Stand by. Well, we got all the stuff in there.
258:29:26 Schmitt Got it all.
258:29:27 Cernan Okay. REPRESS PACKAGE is OFF. Ron, on 601, O2 - REPRESS O2 OPEN and ... CLOSED. Cabin pressure, 1 psi.
258:29:37 Evans Okay, I can't see what the - -
258:29:39 Schmitt Geno, then you'll have to give us a hack on 1 psi if you can.
258:29:42 Evans Wait a minute.
258:29:43 CC Gene, we're watching. We'll give you a hack at 1 psi. No problem.
258:29:48 Cernan Okay, we're - REPRESS is OPEN.
258:29:52 Evans And I can't get it off there. Wait a minute - -
258:29:54 Schmitt It's going to come pretty fast, Ron.
258:29:57 Evans I can't even - Wait a minute - I can't turn around far enough to see it.
258:30:07 CC And, America, we see your cabin coming up. You're at 0.3.
258:30:12 Schmitt Okay.
258:30:13 Evans 0.3? (Laughter)
258:30:16 CC You're at 0.7, 0.7.
258:30:22 CC Okay; turn it off, you're at 0.1 - I'll say again, 1 psi.
258:30:28 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
258:30:30 Cernan Okay; give us a GO when it looks good, Houston.
258:31:10 Evans Oh, yes. See the hatch - -
258:31:12 CC Okay, America, you're looking good. No ...
258:31:18 Evans Okay, we're going to go REPRESS - -
258:31:19 Cernan Okay, REPRESS - OPEN, and let it go to zero, Ron.
258:31:22 Evans Okay.
258:31:24 Cernan We'll end up with about 2 psi. Can you see the gauge?
258:31:30 Evans Well, wait a minute. Let me turn ... I think I'm still hooked ... There we go. Okay, I can see - No, that's temperature. Okay, here it is.
258:31:42 Cernan No, no. I mean the REPRESS O2.
258:31:44 Evans Oh, the REPRESS O2?
258:31:46 Cernan Right in front of you.
258:31:47 Evans Yes, it's almost zero. Oh (laughter) I was looking at CABIN PRESSURE.
258:31:49 Schmitt No, REPRESS O2.
258:31:51 Evans It's about zero.
258:31:54 Cernan Well, when you think it's zero, you can - -
258:31:56 CC Okay, Gene, we got - we're indicating 2 psi down here at this time.
258:32:02 Cernan Okay, Ron. If it's zero, you can close REPRESS O2 valve.
258:32:06 Evans Okay, we'll close the REPRESS O2. What the - Okay, ... place for a valve.
258:32:21 Schmitt Okay, we're going to let your flow bring ... rate.
258:32:25 Evans Okay.
258:32:27 Cernan And your next move, after we get a hack at 3, will be to disconnect your OPS hose and hold it directly into the cabin volume - -
258:32:34 Evans Okay.
258:32:34 Cernan - - and We'll get your OPS ...
258:32:36 Evans Would you - would you believe I'll let you do that?
258:32:38 Cernan Yes, I would.
258:32:39 Evans (Laughter) Okay, because you'll be going through this thing.
258:32:42 Cernan Yes. Yes, I'm almost down there, now.
258:32:45 Evans Say, Houston, I was surprised when I closed the hatch here. It came closed real well, up until about an inch from the - Can you see the CABIN?
258:33:01 Cernan No.
258:33:02 CC Ron, we're watching the CABIN. It's 2.2. I'll give you a call at 3.
258:33:08 Evans Oh, okay; mighty fine, Bob. I was going to say the - when you're closing the hatch, I expected it to come all the way closed, you know? And it came to within about an inch of the - of being closed on the outer - not the inside, but the other side, and wouldn't come any more, unless you really pulled on it.
258:33:28 Cernan Yes.
258:33:29 Evans So and then your - Of course, it was pretty easy to pull because you're kind of flattened down in there anyhow. You just pull it closed, and then once you get the lever over the - over the center, it comes right closed.
258:33:44 Cernan Okay, Ron, what I'll do when we get up to 3, I'll disconnect your OPS hose, Jack, and I'll let you pull it around behind his back. And, then, you can hold it in the open cabin and I'll actuate his OPS.
258:33:56 Schmitt Well, we got a lot of use out of that OPS.
258:33:58 Evans Yes. Let me actuate it, okay?
258:34:01 Cernan Okay. I'm glad I didn't have to earlier in the week.
258:34:04 Evans Well, me, too, you know. I'm glad I didn't have to today either.
258:34:07 Cernan Yes, I am, too.
258:34:17 Evans You know, my gloves are dirty, but I think they're dirty from getting ahold of that - those dirty suits of you guys, you know. Jack, did you get ...
258:34:20 Schmitt Okay.
258:34:37 Evans Well, you know, you want to see if there's any residuals from the thrusters out there, you know. Well, I couldn't see anything anywhere except the - on the EVA handrails themselves. And that really didn't look like it was a residual to me. It's just a discoloration, and it's kind of a changing of the condition of the - whatever is on those things, you know. Hope they're not painted. I guess what I'm saying is that they were shiny burnished aluminum, I guess, or whatever, prior to lift-off, but now they're kind of a dirty-looking burnished stuff.
258:35:47 Cernan Okay, Ron, when they give us that 3, I'll get your hose. Jack can hold it in the cabin, you can activate your OPS.
258:35:55 Evans Okay.
258:35:57 Cernan Then we'll watch the cabin come up to 5, and then the OPS will come off, then we'll get a HIGH O2.
258:37:04 Cernan How we doing down there, Houston? This is America.
258:37:09 CC America, you're looking great. You're up at 2.6. It's going up slowly, just like we expected.
258:37:18 Cernan Okay.
258:37:35 Cernan Not a bad performance by my CMP, was it?
258:37:38 Evans (Laughter)
258:37:38 CC That was beautiful. We had a beautiful television show. Really beautiful.
258:37:44 Evans (Laughter)
258:37:54 Cernan Well, we got your three packs here all snuggled away.
258:38:00 CC Yes, indeed, you made a lot of people in the back room very happy. They're looking forward to getting that film.
258:38:13 Evans Well, the best part about it is, from all indications, it ought to be real good film, too.
258:38:19 CC Yes, sir. Looks like everything worked out great. You're at 2.7 and climbing very slowly.
258:38:41 Evans (Laughter)
258:39:42 Evans Hey, Houston. Tell Chuck Stahl [?] that attitude for the EVA was outstanding.
258:39:49 CC Thank you, Ron, he's listening right here, and he's been on the console during the whole period. Got a big grin on his face right now.
258:40:40 CC And, America, the cabin is at 3 psi.
258:40:49 Cernan Okay, Robert, we're pressing on. Okay, Ron, I'll get your - -
258:40:52 Evans Can you get them off?
258:40:55 Cernan Yes. Okay, Jack, if you can get the - hose from behind him.
258:41:03 Cernan Okay, go ahead and activate it, young man.
258:41:06 Evans You got ahold of it, Jack? Okay.
258:41:09 Cernan Yes, hold on to it tight.
258:41:17 Evans You feel anything? Yes, it's really blowing in there.
258:41:21 Cernan Okay, we'd like a hack on the cabin when we get to 5.
258:41:26 CC Roger, America. We'll give you a hack.
258:42:05 Cernan Probably can ... that out. O2 HIGH FLOW, Jack, that's a MASTER ALARM ... There it is. Yes...
258:42:14 Schmitt That's the main regs coming in, I'll bet you.
258:42:16 Evans Must be the main regs cutting in. (Laughter) That's right, you can't see MASTER ALARMs, can you?
258:43:57 CC Okay, America; you got 5.1 cabin press.
258:44:03 Evans Okay. I'm coming off.
258:44:09 Cernan Okay, and I'm going ...
258:44:18 Evans Okay. I'm going to pop the CABIN out there if I don't turn mine off pretty quick. Okay. Oh, no, it didn't come up that fast. There's not that big a hurry. We're waiting a long time to get - to get from 2 to 3. Yes, you get a HIGH O2 FLOW.
258:45:16 Evans Yes, my - Oh, your accessory bag is in there, I guess. The - the gloves.
258:45:30 Evans Just let me get the tone down here. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Okay, I got it. I think we did, didn't we?
258:46:06 Evans Yes, if we can't find that one, let's find another one. Got to have something to stick - stick my gloves in, you know. Yes, the thing you put your gloves in, you know? There it is, right there. Yes, you got to use yours. (Laughter) Okay.
258:46:28 PAO This is Apollo Control at 258:46 Ground Elapsed Time. To run briefly over the transearth EVA event times. Depressurization began at Ground Elapsed Time of 257:35. TV turned on shortly after Evans came out. Evans was clear outside the spacecraft at 257:45 approximately 10 minutes after hatch open - or depres-surization I should say. He brought back the lunar sounder film cassette at 257:54. His mean heartrate during this early period of the EVA was running around 139 and 140, and began to taper off as he got more accustomed to this new environment outside the spacecraft. The panoramic camera cassette was retrieved at approximately 258:03 back into the cabin. Mapping camera cassette 258:16. Evans returned to the Command Module at approximately 258:28 the hatch was closed the TV turned off just about 4 minutes prior to the hatch closure. Repressurization began at 258:28 at hatch closure and ended just a few moments ago at 258:44. At this time there is an orbital science briefing which will begin in the main auditorium. The air to ground circuit will be recorded for delayed playback at the conclusion of the lunar orbital science briefing and a followup of that will be the change of shift press conference with the flight director Neil Hutchinson. Now estimated to take place at about 4:30. At 258:48 this is Apollo Control.
258:46:43 Evans ... Okay.
258:46:45 CC America, Houston. Your cabin pressure's up to 5.5, 5.5.
258:46:52 Evans Okay, we'll turn this off now.
258:46:54 Cernan Okay, we're right now at the point where we're going EVA STATION O2 OFF.
258:46:57 Evans ... off my clothes? Por favor.
258:47:02 Evans Yes. (laughter) ... stick them in the bag ...
258:47:12 Evans Okay.
258:47:25 Evans Smells kind of funny in there. What'd you guys do? (Laughter)
258:47:32 Evans Surge tank. Ahhhh, yes, it's 700 now, 725. is that what that - Yes, that's why -
258:47:44 Cernan Better turn the ...
258:47:47 Evans There we are. Okay, I'll turn the TV switch on. Well, we're really not transmitting down.
258:47:56 Evans Okay? Yes, we can go to FILL. We got 600, 700, let's see - -
258:48:03 Cernan Okay. ... FILL on the REPRESS at this time.
258:48:08 Evans How low do we take this down to? 400? Probably stop before that, anyhow.
258:48:16 Evans Okay.
258:48:24 CC America, Houston.
258:48:28 Evans Yes, go ahead. Go ahead, Houston.
258:48:31 CC Roger. Ron, just two reminders here while you go through your unsuiting and cleanup procedures. We're trying to get established on a new biomed cycle, so we'd like to have the LMP on biomed. We'll be coming up with a complete scheduling here shortly, and just a reminder for the LMP and the commander, we want to make sure we retrieve their PRDs.
258:48:58 Evans (Laughter) Okay, that's a good point.
258:49:00 Schmitt Okay, I gave you a PRD about 2 hours ago, and just to bring you up to date to where it was, and we'll keep them out.
258:49:08 Cernan And commander retrieved his yesterday.
258:49:11 CC Yes. No problem. We just want to make - reminder. We just want you to be reminded that we need them.
258:49:16 Evans Take mine out now. Wonder if I got any zaps when I was out there?
258:49:21 Schmitt Thank you, Bob. I even forgot that I reminded you to remind me.
258:51:02 Evans (Laughter) And 15055. I didn't get very many rads while I was out there, I guess. Like it was 51 this morning. Okay? Here, I'll hold this thing.
258:51:25 Evans How about giving me a squirt? (Laughter)
258:51:34 Evans That right there. Yes, three of them. I threw away all the dirty ones, I think. (Laughter) The whole time. Boy, it - Yes, it sure whipped out through there when I opened the hatch.
258:51:58 CC Sure wish you'd seen the scissors go.
258:52:02 Evans (Laughter) I'll bet - hey, I'll almost make a bet with somebody that it's down behind the optics.
258:52:11 Evans Okay (chuckle). They don't look dirty to me, do they? Wash them off, anyhow, though.
258:52:33 Evans Wait a minute, let me push them back ...
258:52:42 Evans Should have used hot water. Or is that thing cold, you mean? is that cold? Boy, that is cold, isn't it? No, it doesn't fold there, just stick the whole thing in there like that. No.
258:53:09 Evans Yes, now let's use some of that good food tape that's stuck over there. And there's some on the side of the - the light. You can use those to tape those holes ... Yes, just the mapping camera. Yes, that's all. No, just the map. Oh, it has? There's a chunk.
258:53:36 Evans There's your hole through there. Oh, yes, we got a lot of tape, I'm sure. We want to tape this whole thing here.
258:55:18 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're in the process of cleaning up the cassettes - -
258:55:19 Evans The breather holes - see the holes in this panel.
258:55:24 CC Say again, CDR, you were cut out on VOX there.
258:55:30 Cernan Okay. I forgot Ron was still on VOX during this. I just wanted to keep you up to date. We're - we're taping up the cassettes now and cleaning them up and getting them stowed.
258:55:40 CC Roger. Good show.
258:55:43 Evans I'm sorry. I led myself astray. Yes, overlap it, because it won't stick to that thing very good. No, it just won't stick ... We'll just take tape and wrap all the way around the thing. Otherwise, it's not going to stick, period. Yes. It's up? That's right. ... (Chuckle)
258:57:04 Evans Oh, we've been doing this for two or three flights, you know. Why change it for the last one? Yes, probably one all the way around. Get your corner, there. Yes, we got another roll of that tape you guys brought. Just about that size, I guess. You got it? Yes, they're down here. We missed them. (Laughter) Yes.
258:57:39 Evans Keeps the light and the water out of it, I guess. Not the water because you got a breather hole, but keeps the light out that film slot.
258:58:44 Evans Two of them are around this way.
258:58:49 Evans Does take a lot of tape, doesn't it?
258:58:53 Evans Yes, sure doesn't stick to a cassette. Sometime. I couldn't find mine. They must have been in the other set of gloves. I forgot about them. Well, that's ... No, there's nothing taped.
259:03:15 Cernan Okay, Bob, we're on 3-20, and we're all going to get out of our suits and stow them before we get the center couch back in.
259:03:27 CC Roger, Gene. Sounds good.
259:03:33 Cernan And I guess I can get some DAP changes for you, if you'd like.
259:03:44 CC Stand by on that.
259:03:49 CC Okay, Gene; you're - you can go ahead and do the DAP change.
259:03:55 CC America, Houston. Just one update. We won't give it to you as an update at this time, but wherever you see IR work just ignore it. Do not turn the IR on and no need to open the IR cover. We're through with it until just prior to entry interface.
259:04:18 Cernan Okay, Bob; understand that.
259:09:14 Schmitt UV is ON.
259:09:18 Schmitt And the UV cover's, coming OPEN.
259:09:22 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to go down through the Flignt Plan down through about 259:45, get this maneuver started. And then we can press on.
259:09:36 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
259:09:39 CC Go, America; Houston.
259:09:43 Cernan Okay. I'm pressing on through the Flight Plan to about 259:45, and getting everything up to and including the maneuver, and then we will continue with our post-EVA.
259:09:58 CC Okay. We'd like for you to hold on that maneuver, Gene. Don't start the maneuver.
259:10:06 Cernan I've already started my roll. Do you want me to stop it?
259:10:12 Schmitt And did you copy the IR was ON and the COVER OPEN?
259:10:17 CC Okay, we copy that. IR ON and the COVER OPEN.
259:10:26 Schmitt I'm sorry. I was UV - ON. UV COVER, OPEN.
259:10:39 Cernan Hello, Houston; are you reading America?
259:10:41 CC That's affirmative, America. Houston here.
259:10:46 Cernan Okay. Did you get the word that it was the UV - ON and the UV COVER, OPEN?
259:10:54 CC Roger. We got that word.
259:10:59 Cernan Okay. And I'll stop my roll at 270 degrees and will not maneuver until I hear from you.
259:11:09 CC Roger.
259:11:13 Cernan You're not getting a good key down there, by the way.
259:11:17 CC Say again, Gene.
259:11:21 Schmitt Houston, your keying is cutting you out, I think.
259:11:28 CC Okay; are you reading me now?
259:11:32 Schmitt Yes, that was good. Did you understand Gene's transmission on his stopping the roll?
259:11:38 CC That's affirmative.
259:13:15 Schmitt Houston. CABIN FAN is coming ON.
259:13:20 CC Roger.
259:13:31 CC America, Houston, you're cleared to go to the VERB 49 maneuver as published in the Flight Plan.
259:13:37 Schmitt Okay, Bob.
259:13:44 Schmitt Houston, would you like OMNI Alfa now?
259:13:51 CC Negative. We'd like you to go to OMNI Charlie for now.
259:13:56 Schmitt Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, OMNI Charlie, right.
259:14:01 CC No need to apologize. The Flight Plan says Alfa; we're just going to Charlie, which is the best antenna.
259:14:10 Schmitt Well, that's all right. I misunderstood what Gene just told me about his maneuver.
259:26:40 CC America, we'd like OMNI Alfa.
259:26:47 Cernan Say again. You're cutting out badly.
259:26:49 CC We would like OMNI Alfa. OMNI Alfa.
259:26:57 Cernan Okay. You said OMNI Alfa. We'll go there.
259:27:01 Cernan Houston, you read?
259:27:08 CC America, Houston. Your comm is going to be a little ratty until you get into configuration here - or rather get into attitude.
259:27:18 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm reading you now. Say again please.
259:27:22 CC I just said it's going to be a little bad comm until you get into attitude, se we should hold this for a while.
259:27:30 Cernan Okay. Then when we get there you want OMNI Alfa. Right?
259:27:36 CC That's affirmative.
259:27:39 Cernan Okay. We'll give it to you when it's getting bad.
259:29:51 CC America, Houston. If you. have somebody handy to the panel, we'd like to take the H2 tank 2, FANs to OFF.
259:30:03 Cernan Roger. H2 tank 2 FANs, OFF.
259:30:07 CC Thank you, Gene.
259:30:13 Cernan We're OMNI Delta. We're reading you loud and clear. Do you want us to stay here?
259:30:19 CC That's affirm, Gene. That's a good show. It's right - you know, it's right on the line there. It - Delta shows better on the signal strength and Alfa shows better for location. So let's stick with Delta.
259:30:33 Cernan Okay.
259:47:12 CC America, Houston. Please advise us of how you are going to handle the waste stowage vent. Is that open or you going to close it now?
259:47:22 Evans It's open right now, but we're going to close it here shortly. Do you think we need it closed now?
259:47:29 CC Negative. It's your option. We Just want to know what - in case we get an O2 FLOW HIGH, we might understand what it's from.
259:47:37 Evans Oh, I see. Okay, we'll close it after a bit here.
259:53:22 CC America, you might be interested in - while you're doing all this hard work up there you might be interested in how some of the Texas football teams have fared. Houston had a toughy today. Cincinnati took them 61 to 17.
259:53:34 Evans ... Wait a minute.
259:53:38 Schmitt Houston - took who? 61 to 17?
259:53:41 CC That's what they tell me. And the other one is those - the biggy up at Dallas right now. The Giants leading the Dallas Cowboys in the third period 21 to 3. 20 to 3; I'll correct that, 20 to 3.
259:53:55 Evans Okay. 20 to 3. New York over Dallas, huh?
259:54:00 CC That's what it looks like. That's in the third quarter.
259:54:09 Evans Okay.
259:56:19 CC And, Ron, we're going to do a site handover here in about 4 minutes, and we may lose some lock here
259:56:27 Evans Oh, okay. That's all right.
259:56:31 CC And how's the post-EVA checklist coming? You chugging along.
259:56:37 Evans Oh, chugging along. We've got two guys that have their suits off now.
259:56:40 CC Roger.
259:56:43 CC Well, they say it always takes longer up there than in the - Got all evening to do it. There's no hurry on it.
259:56:53 Evans (Laughter) That's right. Hey. Hope North American doesn't think I was badmouthing their spacecraft down there, because you know - a little bit of blistered paint on it, that doesn't hurt anything. It's still a dam good spacecraft.
259:57:05 CC No, I don't think North American even - I think they think it was just great, but I don't know if I'd ever go to Bethpage if I were you.
259:57:14 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
259:57:21 CC Ron, that was such a great show, I don't think anybody would care. That was just tremendous.
259:57:27 Evans (Laughter) Okay, Bob.
259:58:19 Cernan Okay, Houston. This the CDR backup.
259:58:20 CC Roger.
260:05:16 Cernan Houston, America; the WASTE STOWAGE VENT valve is CLOSED.
260:05:21 CC Roger, America.
260:18:37 Cernan Hello, Houston; this is America. Looks like the repress package is up, and surge tank is back up. Would you like us to turn the cell off and turn the O2 heaters off.
260:18:50 CC Geno, EECOM says affirmative to all that.
260:18:56 Schmitt Okay, Gordo. How you doing?
260:18:58 CC Pretty good. I saw Ron's stroll around the service module. Looks like he had a ball.
260:19:08 Schmitt Yes, he did.
260:22:09 PAO This is Apollo Control at 260 hours 22 minutes. During the time that we've had the air-to-ground lines down for the press briefings, there have been no major events in the mission. Things are continuing to progress smoothly and relatively quietly. At the present time, the crew is in the midst of an eat period, and we have about 18 minutes of accumulated taped conversation, which we'll play back for you at this time.
260:32:15 CC America, Houston; over.
260:32:20 Cernan Go ahead.
260:32:22 CC We have ... up the DSE, so we'd like you to go ahead now and do the maneuver listed at 261. Give us the high gain so we can dump it. Over.
260:32:37 Cernan Okay. Maneuver's coming at you.
260:32:41 CC Okay. And for your information, charge number 5 just went off. It was a 3-pounder, and it's jiggling the instruments on the surface there properly.
260:32:55 Schmitt Very good. Any new word on the gravimeter, Gordy?
260:33:01 CC I haven't got it yet, Jack. Let me check. Have you heard anything since you asked me the question last night?
260:33:11 Schmitt Well, whatever it was - No, I haven't heard anything.
260:33:14 CC Okay. I'll try to get an update.
260:33:18 Schmitt I was thinking of the lunar surface gravimeter, not the traverse. They apparently don't want to talk to me about the traverse gravimeter.
260:33:30 CC Okay. We'll try for info on both of them.
260:38:20 Schmitt Okay. Any other new stuff you might have heard or get a hold of, I might be interested in.
260:38:28 CC Okay. America, Houston; we need OMNI Charlie, please.
260:38:33 Cernan Houston.
260:38:40 CC America, Houston. OMNI Charlie, please.
260:38:48 Schmitt Hello, Houston. How do you read?
260:38:51 CC Okay; loud and clear. Go ahead.
260:38:55 Schmitt Okay. We apparently - in our struggles up here inadvertently hit the WASTE WATER to DUMP and it's back in RELIEF now. That dump is terminated; we have 30 percent waste water.
260:39:11 CC Okay.
260:39:15 Schmitt I'm not sure what we had when it started. I just noticed the streaming. I don't think it was on very long.
260:39:23 CC Roger.
260:44:00 PAO This is Apollo control at 260 hours 44 minutes. We're up live now that completes our tape playback. Apollo 17, 153,321 nautical miles from Earth, And one of the comments you heard from capcom advising the crew that the fifth of the explosive charges left on the lunar surface at Taurus Littrow had gone off as programed. The detonation occurred almost precisely on time at 260 hours 24 minutes. This is a one and a half or rather a three pound explosive charge located one and a half kilometers east of the lunar rover. And, we appeared to get good seismic data here in the control center. At the present time the crew is still in the eat period, and we've had relatively little conservation from them. It also from the flight plan looks as if we'll have relatively quiet evening. Very few things scheduled between now and the time the crew is to begin their rest period at 267 hours or about 6 hours 15 minutes from now.
260:46:19 CC America, Houston. We need - we could use the HIGH GAIN now, NARROW and REACQ.
260:48:22 CC America Houston high gain's not going to work in NARROW now, wait a while it's in a skin reflection area.
260:48:35 Schmitt Yes, I'm having the same problem there - I noticed the same problem. How's this, leave it in WIDE?
260:48:43 CC That will be fine.
260:50:12 CC America, Houston. We'd like you to go to REACQ now, wait 30 seconds, and then go to NARROW.
260:51:01 Cernan Hello, Houston. We're turning the CABIN FAN, OFF, for a while.
260:51:06 CC Roger.
260:53:20 CC America, Houston. We'd like NARROW beam width.
260:53:27 Schmitt Thanks for timing 30 seconds for me, Gordy. I think that was beyond me.
260:53:37 CC You're welcome.
260:54:31 Schmitt Doesn't look like it's going to make it, does it?
260:54:34 CC No, it sure doesn't. Stand by 1, and we'll give you an alternate plan here.
260:55:20 Schmitt I'm back in WIDE.
260:55:30 CC Roger.
260:57:27 CC America, Houston. We're going to have to have the high gain for the dump and also for a little additional work with the HF antennas and the sounder that we're going to read you here in a minute. So, in order to get it, we'd like you to pitch up 20 degrees in your present attitudes; and when you get there, then we ought to be able to reacquire and go NARROW.
260:57:59 Schmitt Okay.
260:58:25 CC Once you get the antenna locked on in NARROW it will track back to this attitude, and that's what we'd like you do is come back down to this attitude, once you get the antenna locked on.
260:58:43 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, we got a good lock now.
260:58:57 CC Okay. Fine. Well, then go right on back to the program pitch attitude there, and it should hold.
260:59:09 Schmitt In work - in work.
261:00:15 CC America, Houston. We'd like to have somebody go to panel 230. I'll give you switches real time, save you writing them all down to get a couple of things cranked up here. Over.
261:00:38 Cernan Okay. What do you want at 230?
261:00:41 CC Okay. Basically what we're going to do is turn the IR ON with the COVER, CLOSED, to keep it warm so you can do that IR, ON, now. And then we're going to put out the HF antennas and listen to HF getting some data on background noise from the Earth. If you'll put HF ANTENNA 2 to EXTEND, we'll give you a cue when to go OFF when it's all the way out. Over.
261:01:06 Cernan Okay. HF ANTENNA 2 to EXTEND on my MARK.
261:01:18 Cernan MARK it.
261:01:20 CC Roger.
261:04:02 CC Okay. We'd like HF ANTENNA 2 to OFF, please.
261:04:16 Cernan Okay. HF ANTENNA 2 is OFF. It maintained barber pole all the time there. It never went gray until we turned it off.
261:04:38 CC Okay. It probably isn't out yet. The reason we had you stop was because the recorder that's watching that broke down, down here. We got to get that back on line.
261:04:51 Cernan Okay.
261:05:29 CC While you're waiting there, I can go over the football scores for the weekend, if you wish.
261:05:39 Schmitt Just a minute. Let's see if we can get Ron on a headset.
261:05:42 CC Okay.
261:05:50 Schmitt He's walking - he's walking around here thinking he doesn't have to do anything any more after that EVA, but we'll get him back to work.
261:05:57 CC Roger.
261:06:35 Evans Okay, Houston. We're ready for those scores now.
261:06:40 CC Okay. Just 1 second, Ron. I think we've got another switch for you here.
261:06:49 Evans Okay.
261:07:01 CC Okay. We'd like to take the sounder HF ANTENNA number 1 switch to EXTEND. We'll let the motor on 2 cool off. We do have the recorder fixed, so we can watch 1 now.
261:07:13 Evans Okay. Number 1 is going to EXTEND. 3, 2, 1 -
261:07:18 Evans MARK it; barber pole.
261:07:21 CC Okay. I've got the whole list of scores here; some of these were yesterday you probably heard of, but I'll just go through them all. San Francisco beat Minnesota, 20 to 17. Miami made it, I guess 14 straight, 16 to 0 over Baltimore. And Buffalo beat Washington, 24 to 7, how about that? Cleveland beat the Jets, 26 to 10. Kansas City beat Atlanta, 17 to 14. Green Bay won over New Orleans, 30 to 20. St. Louis beat Philadelphia in a close one, 24 to 23. Denver beat New England, 45 to 21. Detroit beat the Rams, 34 to 17; and Oakland beat the Bears, 28 to 21. And here's some sad news. The Giants beat Dallas, 23 to 3. And one final score - Cincinnati, 61, Houston, 17. Over.
261:08:52 Schmitt Over. Gordy.
261:08:54 Cernan Gordo, we - don't have any contact - comment. All three of my teams lost today.
261:09:02 CC Roger.
261:09:35 Evans Hey, number 1 just went gray on the lunar sounder.
261:09:41 CC Okay.
261:09:53 Evans And I'll turn the switch to OFF, if you want.
261:09:57 CC That's affirmative. OFF on 1 and then on 2, we'd like you to go to. RETRACT for 10 seconds, then put her in EXTEND, and we'll watch it.
261:10:10 Evans Okay. RETRACT, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and about 10, I guess. Okay, then I'm going to -
261:10:29 Evans EXTEND, now.
261:10:31 CC Okay.
261:11:53 CC Okay. We'll take number 2 to OFF, please. And we're going to let the motor cool down for 15 minutes so you got at least that long until the next time we bug you.
261:12:07 Evans (Laughter) Okay. It's OFF now.
261:29:04 CC America, Houston. We'd like to try antenna number 2 again.
261:29:14 Evans Okay.
261:29:15 CC What we want is you to go to RETRACT for 10 seconds, and then, EXTEND.
261:29:23 Evans Okay. Wait 1.
261:29:30 Evans Okay, RETRACT. There's 10 seconds. Back to EXTEND.
261:29:46 Cernan It's going to EXTEND, now.
261:29:48 CC Okay, and we're just wondering where you stood on the post-EVA checklist procedures.
261:29:59 Evans Well, probably about 75 percent through. What we're doing is stowing all this stuff out here, and then we're going to go back through and check things off.
261:30:08 CC Okay. Fine.
261:30:14 Cernan Gordy, did our little waste-water burn there hurt us or help us?
261:30:21 CC I guess we haven't been able to determine yet.
261:30:31 CC Okay. HF 2 ANTENNA, OFF.
261:30:42 Evans Okay. It was OFF, when you called.
261:30:45 CC I guess the motor is - -
261:30:45 Cernan And, Gordy - - ...
261:30:47 CC - - just about stalled out. Doesn't seem to be much - making much - much progress there. Go ahead.
261:30:55 Cernan I was just going to say we took time out here to grab something to eat, cause it's been a long time between breakfast and lunch so - I will try and do a little inventory here and give you a page and let you know about where it is.
261:31:08 CC Okay. We're not intimating there's any hurry. We just were curious.
261:31:27 CC Okay, a little more amplification on that antenna. The motor gets hot and it starts - slows down and stops making progress. But each time we make a little more progress to getting it out, and we're almost all the way. We're going to give it another cool-down period. We'll give you a call when we want to try it again.
261:31:46 Evans Okay. Sounds good.
261:31:56 CC I do have a bunch of short Flight Plan updates, none of which is very close in the future. So any time someone has nothing to do, I'll be glad to read them up.
261:32:15 Cernan Okay. Let's eat for a little while, Gordy.
261:32:18 CC Fine.
261:32:39 Cernan Is it still sunny and cold back there?
261:32:46 CC That's affirmative; it was clear and - were you talking about the Houston weather? Or the SIM-bay weather? The SIM bay's getting cold, also. It's cool, but it was sunny here today. It'll probably be a cold night since it's clear.
261:33:07 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
261:35:42 Evans (laughter)
261:38:43 CC America, Houston. We're ready to give another stab on the HF ANTENNA.
261:38:53 Cernan Okay.
261:38:55 Evans You want to go RETRACT first, then for 10 again?
261:38:57 CC That's affirm. Ten seconds RETRACT, then EXTEND.
261:39:02 Evans Okay. Going to RETRACT and OFF.
261:39:19 Evans Okay; going to EXTEND, now.
261:39:22 CC Roger.
261:40:18 CC Okay, Ron, it's getting out there inch by inch, but we got to back off and hit it again. Go to RETRACT for 10 seconds, and then back to EXTEND.
261:40:33 Evans Oh, okay. I went to OFF there for a second, and I'll go to RETRACT now, and then to EXTEND.
261:40:39 CC Okay.
261:40:52 Evans Okay. I'm going to EXTEND.
261:40:58 CC Roger.
261:41:34 CC Okay, Ron, go to OFF, and it'll be another 10-minute wait.
261:41:45 Evans Okay. We're OFF.
261:43:12 PAO This is Apollo Control at 261 hours 43 minutes. The exercise that we've been going through with Ron Evans and the antennas aboard the CSM involve an attempt to extend the second of the two elements of the High-Frequency antenna used in the lunar sounder experiment. Each of these elements is about 34 feet 2 inches long. Both together comprising elements of a single antenna. And, one; of the - one of the elements is extended, and the second is balking at extending. Apparently, due to being cold, and the resistance of pushing the antenna out is heating the motor up. Therefore, we have to turn it on for a period of time until the antenna bogs down and the motor begins to heat, and then turn it off to let the motor cool down. In order to assist in getting it out, and you heard CAPCOM Gordon Fullerton advise the crew that it's going out inches at at time, we're backing off a little bit on it to relieve the tension, and then having the crew go forward, and with each of these steps gaining a few inches on getting the antenna extended. Apollo 17 at this time is 151,300 nautical miles from Earth and traveling at a speed of 3,440 feet per second.
261:52:55 PAO This is Apollo Control at 261 hours 53 minutes. We've just had the sixth of the charges, left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 17 crew, detonate, and we're receiving the seismic data in the Control Center. This is the charge designated Number 2, which is a quarter of a pound of explosive, and it had been scheduled to detonate at 261 hours 59 minutes, or about 6 minutes from now. All of the charges we've seen so far have been detonating within about 5 minutes of the nominal or T-zero time.
261:54:16 PAO These charges are part of the seismic profiling experiment and provide scientists with information about the subsurface structure in the landing site area.
261:57:19 PAO This is Apollo Control. There's one more of the seismic charges to be detonated, charge Number 3, which will be the eighth and final charge, and it's scheduled to be exploded on command from the ground at about 264 hours 10 minutes, roughly 2 hours 10 minutes from now. This charge is the closest of the eight to the roving vehicle located about 65 meters away.
261:58:28 Cernan Hello, Houston; America. Are you ready to maneuver here to the UV stellar target attitude?
261:58:44 CC Stand by; I'll check.
261:58:52 CC Okay. I guess everybody is in agreement. Go ahead and high gain should stay on during this maneuver.
261:59:05 Cernan Okay; we're maneuvering. I hope the Sun comes in the window on this next maneuver.
261:59:12 CC Is it getting cool up there?
261:59:17 Cernan Well, I'm freezing something off.
261:59:22 CC Hey, we got a little procedure to warm things up in the cockpit, if you'd like it.
261:59:28 Cernan We - we heard that earlier, and we're passing on that right now.
261:59:39 CC Was it the one about turning INVERTER 3?
261:59:46 Cernan No, we didn't hear that one. Why don't you tell us what that one is.
261:59:50 CC Okay, Cernan, put INVERTER 3 on MAIN A. That will put some heat load into the system, and then GO to MANUAL on the TEMP IN valve. Go down and adjust the EVAP OUT temperature to 59 degrees - make it 55 degrees, 55 degrees. And that should help warm things up.
262:00:22 Schmitt Okay. We'll let you know if we give that a try and, Gordy, I guess we're ready to copy some of those Flight Plan updates.
262:00:30 CC Okay. Fine. We'll keep an eye on the TEMP OUT so that - let you know if the - it's getting away. Let's see - let's start on - Stand by 1. Start on page 375 at 263 hours.
262:01:00 Cernan Okay.
262:01:01 CC Okay. Down at 263:40 where it lists the jets to use for spinup or for damping, rather, we're going to change the jets to be used for damping, since those ones listed didn't work so hot last night. Want to use all of quad Delta. Delta 1, 2, 3, and 4 and Charlie 3 and 4, those six jets in place of the ones listed.
262:01:45 Cernan Okay.
262:01:47 CC Okay, and just to the left of that box delete "IR COVER, CLOSE" and "IR, OFF."
262:01:58 Cernan Okay.
262:02:01 CC I guess - delete the deletion. I just got a call since turn the IR ON. We want to turn it OFF at this time, so leave the IR, OFF, call as is.
262:02:18 Cernan You want - you want to delete COVER CLOSED, but - but leave IR, OFF, in, huh?
262:02:22 CC Yes, the cover is closed, and we want to turn the IR OFF, at that time.
262:02:37 Cernan Okay.
262:02:39 CC Okay. Turn over two pages to 265:20, and make the same jet changes for that PTC rate damping, all of quad Delta and Charlie 3 ana 4.
262:03:12 Cernan Okay.
262:03:14 CC Okay, then turn over 1, 2, 3, 4, several pages - let me find the next one here. It's on 275:10.
262:03:32 Cernan Okay.
262:03:33 CC At 275:10, add "Charge BATT A."
262:03:44 Cernan Yes, sir.
262:03:45 CC Turn the page on 276:25, delete "IR, ON." Then down a few lines at 276:45 delete "IR COVER, OPEN, before dump," and a few more lines at 276:57, delete "Charge BATTERY A."
262:04:19 Cernan We got them.
262:04:21 CC Okay, turn over two pages to 279:05, and change "LMP don biomed harness" to "CDR don biomed harness." 279:30 - change - check CDR to - check LMP, change that to "Check CDR" and then make it "LMP doff biomed harness."
262:05:05 Cernan Okay. I - I got those, but that's sort of slighting the CMP.
262:05:14 CC Okay, we'll consider that. Go on to - -
262:05:22 Cernan That's harness - that's harnessing the commander.
262:05:25 CC (Laughter) Roger. Okay; let's go to 285:10.
262:05:44 Cernan Okay.
262:05:44 CC Okay. Right after the VERB 48 add three steps, number 1 is "RADAR, OFF." Number 2 is "HF ANTENNA to RETRACT (OFF, ON STDN cue)." And the next step is the same for ANTENNA 1. "HF ANTENNA 1, RETRACT, (OFF, ON STDN cue)."
262:06:33 Cernan Okay. RADAR OFF, HF ANTENNA number 2 RETRACT OFF, on STDN cue and the same for number 1.
262:06:39 CC Righto, and then same page, 285:30, "IR COVER, CLOSE." Delete it.
262:06:50 Cernan Okay.
262:06:51 CC Next page, 286:25, "IR COVER, OPEN," delete that. And on the next page, 287:13, "IR COVER, CLOSED" and "IR, OFF," delete both of those. And a little further down the page it says "LMP doff biomed harness." Change that to "CDR doff biomed harness."
262:07:41 Cernan Okay. I got those.
262:07:43 CC Okay; next page is another PTC spinup, same change, "Delta 1, 2, 3, and 4 and Charlie 3 and 4" instead of the listed jets.
262:08:11 Cernan Okay.
262:08:12 CC Okay, and then backtracking for one last one that was just handed to me; go back to 263:53.
262:08:28 Cernan Okay.
262:08:29 CC And the high gain antenna angles; change them from a "-40 and 90" to "20 and 180."
262:08:41 Cernan Understand; plus 20 and 180.
262:08:44 CC That's affirmative and that completes the list.
262:08:49 Cernan What about 285:30 on the jets?
262:08:54 CC I asked the same question, I think. Let me turn to it here. Yes, that one is a - just a short - a short run on it and they just as soon as it wobbles a little so they can leave those jets the same. That's for a UV scan.
262:09:13 Cernan Okay. Okay.
262:13:16 CC Okay, guys, it's time for another try on the HF antenna.
262:13:24 Cernan Go ahead.
262:13:25 CC Okay. HF ANTENNA to RETRACT for 5 seconds, and then EXTEND, please.
262:13:33 Cernan Okay; for 5 seconds. Going to EXTEND -
262:13:44 Cernan MARK.
262:14:33 CC Hey, good work. It finally made it out. Put it OFF, please.
262:14:41 Cernan It's OFF.
262:14:43 CC Okay. And then got some more steps here, as soon as I find them. Okay. LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to STANDBY. That's a verify. Then RECORDER, ON.
262:15:02 Cernan Okay. OPERATE is verified in STANDBY, and RECORDER is ON.
262:15:08 Cernan MARK.
262:15:09 CC Okay, and RADAR switch, ON.
262:15:21 Cernan RADAR'S ON.
262:15:25 CC Okay. RECORDER, OFF, and MODE, HF.
262:15:34 Cernan RECORDER'S OFF, and the MODE's verified in HF.
262:15:38 CC Okay. That does it. We'll let her tick away now for a while. Thank you.
262:15:57 Cernan I don't believe it. (Music) (Laughter) Got a tissue? (Laughter)
262:16:17 Evans Exactly what I was trying not to do, (Laughter) (Music).
262:33:36 Schmitt Houston, 17.
262:33:40 FLIGHT 17, Houston. This is FLIGHT. Gordo's in the back with his family. Go ahead.
262:33:49 Evans Okay. I just wanted to pass on an OPS pressure we owe you. That's 2000 psi.
262:33:57 FLIGHT Okay; copy.
262:54:21 PAO This is Apollo Control at 262 hours 54 minutes At present time, we are replaying the video tape of today's CSM EVA. Apollo 17 at the present time is 148 900 nautical miles from Earth. This is a quiet period in the Flight Plan for the crew and we have scheduled an exercise period. And following that the crew will be the spacecraft up in the passive thermal control mode, rotating about the longitudinal axis of the spacecraft at about three revolutions per hour. This is done during the trans-lunar and trans-earth phases of the mission to maintain proper thermal equalibrium while the crew is in the sleep period. The crew is scheduled to begin an 8 hour rest period at 267 hours, or about 4 hours from now.
263:03:03 CC Hello, America; this is Houston. We're ready for that VERB 49 maneuver as shown in the Flight Plan.
263:03:12 Evans Okay. We'll get to it here. Just a second.
263:08:23 Schmitt Say, Gordy; this is Jack.
263:08:27 CC Go ahead, Jack.
263:08:30 Schmitt It may be in my imagination, but I thought I had a major blink in the lights of the spacecraft, not just the floodlights but just generally. Did you have any glitch or anything on the traces?
263:08:43 CC We'll take a look. Stand by. Give us your best guess on how long ago it was.
263:08:57 Schmitt About - now about 20 seconds, maybe 30.
263:09:01 CC Okay.
263:10:34 PAO That was Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt reporting what he described as an apparent blinking of the spacecraft lights, apparently a momentary thing. Schmitt asked if the ground would take a good hard look at the vehicle to see if there had been any sort of a - a glitch, presumatly electrical. Spacecraft Environmental and electrical systems engineer, John Aaron is looking at the data now in detail and so far has reported nothing amiss.
263:10:55 CC America, Houston. Request the VERB 48 shown in the Flight Plan now.
263:11:06 Evans coming up at you.
263:11:17 CC And we're - we're rechecking on the EPS data. A first glance shows it solid, but we're not sure if it might have been static during that time. We're taking another look here.
263:11:30 Schmitt Gordy, don't make a big deal out of it. It may have been just my imagination or somebody hitting the floodlight switch, but it - we tried - I - Gene tried that again, and it didn't seem like what I saw. It was just a very quick blink in the lights.
263:11:44 CC Okay. We'll - we'll still chase it down.
263:11:48 Schmitt Okay.
263:11:54 PAO EECOM, John Aaron reports that the data we have available in Houston at this time, shows nothing - no problems - Nothing wrong with the spacecraft. We are going to double check the data by replaying tapes recorded in the the receiving station at Madrid Spain. And looking in great detail at all of the spacecraft electrical systems to see if there was any sort of a glitch. But, again, at this point, nothing shows up as being amiss.
263:13:53 PAO And about 1 hour from now, at 264 hours 10 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, the last of 8 explosive charges placed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 17 crew, will be detonated to produce seismic waves that will assist scientists in understanding the subsurface structure of the - in the area of the Taurus-Littrow site. This charge is 1/8th of a pound. The smallest of the charges, but also the closest to the lunar roving vehicle, it's located about 65 meters from the Rover, and again the expected time of detonation is about 264 hours 10 minutes. Apollo 17 at this time is 148,300 nautical miles from Earth, and we've seen the velocity creeping up ever so slightly, now up to about 3,500 feet per second.
263:23:02 CC America, Houston. The state vector up-link scheduled for now won't be necessary.
263:23:10 Evans Okay, Gordy. How's the old trajectory looking these days?
263:23:24 CC They're still carrying about one-half foot per second. However, they're not in a period right now of real solid track, I guess, and - so it - it'll take them some more hours to get a really good handle on it.
263:23:43 Evans Okay.
263:23:58 CC Nobody predicts any more maneuvers until midcourse 7 at the earliest.
263:24:09 Evans What would it be at the latest?
263:28:58 Schmitt Hey, Gordy; Jack.
263:29:03 CC Go ahead, Jack.
263:29:07 Schmitt I fail to understand why all my friends who used to operate the backroom, even though it's Sunday, why they haven't given you a sort of an interim report on what they - what they think happened at Taurus-Littrow. They usually have those things available.
263:29:31 CC Well, I did - you mean, the whole geological summary?
263:29:38 Schmitt Well, just the general thing that they pass around after a - a day or so, I think, is the time frame they work in.
263:29:48 CC Yes, there has been such a thing that I think you're referring to. I guess there's a more formal version coming that's supposed to be due out tomorrow morning, but there was a summary, fairly lengthy, on entire science, including the field geology, which I'll try to dig up and maybe read to you if you wish. Over.
263:30:16 Schmitt Well, I don't need a lot. I guess it might be useful to have a general summary maybe tomorrow morning some time, if we have some time in the Flight Plan, of what people have seen up to date on things that we wouldn't normally be familiar with for - in preparation for that press conference tomorrow.
263:30:42 CC Okay. Sounds like a good idea. On the - your gravimeter questions, the TGE numbers for the comparison I believe you wanted, between the north - the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills, just aren't available. The whole TGE team took their data and - and left town, evidently. And we have been unable to come up with any good numbers on that question. The lunar surface gravimeter - Okay, break break here. We need a VERB 48 load as shown, and then - -
263:31:28 Schmitt It's already in, Gordy.
263:31:30 CC Oh, okay. So you can go ahead and do the maneuver then. On the LSG, still no positive success. They've sent just about all the commands that it can take with no luck at leveling the beam, and so they've decided to fall back and the whole team is regrouping to consider further course of action. They've turned off the command system to it until some time tomorrow when they'll try again, evidently, with whatever they come up with in their conference. Over.
263:32:18 Schmitt Okay. We're certainly pulling for them, of course.
263:32:30 CC Roger.
263:32:34 Schmitt Gordy, do I have it straight, that it, apparently, it's a problem just in the leveling commands, or is it - it is receiving other commands, is that correct?
263:32:53 CC That's the impression I have. I hate to - to say yes certainly. My impression is that it just won't - won't level. It - it will accept commands, but the beam will just not level for a - a reason that they don't fully understand.
263:33:23 Schmitt Okay. Does that mean that you might - Maybe you could ask Bob when you see him or something - does that mean the beam is not free, or is not level?
263:33:37 CC As I understand it - Stand by 1.
263:34:45 CC Jack, I got a quick agricultural explanation of the problem. (Laughter) Evidently, it's the two plates between which the beam itself is suspended are adjustable, so that - by ground command, so that by driving these plates back and forth, they try to center the beam between them. And then the - the data is initiated when the beam vibrates between the plates, it changes capacitance, or at least that's the general principle. And the problem is that by drive, they can command the plates back and forth and stop the stop, but they cannot get the beam to leave - leave one of the plates. It just is hung up against one plate, and this would - could be caused by one of the wires that's suspended - sort of hang the beam, pendulum-fashion, being broken so that it has cockeyed off to one side. I guess that's the best guess as to the malfunction at the moment. It's presently in use as a seismometer returning data in that mode, but useless in its primary intended data-taking mode. Over.
263:36:12 Schmitt Right. Did they see the beam leave the plates at all as I shook it there near the last of our third EVA?
263:36:31 CC I guess the answer to that is "no." They saw you jostling it around and could tell where you were from the data but have no evidence that the beam ever moved from the one plate.
263:37:05 Schmitt Is there any possibility that the telemetry is giving them a false indication of not leveling - or not centering, I guess, would be a better word?
263:37:25 CC Stand by.
263:37:43 CC No, Jack. Evidently, they've eliminated that possibility. They're certain it's a problem - a mechanical problem.
263:37:52 Schmitt Okay.
263:38:59 CC Jack, reference your - the blink you noticed or possibly noticed - we, looking at the data, see about 30 seconds prior to the time we think you mentioned that it happened but that's close to the time frame, I guess, a 1 or 2 amp oscillation in the main B voltage or current. And it only lasted for one or two data cycles, or like 0.1 or 0.2 of a second is all. We would like to know, though, approximately what setting all the floodlights are at right.now.
263:39:49 Cernan LEB axe full BRIGHT, and the left hand are about three-quarters, right hand's about three-quarters. Jack's the only one who saw that. We didn't - Ron and I didn't see anything on that one, so if it - if it happened, it was awful quick.
263:40:04 CC Okay.
263:41:26 CC America, we'd like H2 tanks - H2 tank 1 FANS ON, please.
263:41:39 Cernan They're ON, Gordy.
263:41:42 CC Okay.
263:41:42 Cernan And we're on a damping mode with Delta 1 through 4, and C 3 and 4.
263:41:48 CC Roger, Gene.
263:43:18 CC Okay, America. We've got another change to the changes. (Laughter) We'd like you to leave the IR on until our cue here.
263:43:33 Cernan Okay. I'll change my change to my change.
263:43:41 CC Rog.
263:52:11 CC America, Houston. The rates look good. We're ready to spin it up.
263:52:22 Schmitt Okay.
264:15:40 PAO This is Apollo Control at 264 hours 15 minutes. The ALSEP staff support room here in Mission Control reports that the last of eight seismic charges left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 17 crew has detonated and a charge went off at 264 hours 14 minutes or about 4 minutes later than the nominal time of 264 hours 10 minutes and within the normal range that we've seen for the other seven charges of about 5 minutes either side of the planned time. This charge was a 1/8th pound charge located about 65 meters from the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the charge that was closest to the landing site of Apollo 17. These charges are part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment - the seismic waves produced by the explosions provide information that scientists can use in interpreting the sub-surface structure in the area of the landing site.
264:18:50 Schmitt Houston, 17.
264:18:55 CC Okay; go ahead.
264:18:59 Schmitt Hey, I was just wondering how the high gain's working out for you?
264:19:04 CC Looking good, Jack.
264:19:08 Schmitt Okay.
264:21:20 CC Jack, Houston. Over,
264:21:25 Schmitt Go ahead.
264:21:28 CC The high gain is holding on there, but we think we can improve our - the time we can hold on to narrow beam width a little bit if you'd tweak it to PITCH, plus 15, and YAW, plus 185, please.
264:21:55 Schmitt Gordy, you said plus 15?
264:21:58 CC Affirmative. Plus 15 and a plus 185.
264:22:03 Schmitt Okay.
264:24:06 Cernan Gordy, the canister's changed.
264:24:09 CC Thank you.
264:28:08 Cernan I guess you're looking at the orange light, too, huh?
264:28:13 CC That's affirmative.
264:29:10 PAO This is Apollo Control. The orange light that Jack Schmitt was referring to is a gimbal warning light - one of the caution and warning system lights that, in this case, indicates the attitude of the spacecraft approaching gimbal lock. However, this is of no concern. The passive thermal control attitude that the spacecraft is in was expected to bring them close enough to that limit to trigger the light, but will not cause any problems. The spacecraft at this time is in the passive thermal control mode, rotating about it's longitudinal axis at the rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to distribute the heating and cooling effects of sunlight on one side and the heatsink of space on the other, and produce uniform heating and cooling within the spacecraft structure.
264:37:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 264 hours 37 minutes. About an hour and a half ago Jack Schmitt reported what appeared to him as a transitory blink of the spacecraft lights. He asked if we'd seen anything in the telemetry that indicated any sort of a glitch or a problem in the spacecraft electrical system. At that time the EECOM looked at his telemetry displays and said everything appeared to be normal, but to be doubly sure, we had the data, replayed from the receiving site at Madrid where it had been picked up from the spacecraft and looked at the data second by second. Aaron has completed that review, John Aaron, the EECOM, and reports that he saw nothing abnormal during the period of time in question. However, there were a couple of instances where the spacecraft current levels increased or spiked, as they say, by about an amp or two, but this is an increase of 1 or 2 amps out of a total of 78 to 80 some amperes being drawn by the spacecraft at this time, and is not considered abnormal. Gene Cernan reported after Schmitt asked the question that neither he nor Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans had seen the blink in lights that Jack Schmitt reported. Schmitt also allowed as how it may have been a - a figment of his imagination. There is, as we say, no - no explanation for the apparent blink in lights. We see nothing here on the ground that indicates anything abnormal in the spacecraft. Crew also reported that the spacecraft cabin was a bit on the chilly side and we read to them a procedure to increase the cabin temperature. We don't have a direct reading of cabin temperature - we can deduce indirectly what that temperature would be from air inlet temperatures which generally read lower than the cabin temperature itself. The EECOM estimates that the temperature in the cabin has been running somewhere between 68 to 70 degrees - probably in the high sixties, and hopefully beginning to come up a bit now. At the present time Apollo 17 is 145,300 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of 3,600 feet per second now. The crew is scheduled to begin a sleep period at about 267 hours. They've completed the exercise period. Ron Evans, who is on the bio-medical sensors, was exercising and the surgeon reported seeing the - seeing his heart rate rise, indicating that he was exercising.
264:41:23 PAO And at this time the surgeon reports Lunar Module Pilot, Jack Schmitt, is exercising as indicated by a rise in his heart rate.
264:51:26 Evans (Music) Hey, Houston; America.
264:51:36 CC Go ahead, Captain.
264:51:41 Evans Okay, Gordo. I took my comm carrier apart - or, you know, cut this little cloth covering that goes from the plug on up to the headset, what have you. And sure enough, there's two little broken wires in there; and the next one is a little bit - the next one to it is a little bit loose, also. But I found a little piece of metal, and I bent it to the - conform to the shape of the wire and I've got it taped up real tight right now. And I'm going to see if it works for a while - make sure it doesn't cut in or out, you know, or something like that.
264:52:28 CC Okay; good luck.
264:52:32 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Of course, I still have the lightweight headset too. I'd just as soon wear the comm carrier for the reentry, if possible.
264:52:43 CC Roger. Say, we've investigated a little more on that possible spike that - or glitch that Jack thought he might of seen. And we mentioned, I think, in response to that, about a 1 or 2 amp jump. Well, looking further, we see those all along; and we think they're probably due to minimum-impulse jet firings. We're trying to correlate that data. But the conclusion, right now, is that we really don't see anything on the data to support what Jack might have seen.
264:53:22 Evans Okay, mighty fine. We - just wanted to - you know, in case there was something there - wanted to make sure you all took a look at it.
264:53:34 CC You bet.
264:53:46 Evans Yes. Knobby. Okay, Knobby, where are you? Hey, I can see a few stars out there on this side of the window.
264:54:21 Evans Can't see anything there. That's right behind the - By gosh, there it is, though.
264:54:26 Schmitt Houston, 17.
264:54:29 CC Go ahead.
264:54:32 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack. is anybody watching my heart rate - heart rate over the last 15 minutes or so?
264:54:40 CC That's affirmative. We have.
264:54:45 Schmitt What - what did I peak out at?
264:54:54 CC You peaked at 105, Jack.
264:54:59 Schmitt Hummm, okay.
264:55:11 Evans Well, what do you know. You got to be quick. Just disappeared behind the trunion limits.
264:55:51 Evans No, not at all, Jack. Go ahead. Jack's going to stir the cryos again - not stir them but - de-stratify them. 36 Vega. Ahh, that Vega is nothing but a bear. (Laughter)
264:57:36 Evans That really shakes the spacecraft, Jack. You can see it when you sit there marking on a star and it just shakes it back and forth. (Laughter) That's all right; no problem. No, no. That's what I say, no problem. No angle difference from 0.1; that wasn't too bad. Number 1 and 36. You got them down? Okay, Houston, and we'll torque at - if you're all set, anyhow.
264:58:33 CC Yes, we're all set.
264:58:36 Evans Okay, about 58:45.
264:58:41 CC Okay. And then, when you do that, we want you to stop the PTC right now. But we want you to use the jet configuration - configuration we used to start at - That's - all of quad Delta and Charlie 3 and 4, rather than the jets listed in the Flight Plan. Over.
264:59:09 Evans Okay.
264:59:20 CC And while we are mentioning jet configurations, that jet configuration is - this is another change to a change to a change, and we're sorry about this. But we want you to use those jets, all of Delta and Charlie 3 and 4, for every stop and start of PTC from here on out, all the way through the final PTC exit, just prior to midcourse 7, which is shown in the Flight Plan - and - and the way we want it, using coupled jets for that final one. But use Delta 1 through 4, and Charlie 3 and 4 from here on out for going in and out of PTC. And I can read you all the time so that applies to - if you can just remember it, that will save some writing. Your choice. Over.
265:00:18 Evans I'll write it down here in the spacecraft somewhere.
265:00:31 Evans Put it on the back here. Yes.
265:01:00 Cernan Gordy, you want Delta 1, 2, 3, and 4, and Charlie 3 and 4 for damping. And you want Bravo 2 and Delta 2 for spinup, as the Flight Plan says?
265:01:11 CC That's affirmative. And the damping is for both entry and exit of PTC from here on out, except that final one, which is coupled just prior to midcourse 7.
265:01:25 Evans Okay.
265:01:35 CC And you don't need to wait until roll of 14. You can go ahead and stop it right now. We'd prefer it that way, as a matter of fact. Over.
265:01:48 Cernan Okay.
265:04:52 Cernan Is that a CDU glitch there, Gordy? We - Huh? We sure did. Hello, Houston, you read America?
265:05:07 CC Yes. I was just trying to get an answer for you. Yes, it looks, at first glance, like maybe we saw one. Stand by. I'll get a better update.
265:05:23 Schmitt Gordy, why don't you give me the best OMNI?
265:05:30 CC OMNI Delta is the best right at the moment.
265:05:43 Schmitt Well, we'll hang on to you here as we go. You're just on the verge of dropping out, but we'll stay with you on the high gain.
265:06:00 Cernan Yes, Gordy, our ball - our ball - let's see - reads about 256 ROLL, and YAW - and PITCH is 2 - about 227, and YAW is about 42 degrees.
265:06:24 CC Okay.
265:06:43 CC Geno, evidently you definitely had a CDU glitch. We're trying to come up with an attitude that you can fly to on the ball as it stands right now in SCS. Stand by.
265:07:07 Evans Houston, both the SCS and the IMU ball are okay, I think. They're both the same. Well, they're almost - yes, except for the GDC - except for the GDC drift, they're both the same. So the error is in the NOUN 20s in the computer.
265:07:38 CC Stand by.
265:08:09 CC Ron, does the - does the GDC and the IMU attitude agree right now?
265:08:19 Evans Yes, they do. They agree, you know, except for the 2 or 3 degrees of GDC drift is all.
265:08:26 CC Roger.
265:08:41 Evans And there's our NOUN 20s on the computer now.
265:08:45 CC Roger.
265:09:14 CC America, Houston. What we'd like you to do is - Were those ball angles you read 256, 04 - well, let's see - get the right order - 256, 227, and 042 - Are those still about where you are?
265:09:32 Evans Yes, that's affirm.
265:09:37 CC Okay. We're going to try to compute a - an attitude that can get us - to high gain so we have a little more visibility into the system. That's our problem right now.
265:09:50 Evans (Laughter) Okay.
265:12:56 CC America, Houston. What we'd like you to do is roll 180 degrees to about 076 roll attitude.
265:13:15 Evans Okay, we'll roll her back to 076.
265:13:20 CC Okay. Then once you get there, the HIGH GAIN angle should be a PITCH of minus 50; and YAW, 205. Over.
265:13:31 Evans Minus 50 and 205. Okay.
265:13:34 Cernan We're on the way, Gordy.
265:13:36 CC Okeydoke.
265:13:39 Cernan You might check. I was loading NOUN 22. And you might just doublecheck and see what you saw down there and make sure I wasn't loading NOUN 20.
265:13:53 CC Okay, good call; we'll do that.
265:14:13 CC Can you give us best OMNI as you roll around?
265:14:21 Evans Okay, we'll try.
265:14:27 Cernan Okay, it's OMNI Delta now.
265:14:29 CC Roger. Loud and clear.
265:15:58 Schmitt Houston, I doubt if it's a problem, but the UV cover's still open.
265:16:06 CC Roger, Jack.
265:16:23 CC Okay, we'd like you to zero the CDUs now.
265:16:41 Schmitt Looks about right.
265:16:59 Cernan Looks good, Gordy. It matches the ball.
265:17:02 CC Roger. We see that. We're getting high bit rate now, by the way, also.
265:17:09 Cernan I don't know. You can track it down, but I called up NOUN 20 to check the roll angles, and it was not what we were using in the book here, of 14 degrees. And I very easily could have - could have loaded 20 instead of 22.
265:17:29 CC Okay. We'll sure track that one down.
265:17:29 Cernan ... feel a lot better about it, if that were the case.
265:17:54 PAO This is Apollo Control at 265 hours 18 minutes. The CDU glitch that is being discussed, refers to a small piece of - refers to a small piece of erroneous information which appears to have gotten through the CDU. The CDU being the Coupling Data Unit, which is a black box that receives information from various measuring devices on the spacecraft, and converts them to a form that is meaningful to the computer. The CDU or Coupling Data Unit in question, is one that handles this transfer of information from a measuring device, in this case the inertial measurement unit, to the computer. The indications that we've gotten so far from the checks run and the telemetry data that we've looked at, do not show any problem. The essential thing is to understand what the nature of the erroneous information that was fed through this CDU to the computer might be. It's very conceivable that there will be a ready explanation for an erroneous bit of information getting through. If, in fact, there is some problem, and the CDU can be expected to continue feeding erroneous information to the computer, there is a program that can be loaded into the erase-able memory of the computer which in effect allows it to question the information that's fed through and to in effect, make a determination as to whether that information is reasonable. If it's not reasonable, the computer then throws it out. And we now have high bit rate data from the spacecraft so we'll be able to look in great detail at this particular aspect of the guidance system.
265:20:33 CC America, we're ready now for you to proceed on per Flight Plan with the VERB 49 to the sleep PTC attitude. We have not had a chance to go back over the data, but we'll give you a call as soon as we get a chance to check it. Over.
265:20:51 Cernan Okay, Gordy. One other interesting thing while we went back and looked at NOUN 22 after the glitch. We still had the NOUN 22 angles I had loaded for the previous VERB 49 at 263:40, which either - even makes me feel more like I did not load 22 on this next time around.
265:21:16 CC Yes, it sounds - it sounds like we might have the problem nailed down, but we'll doublecheck that.
265:21:30 Cernan This is a gross admission, if that's the case; but I'd rather have it that way.
265:21:36 CC We won't hold it against you.
265:22:13 CC America, Houston. Why don't you hold the PRO on - on this VERB 49 until we have a chance to check and see if we're going to a gimble lock problem.
265:22:26 Cernan Okay.
265:22:48 Cernan Gordy, can I use the roll we got, 142? I'll stand by until you check that gimbal lock out.
265:23:08 CC Stand by, we're checking here. Your answer is negative, Geno. The present roll - the maneuver should - it shows on our computer, you'll go to gimbal lock. So suggest you go to 14 and then start to maneuver. ... Over.
265:23:39 Cernan Okay.
265:29:06 CC America, Houston. Can you give us AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN? Present angles are okay.
265:29:32 Schmitt Okay, Houston. The computer knows where the stars are anyhow.
265:29:39 CC Okay. We'd like AUTO and NARROW, and make sure you've selected HIGH GAIN also.
265:30:08 Cernan Wise ... wise guy. Works every time, doesn't it?
265:30:31 CC Roger.
265:34:01 CC Well, America, the final evidence is in, and we're all putting our EMP books back on the shelf. We played it back and we see a VERB 21 NOUN 20, which is what did it - and a 22 and 23 -
265:34:19 Cernan Okay, I've been sitting here thinking about it. Yes, I had - and also the glitch occurred when I did the final ENTER, so - plus we had the two-axes glitch and a number of things. I'm - I'm glad you confirmed that. Makes me feel better.
265:34:38 Schmitt We were discussing whether or not you needed an EMP or not.
265:34:47 CC Well, there must be one for the situation.
265:35:42 Cernan Getting a little quiet up here anyway, Gordy. That one sure snapped us out, though.
265:35:49 CC Us also.
265:36:01 Cernan Hey, how far are we from home?
265:36:06 CC Well, I can give it to you in hours from entry interface right away - 38 hours 42 minutes and 4 seconds. And in miles, you're 143,500.
265:36:29 Cernan Okay, thank you.
265:36:35 CC Picking up speed all the way.
265:39:30 CC America, Houston. Over.
265:39:35 Cernan Go ahead, Gordo.
265:39:37 CC I've been talking to Don Beaty and Dick Kruse and looking over a transcript of - of a science press conference we edited up. It was kind of ragged but possibly interesting summary of the science as it stands now. In response to your question of - of items that might help you prepare for tomorrow's press conference, I can come with you with those words any time you wish.
265:40:14 Cernan ... you can come up with them now.
265:40:17 CC Okay. Let's start with the - the LSPE. All eight charges have now been exploded, and they were all on schedule and produced excellent signals. These data were used in conjunction with the ascent stage lift-off and also its impact data, which should give us an excellent picture of the geologic structure of the outer 3 kilometers of the Moon. This little summary I'm reading right now is - was written by Joel Watkins. The geophone array is functioning beautifully and and we're already talking about its potential in a listening mode for study of meteorite impact frequency. We still don't have precise EP locations from Ray Batson, so the following interpretation will almost certainly be changed when we get better data and field tapes, which we will use to refine our arrival times. Bearing the above in mind, my preliminary interpretation is as follows. The low-velocity layer seems to be thicker and higher in velocity than at either Apollo l4 or 16 sites. I think this may mean that the low-velocity layer here includes dark mantle material as well as the regolith. Details of the higher velocity substrate are fuzzy, but velocities increase with depth in a way which would be consistent with a thick accumulation of lava flows. This probably represents the subfloor material. And he concludes by saying, "You guys did a great job, see you after splash." On the same subject, Dr. Kovach went a little further, and he just recently admits to seeing evidence of two high-velocity layers, especially after the 6-pound charge was fired, that - that evidence showed up. He also mentions in - mentioned in his press conference yesterday that the - the data point allowed by the - the ascent-stage impact was - was very important - the fact that they - they got it in about 9 kilometers away and the - that data is right in a critical range where - where they see a big change in the - the percentage of - velocity change. I'm getting kind of balled up here in the words, but that data is very important because it's in - where the steep gradient of velocity change occurs. On looking through here, I guess, in - in summary, I'll read a couple of sentences again out of the press conference. We do find evidence of lunar crust as we did in the past, but we may have to thin it considerably. We may have, in fact, have to thin it as much as to 25 kilometers instead of 60 - that they believed it was up until now. And they're thinking they may have to lower the velocity of seismic ways - waves in the mantle, which, I guess, at last guess was around 9 kilometers per second. Now it's looking more like 7-5, and the crustal velocity is probably as low as 6.3 kilometers per second. Okay, yes. That was - that last data was really from Dr. Latham, and he was interpreting that data mainly from the S-IVB impact, reading from some of the other seismic sites. Any questions on that? I realize that this is pretty ragged. Over.
265:45:17 Schmitt Oh, that's - that's great, Gordy. Did Kovach indicate his tentative depth for the second high-velocity layer?
265:45:32 CC No. As far as the information we have here, he's just - no, I don't see any - the only thing I can see is he mentions we're getting a depth sample down to 3 to 4 kilometers, but that was before all the charges had gone off. So I think, as I say, he just doesn't really state that yet.
265:45:58 Schmitt Yes, it's a little early. Okay, good. Sounds like what we saw in the field to a certain extent.
265:46:10 CC Okay. On the heat flow, it's continuing to work perfectly. It's stabilizing out and, at the present time, they show about a degree centigrade per meter gradient. Apollo 15 is stabilized at about 1.8, and it looks like the 17 site's headed for about the same, which gives consistent data for the two sites. It looks like that's what is going to result when it's reached its final equilibrium. And so that - if you call that - those two sites typical of the Moon, then that leads one to the following conclusions; that that data requires that there be a total greater abundance of radioactive isotopes in the Moon as compared to the Earth, so there would be an implication here for a fundamental difference in the composition between the two. And the higher number of isotopes would in turn require that they be located very near the surface, implying substantial differentiation of the material, at least compositionally or stratisfactionally [sic]. It's not necessary that it had have to be stratified. It was only required that it be stratified in most of - in that most of the isotopes be concentrated in the upper layers of the Moon. I guess that's about what we've got on the heat flow at the present time. Over.
265:48:05 Schmitt Gordy, does he indicate where his minimum temperature lay - zone is now at the site?
265:48:18 CC Stand by. Let me look through here.
265:48:26 Schmitt I think you mentioned something the other night about - I thought you said 2-1/2 meters, but I'm not sure.
265:48:56 CC Let me just read it straight off here. There is some words to that effect, but it doesn't sound like 2-1/2 meters. At a large scale - let's see, he's describing a viewgraph here - the surface temperature at the time of this sample was 360 degrees Kelvin. At a depth of about 15 centimeters, it had dropped to 280. At about 65 centimeters, the temperature drops to 254, and that's the lowest temperature we see. Below that depth, the temperature begins to increase again, and it's 257 at the bottom of the probes. Over.
265:49:41 Schmitt Where was the 254 again?
265:49:43 CC At 65 centimeters below the surface.
265:49:48 Schmitt Okay. That's about the same, I think, as 15. Very good. Some of our double cores will get that deep.
265:49:58 CC Roger. Okay, the TGE has produced some - fair amount of excitement around here - and interest. The instrument really worked beautifully. It had some baro switches that turned it on for temperature control - right aft - right during lift-off - and so it had 3 days to stabilize before you got to Taurus-Littrow. And on landing, the bias measurement showed that the bias shift was extremely small, so they feel that they had a very accurate reading on all the readings. And I mentioned the other night that the number they got for the gravity field at the landing site should allow them to actually revise the value for the radius of the Moon at the landing site. But then you asked me about some of the variations in reading around the valley there. Well, it turns out that - if you call the landing site zero on the scale of milli-gals and then take the differences from the landing site, over at the South Massif, you have a minus 36; in other words, a lesser amount of gravity. And all these numbers, by the way, are corrected only for elevation, and there are some more sophisticated corrections to - to be put on them. But the - with - correcting for elevation, you have a 36-milligal negative anomaly at the South Massif. And the number at the North Massif was a minus 26. And there is very little difference, within a milligal or so, between the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills site. But you can see that there's a significant difference between the landing site and the foothills on both sides. The Shorty Crater showed a slight positive anomaly compared to the landing site, but it's less than a milligal, which is sort of - you start to think "Well, that means a localized volcanic center," but it's - nobody's really going out that far on a limb. The - they were especially appreciative of the 2A stop, which was - let's see - well, it verified the extremely sharp gradient of the anomalous condition from the foothills as you go back into the valley. The 2A stop - I'm trying to find the number here - Okay, went from minus 36 at Station 2 to a minus 29 at 2A, so it's - it really changes quickly as you get away from the - the mountains. Okay, he summar - summarized his feelings by saying that "the negative gravity anomalies which were measured right at the South Massif and the North Massif clearly indicate that the valley is filled with a higher density of material than the material which makes up the massif so that if the material underlying the floor at Taurus-Littrow - say, is basaltic in composition and has a density of about 3, the material which makes up the massif has a substantially lower density." He goes on to say that we're not sure exactly what the density difference is, but if it's as large as 20 percent difference, then the material in the floor of the valley and the - well, the thickness of the high-density material in the valley has to be on the order of about 1-1/2 kilometers thick. So that's a - I guess that's a minimum thickness, assuming the greatest difference in densities.
265:54:48 Schmitt That's very interesting, Gordy.
265:54:55 CC Yes. They're really - everything is really tied in the original theories on the structure and makeup of the valley. Everything seems to be falling right in there, and that's what has - has the whole crowd of scientists around here really smiling. Let's see - let me find out what's next here. Okay. It was Strangway's turn next, and he didn't have any results to present, of course, because he's got to get the tape back first, really. However, the orbital sounder - the command module sounder - when they made the pass across the site with the transmitter on - No, I got it backwards. When it was in a listening mode, listening to the ground transmitter's signals, they found that the signal was in exactly the frequency range that it was supposed to be, and they - they picked up the - exactly the right sequence rate, once every 0.8 second. And when they calculated the power levels, that we were putting out just exactly the 1 watt that we were expected to put out. So that - that everything looks good as far as the operation of the transmitter, and without going into all the details which you know as well as I do about the thermal problems on the receiver, they're still - well, he sums it up, we have no reason yet to be sweating it too badly. They're very hopeful that when the tape gets back, we'll have good data on at least some of the legs, and they're - they're waiting for you to bring it to them. Dick Kruse is here, and he mentioned that all your pains, Geno, in brushing dust off of it probably saved the day. If it's there, it was just due to that, that it did work, because it was really on the ragged edge here.
265:57:33 CC About what's left, I think - is the field geology interpretation. And what I've got and can get tonight because there's no one really around here from the geology team at this time - it's about 11 o'clock at night - is so rambling that I'm not going to bother to read it to you. But I will leave a request so that when Parker get you up in the morning, maybe he can summarize that or answer any questions in that area that you might have. Over.
265:58:07 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. Thank you very much.
265:58:13 CC No trouble at all.
265:58:46 Evans Hey, Gordy. Everything under control at the homefront?
265:58:53 CC Yes, Ron. As a matter of fact, talked to Jan and, well, her words to summarize the - the whole show that you put on this afternoon was "out of this world," which is, I guess, a pretty good way to put it. Jon and Jaime were speechless when you waved and called hello to them. And Jan closed by saying that you - you're going to have to hurry home and help rebuild the wall that was broken out by the huge mob of people that were in your house this afternoon during the EVA. Over.
265:59:35 Evans Well, that's okay. We like a lot of friends, and I'm glad everybody enjoyed it and pass my love on - to everyone.
265:59:45 CC Okay, will do.
266:00:02 Cernan What about the other side of the tracks, Gordy? Got any words from over there?
266:00:09 CC Hey - I haven't really talked to anyone in the other two families today. So I'm sure that everything is fine or we would have heard it, but I'll try to get a last-minute update on that before you hit the sack.
266:00:29 Cernan Okay, thank you.
266:03:24 Schmitt Gordy, this is Jack.
266:03:27 CC Go ahead, Jack.
266:03:31 Schmitt Did you have a table there of the various gravity readings, and if so, what did we get at Van Serg? in your - relative to - to the landing site - the landing point?
266:03:45 CC No, Jack. I don't have it. I'll ask, but I think the ones I gave you, the four places, Shorty, North, South, and Sculptured Hills, are all we got. But I'll check.
266:04:06 Schmitt Okay.
266:04:41 CC America, Houston. The rates look good now. You're clear to spin it up.
266:04:53 Evans Okay.
266:06:10 Cernan Gordy, I'm sorry. I'm going to move.
266:06:31 Cernan Boy, this isn't my day. I'll give you the damping again.
266:06:35 CC Okay, fine.
266:11:13 CC 17, Houston. We're ready for spinup.
266:11:53 CC 17, Houston. We're ready for spinup.
266:12:05 Cernan Gordy couldn't hack it any longer, huh?
266:12:10 CC He's getting some more news for you.
266:12:15 Cernan Okay, we'll try and get it right this time.
266:13:11 Cernan I think I got it for you this time.
266:14:49 Evans Houston, America. Are you ready for REACQ and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN?
266:14:55 CC That's affirm.
266:15:01 Evans Okay, you have it. REACQ and NARROW.
266:17:22 PAO This is Apollo Control at 266 hours 17 minutes. The crew at the present time is establishing the spacecraft in its passive thermal control mode. This is rotating at about 3 revolutions per hour for thermal control which means that they're preparing to get some sleep. Sleep period is scheduled to begin at 267 hours and the PTC or passive thermal control mode is the normal set up for the spacecraft to maintain thermal equalibrium during a sleep period. The crew had reported a possible glitch as they referred to it with the CDU or coupling data unit about an hour ago at 265 hours 7 minutes. We looked in great detail at the telemetry data and replayed data from the time when this glitch occured, and by looking at the data, have confirmed that there is no problem with the coupling data unit, and the guidance and navigation system which it forms a part of. To summarize the sequence of events, Gene Cernan was in the process of loading numbers into the spacecraft computer, telling it to maneuver to the proper attitude for passive thermal control, when he noticed that his eight-ball attitude indicator and his computer attitude readout disagreed. These 2 readouts if everything is as it should be, should be in very close agreement. Noting disagreement there, he advised that there was a possible glitch in the CDU or coupling data unit which feeds information from the inertial measurement unit to the computer. The glitch being possibly that the CDU was feeding erroneous information to the computer. If this was in fact the case, the computer knowledge of the spacecraft attitude would become impaired. It would have been possible to work around this sort of problem if it were a transient problem. This would have been done by loading a program into the computer erasable memory which in effect would tell the computer to disregard imputs which were unlikely or unreasonable. As it turned out, Gene Cernan came up with the explanation for the glitch. He suggested that he may have loaded the incorrect numbers into the computer when he was asking the - or telling the computer to maneuver to a new attitude. Rather than telling the computer to maneuver to a new attitude, by punching in the wrong numbers, he in effect told it - that's it's attitude numbers were incorrect and that it should load a new set of attitude numbers which the computer proceeded to do. And at the same time, the next time that he looked at and compared the eight-ball with the computer, he of course, found that they didn't agree. We were able to confirm that this in fact had happened by replaying data, looking at the numbers that were fed into the computer second by second and sure enough just as Cernan had suggested, a wrong series of numbers had been inadvertently loaded. The computer had done precicely what it was told to do and the indication of an error from the coupling data units was displayed. Making a long story short, the coupling data units are functioning precisely as they should and there's no problem with the guidance aid navigation system. Cernan, I'm sure, a bit chragrived at a procedurel error but as with everyone on the ground, relieved that a potentially significant problem turned out to be no problem at all.
266:32:25 CC America, Houston. We'd like to verify the present setting of the high gain knobs. We want minus 40 and a plus 90.
266:32:46 Schmitt Gordy, that's verified.
266:32:49 CC Okay, thank you. I - I have a number of sort of cleanup items before going to bed that I can give you any time.
266:33:03 Schmitt Why don't you go ahead?
266:33:05 CC Okay. We'll be calling you for the IR, OFF, before you go to sleep. Want to leave it ON right up to the last minute, I guess. Let me see if we can do this next one. Okay. Why don't you just go ahead and do this one? FANs for sleep - number 1, OFF, and 3 in AUTO.
266:33:37 Schmitt Okay, we got that.
266:33:39 CC And there'll be no cryo stir necessary. You can leave the OPTICs power switch ON, which will increase the heat input and keep it a little bit warmer in there. You won't have to turn that off per the presleep checklist, if you don't wish to. We are going to change the biomed - -
266:33:59 Schmitt Okay.
266:33:59 CC - - tomorrow, in deference to the CDRs intimated request anyway, and let the CMP take the next shift where in the Flight Plan it now calls for the CDR. It was really our mistake on the original change. I guess there's no need to call all those detailed Flight Plan changes now unless you want to copy them. A reminder also, prior to going to sleep, to burnp the cabin up to 5.7 with the OPS to start getting the gas out of the OPS. And I checked with the remaining two homefronts, Jack. Your - I talked to your mother and sister. Everybody's fine there, and they watched the top of your head a little bit this afternoon on the EVA. They're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow on the press conference and back on Earth shortly thereafter. I got one from Nassau Bay, too, if the commander's listening.
266:35:18 Cernan He's listening.
266:35:20 CC Okay, Gene. Your mother and family have arrived. They - in fact, they just walked in from a party with Barbara. They all wish you to hurry home and send their love. Over.
266:39:26 Schmitt Houston, how do you read 17?
266:39:29 CC Okay, 17. Loud and clear now. How me?
266:39:33 Schmitt You're loud and clear.
266:39:36 CC Okay. Did you - did you get the homefront update for the commander?
266:39:42 Cernan Yes, I got it, Gordy, and that's great news and news I wanted to hear, and you can return my love to them for me if you would.
266:39:50 CC Sure will. That completes our list of goodies with the exception of the normal presleep stuff, and we'll be standing by for that from you.
266:40:09 Schmitt Okay. And you can tell the Arizona people, next time you talk to them, I tried to get more of myself out in that television picture but the CMP saw to it that my umbilical was limited in its length.
266:40:25 CC Okay.
266:47:37 PAO This is Apollo Control at 266 hours 47 minutes. Flight Contro1 teams are in the midst of a handover here in the Control Room. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis in the white team being relieved by Flight Director, Pete Frank in the orange team. There will be no change of shift news conference - no change of shift news conference.
266:48:40 PAO The CAPCOM on this shift will be Bob Parker now relieving Gordon Fullerton.
266:58:17 CC America, Houston. I'll turn you over to the crew astrologer here. Pleasant dreams.
266:58:25 Schmitt Thank you, Gordy. And we enjoyed the day with you. See you tomorrow.
266:58:47 Schmitt Well, so much for that handover.
266:58:57 CC You guys call while we were unplugging?
266:59:10 Schmitt Haven't you learned better than to unplug with an interval between?
267:16:20 Schmitt Houston, we're going to turn the CABIN FAN, OFF, for a while. Sorry; it's already OFF.
267:16:28 CC Okay; we copy. CABIN FAN is already OFF.
267:16:33 Schmitt That's right. It turns out the request was to turn it on, so we will.
267:16:49 CC Okay, understand you're going to turn the CABIN fan, ON. I think that's to keep it a little bit warmer in there for you guys.
267:16:54 Schmitt MARK it. MARK it.
267:18:26 CC America, Houston. We'd like to talk to Captain America, please.
267:18:33 Cernan Give him about - 5 or 10 minutes and he'll be with you.
267:18:37 CC Okay; have him give us a call when he gets ready.
267:18:41 Cernan Okay.
267:27:03 PAO This is Apollo Control at 267 hours 27 minutes. The crew has not yet turned in for the night and we'll continue to stand by, live, for any conversation, Apollo 17 now 139,456 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 3,776 feet per second.
267:27:10 CC Apollo 17, Houston. We'd like to talk to you guys before you go to bed, please.
267:27:20 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
267:27:36 CC Okay, we panicked there, I guess, or we got our - change, we - because we saw you go VOICE, OFF, and we wanted to talk to you guys about two or three things before you went to bed. For one thing, we don't see the cabin pumped up yet with the OPS as per Plan, and we don't have the onboard read-outs yet, and we'd like to find out who's going to be on the comm and talk to Ron about his headset. I guess the general concensus of opinion down here, unless we know more about the fix, is there are some possible serious consequences, like blowing up the audio panel, if those wires did get together and short out, depending on which wires they are. So there's some concern about that.
267:28:25 Cernan Okay, let's get you the read-out first, and we're going to bounce up the cabin here very shortly with the OPS.
267:28:35 CC Okay, we'd also like to get the INFRARED to OFF, please - the IR.
267:28:40 Cernan Okay, it's coming off here shortly.
267:30:04 Cernan Okay, Bob, the RC - RCS reads 65, 57, 61, and 60.
267:30:13 CC Okay, copy those.
267:31:53 Cernan Houston, are you reading America?
267:31:55 CC I'm reading you now. The last thing we got from you was the RCS quantities. We didn't get the BATT quantities.
267:32:03 Cernan You haven't heard Ron at all?
267:32:04 CC No, haven't heard Ron a bit.
267:32:07 CC Sounds like the headset - -
267:32:07 Cernan Well, I'll tell him to try again.
267:32:10 CC Okay.
267:32:26 CC No, America, we're not reading Ron at all, right now.
267:32:31 Cernan Okay, he's been on the lightweight headset talking to you all this time. Wait a minute, he's going to check a couple switches.
267:32:37 CC Okay. Which headset is broken? The Snoopy?
267:32:42 Cernan Yes, Ron's - Ron's Snoopy helmet.
267:32:44 CC Okay.
267:32:45 Evans Hey, are you reading me now, Houston?
267:32:47 CC I read you loud and clear now, Ron.
267:32:50 Evans Okay, I'm wearing the lightweight headset, now. On the comm carrier, there's a whole bunch of wires, about eight of them - looks like they're twisted pairs, you, know, twisted in fours really. They come up through the thing. And two of those eight wires are cut - are broken in two. The hot end, or the end that comes up from the plug going toward the headset - those two wires both come out individually and individually taped, each one of them. And then the whole group - you know, I bent them out of the way so they wouldn't be touching anything. So they wouldn't touch insulation or tape. I bent them out of the way and taped the whole side of it just to keep the rest of them from breaking in two, and it looks like a pretty good fix on the thing, really. However, if you have any concern about blowing the audio panel, I'll just go ahead and wear the lightweight headset.
267:33:47 CC Okay, Ron. Yes, the concern here is not only which wires they are - the potential does exist if one of those shorts to ground to blow the audio panel or at least a circuit breaker, depending upon which wire it is. I gather that what you've done - is that you haven't wired the broken wires back together, but it's just sort of covered the bare leads and wired them out of the way. is that right?
267:34:11 Evans Yes, that's correct. It was too close to the - there is a stiff piece of plastic that comes out of the headset itself, out of the bottom of the left earset, and it's broken off too close to the bottom of it there to - to strip the wires down and wire them together at all.
267:34:28 CC Okay. Roger on that. I guess - let us think about it here overnight. Offhand, our opinion is, as long as you've got a spare headset, let's wear the spare headset - that spare meaning a lightweight. If you're going to be on comm tonight, I guess we offhand suggest wearing the lightweight tonight. Over. How does that strike you?
267:34:47 Evans Okay. Yes, no problem. I won't be on comm tonight, but I'll be wearing the lightweight headset anyhow. The only time I was thinking about it - wearing the other one at all - would be for entry, and there's no problem there. I'll just stick to the lightweight headset around my neck and put that one around my ears just to use as a bump pad, is all.
267:35:08 CC Okay; let us think about it overnight, and we'll talk to some people about it. Let's see, is Jack going to be on the headset tonight and the biomed, both?
267:35:27 Cernan Yes, Jack will be on tonight with the biomed and the headset.
267:35:31 CC Okay. We'd like to get one more valve check there, America. Like to check our WASTE WATER TANK INLET valve to AUTO. EECOM says he is in a flat portion and he can't verify that right now by buildup.
267:35:45 Cernan Okay, stand by 1.
267:36:23 Cernan WASTE TANK INLET is in AUTO, Bob.
267:36:25 CC Okay, thank you on that, Gene. And we did not get the BAT read-outs for the onboard read-outs for the night, BAT C and pyro BATs A and B.
267:36:34 Cernan Okay, guess you weren't reading. We're at 36.5, 36.9, 36.9, in that order.
267:36:41 CC Okay, we copy that. And let me ask you a question here, Gene. Right now you're an hour behind getting to sleep. Do you want to sleep the 8 hours or get up by the Flight Plan?
267:36:53 Cernan No, let's get up per the Flight Plan. We're very much aware of - of that; we've just been doing some restowage and a few other things around here. But let's get up per the Flight Plan, that's fine.
267:37:05 CC Okay. We'll talk to you in the morning. As soon as the cabin is pumped up, you're GO for sleep and you can turn VOICE back OFF, at your convenience.
267:37:13 Cernan Okay, you'll see the cabin pumped up, we'll go to 5.7 and turn the OPS back OFF.
267:37:18 CC Roger. We'll be watching.
267:37:21 Cernan Okay, babe. Take care.
267:37:23 CC See you in the morning.
267:37:57 PAO This is Apollo Control at 268 hours 9 minutes. We expect that will be our last conversation with the crew prior to the rest period. We'll leave the line up for a few more minutes and then take it down and come back up with hourly reports. Apollo 17 now 137,900 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3,823 feet per second.
267:42:59 Cernan We're looking at 5.7 in the cabin.
267:43:02 CC So are we.
267:43:26 Cernan Bob, are you going to want to do that again tomorrow?
267:43:33 CC Yes, Gene. I will do it again prior to finish emptying the OPS.
267:43:38 Cernan Okay.
267:49:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 268 hours 19 minutes. The crew has turned off the voice downlink now indicating they are ready for bed and do not intend to talk to us any more this evening or this morning. We'll take the line down now and come back up with hourly reports. At 268 hours 19 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
269:22:02 PAO This is Apollo Control. All spacecraft systems operating normally,. The crew is asleep with 5 hours 37 minutes remaining in the rest period. Spacecraft America now 135,212 nautical miles from the Earth, traveling at a speed of 3,904 feet per second. At 269 hours; 22 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
270:22:05 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 is now 132,949 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 3,973 feet per second. 4 hours 37 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. At 270 hours 22 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston.
271:22:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 271 hours 22 minutes. All still going well with Apollo 17. 3 hours 37 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. Apollo 17 has passed the half way point in time on its return to the Earth. That coming at 270 hours 30 minutes 7 seconds. Half way point in distance will occur at 281 hours 32 minutes 45 seconds about 10 hours from now. At that time, Apollo 17 will be 104,396 nautical miles from both the Earth and the Moon. At this time the spacecraft America is 130,605 nautical miles from Earth traveling at a speed of 4,047 feet per second. At 271 hours 23 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
272:22:01 PAO This is Apollo Control at 272 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17 now 128,282 nautical miles from Earth and velocity has increased to 4,120 feet per second. Crew sleeping and began this rest period an hour later than the planned time because of some entry stowage they were doing at the time, and although going to bed later, they have requested to be awakened at the regular Flight Plan time. 2 hours 37 minutes from now is wakeup. At 272 hours 22 minutes this is Mission Control Houston.
273:22:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 273 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17 now 125,884 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 4,198 feet per second. 1 hour 37 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. Entry clock is counting and shows 30 hours and 55 minutes until Apollo 17 enters the Earth's atmosphere. At 273 hours 22 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston.
274:22:00 PAO This is Apollo Control at 274 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 17's velocity is continuing to build as it draws closer to EArth now at a distance of 123,440 nautical miles, speed 4,279 feet per second. 37 minutes remaining in the crew's rest period. It's been a quiet night. All spacecraft systems continuing to perform very well. The spaceflight meteorology group with National Weather Service said a short time ago that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of Apollo 17 crew and spacecraft tomorrow. The weather forecast for the planned landing area, which is located approximately 360 nautical miles southeast of Pango Pango, calls for partly cloudy skies, widely scattered rain showers, variable winds of 10 miles per hour, seas of 3 feet and a temperature of near 80 degrees. At 274 hours 23 mintues, this is Mission Control Houston.
274:58:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 274 hours 58 minutes. We're 2 minutes away from crew wakeup. Apollo 17 is 121,953 nautical miles from the Earth, velocity 4,329 feet per second. Today's wakeup song will be in keeping with the crews theme that Apollo 17 is a beginning and not an end. We'll stand by now for the wakeup
275:00:02 CC (Music - "We've Only Just Begun")
275:03:09 CC Good morning, America. This is Houston.
275:03:14 Schmitt Good heavens. It sounded like Bob Parker.
275:03:17 CC Roger. And in case you didn't recognize it, that was "It's Only Just the Beginning."
275:03:24 Schmitt Or words to that effect.
275:03:35 CC And, Jack, if you give us a call when all three of you get in the headsets, we've got something else to play for you this morning.
275:03:50 Schmitt You have a call.
275:03:52 CC Say again.
275:03:56 Evans ... Houston, good morning.
275:03:56 Schmitt I just gave you - I just gave you a call.
275:03:59 CC Okay. We'll cue up something else for you guys. And, Ron, this was something that was recorded over at your house yesterday morning. I think you'll recognize it.
275:04:22 Evans (Laughter) I'll have to wait and see.
275:05:05 CC (Music: Christmas carol recorded by Ron Evans' neighbors) Hi, Dad.
275:07:10 CC And, America, if we could do some business this morning. At 275:10 - we'll give you a hack on it, we need UV COVER to go to CLOSE, and we'll give you a call on that one. It's about 3 minutes.
275:07:31 Evans Okay.
275:09:01 CC Okay. One minute to COVER CLOSE - UV, that is.
275:09:13 Evans Hey, Houston; America. Sounds like people are getting in the Christmas spirit around the Houston area there.
275:09:20 CC That's affirm. It's a little bit warmer this morning, but it still feels and looks a lot like Christmas down here.
275:09:30 Cernan Well, Bob, it feels and looks a lot like Christmas up here, too.
275:09:39 Schmitt Matter of fact, the LEB reported a temperature of about a minus 2 last night (laughter).
275:09:46 CC Okay; and 15 seconds to UV COVER CLOSE. Five seconds.
275:09:59 CC MARK, UV COVER, CLOSE.
275:10:07 Schmitt It's closed.
275:10:09 CC Copy that.
275:10:10 Schmitt Yes, the LEB was cloudy, cold, and snowy last night.
275:10:15 CC Snowing too, hey? We're showing you 61 degrees in the cabin this morning, with a suit temperature of 48 degrees.
275:10:28 Schmitt Glad I'm not in those suits.
275:10:33 CC You could have crawled inside the L-shaped bag, I guess.
275:11:24 CC Okay. And America, we'd also like to get BAT A to CHARGE.
275:11:33 Schmitt That's in work right now, Bob. Thanks for the call.
275:11:38 CC You're welcome for the answer.
275:11:44 Schmitt Well, we're trying to keep your spirits up today.
275:12:55 Schmitt Hey, Bob, what's 4 degrees equal in distance from the Earth?
275:13:05 CC This is the new CAPCOM one. Say again the question. Four degrees equals distance from the Earth?
275:13:13 Schmitt Yes, sir. What does 4 degrees equal in miles from the Earth?
275:13:57 CC Retro says that 4 degrees essential angle equals 94K. You guys are out at about 125K right now.
275:14:11 Schmitt Okay, Bob, I was looking at the Flight Plan, and it said field of view is 4 degrees.
275:14:24 CC And we're going to have a network handover. We may be a momentarily - momentary dropout.
275:14:31 Schmitt Okay.
275:31:23 Schmitt Houston, 17.
275:31:26 CC 17, did you call?
275:31:30 Schmitt That's affirm. I've got some reports for you, if you're ready to copy.
275:31:39 CC Okay, We've all set.
275:31:43 Schmitt Okay. CDR menu - I'll try negative reporting. He did not eat three apricot cereal cubes, pears. And at lunch he did not eat half a cereal bar. And at dinner he did not eat tomato soup, half a hamburger, and the date fruitcake. And, on lunch he had also - positive now - lemonade, two pecans, and one-fourth of a chocolate bar. Okay, and - last night, he had about 5 hours of fair sleep, no medication, and 2-1/2 cans of water. And his PRD is 17060? That's right, 60. Okay. For the LMP, day 12: He did not eat for breakfast; pears. For lunch; looks like he ate it all. For dinner, he did not eat the tomato soup, half a hamburger, mustard, pudding, and that's it. And add to breakfast another cup of coffee - bag of coffee; excuse me. And the lunch, an orange drink, an orange-pineapple, another coffee, graham cracker cubes - four of them, two pecans, and one-fourth of a chocolate bar. And - his PRD is 24188, and 6 hours intermittent sleep, 1-1/2 cans of water, and took one Lomotil last night, just as we were turning in, as a result of the Evans affair catching up with the LMP. The CMP - negative reporting again - did not eat sausage, fruit cocktail, orange beverage. And for lunch, he did not eat the peaches. And for dinner, he did not eat tomato soup and the caramel candy. Add to breakfast, coffee, four sugar cookies and four jelly candies. That's for breakfast. To lunch, add lemonade, coffee, two pecans, and one-fourth of a chocolate bar - one-half of a chocolate bar; excuse me. Okay. His PRD is 15058. He had about 5 hours of fair sleep and two sniffs of nose drops and two Lomotils yesterday. And he had five cans of water. And that should do it, Bob.
275:36:23 CC Roger, Jack.
275:36:24 Schmitt Thank you for your indulgence.
275:36:25 CC Thank you for your report. We appreciate it.
275:36:56 Schmitt Houston, 17.
275:36:58 CC Roger, Jack. Go ahead.
275:37:02 Schmitt We thought we'd warm up the cabin. And if I recall correctly, the - you approve of us putting INVERTER 3 onto MAIN A and going to MANUAL on the TEMP IN and taking the - EVAP TEMP up to about 59 degrees.
275:37:23 CC That's affirmative.
275:37:52 Schmitt Okay, Houston. INVERTER 3 is going onto MAIN A.
275:38:01 CC Roger. We're watching it.
275:38:07 Schmitt Okay.
275:38:08 Schmitt MARK it.
275:38:21 Schmitt And - Stand by.
275:38:53 Schmitt TEMP IN is MANUAL.
275:44:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 2 -
275:44:11 Schmitt Okay, Houston, I think we're pretty close. We're showing about 62. We'll watch it a little bit; and If it doesn't come down, we'll tweak it again.
275:44:27 CC Roger, Jack. And the ground is showing about 60 degrees.
275:44:35 Schmitt Okay.
275:46:10 PAO This is Apollo Control at 275:46 Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 now 28 hours and 31 minutes from entry back into the Earth's atmosphere. Approaching Earth at a velocity of 4,397 feet per second. Still 119,924 nautical miles out. There were 2 wakeup pieces of music this morning. The first was "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters and the second was an unidentified Christmas Carol by the neighbors of the Evans family, recorded yesterday. Since awakening, the crew has passed up their medical and sleep report and food consumption negative reporting of what they didn't eat out of their daily menu. Meanwhile, the Spaceflight Meteorology Group of the National Weather Service said this morning that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory -
275:47:20 Schmitt Bob, EECOM's procedure's almost like having a fire in the fireplace.
275:47:27 CC Roger. Glad you're comfortable.
275:47:40 PAO Meanwhile, back in the South Pacific, the weather forcast for the planned landing area, approximately 360 nautical miles southeast of Pago Pago, calls for partly cloudy skies, widely scattered rain showers, variable winds at 10 miles per hour, seas of 3 feet and temperature of 80 degrees. At 275:48 standing by, this is Apollo Control.
275:57:47 CC America, Houston.
275:57:52 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
275:57:53 CC How would you like a quick look at sports here and then into the news summary while you're having your breakfast?
275:58:02 Schmitt We'd like the whole thing.
275:58:05 CC Well, I guess that we all assume maybe you're like the rest of us and turn to your sport page first sometimes. So we thought we'd recap the pro football action yesterday, in a rather strange day, since there were only - only two games that really made any difference. And I think the scores kind of showed the day. In the American Conference playoff games coming up next weekend, Oakland will play at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh getting into the playoffs for the first time in 40 years. The Cleveland Browns will take on the undefeated Miami Dolphins, who have won 14 straight. In the National Conference, Dallas will be at San Francisco Saturday, and Green Bay plays at Washington on Sunday. Quickly recapping some of the scores from yesterday. On that sad, sad one here in Houston, Cincinnati rolled over the Oilers, 61 to 17. There were three touchdowns scored in the fourth quarter within less than 5 minutes of play, all on interceptions - on - the part of Cincinnati. New York Giants, it says, upset Dallas 23 to 3. I question the upset since Dallas was already in the playoffs; and, in what I watched, it looked like they were aware that they were already in the playoffs. Buffalo upset Washington 24, - 17. And again it's a questionable upset because O. J. Simpson had a great day, and Larry Brown from Washington was kept on the bench for the whole game. Oakland, 28, over Chicago, 21; Detroit, 34, over Los Angeles, 17. Los Angeles' hopes for any playoff berth had been knocked out by San Francisco's win on Saturday, and it looked like they played that way on Sunday. Cleveland, in a real tough one up in New York with 30-knot winds and a - gale - gale-force winds and lots of snow and cold, defeated New York Jets, 26 to 10. Green Bay, 30, over New Orleans, 20, in a tough one, which saw two - two touchdowns being scored off of blocked punts. Kansas City, 17, over Atlanta, 14. And, again, Atlanta's chances for a playoff berth had been wiped out on Saturday; and, apparently, they played that way on Sunday. Denver, 45, over New England, 21; St. Louis, 24, over Philadelphia, 23. Pittsburgh defeated San Diego 24 to 2. On Saturday Miami had taken Baltimore 16 to nothing, and as I previously mentioned, San Francisco defeated Minnesota on Saturday 20 to 17. Just one little note, Jack, you might be interested in this mornings paper, concerning the New Orleans Saints. One of the - Dave Parks from the New Orleans Saints, announced his retirement, and he kind of took a rap at the Saints in claiming that they were a team that did not want to win, and that he was retiring unless they would trade him to a winner. It sounds like our friend over there might have some problems this winter come contract time. In pro basketball last night, the Houston Rockets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 110 to 109. Jack Marin had 35 points, Mike Newlin had 34. In college basketball, UCLA remains number one in the latest ratings. Second ranked Florida State was beaten this weekend by Princeton, 61 to 59, Third ranked Maryland won, as did fourth-ranked Marquette, fifth-ranked Minnesota and number six, North Carolina State. Indiana is rated 15th, Houston is 16th. We can't find Purdue, Kansas or Cal Tech in the ratings right now. There's one bowl game tonight. Iowa State, who has taken a 5 game losing streak into the Liberty Bowl, will meet: Georgia Tech at Memphis, Tennessee. In local hockey, the Aeros and the Los Angeles Sharks of the World Hockey Association, battled to a 4-4 tie.
276:01:53 CC Now, for page 1 news. The outlook for a quick peace settlement in Vietnam has taken an apparent turn for the worse. The Hanoi government radio announced last night that U.S. planes have dropped more mines in Haiphong harbor and has also carried out bombing and rocket attacks on the city of Haiphong. There was no immediate comment from Washington on the charges. The snag in the Paris peace talks apparently hinges on a few key points, according to press association reports. Among them, the North Vietnamese will not accept the idea of two separate Vietnamese states and the method of policing a truce, the two-Vietnam policy being the major stumbling block. The weather here is making news. Yesterday's reading at Intercontinental Airport was a frigid 22 degrees. Downtown Houston was 32. The airport reading was the lowest since 1932. Up north in the upper Midwest and northeast, it's going to be a white Christmas, and more snow is moving into the area. Chicago had a low of 5 above Sunday; Kansas City, 19; and Albuquerque, 18. Anne Armstrong, long a power in Texas Republican politics, is reportedly about to be named to a high post in the Nixon administration. Harry Truman still clings to life. The 88-year-old Presi - 88-year-old former President is holding his own, according to his doctors. Debris found floating in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida has been identified as that of a Coast Guard Helicopter that crashed. Earlier the chopper had rescued four fishermen from a sinking shrimp trawler. The helicopter was headed back to Saint - Saint Petersburg when it went down with the four fishermen and the crew of four. It's a lot safer up there where you are than on the Texas highways. The State Highway Patrol reported a high number of serious accidents on Texas roads this weekend. A Houston newspaper reports that industrial demand for Trinity River system water will not produce enough money to finance the project and that the City of Houston's water and industrial district funds will have to make up the difference. Meanwhile, the Clear Lake City Water Authority is tossing around a proposal that would require developers to pay 50 percent of the cost of all lateral water and sewer lines. Up around Conroe, in Montgomery County, a transformer blew up Sunday morning and electrical power went out for several hours. Several thousand homes were affected. Baytown was the scene of four armed robberies Sunday. Four business establishments were hit in a l4-minute period. The masked gunmen got about $500 cash. No one was injured. And a final note, today in history, actress Betty Grable is 56 years old. That's from your news editor, Jim Kukowski.
276:04:44 Cernan Thank you for the news, Bob.
276:04:47 Schmitt And notice the disclaimer.
276:04:51 CC (Laughter)
276:04:52 Cernan And you're right, the traffic's not too thick up here, as a matter of fact.
276:04:57 CC Yes, I was wishing that - -
276:04:57 Cernan We've been looking for the big man with the white gray beard.
276:05:01 CC - - I was kind of wishing it would get a little thicker up there one of these days.
276:05:07 Cernan It will.
276:05:10 CC I'm counting on it.
276:05:16 Cernan Hang in there, babe.
276:05:27 CC It looks like we're going to have some good football to watch next week, and I think they're going to have a pretty light schedule for you all - so - until after the holidays - and we ought to be able to sit back and relax a bit.
276:06:18 CC And one additional weather report, I'm sure you're interested in. The weather in your primary landing area is looking great, and we anticipate no weather avoidance maneuvers whatsoever. Things are great out there. And I'm thinking of going out and enlisting the Apollo 17 chaplain, so we can maybe get some warmer weather for your arrival back here on Thursday.
276:06:54 Cernan Well, I guess if - if anyone can do it, he can do it, if you can find him.
276:06:59 CC He's - he's been around. We've seen his picture a number of times in the paper over at - visiting your house, there, and rooting us home.
276:07:11 Cernan I thought I told him to stay away from there. Only kidding, he's always a welcome addition.
276:07:29 CC Roger.
276:07:35 Cernan And I might add, he usually is.
276:07:57 CC I've got a telegram here that was sent out to the U.S.S. Ticon - Ticonderoga, I thought you might be interested in. Coming up on antenna switch, I'll read it to you in a minute.
276:09:01 CC Are you ready for this telegram that was sent out today?
276:09:53 CC Okay, would you like to hear the contents of this telegram that went out of here today to the U.S.S. Ticonderoga?
276:10:00 Cernan Yes, sir.
276:10:01 CC It's to the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, passed to the NASA Team Leader. It says, "Stullken, we know exactly where the spacecraft is, and we know exactly where it's going to land. Now, if you can figure out approximately where you are, we will be in good shape. Pull yourself together, and move 50 feet from the target point. Let's end this program right." Signed, The Guys in the Trench, MCC, Houston.
276:10:30 Cernan Beautiful, Bob, beautiful.
276:10:34 CC Thought you'd like that one.
276:20:14 CC America, Houston. We'd like you to stop the roll that you're in right now, and stop it at roll of 60 degrees. Be convenient if you'd do it right now, it'd help us keep us on Flight Plan here.
276:20:28 Cernan Six degrees, okay. Won't go to 14 -
276:20:29 CC No, 60, 60, six zero, six zero, you're right about there.
276:20:33 Cernan That's affirm. Six zero, I'll stop it now.
276:20:38 CC Okay, and there's some HIGH GAIN angles that go with that: PITCH, minus 54; YAW, 225. You're on HIGH GAIN now, so unless you lose lock you shouldn't have any problem.
276:27:42 CC America, Houston. We'd like to have the UV COVER, OPEN, now, if somebody's over there.
276:27:54 Schmitt All right, Bob. We may not be by that part of spacecraft for a couple of more hours. Can you hold off?
276:28:01 CC Well, we don't mind. Although if somebody's over -it's convenient, we'd sure like it.
276:28:11 Schmitt Okay, I'll make a special trip.
276:28:19 Schmitt UV COVER is OPEN.
276:28:22 CC Thank you, sir.
276:29:03 Evans Okay, Houston. There are the torquing angles. And if you're satisfied, I'll go ahead and torque.
276:29:12 CC Roger, Ron. We've got them, and you're clear to torque.
276:29:18 Evans Okay, torqued at 29-30.
276:30:10 CC America, Houston. Now that you're not eating and working, we've got a couple of configuration on the H2 tanks and the O2 tank heaters, we'd like to have accomplished.
276:30:25 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I was just over there.
276:30:31 CC Roger.
276:30:33 Schmitt Okay, go ahead.
276:30:34 CC H2 tank 3 FANS to OFF; H2 tank 2 FANS to ON.
276:30:48 Schmitt Okay, 3 is OFF, and 2 is ON.
276:30:53 CC Roger. And O2 tank 2 and tank 1 HEATERS to AUTO, if they're not there.
276:31:04 Schmitt Okay, you want 1 and 2 to AUTO. They're going.
276:31:07 CC Okay, and anytime this morning, we would like to get an OPS read-out, whenever it's convenient on that.
276:31:28 Schmitt Okay, Bob. It was 1000 after we stopped bleeding last night and I'll check it again in a little while.
276:31:37 CC Okay. That sounds good enough now. We just needed the reading, so we could figure out what to do with it. You might be interested in your consumables. Right now on the RCS, you're right on the Flight Plan at 51 percent remaining. Your oxygen tanks are all either on the Flight Plan, or just slightly above it, or within the noise level - maybe a tad below it - you're just right on for all intents and purposes. You're in good shape, and your hydrogen is in good shape. You're in good shape on all your consumables.
276:32:50 Cernan Bob, we got a GO to start our dumps?
276:32:54 CC Say again.
276:33:22 Cernan Hello, Houston; America. Have we got a GO to commence our dumps?
276:33:26 CC That's affirmative, and on your waste water dump, we only want it dumped down to 45 percent on your gauge - 45 percent on your gauge.
276:33:42 Cernan Okay, Bob. I guess we're reading about 52 percent now, so we'll dump a little bit.
276:33:49 CC That's affirmative.
276:34:45 CC And for whoever is the keeper of the Flight Plan this morning, we've got a couple of changes to your Flight Plan, in addition to those we called as you were eating there, so we've got a couple additions to it - or changes.
276:35:02 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
276:35:04 CC Okay. The first one is at 281:02 - 281:02. Change the call "Manually roll left" to "Manually roll left 60 degrees to a roll angle of 071." We want 60 degrees in a roll angle of 071.
276:35:34 Cernan Okay; we got it.
276:35:37 CC Okay. At 281:10, change register 2 of NOUN 78 there to minus 019-74.
276:35:59 Cernan Okay; got it.
276:36:02 CC That's it for the Flight Plan updates this morning, so far.
276:36:08 Cernan Okay, thank you. And the waste water is dumped to 45.
276:36:15 CC Roger. We see it.
276:53:32 Cernan Houston, America. We're about to maneuver.
276:53:41 CC Okay, we're standing by.
276:55:24 CC America, Houston.
276:55:30 Schmitt Go ahead.
276:55:31 CC Jack, we're trying - This is for Jack - we're trying to consolidate and think through what your request was for some sort of a geology surface update. We - we're just wondering if maybe you don't have the better material at your hands there than we've got down here as far any conclusions or preliminary estimates might be.
276:55:53 Schmitt Okay, I just thought that you guys may have had some new ideas. We had a good briefing last night from Gordy on the surface experiments. I guess we might want to be updated on the orbital experiments, if there's anything new. And field geology, yes, I guess we got a pretty good feeling for it, but I thought they might have had some new ideas, or something along that line.
276:56:23 CC Well, I'm sure they do, and I don't mean to shortchange our geology - geology back room, Jack, but on the other hand, I think - I think really we're just waiting to get the answers from you or tie up maybe their thoughts with you. And I, you know, from a bystander's standpoint, if I read you anything that they've - maybe conclusions that they may have made, we just may be fudging the data because there's - -
276:56:47 Schmitt I'm not looking for conclusions, I'm looking for ideas.
276:56:50 CC Hey, Jack.
276:56:52 Schmitt Tell them don't - don't worry about it. You know, I just thought they might have something to say.
276:56:58 CC Yes, they got plenty to say, Jack. But they're down here and they can say it, and I think what you ought to say up there is what you're familiar with and just confine it to that.
276:57:07 Schmitt Oh, you can count on that, Deke, I just like to think about things.
276:57:12 CC Roger, you're going to have lots of time to do that.
276:57:22 CC We'd like AUTO and high gain.
276:57:36 Schmitt Okay, you got AUTO.
276:57:38 CC Thank you.
277:02:44 CC America, Houston. We may have not been looking at the right displays at the right time, but we didn't see an O2 purge. Did you do O2 fuel cell purge?
277:03:03 Schmitt Sorry about that, Bob. I misunderstood. I thought - I see it now - it's H2 and O2. I'll go into that now.
277:03:12 CC Okay. We'd appreciate it. We're just keeping you honest.
277:03:25 Schmitt That's what you need to do.
277:03:47 Cernan By the way, Bob, that - 59 degrees on the manual temp control setting made it very comfortable in here.
277:03:57 CC Real fine - real fine.
277:04:35 CC We'd like OMNI Delta - OMNI Delta.
277:09:49 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I'm up to date on the O2 purges now.
277:10:54 CC Roger, Jack.
277:30:45 CC America, Houston.
277:30:49 Schmitt Go ahead.
277:30:50 CC About 15 minutes or so ago, we noticed - or detected a transfer on your ECS FLOW CONTROL proportioning valve from number 1 to number 2 and we were wondering if the switch, ECS RADIATOR FLOW CONTROL AUTO switch, is still in the AUTO position. And if it is in the AUTO po - -
277:31:14 Schmitt It is in the AUTO position. And we see the "2" here also.
277:31:18 CC Okay, we're - we'd like to just leave everything like it is, and we'd like to go off and study this awhile. And we don't - -
277:31:27 Schmitt Okay.
277:31:27 CC - - anticipate any problem here and it's - number 2 which should work as good as number 1.
278:00:02 PAO (Here it comes.) This is Apollo Control at 278 hours Ground Elapsed Time. 26 hours and 17 minutes until Apollo 17 reenters the Earth's atmosphere for splashdown near Pago Pago, American Samoa in the South Pacific. Spacecraft at the present time is 114,147 nautical miles away from the Earth, approaching at a velocity of 4,600 feet per second. Rather quiet work day for the crew of Apollo 17. Earlier in the day the morning news was read up to the crew after they were wakened by two different musical selections. One of which was recorded yesterday in the Evans home by some neighbors who had come in. And the first one was a rendition of "We've Just Begun" by The Carpenters. The singing group Carpenters, that is. At 278:01 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control.
278:04:48 Schmitt Houston, America here. We'll probably VERB 49 out to the thermal attitude.
278:04:54 CC Roger. We're standing by waiting for it.
278:04:58 Evans Okay.
278:11:00 Schmitt Houston, 17. The OPS is now reading 1100; 1100.
278:11:09 CC Roger, Jack. We've got that data.
278:12:01 CC America, Houston.
278:12:07 Evans Go ahead.
278:12:08 CC Rog, if - if you're stowing the OPS, we might want to hold here a second. We're going to want to dump that OPS down to as low as possible pressure, and we'll be wanting to give you a GO on that. Let me get on - get hooked up here around the room.
278:12:26 Evans Okay. You know, we've still got it out. We thought we'd, you know, stow it later this afternoon sometime.
278:12:33 CC Okay, fine.
278:12:36 Evans You know, after we can dump it again.
278:13:36 CC America, Houston. Your cabin is down to 4.8 now, so you're cleared to dump the OPS at any time. And we expect with 1100 pounds it would pump it up to about 5.7, so we'll probably have to stop you prior to reaching zero.
278:13:55 Evans Oh, okay. Hey, mighty fine. We'll do it.
278:14:40 Evans Okay, Houston. That OPS is dumping now.
278:14:46 CC Roger, Ron. We'll watch it.
278:19:41 CC America, Houston.
278:19:45 Schmitt Go ahead.
278:19:48 CC We've identified a humber of cracks and crevices up in the - in the area - any area above the couch plane along the X-axis or just above the couch plane that could possibly be places where the scissors disappeared to. And we would like those areas searched if they haven't been searched already. As an example, the crack between the top of the main display panel number 2 and the - the hatch opening area, that kind of crack and crevice area there. We would like that looked into. I kind of assume you've already done that. We don't want you to remove any panels or anything like that to look in. But have you looked in those areas, or do you plan to look in those areas here shortly?
278:20:41 Evans Hey, Bob, I've looked in some of those things. But just to make sure I've covered everything and the fact that we checked it again, why don't we go over it again.
278:20:55 CC Okay.
278:21:04 Evans Wait a minute and I'll get my flashlight, and then we can start doing it again systematically.
278:21:10 CC Okay.
278:21:16 Schmitt It's scissors, my dear Watson, scissors.
278:21:21 CC Seriously, it would have saved a lot of problem if you'd seen them floating out, Jack. We would have just not had to have done any of this.
278:21:44 Cernan Houston, America.
278:21:46 CC Roger. Go ahead.
278:21:49 Cernan Bob, it looks like we're going to make it on this OPS depress. She's reading 0, and she's just barely bleeding out. We're somewhere around 5.5, so I'm just going to let it bleed out now. And then we'll stow it.
278:22:01 CC Real fine; real fine.
278:27:04 Evans Okay, Houston. Checked it out above MDC number 2.
278:27:11 CC Okay; and - -
278:27:12 Evans Also, looked - -
278:27:15 CC - - there was the area around - -
278:27:16 Evans Go ahead.
278:27:17 CC - - each of the plus XX - the XX struts and the PLV vent there, and the other XX strut. You might check - pay particular attention to that area.
278:27:30 Evans Yes, we checked that. And also checked it again now.
278:27:34 CC Okay. From our pictures, and this may not really be the case, on the - above main display panel 3, where it says - where the handhold, the structure part of handhold, looks like there's some cracks and crevices right above - right around that handhold area that could, between the handhold and panel 6, that a pair of scissors could slip up into.
278:28:22 Evans Okay. We're looking around there, and it doesn't look like they could - Well, they could possibly fit in there maybe. But, anyhow, we checked it, and they're not there.
278:28:32 CC Okay. And then on the other side of the cockpit in the same area around handhold, back behind the - that crevice area back behind the COAS power panel, panel 15, and the handhold. And then also that little area in front of the handhold, where - the cutout for main display panel 2, you might look - take your light and look in there.
278:28:58 Evans Okay. I'm over there now.
278:30:43 Evans Okay, Houston. No joy on that part either.
278:30:46 CC Okay, Ron. The next couple are really down in the lower equipment bay area, and then I've got one area up in the tunnel - two areas up in the tunnel that are suspect areas, and then that does it. Which would you like first?
278:31:04 Evans I'm up in the tunnel, now.
278:31:05 CC Okay; the tunnel area. The only thing we show up there is the - the four handholds around the - around the tunnel. I don't think scissors could get up there, but there - they - maybe they could slip in something like that. Anyway, those four handhold slots up there, you might check in those two areas.
278:32:02 Evans Those scissors couldn't fit in those handholds, but it's good to check them. Something else might be in there.
278:32:07 CC Okay. The - Oh, in the other one up in that area, Ron, and I assume you - you've put that outlet bag over the cabin fans - and we wouldn't want you to fool with that at all, because it's probably all full of dirt and everything - but if you didn't, then the outlet to the cabin fan area might be a potential place.
278:32:31 Evans Let's see. We installed that the first day out, I think. And it's been on there ever since.
278:32:39 CC Yes, we assumed you did. I just was trying to cover all bases here. Okay; the last three items are - I think you've actually called one of them - are down in the lower equipment bay. One of them is the - the crack just below panel 101, down in the lower equipment bay. I think you called that one the first night, didn't you?
278:33:05 Evans Not below 101; no.
278:33:09 CC Okay. Our pictures show a crevice below 101, and also while you're right there, I - I don't think it's even - there's a crevice above the door for the optics stowage area that you might check up in there. It might have lodged. And, also, while you're right there, Ron, our picture, of course, shows your hoses stowed, and they kind of come out right there to the right of panel 120, the optics stowage area. And so you've got some area behind those panels - behind those hoses and that - where it might have lodged, but I believe you had to move those in order to do your EVA yesterday, anyway.
278:33:59 Evans Yes, the hoses in the tunnel have all been moved around in here, as far as the hoses are concerned. I still think the biggest probability is - is right above the optics stowage, and that's what I was talking about before. Because it's about - oh, an inch. You know, the crack is at least an inch deep in there and as long as the optics stowage thing itself.
278:34:27 CC Okay; and let me - We'll have one more recommendation for you. And then over panel -
278:34:34 Evans Okay.
278:34:34 CC - - 250 there's a little bitty opening - it shows in the pictures - over panel 250.
278:34:42 Evans Okay; we'll check that in a second here.
278:35:43 CC Our only thoughts, Ron, on the - any other position that you might see - You know, if it's above the couch plane and you really think it might be a suspect area, you might consider taping the crack, if you desire. The tape probably isn't going to hold it in if it wants to come tumbling out, but it - it's something you could do if you wanted to.
278:36:10 Evans Okay. Yes, I understand that, Bob. That's a good point.
278:36:53 CC And, Ron, while we're talking to you, we'd like to tag up with you on one more item unrelated to the scissors search, and that is your headset situation. And we just want to leave the - make sure you're going to do as was said last night and will not plug that - the headset with the broken wire, you will not plug in again, and we'll arrange your entry configuration in some configuration that does not require that headset to be plugged in. Is that affirm?
278:37:23 Evans Yes, that's affirm, Bob. I think what I'll do, I'll wear it as a bump hat, you know, and then - and then use the lightweight headset with the - you know, with the earplugs underneath that. I'll put the lightweight headset around my neck, and then have the mike sticking up in front of me, and with the earplugs on. I - I tested that configuration; it's comfortable. No problem. It'll work. And I will not plug in the comm carrier at all.
278:37:51 CC Roger. We just wanted to tag up with you on that. That's what we'll be expecting, and we'll - we'll put this to bed forever.
278:38:58 Evans Okay; mighty fine.
278:42:26 Cernan Houston, America.
278:42:28 CC Go ahead.
278:42:34 CC Go ahead, America.
278:42:38 Cernan Okay, Bob. We got the major compartments inventoried and stowed for entry, with the exception of the things we need, of course, between now and then in the sleeping areas and what have you. We'll finish that off, of course, as we finish up with gear and as we get up in the morning. But there's very little left to do, and any contingency weight changes, which there may be just a couple at the most, we'll inventory those and give them to you in the morning.
278:43:16 CC Roger.
279:08:20 CC America, 17. Say again. 17, Houston.
279:08:25 Evans Go ahead.
279:08:26 CC I've got an interesting little press release here. Jack Schmitt - and I'm sure all of you will be interested in, but based upon your work up in the Shorty area on the surface, the people out at Flagstaff went back and looked at the Apollo 14 250-millimeter camera frames from - and showed that it had colored frames that showed brownish and orangish colorations on a bulbous dome in the Crater Langrenus and on a 4-kilometer dark halo crater on the ejecta blanket of Theophilus. And they've made that news release today.
279:09:11 Schmitt Very good. We may have triggered something.
279:09:15 CC Yes, sir.
279:09:33 Evans Bob, I'm ready to maneuver.
279:10:53 CC America, we'd like OMNI Delta.
279:11:04 Schmitt You have OMNI Delta now, Bob.
279:17:40 CC 17, Houston. OMNI Alfa.
279:17:51 Schmitt You got it.
279:26:20 Evans Houston, America. Would you like the HIGH GAIN?
279:26:26 CC That's affirmative.
279:27:17 CC America, you can go to AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
279:27:24 Evans You got it.
279:27:27 CC Thank you.
279:41:33 Cernan Houston, America.
279:41:36 CC Go ahead, America.
279:41:40 Cernan Okay. We might be 5 or 10 minutes late on starting ALFMED. We're still putting some sensors on.
279:41:48 CC Roger.
279:41:58 Cernan Hello, Bob.
279:42:00 CC Yes.
279:42:03 Cernan Can you get a reading? is it the same two subjects on ALFMED as we had going out, or is this a case where you want all three of us? it's not exactly clear.
279:43:39 CC Jack, we agree with you that it's not clear, and FAO tells us we want the two - same two subjects wearing the blindfolds as on the transearth coast as was on the translunar coast.
279:43:53 Cernan Okay. Well, this has been Gene, and that's the way we'll do it.
279:43:58 CC Roger, Gene.
279:45:50 Schmitt Houston, this is Jack.
279:45:54 CC Go ahead.
279:45:58 Schmitt Yes. We've got pretty good comm attitude here, and the - ask FAO if they want them on VOX and if they also want the notes recorded up here.
279:46:09 CC Okay. I'll check on that.
279:46:52 CC The easiest way to do it would be to just go ahead and do it on VOX, and we'll get everything recorded down here.
279:46:59 Schmitt I agree, because taking notes is good when you're having dropouts, but it's hardly the same as tapes.
279:47:07 CC That's affirmative. And since you do have - you're locked up on comm and HIGH GAIN and that, well, let's just go ahead and we'll just record it all down here for you.
279:47:20 Schmitt Okay.
279:49:08 CC Jack, Houston.
279:49:12 Schmitt Go ahead.
279:49:13 CC This is your option, Jack. But if you want to, you can put the other set of blindfolds out and see what you see, too, in VOX and give us the data.
279:49:27 Schmitt Roger. Maybe I will. One problem is, though, that I notice that once things get going with two, that they were starting to interfere, and three might do the same thing.
279:49:41 CC Okay. Your option. No - -
279:49:41 Schmitt I may put them on anyway.
279:49:43 CC It's your option. No problem.
279:49:46 Schmitt I may put them on just to watch.
279:49:49 CC Roger.
279:49:53 Schmitt It's the only movie we have this afternoon.
279:50:18 PAO This is Apollo Control at 279 hours 50 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 spacecraft, America, now 109,179 nautical miles from Earth, velocity increasing ever so slightly - now 4,784 feet per second. 24 hours 27 minutes away from entry and splashdown, tomorrow afternoon in the South Pacific. The crew, at the present time, is preparing to conduct the light flash visual phenomenon experiment on the Flight Plan time. A few minutes late perhaps, if anything. Jack Schmitt may or may not don the third set of eye shields to -
279:51:15 Evans Houston, America.
279:51:17 CC Go ahead.
279:51:20 Evans Roger. Would you ask the Surgeon to check and see if the Command Module Pilot is alive and well.
279:51:39 CC Okay. They're seeing data. It looks sort of squirrelly and - but it looks - they want it to settle down for a little while.
279:52:14 Evans Better go VOX.
279:52:51 Schmitt ...
279:52:53 Cernan Got to unplug that there.
279:54:07 Evans Yes, I'm ready.
279:54:23 Cernan Okay, Bob. CDR and CMP have got their blindfolds on.
279:54:28 CC Roger.
279:54:39 Evans I got it.
279:54:51 Cernan Okay. We're starting.
279:56:22 Evans Houston, this is Ron. While we're getting dark adapted here, probably won't see any for a while. Let me just record on the tape my impression of these light flashes as they occurred around the Moon and at other times. In general, they've all been essentially - just a - as - as it says - a flash, with a - with a little bit of a glow, and usually in one eye or the other eye. And for some reason, most generally, they've been kind of - if you - you'd almost say it's in - it's in the periphery of your vision, because you get the feeling that maybe there was a flash over to the left or down to the right or something like that. But you don't get a distinct impression as to where the flash came from. Well, you can - you can see where it came from, but not - you can't see the flash itself. Like it was just beyond your vision. Most of them have been like that. At one time and one time only throughout the flight, I can remember kind of a triple flash, so to speak. And in that case, there was a bright flash in the left eye on - on - about 10 o'clock in the left eye. And then it repeated itself again about 2 o'clock in the left eye. And then about, oh, 10 o'clock, a quarter of the way out, in the right eye. I just got a bing, bing, bing, just like that. Three - three of them right in a row. And the rest of the time, though, they've all essentially been single flashes to me.
279:58:21 Cernan This is Gene here. I'll just remark that both Jack and I did see them on the lunar surface. I guess the best summation I can make of that is I think I saw both lines and - and the spots or the flashes a little bit more sharply, but that might be because of the adaptation - dark adaptation in the LM prior to going to sleep was probably a little bit better. And I'd guess - it's awful hard to tell time when you're under - when it's dark, ... but I guess I want to say they were quite frequent, and I'd say that means two to three a minute now. That could be way out, but that's what I'd guess.
280:05:53 SC (Cough)
280:13:41 Evans (Cough) ... In my ... or something. I don't see anything.
280:14:03 SC (Cough)
280:24:35 CC America, Houston. We haven't heard anything. Have you seen any flashes at all?
280:24:42 Evans Haven't heard a - I haven't seen a thing, Bob. Can't understand it.
280:24:47 Cernan Same here from the CDR. I haven't seen anything.
280:24:49 CC Roger. I understand. Your heart rates are down pretty low, like maybe you fell asleep or something.
280:24:56 Evans Oh, no. Well, the LMP dozed a couple of times but - I thought I saw one, Bob, but I'm not sure. I squinted hard about that time. I may have just triggered something.
280:25:09 CC Roger. Okay. We're just standing by.
280:25:17 Schmitt The last time we were in PTC, were we not?
280:25:22 CC Yes, you were, and that's one reason you had to copy it down, because we kept losing comm on you.
280:25:28 Schmitt Yes, as I recall, they seemed to come in batches when - when I was taking notes. is that what you people observe - or recorded, rather?
280:25:53 CC That's affirmative, Jack. And the thought that occurs, of course, is that you may be blocking with the shielding on the spacecraft somehow.
280:29:17 Evans Houston, has my biomed settled down?
280:29:23 CC That's affirmative.
280:29:26 Evans Okay.
280:46:34 Schmitt No, I haven't been able to see any flashes. I rotated 180 degrees along the rotation axis along Z and saw no change - LMP.
280:50:11 CC America, Houston. The light flash observation time is up, and we'd - we'd like to move on into the Flight Plan. And this call - it is for Ron - -
280:50:22 Schmitt Hey, Robert.
280:50:24 CC The EMS entry check is on - at 281 as shown. We'd like you to do that now prior to the maneuver, which is at 281, or delay it until about 281:50 when you're not maneuvering. We'd like to do that check when you are not in - not maneuvering.
280:50:46 Evans I'll go ahead and do it now. What's going up this minute - coming up here?
280:50:50 Cernan Okay.
280:50:51 Evans Let's see what's coming up first.
280:50:52 CC Okay. You can do it now. You've got about 5 minutes prior to the VERB 49 maneuver.
280:50:59 Cernan What would that be? EMS check? Okay. Why - why don't you go over it now?
280:51:07 Schmitt Your eyes all right?
280:51:08 Cernan Give yourself a chance to open your eyes.
280:51:09 Schmitt Yes.
280:51:11 Evans That must prove something, the fact that we didn't even see them, huh?
280:51:15 CC It would probably tell you that there's a point source, and the spacecraft is blocking it somehow.
280:51:23 Cernan Or the Earth. Or the Sun.
280:51:25 Schmitt I believe it.
280:51:26 CC Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. If I wanted to get technical, something's blocking them. That's right.
280:51:31 Cernan (Laughter) Much as we have been seeing them, I can't believe that. Okay, Ron. Why don't you go ahead and do that, huh? I just put mine up.
280:52:56 Evans Okay. I'm on page 1-3, and the EMS FUNCTION is OFF. Circuit breakers are CLOSE. MS MODE to STANDBY. And FUNCTION to TEST 5 - or TEST 1. EMS to NORMAL.
280:54:08 Evans Okay. The hairline is over the notch in the self-test pattern and in test pattern number 4. Okay; 0.05G light came on in TEST 2. Go to TEST 3.
280:55:01 Evans Okay; it's 10 seconds, and the down light came on.
280:55:29 Evans Okay; it's 58.O in the range counter. Okay; TEST 4. She's counting down, and trace went down. Going straight along.
280:55:55 Evans MARK it. 10 seconds. 0.0. How about that? And it stops at the lower right-hand corner of the trace.
280:56:34 Evans Okay; with TEST 5, trace went up, and 10 seconds later the upper light came ON.
280:56:59 Evans Okay. We'll go to RANGE SET here. ... cool down a little bit. And the trace moves on up to zero. It looks like it worked good, Houston.
280:57:12 CC Roger. Sounds great.
280:57:19 Evans Okay; we'll go to STANDBY and OFF.
281:03:35 CC America, Houston.
281:03:38 Cernan Go ahead.
281:03:40 CC Just some words for Ron. When he gets into the P20 option 2, the maneuver there was tried on the simulator, and it got out to 71 degrees on the middle gimbal angle. And they got a gimbal warning light, although 71 degrees is the maximum yaw angle they got.
281:04:01 Cernan Okay; we'll try it.
281:04:15 Schmitt Bob, for your recorded information there, mag Tango - Tango on the 35-millimeter camera - frames - let's see - 8 through 13 have the ALFMED prime observer position data on them.
281:04:43 CC Roger. We've got it recorded.
281:10:18 CC Just another piece of data, guys. On this maneuver you're in right now, it should go out to a 67-degree middle gimbal angle right in this maneuver.
281:12:14 CC America, Houston. We'd like to close UV cover until we're in attitude now.
281:12:22 Evans Okay; we'll close the cover.
281:12:34 Evans UV COVER is CLOSED.
281:16:04 CC America, Houston.
281:16:08 Evans Houston, this is America. Go ahead.
281:16:10 CC Roger. We've got a procedure we'd like to go through to eventually put the ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROL over to AUTO, and we have a bunch - several steps we'd like to go through before you do that move.
281:16:27 Evans Okay. Wait a minute; I'll write them down here so we can ...
281:16:31 CC Roger. Are you ready to read it - or copy it?
281:16:37 Evans Okay. Go ahead.
281:16:38 CC Okay. On panel 5, the ECS RADIATORS CONTROLLER circuit breaker AC1, verify CLOSED. Panel 2 ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROLLER to position 1. ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROL POWER to OFF, CENTER then POWER. Wait 20 seconds. ECS RADIATORS FLOW CONTROL to AUTO. Over.
281:18:02 Cernan Houston, America.
281:18:04 CC Go ahead.
281:18:08 Cernan Do you suspect it was a - a power glitch, or do you think the controller actually failed and you're just now verifying it?
281:18:18 CC Negative on either of those cases. We've just had lots of spurious changes in the past history on flights. John's sitting here saying you had a number of times on 10, and so - since we're not - We just think the power controller probably saw a temperature glitch or something, and we think it will just come right back. No problem.
281:18:39 Cernan I - Come to think of it, I guess we did, now that he recalls it.
281:18:48 CC We'd like OMNI Charlie.
281:18:59 Evans Okay; you have OMNI Charlie.
281:19:03 CC And while you're there, we'd like the UV COVER to OPEN now.
281:19:11 Evans Okay; we'll open the UV cover.
281:19:40 Evans Okay, Houston. I'm ready to proceed on this pitch maneuver.
281:19:45 CC Roger.
281:20:23 Evans And, Houston, the readback on the flow controller there. We'll check panel 5. ECS RADIATOR CONTROL circuit breaker AC1, verify it's CLOSED. Then we'll put the ECS FLOW CONTROLLER to position number 1. And we'll turn the ECS FLOW CONTROLLER POWER, OFF, then CENTER.
281:20:55 CC It's OFF, CENTER, Ron, and then up to the POWER.
281:21:00 Evans Okay. I couldn't figure out my writing. Okay; that's right. The power is OFF, CENTER, and then - back to POWER. Then wait 20 seconds, and put the ECS FLOW CONTROLLER in AUTO.
281:21:14 CC That's affirmative.
281:21:53 Evans Houston, America. You want to start that now?
281:21:56 CC That's affirmative. Any time. And in case you're wondering -
281:21:59 Evans Okay.
281:22:00 CC - - case you're wondering about that middle step, that's a reset to logic step by going OFF on the POWER and then back to POWER.
281:22:09 Evans Okay.
281:22:23 Evans Okay. ECS FLOW CONTROLLER is going to position 1. Okay; ECS POWER is OFF, and it's back to POWER. And we're waiting 20 seconds.
281:23:03 Evans Okay; FLOW CONTROLLER is going to AUTO now - and stays gray, it looks like.
281:23:13 CC That's what we expected. And needless to say, Ron, we'll be watching your ECS system very carefully for you, just in case it flips back. We don't expect any problem.
281:23:28 Evans Oh, Okay. Mighty fine.
281:26:36 CC And, America, Houston. I've got a midcourse 7 and a MIDPAC entry pad.
281:26:47 Evans Okay. Just wait 1, please.
281:26:50 CC Roger.
281:29:21 CC And, America, Houston. We'd like to bring up the high gain, so we can get the dump going and get the data down. It's a YAW, plus 15; PITCH, 204. Say again. PITCH, plus 15; YAW, 204.
281:29:32 Evans Okay. PITCH, 15; YAW, 204.
281:29:38 CC Roger.
281:30:36 Evans Houston, America.
281:30:38 CC Go ahead. Go ahead, America.
281:30:45 Evans Okay; I assume this line in here, "Stop pitch rate at 146 degrees," means stop at 146 degrees in pitch. is that correct?
281:30:56 CC Roger. Stop at 146 degrees pitch.
281:31:00 Evans Okay. Thank you.
281:31:37 Cernan You've got the high gain, ... told us, Bob.
281:32:31 CC And, America, Houston. I've also - besides these pads, I've also got a Flight Plan update. For the first one, item is at 282:10. Either one you want to take first?
281:32:46 Cernan Okay; why don't you go ahead with the Flight Plan update first.
281:32:50 CC Okay, Gene. At 282:10, manually - manual roll left 40 degrees prior to the VERB 49 maneuver. Insert "Manual roll left 40 degrees." And that'll give you a roll angle of 342 prior to starting that maneuver.
281:33:19 Cernan Okay; I've got it.
281:33:26 CC Okay. The next one's quite a ways over. It's at 284:55.
281:33:38 Cernan Okay; I've got it.
281:33:40 CC Okay. First thing at 284:55, we'd like a VERB 48; first register, 11102; second register, 01111.
281:33:58 Cernan Okay.
281:33:59 CC A VERB 49 maneuver to lunar sounder thermal attitude at 285:00. The attitude is PITCH, 122 - say again, ROLL, 122; PITCH, 065; YAW, 047. That's 122, 065, and 047. HIGH GAIN angles with that will be PITCH, minus 24; YAW, 160.
281:34:40 Cernan Okay. At 285:00, a VERB 49 to ROLL of 122; PITCH, 065; YAW, 047; HIGH GAIN is minus 24 and 160.
281:34:50 CC Roger, Gene. And then at 285:10, where we had you write in the "Antenna retract," we want you to delete that. The purpose of the maneuver above that is to heat up those antennas, and we will retract them on a cue from us when we feel the temperatures are warm enough.
281:35:09 Cernan Okay. What about the "RADAR, OFF" at that point?
281:35:11 CC Delete "RADAR, OFF" also.
281:35:20 Cernan Okay. I've deleted the whole update at 285:10 I had.
281:35:25 CC That's affirmative.
281:35:37 Cernan Bob, Jack's ready to take the pad.
281:35:41 CC Okay. They just pointed out there's also VERB 48 at 285:10, which is not applicable either. And, Jack, I've got the MIDPAC area - say again. Let's do the midcourse 7 pad first. MCC7.
281:36:00 Schmitt Go ahead.
281:36:01 CC RCS/G&N; 26735; NOUN 48s are not applicable. 301:17:57.78; plus 0001.9, plus 0000.0, minus 0000.1. Roll is 082; pitch, 041; yaw, 331. HA, not applicable. Plus 0022.9; plus 0001.9, 0:04, 0001.9. Sextant star is 31, 328.9, 34.4. Rest of the pad is not applicable. And in case I cut out and came off ray key too fast, back up there in NOUN 81s, that's a plus all zeros for Delta-Vy. Set stars are Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069. It's a four jet; plus-X. Assumes a PTC REFSMMAT. Over.
281:37:59 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I assume that DELTA-Vz plus all zeros also.
281:38:11 CC No, I'm sorry. DELTA-Vz was minus all zeros .1 - .1 on DELTA-Vz.
281:38:28 Schmitt Okay; midcourse 7 readback. RCS/G&N; 26735. NOUN 48 is NA. 301:17:57.78; plus 0001.9, plus all zeros, plus 0000.1; 082, 041, 331. HA is NA. Plus 0022.9; 0001.9, 0:04, 0001.9; 31, 328.9, 34.4. Rest of the pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 256, 152, 069. Four jet; plus-X. Assumes PCT - TC REFSMMAT.
281:39:15 CC Roger, One change. On DELTA-Vz on your NOUN 81s, that should be a minus four balls 1 - minus four balls 1.
281:39:29 Schmitt Roger. Thank you. Minus four balls 1.
281:39:36 CC Okay, Jack. That got us warmed up for the MIDPAC area entry pad.
281:39:42 Schmitt Go ahead.
281:39:44 CC MIDPAC area; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268. NOUN 61: minus 17.89, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1047.2, 36172. RRT time: 304:18:37; 00:28. NOUN 69s are nonapplicable. D0 4.00, 02:08; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39. Sextant Stars 13, 117.3, 15.5. Boresight Star is not applicable. Lift vector is UP. Over.
281:41:38 Schmitt Okay. MIDPAC area; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268; minus 17.89, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1047.2, 36172; 304:18:37; 00:27. NOUN 69 is NA. 4.00, 02:08; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39; 13, 117.3, 15.5. Boresight is NA. Lift vector, UP. Over.
281:42:32 CC Roger. The RET of 0.05G is 00:28 - 00:28.
281:42:49 Schmitt Okay. I'll change that to 28 for RET 0.05G.
281:42:54 CC That's right, and I've got one - we've got seven assumptions here on - or comments.
281:43:05 Schmitt Go ahead.
281:43:07 CC Comment 1: Use nonexit EMS pattern. Comment 2: RET 9OK - -
281:43:18 Schmitt Go ahead, Bob.
281:43:20 CC Roger. Comment 2: RET 90K, 06:01. RET mains, 08:26. RET landing, 13:18. Break break. UV COVER, CLOSED, please.
281:43:52 Schmitt Okay; it's CLOSED. And, Bob, you're cutting out every once in a while. I missed your comment 1.
281:43:57 CC Okay, Jack, let's try comment 1 over again. Use nonexit EMS pattern. Comment 2: 90K time, 06:01; mains, 08:26; landing, 13:18. Comment 3: Constant g is roll right. Comment 4: GET of moonset, 304:16:13. Comment 5: Assumes midcourse 7, MCC7. Comment 6: Assumes entry REFSMMAT. Comment 7: GDC align for entry REFSMMAT. Stars are Sirius and Rigel. ROLL, 273; PITCH, 256; YAW, 347. Over.
281:45:33 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Somehow I got more than seven, but I'll give you the ones I got. 1: nonexit IMS pattern; 2: RET at 90K is 06:01; 3: mains are 08:06; 4: landing is 13:18; 5: Constant g is a roll right; 6: 304:16:13 is moonset; 7: assumes MCC7; 8: assumes entry REFSMMAT. And 9: GDC align is Sirius and Rigel; 273, 256, and 347.
281:46:14 CC Roger. You've got a good readback there, Jack. The reason why is those times are all lumped into comment 2. However you want to do it they're fine.
281:46:26 Schmitt Okay.
281:46:27 CC One correction here. RET main times - I thought you read to me 08:26. It is 08:26 is the time on RET mains.
281:46:40 Schmitt Okay. I read 08:06.
281:46:43 CC Okay, 08:26. 26 is the time.
281:47:03 Schmitt Okay. I got mains at 08:26.
281:47:07 CC Roger, Jack.
281:48:20 CC America, Houston. We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, and we'd like you to do that manual roll and VERB 49 maneuver, which is listed at 282:10. We'd like you to start it now.
281:48:35 Cernan Okay, Bob.
281:49:06 Cernan Hey, Bob. I don't think your 342 is going to work out. I've just - Correction, if you will. Roll left. Left 40 degrees coming up.
281:49:15 CC Okay. I'm just sitting here, staring at FAO, and asking why it doesn't work out. Let me handle that. That's fine.
281:49:21 Cernan No, it - Hey, Bob, it will. I was thinking of rolling right. I'm on my way left now, and we will get 342.
281:49:28 CC Okay.
281:49:28 Cernan Close to it. We'll get about - about - let's see now, 20 - whatever - whatever 360 minus 20 is. That's about 342.
281:49:39 CC Okay.
281:54:09 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're there.
281:54:14 CC Roger.
281:54:17 Cernan Bob, I press right on to the VERB 49?
281:54:25 CC That's affirmative. Press right on with the VERB 49.
281:54:34 CC We're just using this as a little addition here to get more time - more thermal heat on those antennas.
282:00:40 CC America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Delta.
282:00:46 Schmitt Okay, Bob. I gave it to you a few minutes ago.
282:00:54 CC You got one on INCO that time.
282:01:00 Schmitt The first one.
282:05:34 CC America, Houston. We'd like UV COVER, OPEN, please.
282:06:01 Evans Okay; it's OPEN.
282:06:07 CC America, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT. We've got a state vector that goes with those pads we've called up.
282:06:15 Cernan Okay, Bob. You've got ACCEPT.
282:06:18 CC And you can get into the Flight Plan. We gave you about a 15-minute bonus on your eat period there. You can jump right into the eat period if you want.
282:06:26 Cernan Okay. Thank you, Houston.
282:09:21 CC America, Houston. The computer is yours.
282:09:27 Cernan Thank you, Houston.
282:25:25 CC America, Houston. This is for Ron. It looks like one of your sensors may have come loose. We're getting bad data. And don't interrupt your eating but when you get a chance you might try and push them on or service them or whatever needs to be done.
282:25:40 Schmitt Okay, he'll get it. is it by any chance printing upside down?
282:25:51 CC No, it's correct according to the - -
282:25:53 Evans I'm upside down in the tunnel.
282:25:53 CC - - doctor. Okay. (Laughter) Do you like eating that way? is that the new trick?
282:26:04 Schmitt I don't see how his family is going to live with him.
282:26:09 Evans We're not going to be able to do that for very much longer, you know.
282:26:14 CC About 21 hours and 52 minutes.
282:27:14 PAO This is Apollo Control at 282:27 Ground Elapsed Time in the Apollo 17 Mission. 21 hours 51 minutes until reentry into the Earth's atmosphere tomorrow afternoon in the South Pacific. The crew, presently, is in the evening meal. Just after the completion of this eat period is the great press conference in the sky, starting at approximately 5:00 Central Time with the onboard TV turned on. Earlier in the afternocn the initial midcourse 7 numbers were read up to the crew. Ah, for Ground Elapsed Time of ignition at 301:17 velocity change of 1.9 feet per second. Also, the initial entry times and the post-entry event times were passed up to the crew assuming that midcourse correction burn number 7 is performed. Presently the spacecraft is 101,703 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity gradually building now, 5,080 feet per second. Flight path angle staying at about minus 6.49 degrees in the present tracking. Current numbers on entry interface Ground Elapsed Time of 304:18:37. There will not be a change of shift press conference for the off going Gold Team. And at 282:29 Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control.
282:51:08 PAO This is Apollo control at 282 hours 51 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 17 now 21 hours and 27 minutes away from splashdown, or actually entry back into the Earth's atmosphere, tomorrow afternoon in the south central Pacific. Presently, 100,586 nautical miles out from the Earth streaking in at a velocity of 5,126 feet per second which will build up at the time of collision with the atmosphere to about 36,100 feet per second. The entry tomorrow afternoon will take place at approximately 304 hours 18 minutes Ground Elapsed Time which is about 1:11 Central Standard Time and at 282 hours 52 minutes Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo control.
282:56:25 Evans Houston, America.
282:56:28 CC Go ahead.
282:56:31 Evans Okay, Bob. I've kind of fiddled around with the sensors, now. Are they working okay now?
282:56:39 CC Stand by, Ron. Ron, your sensors look good, right at the moment.
282:57:03 Evans Okay. Good enough.
283:02:54 Schmitt Hey, Houston; 17.
283:02:58 CC Go ahead, 17.
283:03:01 Schmitt Yes, we'd like to run a check here on this TV setup. Are we going to disturb you if we go to TV on the S-BAND AUX switch?
283:03:12 CC Stand by on that. Let me check with OSO.
283:03:25 Schmitt And, Bob, if it is an inconvenience, could you look ahead and find the time we can have 10 or 15 minutes, if possible, to work this out.
283:03:36 CC Roger.
283:07:41 CC America, Houston.
283:07:45 Schmitt Go ahead.
283:07:46 CC You can have the TV switch to TV for about 35 minutes starting right now, if you'd like. And, while while - if you're working around there, we would like to take BATTERY A off the CHARGE and put BATTERY B on CHARGE.
283:08:05 Schmitt Okay, it's in work. And, we probably won't need it for that long. And, we'll get back with you as soon as we can.
283:08:14 CC Roger.
283:08:18 Schmitt Okay; we're in TV now.
283:09:59 Schmitt Okay, Bob, BATTERY B is on CHARGE and 7 Alfa reads 1.3.
283:10:10 CC Roger. We got that.
283:15:55 PAO This is Apollo control at 283 hours 16 minutes. We've completed a shift handover in mission control. Flight Director for this shift is Charles Lewis the spacecraft communicator astronaut Gordon Fullerton. The crew is completing their meal at this time and beginning preparations for the televised press conference which is to begin at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time. Apollo 17 at this time is traveling at a velocity of 5,178 feet per second just under one mile per second and is 99,350 nautical miles from Earth.
283:18:35 Cernan Okay, Bob, I'm going to pick up the manual roll right for the VERB 49.
283:18:42 CC Okay, Geno. You've got a new capcom now. Good evening.
283:18:47 Cernan Good evening, Gordo. How are you doing?
283:18:50 CC Real fine. How about you?
283:18:53 Cernan Very fine. I'm going right for my VERB 49 maneuver, now.
283:18:59 CC Okay.
283:20:35 CC America, Houston. We need OMNI Charlie, please.
283:27:12 CC America, Houston. Suggest you try to get the HIGH GAIN up at a PITCH of 10; YAW, 210.
283:27:23 Evans PITCH, 10; and YAW, 210; okay.
283:27:27 CC Roger.
283:40:09 CC America, Houston. We've filled up the DSE with science data. And, so if you're through with the TV rehearsal, we'd like the AUX band - the S-BAND AUX switch back to SCIENCE, so we can get the rest of the data real time.
283:40:26 Schmitt Okay. We just finished and going to SCIENCE.
283:40:29 CC Roger. Thank you.
283:54:28 Cernan Hello, Houston. America.
283:54:31 CC Go ahead.
283:54:34 Cernan Gordy, how far out are we?
283:54:38 CC How far out? 100,000 miles, approximately.
283:54:43 Cernan Okay. Thank you.
283:58:07 PAO This is Apollo Control at 283 hours 58 minutes. And we're about 9 minutes now from the start of the televised Press Conference with the Apollo 17 crew. The network controller has checked out the lines from Goldstone, California to Houston.
283:58:22 CC America, Houston. A little more precise answer. You're 97,500 miles, and you passed the halfway point about 2 hours ago. And we're going to have a site handover here on the hour.
283:58:38 Schmitt Got all that, Gordy. Thank you.
283:59:08 PAO The television pictures from the spacecraft will be received at the 210 foot dish antenna at Goldstone, California and relayed to Houston.
284:04:26 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
284:04:28 CC Go ahead, America.
284:04:31 Cernan We'll stand by for your call to power up the TV.
284:04:35 CC Roger.
284:05:14 CC America, Houston. We're ready for TV.
284:05:21 Schmitt Roger, Gordy.
284:06:36 Cernan Okay. We're going to TRANSMIT on the TV now.
284:06:39 CC Roger.
284:06:43 Cernan And let us know when you've got a picture.
284:06:46 CC Will do.
284:07:14 CC American, Houston. We've got a picture. Looks good, looks in focus, and we see the flag in the patch.
284:07:23 Cernan Okay.
284:08:35 Schmitt Houston, here's the crew of Apollo - Apollo 17, Spaceship America.
284:08:41 CC Roger, Apollo 17. If you're ready for the questioning, I'll begin.
284:08:49 Schmitt Go ahead, Gordo.
284:08:52 CC Okay. As usual in these inflight news conferences, the questions that will be asked of you were prepared by correspondents covering the Apollo 17 mission at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. They will be read exactly as written and in the order determined by the newsmen. The first question is for Jack Schmitt. If you, as a geologist, were coming home from a field trip on Earth, you'd be drafting a preliminary report and discussing it with fellow geologists. In terms understandable to laymen, can you summarize what you would be saying in your preliminary report about your field trip to Taurus-Littrow?
284:09:36 Schmitt Well, I'll - I'll give that a try, Gordy. I think the thing we had hoped to accomplish at Taurus-Littrow was to look at a - as broad a spectrum of the history of the Moon as possible in one small area, as the concluding flight to the Apollo Program. And I think we did that. I think we had look - did look at some of the oldest rocks that it is possible to see with our capability in the breccias of the South and North Massifs. I think we saw some intermediate-age rocks of fairly unexpected character, I believe, in the subfloor crystalline or igneous rocks, the gabbro, as we called them there. And we also understood, I think, that those rocks, in fact, had intruded into the breccias of the North Massif. We found, I believe, in the - at the Crater Van Serg, on the third EVA, that the regolith, or the garden zone, on the top of that subfloor gabbro, or the igneous rocks, was quite thick, or appears to be very thick, which is an expected result, and will - hopefully, those rocks will have much information about a fairly extended period of lunar erosion. And, we found that there was indeed a dark mantle over the area of - variable thickness; but, apparently, of relatively recent age, and that in turn had a light mantle of material of which we do not yet understand, and I think that the samples are going to have to tell that story. It may well be a land slide that has come off the South Massif. And, then, possibly as important as any finding, we found that even later than that relatively young light mantle deposit are avalanche - possible avalanche - we have alteration reminiscent of the alteration by hot waters or hot gases on Earth, and that was the orange - appears to be the orange soil that we found around the Crater Shorty. And, subsequently, in orbit we started to pick up, and particularly through Ron Evans' efforts, pick up more and more of the apparent evidence of such alteration taking place in fairly recent time on the Moon. All of those items, I think, are extremely significant and go through the full range of our present knowledge of lunar history. And, a report I would write would initially summarize that particular sequence of events.
284:12:43 CC Question number 2 is for Jack, again. What other probable explanations, besides volcanic origins, do you have for the orange rock and colored soil that you found at Shorty Crater?
284:12:58 Schmitt Well, they don't necessarily have to be volcanic, Gordy. I refer to them as alteration, and much of the hydrothermal, or hot water, alteration we see on Earth is related to recent volcanism, or ancient volcanism; but, also, we know of that kind of alteration of preexisting materials to take place as a result of - of just fluids working their way up through the Earth's crust, and I presume that such a process is also possible on the Moon. The ones we saw seem to be associated with areas of dark mantle, of various types, and most of the photographic evidence we have is that those dark mantle deposits are associated with volcanism, but it is not necessarily proved yet, I believe, that the - the orange soils or the alterations we've seen are volcanic. However, the process would be a related process, that is, one of internal origin.
284:14:01 CC The third question is for Cernan or Schmitt. Your voices are so much alike that it is unclear to some of us which one of you found the orange rock and who first spotted the layer of orange soil on the crater rim.
284:14:17 Cernan Jack found it. He uncovered it as he was walking on the rim, and we worked with that, and then, as I went around the crater to take the stereo base pan from within the crater, I could see alterations radially down from the rim farther beyond where we were working down to the center.
284:14:38 Schmitt I don't think that that question of who found it is as specifically as important as that that we were there with the equipment and the training jointly to not only recognize that but to take advantage of having recognized it, and I hope that we did.
284:14:57 CC Okay. The next one's for Ron Evans. Why do you think you were able to see so much orange material from lunar orbit, after your partners had found some on the ground, where none of the previous Apollo crews reported seeing anything but grays, tans, and browns?
284:15:17 Evans Well, I think, for one thing, that we were in, essentially, a different orbit than some of the other crews that had been up there before. And even though each of us has a color tone in our own eyes, what we come up with, I think, is a function pretty much of what you'd like to believe and what you'd like to see out of things. If you feel it has a tint of orange with it, and this is in a new area that we really haven't flown over that much, and this is primarily - where we were seeing this type of thing was on the western rim of Serenitatis, and some of the - well, at least it looks like known volcanic deposits along the rim of Serenitatis.
284:16:09 Schmitt Gordy, let me add quickly that there's no such thing as a truly objective observer; and, I believe, that once you start looking for something, and when Ron heard about what we were doing, I'm sure he started looking, himself, to see what we had seen. That leads you to see things. Now that's not seeing things that are not there. It makes you look for things that are there, and that's extremely important; and that's where the kind of training all three of us have had and I think has made it possible for us to find a lot of things that might not otherwise have been found.
284:16:48 CC Here's one addressed to all three crewmen. What will you remember most about this mission?
284:16:59 Cernan Boy, that's a loaded question, Gordy. There's so many things, but I think probably the thing that - when I think about it - that will stick with me most is the same thing that stuck with me - for my last two missions - not so much being there, but it's getting the chance to get home and share what you've seen and what you've done with other people.
284:17:23 Evans I think in my case, the lift-off itself was something brand new for me. It's something beyond - The booster ride itself was something beyond what I could really comprehend. So, I think that's - oh, it's a very important part of it. I will always remember that part of it. But I'm kind of like with Gene; I feel that even though the three of us have been up here and had the opportunity to observe the Moon, look at what we could find and that type of thing, I think that we have an obligation to share our experiences with the rest of the people.
284:18:04 Schmitt Well, Gordy, that is a difficult question. It has been a fascinating experience from so many detail aspects. I guess, generally speaking, the thing I carry back with me, I hope, is an increased perspective not only for the history of the solar system, but I hope for the future of mankind within that solar system.
284:18:31 Cernan Gordy, this doesn't mean that that last 50,000 feet won't stick in my mind for a long time.
284:18:39 CC Roger, Gene. Again for all three crewmen. Now that you are returning home from what may be the last lunar exploration of this century, what short-range and long-range plans do each of you have for the future?
284:18:57 Cernan Well, my short-range plans are certainly to enjoy Christmas with my family, think about the flight, get its data down on paper. My long-range plans are to turn around and look at the next flight whenever that may be and put my efforts and experience toward that flight and get to work on it.
284:19:23 Evans I think my short-range plans - of course, first of all tomorrow I want to make a real good reentry, and that's kind of the real short-range part of it. From that point on, as I mentioned before, I think we have a responsibility, at least, I feel we have responsibilities to share our experiences with the rest of the people not only in the United States, but with the people of the rest of the world. Beyond that, I also have a strong desire to continue participating in manned space flight in whatever capacity that I might be able to.
284:20:04 Schmitt Well, I can do nothing but echo Gene and Ron's words and maybe add, Gordy, that I hope that through the next few years I'll be able to make some contributions that guarantee that this Apollo 17 flight is not the last exploration program in this century in space.
284:20:27 CC Again, for all the crew. Throughout the mission there were periodic reports from each of you about gastric distress in one form or another. Does this trouble make you think that the three Skylab missions of 28, 56, and 56 days scheduled for next year are too ambitious?
284:20:47 Cernan No, not at all. I don't think they are too ambitious, Gordy. I think that's the reason we're flying each and every one of these flights one at a time. To find out if there really are potential problems in diet or what have you, and I think we solved a lot of them from Apollo 15 and 16, and those few that we had I'm sure we can solve, accordingly, prior to Skylab flying.
284:21:12 Evans I don't think I can add anything to that.
284:21:16 Schmitt I think we've made a big improvement over the problems that occurred on Apollo 16, and I think as a result of our observations in conjunction with the medical people, primarily at NASA, that solution - a very clear solution will be found for Skylab and any other mission we want to fly.
284:21:37 CC Okay. For Ron Evans. You seemed almost euphoric during your space walk yesterday, and other space walkers before you seemed to have had this same reaction to the experience. Can you describe what it was like and how it made you feel?
284:21:59 Evans Well, I think for those of you who had the opportunity to watch yesterday, it is pretty obvious how I felt out there. I'm not sure euphoric is the word. I - it's an opportunity - Well, to me I guess it was an opportunity to be what I call a "real space man." And - you're out there in the deepness of space, with nothing there but your spacesuit on, and you're doing the job that has to be done. And we're riding around in space out here, and this is in a capsule and we look out the window, you know, but it's nice firm feeling. It's a solidly built vehicle, and you get the zero g effect on the thing, but you don't get the feeling of - really getting out and walking in space. And once I became accustomed to what it was like in the EVA environment, then you relax and you take it easy, you try to accomplish what you can and observe what you can and really enjoy it. And I think I really enjoyed it.
284:23:10 Schmitt I had a hold of his umbilical most of that time and I didn't notice that he was ready to jump out into space If that's the kind of euphoria you're talking about.
284:23:21 CC Okay. For Eugene Cernan and any other later comments. You talked a lot about this mission being the end of the beginning, but a lot of people don't agree. Recognizing the United States is stopping lunar exporation for the forseeable future, how do you feel?
284:23:43 Cernan When we look back at the Apollo Program I don't think anyone can privately to themselves and publicly say that this isn't truly indeed really a beginning - a beginning of man's really first venture out into deep space. And once there's a beginning, there's a continuation. The probing into deep space by man, the next landing on the Moon, a trip to Mars may not be for 10 years, a decade; it may not be until the end of this century. But I personally have faith that it will happen. I think it's a restraint, an abnormal restraint of man's intellect at this point in time to restrict or tend to think that he will restrict his own feeling of exploration, his own quest for knowledge. He's had an opportunity. He's proved that he could take advantage of this opportunity, and I think that the nature of mankind is going to just press on. That's why I believe not - we of Apollo 17 - yes, it's a beginning; but the whole Apollo Program is really the true beginning of what's to come in the future. And I firmly believe that. We can look back in a 100 years or 200 years and the 5-year or 10-year period of time, we may be slowed down here. I think we'll be - we'll be lost in the merit of what is really accomplished during the next several decades.
284:25:12 CC The next question is for all the crew. The American people seem to be getting fairly blase about space flight and television coverage of Apollo 17 has been at a minimum. But this is not the case abroad. For example, in the Republic of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo, an estimated 20 million people are watching extensive coverage on TV sets set up in the villages. What do you have to say to the people of underdeveloped nations?
284:25:46 Schmitt Well, Gordy, first of all, I'm not sure that the amount of television coverage is necessarily a measure of the interest of the American people. I don't have those figures at hand. I'm sorry to hear that the adventures we had and the insight that maybe we gained into not only ourselves, but to the history of the solar system was not shared extensively with the American people, if that's true. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, and also the people of the United States who may not participate as much in the affluence that we all would like to share, I think that's what space flight in general and the Apollo Program in particular has offered, is many new avenues from which we can provide for those people abroad and for our own people, the kind of quality of life and the material - including the material quality of life that everybody aspires to. I think, we've just begun the adventure of understanding how - what we've learned and how we've learned to do it in space can be applied to these particular kinds of problems. That is one of the great challenges that I think NASA and other agencies within the United States Government and other governments abroad have, is to use this base of technological information now for their own people.
284:27:21 Cernan I'd like to just add to that very briefly, Gordy, that America has led the way into space in the past. I believe we will in the future. But, a point I tried to get across, several days earlier in this flight, is that the real promise of the future for all the peoples of the Earth is to weld themselves into a coherent group of people who can live and work together and then enjoy all the benefits and all the knowledge that is to come from future space explorations. I think we are doing this not just as Americans but as human beings and everyone throughout these countries throughout the world who are watching us right now are also human beings no different than we are. It's their accomplishment as well as it is ours.
284:28:14 CC Question 11 is for Jack. Do you think the United States waited too long to send a geologist to the Moon?
284:28:26 Schmitt We're grinning because I think we predicted that question. Gordy, I think the United States waited too long to go into space in the first place, and I think they're probably going to wait too long to go back. I will always feel that way no matter who goes or what qualifications he may have or may think he has. I think that the most important thing that maybe I have done is to - to be able to show that we can build a transportation system that allows you to fly people of a wide variety of disciplines. And I think that we have shown that, and I think that it's occurred at about as soon as possible within the Apollo Program.
284:29:11 CC The last couple of questions are in a lighter vein for Ron Evans. There has been a lot of discussion about missing a pair of scissors in the command module. Who really lost the scissors?
284:29:27 Evans Well, I think it must have been one of those other guys because I was asleep and I got up the next morning and it was gone.
284:29:32 Schmitt Didn't happen on my watch.
284:29:38 CC And also, Ron, did the squeaking of those mice onboard keep you awake?
284:29:48 Evans No, the mice really didn't - there are plenty of other things going on inside the spacecraft here that we can hardly even hear the mice. As a matter of fact I really haven't heard them yet.
284:30:06 CC Okay. This completes the list of questions submitted by the newsmen here in Houston. There are a little less than 7 minutes left on our scheduled time for any other further remarks you might like to make.
284:30:21 Cernan Yes, Gordy, I think we'd like to take this opportunity to each say a word or two.
284:30:28 Schmitt Well, just briefly, Gordy, I feel that I have done something that's vex-y significant here in my life. I hope that - and will do everything I can to see that it is not the most significant thing I ever do. But, I feel that the fact that I had the opportunity is due in a large part to the tangible and intangible effects that my mother and father had on my life and to them I send my thanks and I hope that I continue to live up to their expectations.
284:31:11 Evans You know on Apollo 17, here, we've had two outstanding vehicles and that's the - don't let me get you wrong, I'm not discounting the booster either. But, I've watched a lot of people work on a lot of spacecraft, and I'm very proud to be able to say that all the vehicles that have been associated with Apollo 17 have been outstanding. And, the reason they are outstanding is because of the people that have been working on them. And, I'd like to give our thanks and a "well-done" to people who worked on our spacecraft.
284:31:53 Cernan Gordy, prior to leaving and I guess I can certainly assume during the flight we've carried many, many well wishes and carried many prayers aboard from people throughout the world. I personally believe that those prayers played no small part in any success that we were able to achieve on this flight. I ask those people, however, to continue their prayers in particular for some of our friends and some of our comrades who are still in southeast Asia - POWs, MIAs who may not - although God willing I hope they will - but who may not have the opportunities to get home and enjoy the Christmas that we're looking forward to. And with that from Apollo 17 spacecraft America on December 18, 1972, we all wish you a very, very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season. Godspeed and God bless you all.
284:33:08 CC Thank you, guys. That was a good show. We enjoyed every minute.
284:34:42 Schmitt Okay, Gordy. I presume you want to go back to SCIENCE in the comm configuration, and we're getting squared away here for a big VERB 48.
284:34:54 CC Okay. That's affirmative. Back to SCIENCE, please.
284:38:49 Cernan Gordy, if you like, I'll go ahead and maneuver now.
284:38:55 CC No. We want to hold the manuver until 55.
284:39:03 Cernan Okay.
284:45:07 CC America, Houston.
284:45:10 Schmitt Go ahead.
284:45:12 CC Okay. We're ready to go with that VERB 48 and then the VERB 49 as listed a little bit early here. That'll put us in the hot-soak attitude.
284:45:23 Cernan Okay, Gordo. Be with you in about 30 seconds.
284:45:26 CC Okay.
284:47:21 Cernan Houston, America is on her way.
284:47:24 CC Okeydoke.
284:52:48 Schmitt Houston, 17's getting the high gain up, if you want it.
284:52:56 CC Yes. We think we're already on it, Jack.
284:52:59 Schmitt Well, I meant to have the other angles.
284:53:17 CC I think you can just leave it alone. It is holding from - during the maneuver and should hold until the end of it.
284:53:25 Schmitt Okay. Good maneuvers. Over, Gordy.
284:53:28 CC Roger.
284:53:31 Schmitt Now we're even.
284:53:52 Cernan Hello, Houston, America.
284:53:54 CC Go ahead.
284:53:58 Cernan Okay, Gordy. With these relatively fixed attitudes most of the afternoon, we got the - the tunnel about totally dry, but the forward hatch is awful wet. I just thought I'd throw that out.
284:54:13 CC Okay.
285:14:22 PAO This is Apollo control at 285 hours 14 minutes. At the present time in mission control we've got a group of engineers, from the crew systems division, clustered around the capcom console going over a set of recommended procedures which capcom Gordon Fullerton will be discussing with Ron Evans for fixing his communications carrier, the so called Snoopy hat, that the crew wears that has the earphones and microphone attachments built in. Evans reported several days ago that the comm carrier - communications carrier was intermittant and last night he took it apart looked inside and found that in fact a couple of wires had broken and made a temporary fix. The procedures that we'll be reading up to him are to ensure that in so far as possible that the Snoopy hat communications carrier is fixed up to work properly during entry. If for some reason the Snoopy hat carrier couldn't be used Evans would plan to wear the light weight headset using the Snoopy hat to hold it in position but the preferable arrangement during entry would be to have a working comm carrier built into the Snoopy hat. Apollo 17 at this time is 93,270 nautical miles from Earth. And the speed is 5,444 feet per second.
285:16:54 Cernan Houston, America. If you're ready, we'll maneuver.
285:17:03 CC Stand by; we're checking.
285:17:22 CC Not yet. Temperatures aren't up as high as they'd like. We'd like to hold 5 minutes at least.
285:17:29 Cernan Okay; we'll just stand by for your call on the maneuver.
285:17:33 CC Okay.
285:24:27 PAO This is Apollo control at 285 hours 24 minutes. Here in mission control we're at the present time being paid a visit by a jolly gentleman in red cap and coat with white whiskers who is going around the room dispensing things from a bag of goodies.
285:25:08 PAO For flight director Chuck Lewis out of Santa's bag is a toy flight directors console for Skylab complete with spinners.
285:25:48 PAO A can of Skylab food for capcom Gordon Fullerton.
285:25:55 CC America, Houston.
285:25:59 Cernan Go ahead, Houston.
285:26:02 CC You guys aren't going to believe this, but Santa Claus just walked in the MOCR with a long white beard, red suit, black boots and all, and he's passing out presents to everybody.
285:26:14 Schmitt How did he get there before we did? We just saw him up here about 5 - 5 days ago.
285:26:21 CC Well, he beat you back.
285:26:24 Cernan Gordy, I'd - I'd believe anything. Has he got anything with our name on it?
285:26:31 CC I'll ask him. I don't see anything yet.
285:27:10 CC America, Houston. You can go ahead and start the VERB 49 maneuver. Have a change in the high gain angles, though, as printed there. Make it a plus 30 and 190, instead of minus 40 and 90. That's a plus 30 and 190 on the high gain.
285:27:31 Cernan Okay, I got them, Gordy.
285:27:44 PAO Flight Surgeon, John Ziegelschmitt, received a small telephone for private conversations out of Santa's bag,
285:27:53 Schmitt Gordy, when you get a minute, would you ask one of the Surgeons there what my heart rate peaked out at in the last 15 minutes or so?
285:28:02 CC Okay, I'll do that. I'm just looking at some of the presents here. Mine was a little Skylab food can - flip-top can. It says, "CAPCOM's Postflight Dinner." And I'm pretty sure there's absolutely nothing in it, but I'm afraid to pull the lid off. The Surgeon's got a little plastic telephone that says "For Private Conversations Only."
285:28:27 Schmitt (Laughter)
285:28:35 CC And your heart rate went to - -
285:28:35 Schmitt I'd be more worried about what might be - -
285:28:38 CC Your heart - -
285:28:38 Schmitt Ought to be more worried about what might be in that can, Gordy.
285:28:42 CC (Chuckle) Yes, I am. Geno's heart rate peaked at 115 to 120.
285:28:52 Schmitt Okay, what did the LMP's peak at? He wasn't doing anything.
285:28:56 Cernan I'm not even on biomed, as a matter of fact, Gordy.
285:28:59 CC Oh, I'm sorry. My mistake. (Chuckle) Not the Surgeon's. That was the LMP's.
285:29:19 CC Stovall, on the front row there, got a little shovellike gadget with a sign on it that says "Trenching Tool."
285:29:29 Schmitt Beautiful. (Laughter)
285:29:32 Cernan I thought they might give him a coin. A flipable coin.
285:29:55 CC He's got a coin like that. It says "CSM Active" on both sides.
285:30:02 Cernan Yes, that's what I figured.
285:35:24 CC America, Houston. We're ready for a spinup now.
285:35:28 Schmitt Okay.
285:37:15 Cernan We're spinning, Gordy.
285:37:16 CC Okay. It's looking good.
285:54:53 CC America, Houston. We'd like to throw a few switches on panel 230 and try to get the HF antennas retracted. Over.
285:55:03 Schmitt Okay. Go ahead.
285:55:05 CC Okay. First of all, RADAR - OFF.
285:55:13 Schmitt Okay, Gordy, the RADAR is OFF.
285:55:18 CC Okay; then HF ANTENNA number 2, RETRACT. And give us a mark, please. It should take about a little over 2 minutes.
285:55:28 Schmitt Okay, going to RETRACT -
285:55:30 Schmitt MARK it. Oh, HF-2? Gordy, I started 1. I'm sorry.
285:55:37 CC That's all right. Keep it. It doesn't matter; just keep working on 1 there. Keep it in RETRACT
285:55:44 Schmitt Okay, it's in RETRACT - and stayed there.
285:57:40 CC America, Houston. As you come up on roll of 30, we'd like you to - Okay, break, break - we would like the ANTENNA 1 switched to OFF now.
285:57:54 Schmitt It is OFF.
285:57:57 CC And we got a good retract. Okay, for the guy on the - -
285:58:01 Schmitt Gordy?
285:58:04 CC Go ahead.
285:58:05 Schmitt It was still barber pole when I went to OFF.
285:58:10 CC Okay, that's the one we had trouble with before. That's what we expected. Okay, you can go number 2 to RETRACT now.
285:58:25 Schmitt Okay, number 2 - RETRACT -
285:58:29 Schmitt MARK.
285:58:31 CC Okay, and for whoever is driving the spaceship there, we'd like to stop the roll - stop the PTC at a roll angle of 30 instead of what's in the Flight Plan. That's 30 degrees. And you're passing through 73 right now. Over.
285:58:49 Cernan Okay, Gordy. I got it. I'm looking at NOUN 20. We'll stop it at 30.
285:58:53 CC Okay, and I have different high gains to go with that attitude. They'll be minus 24 and 206.
285:59:06 Cernan Okay. We got them.
286:00:53 CC Jack, Houston. You should be retracted now and have a gray. And you can go OFF if you do.
286:00:59 Schmitt That's affirm and congratulations.
286:01:05 Schmitt And the switch is OFF.
286:01:06 CC Okay, and those high gain angles I passed you are probably misleading. It looks like the high gain ought to just hang on when you stop this maneuver.
286:01:17 Schmitt Okay.
286:01:27 CC America, Houston. It'll be about 5 or 6 minutes until we finish the dump before we can go ahead with that VERB 49, in case you got something to do.
286:02:37 Cernan Okay, Gordy. Thank you.
286:09:50 CC Okay, America. We're ready for the maneuver now.
286:09:55 Cernan Okay, Houston. Here she comes.
286:10:14 Cernan America is on her way again.
286:10:16 CC Okay.
286:10:24 Cernan Gordo, I see two DAP changes here. You want to change this one during the maneuver or - after the maneuver - and then the next one before the next maneuver?
286:10:55 CC We want the DAP load after you get to attitude and then the other DAP load before you start the next maneuver.
286:11:03 Cernan Sounds - that sounds good here. Okay.
286:12:08 CC America, Houston. We need the UV cover closed. The Sun's getting in there.
286:12:16 Schmitt CLOSED, Gordy.
286:12:17 CC Thank you.
286:14:43 CC We should be safe now. Open the UV cover, please.
286:15:05 Schmitt Gordy, it's OPEN.
286:15:07 CC Thank you.
286:15:13 Schmitt Doesn't it bother you to wield such power, Gordy?
286:15:19 CC I'm getting accustomed to it.
286:18:24 Schmitt Gordy, for the first time in seemingly several days, we see the Earth.
286:18:32 CC Roger. Standing by for a weather report.
286:18:40 Schmitt (Laughter) Afraid I don't know whether or not there's any weather down there.
286:18:57 CC Guess you can't see too much of it, huh?
286:19:02 Schmitt No, sir. You're down to a fingernail, if you'll pardon the expression. It - Oh, let's see - it's about a - what do you think, Gene? - about a one-eighth Earth - one-sixth to one-eighth Earth?
286:19:23 Schmitt Got picture, Ron. (Chuckle) You can see it later. (Laughter)
286:26:36 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
286:26:38 CC Go ahead.
286:26:41 Cernan Okay, Gordo, 286:52 on the Flight Plan and 287:40 - is there an update on that? CMP put his biomed harness on - oh, I guess 4 to 6 hours ago.
286:27:01 CC Yes, let me check on that. I - There was something on this when I left last night, but I'll have to get the latest here.
286:27:12 Cernan Okay.
286:34:26 CC America, we're ready now for the steps at 1 - 286:43 - CMC MODE - FREE and AUTO. VERB 48, VERB 49, and so forth. On the biomed, we're going to leave it up to you. Whoever - draw straws or whatever - whoever you decide to wear the biomed tonight, it's your choice.
286:34:53 Cernan That's easy. Jack and I will put it on in the morning. How's that?
286:34:58 CC Okay.
286:35:13 Evans You get to watch Captain America tonight then.
286:35:18 CC Okay, Captain.
286:37:36 CC America, Houston. We'd like OMNI Alfa.
286:39:44 CC America, Houston. We can take the high gain now that you're there. The angles in the book, minus 37 and 48 and AUTO.
286:44:43 CC America, Houston. We're ready for VERB 74.
286:44:51 Cernan Coming at you, Gordo.
286:44:52 Cernan MARK it.
286:47:47 CC Okay, we got a good dump. Thank you.
286:47:53 Evans Okeydoke.
286:57:31 CC America, Houston; over.
286:57:36 Cernan Go ahead.
286:57:37 CC Okay. We've been thinking about the - the busted Snoopy hat and have a suggestion on a - on a configuration that we'd like to present to you as an alternative to the plan you mentioned earlier. See what you think about it.
286:57:59 Cernan Hey, Gordo.
286:58:00 CC Go ahead.
286:58:01 Cernan Can - can you hold off with that update? Ron's off the headset right now, and it'll be a few minutes. And I'd like to hear him - have him hear that.
286:58:10 CC Okay. And just as a brief introduction before he gets on, we're really thinking about letting Jack have the broken one. Nothing personal, Jack, but think that it's probably more important that you and Ron have the - the all-up ones. Over.
286:58:31 Cernan Yes, we've already discussed that, but let - let Ron talk over with what his plan is, and let's hear yours.
286:58:38 CC Okay, give me a call when you're ready.
286:58:41 Cernan Okay. And for food for thought, you might think about that. We looked at a way of just taping the electronic part of the lightweight headset right to - to his helmet. It looked pretty good. So chew on that one for a while, and we'll be back with you and you can come up with your plan.
286:58:58 CC Yes, that sounds like that's - that's our plan, essentially, but I'll go through it in case there's anything that either you or us haven't thought of about it.
286:59:09 Cernan Okay.
287:02:03 CC America, Houston.
287:02:07 Schmitt Go ahead.
287:02:08 CC We'd like to give you what EECOM has said should be the final H2 fan configuration for this mission. H2 FAN 2, OFF, and 3, AUTO.
287:02:26 Schmitt Okay, FAN 2 is going OFF, and 3 to AUTO. And this is truly a historic event.
287:02:38 CC It's been a pleasure to share it with you, Jack.
287:02:39 Cernan Isn't that the way we started? Isn't that the way we started?
287:02:45 CC I think it is. Affirm.
287:02:49 Schmitt Very appropriate, my congratulations and my hat off to the EECOM.
287:02:57 CC Thank you, sir.
287:03:56 CC America, Houston. We'd like you to spin it up on B-2 and D-2, and we have one change in the HIGH GAIN REACQ and NARROW angles. Instead of a YAW of 90, we want a YAW of 45.
287:04:19 Cernan Okay, I'll set them at a YAW of 45.
287:04:26 CC Roger.
287:05:08 CC You probably weren't aware of it, but your IR is chilly. Would you turn it on up until bedtime to warm it up a little, please?
287:05:21 Cernan Okay, that's only - that's only appropriate. IR is ON.
287:05:32 CC Roger.
287:05:46 Evans Okay, Gordy. I just spun up America for you.
287:05:51 CC Thank you.
287:32:08 PAO Apollo control at 287 hours 32 minutes. It's been a relatively quiet period in the control center and aboard the spacecraft. Apollo 17, at the present time, is rotating slowly about the X axis with it's ultraviolet spectrometer pointed toward Scolatic sources of ultraviolet. The crew will be conducting some housekeeping activities aboard the spacecraft changing the lithium hydroxide canisters. They have one more eat period before retiring for an 8 hour rest period at 290 hours even. And, we're now showing some 16 hours 45 minutes until Apollo 17 enters Earth atmosphere. The spacecraft now 85,800 nautical miles from Earth, and velocity increasing to 5,795 feet per second.
287:44:03 Evans Houston, America. The - the CMP is in biomed.
287:44:10 CC Okay, CMP.
287:44:15 Evans Very good.
287:44:21 CC This probably isn't too good a time to have an emergency.
287:44:26 Evans (Laughter)
287:44:28 CC The reason I say that is we got a big Chinese feast going on here in the MOCR.
287:44:35 Evans (Laughter) Oh, you do?
287:44:37 CC Had some food brought in, and everybody's probably more interested in eating than the America right now, I must admit.
287:44:46 Evans (Laughter) Uh-oh.
287:45:17 Evans Houston, America. How's the delivery girl situation? Is it as good as it used to be?
287:45:22 CC Oh, yes. Better, if anything.
287:45:26 Evans Outstanding.
287:46:22 CC Ron, I have some words on our suggestion, probably the same as what you've done already on rigging up the headsets for - for entry tomorrow any time you have a free moment to listen.
287:46:37 Evans Oh, sure. Go ahead. I'm just sitting here right now.
287:46:42 CC Okay. Geno mentioned that you'd already essentially taped the electronic part to your Snoopy hat. I guess, first of all, we're suggesting that you rig - rig this up for Jack, and let you have the good one just to be sure. And I'll - I'll quickly run through the steps we have. I think maybe this will be the easiest way. And you can then listen and if you've done it already or if you - if this mentions something that you haven't thought of, it'll at least accomplish the job. They have about 15 steps here, but I don't think it'll take long to summarize it. They suggest taking the headband off the lightweight headset; in other words, taking the electronic part off the headband, straighten the mike boom, and straighten the - the comm carrier boom, the appropriate one for whichever ear Jack wears his molded earpiece in, then rotate the lightweight headset mike boom 90 degrees. They found that was necessary to get it to face your mouth when - when you end up with this all taped on there. You have to sort of twist it, force it 90 degrees. Then lay the lightweight headset boom along the comm carrier boom with the electronic part on the outside of your - your earpiece on the Snoopy hat. And the - the hose that goes to the molded earpiece facing downward coming out down and with the - the mike boom 1 inch beyond the comm carrier mike boom tip. And then tape the two booms together for the entire length of the comm carrier boom. And then rebend the whole works back so that the tip is back in front of your mouth. And then tape the electronics box onto the side of the earpiece, and you can run tape all the way around the lower part of the earpiece, and you can lift up on the leather-covered doughnuts on the inside there, pull that loose and then run tape underneath. Just pull the lower part of it loose, run tape all the way around to really securely anchor the electronics box to the outside of the - the earpiece so there's no chance that that will slip off or shift. Then you can kind of push the leather earseal back down on top of the tape inside. Let's see. Then - -
287:49:43 Evans Yes. So far - so far, we're right with you.
287:49:56 CC Okay. Then take the comm carrier electrical lead and double it back on itself, and - and tape it together so that it doesn't flop around. And now you've got it essentially set up. I - I've lost my place here on the sequence. Just a second. Okay. Place the molded earpiece - Well, actually, one further modification was then to run the - the hose, which is now external, up underneath the leather doughnut and out through the ear opening, and - and pull it on through. Now you - to put this all on, you'll have to stick the molded earpiece in your ear and then as you pull the Snoopy on, sort of pull the slack out of the - the audio hose there so you don't end up with a lot of hose coiled up in the earcup. And the - the remaining hose then just sort of dangles down beside your neck. Fasten the chinstrap, and make sure that the hose isn't pinched or - anywhere. Readjust the mike boom to a half inch from your - in front of your lips, and make sure one of the foam parts of the mike boom is facing your mouth. Okay. Then you just route the - the electrical lead and the - the plug on down through the slot and ICG, and put - put all the excess length of the connectors and the - the excess stuff down inside the ECG [sic] so it doesn't flop around, and of course mate the pins, the connectors, and snap the ICG closed at the front to be sure that it'll capture. One thing they did try in this configuration is - was - was to see if you could get the helmet on over all that, in case a suited reentry became necessary at short notice, and it does go on. Randy Hester tried it. And with just a little cocking of the head, you can get the helmet on over. How's that sound to you?
287:52:27 Evans Hey, Gordy. That sounds essentially what we were thinking about. We hadn't got to the extent of trying to hook them up yet, you know, put them together yet, but we're thinking along the same lines anyhow. And you brought up a couple of points that are good.
287:52:43 CC Okay. If you got any questions or anything, I've got a demo model sitting right in front of me here, so that we can just discuss it real time as you get it set up. I assume you're going to try to work that up tonight. is that right?
287:53:02 Evans Yes, we can, I guess. Okay, and the - the reason you'd rather have Jack do it than me is simply -simply because of the redun - redund - I can't say the word. (Laughter) Redundancy.
287:53:16 CC That's affirmative. It gives you and Gene the - the prime - best equipment, and we see no reason why this won't work, but like you say, it's only one mike in place of two on the other ones.
287:53:38 Schmitt I'm surprised you didn't have us tape two headsets to the Snoopy helmet.
287:53:46 CC Well, Jack, we'll just take that chance.
287:53:55 Schmitt Well, it took 14 days, but I finally know where I stand.
287:54:03 CC I do have a question. Well, first of all I give you a little weather for the South Pacific tomorrow, if you're interested.
287:54:15 Schmitt Stand by and let's get the commander on the headset here in a minute. Then you can pass it up.
287:54:20 CC Okay.
287:59:11 CC Not bad.
287:59:15 Evans Well, I'll let her go this time.
287:59:35 CC Okay, we got them.
287:59:39 Evans Okay, we'll torque at 59:45.
287:59:43 CC All righty.
288:00:11 CC America, we would like to stop the roll this time around as you come up on 146 roll.
288:00:30 Evans Okay, we'll stop it on 146 roll.
288:05:51 CC America, Houston. When you get her stopped there, we'd like you to hold the attitude until we get the DSE dump before doing the VERB 49,
288:06:01 Evans Okay, Gordo. We're there now.
288:08:22 Cernan Hey, Houston; America. We can take those words on the weather in the recovery area, if you like.
288:08:29 CC Okay. It can be summed up by one word, "Excellent." 2000, scattered, and high-scattered forecast. I'm looking at a satellite picture - high-resolution satellite picture that shows you in the middle of a big high, and she's just - very faint hint of clouds in the area. And the trend of the weather movement is such that you're going into a - an even clearer area by tomorrow. The wind will be 090 at 10; visibility, 10; 2994 on the altimeter. It's of no consequence to the Navy guys, but the landlubber will be glad to learn that there is 3-foot wave heights, and the temperature is 77 degrees. Over.
288:09:29 Cernan Sounds like a fighter pilot's day to come aboard. I think they'll be able to take those seas.
288:09:38 CC (Laughter) Roger. Okay, you can start the VERB 49 if you wish.
288:10:43 CC America, Houston. One other request you might be thinking about that you'd - and that is any deltas to the nominal entry stowage that we might not know about we'd like to know about before you go to sleep tonight so we can think about the CG.
288:11:03 Evans Okay, Gordo. We'll be able to give you those.
288:20:27 CC America, Houston. We're ready to spin it up.
288:20:36 Evans Okay.
289:08:02 PAO This is Apollo Control at 289 hours 8 minutes. We'll be putting the crew to bed in about an hour, actually about 50 minutes from now. And they're eating dinner at this time. No major items scheduled on the Flight Plan between now and the time they begin their sleep period. During the night, the Flight Dynamics Officer and the Retro Return to Earth Officer will be compiling their last stretch of tracking data on the spacecraft and computing the final midcourse correction which would be performed at about 3 hours prior to entry. At the present time that midcourse correction would appear to be very small, around 2 feet per second. Apollo 17 at this time about 80,000 miles from Earth and the spacecraft velocity going through 6,000 feet per second and we'll see an ever more rapid buildup in that velocity as the spacecraft nears Earth.
289:18:38 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
289:18:42 CC Go ahead.
289:18:45 Cernan Gordo, we're just finishing chow and doing a little cleaning up, and I'm doublechecking the stowage and so forth. But we do have a minute. Is there by any chance any late news? Anything going on today that might be of interest?
289:19:01 CC Okay. I haven't heard of anything. You did get a news report this morning? is that correct?
289:19:07 Cernan Yes. We sure did.
289:19:08 CC Okay. I'll see if there's any deltas to that. It'll take me a couple of minutes.
289:19:12 Schmitt Okay. How's the Houston weather today?
289:19:16 CC It was overcast but warmer. Kind of standard winter weather for around here. Not nearly so frigid as it has been the last couple days.
289:19:29 Schmitt Okeydoke.
289:34:10 Cernan Hello, Houston; America.
289:34:13 CC Go ahead, Gene.
289:34:17 Cernan Okay, Gordo; the entry stowage will be as - as in the Flight Plan Supplement, with the exception that there is a - a small LM jettison bag, max weight of about 25 pounds, which will be - which is already, as a matter of fact, packed in A-7.
289:34:47 CC Okay. We got that.
289:34:50 Cernan And the presently used jettison bag weight really isn't very much at all, that's just for housekeeping trash and so forth. We will tie between A-2 and A-3, and there's probably not, at the most, more than 5 pounds there.
289:35:10 CC Okay.
289:35:14 Cernan And right now we haven't seen any specific spot to tie down the LEVAs. If you've got a recommendation, we'll take it. If not, we'll just pick a spot down in the LEB area to tie them down.
289:35:31 CC Okay. I'll see if we have a plan for that.
289:56:02 CC America, Houston. I've got an update to the news.
289:56:02 Cernan Okay, Houston. America's listening.
289:56:02 CC Okay. It's some more like human interest stuff rather than pure news. One thing the - in the Liberty Bowl football game Georgia Tech beat Iowa State. Well, I guess it's not quite over yet - this is a fourth quarter score, Georgia Tech 315 Iowa State 24. And, there is a story about the Moonship that's streaking smoothly homeward. There's nothing in it that you don't know about, though, except maybe one little part of the article describing a quote from William E. Fastie of Johns Hopkins University, member of the Orbital Science Team, who said that a rather startling discovery is the Moon is simply not degassing. It has nothing left in terms of anything that you think - that can create an atmosphere. Much to his surprise, even the amount of hydrogen, an element that should have been the most abundant outgassing candidate, turned out to be about 1 percent of its predicted value. He speculated that the absence of a planetary magnetic field on the Moon works to the purge surface of any atmospheric accumulation. The atoms of gases that have vented to the surface, he theorized, pick up an electrical charge then - and are then swept away by the solar wind, which is a stream of electrified atoms pushing far out into the solar system of the Sun. Former President Truman is stabilized is the word they are using now. His heart condition is unchanged. His kidneys are failing him, and he's termed to be still in a very serious condition but resting comfortably. A declining birth rate and a desire for fewer children in the years ahead have caused the census bureau to reduce sharply its estimates of future population growth in the United States. By the year 2000, for example, the estimate is now 20 million fewer people than had been forecast on the basis of previous statistics. Reduction could have major implications for American society in many areas. And it reflects changes in birth and child planning, which now suggest that the U.S. may eventually reach zero population growth. The last one is pretty interesting, and more so if you can see the picture that goes with the story, about James L. G. Fitzpatrick who for 40 years has been interested in copying natural flight. And he has now designed a batlike flying machine that may be ready for a test run next summer. Fitzpatrick said that the first - that first, every small part of the ungainly structure must be tested carefully. Otherwise you end up either in a disaster or a grave, and we try to avoid that sort of thing. After three decades of trying, Fitzpatrick, who's 66, believes his latest device comes closest to the real thing, although it still needs a small motor to flap the wings. Asked whether his device, as yet unnamed, works on the flight principle of a bird, he said, "I don't know anyone who knows what principle a bird works on, but I guess this is more like a bat of a pterodactyl. Fitzpatrick's ornithopter or flapping wing airplane is equipped with cockpit controls that include a throttle that regulates the 1-horsepower engine and up-and-down flight. Other equipment includes rudder pedals to regulate a power steering system, a parking brake, a pseudopaddagieum, I don't know what that one - that word is, it's a new one on me, to transfer power from the engine to the wings, and a two-way radio. It has a maximum 40-foot wingspan and weighs 320 pounds. It is 6 feet long and it looks like a cage of scaffolding covered in parts by canvas. He said he's far enough along on building his device that he will be able to test the way the wings move in the Staten island Community College gym by the first of the year. However, there will be no free flying. The gymnasium test will involve tying weights to the wing tips and flapping the wings. He said that his bird is rather slow in maturing; and it's been a long gestation period which involved 9000 hours of experimentation, $40,000 in his money, and the dissection of 300 birds of various species. "I've been interested in flight since 1930," he said. "Basically, I was curious as to why various things flew, and I've been painfully finding out ever
289:56:02 Schmitt Huh! Merry Christmas.
289:56:02 Cernan Thank you for the news , Gordo.
290:02:30 Cernan That's a very enjoyable evening to go to bed with on our final night of the flight.
290:02:30 CC Before you turn in, we got a little shopping list to run down with you If you're - nothing to write down, but if you're ready to listen.
290:02:30 Cernan Okay, go ahead.
290:02:30 CC Okay. The Surgeons are, first of all, request that Ron press on his sensors. They're looking like they're getting loose according to the data here. They also reco - recommend for Ron that if he's still using the nose drops - I guess he has been - they recommend that he take one decongestant pill before going to sleep and one after breakfast in the morning. It's a suggestion. It's his option. The thought being it might help in clearing your ears during that final descent. You may leave the optics power on for more heat in the cabin if you wish. We'd like you to stop charge in battery B. Over.
290:03:54 Cernan Okay. He's taking that off the line now; off the charge.
290:03:54 CC Okay. And we'd like the IR, OFF.
290:04:05 Cernan Okay. It's OFF, Gordy.
290:04:05 CC Okay. Let's see, we owe you an answer on what to do with the LEVAs. I guess they were supposed to be on the helmets in the PGA bag. is that going to be a real pain to get at, and put them there?
290:04:05 Cernan No, it's not going to be a pain at all, Gordo; it's just impossible.
290:04:05 CC Okay, well -
290:04:05 Cernan There's just no room in there at all - not - none at all.
290:04:05 CC Okay. I'll - probably not have an answer for you tonight, but first thing in the morning - someplace to put them.
290:04:05 Cernan Okay. It won't be any problem strapping them somewhere, but we thought maybe you had a better idea than we did; if not, when we get our rock bags tied down and all in place, -we'll take a look at a good spot for the LEVAs and let you know.
290:04:05 CC Okay. G&C - I don't know where you are on the checklist - the - just a reminder to zero the optics before you turn in. And I'd like to -say for the whole White Team, who are just - here in another hour, will finish up their - their work with the Apollo Program, and myself included, that this sure has been a pleasure working with not only the two best spacecraft the program has seen but we think the best and most cooperative and -crew also. And it's been a privilege in my esti-matio and a real pleasure, too, and looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.
290:04:05 Cernan Well, Gordo, those are awful kind words, and we do appreciate it very much, but I think you know how we feel about the help you guys give us down there. And - well, it really makes our job easy up here. From the Cape back to the Pacific is -it's the guys from the trench all the way up to the top back there, and that's what it's really all about. We thank you, those are good words, but just consider them reciprocal also.
290:04:05 CC Thank you.
290:04:05 Evans We appreciate it there, White Team.
290:04:05 CC Thank you, Ron.
290:04:05 Cernan Gordo, we'll hang on the air here and we're going to finish up our presleep checklist and we'll just give you one final buzz before we go off on the voice switch.
290:04:05 CC Okay; very good.
290:04:05 Cernan By the way, the Earth is sure starting to get big.
290:04:05 CC Okay. You're about 80,000 miles out.
290:04:05 Cernan Okay, outstanding. I guess, based upon your midcourse 7> that that's a good sign, isn't it? That it's getting big?
290:04:05 CC That's what it's supposed to do.
290:07:45 Cernan It's a - although there's not much of it to see, it's really sort of spectacular because the crescent is getting smaller and smaller although the Moon is getting - is getting larger, and of course the crescent we're looking at now is the Pacific. But even if there were landmasses in there, I don't think we could see much besides the reflection off the clouds - and a - well, in this case, the ocean. But - it's really a pretty spectacular sight because out the other window, now that we're on an intervertical [?] PTC, we've got a full Moon looking back at us. And it's sort of a poetic place to be the night before entry.
290:07:45 CC Yes, I'll bet it is.
290:07:45 Cernan Hang in there, babe, and we'll see you for sure Thursday.
290:07:45 CC Okay; it's a deal.
290:25:53 Evans Houston, how's the CMPs biomed now?
290:25:53 CC Okay, Ron, looks real good.
290:25:53 Evans Okay; mighty fine.
290:25:53 CC I got a final on the Liberty Bowl. Must have been exciting. John Young should be happy. Georgia Tech squeaked through, 31 to 30.
290:25:53 Cernan Looks like there's some pretty good football games coming up this weekend, too.
290:25:53 CC That's right, in the pros.
290:28:20 Cernan Houston, America.
290:28:20 CC Go ahead.
290:28:20 Cernan Gordy, we'd like to go back to AUTO on the GLYCOL EVAP TEMP IN, you concur?
290:28:20 CC That's fine with the EECOM. Your choice.
290:28:39 Cernan Okay. We're just going to go back to AUTO on the switch.
290:28:39 CC Okay.
290:28:39 Cernan And we also would like to take that inverter off. It's getting a little warm in here now and this PTC ought to be pretty comfortable tonight.
290:28:39 CC Okay.
290:28:56 Cernan Okay, we'll take INVERTER number 3 OFF. And I think the POWER'S OFF, also.
290:28:56 CC Okay.
290:40:15 Cernan Houston, America.
290:40:15 CC All right. Go ahead, America; Houston.
290:40:15 Cernan We bid you hello, Bob, and at the same time, good night.
290:40:15 CC What can I say? I'm crying.
290:40:15 Cernan Well, we thought we'd give you about 8 hours to think about it.
290:40:15 CC That's about all I've got to do.
290:40:15 Cernan See you in the morning, babe.
290:40:53 CC Roger.
298:08:53 CC (Music: Anchors Aweigh and the National Anthem)
298:11:31 Evans Hey, Houston. This is America. That's mighty fine.
298:11:31 CC Roger, America. It's Houston. We're ready to have you come home today.
298:11:31 Evans Hey, mighty fine. We're all set, too.
298:11:31 CC Okay, might read you a page - -
298:11:31 Evans . * .
298:11:31 CC Go ahead.
298:11:31 Evans Okay, we've been waiting a long time for Anchors Aweigh. And we've missed it. (Laughter)
298:11:31 CC I imagine - -
298:11:31 Evans You going to play it again?
298:11:31 CC - - imagine you'll hear it a couple of more times today, too.
298:11:31 Evans Oh, okay. But if we could hear it again, that'd be great.
298:11:31 CC It'll take them awhile to cue it up, and maybe we'll work on that. Let me give you guys a few items here while you're thinking. Number 1, the old weather report: 2000 scattered - high scattered - 10 miles visibility, 3-foot seas, winds are out of the east at 10 knots. Just about exactly what you had yesterday, and probably what we've been telling you for 2 or 3 days. Looks like we're going to have a midcourse 7 this morning, about 2 feet per second. Pretty much just to really center us in the corridor. We're already within the corridor now, with no problems. We're going to exit PTC at a different roll angle. We'll read that up to you later when you get the Flight Plan out; but just so you don't go ahead and exit early, we will be sending you something up on that exit PTC to new roll angle. And as far as the LEVAs are concerned, you guys were looking for a place to stow those last night, and what we're suggesting is putting them in the sleep restraint on top of A-8 where you've got one suit stowed, apparently. And we're suggesting you put one of those on the helmet on that PGA. And the other one, as it were, loose and in the bag. Over.
298:13:47 Evans Houston, America. We've got the PGAs in the bag. (Laughter) Hope that's right.
298:13:47 CC You got all three of them in the L-shaped bags, or have you got - The understanding down here, apparently, in talking last night was that one was in a sleep restraint on top of A-8 - in the sleep restraint bag.
298:13:47 Evans Well, we've got CMP and LMP suits in the bottom -I mean, the commander and LMP suits at the bottom part of it. CMP suit's in the top of it - of the L-shaped bag.
298:13:47 CC Okay, we'll work on that. And we've got something else for you here - just a minute.
298:13:47 CC (Music: Anchors Aweigh)
298:13:47 Cernan Thank you, Robert. Most appreciative.
298:13:47 CC Okay, we aim to please. That's also, I might tell you guys, the third time we've played that this morning, although you's only heard it twice. We played it once before we sent the crew alert.
298:17:11 Evans CMP has no comment.
298:17:11 CC Okay, America, we'd like to request MEDIUM on the HIGH GAIN antenna, please.
298:17:11 Evans Okay, you have REACQ and MEDIUM.
298:17:11 CC Okay. And I guess now on the LEVAs, what we're suggesting is you put them - put the two of them in by themselves in a sleep restraint and tie it down on top of A-8. And I've got a lot of fancy words about how to tie it down on top of A-8, if you guys can't figure out how to do it. I can read it off to you, or we can leave it to your intuitive good sense.
298:17:11 Evans Well, so far, we've kept pretty much with most of your recommendations around here. I think we could probably hack that one, too.
298:20:27 CC Roger.
298:20:27 EHD OF TAPE
298:20:27 CC Go ahead, America.
298:20:27 Cernan We're looking at your big smiling crescent. How far out are we?
298:20:27 CC Stand by. You're just about to cross the 40,000-mile line here in the MOCR.
298:47:08 Cernan 40,000 miles. Okay.
299:17:54 Evans Houston, America.
299:17:54 CC Go ahead, America.
299:17:54 Evans Okay. Good morning, Robert. I've got the INJECTOR VALVE temps for you.
299:17:54 CC Roger. We're ready to copy. Five Charlie, 3.95; 5 Delta, 4.4; 6 Alfa, 4.15; 6 Bravo, 4.05; 6 Charlie, 4.3; 6 Delta, 4.2.
299:17:54 CC Okay, Ron. Those sounded good.
299:19:10 Evans Okay.
299:26:57 Evans Got that now.
299:28:08 Evans Houston, America, with the food and medical report.
299:28:08 CC Stand by on that, Ron. We've got an antenna switch coming up. As soon as we get you back on comm, -we'll go ahead with it.
299:28:08 Evans Okay.
299:28:31 CC Okay, Ron. The switch has been made. You're ready - we're ready for the copy.
299:28:45 Evans Map. Oh.
299:28:57 Evans Okay, Houston. ...
299:29:11 Evans Okay, Houston. On the commander's menu, we use negative reporting. Okay, did not eat potato soup, chicken stew, and peach ambrosia. I'm sorry, I started with meal C instead of A. And then to add on meal Charlie, three-fourths jelly candy. Okay, we'll start with A again, on the commander. Did not eat peaches and cocoa. Meal Bravo, did not eat chicken and rice soup and fruitcake. Add one-fourth jelly candy. Okay, for breakfast on day 14. Did not eat mixed fruit. Did not eat cinnamon toast and bread. Did not eat coffee. And add one can of peaches. Okay, commander's medical log: PRD, 17065; 5 hours, fair; none; and five cans of water. Okay, for the LMP, start with meal A, day 13. Did not eat bacon squares, apricots, cocoa. Meal Bravo, did not eat chicken and rice soup. And add - add on graham cracker cubes and a plain coffee. Meal 13, did not eat chicken stew, peach ambrosia, grapefruit drink, and add on a plain coffee and sugar cookies. Day - day 14, meal A, did not eat a half a sausage and a mixed fruit and scratch the potassium in the coffee - A plain coffee. Okay, LMPs PRD, 24227; 6 hours of good; none; and three cans of water. Okay, CMP, meal A, Day 13: did not eat four bacon squares, apricots, and add on a car - a carmel candy. Meal Bravo, did not eat one-fourth of the fruitcake. Add on two tea, three-fourths jelly candy and graham cracker cubes. Meal Charlie, did not eat chicken stew. Add on one-fourth jelly candy. For breakfast, did not eat mixed fruit. Scratch the with K in the coffee. Drank the coffee, but it was black. Add on peaches. Okay, CMPs medical: PRD, 15062; 7 hours of good. The rest of the guys said it was noisy, but I thought it was good. Let's see - medication: one decongestant, one Seconal; and three cans of water. And that completes the medical/food readback.
299:35:12 CC Roger, Ron. Just a word on your consumable status this morning. You're in good shape on RCS, oxygen, and hydrogen. You're in real good shape.
299:35:26 Cernan Okay, Houston, America. When you get that roll angle, let us know, will you?
299:35:32 CC Yes, the roll angle is 306, exit G&N PTC at roll angle 306. And we'll call you when we get there - when you get there.
299:35:44 Cernan Okay, we're watching it, Bob, 306.
299:36:23 CC And, America, Houston. The HIGH GAIN angles to go with that roll angle of 306. HIGH GAIN angles are PITCH, 34; YAW, 267. Over.
299:36:38 Evans Roger. 34 and 267.
299:37:20 CC And, America, Houston. I've got a couple of other items on this Flight Plan updates, if you're ready to copy now.
299:37:27 Cernan Go ahead, Bob.
299:37:29 CC Okay, at 301:50, 301:50, add "UV COVER, CLOSED."
299:37:50 Cernan Okay, got it.
299:37:52 CC Okay, and then on the other page there. At 302:06, delete the line, "UV COVER, CLOSE."
299:38:06 Cernan Okay.
299:38:07 CC The next change here is to the Entry Checklist and to the entry cue card.
299:38:25 Cernan Okay, go ahead.
299:38:27 CC On the Entry Checklist, page 1-3 between steps 23 and 24, it's actually part of step 23. S-BAND OMNI antenna Charlie, change that to Delta - OMNI - S-BAND OMNI antenna, Delta.
299:38:48 Cernan Okay, we've got Delta at horizon check attitude.
299:38:53 CC Roger. And if you'll go over to 2-4, Entry Checklist, where it says, "Yaw back to zero degrees" after SEP, we would like you to insert, "Select OMNI Charlie" - OMNI Charlie, at that time. And that will be also required on your entry cue card at 45 minutes where it says, "Yaw to zero," you'll have to be OMNI Charlie, select OMNI Charlie.
299:39:30 Cernan Okay, we've got it covered everywhere.
299:39:33 CC Okay, and the reason for that is for better coverage going through Hawaii and that and then OMNI Charlie is coming back up on the ARIA.
299:39:45 Cernan Okay, Bob.
299:40:10 CC And, America, Houston. Just one word for the CMP, if you have a chance. One of your EKG sensors seems to be loose, if you can tighten it up a little bit.
299:40:20 Evans Okay, I'll start pressing on it.
299:46:28 CC America, Houston. You're getting pretty close to your 306 roll.
299:46:34 Cernan I'm watching here, Bob. NOUN 20.
299:46:36 CC Okay. Real fine.
299:46:53 CC We'd like AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
299:47:19 CC America, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT; we've got your entry REFSMMAT.
299:47:28 Cernan Okay. You have ACCEPT.
299:47:35 Schmitt Okay, Houston. IR is coming ON. Houston, do you copy? The IR's ON and the COVER's coming OPEN.
299:47:50 CC Affirmative.
299:47:53 Cernan Okay, Bob. Spacecraft is configured in SCS as per the Flight Plan up through the P52.
299:48:05 CC Roger.
299:48:59 CC America, Houston. The computer is yours.
299:49:10 Evans Roger. We're with the BLOCK.
299:54:48 PAO This Is Apollo Control at 299 hours, 54 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. 4 minutes - 4 hours, 23 minutes away from entry into the atmosphere. An hour and 22 minutes until -
299:55:04 Evans And, Houston; America. Have you copied the DSKY?
299:55:09 CC Roger, Ron. We've got you NOUN 05.
299:55:12 Evans Okay.
299:55:16 PAO One hour, 22 minutes until ignition on midcourse burn number 7 which will be a two jett RCS maneuver.
299:55:26 CC And we've got your NOUN 93s.
299:55:36 Evans Okay, we'll torque at 55:45.
299:56:07 PAO Midcourse 7 is now standing at about 2.1 feet per second. The spacecraft presently is 33,435 nautical miles out from earth. Velocity continuing to build up: 10,359 feet per second which will grow to 36,000 feet per second at the time the spacecraft enters the Earth's atmosphere at approximately 85 miles altitude. At 299:56 up live on the air to ground circuit through entry and splashdown. This is Apollo Control.
299:57:12 CC Ron, while you're doing your maneuvering, no need to answer, but just a reminder. Due to the - stopping your roll angle differently, you're under the EI REFSMMAT attitude, your roll will be about 046, and you'll see a max yaw of about 64 degrees during this gyro torquing.
299:57:27 Evans (Laughter) Okay, thanks for telling me.
299:57:41 Evans It sounded like yesterday you might have had a cold, and it sounds like it might be a little worse today.
299:57:54 CC No, no. Feeling great.
299:58:03 Evans Okay, mighty fine.
299:58:07 CC That's my "get serious and get you home" voice, see?
299:58:14 Evans (Laughter) Okay, perfect.
300:08:32 Evans Okay, Houston. This is the coarse align torquing angles, and we'll torque at 08:45.
300:08:46 CC Stand - Okay, go ahead. That's fine.
300:08:50 Evans You want me to read them down to you?
300:08:52 CC No, that's all right. We didn't need them.
300:08:54 Evans Okay, I didn't think so.
300:08:57 CC And just for your information, I might pass along the drift checks on the platform have been extremely good, and the platform is in real good condition. I'm sure you're - -
300:09:10 Evans Hey, mighty fine. What kind of values - average values have you been coming up with? I remember some in lunar orbit, but I don't know if - they haven't come back since then.
300:09:27 CC You're down like 0.005 degrees per hour, down in the thousandths of degrees per hour.
300:09:35 Evans (Laughter) That's - that's not bad at all, is it?
300:09:38 CC No, that's - you could take it right back to the Moon if you wanted to, by golly.
300:09:42 Evans Yes, sure could.
300:10:51 Cernan Hey, Bob. GDC is aligned, and we are in CMC.
300:10:57 CC Roger.
300:11:15 CC America, Houston. If you'll give us ACCEPT, we'll give you an MCC7 target load, a target vector, and an entry vector.
300:11:25 Cernan Okay, you have ACCEPT.
300:11:34 CC And, America, we've got the MCC7 and the entry pads for you whenever you're ready to copy.
300:11:42 Cernan Okay. Stand by 1. And you might be interested to know, we have had no problems whatsoever locking the YY strut on this flight.
300:11:53 CC Good show. We copy that.
300:13:03 Schmitt Okay, Bob. Ready for midcourse 7.
300:13:09 CC Roger. Midcourse 7, RCS/G&N; 26686; NOUN 48s are not applicable; 301:18:00.34; plus 0002.1, plus all zeros, minus 0000.1; 000, 130, 000; HA is not applicable, plus 0022.9; 0002.1, 0:09, 0002.1; sextant star is 31, 329.9, 34.8. Rest of the pad is not applicable. Set stars, Sirius and Rigel; 273, 256, 347. One note, we would like two-jet plus-X RCS using quads Bravo and Delta. I'll say again, two-jet plus-X RCS quads Bravo and Delta. Another note, HIGH GAIN angles: PITCH, minus 83; YAW, 244. Over.
300:15:27 CC And, America, the computer's yours.
300:15:30 Schmitt Okay, going to BLOCK. Okay, Bob. Here's your readback, it's a midcourse 7, RCS/G&N; 26686; NOUN 48 is NA; 301:18:00.34; plus 0002.1, plus all zeros, minus 0000.1; 000, 130, 000; HA is NA, plus 0022.9; 0002.1, 0:09, 0002.1; 31, 329.9, 34.8. Rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 273, 256, 347. Ullage is two jets plus-X RCS quads B and D. That's Bravo and Delta. HIGH GAIN: PITCH, minus 83; and YAW is 244. Over.
300:16:37 CC Roger, Jack. Good - good readback except it's not ullage. It's just your two-jet burn.
300:16:43 Schmitt Well, okay. Two-jet burn, then.
300:16:53 CC And, Jack, we have the entry pad. Standing by for your call.
300:17:10 Schmitt Okay, Houston. We're ready to copy.
300:17:13 CC Okay, it's into the MIDPAC area; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268; NOUN 61s minus 17.88, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1044.9, 36172; 304:18:37; 00:29; NOUN 69 is not applicable; D0 4.00, 02:09; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39; sextant star is 13, 117.3, 15.5; boresight star is not applicable; lift vector is up. I've got six comments. You can take those now, or we can get the readback and then go through the comments.
300:18:59 Schmitt Go ahead on the comments, and take them a little slower than usual, Bob.
300:19:03 CC Okay. Comment number 1: Use nonexit EMS pattern. Comment number 2: RET 90K, 06:01. RET mains, 08:26. RET landing, 13:17. Constant g is roll right. And the last comment: GET moonset, 304:16:14. Over.
300:20:28 Schmitt Okay, Roberto. That's MIDPAC; 000, 153, 000; 304:01:37, 268; minus 17.88, minus 166.13; 06.4; 36090, 6.49; 1044.9, 36172; 304:18:37; 00:29, NOUN 69 is NA; 4.00, 02:09; 00:17, 03:37, 07:39; 13, 117.3, 15.5; boresight star is NA; lift vector is up. Comments, 1: use nonexit EMS pattern; 2: RET 90K is 06:01; RET mains, 08:26; RET landing, 13:17; comment 3: constant g, roll right; 4 is GETT moonset, 304:16:14. Over.
300:21:47 CC Roger, Jack. Good readback. That should be the last of the pads.
300:21:55 Schmitt Okay, sir. Give my hand a rest.
300:28:53 Evans Okay, Houston. Changing the DAP for BD on the two-jet plus-X.
300:28:59 CC Okay, we're watching.
300:31:23 Cernan Hello, Houston; it's America.
300:31:29 CC Go ahead.
300:31:33 Cernan Okay, Bob. Looks like CDR has - there's no biomed electrolyte sponges in the spacecraft, either in the LM kit we brought back or in the Command Module kit. So it looks like I'll be going in without biomed.
300:31:58 CC Roger, Gene.
300:32:11 CC Hope you can make it, Geno, without that.
300:32:15 Evans (Laughter)
300:35:00 Cernan Okay.
300:35:03 Evans Let me know when you want the numbers there, Gene.
300:35:22 Evans ... 86.8, going normal. (Laughter) There's the commander's ALARM. That's good.
300:35:43 Evans Okay, plus 329.90. Plus 34.800. And we - star 31.
300:36:08 Evans And, Houston, we've got a minus 29.2 on the DELTA-V test function of the EMS.
300:36:16 CC Roger. We copy that, Ron.
300:36:29 Evans And star - star sextant check is good there, Houston.
300:36:34 CC Roger.
300:36:44 Evans Okay. You guys can go ahead and dump now.
300:37:32 Evans (Laughter) Must be accelerating like a son-of-a-buck ... the EMS pump.
300:38:42 Evans Well, I'll be darned.
300:38:53 Evans And, Houston, you go to ENTRY and NORMAL on the null bias check. EMS is counting like a son of a gun. (Laughter) Almost as fast as the DELTA-V test but not quite.
300:39:07 CC Roger. You're really smoking along, aren't you?
300:39:14 Evans (Laughter) Well, I wouldn't think it would sense that, but - -
300:39:17 CC Roger.
300:39:25 Evans Anyhow, we'll use burn time and - NOUN 85 for the - the burn.
300:39:37 CC Roger.
300:40:28 CC Ron, you're happy with your EMS and null bias check, aren't you?
300:40:33 Evans Negative. Not on the null bias check, no. I'll give you a count in a minute. I'm going to redo the EMS DELTA-V test, and then go back and try another null bias check. But it looked like it was counting from about 100 to - to 75 in 30 seconds, but let me check that out.
300:41:13 Evans Okay. Did the DELTA-V test, and that time we got a minus 20.3.
300:42:05 Evans Okay, Houston. They started at minus 100 on the null bias check; 30 seconds at 118.8.
300:42:46 Evans One minute, 137.8.
300:42:54 CC Ron, would you verify those are negative numbers?
300:42:57 Evans That's affirmative. They're negative.
300:43:26 Evans Okay, a minute and 40 seconds, minus 162.7 or so.
300:44:22 Evans Okay, Houston. We've got a little bit of time here. And looks like I've still got three EMS tests left. I'd like to go ahead and do another EMS test on that, and we'll see if that integrator is all fouled up completely - on the range integrator.
300:44:48 CC Okay, Ron. We agree.
300:44:50 Evans Okay.
300:45:41 Evans Okay, TEST 1 looks alright.
300:46:00 Evans And TEST 2 is okay; .05 G light is ON. Okay, going to TEST 3; 10 seconds -
300:46:20 Evans MARK it. Upper light came on.
300:46:40 Evans Okay, a 58.0 in the range counter -
300:46:54 Evans MARK it. Okay, it's slowing down going across -
300:47:04 Evans MARK it. Ah-ha. Okay. G line comes across at 9 z - g's (laughter), and range indicator indicates 0.0. Outstanding.
300:48:09 Evans And test 5 works all right.
300:52:35 Evans Okay.
300:53:02 Evans Well, looks like a P41 here. Watch it count down.
300:53:09 Cernan ... 9, 130, and 359. Oh, about 25 minutes from the burn, 25.
300:53:17 Evans Think you can get those things done by that time?
300:53:29 Evans Okay, just so I won't forget it, let's go ahead and trim it.
300:53:43 Evans Okay, we are trimmed. About 1 minute. ... 24 minutes to the burn.
300:55:10 Evans ...
300:56:13 Evans Houston, America. Does it look like we're going to hack it on the waste water tank there? ...
300:56:19 CC Ron, yes. We're not going to dump the waste water tank at this time, and we won't dump it after midcourse 7 of course.
300:56:26 Evans (Laughter) Okay. Just wanted to make sure.
300:57:05 Evans Yes. BAT C, up around 36.5. Pyros, 36.9, 36.9.
300:57:25 Evans ... Okay. Fuel cells are looking good, too.
300:57:34 Evans A/C is looking good.
300:59:16 Evans About 18 minutes yet.
300:59:24 CC America, Houston.
300:59:26 Evans Roger. Go ahead.
300:59:28 CC Oh, Ron, we've been kicking around this EMS test and the null bias test and that, and we concur on this burn using NOUN 85s and your burn time as your cues and not using EMS. We would like, however, for you to bias the EMS. Set in a plus 118.8 at - and it will go to NORMAL at Tig minus 30 seconds and we'd just be interested in what the EMS does under a very small g field like this.
301:00:01 Evans Okay. We'll set in at plus 118.8 and turn it to NORMAL at Tig minus 30 seconds. And I'll try to look at it at the end of burn time or go to STANDBY at that point in time so we can make a good hack on it.
301:00:15 CC Roger. That'd be great, Ron, and we see no problem for entry with EMS.
301:00:20 Evans Roger. Mighty fine.
301:00:30 Evans We've really got the Christmas spirit out the window here. Looks like it's really snowing.
301:00:37 CC (Laughter) Roger. Glad it's not snowing on us with that stuff.
301:00:45 Evans (Laughter) Oh, it's frozen.
301:02:50 Evans Okay, Gene. Let me read through the P41 here just to make sure we got everything. Okay, we're in SIM basic configuration, I guess. Yes, the IR's ON, and it won't hurt anything. UV's ON, but at this point in time, it won't make any difference, I guess. CMC is ON, ISS is ON, SCS is operating. We tested the caution and warning, the DELTA-V test works, null bias ... And DELTA-Vc, we'll set that up.
301:03:48 Evans Okay. We got 118.8 and DELTA-V in STANDBY. BMAGs are caged and RATE 2.
301:04:03 Evans Okay. AUTO RCS SELECTS. We'll put those on for trim. We're just going to trim the X-axis only? Okay, I'll leave the A/C OFF. Okay, I got the DAP. VERB 04 NOUN 46 ENTER. CSM. Don't use A/C. Use B/D for plus-X. ... DEAD BAND, one-half degree per second. Use B/D for ROLL. Okay.
301:04:45 Evans Okay, ROT CONTROLLER ACs are ON, DIRECTS are ON. ... 13 minutes. Okay, I got the DET set. Looks like it agrees. And we're in CMC and AUTO. We're in the burn attitude. Done the boresight and sextant star check. We're in P41, have maneuvered to the right attitude.
301:05:18 Evans And we're still in RATE 2. CMC, AUTO. Okay, let me realign the old GDC.
301:06:51 Evans Okay, the old GDC is aligned. Let's see. MANUAL ATTs are in RATE COMMAND.
301:07:00 Evans The DEAD BAND RATE to LOW. LIMIT CYCLE is OFF. ATT 1, RATE 2.
301:07:14 Evans Okay, stand by for 5 minutes. And we're 10 minutes from the burn, Gene.
301:07:33 Evans And, Jack, burn time is 9 seconds - 9 seconds. And we'll trim X only to 0.2 foot per second.
301:08:12 Evans Houston, America. Does this kind of change our entry angle, what, about 0.2 - 0.2 degree?
301:08:24 CC 0.2 of a degree, Ron.
301:08:27 Evans Oh, okay.
301:08:37 Evans Which way? Does it steepen it or shallow it up?
301:08:41 CC It'll make you a little more shallow. Or, it'll shallow it up - -
301:08:45 Evans Oh, okay. Okay.
301:08:59 CC Ron, it's going to run you from 6.7 entry angle to a 6.49.
301:09:05 Evans Oh, okay. Yes, that's what I thought, okay.
301:09:40 Cernan Eight minutes to go. ...
301:10:01 Evans Next time we do this, we'll have to allow a little more time for the - the BUSS/dumping, I think, prior to the burns.
301:11:00 CC America, Houston. You're GO for MCC7.
301:11:05 Evans Roger. We're GO for midcourse number 7.
301:12:53 Cernan Is one of those going the other way?
301:13:01 Evans I guess they go in all directions. It just looks like they're - they're whipping by window 1 here.
301:13:36 CC Go ahead.
301:13:57 PAO This is Apollo Control at 301 hours 14 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, 3 minutes 48 seconds away from midcourse 7 maneuver. Distance currently 25,408 nautical miles. Velocity 11,928 feet per second. Three minutes, 20 seconds mark to midcourse 7, 2.1 feet per second, 2 jet RCS maneuver.
301:14:05 Evans That's only 2.2 foot per second.
301:14:53 Evans TRANS CONTROL POWER is ON. Okay. We're ON and armed.
301:15:06 Evans Okay, we have trim. There ... down there.
301:15:50 Cernan Okay, Houston; America. We're coming up on 2 minutes, and we're ready for MCC7.
301:15:56 CC Roger, America. You're looking good.
301:16:14 Evans Yes, burn time is 9.6. Clock's right on.
301:16:33 Evans Yes, that's right. It'll go out automatically within 30 seconds. Okay.
301:16:47 Cernan (Laughter) I wonder what we've got now. ...
301:17:00 Evans ... 30 seconds, we'll go EMS to NORMAL.
301:17:13 Evans DEAD BAND, TRANS CONTROL, AC DIRECTS, CMC, AUTO.
301:17:18 Evans Okay. There we go, 30 seconds. EMS to NORMAL.
301:17:26 Evans Okay.
301:17:40 Evans ... Ten seconds to go, Jack. 2, 1 -
301:17:52 Evans MARK it.
301:17:55 Cernan We're burning, Houston.
301:17:57 CC Roger.
301:18:06 Evans Okay, got her? And I stopped it right at 9 seconds. There's your NOUN 85.
301:18:14 CC We're looking at them.
301:18:15 Evans Okay, EMS is 100.1. Okay, TRANS CONTROL POWER is OFF. DIRECTs are OFF, Hand controllers are safed.
301:18:37 Cernan Houston, looks like the burn was right on the money. You saw the residuals, and the burn was a 9-second burn, on time.
301:18:47 CC Roger, America. It looked good.
301:18:51 Cernan And the VERB 66 is in.
301:18:56 CC Roger.
301:19:00 Evans Ah-ha, I get to get out of my g suit.
301:19:06 Evans You know, while I think about it, Houston, I've noticed it throughout the - the flight here. In the simulator, CMC control will allow your rates - you know - to bounce back and forth maybe up to, oh, sometimes 0.1, more than likely 0.05 degrees per second as it trims within the dead band. In four-jet translations, as well as in two-jet translations, your rates get up to about almost 0.4 degree per second as it's damping within its own dead band there.
301:19:51 CC Roger, Ron.
301:20:26 CC America, Houston. Just to make doubly certain that we don't get any venting from the waste tank, we would like on panel 352 the WASTE WATER RELIEF valve to OFF, please.
301:20:42 Evans Okay, we'll get that. BATTERY VENT presumably will stay OPEN, though, is that correct?
301:20:57 CC Stand by on that, Ron. That's affirmative, Ron.
301:21:04 Evans Okay, we'll leave the BATTERY VENT OPEN.
301:21:34 Evans Okay, Houston. The dump PRESSURE RELIEF valve is in OFF.
301:21:42 CC Roger.
301:22:40 CC And, America; Houston. We'd like WIDE on the HIGH GAIN.
301:22:48 Evans Okay, the old HIGH GAIN is on WIDE and AUTO.
301:22:53 CC Roger.
301:38:23 PAO This is Apollo Control at 301 hours 38 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. 2 hours 39 minutes away from entry into the atmosphere for Apollo 17. Velocity now 12,611 feet per second. This velocity will triple by the time they reach the atmosphere. Current predicted velocity at atmospheric entry 36,090 feet per second at an angle of minus 6.5 degrees. Command Module Pilot, Ron Evans, at the present time, is donning the so called counter-pressure garment which is being evaluated for possible future space programs as a protection against cardiovascular changes that occur to the human body after long missions. The midcourse correction burn number 7 went off on time very nominally. Little over 9 seconds burn time with two RCS jets. A change in velocity of 2.1 feet per second. In the landing area in the South Pacific the National Weather Service said, this morning, that weather conditions are expected to be satisfactory. Weather forecast for the planned landing area, 360 nautical miles southeast of Pago Pago is for partly cloudly skies, easterly winds at 10 miles, seas at 3 feet, and a temperature of near 77 degrees. 2 hours 38 minutes away from entry and at 301:40 Ground Elapsed Time in the mission of Apollo 17, this is Apollo Control.
301:40:46 CC America, Houston.
301:40:50 Schmitt Go ahead.
301:40:51 CC Jack, we're just more or less trying to fill up our data book down here and if you haven't already done one, we'd - like any free time, if Ron would run another null bias check just to see if the drift changed when we did that little bitty burn.
301:41:07 Schmitt Okay. I'll mention that to him.
301:42:33 Schmitt Houston, 17.
301:42:46 CC Go ahead, America.
301:42:47 Schmitt Yes, Bob; this is Jack. You have any problem reading me with this comm configuration I got on now?
301:42:54 CC No, we're reading you loud and clear. If I was a little late on that, it's because I've got some problems down here on my console, that's all. The whole room yelled at me that you'd called.
301:43:05 Schmitt No, that's no problem. I just hadn't made a check with you and I wanted to make sure I was readable.
301:46:54 Evans Okay, Houston. This is America, Command Module Pilot on the LMP's comm carrier. How do you read?
301:47:02 CC Read you loud and clear, Ron.
301:47:04 Evans Okay, good. I understand you want a null bias check again?
301:47:08 CC Yes, we're just wondering if maybe the - maybe it was an air bubble or something in there - in the - small g-field of that midcourse 7 burn might have changed something. Just like to take a look at it.
301:47:20 Evans Okay. We'll take a look at her.
301:48:24 Evans Okay, in 30 seconds, 94.0; starting at plus 100 that time, for some reason.
301:48:55 Evans One minute, 87.8.
301:49:42 Evans Okay. It was 79.0 at a minute and 40 seconds.
301:49:48 CC Okay, Ron. We got that.
301:49:58 Evans Do you want to try the minus 100 part of it? Really think it's worth it?
301:50:05 CC Well, Ron, we'd like it if you could dat - data gathering point, that's all - -
301:50:11 Evans Okay. Let's do - -
301:50:11 CC You know what's due on entry.
301:50:14 Evans The other guys are crawling around down under the couches. They're trying to get that stuff locked in there anyhow. I think I must have shrank, my shoes went on easier now than they did on the fitting. I must have shrunk, I guess, is the correct terminology. Shrank? Shrink?
301:50:46 CC Whatever you like.
301:50:48 Evans (Laughter)
301:51:53 Evans Okay, minus 105.8 at 30 seconds.
301:52:23 Evans Minus 115.7 - I mean 111 - 111.7 at 1 minute.
301:53:04 Evans And it's minus 119.1 or 2 - about 2 - about 119.2 about a minute and 40.
301:53:12 CC Okay, Ron. That's very consistent data both ways on that - after the burn. It doesn't tie up with the data prior to the burn too well.
301:53:22 Evans Uh huh.
301:54:00 Evans Houston, UV COVER is CLOSED and talk back's gray.
301:54:06 CC Roger.
301:59:15 CC Ron, we're going to break lock here a minute. We've got a site handover.
301:59:20 Evans Okay. I understand.
302:05:50 Cernan Hello, Houston. How do you read CDR?
302:05:54 CC Read you loud and clear, Ron - Gene.
302:05:57 Cernan Okay, Bob. I'm back up now and I'll stay with you.
302:07:55 Evans Okay, and IR can come OFF. And the UV, OFF; IR cover, CLOSED. S-BAND AUX TV, OFF. OFF, yes. And DATA SYSTEM, OFF. Through with the old Flight Plan. Let's check and see if we've got those other two items first. I think we do. Yes, that was one.
302:08:48 CC Okay, Ron, we'd like to make sure that the LOGIC POWER on 181 is OFF, center.
302:08:56 CC Okay, stand by 1. Yes. Yes, they're in DEPLOYMENT RETRACT. Let's put them to OFF.
302:09:25 Evans Okay, DEPLOY MAIN A, MAIN B are both OFF, center.
302:09:36 CC Okay, Ron. Thank you.
302:09:49 CC And it's sad to shut off the SIM bay, it's operated so tremendously in this mission.
302:09:56 Evans SIM bay has been outstanding.
302:18:04 Evans Okay, Houston. We're coming up on 2 hours here. How about the logic sequence check?
302:18:12 CC We're standing by.
302:18:15 Evans Okay, SECS LOGIC, two of them are CLOSED; SECS ARM, two are CLOSED; ELS CSM SEP, BAT A, BAT B are CLOSED. Okay, ELS LOGIC is ON; ELS AUTO is ON. Okay, Houston, you all set for the SECS LOGIC?
302:18:53 CC That's affirmative.
302:18:56 Evans Okay, number 1 is ON. SECS LOGIC number 2 is ON.
302:19:13 CC America, we're GO for PYRO ARM.
302:19:16 Evans Okay, that sounds good. We're go for PYRO ARM. Okay, SECS LOGIC number 2 is coming OFF; SECS LOGIC number 1 is OFF. ARM BAT B is OPEN; ARM BAT A is OPEN; ELS LOGIC is OFF; ELS is to MANUAL. Okay, the old SEP breakers are OPEN.
302:19:51 CC Roger. God show, Ron.
302:19:53 Evans Okay, we've got her.
302:22:08 Cernan Hello, Houston; this is America. We are stowed for reentry.
302:22:15 CC Roger.
302:22:57 Cernan And, Bob, as a note of interest, the spacecraft is dry. Both the forward hatch, the tunnel, and the tunnel hatch.
302:23:07 CC Roger. We got that.
302:35:15 Evans Okay, Houston, this is America. We'll whip into a P52 here.
302:35:21 CC Roger. We're watching it.
302:36:50 Evans There goes the Earth. Man, it was just a sliver.
302:36:50 Evans Houston, you'd be happy to know that the Moon, now, has finally gotten back to its normal size for us.
302:36:50 CC Roger.
302:41:07 Evans Well, that's not 5 balls, but that's not a bad way to end, I guess. You know, I never noticed it before, but I'm looking next to the - to the Earth, right now. And, of course, that makes it a kind of bluish reflection inside the - the sextant, and you can't see the reticle brightness at all. It just - you know, it just comes through as a black - black line in there. And there are two lines. You know, I've got two - One of them must be - there are two - two reticles - no, there are two reticles. One's in focus, but the other one isn't.
302:41:07 CC Roger, Ron. We can accept the NOUN 05.
302:41:52 Evans (Laughter) Okay. There we go. There's NOUN 93.
302:41:52 CC Then you can torque those, Ron.
302:41:52 Evans Okay, we'll torque at 45 - 42:15.
302:41:52 Evans Okay, Houston. We're going to maneuver to the horizon check attitude now.
302:43:06 CC Roger, Ron.
302:43:06 Cernan Houston, America. I'll go OMNI Delta now.
302:43:06 CC Roger. We concur.
302:43:06 Evans Got the commander's ALARM.
302:43:06 CC Roger. Copy.
302:49:36 Cernan Houston, America. The horizon star check is GO.
302:49:41 CC Roger. Good word.
303:03:11 Evans Okay, it's 10 seconds. Looks good - indicator light. This one. That always comes on on TEST 1, I don't know - .05 G light always comes on TEST 1. Okay? And still got two of them left. Let's try number 2, I guess. Never pass up a gas station, if you really need it. Okay, TEST 2.
303:04:08 Evans Okay, it's out.
303:04:08 Evans Okay? There we go -
303:04:30 Evans MARK it.
303:04:40 Evans MARK it. Okay, 10-second timer works. Always comes out.
303:04:40 Evans Okay, we got 58, is that in there? Okay; wait a minute. Okay, here we go. There goes zip. TESTs are going down. Stops at 9gs going across, counting down.
303:05:43 Evans MARK it. Okay, it stopped at 0.0. Stopped right at the old black line there. That's good. Okay, .05 G light on. Okay, 10 seconds later or so, here we go.
303:06:10 Evans Yes, it's going out. It stopped at 0-2. It advanced 10 seconds and the light came on. Okay; let's see, we can go to 37K. Hey, Houston, let me doublecheck on this. The .05 G light was on, in EMS TEST 1, when I went to NORMAL. And it seems to me like that's normal but it may not be. Could we check on that for sure.
303:06:10 CC Okay, we're checking on that.
303:06:10 Evans Can - press on with the activation here.
303:07:25 Cernan Houston, we're pressing on with the primary water evap activation at this time.
303:07:25 CC Stand by 1. It's affirmative - to Ron - that he can press on with EMS jun - TEST.
303:07:25 Evans Okay; thank you much.
303:07:25 CC And to Gene, on those water boilers, that's affirmative.
303:07:25 Cernan Okay; fi ne.
303:07:49 Evans Okay, nonexit pattern, that's what we want. See the line on 37K. Okay; we go to RANGE SET - Flick! There it goes, up to the top. Okay, we're in RANGE SET, and we'll stand by now.
303:08:25 Cernan Houston, we're going to activate the secondary.
303:08:25 CC You are GO on the secondary.
303:08:25 Cernan Okay.
303:08:25 CC Okay, Ron, as you're going through the test, just a word on that EMS TEST 1. It is not normal for the zero - .05 G light to be on in ENTRY TEST mode 1. It is probably a result of that drifting accelerometer. It's - we'll have to just wait and see what the rest of the test looks like.
303:08:25 Evans Okay; the rest of the test was GO.
303:08:25 CC Okay. Again, it's probably the result of that drifting accelerometer, and possibly under the high-g load of entry, it will be no problem at all. It's all probably in the - drifting in the -in the mud.
303:08:25 Evans Okay. Mighty fine.
303:08:25 CC And, America, if you can give us ACCEPT, we've got a vector for you.
303:09:44 Evans Okay; you have ACCEPT.
303:10:18 Cernan Okay, Houston; both evaporators are up.
303:10:18 Evans Well, I just -
303:11:22 Cernan Hello, Houston; on the preheat, we've got 5 Charlie, at 38.
303:11:22 CC We copy that. And we're running the cal curve.
303:11:22 Cernan And we've got 6 - Okay, and we've got 6 Bravo, at 385-
303:11:22 CC America, the computer is yours.
303:12:02 Evans Okay, we're going to BLOCK.
303:12:02 CC America, Houston. We looked through the cal curve, and we recommend no preheat on the RCS.
303:12:02 Evans Roger, Houston. I understand. No RCS preheat -command module RCS preheat.
303:12:02 CC That's affirmative.
303:15:13 CC America, Houston. Somebody standing by on the VHF? We'd like to get the VHF voice check out of the way, if that's possible.
303:15:13 Cernan Okay; go ahead.
303:15:13 CC Stand by. We'll reconfigure here.
303:16:45 CC America, Houston. We'd like to verify that the left antenna is selected, and that we are in VHF SIMPLEX Alfa.
303:16:45 CC America, Houston. America, Houston.
303:16:45 Evans I'll get them on S-band. Houston, this is America. Go' ahead on S-band.
303:16:45 CC Roger. Did you get my last call? We'd like to verify, in left antenna, and in SIMPLEX Alfa? And we'll give you VHF check here shortly.
303:16:45 Evans Affirmative. Maybe that was feedthrough, but we were on - Jack was on - VHF, called you back on VHF. Must have been S-band feedthrough, though. But verified; we're antenna left and VHF SIMPLEX Alfa.
303:16:45 CC Roger, Ron, and we are going to simul. I understand Jack is reading us on the VHF.
303:16:45 Evans Yes, that's affirm. And he was retransmitting on VHF; evidently, you weren't reading our VHF.
303:16:45 CC Roger. It's normal to have VHF up-link prior to receiving VHF down-link. We're satisfied here.
303:16:45 Evans Okay. Mighty fine.
303:19:20 CC And, Ron, just for clarification, we will make another VHF check when you get a little closer, so we can get a down-link signal on you.
303:19:20 Evans Oh, okay, real well.
303:19:20 Cernan Hello, Houston. We have a GO on the pyro bats, they're both 37, we're picking the checklist up on the top of 1-6.
303:19:20 CC Roger. We understand.
303:20:50 Evans Okay. On Panel 8. Okay, DIRECT ULLAGE are OPEN. COMMAND MODULE HEATERS are OPEN. Okay, DOCKING PROBES are OPEN - Whoops, stand by, stand by - let's CLOSE the RCS LOGIC, then. RCS LOGIC - MAIN A, MAIN B are going CLOSED. Okay, DOCKING PROBES are OPEN; SPS PITCH - and YAW - We'll open two more -that leaves four of them OPEN; three FLOAT BAGS are OPEN; and SECS, ARM are OPEN; EDS BATs are OPEN; ELS CSM SEPs are OPEN; POSTLANDING VENT is OPEN. Okay, they're all - all the others are CLOSED.
303:20:50 Evans GDC seems pretty good, let's recheck it here. Okay, GDC is realigned.
303:20:50 Cernan Okay, Houston, if you're ready, we're going to pick up the command module RCS activation.
303:20:50 CC Roger. We're standing by.
303:22:57 Evans Okay, SECS ARM circuit breakers, two of them, are going CLOSED. Okay, Houston, ready for the LOGIC ARM.
303:22:57 CC You're GO for LOGIC.
303:23:08 Evans Okay. LOGIC 1, LOGIC 2.
303:23:08 CC America, you're GO for PYRO ARM.
303:23:25 Evans Okay, GO for PYRO ARM. PYRO ARM A, PYRO ARM B.
303:23:25 Evans Okay.
303:23:25 Cernan Okay, Houston, coming up on the command module RCS pressure. 3, 2, 1 -
303:23:44 Cernan MARK it. And we got it.
303:23:44 Evans Boy, you sure can hear it flow in somewhere.
303:23:44 CC America, Houston. We've got two good rings.
303:23:44 Cernan Very good, Houston; they're looking good onboard.
303:24:23 Evans Okay; SAFE the PYROs.
303:24:23 CC Okay, America; Houston. I've got a short update on your Entry Checklist.
303:24:23 Cernan Go ahead.
303:24:23 CC Over on page 2-4 of the Entry Checklist, middle of the page, we would like to delete, "EMS MODE to NORMAL" at that point. "EMS MODE to NORMAL," delete. We'd like to move it over on the 2-5 at 0.05 G time. Put "EMS MODE - NORMAL."
303:24:23 Cernan Okay; we'll get the EMS NORMAL at 0.05 G.
303:24:23 CC Roger. We have no update on the entry pad. You are nominal at this time. I do have your weather information and your ship recovery call signs. Over.
303:24:23 CC Okay; generally, the weather is good. It's 3000 foot, scattered, 10-miles visibility. Wind is 130 at 10; wave heights, 2 to 3 feet. Altimeter, 2994. The altimeter 2994 will give you a minus 17-foot DELTA-H which means, Gene, that when the altimeter says zero, you'll still be 17 feet in the air. The closest recovery forces, the prime recovery ship is the Tico, call sign "Tico. Closest recovery will be - aircraft will be a helicopter, call sign "Recovery," and a backup will be call sign "Swim," and they'll be on scene at splash. In case of a constant-g entry for any reason, the aircraft call sign is Samoa. Rescue 1 will be downrange and in the vicinity of the constant-g point. Over.
303:24:23 Cernan Okay, we got Tico. And the prime recovery ship -prime chopper - is Recovery. The backup is Swim, and we've got Rescue 1 Samoa, downrange.
303:24:23 CC I guess that's uprange, depending on how you look at it, Gene.
303:24:23 Cernan (Laughter) Okay.
303:24:23 CC Geno, with weather like that, even a Navy captain like you should make a good landing.
303:24:23 Cernan We'll hang in there, T. P. You know nobody likes a pitching deck, not even a Navy captain.
303:24:23 CC Roger.
303:28:09 Cernan Houston, we'll be back with you and pick it up at 45.
303:28:09 CC Roger.
303:28:09 Cernan America, Houston. We'll do our best to put it all together and come right down the stack, like you got me.
303:28:09 CC America, Houston. We would like Jack to give us a call on VHF Alfa. We are reading good signal strength down-link at this time, and we'd like to get a signal strength up-1ink with him at this time, also. Check, please.
303:28:09 Schmitt Okay, this is the LMP on VHF. How do you read? 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1. Over.
303:28:09 CC Roger, LMP. You're coming through a little bit scratchy but sounds - we can read you. You're sounding good. How me on VHF?
303:28:09 Schmitt You're loud and clear, Bob. Loud and clear.
303:28:09 CC Okay; good VHF check.
303:32:31 CC America, Houston.
303:32:31 Cernan Go ahead.
303:32:31 CC Just a note of amplification on our change on 2-5 moving the EMS MODE NORMAL at .05 G time. If the .05 G light does not come on at .05 G time when you go to NORMAL there, plus 3 seconds, go to the normal backup procedures to start the EMS.
303:32:31 Evans Okay; I understand that, Bob. Thank you.
303:32:31 CC Okay, Ron; just a little reminder.
303:32:31 Evans Mighty fine.
303:33:23 Schmitt TAPE RECORDER is REWIND.
303:34:52 Evans Okay, we're in RANGE SET. Okay, crank in 1049.9.
303:35:18 PAO This is Apollo Control 43 minutes now to entry into the atmosphere. Altitude 6,868. Velocity 20,768 feet per second -
303:35:30 Evans Okay, crank in 1044.9. Okay, inertial velocity, set. Slew to 36,172.
303:36:09 PAO Some of the post atmospheric entry events are - begin blackout 17 seconds after entry end blackout 3 minutes, 37 seconds; Drogue parachute deploy 7 minutes, 39 seconds; main parachute deployment 8 minutes, 26 seconds; Landing 13 minutes, 17 seconds after entry.
303:36:40 Evans Okay, we got 36,172. Set. Okay, velocity at .05 G - Okay, let's see - ENTRY and STANDBY. Okay? FDAI SOURCE to ATT SET. ATT SET to GDC. EMS ROLL is ON. Okay, turning the old YAW. And it's 45 degrees to the right. And 45 degrees to the left. Okay; RSI is zero. EMS ROLL is OFF. Okay, let's align the old GDC again.
303:37:46 Cernan Houston, America. The EMS is initialized; the RSI is aligned; and we're ready to pick up the command module RCS checks.
303:37:54 CC Roger. We're standing by, Gene.
303:38:05 Evans Okay; GDC is aligned to the IMU. Okay? Verify A/C ROLL is OFF. RCS LOGIC, two circuit breakers are CLOSED. Okay, SCS. MINIMUM IMPULSE.
303:38:46 Cernan Okay, Houston, we're going to transfer the command module.
303:38:49 Evans Okay. Just a little bitty blunk. Okay, the ring 1 is going OFF. Okay; we're operating on ring 2. Ring 2 is all MAIN B. You can hear it go click, click. Click, click, okay. (Laughter) Happy with ring 2. Okay, 1 is going up to ON; 2 is coming OFF Okay, ring 1 is all MAIN A. Okay. Yes, you can see it, too, can't you? Okay, it works. Okay, ring 2 is going back to MAIN B. 1 is MAIN A; ring 2 is MAIN B. Okay? Okay. Okay, we still got control of the service module.
303:40:34 Cernan Okay, Houston, the RCS check looks good onboard.
303:40:38 CC Roger, America; and it looked great down here.
303:40:41 Evans CMC in AUTO. Yes, clock's running to RRT. Yes, it is.
303:41:07 Cernan Okay, Houston; America. We're on top of 2-2. We're going to stand by for 30 minutes.
303:41:14 CC Roger. We're following you right on the line.
303:41:20 Evans ...
303:41:44 Evans Twenty minutes to horizon check time. Okay, I'll get hack into - what is it - 268? That's good. Yes.
303:42:52 Evans Okay, 29 seconds until .05 G, Vcirc is 02:09. Drogue, 07:39. Okay. And no .05 G light, P64 is running. We'll go to BACKUP, VHF RANGING at .05 G plus 3 seconds. Yes. We'll get the NORMAL first, that's the main thing; these things can come later. And then we'll get EMS ROLL on .05 G. Yes, let's see, the third one is really not going to -
303:44:05 PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 17 spacecraft now 5,381 nautical miles and approaching ever faster to Mother Earth. 22,566 feet per second at the current time.
303:44:06 Evans Yes, these are plus 3 seconds - .05 G time is 29 seconds plus 3 - plus 5 - and 29 plus 5. The way I understand it, anyhow, from what the ground said, is that the .05 G light will probably come on as soon as you go to NORMAL, anyhow. Yes. Yes
303:44:55 Evans Slide sideways - you can just slide your foot in and out of the thing.
303:45:15 Evans I wonder what 6-1/2 g's is going to feel like? That half a g on TEI (laughter) felt like I was in the back of the couch.
303:45:57 Evans Thirty-three minutes. Yes, it will. Yes, it's right on. When is - begin blackout? And - Okay. Blackout 17 seconds. Okay. That's comm blackout, by the way. (Laughter)
303:46:52 Evans Okay, getting ready for the BUS TIEs.
303:46:56 Cernan Okay, Houston, BUS TIEs are coming ON.
303:47:00 CC Roger, America.
303:47:06 Cernan A/C is ON and verified, and B/C is ON and verified
303:47:27 CC America, Houston. The batteries are online, and they look good to us.
303:47:32 Schmitt Okay, and TAPE RECORDER'S ON here.
303:47:52 Evans Okay.
303:48:44 Evans Okay. Let's start sep - sep checklist here.
303:48:46 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're pressing ahead here, about 5 minutes early.
303:48:51 CC Roger.
303:48:55 Evans Okay. ELS CSM SEP, BAT A. BAT B - CLOSED. Yes. Okay. I'll BYPASS the old primary RADIATORS. Okay, REPRESS PACKAGE valves going ON - O N. Okay. We'll cut off the service module's supply of oxygen. Okay. SURGE TANK is verified ON. Okay. PRESSURE RELIEF valves are verified NORMAL. Okay. We're verified in RCS COMMAND. Okay, SECONDARY FUEL is As, Bs, Cs, and Ds. All OPEN. VHF is off. HIGH GAIN.
303:50:38 Schmitt Houston, loads appear to be balanced on main A, main B, fuel cells.
303:50:45 CC Roger, Jack. We copy that.
303:51:31 Evans Okay. Don't see anything yet.
303:51:33 Cernan Houston, step 5 on 2-2 is complete.
303:51:38 CC Roger, America.
303:51:40 Cernan Or parentheses 5; I guess it is.
303:51:51 Evans Okay.
303:53:50 CC America, Houston. You may be interested. We've just taken another look at your last batch of data, and it confirms your pad. You are absolutely nominal - right on the pad.
303:54:03 Cernan That's good news, Robert. Thank you.
303:54:05 Evans Outstanding.
303:54:09 CC We aim to please.
303:54:12 Cernan Okay, and we're going to keep it nominal.
303:54:26 PAO The velocity now is increased to 25,371 feet per second. The next major event will be separation of the service module and the SIM bay and all the scientific gear that has fed data down to the Earth for the past 12 1/2 days. 23 minutes now away from entry. We're standing by as communications continue to be quite good on the OMNI antennas through the Hawaii station. 36 minutes away from landing. At 303:55, this is Apollo Control standing by.
303:58:22 Evans That's okay. We'll go in a little bit early.
303:59:19 Evans Yes, they look pretty good. Hey, you can go ahead and go on through there and then I'll - RATE COMMAND. DEADBAND, MIN; V RATE to LOW - RATE - HALF - ya, okay, RATE to HIGH - Yes, that's better - DEADBAND MIN; RATE to HIGH. SCS. Oh, 1 minute. Okay. I doubt if we'll see it - we might, though.
304:00:14 Evans Think you will? Yes, I don't know (laughter). I've got the Sun shining right in my left window here, so -
304:01:38 Evans I don't see anything. Do you see anything, Jack? (Laughter) I don't either. Did it?
304:01:54 Evans Yes, see I got too much shining in - light - sun shining in on there - glaring on the window. That's good, as long as it's there, somewhere. Oh, I see it! it's off to the left! Oh, it's out the left window (laughter). Okay, Yes. That's a dark horizon, though.
304:02:11 Cernan Okay, Houston. We've got the horizon, now. We're going out of plane, now.
304:02:15 CC Roger.
304:02:32 Evans Yes - see - see - You can see it better when you're out of plane. We must be just seeing the horn. Yes, it's the airglow, but see that's the horn that's been - we've been seeing all the time that's off to our left.
304:02:52 Evans Yes, verify BYPASS.
304:02:56 Evans Okay, and stand by. Hey, Jack, when I yaw down here, can you get a picture?
304:03:16 Evans Okay, BMAGs, ATT l/RATE 2; RATE COMMAND; SCS. DEADBAND MIN; RATE to HIGH. COMMAND MODULE RCS LOGIC is ON. SECS LOGIC verified ON. Okay. Here come the pyros - PYRO A, PYRO B.
304:03:40 Cernan Okay, Houston. On ray mark - I'm going to hit the CM/SM SEP.
304:03:44 CC Roger.
304:03:46 Cernan 3, 2, 1 -
304:03:50 Cernan MARK.
304:03:51 Cernan We got it.
304:03:51 Evans Oh, ho! Did we get it! That thing really bangs, doesn't it?
304:04:01 Cernan Looks like we got a good separation, Houston.
304:04:04 CC Roger.
304:04:06 Evans Okay; MINIMUM IMPULSE. RATE 2.
304:04:12 CC We're going to be handing over sites in 1 minute. There'll be a slight break of comm here.
304:04:17 Evans Okay.
304:04:20 CC We'd like you to go to OMNI Charlie.
304:04:27 Evans OMNI Charlie.
304:04:33 Evans Okay. We're yawing back to zero.
304:04:47 Evans (Laughter) We've got junk all over the place (laughter). Okay, yes, wait a minute.
304:04:57 PAO Altitude 1781 miles. Velocity 29,486 feet per second. 13 minutes away from entry, 26 from landing.
304:05:07 Evans I'm going to take a look at the horizon here first. ENTRY; STANDBY; 36 170 1044. Okay. We're MINIMUM IMPULSE, RATE 2, SCS, DIRECTS are ON; AC, DC.
304:05:58 Evans Yes, you can go ahead. I'm SCS, anyhow. It will be.
304:06:31 Evans You know the sound of the jet firing is a lot louder than what we usually have the simulator set for.
304:06:51 Evans Okay. We're back to the dark horizon again, but we'll pitch her on down. On? Okay, there you go. Got everything up.
304:07:19 PAO Flight director, Neil Hutchinson, here in the control center is taking a final check amont the flight controllers for reentry, an inevitable event in any case. 304:07 Ground Elapsed Time, 11 minutes away from entry, 24 minutes away from splashdown. Apollo Control standing by.
304:07:54 Evans Okay. Okay, 4,153 miles to go. Velocity is 31,253 feet per second, increasing.
304:08:22 Cernan Okay, Houston. We're at 63, and we're just standing by for .05 G.
304:08:27 CC Roger, America. You're looking great. We've got a TV picture of the weather in the recovery area, and the ship Ticonderoga, and it's looking great.
304:08:58 Evans Probably warmup afterwhile, I bet. Well, this thing kind of wants to - wants to yaw left all the time.
304:09:40 CC America, at 9 minutes prior to entry interface here, you're looking great down here.
304:09:46 Cernan Okay, Bob. We're looking good onboard and standing by for .05 G.
304:10:14 Evans (Laughter)
304:10:38 Evans (Laughter)
304:10:45 Schmitt Houston, be advised that hydrogen tanks 1 and 2 still seem to be with us. At least I get gage readings - plus 200 psi.
304:10:55 CC Roger. We'll run that one through EECOM.
304:10:59 Evans (Laughter)
304:11:10 Evans Well, that'll save you - save the 5/5 for a minute. DIRECTS are MAIN A and MAIN B? Both controllers are on? Think they got AC1. Should be 153, I think, isn't it? Here it is, right here. Yes, no more eating upside down. I was just getting used to that. It's a lot of fun. Getting use to it? I was use to it after the second day - first day. You know the - the - it wants to trim itself; pitch up too. I got to keep blapping the right yaw - and I got to keep pitching down, to make it go down. See the - the rate just decreases
304:12:23 Evans Two minutes until moonset. I don't even see a Moon. There it is up there. Can you see it, Jack? it's out of window 3. It should be off to your right. You might be able to see it. That's the way the Moon looked about 13 - 14 days ago, isn't it? Small one like that.
304:13:19 Evans Try the pressures on both rings? They still okay? Okay.
304:13:41 Evans Five minutes to RRT.
304:14:03 Evans 304:16 on my card. What -
304:14:33 Evans Yes, it's got a little bit of a cross - coupling on it. We might be picking up C-55 - might be picking up a few rates, anyhow. Probably not yet. Usually about 59.
304:15:01 R-l ... Loud and clear, now. Nothing coming through on that transmitter.
304:15:11 Evans Voice disappeared -
304:15:22 Evans Couldn't see a star out there if you had to. There's all kinds of little white particles floating around out there from the jets.
304:15:33 PAO Switching communications now, from the Hawaii tracking station, through the Apollo range instrumented aircraft in the Pacific.
304:15:47 Evans Pitch is good.
304:15:49 R-l Four ... you're coming through now on the 18, loud and clear.
304:15:53 R-2 Roger. Stand by.
304:16:23 Evans Houston, America. Do you still read?
304:16:26 CC America, Houston. Read you loud and clear. We're going out through ARIA.
304:16:31 Evans Okay.
304:16:33 Cernan And, Houston, mode set was on time.
304:16:35 CC Roger.
304:16:38 Cernan And we're coming up on 2 minutes from RRT, and we're going for it.
304:16:43 CC Roger, America. You're looking great.
304:16:46 Evans There's the horizon.
304:16:48 Cernan Got the horizon, now.
304:17:17 Evans ... We're GO to CM.
304:17:25 Evans Pressure's looking good. We got RATE COMMAND to go yet. And I'll get that? RATE 2 on the BMAGs.
304:17:35 Evans Okay. You got a minute. 400,000 feet.
304:17:44 Schmitt ... really moving, isn't it.
304:17:46 Evans Look at that ... go by.
304:17:53 Schmitt Okay. Needle's off the peg now. It's looking good.
304:18:11 Evans Jack, can you take a picture of that, too? Get a picture of that horizon - -
304:18:14 Cernan Is that pointing at the horizon?
304:18:16 Evans Okay. No. That's all right; I'll get it. That's all right; I'm sorry.
304:18:32 Cernan Houston, we're 5 seconds from RRT.
304:18:37 CC Roger, America.
304:18:40 Cernan RRT.
304:18:44 Evans Okay. You want to go to RATE COMMAND?
304:18:53 Evans Okay. .05 G is 29.
304:18:57 Cernan We have a ...
304:19:01 PAO And the beginning of blackout was at the predicted time of approximately 17 seconds after entry interface into the atmosphere - 400,000 feet or approximately 85 miles above the Earth. Come out of blackout in a total time of about 3 minutes 27 seconds. Following reappearance, at least from a communications standpoint, of the spacecraft. The drogue parachutes, which are 16 1/2 foot daimeter, two of them, will be deployed by a mortar - pyrotechnic device at 23,000 feet above the surface. The main parachutes, which consist of three 83 1/2 foot diameter ring sail parachutes, will be pulled out by pilot parachutes - small pilot parachutes at an altitude of 10 1/2 thousand feet. The spacecraft will splash down at approximately 22 miles per hour with 3 fully inflated parachutes. Meanwhile, the crew is using the entry monitor system to steer for the desired aiming point which is some 1,044 miles down range from the actual entry point into the atmosphere. The Entry Monitor System - or EMS as it's referred to, gives a display to the crew which gives them the roll angle to steer to the desired track downrange - to hit the aiming point. Now the position of the recovery ship, Tyconderoga, may or may not be near the aiming point. The accuracy of the landing is dependent on the distance from the aiming point, not from where the ship is at the time. Should be coming out of blackout, as mentioned earlier, at 3 minutes 37 seconds into entry. Less than a minute away and hopefully we will have confirmation from the crew on drogue deployment, and main parachute deployment, assuming that communications through the Apollo range instrumented aircraft called ARIA is good. The Tico - the Ticonderoga, prime recovery ship has reported that they have radar contact with the spacecraft. Probably a skin track of the spacecraft with the ship's radar. We've re-entered blackout - reappeared from blackout, I should say. We're waiting for a call from the space - from the CAPCOM.
304:22:52 Evans Roll right 50 - still at 3 g's.
304:22:58 Cernan Okay.
304:22:58 Evans ... Okay. 3 gs. Got a potential of 130 - got a 130 range.
304:23:10 Evans Looking good - 3 g's. Right on.
304:23:11 Cernan Okay. Roll right 40.
304:23:13 Evans Okay, right 40.
304:23:14 Cernan Okay, right -
304:23:16 Evans Right 45.
304:23:18 Cernan Okay - -
304:23:20 Evans Okay, the g is good - move left about 2.8.
304:23:23 Cernan Okay - -
304:23:26 Evans There's reverse. Okay. Over the top.
304:23:30 Evans Okay. It's still about 2.9 g's. Took some more pieces off the outside of the spacecraft. Hey, it didn't stay on there very long. Okay.
304:23:42 Evans Up ... About 2.8 g's here. Got a potential of 65, 65. 8,000 feet a second.
304:24:04 Evans That's about 40 - that's right. Yes, that's right. Thirty feet.
304:24:08 Cernan Okay, roll.
304:24:09 Evans Okay. ... 3.1 g's. Okay. There she goes over the - -
304:24:15 PAO Drogue deployment in two minutes. Mark.
304:24:15 Evans - that ought to relax the g's a little bit. Hey, that's good - beautiful computer.
304:24:21 Evans Okay, about 3.1 g's. We're about 4500 feet a second. ... roll, 22 miles - 4000 feet a second, zero plus 88 degrees. Okay. That's good. Okay, looking good. Okay. We ought to be in there. Roll left, okay - about - about 2.2 g's. Okay. It feels like there's a mag around here. Okay. Okay. Roll that baby - still good. Okay. 2 g's. Steam pressure's pegged - Okay. is that on time? Pressure's up 39 - okay. Okay, first ... 67. ... at 67. Put 1.8, it says, okay. Call it out.
304:24:35 Cernan Hello, Houston. This is America. We're showing ... 1.8 short.
304:25:42 Evans ARM the PYROs. CABIN PRESSURE to BOOST.
304:25:44 Cernan This is America. We're showing 1.8 miles short. 17.86 by minus 167.5.
304:25:52 Evans They're ARMed. We're stable. Looking good. Coming down like a son-of-a-buck. Man, oh, man! Okay, there's 35K. Stand by for ELS LOGIC, right? Okay? There goes all the paper off the spacecraft. Okay, that's 30K. ELS to AUTO - LOGIC - and then AUTO. Okay, stand by for the apex. And it bumps. Okay, there we go!
304:26:22 Evans There goes the drogues. Okay, back them up. Hey, come here, Jack. What? Okay ... to go. Man, oh, man! - Hey, it really vibrates! Okay.
304:26:22 Cernan Okay, Houston; America in the blind - we got the mains - we got the drogues, we got the drogues. Okay, there's 12, 13K. Okay. 12K.
304:27:14 Cernan Mains at 11K. Mains ... -
304:27:18 Schmitt There's the mains. Okay. They're reefing.
304:27:39 Cernan Bearing 350.
304:27:46 PAO A great deal of cheering and clapping here in Mission Control as the large Eidophor television projector shows the spacecraft hanging on three good main parachutes.
304:27:47 Cernan Through 8000 feet.
304:27:49 Cernan ... about 1 mile short.
304:28:22 Cernan Okay, Recovery, this is America. We've got three good mains; we're at 6500 feet.
304:28:39 R-l Zero, zero at 3.5. Apollo 17, this is Recovery. Good morning.
304:28:46 Cernan Hello, Recovery; it's a beautiful day! We're out of 610; we've got three good mains.
304:28:51 R-l This is Recovery. Have a visual on you, and they're blooming nicely.
304:28:55 PAO Three minutes from splash.
304:28:57 Cernan Outstanding! And all is well onboard, all is well onboard.
304:29:04 R-l Wonderful.
304:29:06 Cernan You sound good down there.
304:29:08 R-l Waiting for you.
304:29:18 R-l One hundred, zero, zero. Our positive, 280 at 11.
304:29:28 R-l I have visual, bearing 243.
304:29:35 Cernan Hello, Recovery, this is America. We're out of 4000 feet now, and all is well.
304:30:04 R-l ... Tico.
304:30:05 Cernan Go ahead.
304:30:06 R-l Any report on computer read-outs. Over?
304:30:08 Cernan Not yet.
304:30:10 R-l ... standing by ... feet up.
304:30:13 Cernan ... Houston, DSKY shows minus 1.3. Lat is minus 17.88; long is minus 166.11.
304:30:46 Cernan Hello, Recovery; America, is through 2000 feet.
304:30:49 R-l Recovery, Roger.
304:30:51 P-l This is Photo. ... the command module as it descends . Their three main parachutes are fully deployed.
304:30:54 PAO 1 minute MARK to landing. Predicted landing time.
304:31:06 Cernan America's out of 1500 feet.
304:31:22 P-l The parachutes are fully deployed. The Command Module is descending, and Photo is circling as it descends.
304:31:31 Cernan And America is now out of 800 feet.
304:31:47 P-l Command Module is descending, stand by for splashdown.
304:31:50 Cernan America's at 300 feet.
304:31:59 P-l SPLASH.
304:32:00 Cernan MARK.
304:32:08 Schmitt Recovery, America stable 1 and the crew is go.
304:32:13 PAO A great deal of cheering is going on here in control center, as the splashdown was watched in real time from Recovery Helicoptor. And MARK the time at 304:31, Ground Elapsed Time even.
304:32:28 Schmitt Smarts doesn't it.
304:32:31 RECOV Command Module is stable 1, the sea state is mild. The 3 main parachutes are arrayed around the Command Module at approximately 120 degrees apart.
304:32:42 Schmitt Okay.
304:32:45 RECOV (Garble).
304:33:03 Schmitt It's just us.
304:33:07 Schmitt Okay,(garble) looks like we've had a - this is our MARK.
304:33:10 Schmitt (garble)
304:33:14 Schmitt Oh, that.
304:33:15 Schmitt (Laughter) Have a little water.
304:33:24 RECOV Helo S approaching the Command Module, photo is approaching to the southern side.
304:33:41 Schmitt There's the Chopper, right out here.
304:33:44 RECOV Helo S approaching the Command Module to deploy the first of the ELS swimmers.
304:33:48 Schmitt Guys jumped in the water.
304:33:50 RECOV The first 2 swimmers have been deployed.
304:33:57 RECOV ELS is approaching their main parachutes.
304:34:02 RECOV The second ELS swimmers have been deployed.
304:34:09 Schmitt (Laughter)
304:34:13 RECOV Two sets of ELS swimmers have been deployed. Helo S is coming around for a third pass on the third main parachute.
304:34:25 Schmitt Beautiful. (Laughter)
304:34:38 Schmitt (garble) things closed, I need some help.
304:34:42 Schmitt (garble)
304:34:47 Schmitt (garble) won't they.
304:34:47 Schmitt (garble)
304:34:50 RECOV Helo S is commencing an approach to drop the third set of ELS swimmers. Helo S is approaching the Command Module on the starboard side. Photo is hovering alongside to the right.
304:35:06 RECOV Recovery is waiting downwind.
304:35:08 Schmitt (garble)
304:35:14 Schmitt (garble) America alpha
304:35:25 RECOV This is photo at 3-1/2 miles.
304:35:28 Schmitt 3.6?
304:35:29 CC 3.5.
304:35:36 SPKR (garble)
304:35:39 RECOV Yes. You're 3-1/2 miles.
304:35:42 Schmitt Okay, thank you. I guess we're going to have to argue with the captain whether he was on station or we were.
304:35:47 SPKR You both were - compromise.
304:35:54 P-1 And the third set of ELS swimmers have been deployed.
304:35:57 Schmitt Okay, we'll have to meet them at the hatch.
304:36:02 RECOV And the main parachutes are completely clear of the Command Module.
304:36:05 Schmitt Oh, (garble)
304:36:17 RECOV Helo S is hovering near the Command Module.
304:36:21 Schmitt (garble) pull back now.
304:36:34 SPKR (garble) keep cranking that thing, keep cranking.
304:36:37 SPKR (garble)
304:36:44 RECOV The ELS swimmers are deploying two sets of 1 member rafts.
304:37:01 Schmitt I ought to be doing something, right?
304:37:06 RECOV The Helo S is approaching with one of the sets of ELS swimmers to deploy the rafts.
304:37:14 SPKR Very good. (garble)
304:37:17 Schmitt You made (garble) right?
304:37:19 Schmitt Yeah, yeah.
304:37:21 RECOV Life rafts have been deployed.
304:37:25 Schmitt Okay. (Laughter) Feels like we've been here a long time.
304:37:32 Schmitt Good show, beautiful by God.
304:37:34 CC Second rafts have been deployed by ELS.
304:37:37 Schmitt Very good. Beautiful (garble).
304:37:44 Schmitt (garble) get my hand up there.
304:37:48 RECOV The Command Module is riding very well, main parachutes are completely away from the Command Module.
304:37:55 RECOV Recovery is -
304:38:16 SPKR There you are.
304:38:19 Schmitt (garble).
304:38:25 RECOV Request you have America secure recovery beacon at this time, over.
304:38:31 P-1 America, this is recovery. Would you be good enough to secure your beacon, please. Stand by for (garble) impossible.
304:38:37 Schmitt No, I've got ... deployed ...
304:38:45 P-1 No, the transmitter please.
304:38:48 Schmitt ... yeah, the recovery beacon is OFF.
304:38:55 Schmitt Thank you.
304:38:59 P-1 And the ELS is hovering near the ELS swimmers and raft hovering over the apex cover.
304:39:23 P-1 Recovery is descending and beginning his approach toward the Command Module.
304:39:28 P-1 (Garble)
304:39:29 P-1 Get it, get the hatch opened. Don't bend it too much.
304:39:34 P-1 Recovery is approaching the command module. (Garble) on approach.
304:39:41 P-1 America, you now have (garble).
304:39:45 Schmitt Roger.
304:40:03 SPKR And the swimmer is at the command module.
304:40:08 Schmitt Okay, and the crew is doing fine. We've all got our sea legs. (Laughter)
304:40:14 CC Roger.
304:40:15 Schmitt Sure was, thank God.
304:40:18 SPKR (Garble)
304:40:20 Schmitt We were only a hundred feet on the gauge. (Laughter) I was going to call a hundred feet and we hit the water. (Garble) run up later.
304:40:39 SPKR And the swimmer has attached the sea anchor.
304:40:51 Schmitt (Garble) America.
304:40:54 CC Go ahead, America.
304:40:56 Schmitt Okay, in about a minute and a half here we'll go ahead enter our float bag.
304:41:02 CC (Garble) Recovery right there?
304:41:04 SPKR And we'll give you a call before we start pumping them up.
304:41:07 CC Roger.
304:41:17 SPKR The ELS is (garble) between the command module and photo.
304:41:23 SPKR And the swimmer has deployed the sea anchor, swinging it out to the end of the attaching cord.
304:41:31 Schmitt Beautiful trip. Boy ... what a life. (Garble)
304:41:43 SPKR The ELS has deployed a third set of men out.
304:41:54 Schmitt (Garble)
304:42:02 SPKR A swimmer has returned to the command module. The sea anchor has been deployed, and the water is extremely clear, and I can see the sea anchor is deployed properly.
304:42:12 SPKR (Garble)
304:42:19 PAO We've had confirmation that the sea anchor has been attached to the spacecraft. Ron Evans still on voice actuated circuit.
304:42:35 SPKR Recovery descending to 10 feet and approaching the command module, putting on the collar and the swimmers are in the doorway.
304:42:47 SPKR ... CMP. ... somewhere go.
304:42:51 SPKR Flotation collars have been deployed and we have thumbs-up from the swimmers.
304:42:58 Schmitt Now.
304:43:02 SPKR ... cleared at this time. Okay.
304:43:10 SPKR Swimmers are at the command module with the floatation collar.
304:43:14 SPKR And Recovery, looks like a beautiful day for recovery out there.
304:43:18 RECOV We ordered it especially for you.
304:43:20 SPKR Outstanding.
304:43:28 SPKR The swimmers have positioned the flotation collar on the downward side of the command module. Now, Recovery is hovering downwind and slightly to the left. The three uprighting bags are being inflated. ...
304:43:51 SPKR Port ... Standby.
304:43:58 SPKR The last swimmer -
304:44:01 SPKR - - in the raft, and swimmers hovering and working near the apex cover.
304:44:10 SPKR ... tied up ...
304:44:13 SPKR The ... is being attached to the Command Module.
304:44:17 SPKR ... should give us a ... time and distance from contact ...
304:44:29 SPKR And the swimmers are returning to the flotation collar.
304:44:41 SPKR ... warning. Apex cover, apex cover. Presently off your port beam, 200 yards. And, the flotation collar is being deployed around the command module.
304:44:54 SPKR Is there a drogue blown up out ...
304:45:00 SPKR ... our parachute ...
304:45:10 SPKR Flotation collar's deployed and it's being attached.
304:45:15 Schmitt Yep. We're really rolling around in this place. (Laughter)
304:45:22 Schmitt You bet.
304:45:25 SPKR Looks lika a ... swimmer ..., and the flotation collar is around the command module, and is being adjusted.
304:45:39 SPKR ... Michael, what's your position?
304:45:42 SPKR Overhead at this time (garble).
304:45:44 Schmitt Did you hear that?
304:45:44 Schmitt Pick 'em up and hook them on to it?
304:46:12 SPKR And, the flotation collar's attached and the swimmers are checking the flotation collar and adjusting it.
304:46:38 Schmitt Yeah, that's about it.
304:46:43 SPKR One uprighting bag appears to have fully inflated, and the other two are still in the process of inflation.
304:46:59 SPKR The flotation collar is being inflated.
304:47:07 Schmitt Recovery, this is America. Sounds like those guys are doing a super job out there.
304:47:11 SPKR Well, you've got the first team here today.
304:47:16 Schmitt Yeah.
304:47:26 SPKR All parachutes secure and strapped. Over.
304:47:29 SPKR Hey, helo's copying. Were you asking me something?
304:47:40 SPKR Flotation collar has been inflated and the swimmers have climbed on to the flotation collar.
304:47:47 Schmitt It's just that I'm kind of tired. (Garble)
304:47:52 Schmitt There. (Laughter)
304:47:54 SPKR The swimmers are attaching the tie-bolt straps. And, the main parachutes are in the ELS raft. The swimmer is signaling to Recovery for the egress raft.
304:48:14 Schmitt There's (garble).
304:48:17 SPKR Recovery is descending and moving towards the command module.
304:48:27 Schmitt I guess I think I ought to step away with you (garble).
304:48:31 Schmitt The egress raft has been deployed.
304:48:42 RECOV And swimmer has reported recovery of the egress cover. The egress raft is at the flotation collar.
304:48:52 Schmitt Roger.
304:49:04 RECOV Egress raft is staying attached to the flotation collar.
304:49:12 PAO Swimmers in the water around the command module who jumped from the Recovery Helicopter. Swim team leader, Lieutenant Jonathan Smart of Belmont Massachusetts, Chief Aircraft Mechanic, Terrence M. Moy of Newport, Rhode island, and Radioman Seaman Roy A. Buehller of Carleton Missouri. Recovery - Recovery Helicopter is piloted by Commander Edward E. Dale, III of South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
304:49:49 RECOV GARBLE also.
304:49:53 RECOV Ticonderoga is in the background at approximately 1/2 mile.
304:49:56 Schmitt ...
304:50:06 RECOV Two swimmers in the egress raft. They're making final attachment.
304:50:14 PAO It has been reported that the apex cover of the spacecraft and all three main parachutes have been recovered by the recovery forces on the scene.
304:50:33 RECOV And the Ticonderoga has launched the motor whale boat.
304:50:39 Schmitt And a row boat.
304:50:43 RECOV And the whale boat is enroute to ELS swimmers and the main parachute.
304:50:53 Schmitt (Laughter) My computer. I'm more concerned with the ... out there. I couldn't see this little dot - all I could see was the top of something.
304:51:08 RECOV All three swimmers all are in the egress raft.
304:51:14 RECOV ... Recovery swim, the ELS and photo are ... immediate are of the command module.
304:51:21 Schmitt (Laughter) ...
304:51:47 RECOV Three swimmers are out in the egress raft, and are attaching it to the flotation collar.
304:51:56 Schmitt Man they are really working along.
304:52:01 SPKR The uprighting bags are fully inflated. And the swimmers are signalling the recovery to deploy the drop bag.
304:52:28 Schmitt Recovery this is America, we're standby for your call on opening the hatch.
304:52:46 Schmitt Hello, Recovery, America.
304:52:49 RECOV Go ahead, America.
304:52:50 RECOV Okay, I'm going to standby for your call on opening the hatch.
304:52:55 Schmitt Recovery, roger. Trying to get your signal from UTD crewman there.
304:52:59 RECOV Okay, fine. Thank you. ...
304:53:12 RECOV ... command module ... on the drop bag.
304:53:27 Schmitt (Laughter).
304:53:38 RECOV And Recovery is moving in towards the command module, positioning the drop bag at the egress raft.
304:54:21 RECOV And Recovery is positioning the drop bag - at the egress raft.
304:54:33 RECOV And the swimmers have the drop bag and they're disconnecting it from the recovery hoist.
304:54:42 Schmitt Well, I can't believe it (laughing). ...
304:54:50 Schmitt ...
304:55:10 RECOV Recovery has moved back and the swimmers have the drop bag.
304:55:27 Schmitt I'm thinking I'll get a black eye this way.
304:55:30 Schmitt Yep, you sure will.
304:55:32 RECOV One swimmer on the floatation collar near egress hatch.
304:55:37 Schmitt (laughter) Hey, hey.
304:55:38 RECOV And the swimmer has opened the egress hatch.
304:55:42 Schmitt Got ...
304:55:46 Schmitt Help us, okay.
304:55:53 RECOV And the swimmer has passed the drop bag to the astronauts and has reclosed the egress hatch.
304:56:11 PAO Texas Congressman Olin Teague visiting the control room now, shaking hands with management and flight controllers as we observe the recovery operations on the Eidaphor Television projector in the front of the control room.
304:56:38 RECOV Swimmers are wading to the egress raft and the astronauts have given the -
304:56:43 PAO Congressman Teaque has been joined in the control center by Congressman Bob Casey, from the Houston area, who is shaking hands with some of the flight surgeons at the flight surgeon console.
304:57:21 RECOV Swimmers are in the egress raft, one swimmer is on the flotation collar. The motor whale is at the ELS is approaching the ELS raft. The swimmers have the apex cover aboard their raft. Swimmer is on the flotation collar peering into the command module.
304:58:37 RECOV GARBLE. Completed and attached and RECOVERY photo ... and ELS hovering in the area of the command module.
304:59:23 RECOV And the three swimmers are in the egress raft. And command module and swimmers are riding extremely well. The swell is very moderate, maybe 2 feet. 2 to 4 foot swell.
305:00:18 PAO Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson, has asked every one in the control center to restrain themselves from lighting their splashdown cigars until the crew is on the deck of the recovery ship.
305:00:32 RECOV A swimmer has opened the hatch slightly and is talking to the astronauts. The swimmer has fully opened the egress hatch. The astronauts have passed a box to the swimmers and the swimmers have placed it in the egress raft. And the first astronaut is exiting the command module. ... is on the floatation collar. The swimmer is inflating the astronaut's life preserver unit. And the first astronaut is in the egress raft. The second astronaut is exiting the command module. The second astronaut's life preserver unit is being inflated. The astronauts are shaking hands with the UDC swimmers. The third astronaut is egressing from the command module. And the third astronaut's life preserver unit has been inflated. And that third astronaut and the UDC swimmer are on the flotation collar and are closing the egress hatch. The egress hatch has been closed and secured. ...
305:08:59 PAO This is Apollo Control. The control room here is quite full of people. Off shift flight controllers, management people watching the recovery operations in progress on the large television projector at the front of the control room. Waiting for that moment when the crew is safely on the deck of the ship to fire up their traditional splashdown cigars.
305:15:22 SPKR Land only long enough to drop off several of the photographers, the still photographers and the motion picture photographers from NASA who have been onboard. They will get themselves into position to photograph the ceremony and then the chopper will go back upstairs. Because Sam Drumy - our cameraman - the man who is giving us all thos wonderful shots - the closeup shots of the command module on the water - we want to get back up topside so we can get more pictures of the Ticonderoga during the ceremony. The ceremony, itself, is outlined rather extensively in the instructional sheet and the Astronauts are reading perhaps right now.
305:16:14 PAO This is Apollo Control here in the Control Center. The Network controller has climbed a tall ladder to hang the final in the Apollo plaques along the upper wall of the Control Center. All the cigars are still unlit, waiting in the mouths of the flight control team, for the actual time the crew is safely on deck of the Ticonderoga. Waiting as the helicopters approach the ship, great deal of joviality under way here in the control center. Hand shaking, best wishes, from management, flight controllers, other people who have been associated with the Apollo Program for the past ten years. Network controller still at the top of his ladder spring loaded to hang the plaque on the wall.
305:21:57 SPKR Since they are to go below deck and undergo a rather extensive medical - examinations maybe they'd just like to delay that just a little bit.
305:22:08 SPKR ....
305:22:11 SPKR That was Samoa rescue 1. The airplane that has been up overhead and that was available if any other kind of rescue operation had been indicated, it wasn't. Everybody will start circling back toward this ship, including the radar planes that had been out to assist.
305:22:35 SPKR And locate on the spacecraft as it came down toward the Pacific. And there will be some celebration on this ship. This evening a party with the astronauts and special guests - but most of the time after they get on the ship they will be spending in the scientific laboratories aboard. The ones that are prepared for the Skylab program that are being used here on the Apollo 17 mission. They won't even get a chance to take a shower for more than an hour. The other thing that they'd probably like to be doing is calling their families at home but there's no time located in the schedule for that. No time allocated for that until 5 o'clock this afternoon. Quick calculation tells us that that will be about 9 o'clock Houston time ladies so they will be calling you at that time. Now 001 and 002 moving in toward the deck of the Ticonderoga. Already the men are prepared to roll out that red carpet. And there's a shot from our photo helicopter. You can see landing on the fantail, 001 helicopter, you can also see 002 as it flies away. It will not be landing now because the recorders turned on and the ceremony will be ready to begin.
305:24:56 PAO This is Apollo Control with the helicopter safely on the deck. The network controller, Dave Young, will hang the final placque in the Apollo series on the upper wall of the control room here. And this circuit, known up until now as Gemini Control and Apollo Control will reappear as Skylab Control in the spring. This is Apollo Control out at 305:25 Ground Elapsed Time.
305:25:32 SPKR - as soon as the door is opened. Also in the foreground the bald headed man in the middle of the picture, Dr. Don Stalkin who is a NASA team leader. He will be the first man on the deck to be seen by the astronauts. He will be the man who will step up to greet them, and to remind them again of what they have already been told on the instructional sheet. Watch out for your heads - for Schmitt and Evans. Step down three steps. Wave and smile. And the instruction sheet says follow me. ...
305:26:22 SPKR .. arriving.
305:26:25 SPKR The carpet is down. (Music) All three men, one at a time. And now they are out on the deck. The middle man is Evans all right. (Cheer) And they are in proper array as the band strikes up Anchors Aweigh as could be predicted. Cernan in front, Schmitt in the middle. Being greeted by Admiral Butts, by Captain Norman Green and by Air Force General David Jones. Some pretty happy looking astronauts. On the stage that is prepared for them - Captain Green.
305:27:32 GREEN It gives me great pleasure this morning, to welcome the crew of Apollo 17 back from the Moon to the deck of Ticonderoga. We on Ticonderoga are very proud to be a part of this historic mission. Chaplain John Ecker will offer our prayer to almighty God for the safe return of these three astronauts.
305:28:01 ECKER The heavens declare your glory oh Lord. The planets, the sun, the moon, and the stars which you set in place, in humble gratitude we thank you for the safe return from your heavens of these pioneers in space. May their achievements contribute to the unity of mankind and peace for all your people in this holy season. Amen.
305:28:30 SPKR Commander of Manned Space Flight Recovery Forces Pacific. Rear Admiral John L. Butts.
305:28:41 BUTTS (Applause) Captain Cernan, you and your crew of Apollo 17, all the men of the Recovery Force, all the ships, units and aircrafts, join me in expressing our great pride in your accomplishments today. And as you noticed Captain Cernan, on your left we have distinguished members of the Congress of the United States here to welcome you back aboard, as well as the Govenor of American Samoa. And all of these gentlemen join me in telling you how happy we are to have you home. I'd like to introduce Major General David M. Jones, The Department of Defense Manager for Manned Space Flight Support Operations. General Jones.
305:29:23 JONES (Applause) On behalf of the entire Department of Defense Apollo Support Team, we're honored to welcome the crew of Apollo 17. The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Teams that have supported the Apollo - entire Apollo Program are particularly pleased to offer our congratulations on your flawless performance. I am proud to present the crew of Apollo 17, Captain Gene Cernan, Dr. Jack Schmitt, and Commander Ron Cernan. And I believe it's all yours.
305:30:07 CERNAN (Applause) Let me say that first of all, how good it is to be home. You know, no matter where you go or where the trip takes you, it's always good to get home. Admiral Butts, I'd like to congratulate you and really thank you for for allowing the three of us to be part of your recovery team, because, today was just absolutely fantastic. And a day I know we'll never forget as long as we live. And in all due respect to General Jones, we got our start on the Atlantic Missile Range so to speak. But, I think we just proved over these last 13 days, that when you want to end something right, whether it be a recovery or whether it be an Apollo Program, by golly, you've got to call on the Navy. (Cheers) And I'm going to see if I can talk Captain Green into splitting the miss distance with me today. And I don't think we have too much to quarrel about. I do want to say, this has been an extremely rewarding 13 days for us. Thirteen days that I hope, people throughout the world can share with us, when it was happening, and certianly, I hope, in the future after we sort of gather it all together and find out how much we really learned. We think we flew a good mission, we think we accomplished something, and by golly, we're proud of it. You know, a few years back, I was on a deck of a carrier like this after Apollo 10, when I came back from the Moon and I was extremely excited and enthused, certainly no more than I am now. But, I said at that time, when I came back and I just have reproved it to myself that, that nothing is impossible in this world, when dedicated people are involved. And it's a fundamental law of nature, that either you must grow, or you must die. Whether that be an idea, whether that be a man, whether that be a flower or a country, I thank God that our country is chosen to grow. I'm really proud to be here, I'm proud to be part of Apollo 17, I'm proud to be a part of NASA, I'm very proud to be a Captain in the Navy, and most of all, I'm proud to be an American. And I'd like to present another guy who's pretty proud to be an American, and in turn I'll let him present the 3rd member of our crew. But first, Commander Ron Evans. (Applause)
305:32:55 EVANS Thank you, Gene, General Green, - Captain Green, (Laughter) Admiral. You know, about 6-1/2 years ago, I was fortunate enough to be on the Ticonderoga, where I was notified, of my selection to the Astronaut Corps. I think it's quite fitting that I should happen to have the opportunity to be picked up by the Tico after our journey to the Moon. To me that's really something. The fact that, it was the Ticonderoga, is part of the United States Navy, the fact that I'm a Commander in the United States Navy, and I flew the United States Spacecraft America, to the Moon and back, I'm really honored and I'm proud. That's about the best way I can express it. And I think right now I'd like to present our, not our 3rd crew member, but the 3rd member of the Apollo 17 crew. Jack Schmitt. (Applause)
305:34:08 Schmitt Thank you. I'm happy to be here and I guess I never will be Navy. (Laughter) I'm sorry. But, if there was ever a team I'd like to be part of it's this one. Thank you very much. (Applause)
305:34:33 SPKR And so the Astronauts are done with their ceremony and are doing what the sheet told them to not to do, they're shaking hands over there. The sheet said just step off the platform turn left and wave or salute, but they either forgot or decided to go ahead and do their thing anyway. The doctors had thought that the shaking of hands would take too much time away from their experiments. And now, Dr. Don ... is herding them away. He's got one, he's got two, he's got three. They're all going down below, for their medical examinations. (music)
305:35:24 SPKR And so, again, man has been to the Moon; man has returned. Within an hour, while the astronauts undergo extensive physicals on the hanger deck below, the Ticonderoga will pluck the Command Module, America from the Pacific. Within a few days, scientists will being anew their probe into the origins of the universe. And while NASA people onboard are stiff-upper-liping it, there is a sense of nostalgia, a sense of loss. For them, Apollo has dated an era. Today, that era is done. This is David ... onboard the carrier, Ticonde